WEBVTT - Reverse Your Worry 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.360 Hey, don't start clicking off. I promise we're going to 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.400 get to the preaching in just a moment. But I'm 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:08.799 excited about this. This is a very special tradition at Elevation, 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:10.520 and we want to speak to all of you who 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.960 call our church home, especially our extended family, our EPAM 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.759 around the world, because once a year we have a 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.040 special series. It's really more than a collection of teachings. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.000 It's a faith experience for all of the people who 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.680 are part of our ministry at Elevation, and this year 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.840 our theme is game Changer. I think one of the 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.360 most exciting things that God is doing in our ministry 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.800 is to open the doors of our ministry beyond our walls. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.199 What I mean by that is we are amazed at 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.440 the thousands and thousands and thousands of you who are 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.199 letting us know that you're impacted by this ministry in 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.840 another zip code, in another state, in another country, maybe 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.560 eventually on another planet. But what I wanted to mention 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.840 to you is that you can be a part of 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.760 this beyond just consuming. Many of you have been blessed 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.320 by God to be a blessing, and I wanted to 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.400 ask today would you be willing during this special time 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.520 of year to make a one time donation to the 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.920 ministry or maybe partner with us on a monthly basis 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.399 through recurring giving. I believe God could use your gift 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.640 to enable this ministry to continue to reach, to continue 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.000 to break paradigms, to continue to lift up Jesus. And 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.560 I wanted to ask you personally to go to Elevationchurch 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.880 dot org and you can see the ways to give there. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.600 But most importantly, know that we feel a tremendousness of 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.960 responsibility to minister the word of God, not only to you, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.880 but to challenge you to partner with us in reaching 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.480 people for the Gospel. I believe your gift today could 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.360 be a game changer, so don't put it off right now. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.640 Elevationchurch dot org you can find all of the details. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.000 I hope you enjoy this message and thank you for 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.240 being a part of the family. I'm going to continue 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.280 this series from Matthew chapter six. I don't know if 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.920 i'll preach it all from the Sermon on the Mouth, 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.920 but it's a very good place to start, A very 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.280 good place to start. What's that from? Let's start at 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.840 the beginning, A very good place to start. What's that from? Okay? 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.040 Sound of music? That was unintentional. I don't like sound 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.400 of music. But anyway, we're gonna we're gonna look at 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.560 Matthew six, which I do like, and these profound, powerful 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.800 words from Jesus. And last week's message was intended to 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.320 help you evaluate your values. I was thinking that a 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.160 lot of times, if we if we play the game, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.200 and even if we play the game well, but we 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.519 win at things that are not true to our values, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.640 eventually we will get good at winning. But what are 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.000 we winning at? And what have we won? And so 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.400 in order to try to avoid all of this, this 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.760 empty sense of chasing after victories that are not meaningful, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:55.360 we're getting into God's definition of success, God's idea of 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.760 what is worth winning at. And we're looking at this together. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.000 And it was cool to me. When I was in 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.040 the airport Monday, I got the opportunity to meet one 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.080 of our new church members. He said, I've been coming 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.919 for a little while, been going to church all my life, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.520 been learning a lot. It's been helpful. I said, what 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.760 did you learn yesterday? I put him on a pop 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.720 quiz and he said, oh, yeah, that was good yesterday. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.040 When you said, shallow values produce empty victories. I was like, WHOA, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.040 you got it exactly right. Usually people when they quote 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.760 back your sermon to you, they mess it all up 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.959 and they don't make it rhyme, and they switch the 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.640 words all around. Makes you mad. But he got it 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.040 just right. Then he started preaching other parts, and he said. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.080 I went home and I told my wife and my kids, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.600 I love y'all, but leave me alone the rest of 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.680 the day. And he's a successful person in his field. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.840 His name is Stephen. I knew he was a great 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.960 man of God from that fact. And he said, I'm 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:53.240 really just dealing with emptiness. And in that emptiness, I 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.960 realized it's a lot of times because my values are shallow. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.280 So I've been listening. I've been spending just since you reach, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.520 he said, I've been thinking about my values, not what 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.400 I think they should be, not what I want them 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.000 to be, but what are my values, and then aligning 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.000 those values with God's values. So let's continue the process. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.600 Let's go right on to Matthew chapter six, verse twenty five. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.120 A very relevant scripture today that I want us to 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:26.680 look at together. Matthew six twenty five Jesus speaking Therefore, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.520 I tell you, do not worry about your life what 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.800 you will eat or drink, or about your body what 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.560 you will wear is not life more than food, and 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.000 the body more than clothes. Look at the birds of 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.919 the air. They do not sow or reap or store 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.960 away in barns. And yet I love that, somebody say, 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.480 And yet I don't deserve the grace of God. And 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:01.359 yet I don't have the educational background. And yet nobody 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.279 in my family ever broke this barrier. And yet I 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.640 made some mistakes in my life. And yet I just 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.360 like little stuff like that. When I'm reading the Bible. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:11.719 Y'all do what you want to do. I'm gonna stop 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.480 for those little phrases and point them out to you. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:23.359 And yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.240 much more valuable than they? Tell? Somebody next to you say, 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:33.479 I'm better than a bird. I might not be better 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.320 than you, but I'm better than a bird. I'm worth 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:42.119 more than a bird. I know that much. Are you 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.200 not much more valuable than they? We're gonna come back 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.200 to that. Can any one of you, by worrying at 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.720 a single hour to your life? No, but you can 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:59.560 take some off or you can wish you were dead, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.400 because more peaceful than being in this living hell called 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:09.760 your mind. Sometimes, so he asked a question, and I 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.479 notice how it starts with a command and then it 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.000 turns to a question. He said, do not worry. And 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.760 now he says, and why do you worry? Why do 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.400 you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.680 field grow. They do not labor or spend. Yet I 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.359 tell you that not even Solomon and all his gucci, 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.120 was dressed like one of these. If that is how 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.240 God closed the grass of the field, which is here 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.880 today tomorrows stone in the fire will heat not much 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.120 more cloth, you, oh you of little fate. So do 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.640 not worry. Stop telling me that you know. The worst 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.640 thing you can tell somebody when they're worrying is what 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:52.440 don't worry unless you know something that they don't. Because like, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.719 I was watching a football game the other day, but 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.839 it was recorded because I missed it. But the person 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.599 that was watching it with me check the score, and 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.640 we were cheering for the same team. So while I 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.360 was watching the game, I was also watching them, and 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.000 when it got a little scary, I just watched them. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.080 But when they didn't look scared. I didn't get scared. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.480 So when Jesus says don't worry, I figure he's already 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.800 seen how this thing turns out. Come on this early 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.880 to have church. But if you are grateful that the 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.240 one who knows the end from the beginning is already 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.920 prophesied to this current moment and declared that God is faithful, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:36.600 come on, give him a shout of praise. Don't worry 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.720 saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink? Yeah, yeah, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.760 hallelujah is right. That's the only thing you can say 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.880 when you think about this. This is good. This preaches itself. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.200 I don't need to make a comment. I could just 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.040 read this over and over again for fifty minutes. We 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.360 go home. So do not worry saying what shall we 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.840 eat or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.440 For the pagans run after all these things. These are 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:06.640 allow values. This is what the world worries about. You 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.440 want to worry about something, worry about something, worrying about 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.480 worry about teen suicide rates, You just gotta worry worry 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.040 about that. Worry about racism. You want to worry about something, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.560 worry about that. I want to worry about something. Worry 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.040 about this crazy cycle of fear that we're all living in. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.880 If you want to worry about something, but don't worry 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.959 about this, for the pagans run after all these things. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.880 Your heavenly father knows that you need them. But see 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.200 versus kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.800 be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.320 about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.640 has trouble enough of its own. The word God gave 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.720 me to give to you today is reverse your worry. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.040 Reverse your worry. We're gonna get this thing turned around 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.840 for lunchtime today. Reverse your worry. Came in thinking one way, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.439 going to go home thinking another. Reverse your worry. Turn 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.680 to somebody and say it's time to turn it around. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.640 So why do you worry? That's the question. The command 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.760 is do not worry. And then the question is verse 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.360 twenty eight. Let's see it again, why do you worry? 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.000 And at this point, if it was anybody other than 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.959 Jesus asking the question, I would say, sit down and 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.400 let me tell you. You You know. Oh, I got a list. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.800 You want to know why I'll worry? Well, where do 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.320 you want me to start, like, first of all, let's 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.079 start with October in the stock market. If you want 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.120 to talk about worry, you want to talk about the 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 first week in November, you want to talk about if 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.600 you want, if you want, if you want to know 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.040 why I'll worry. Okay, I got I got a thirteen 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.080 year old and eleven year old and a seven year old, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.560 and they have the Internet. That's why I worry, Jesus 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.760 because something tells me that they are not yet of 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.520 the emotional and mental health and capacity to have all 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.120 of the information in the history of humanity in their pocket. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.840 And I'm worried about what they're going to access. And 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.319 there's no Bible verse about how much time to give 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 your child on Instagram if it is, I didn't find 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.240 that somebody send me the scripture this week. That's why 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:30.199 I'm worried. I'm I'm worried. You know, why do you worry? 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:36.120 Put the verse up again? Why do you worry? And 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.520 I think that's important that we stop and think about 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:46.720 the reasons that we worry, Okay, the reason that we worry, 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.240 and be really honest about it. Because what I worry 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.760 about more than anything is not what's happening to me. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.760 But whether or not what's within me is enough to 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:09.360 hand it is whether what's in me is strong enough 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.120 to handle what happens to me. That's why I worry. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:20.360 I worry because as a pastor, I am concerned that 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:25.040 maybe the way that I communicate would be more for consumption, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.480 and that people would come and hear the word, or 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.960 tune in online and hear the word and then just 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.480 click off. But you know, it seems like more and 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.920 more that people are just coming to church for what 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.880 to get out of it, or just you know what. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.360 I like that preacher, or I like that song, but 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.400 that's a really shallow reason to come to church. And 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.360 I worry that if people come from surface motivations, they're 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.640 gonna get surface results in their life. And if people 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:57.640 come from selfish motives, then they're gonna get empty, empty results. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:03.320 So why do you worry? Let's talk about it just 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.440 me and you now it just us. Why do you worry? What? 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.920 What do you worry about more than anything else? What's 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.839 the thing that had you up at three point thirty 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.839 this morning and your mind started spinning? Because this is 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:23.160 what happens. Your mind starts spinning some of us get 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.720 up to use the bathroom, and then we never quite 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.319 make it back to a rested state because our bladders 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:38.040 and our brains are both under demon possession, and so 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.319 both of them are too full, And so we wake 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.719 up in the middle of the night, and here we are. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.600 And this is how it happens. For me, my mind 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:52.240 just starts spinning, spinning. And the way that it's constructed 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.680 in the original language. I've studied this passage quite a bit. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.080 I've come back to it several times in preaching. Is 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.160 that it says, do not worry, that's the command. Or 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.360 take no thought. That's literal, take no thought. Think about that. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.840 He's saying, A thought that presents itself to you can 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.559 start you spinning in a direction if you take it, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.040 but it can't start you spinning if you don't hold 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.920 on to it. I appreciate the whole message. One time 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:26.439 called hold that thought. Hold that thought, and you get 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.240 a hold of a thought and you let it take 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.800 you somewhere. But where you take that thought, eventually you 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.480 find out it takes you somewhere. And for me, a 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.840 lot of times I end up in this spin cycle. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.200 Do you know what I'm talking about? Talk to me 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.240 the spin cycle of stress. I've noticed this about worry. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:53.440 Worry is circular. Worry is going round and round, is 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:58.120 not being concerned about something. That's not what Jesus means 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:03.520 by don't worry. This isn't Jesus Bob Marley moment, you know, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.840 because I was reading it, like look at the birds. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.120 You know, it almost sounds it almost sounds like Jesus 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.680 is telling me not to not to pay my bills. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.640 Just look at the birds. Look at the birds and 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.600 the flowers and beautiful. Isn't God good? Isn't he just 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.840 the best? Don't you just love Jesus and his muchness? 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.680 You know? So is not what he's saying, you know. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.440 You want me to be like a bird lord is no. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.800 I want you to observe the birds. I want you 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.640 to consider what they know that you don't. And maybe 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.520 what they know that you don't is because they live 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.320 where you don't. At a higher altitude. Observe the birds. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.240 If I could title this message something other than reverse 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.360 your worry, I'd call it look up, because in order 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.760 to consider the birds, you got to stuff looking all 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.440 around you to make sense of your life. You know, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.960 because as long as you look around you, you spin 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.040 around and around and around and around. But when you 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.280 break the cycle and consider that there is a God 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.400 above you, who has gone before you, who lives within you, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.120 who is always for you, and that you are spoken 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.720 for and known and named and called and chosen and 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:30.320 set apart, you see your life at a different level. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.160 Can I praise a little bit? Because I've been doing 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.080 this a lot. It's funny that I just finished the 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.800 whole series about anxiety called Triggered, and here we are 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:46.840 back in this same idea, still spinning. It's still spinning. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:53.120 Worry is is like this. It's around and around and around. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.480 But notice one thing about all my spinning, other than 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.120 the fact that some of y'all are getting dizzy just 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.280 watching me do this, imagine how it feels to actually 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:06.360 do it. Imagine how it feels for me actually doing it. Well, 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:11.920 this is what it feels like when you're spinning, spinning, spinning, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.000 lots of motion. But I keep ending up right where 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:25.320 I started. I'm right back here, Only now I can't 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:30.120 see straight. Now. That's what it's like to toss and 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:36.400 turn over stuff you can't control. Because after you've spent 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:42.640 all night spinning all day, spinning in your head, and 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.240 what if they And you know it starts with the 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.320 most innocent thought. It's not the devil. The Devil's been 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.720 at this a long time, sweetie. He's not going to 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.040 give you a bad thought. He's going to try to 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.520 give you an innocent thought and get you to take 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:00.320 it in the wrong direction. A scenario then, on the surface, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:05.159 doesn't seem that bad, but it's the way you spin it. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.640 It's like you know, Fox News and CNN, It's it's 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.479 one story they're telling, but it's spinning different ways, and 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.800 it's how you spin it that determines how you see it. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.399 I am preaching Matthew Chapter six like it's my last 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.639 time today, because when you get in that spin cycle, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:28.639 it's just around and around and around and around, and 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.080 it doesn't make any difference. I'm not getting anywhere, I'm 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.919 not working on it, I'm not making progress anywhere. And 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.879 the Devil gets me so dizzy that now by the 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.480 time that I'm facing my real life challenges, I don't 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.200 have the equilibrium to apply the effort in the direction 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.000 that would create a result. Because I'm so dizzy, I 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.240 can't find my balance and now I don't know who 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:57.959 to trust, I don't know what to do. WHOA hang on, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.320 I need a minute, I need a minute. I've been spinning, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.400 by the way, That's why it takes you a few 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:08.040 minutes when you get to church to get your heart 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.560 in the right place for the caffeine to kick in 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.440 and for you to stop spinning. Yeah, Jesus said, look 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:21.320 up at the birds, and then look at the flowers. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.680 The flowers. So when we look up, you want me 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.000 to look down. I want you to look both. I 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.680 notice something that the flowers don't do that your mind 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.199 has been doing lately, he said. When you look at 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.920 the flowers, notice how they do not labor or give 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:47.840 me the verse please twenty eight. They do not labor 0:18:48.520 --> 0:19:01.200 or and yet, your father, they don't spin, they don't sew. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.359 The birds don't store away, the flowers don't spend. Yet 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.840 look how God does that on that level? And if 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:17.480 he made you in his image, what makes you think 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:23.000 that you have to spin out in these cycles? You know, 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.480 these tormenting cycles, these confusing cycles where you start thinking, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.960 you know, oh, oh my god, my my kid needs bracests, 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.880 and you know it's the littlest things isn't it. It's 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.399 the littlest things that gets you spending. My kid needs now, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.720 the kid's only two years old, but my kid's gonna 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.280 need braceists because the first tooth grew in kind of crooked. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.639 And now you're looking at one crooked tooth and your 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.720 two year old's got one little crooked tooth grown in. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.400 Oh my god, they're gonna need braces. Embracests with inflation 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.320 is gonna cost four hundred and seventy three thousand dollars 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.560 and I won't have any money to send them in college, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.920 so they're only gonna have to resort to gang violence. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.359 And then my child's gonna wind up in prison. And 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:05.199 I'm a visit. Now you're in prison. Your kid is too, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.000 and your kids still too, and you didn't keep them 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.760 out of prison, and they're still gonna need bracests. So 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.159 you've been going around and around and around in circles. 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:24.320 But God said today is your day to stop spinning. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:29.560 If your mind has been doing this, I came to 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.000 preach to you, and the presence of the Lord is 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.719 in this place, and your father knows what you need, 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:42.360 So stop spinning. Stop worrying about what God is already 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:47.040 working on and just worship him. Come on, take fifteen seconds. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.520 I know you can't do it all the time, but 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.800 you're in the right place today. Let's give him praise 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:57.720 and honor and glory that our needs are men for 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:11.000 his need. This's great. That's all worship is. You know, 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:20.159 worship is worry in reverse. See, worry is when I 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.320 start with my situation and then I spin round and 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.520 round and round and round and round and round and 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.680 round and round. But God said, stop spinning, and instead 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.960 of starting your meditation with your situation, start with your source. 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.919 When you know who your father is, it sends you 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:43.040 spinning in a different direction. Come on, I know who 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.000 he is, I know what he's done, and I know 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:59.280 what he's gonna do. And stop spinning. Find seven people. 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:06.240 Tell him stuff. It's not working round and running circles 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:12.200 like the Israelites for forty three years. Why are you worried? 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:18.760 I would understand it if it was working. I wrote 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.719 a country song one time, Well, not a whole song, 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:32.400 just a chorus. Okay, well that's never happened before. Yeah, 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.240 I know it's a ambrollor Father, bless me in the 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:46.320 name of Jesus. Well, it's like that, you know, like 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:54.240 worry is like that. It's like the and sometimes it's 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.639 going off, but you can't you can't do anything about it. 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.480 Sometimes it's like that. It's like think think about think 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:06.200 about the day we live in where we're constantly being 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:12.479 hit with breaking news, breaking news, Trump had lunch, breaking 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:19.959 breaking news, and so it's almost impossible for us to 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:27.040 have priorities because we're being fed so much fear. When 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.840 your father feeds you, it builds your faith when you 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:32.680 start with who God is. You know, when you start 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:37.679 with that, when you start with your source, you end 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:41.840 up where you started. And if you start with God, 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:53.399 you end with God. If you start with fear, you 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:56.800 end with fear. If you start with shortage, you end 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:02.000 with shortage. If you start with your situation, you'll be 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.960 like Elisha's servant in Second King sixth. This is a 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:07.440 great Old Testament story to illustrate what I'm talking about, 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.480 because the servant woke up one day and found that 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:16.000 the camp was surrounded with the Aramians, who are the enemies, 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:20.800 and he woke Elisha. He's like, oh, my lord, what 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.199 shall we do. That's exactly what the Bible says, and 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.719 that's exactly what you've been saying. Oh, my Lord, you know, 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.919 like I'm surrounded and now this preacher is talking about 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:36.760 birds and lily's and petunias and chrysanthemums, and here I 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:40.040 am trying to pay bills and my mom has Alzheimer's 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:44.600 and this dude's up here talking about birds. All right. Well, 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:48.840 Elisha could have prayed that God would destroy the enemies 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.040 that were surrounding the camp, but he didn't. He didn't. 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:58.280 He prayed something more powerful. And what he said is 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:01.480 what I'm praying for us in this game Changer series, 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.720 because this is the game changer, not that God takes 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:06.480 your enemies away, but that he enables you to see 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:11.280 beyond them, not that he takes your problems away, but 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:15.280 that he enables your faith to see beyond them. Now, 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.879 the first circle is the enemies, and they were real. 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:23.920 But Elisha prayed, Lord open his eyes that he may see, 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:26.960 that he may see what that there are more with 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:32.439 us than with them. So the first circle says, I'm overwhelmed. 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:36.720 The first circle says I'm outnumbered. The first circle says 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:39.240 there's nothing I can do. And on the surface, this 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:43.480 is the truth. But the second circle. When the servant 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:46.000 opened his eyes, he saw what had been there all along. 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.960 There was a host of angel armies surrounding the first circle, 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:54.399 and what was on the outside was greater than what 0:25:54.560 --> 0:26:00.120 was on the inside. Whatever is surrounding you, God is 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:06.679 already surrounding it. And so much of our peace is 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:12.400 depending on whether we can perceive the second circle. When 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:17.000 you live in the first circles, it's always it's always 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:20.680 never enough. If you start with not enough, you end 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.640