1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: Church and. 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: This is our podcast. 4 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 5 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 6 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 1: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 7 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: in your life. 8 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. 9 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: We want to shift gears a little bit this week 10 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: and teach you a message. 11 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: That I taught our staff. 12 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: It's a different version of it, but I was sharing 13 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: with our staff on the subject of anxiety. 14 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: And the reason that I did that's. 15 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: Primarily because our staff is very young. Many of our 16 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: staff have never worked in another work environment than Elevation Church. 17 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: It's a fast paced. 18 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Environment, growth environment, and a lot of performance pressure, and 19 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: I felt like, as the under shepherd that serves to 20 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: oversee our staff, I wanted to share some very practical 21 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: principles on the subject of anxiety. Don't judge me for this, 22 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: but sometimes I do a YouTube search of myself my 23 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: own sermons. 24 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: The only reason I do it. 25 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: Hang with me for a second is when I want 26 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: to spot check and see, you know how I can 27 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: preach better, So do that. But also I want to 28 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: see what people are looking for what kind of help 29 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 1: they're looking for, what kind of subjects tend to draw 30 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: people in so that we can tell them the good 31 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: news about Jesus Christ. And in order to do that, 32 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: sometimes I'll look and see what are the top sermons 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: that have been watched that have been preached out of 34 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: this pulpit. Because we give them all the way for 35 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: free in as many different formats as we can, we 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: kind of embrace the day that we live in. And 37 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: so right now people are watching on Facebook Live and 38 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: YouTube live and and the Elevation Church app and just 39 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: watching you you'd be shocked, you would be so surprised 40 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: how many people are up in the middle of the 41 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: night in another part of the world and wanting to 42 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: tune into your church. And they write me from time 43 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: to time they tell me they're coming to church, like 44 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman, on. 45 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 2: A bucket list to be here. 46 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: And always thought that was cool because growing up, for me, 47 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: church was not a bucket list type thought what made 48 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: me want to die, but it didn't make me well, 49 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it before I die. So anyway, 50 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: what I thought, what I thought I would do today 51 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: for you to share from the top subject that I 52 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: preached on because in the top three sermons that I've 53 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: preached in terms of views, the subject was anxiety. And 54 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: I want to share a message with you today on 55 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: the subject of anxiety, and I want to do. 56 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: It from Psalm one point thirty nine. 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: So we're somewhere near the middle of this series looking 58 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: at David's life and looking at the lyrics of the 59 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: psalms that he wrote, and we're making comparisons. We're saying 60 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: that David is the greatest rapper or MC of all time, 61 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: and I stand by that. 62 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: I stand by that. I would say that David's. 63 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: Words in the songs are are divinely inspired to help 64 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: us search within ourselves. And one song I didn't tell 65 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: them this last night. The reason that I love Somealone 66 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: thirty nine, where I'm going to share with you from today. 67 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: The reason I love it is because the first time 68 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: I tried to write a Christian song, I wrote it 69 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: based on Someone thirty nine. And Holly's laughing because every 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: once in a while we'll mention this song. 71 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 2: It's not a very good song. 72 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into it right now, but 73 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: it was based on psalmone thirty nine and it had 74 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: this cool little walk down in it. But other than that, 75 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: the song really wasn't very good. But I was only 76 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: sixteen at the time. And so it's a wonderful song 77 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: because it gives us a picture of both God's all 78 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: seeing I meaning that he is watching over our lives 79 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: in every situation in season, and the intimacy with which 80 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: God sees our lives. And so I want to pick 81 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: up in verse seventeen today and bring you into the 82 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: flow of the psalm a little bit. David says this 83 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: someone thirty nine verse seventeen. How precious to me are 84 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: your thoughts? 85 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 2: God? How vast is the sum of them? 86 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains 87 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: of sand. 88 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: When I awake, I am still with you. 89 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: If only you, God, would slay the wicked away from me, 90 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: You who are blood thirsty. They speak of you with 91 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: evil intent, Your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not 92 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: hate those who hate you Lord? And abhor those who 93 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred 94 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: for them. I count them my enemies. Here comes the shift, 95 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 1: because David is focusing on external fact, and all of 96 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: a sudden he makes this move that we see him 97 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: make over and over again in his life, from dealing 98 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: with his. 99 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 2: Enemies to the inner me. 100 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: And as much as that sounds like a little preacher thing, 101 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: let's see what you did there, it's really the most 102 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: important life skill because David is about to take responsibility 103 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: for his own anxiety. He's not going to put it 104 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: on the economy. 105 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: He's not going to. 106 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: Put it on King Saul, who's trying to kill him. 107 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: He's not going to put it on his teenagers. 108 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 2: He didn't have kids, but you know what I'm saying, 109 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: not at this point. He did have kids, and we'll 110 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: talk about them in a future week. 111 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: But he's not putting it on anybody but himself. 112 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 2: Watch it. 113 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: In verse twenty three, he says, search me, search me. 114 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: Those two words would set you free from ninety percent 115 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: of the drama because some of you borrowed trauma trying 116 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: to look into. 117 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: Other people's lives. Clap like it's not you. No one 118 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: will know that's good, pastor tell. 119 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: Them search me God and know my heart. 120 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 2: Did you notice the shift? Kill them? 121 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: He's fussing and cussing about the way things are in 122 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: the world, these bloodthirsty men and all these selfish politicians 123 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: and all this corruption, the systemic corruption. God do something 124 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: about it. And then he shifts and says, search me. 125 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: Nothing changes until I do know my heart, test me 126 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: and know my anxious thoughts. That's where I want to 127 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: spend some time today. And I've been asking myself the 128 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: question lately. This is my sermon title, Why am I anxious? 129 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: Why am I anxious? Apparently, according to my non scientific 130 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: YouTube study, all of you are anxious, and so I 131 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: won't ask the question have you experienced anxiety in the 132 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: last week? Because we live in the age of anxiety. 133 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: Let's be honest about it. I mean, it is almost 134 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: marketed to us through the stations that are supposed. 135 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 2: To be giving us our information, they actually. 136 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: Engage us using fear tactics so that they can sell 137 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: advertising time, often promoting the same drug and pharmaceutical companies 138 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: that are owned by the same conglomerates that push out 139 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: the information that is design. 140 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: To make us anxious. 141 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: But let's be careful because we sound like David now 142 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: in verse twenty two, kill them God. 143 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 2: But David came to a place. 144 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: Where he said, you know, it's not what's happening out 145 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: there that makes me anxious. It's what I allow in here. 146 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: To go undetected and unchecked. It's my thought process. 147 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: He uses an actual Hebrew word that means disquieting thoughts. 148 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: It's translated as closely as it can be into English 149 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: anxious thoughts. So David is saying, now, it is not 150 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: what is happening that is creating anxiety. It is the 151 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: way I am thinking about it. Look at verse twenty four. 152 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: I know that David didn't know about neural pathways, but 153 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: it sounds like he did, because he said, I want 154 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: you to look inside God and see you got twenty four. 155 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 1: If there is any offensive way in me? And now 156 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: we know that when we think something long enough, it 157 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: creates a four eighty five in our minds, a seventy 158 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: seven in our minds. 159 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: What's the highway in Toronto, l J the four oh one. 160 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: For our Canadian friends and Drake, there's a there's a 161 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: there's a process by which I get stuck in a rut. 162 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: And so David is saying, see if I've been thinking 163 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: in a way that has allowed the enemy to traffic 164 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: in my mind where I've just been letting him in. 165 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: And that's what I want to do today. I want 166 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: to take you through a seven point test answering the 167 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: question why am I anxious and hopefully help us to 168 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: get past this point of answering that question with somebody 169 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: else's name, and hopefully get us past the point of 170 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: answering that question by by mentioning something that is happening 171 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: that is outside of our control, and hopefully to get 172 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: us to the place where we can see that not 173 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: only is God watching over my life. That's what David understood, 174 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: is that when Saul is trying to kill me, God 175 00:09:54,240 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: is watching over me. God has this surveillance system every 176 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: situation of my life. 177 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: He will not suffer my foot to be moved. 178 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: The Lord which keep a thie, He's got twenty four 179 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: to seven surveillance on me. To somebody say you better 180 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: be nice to me. God is watching how you treat me. 181 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 1: God is watching how you talk to me. And God 182 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 1: likes me. How do you parents like it when somebody 183 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: talks about one of your kids. God feels that way 184 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: about you times a thousand, and he's watching out for you. 185 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: So why am I anxious? If my father knows my needs? 186 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: Why am I anxious? If he's numbered the hairs on 187 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: my head? Why am I anxious if he promised to 188 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: supply every need and I got to get honest about it. 189 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily referring to this in a medical sense. 190 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: Please don't take this to mean that I'm saying that 191 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: your sin or or behavioral choices are always responsible for anxiety. 192 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: But what I want to show you today, regardless of 193 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: where it's coming from. Because I'm not a doctor, you 194 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: have to talk to Stacy if you want some help 195 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: with that. 196 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 2: But maybe there are some ways in me. 197 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: That are making me vulnerable to the way that things 198 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: are and allowing me to remain anxious when the Bible 199 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: says do not be anxious. I don't think it means 200 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: that we can never feel anxiety. It is when we 201 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: stay anxious. It doesn't mean that there won't be moments 202 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: and seasons. 203 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 2: In your life where your hands are shaken. 204 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: Dimi Levado couldn't sing the national anthem without her hands shaken. 205 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it. She's sanging a 206 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: lot in front of a lot of people. That's not 207 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this pervasive sense 208 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: of when things are going right, you can't even enjoy 209 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: them because it probably won't last long. 210 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 2: I mean looking around every corner for what's going to 211 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 2: happen next. 212 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: And I want to take you through something quickly today. 213 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of a sermon slash seminar from Psalm one 214 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: point nine. 215 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 2: It's a salmonar. I thought you'd like that. 216 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 1: It's a salmonar, and pay attention and write this down. 217 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: If you don't write this down, you're not going to 218 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: sleep any this week. And I have horrible stomach pains 219 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: while you try to sleep. But write this down, and 220 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: got to bless you. Number one. When I am anxious, 221 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: ask somebody next to you, why are you anxious? 222 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: All right? 223 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: The first thing to check is your intake. The first 224 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: thing that I consider when I'm anxious is how full 225 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: I am of what? Because I found out that anxiety 226 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: and cellulite have one thing in common. You can't pray 227 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: either one of them away. 228 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 2: They are both about intake. 229 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: They showed me this new feature on my phone the 230 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: other day. 231 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: Can I show you? 232 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: My kids are always showing me stuff, and so they 233 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: showed me a feature on my phone the other day. 234 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 2: Oh, I got a text from Holly. 235 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: Okay, she just told me this should be my next 236 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: book okay, but let me show you something else. Right now, 237 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: you know all these great functions on the iPhone? 238 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 2: This is what is this? A seven? 239 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: A seven that the iPhone seven has this function? And 240 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:24,719 Speaker 1: I want to show it to you if you hit 241 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: this button and hold it on the side, and then. 242 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 2: You'd be shocked. How many y'all don't want to y'all 243 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 2: don't want to learn nowting today, you would be shocked 244 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 2: because I'm gonna tell you a secret. 245 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: There is no way that we can take it to 246 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: Somebody says too much. We can't take it all in 247 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: and still have room for the piece of God you're 248 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: praying for the peace of God. 249 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 2: God doesn't have anywhere to put it. Your mind is 250 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 2: too fool. 251 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: You were not designed to have the entirety of the 252 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: conversation of the whole human race buzzing on your back pocket, 253 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: on your butt phone, just walking around like snipers. 254 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: What did they say? 255 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: Where did they go on vacation? What about that press conference? 256 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: It was not supposed to be this way. Of course 257 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: we're freaking out. Of course we're zombies. Of Course we're 258 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: numbing ourselves and drinking and smoking and popping. Of course 259 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: we can't stop it would the devil's got a shock 260 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,479 Speaker 1: collar on our back. 261 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: Pocket and we don't even know where. 262 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: Now are messing up my seminar, sithown my salminar. So 263 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: you want me to give you inspiration for forty five 264 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: minutes every week, and you're gonna lay it over top 265 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: of seventeen hours of media that is designed to hardwire 266 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: the way you think, Yes, what hope? 267 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 2: Do we have to have peace if we don't make 268 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: a place for it. 269 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: And they used to teach me in youth camph this 270 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: saying called garbage in, garbage out, and it was basically 271 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: a way of saying, don't listen to rock and roll 272 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: music and watch bad movies. 273 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 2: And there's some good to that too. I think you 274 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 2: got to be. 275 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: In tune with your conscience in terms of what creates 276 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: a sense of darkness, and you have to know that, 277 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: and we should make rules for each other. But say, 278 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: God search me. I think that's very good. But I 279 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: also think that sometimes what we don't take in is 280 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: just as fatal to our faith as what we do 281 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: take in. I think some of us are on a 282 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: spiritual starvation diet. 283 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 2: And we don't even know. 284 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: It, and so we have faith that we don't feed, 285 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: and then we cannot access strength that we actually possess 286 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: if we feed it. And so you've got to get 287 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: your intake levels up. 288 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: You've got to buck. 289 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: When he first started trying to get me to work 290 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: out more, he said, the first thing I want you 291 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: to do, Because he was telling me the only way 292 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: for me to get the result I wanted, he said, 293 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: you got to. 294 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 2: Do two things. 295 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: What was that little cheesy motivational poster you had up 296 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: in your gym. You can't out train a bad diet, 297 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: is that what it said? And he was like, so 298 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: I want you to keep a food law and write 299 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: down everything you eat. And I didn't do it, but 300 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: I thought it's a good idea because before I can 301 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: change what I take in, I need to know track 302 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: what I take in. I wonder what it would look 303 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: like if you kept a thought log of just what 304 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: you let in. So if you let the enemy in 305 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 1: and then pray for God to drive him out, it 306 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: creates a cycle where you are creating your own state 307 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: of mind that you're trying to pray away. So there 308 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: has to be a knowledge search me God. You have 309 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: to let God show you. You have to let his 310 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: eye see what it is that you're taking in. And 311 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: I even mean this in terms of relationships. Some of 312 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: the people that you are around are draining your faith. 313 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: And I know you have to be around them a 314 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: little bit, but you might need to put on a 315 00:17:52,280 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: little protective yeah, like UVS seventy five, seventy five spiritual 316 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: protection seventy five, just to get around them. And I 317 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: think it would be good sometimes for us to check 318 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: our intake levels. Oh well, you know what, I didn't 319 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: read a Bible verse since the last time they put 320 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: one on the screen for me at Elevation Church. I 321 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: got all these apps on my phone, and ninety seven 322 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: percent of them are empty calories A mastered Candy Crush. 323 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't play Candy Crush because Hollywood leave 324 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: me if I put that out there in the universe. 325 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: She loves candy Crush. But I'm pretty. 326 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: Concerned sometimes that we're filling ourselves with empty calories and 327 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: then so we're weak in the battle, and we wonder, 328 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: why check your intake. It's good, isn't it. It's good 329 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: teaching because your intake, your intake levels have to be balanced. 330 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: The second thing I want you to write down is imbalance. 331 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 2: Check for imbalance. I don't mean chemical imbalance. 332 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: That's beyond my purview, but I do mean that when 333 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: you don't have a sense of what's important in your life, 334 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: when you don't have a sense of priority in your 335 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: life and everything feels urgent, it's a sign that you 336 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: haven't figured out what's really important. Now you are open 337 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: to everybody's demand, and they all take up equal space. 338 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: And so by saying yes to people who don't really matter, 339 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: you say an automatic no to those who do. By 340 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: saying yes to people who essentially are using you in 341 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: order to achieve their own goals, now you find yourself 342 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: unable to give because you are a limited resource to 343 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: the people that God has entrusted to your care the most. 344 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: So I have to have watched this a sense of balance. 345 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: I could preach about balance. You know, you've got to 346 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: work out and pray and eat and all of that, 347 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: but this is not that kind of seminar. What I 348 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: mean is you've got to be balanced in what you 349 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: give weight to. That's what I mean is that sometimes 350 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: we are stressed out because we are giving too much 351 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: weight to the wrong words and not enough weight to 352 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: the right words. And so we're out of balance because 353 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: we have this feed, and everything on our feed is 354 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: the same size, and because it's all the same size, 355 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: we think it carries the same weight. So we live 356 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: in a state of stress because we haven't learned how 357 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: to weigh it out. You've got to weigh it out 358 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: when someone doesn't like you. Sometimes it doesn't matter depends 359 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: on who they are. Well are pulling on me. I'm 360 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: gonna start telling you things I shouldn't. The other week, 361 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: someone was telling me that there was somebody who hated 362 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: our church and came and said it wasn't that bad. 363 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 2: I said, I don't care. I knew it wasn't that bad. 364 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: In fact, not only was it not that bad, it's 365 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Tell him, I said, I didn't need them 366 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: to validate something that I. 367 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: See every week. Thank you very much. I already know 368 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 2: God is in this place. I already know He is 369 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:39,199 Speaker 2: glorious in this place. I'm glad you think it's not 370 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 2: that bad. 371 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: But I wasn't really waiting for you to hand me 372 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: the award for not that bad. It was not that 373 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: bad before you decided it was not that bad. And 374 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: so I was talking to a guy one time about 375 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: something here at the church that was complicated, and I 376 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: gave him a thirty minute speech asking for his advice. 377 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: I got my notebook ready to hear what he would 378 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: tell me. After I listed everything that was happening, and 379 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: he goes, He goes, Steven. 380 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. 381 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: So I wrote that down, you know, point one, because 382 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: I need you to tell me what to do. And 383 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: do you know he didn't say another word. It just 384 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: turned to the person next to you and look at 385 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: him and say their name. If you know their name, 386 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: say Stephen. Tell them it doesn't matter. 387 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 2: No, you got to tell him with that a little 388 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 2: bit of. 389 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: You gotta do it from your diaphragm ready, tell them 390 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. 391 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 2: Now what you just said. 392 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: Is true about ninety nine point nine nine nine nine 393 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: nine nine nine nine nine nine nine seven three percent 394 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: scientific number of what they're staying up worried about. And 395 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: one time I was laying in my bed at night 396 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: and worrying about something and God spoke to me through 397 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: his spirit. You're staying awake worrying about something that I've 398 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: already worked out. Now, when you give weight to that 399 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: promise from God, when you give weight to the right things. 400 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: When when I give weight, when I have a clear 401 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: sense of priority in my life, I'm okay if people 402 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: are angry if I say no, because my no is 403 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: a yes to something that. 404 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 2: I already decided was more important. 405 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: Than what any given demand might require of me at 406 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: any given moment. And this is the thing that that 407 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: I'm coming. 408 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 2: To realize is that Christ is the solid rock. But 409 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: if you don't know how to stand on that rock. 410 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: With the right balance, the devil will push you around, 411 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: and you will always steel unsettled, and you will always 412 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 1: feel tossed in turn. But when you make up your 413 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: mind what does matter and what doesn't matter, let me 414 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: help you out a little bit. What doesn't matter, what 415 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: they think? What does matter? What God knows? Search me, 416 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 1: God know my mind, tests me, You see you sneak 417 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: to me. 418 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. 419 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: He was so right what he was talking about didn't matter. 420 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: In fact, I thought about writing a book and calling 421 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: the book it doesn't matter, And I've already got my 422 00:24:54,600 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: subtitle figured out, really, and my first chapter will be 423 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: called at all. I feel somebody getting their balance back, 424 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: getting your equilibrium back. 425 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: You're seeing it right now. For what it is, This 426 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 2: doesn't matter. 427 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: This matters that I keep my faith, that I keep 428 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: a grateful attitude, that I don't let my situation contaminate 429 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: my spirit. 430 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: This matters, not that. This matters, not. 431 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: That, because if you don't sort this out, you will 432 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: live in constant imprisonment to your own indecision. Put that 433 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: one down as number three. We're making terrible time. Indecision 434 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: is a prison. So I want you to make three 435 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: decisions before Wednesday. If you're watching this in a MIDWEK 436 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: worship experience, you're running short on time. The clacus counting. 437 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 1: I want you to set a d day. All you 438 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 1: procrastinators and you're claiming to be thorough, I want you 439 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: to make I want you to make three decisions this week. 440 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 2: I want you to do it. I want you to 441 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 2: set aside a day this week. 442 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: Sit down, have four cups of coffee so you numb 443 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: your rationale, rational thinking processes, and go in. 444 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 2: And just make them. Just make the decisions. 445 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: And if you make dumb ones, apologize, But. 446 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: Make the decision. 447 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: My god, fifteen minutes to decide chicken or shrimp in 448 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: a restaurant. 449 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: I'm serious. 450 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: You've been dating her seven and a half years and 451 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: you can't decide if she the one. 452 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 2: Well, if she's not, get. 453 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: Out of the way. Oh I'm prison Now I dis 454 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 1: got somebody in Diamond. 455 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 2: You want to name your kids Stephen, do it or 456 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 2: go do it? Or do. 457 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: Buy the house or dope sell the house or dope 458 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: stay in Raleigh or dope do it or don't. 459 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: You can always move back. 460 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: And now we're making up more stuff to give us 461 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: opportunities for anxiety, and we call it options. I don't 462 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: know if it was just growing up in Monk's Corner, 463 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: you didn't have to decide where to send your kids 464 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: to school. 465 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: There were two. I moved to Charlotte. I never saw 466 00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 2: anything like it. It's crazy. It's killing too many options. 467 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,719 Speaker 1: I just want gash not a surpee, not a car wash, 468 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: not a pack massage, just Gashy's some many OSSes. 469 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 2: I did it this week. 470 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: I went in I was I was selling that anxiety. 471 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: And I told Jess to send over my notes for 472 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: my Why am I anxious? 473 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 2: Teaching? Because I felt like I needed my own notes. 474 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 2: And I don't keep them. 475 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: After I write them, I give them a scratch them 476 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: down and then give them away. But somebody else keeps them, 477 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: and so I said, give me. 478 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 2: The notes and send them over. I need them. She said, 479 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 2: are you gonna teach it? I said, no, I need 480 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 2: to live it. I was feeling all unsettled, and. 481 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: I went through my list and I found this one. 482 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: And the Holy Spirit hit me and said, you're very 483 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: indecisive right now. 484 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 2: Everything everybody asks you, you're going, hey, when do we get 485 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 2: back to that. 486 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through the roo a few Then you're 487 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: not going through a few things. You're not talking, you're 488 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: not praying anything like that. Just wait until it comes 489 00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: around again. And it was because I mean the way 490 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: that I was handling things, and so I just came 491 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: in that day. 492 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 2: I made three decisions. I felt I felt like. 493 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: I felt like I had spent a day at a 494 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: spa just by making three decisions. 495 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 2: And they all started with and ended with oh, And 496 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: it felt so good. It felt so good. No, try it, 497 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 2: try it one, two, three. 498 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: No, Now, this only works. 499 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: This only works if. 500 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: You are living with integrity. This only works if you 501 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: are living with integrity. And sometimes my anxiety as a 502 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: result of a compromise in my integrity, it's kind of 503 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: hard to have a peaceful heart. When you're hiding secrets 504 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: and feel like a hypocrite. It's kind of hard to 505 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: have a peaceful heart when you're having to hope that 506 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: your wife doesn't check your phone. 507 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 2: To see certain text message. It's kind of hard to 508 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 2: have a peaceful heart when. 509 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: You have three snapchats and the one that your parents 510 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: think is your snapchat is just a decoy. 511 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 2: And now you're asking God. 512 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: To give you peace, but your life is so many 513 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: different pieces. 514 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: The word integrity means whole whole. 515 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: Like in math class they taught us about integers, whole numbers, 516 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: whole integrity, everything all one person, all the time. And 517 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: when there are three different means that I have to 518 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: manage for every different situation, it's kind of hard to 519 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: pray to panic away. 520 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: When my own lifestyle is creating it. 521 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: When I'm trying to figure out which mask to wear 522 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: at church and no one will see into my situation 523 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: at home, when there's work me and after work me, 524 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: and Friday night me and nine thirty Sunday morning me, 525 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard for me to have peace when 526 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: my foundation is cracked. It's kind of hard for me 527 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: to manage all those different means because I might send 528 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: out the wrong one at the wrong time. 529 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 2: Have you ever done that? 530 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm at the same preacher me out there right now. 531 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard for me to ask God to 532 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: bless a life that is divided in so many different directions. Now, 533 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: I don't mean by this that you have to interact 534 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: with everybody. 535 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 2: On the same level. For instance, if we were to meet. 536 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: At Pizza Hut, I wouldn't talk at this volume. 537 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 2: Do you know I would modulate. 538 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: People say, well, you should be the same on stage 539 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: that you are out in public. 540 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 2: Well, that would be obnoxious. 541 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: Can you imagine touch three people at the baseball field? 542 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 2: Scandalous? Touch? 543 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 3: What what I am saying is that although you might 544 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 3: bring a different approach to different situations, that the essential 545 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 3: nature of who you are remains unchanged in every encounter. 546 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: So it shouldn't be like that for my family to 547 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: watch me preach and go like who was that? It 548 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't be like that. It should feel like a continuation. 549 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: Somebody shouldn't see you on the television program and go 550 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: you go to church. I heard you say hallelujah on 551 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: the church service, but I hear you say some others 552 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: and is costing you your peace. I'm not condemning you. 553 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: I'm telling you you might be anxious sometimes because you 554 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: are trying to manage so many different versions of you. 555 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: And if you would bring it all together and just 556 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: be honest before God and just ask God what David 557 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: search me, know my heart and if the way I'm 558 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: doing it is wrong. 559 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 2: I want to be changed. 560 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: I'm already accepted because of what Jesus Christ has done 561 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: for me. Now, God, help me to align my life 562 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: with what you made me to be so that I 563 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: can be the real me. I want to be the 564 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: real me, the highest version of me, that called me, 565 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: that chosen me, that secure me, that stable me, that 566 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: God loves me. And I don't have to prove anything 567 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 1: to anyone. 568 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 2: This is my child with Him, with her. 569 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: I well, please, I don't have to be anybody else. 570 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: And my cortisol levels just dropped just by being the 571 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: real me because all that other layers of stuff. 572 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 2: And all that anger, that's not the real you, not 573 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 2: in Christ. That's what David is getting to the bottom of. 574 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: Did you notice that all of my points are starting 575 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: with the same letter, the letter I. 576 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 2: I figure that's. 577 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: A common denominator in a lot of our anxiety, search 578 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 1: me God, your eyes can see God's eyes. 579 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 2: God see beneath the surface of what the situation is. 580 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: Anxious because of my money, and I'm anxious because of 581 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: my help, and I'm anxious because my mom. 582 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 2: No no, no, no no. That might trigger it. 583 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: But the truth of God's word can enable your heart 584 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: to transcend. This is what the New Testament preaches, is 585 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: that the peace of God will actually pass all understanding 586 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,799 Speaker 1: and guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. So, 587 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 1: no matter what triggers the anxiety in any situation, David said, search. 588 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 2: Me and know me. 589 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 1: And sometimes I have to fix my intention. Sometimes I 590 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 1: can reduce my anxiety just by shifting my intention, just 591 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: by going from you know, how how are people thinking 592 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: about me? 593 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 2: To realizing they're not. 594 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: Maybe if I would think about others, you know, why 595 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: didn't she speak to me? 596 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 2: Why didn't you speak to her? How about that? Why 597 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,720 Speaker 2: didn't you? Why didn't you? When when I'm when I'm. 598 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 1: Up here, a lot of times I can get locked 599 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: into performance mode real quick, and it makes for a 600 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,040 Speaker 1: thirsty sermon. It's not the best sermon. It's hard to 601 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: give living water when the preacher is thirsty. But when 602 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: I shift my intention and go and I hope this 603 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,279 Speaker 1: doesn't offend you. 604 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 2: But sometimes I make up stuff about you. 605 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,439 Speaker 1: I just look in your eyes and pretend like you're 606 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: going through something horrible. 607 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 2: I do. I just picture it like you, just do 608 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 2: it on the. 609 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 1: Verge, and just by wanting to help you rather than 610 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: perform for you. 611 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,479 Speaker 2: When I shift my intention, it just. 612 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: I just I feel something fall off when I do. 613 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:37,760 Speaker 2: You can shift your. 614 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: Intention in any interaction, and immediately when you do, when 615 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,360 Speaker 1: you step out of the center and try to see 616 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: how can I serve? I'll tell you what will go 617 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: when you step out of the ciner. The burden of 618 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: the weight of how you're coming across, the burden of 619 00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,239 Speaker 1: the weight of how you're being perceived, the burden of 620 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: the weight of what other people are and are not 621 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: giving you. You have got to get out of the 622 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: middle and see things from God's point of view. Search me, God, 623 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: Am I anxious because it's just the rhythms of life? 624 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 2: Then fine, I'll get through it. 625 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: Or am I creating more waves than necessary because. 626 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,840 Speaker 2: My eyes are not focused on Jesus? 627 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: I found out a lot of it is not even real. 628 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,240 Speaker 1: Have you noticed that a lot of it is in 629 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: this sacred place that God has given. 630 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 2: Us by which he shows us who he is. 631 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: It's the sacred space of your imagination. I want you 632 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: to reclaim your imagination. 633 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 2: You hear me. 634 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: I want you to take back your most valuable asset. 635 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,879 Speaker 1: I want you to tell take back that place in 636 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 1: you that used to be playful, and now it is 637 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:11,760 Speaker 1: so it is so stressed and panicked, that that placed 638 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,359 Speaker 1: in you that used to just make up games as 639 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 1: a little kid, just make up games, just would walk 640 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,879 Speaker 1: up to anybody. I want you to get get back 641 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:31,960 Speaker 1: that childlike faith. Just play around, just play around. See, 642 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,759 Speaker 1: the devil wants to turn the place that was meant 643 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,399 Speaker 1: to be your playground where you can enjoy God into 644 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 1: a battleground where you can't even. 645 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 2: Feel or experience him. 646 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,760 Speaker 1: When the enemy comes after your destiny, his first step 647 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,279 Speaker 1: is to set up a stronghold in your imagination. The 648 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: enemy wants to make it where you can't stand to 649 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: be alone because you've got an internal isis that has 650 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: set up. 651 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 2: Terror at cells. 652 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 1: And every time you go to think, you worry so 653 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: much about what might happen that you can't worship God. 654 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: So now you can't worship because you're so worried. But 655 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,360 Speaker 1: God said, today we're gonna get this thing turned around 656 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,800 Speaker 1: and recapture your imagination. 657 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,839 Speaker 2: To where you feel free again, to where you. 658 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: Can dream about something again, to where you can think 659 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,919 Speaker 1: and think, think crazy thoughts, and just write stuff down 660 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,319 Speaker 1: and just walk around seeing your stuff off tune, make 661 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: it up. 662 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 2: Words. You used to do that, you used to do that, 663 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 2: you used to walk around with just anything, but now anything. 664 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,120 Speaker 2: I told the devil the other day, get your hands 665 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,240 Speaker 2: off God's property. My imagination is God's house. 666 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,000 Speaker 1: My imagination was purchased with the blood of Christ. 667 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 2: You can't set up camp here. 668 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 1: I got dreams to dream, I got visions to see. 669 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:12,320 Speaker 2: I got a future to imagine. 670 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: The good news is, if you're really good at worrying, 671 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:22,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna be great at worship because all it is 672 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: is the same imagination serving the opposite purpose. 673 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 2: So what I'm doing now, y'll help me preach. I'm 674 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 2: about the close. I'm about the close. 675 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 1: But before I close, God said, we need to we 676 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,480 Speaker 1: need to reverse the cycle of the way that you're 677 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: thinking about things. We need to reverse the cycle. So 678 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: when you wake up in the morning, stop checking the 679 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:56,360 Speaker 1: fear casts. Stop waking up in the morning and thinking 680 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,040 Speaker 1: about how every possible meeting could go wrong, and you 681 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: don't have anything clean, and you wore that on Tuesday. 682 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 1: I promise you nobody has been keeping a spreadsheet. 683 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 2: Of your shoes. 684 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,279 Speaker 1: Put on those same shoes you wore Tuesday, and walk 685 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:15,239 Speaker 1: into your Thursday and expect to see the goodness of 686 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 1: the Lord where you have faith? People, Do I have 687 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,959 Speaker 1: any faith casts in the house, David Saidema, take the wings. 688 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,040 Speaker 2: Of morning, or dwelling the othermost part of the sea. 689 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 2: Watch this. Even there, your hand will lead me. 690 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: In. 691 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:36,879 Speaker 2: Your right hand will hold me. 692 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:42,800 Speaker 1: Fast because God is watching over me, and he's looking 693 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: into me. I didn't check the fear cast this week. 694 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: I checked the faith cast. It's corny, but I bet 695 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,759 Speaker 1: you it'll drive back depression if you check the faith. 696 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:06,440 Speaker 2: Cast, because God has been too good for me to 697 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:15,279 Speaker 2: stay anxious. How many did I give you? I heard 698 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 2: a sermon one time. It said doing stuff on six 699 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 2: So stand up. I'll tell you. Stand up. I'll tell 700 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 2: you the last thing. 701 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 1: When you stand up, it makes me know I'm out 702 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:38,040 Speaker 1: of time. Because the enemy wants to fight you in isolation. 703 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,960 Speaker 2: Why am I anxious. 704 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,520 Speaker 1: I think the answer to that question can often be 705 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,600 Speaker 1: found right in the middle of the very word itself. 706 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,400 Speaker 2: The word anxious. 707 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,120 Speaker 1: Right in the middle of the word is the letter I. 708 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: I was looking at it a few weeks ago, and 709 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,880 Speaker 1: I was just looking at the word anxious, and I 710 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,799 Speaker 1: was thinking, why should I feel discouraged? 711 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 2: Why did the shadows come? Why should my heart feel lonely? 712 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: When Jesus is my portion, a constant friend is hee 713 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 1: when his. 714 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 2: Eye is watching over my life. 715 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 1: David said, you were there for my conception, and you 716 00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,240 Speaker 1: have been there for every conflict and every. 717 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,799 Speaker 2: Season of my life. 718 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,480 Speaker 1: David wrote this beautiful song, although we cannot pinpoint the occasion. 719 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 1: Many think it was at the occasion of his coronation 720 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,880 Speaker 1: as the king over both the Southern and the Northern Kingdom. 721 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter when he wrote it, because God 722 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 1: was watching over every stage of his process. 723 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,600 Speaker 2: And David says, God. 724 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,360 Speaker 1: I want you to show me what's really making me anxious, 725 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 1: so I don't spend the rest of my life waiting 726 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,720 Speaker 1: for my enemies to disappear before I choose to have peace. 727 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,160 Speaker 1: And I was looking at the very word, and I 728 00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: saw something. 729 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:04,360 Speaker 2: That is right in the middle of anxious. But the 730 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,600 Speaker 2: word ends with us, and. 731 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,680 Speaker 1: I was thinking about what we do in coming to church, 732 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 1: you know, for our weekly reminder that we're not the 733 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:26,920 Speaker 1: only ones. We are not the only ones. You're not 734 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,640 Speaker 1: even going to be able to leave church today without 735 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: having to make a decision whether to apply this message, 736 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,319 Speaker 1: because many of you don't have the support system that 737 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,080 Speaker 1: you need to walk in the peace. 738 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 2: That you're praying for. 739 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 1: When you walk out today, there's going to be balloons 740 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: and grown men in pink T shirts and youth in 741 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: white T shirts to sign you up for whatever age 742 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,600 Speaker 1: or stage of life that you're in for these groups 743 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,880 Speaker 1: that we put together within the church a place for 744 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:02,080 Speaker 1: you to come and actually take the message water. What 745 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,799 Speaker 1: good is the seed of the Word of God if 746 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:09,520 Speaker 1: there's no water applied during the week, dying of thirst, 747 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:19,919 Speaker 1: faith dehydrated. But it ends when I becomes us. Real 748 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 1: change happens there when you get in and say, you 749 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,319 Speaker 1: know this week, man, I at this moment where I 750 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:27,160 Speaker 1: almost said. 751 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,160 Speaker 2: It, And then the dude over there in the corner 752 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,319 Speaker 2: who never speaks. 753 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:35,160 Speaker 1: Speaks up and goes, yeah, me too, And you look 754 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,640 Speaker 1: at him and you're so glad because. 755 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,239 Speaker 2: When you came in, you felt like it was just you. 756 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,319 Speaker 2: But somebody say, it's not just you. It's not just you. 757 00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: We came into the presence of God today to be 758 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,880 Speaker 1: surrounded by like minded people. 759 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,120 Speaker 2: But let me tell you something. 760 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:56,880 Speaker 1: You got to stay surrounded to say a peace. So 761 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,799 Speaker 1: I want to challenge you this week to take my 762 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,560 Speaker 1: ominar and go through it. 763 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:05,560 Speaker 2: Why do you always. 764 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,319 Speaker 1: Talk about Zaxby's on the way out of church and 765 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,920 Speaker 1: never take a moment and just digest what you heard, 766 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: act on what you. 767 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,560 Speaker 2: Heard, and ask God what David did? In fact? Can 768 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,080 Speaker 2: we do it for a moment? Can we just be 769 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,160 Speaker 2: still for a moment and even. 770 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,040 Speaker 1: Lift our hands If you feel comfortable lifting your hands, 771 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,440 Speaker 1: it puts you in a posture where you're no longer 772 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,320 Speaker 1: self conscious, but you're more God conscious. 773 00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,319 Speaker 2: And just pray this Father, show me. 774 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,640 Speaker 1: The ways that I'm thinking that are preventing your peace 775 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,560 Speaker 1: from flooding my life. 776 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:48,520 Speaker 2: Stay right there for a moment. 777 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 1: I believe this week God is going to show you 778 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,080 Speaker 1: decisions that need. 779 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,560 Speaker 2: To be made and how to make them. I believe 780 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:55,360 Speaker 2: that when you will. 781 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,319 Speaker 1: Get in His presence and ingest the. 782 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,440 Speaker 2: Pure milk of the Word of God, the pure air 783 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 2: of worship. 784 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,640 Speaker 1: Come out of the air of anxiety that the world 785 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,200 Speaker 1: is suffocating with, and come up to an altitude where 786 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,240 Speaker 1: you can breathe the breath and the grace of God, 787 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,960 Speaker 1: that the peace of God that transcends all understanding with 788 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:23,560 Speaker 1: God your heart and your mind. In Christ Jesus, I 789 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:28,440 Speaker 1: declare this over you today, regardless of your situation. I 790 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,520 Speaker 1: declare this over you today, regardless of your diagnosis. I 791 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,759 Speaker 1: declare this to you today in the name that is 792 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 1: above every name, the name at which demons tremble. We 793 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:46,800 Speaker 1: don't tremble before demons. Demons tremble before the name of Jesus. 794 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,400 Speaker 1: And we speak peace to storms. 795 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:54,279 Speaker 2: In our soul today in the name of Jesus. Thank 796 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 2: you for joining us. 797 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,960 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 798 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,520 Speaker 1: this ministry. 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