8/21/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 5 - War on Lust Part 2 (Redefined TV)

Numbers 11:4-6

Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6ut now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”

YOU BROUGHT US OUT FOR A REASON

When you are a whole package and you end up at the wrong address, the receiver's gonna mishandle you because you were never their's to begin with. There are wrong places we keep ending up with.

Stop measuring your strength by how much pain you can endure.

Strength is measured by how much you could surrender.

How much you could surrender your will, desires, appetite.

All that's gonna do is give you the ingredients necessary to have a bitter appetite and a bitter heart.

The only way we could be free from the grips of lust

1. Through the power of the Holy Spirit (not will power)

2. Have to detox

God loves us so much that He helps us detox by placing us in wilderness

EGYPT - When we were slaves, lost, sinners, have not come into the knowledge of truth. We do not know the beauty of the gospel.

WILDERNESS - God is purging us here, not punishing us

It's not necessarily about the act, it's about an act being an usher. We have to view certain activities as ushers.

You being in his apartment - not a sin, but it's an usher. It's an usher to an atmosphere that allows you to engage in sexual immorality.

The Word of God says - Give no provisions to the flesh. Flee the very appearance of evil

If it just looks like you are doing something - don't ever do it. There's somebody in your community that you're trying to reach and everytime she sees that man /woman leaving your apartment at 4am it contradicts your witness. It causes for her to question do you really believe what you profess.

Purchasing a condom is not a sin - it's an usher. Why are you even purchasing a condom in the first place? This is a just-in-case backup. 

Sex hits different when it's guilt free - in marriage - it's God's way

Masturbation is always nearly married to lustful thoughts

3 Questions:

1. Was it formed in Egypt?

2. Is it an usher? Does it lead and where? 

Me going here, 4am with him, is that possibly going to lead somewhere? Avoid it.

You being in the backseat with a married man, talking on your lunch break, could this possibly lead somewhere? Yes it can, so avoid it.

3. Does it give God glory?

1 Corinthians 10:31 

Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Can you masturbate and give God glory? If it's NO- this is an activity that I need to detox from. The place we end up is not due to how we desire, the place we end up is due to how we crave.

This is why a lot of us are in a tug of war, this back and forth, the struggle with trying to end it or to break free from it. The problem is not the problem. The problem is our appetite, it's our craving. You cannot have former cravings and embrace fresh manna. It's one thing to know the problem, it's another to know the origin of the problem. 

You left that church due to church hurt, but that hurt never left you now you never do church. You got out but you never really came out.

You left that relationship but your heart never did. 

And just like the enemy sends people, God sends people too. Everytime somebody new comes, we immediately arrest them as a potential offender because I'm not going to feel that pain again.

The wilderness is not negative, it's necessary.

The reason why you're in the wilderness is because you're about to step into a promise.

But if you never allow God to purge you of Egypt, you'll never experience the promise.

Exodus 13:17-18

Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

3 things from this passage:

1. God does not take shortcuts

There's no wisdom in the shortcut. He likes to take us the scenic route. He does not microwave, He crockpots. He makes sure that there's some stuff that sets in, character that sets in.

2. God knows what you're ready for

You're not ready for war / platform yet / position yet. It's not that you won't eventually be there, but there's a lot of stuff that happened that we have to deal with.

3. It's on purpose

Matthew 4:1-3

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

How the devil attacks:

1. The devil attacked His identity

"If you are the Son of God..." Because if you don't know who you are, you'll eat the wrong meals. Have you ever looked back at an ex and you were like, what in the world was I drinking? Why was I crying over them?

If you don't know who you are you'll think that your loneliness means that this guy really wants you but you're really just trying to find a cure for your loneliness.

Purpose of wilderness:

God says I don't want you to look to pharaoh anymore (I don't want you to look in the culture) I want it to be Kingdom. God is teaching you He is your provider. God is trying to rewire them.

If God is patient with us in our rebellion, why can't we be patient with Him during our renewal.

God is purging us, so there's no residue of Egypt on my life. This is why the children of Israel walked through on dry ground when God cracked that red sea - that's supposed to be mud but God is saying NO RESIDUE.

Nothing of your former life is going to come out. Without smelling like smoke.

Warfare Strategy

1. How do we deal with horny nights?

Workout. Run 3 miles. Sometimes we're looking for spiritual remedies when it's just a practical solution. Exhaust your flesh.

- Accountability partner - who can you call to help you in the moments when your flesh is on fire?

- PRAY

2. How do I really engage in sexual purity?

 Observe which one you're feeding- your flesh more or your Spirit more? Whichever one you feed the most is going to win.

3. Triggers and Switches

Identify things that immediately want you to get back to Egypt. Identify things that make you stumble.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 

 -- SELF CONTROL --

2 Peter 1:3 

as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 

I'm placing you in the wilderness to detox you and I need you to understand that self-control is needed for this level that I'm about to take you to

1. Watch your consumption

Whatever you eat in private, you will wear in public

2. Intensify your spiritual consumption

Not just remove it. Remove it and replace it. That's the methodology of God. He wants to remove sin off of us so He became sin.

-Prayer, community, sermons, worship

And naturally working out, do not live a life of idleness.

3. Reflect on God's promises not worldly pleasures

It's not about a don't do list. Those don't work. It's about fighting for joy. 

My only competition is who I was yesterday. 

4. Jesus didn't die so you could be a side chick

If marriage is for you, you're gonna be somebody's first lady. You're this man's first love, you're his lady. After Christ, you're his first love.

God is saying, I don't want you to give in to things and I don't want you to be cool with being lukewarm.

Everybody wants Kingdom until it's time to apply Kingdom principles. No application, No transformation.

8/17/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 4 - War on Lust (Redefined TV)

 Ephesians 4:26-27 (KJV)

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.

 Ephesians 4:26-27 (NIV)

“In your anger do not sin” Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

When you see the loading signal (when webpages or apps are loading) 

If you get this sign means:

1. Something's coming 

This doesn't mean quit, stop praying, fasting, trusting. Your faith is revealed not just what you believe but how long can you believe it.

Do you have the patience while it's loading? Do you have the patience to survive the loading phase?

This symbol doesn't mean give up. It means something is coming.

There's something on the other side of this, of this pandemic, of this trial, of this test, of this storm, of this layoff, of this pain, setback, breakup, of this obedience.

Just because you miss them that doesn't mean reach back out to them. 

The only person that you lost that you need to get back is YOU

Have you got so caught up with what's happening on this side that you forgot about the promise that's coming on the other side. 

How uncomfortable it is on this side to embrace the humidity of disappointment.

At midnight, it's dark, but technically it's a new day.

2. You have a poor connection

Are you frustrated with God because you want an intimate blessing but you have a long distance relationship.

Anytime we strive to live life when we have a distance from our divine router, it will always make sure that we have slow internal strength. No wonder we try to get on everybody else connection because we don't have our own hot spot

So you keep getting deceived, falling for counterfeits because you don't have service.

One of the issues you have is we keep putting God weight on mere men. God is the one who said He'll never leave you nor forsake you. 

Anytime we live a life that we do not hear a forward sound, we'll revert back to familiar chaos.

Stop asking God to bless what He told you to stay out of.

3. You have too many tabs open

The reason why you can't get free is because you have too many doors open

Even just following somebody who lives where you fail that's a foothold, close that door.

We care more about cracked screen than we do cracked spirits.

While you're here second guessing yourself, hell fears your potential (door of doubt)

Foothold - imagine you're running from somebody / chasing after you, you run into a room, shut the door but at the bottom of the door, they stuck their foot in, so that you cannot fully close the door - it could be your music, tv show, bf / gf

And you wonder why you're not fully free from this area is because you gave him a foothold

lust- a lot of us are born with this virus (sinful nature)

sex - fire

marriage - fireplace

You'll get burned if you do it any other way

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

We're struggling right now because we're trying to unlearn the lessons from our first teacher.

Bible has much to say about the discipleship of children. Your first teacher matters. It's easier to train a child than it is to get an adult to unlearn some things. 

You have an obligation to raise your child to be godly because if not, their first teacher would be - the school system, music, tv show. If we don't become the first teacher, somebody else will. 

Somebody of us messed good friendships when we try to make it romantic. Chemistry doesn't mean companionship.

When you begin to understand who you are in God, you don't begin to question yourself because culture lives by a different code.

STDs - spiritually transmitted devils

Feelings are fleeting

There's a difference between sexual desire and lust. Sexual desire is not sin. Sex in marriage is a gift from God. It's not wrong for me to desire what God will give me in covenant. 

Difference from Christ follower and not: we both have the same desires. One gives in to them while the other trust in God to help us flee from them.

Christ Follower - filled with Spirit that convicts that helps us war with sinful nature.

9/28/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 15 - Like A Child (Redefined TV)

 Matthew 18:1-5

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.

Do you remember what it was like before you ever discovered what insecurity was? 

Do you remember what's it like when there's no such thing as good hair or bad hair?

To overcome overthinking - Ask yourself, "Who told you that?" If you can't give a name, it's all in your head until you have further evidence. If nobody told you that, all the stuff that you're feeling is what your mind is telling you. The enemy is not after your job / car, he's after your head, he knows, if he can get your head, then he can get your life, because your life moves in the direction of your most dominant thought. He can only do 3 things: 1. Present 2. Persuade 3. Try to convince you to agree

Thinking that you're dumb or damages goods, that's just a thought, it becomes a problem when you agree with it. When you agree on it, you meditate on it and embody it. The enemy knows there's power when things touch and agree.

In childhood, that was the person that you were in childhood before whatever happened, that was the original form of your personality which was going to be a navigational system to help you identify your purpose. No internal wars, nothing churning in his soul that was robbing of sleep at night, no worries.

Unless you go back to being like a child, some of us have become so lost and the pain that we've gone through, and the trauma.... go back to your childhood videos / photos, before whatever it was that happened, you wouldn't even recognize that child. You're calling it childish but it was your personality.

It was never God's original intent for us to know good and evil.

The reason why our childhood had died is because we've been eating from this tree. Culture has provided us with fig leaves. Now here we are standing in forest of regrets, forest of what ifs, and if this never would have happened, and if I never would have done this.

You're not supposed to lose your child, that joy, happiness, fun, freedom, purity, innocence.

A lot of us are struggling to change, and the reason it feels like you can't change is because you're interested but you're not committed.

When you're interested, you'll do what's convenient.

When you're committed, you'll do what it takes.

Are you committed to do what it takes to remove the fig leaves, the rope, to do what it takes to discover the child, that personality.

You're not always going to be motivated which is why you have to have discipline. When your motivation evaporated, your discipline makes you stick to the routine.

How elephant trainers would train elephants - is they would get the elephant when it's a child, and will put a rope on it. Elephants are made to roam, made to be free. When the rope is put on, the elephant would pull, struggle, would want to be free, would want to break loose, and want to be able to roam, and do what it's supposed to do. 

The elephant trainer has to never change the rope because the elephant had a season of his life where he's fighting and struggling and just gets to the place where 'I'm bound.' 

Have you just gave in to "I'm always gonna be bound"? And so the elephant evolves and become a full grown adult and he's strong enough now to break the rope but he never does it because he has been classically conditioned that he can't break free from this. Full blown powerful elephant, colossal animal won't even try to break the rope because his whole life, he's always known being bound. Psychological warfare.

The enemy knows, I just have to get their head. There's some ropes that have been placed on us when we're kids, and the reason the enemy allowed these ropes to be placed on your life, was because that was his downpayment / security deposit that the enemy won't have to worry about them when they're grown. Devil is a liar. 

GOD DID NOT MAKE YOU TO BE BOUND.

Where was the know tied? Because there's power in recognition. Recognition gives you ability to trace.

Thieves wear mask because it makes it harder to recognize who he is because if you can recognize it, you could trace it. Hell knows that childlike faith can move mountains.

Childlike faith can activate the miraculous.

Childlike faith can touch Jesus' heart so much so. Children don't worry about things because they know their parents gonna provide. GOD HEARD YOUR PRAYERS, HE GOT YOU COVERED.

When you see a child, you'll see a trust that has not been polluted by a world. We're in this world, but not of this world.

We can't go back to this childlike state because a lot of us have trust issues. It's not as though we have trust issues with God. It's because I have trust issues due to misplaced people. Anybody who says "I don't trust people" trusted people and they violated your trust and that bled into our relationship with God.

Jesus showed us the paradigm, you got to place people right. Some of us keep hurting ourselves because we don't have discernment.

Jesus spoke to thousands, sent out 72, selected 12, but was vulnerable with 3. Can you identify your 3? Or are you sharing information with thousands that was only supposed to be shared with the 12? Ever so often you're gonna face a situation, you're gonna face an option when you don't know what to do. And it's a scenario where you must have a needed discernment. And needed discernment is God's way of calling us to intercession. You're not going to get this one on your own. You got to pray, fast, seek God's face. You have to bury yourself to figure out the answer to this one. A lot of us if we be real, you don't have trust issues, you have patience issues because the longer you wait, the less that you think it's going to happen.

How does hell give us a rope and take our child?

1. Hell introduces the rope

If the hell introduces the rope, now you're personality will start to alter and you're no longer in that place where you could wear anything you want. Now you put on clothes because you want likes, now what you wear is more about what people think.

2. You're gonna have a struggle with the rope

There's a time in your life where you're like,  "I don't want to be like this. I'd rather struggle than embrace the rope." There's value in your struggle.

When you struggle with stuff, you're working out, you're getting stronger. A lot of us, you could break free from some things but you stop fighting, you stop pulling, you stop trying to seek God. You just got like this elephant, and said, "This is just the way it's supposed to be." There's value in your struggle.

The greatest places where I ever have really ran into encounters with the Lord was in a season of struggle.

Struggling - transition of Jacob to Israel

A lot of us are confusing bad weather as bad season. Sometimes the weather gets more violent because the seasons are changing. Birds struggles and tries to break through the shell is because they're about to feel the breeze of heights and about to feel what it feels like to have wings. The caterpillar that is in the cocoon is struggling and trying to break free is because you're about to be a butterfly. The struggle is part of the cocoon process because you're going to be free from this.

3. Rope friends

Every single one of your friends has a rope and so now since all of your friends have a rope, and you look and see you have a rope, you start to think this is the way it's supposed to be. All trends, coolness, and what the society says is cool, all that is handing you a rope. Maybe you're so mad because you're tired of the rope

Proverbs 22:24-25

Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul

4. Normalize the rope

Heaven wants to take the rope and introduce you to being a child of God

HEAVEN DOES:

1. Gives you a new trainer

Jesus broke every cord, every chain, all addiction, all doubt, break all insecurity. Be trained by the Holy Spirit. Let the Word train you. Fasting, prayer, sermon, listening

2. Exposes the rope

Pray for your enemies, you'll be healed from the rope

3. Renew

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

4. Repeat

9/25/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 14 - Don't Bury Me Yet (Redefined TV)

 Luke 7:11-17

Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.”

Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.

Type of Persons:

1. They think they have arrived, carried themselves as holier who looked down on other people. PHD in religion, GED in extending love. Closed minded but mouth is still open.

2. Don't have any issues that I got problems. I need Jesus, without Him, I'm lost.

Whenever, God starts a thing, it means He had already finished it. God operates in reverse. God traffics in interruptions. When you discover your worth, and you know your value, it's easier to identify people who don't.

You didn't lose what God had for you, you lost what was blocking what God has for you. 

YOU CAN'T GO WITH ME - there are certain things that I won't allow to transition into 2020. Doubts, negative thoughts, defeated language, you can't go with me. We need to be able to identify what we don't want to shift with us.

Certain people can't go with me. God won't send you someone or something that will further push you away from Himself.

Your mistakes are part of the journey as well. We serve a type of God who traffics in making sure, He specializes that your DESTINY WILL BE GREATER THAN YOUR DISASTER.  Fight for joy, discipline, against fear. Fear makes you live out on the life you could have lived.

Anytime God is about to level you up, He will disturb your comfort zone because if I try to take the comfort zone with me, in each every season of my life, I'll never experience promise land luxuries but I'll stay stranded in wilderness economies. It's gonna take a fight. The vision is free but the fight is sold separately.

Whatever one you look at will be the one that's magnified. A lot of us have been looking at our turbulence for so long, that you can't even see that you're growing / evolving.

Focus more on the King than the presence of the turbulence. God can shift your pain place into a praise place.

1. I'm not an accident. I'm assigned. 

Every single step of my life has been ordered, even the things that I'm not proud of.

2. I'm not buried, I'm planted.

If you are the seed of the righteous, you grow. When people throw dirt at you and when you go through storms, those are all the nesting necessary ingredients for one to grow. The reason why some people benefit from storms and other people don't, is because they don't have nothing planted. When God has you planted in a place, the storm is not a storm, it's actually watering.

3. I'm not done, I've just begin.

9/21/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 13 - In my feelings (Redefined TV)

 2 Samuel 6:12-17

Now it was told King David, saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with gladness. And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep. Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. So they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

One of the words places you can live is in your feelings. Our feelings could serve as well when we mastered them. But our feelings can produce hell when they have mastered us. 

Anytime we live in our feelings rest assured the devil will do everything he can to become our mailman so that he can continuously and intentionally send us packages that have been shipped by hell to get us engage in self sabotaging behavior, he's after your joy. When is the last time you had joy? He wants to activate and agitate impulsive behavior, he wants us to respond with reaction, not control. He knows he can't stop God from blessing them, but if he can get them to be reactive to the storm (discredit your character). Your gift makes room but your character makes residence.

Discredit your character - they'll never have the ear of the audience they're trying to reach because God will forgive you but people don't/

This is why it's dangerous for us to walk around with untreated wounds. When we try to hide our trauma, the enemy knows about that trauma and that trauma will become his button so anytime you get close to doing something that gives God glory, he's going to push that button; he wants you to quit.

Many times we quit is because we don't see the return.

The return on our investment of energy and effort that we have to put in something or on someone and we have our own deadline on when this should have been transformative. Could it be why your anxiety is so high due to all of your 'by now's' and then we start entertaining the language of 'quit'.

Even though you think you have valid reasons to quit, that doesn't mean you have the right to quit because you could be right on the brink of answered prayer / breakthrough / miracle. You don't know how close you are.  You don't know when your due season is due.

Numbers 20:6-11

Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. The Lord said to Moses, “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.” So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him. He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

A lot of people think because the water is flowing, we're (God & them) cool. A lot of ministries, just because the people are coming, we cool. But you living in your feelings cause for you to behave some type of way where you and God have some type of issue, where God's like, "because you didn't honor Me in the sight of these people, you will not go into the promised land", because you're mistaken, the waters flowing as though you're obedient.

Numbers 14:10-20 >> God wants to remove the Israelites

Moses had an anger problem. God was saying, let me remove them now so they won't agitate a nature in you that can cause for you to disqualify yourself. 

Do you trust God when He removes someone for your life in your 14th chapter? Because He knows what's going to happen in your 20th chapter. This is a person that if you keep them around will agitate your lust / bitterness, so God removes them now.

Joylessness - You're blessed but doesn't feel like it.

Desired support is a trap. Anytime you're looking for their approval than heaven's endorsement, this puts me in a position where I'm questioning the effectiveness of my gift vs carrying out the obedience for my gift.

Whenever God calls you, it always comes with separation. I cannot heal in the same place I got sick.

Everything that has great power is followed by a great sound. Now it makes sense why the devil wants you to be quiet.

David was wearing a linen ephod - David didn't care about the title or position, he cared more of the presence of the One who've given him the position.

When we care more about the presentation vs the presence. When we care more about the position vs the position Giver. IT EXPOSES OUR HEARTS ARE DRIFTING.

What God is about to do in your life, you can't afford to have just a spark. Before God could shift you for what's coming, I have to address the minimal fire that's burning.

God is trying to shift you - He's trying to shift your priorities, from being One that just fits in your schedule, to now where everything revolves around Him. Because it is not conducive with your relationship with Him, it doesn't need to be a part of my schedule.

God doesn't just call you by name, He calls you by assignment. That's why, I believe many times God will change people's name. Abram > Abraham; Simon > Peter

Anointing Oil - when you are anointed, this is your divine superpower, your supernatural strength for your particular assignment. God wants to anoint you because there's a work that you have to do but you have to be able to hear. 

Oil makes you slippery - certain things can't grab you when you're slippery.

When you're anointed comes with Attacks, Giants, and Crushing

When attacks come - don't be confused from them, be confirmed by them. 

Thieves don't target empty houses, there's something that the enemy is trying to get you to be distracted by so he's attacking you. You hear nothing about Goliath once Saul was ordained king. You hear about Goliath once David is anointed to be king. 

One of the signs that you have been anointed is when you wake up giants. Giants don't live in the wilderness, they're in your promise because they're designed to keep you out. Anytime hell puts a giant in your path, it's for intimidation purposes only. Every giant is gonna fall. Giant is there to intimidate you but you're called to be imitators of God. When a giant is present - this is irrefutable evidence where that giant's standing, that's mine. 

Imitator of God - if God can do all things and He's a giant slayer, that means I am too

WHAT TAKES OUR JOY:

1. Controlled Outcome Syndrome

Control is an illusion, you really control nothing

2. Scarcity Mentality

You believe God has a shortage

3. Prolonged Tiredness

4. Weighted Relationship

5. Presence Deficiency

6. Unanchored Faith

7. Secret Warfares

9/14/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 11 - How do I discover my purpose? (Redefined TV)

 Ecclesiastes 3:1-10

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born,

And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill,

And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; A time to weep, And a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, And a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep,

And a time to throw away; A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace. What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. 

Failure - I succeed the most in what matters the least

Purpose - Divine DNA / Problem solving anointing

Ordained - Authorized. God-given authority. You don't have to demand it. You're not gonna have to ask people to have it. 

A lot of people are existing but not living, hence the world has a lot of problem. The reason why the enemy hits us so hard is because they don't want us to hit maturity. This means your birthday has significance. 

Purpose - life's target / bullseye

If I don't have a purpose, I'll live life aimlessly.

If you don't know the purpose of a thing, you'll abuse it. Be surrounded with purposeful people (God-ordained purpose)

PURPOSE:

1. Gives unexplainable fulfullment

there's just a different vibe you get

2. Helps you to decipher

3. Purpose is connected to your provision

it will bring some sense of income

Proverbs 18:16

A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men

HOW DO I DISCOVER:

1. What is your passion

Passion is married to purpose

2. Discover gifts and strength

Use your platform to give God glory

3. Purpose Circle

Surround yourself with people who have the occupation from God. Those who have connection with God

4. Know your Creator

9/11/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 10 - Confronting Loneliness (Redefined TV)

 Leviticus 15:19-25

‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean. Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. And if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.

Mark 5:25-28

Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”

* God does not know me by my issue, He knows me by my name. Be thankful.

Don't get even. Get healed.

* Adjusted pain - incubate dysfunction - it teaches us how to be emotionally numb. You can't have a heart of gratitude and heart of pity the same time. 

When you're living a life of purpose it requires for you to pour. What are you pouring? Passion? Peace? 

Being alone is rejuvenating.

Have you poured out your heart to people who are attached to you but not assigned to you? There's a difference. People who are assigned to you help you complete tasks. People who are attached to you want to benefit from the tasks that you have completed. When you're in purpose and you pour, being alone is rejuvenating. When you're not in purpose, you can't pour so being alone is aggravating.

Alone and lonely - not the same thing.

CAUSES of Loneliness:

1. Due to childhood 

Upbringing has a lot to do with one taking on the nature of being a loner. Parental wounds lead to emotional tombs.

2. Transition

New season

3. Serving Deficiency

4. Deliberate Sin

HOW DO WE OVERCOME LONELINESS:

1. Weapon of Thanksgiving

The way I think is tied to the way I thank

2. Calling and Purpose

Purpose is a fixer

9/7/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 9 - I needed that (Redefined TV)

 Genesis 50:15-21

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.

But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

PREPARE - I don't need to wait for things to start to change, to change. I don't need to wait until the atmosphere lines up, I'm changing right now because I already know what's coming.

Fall - trees are saying, "How beautiful it is to let things go." 

Stop being mad at what helped you develop - at what helped you to have a prayer life, at what thrust you into the King's Presence, at what God used to rekindle your relationship with Him

Every storm cloud eventually rungs out of rain.

Unmanaged emotions causes delays - 

Everybody wants wings but not everybody wants to be cocooned.

Everybody wants promotion but nobody wants to be processed.

God is trying to mold you for next level.

* Never allow your situation to be your label. Joseph was in the pit but he didn't become pitiful. 

Genesis 37 - Joseph having dreams

Genesis 40 - Joseph interpreting dreams

The maturity of his gift happened while he is in prison, in a season that feels like punishment where is actually development.

Phases:

DISCOVERY  -- DEVELOPMENT -- IMPLEMENT -- REGIMENT

Cure for loneliness is my calling. Some people live their whole life and never discover the reason of their birth.

DEVELOPMENT - hardest season

1. I need to have a vision

Reassurance that what I see in the eyes of my heart, I will eventually see in the eyes of my head. 

One of the things that kept Joseph while he was in prison was his dream. Dreams are a snapshot of your coming harvest if you faint not. God allows us to have dreams so that when we hit difficult seasons we won't walk away from faith.

Joseph was placed in a lot of questionable situations but the text never tells us that he questioned God.

Be careful who you tell your dreams to. Not everybody can handle your growth. Not everybody can handle what God is going to do in your life.

2. I need a Judas

How do you work with people that you know are looking for an opportunity to hand you over? Everytime a Judas shows up in my life, it means something in me has to die. The purpose of Judas was to get Jesus killed, was to get Jesus to the cross

3. We need a Joseph heart

8/24/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 6 - Put some respect on it (Redefined TV)

 Mark 6:1-6

Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

* Your life is constructed by how you think.

* 2 fish and 5 loaves - He blessed it. He broke it and He gave it. The order matters. Everybody wants to be blessed but do you know that being blessed comes with the breaking. There's stuff that God's gonna have to break. Once you allow Me to break your will, I could now distribute you, distribute you and consider you a miracle.

* Jesus who goes to a little girl's house that everybody says dead, and He says, "Little girl, I tell you, arise." And she gets up and the whole house is dumbfounded and they can't believe it and Jesus said, "Don't tell anybody about it." 

Jesus is telling us, there's some things I'm gonna do in your life that you're not gonna have to talk about, blog about, post about, they're just gonna see it walking.

* Lack of miraculous due to honor deficiency

Before Jesus died, He lived.

Honor - be aware of the value and esteem it highly

Dishonor is a King repellent

* Jesus left because a King was in their presence but they didn't reverence Him. He left because they only saw Him as Jesus the Son of Joseph. They didn't see Him as Jesus the Son of David. They only had a 1-dimensional perspective of Jesus. They didn't see Him as the Messiah. They only saw Him as the carpenter.

When you view people the wrong way, you limit your access to receive what they carry. When you don't honor individuals. 

When we don't honor somebody, whatever it is that God has put on their life for them to carry, we limit our access to receive that because we don't honor them. 

God is everywhere, He's everywhere but not the same way. My awareness is everywhere, My Presence is everywhere but My arrival - GLORY - arrival in abundance comes by invitation only. You have to seek My Face.

James 4:8 If you draw night to Me, I'll draw night to you.

You seek My face, I'm right here. If you feel far from God, guess who's the one moving. 

If you wanna leave Me, as much as it hurts My heart, I'll let you go and I'll stand there waiting for you with open arms. Ask the prodigal son. Because God is a leader, not a dragger, therefore, He will let you live on whatever level you settle for.

They see Him grow up, but they couldn't stand when He blew up.

I AM THAT I AM - God is multifaceted.

Why limited to seeing the miraculous?

1. We see Jesus one-dimensionally

Bad breakup, laid-off - you pray. I don't want prayer to be last resort, I want it to be first response. Some only see Him as a Savior and not Lord.

Savior - You saved me from my sin

Lord - Boss of my life

2. We're wearing the crown

We're not the King but Jesus is. God's Kingdom can't come in our life because ours hasn't gone yet. We're in the driver seat of our life and if a road is too bumpy, we'll make an exit even if that road is God's will.

3. We're surrounded by dishonoring people

Carnality is a second hand smoke to your spiritual growth. If it's time to change who you are, that also is going to require for you to change your circle.

4. Misplaced Weakness

We think honor is weak. You know how much strength it takes to show honor to a person that you don't think is honorable. It takes strength but we think it's weakness.

5. He's not our King

Why do you call Me Lord, Lord and do not do what I say? Luke 6:46