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

8/7/2020 WORLD WAR ME Part 1 - Mind Games (Redefined TV)

 1 Romans 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Be not conformed - do not traffic in camouflage or don't adapt or blend in. If you're truly gonna be one that stands out and you're gonna be outstanding for the Kingdom, this means there a lot of invitations and a lot of things that you're gonna have to stand out of. 

* It doesn't matter if you've been in church your whole life or you can quote the whole books in the Bible, if you're trying to change and you feel as though you cannot change, it's tied to the fact that you have not took intentionality in renewing your mind. The only way you're gonna have transformation is you have to have a new mindset.

The devil loves to traffic in manipulation, deceit, trickery. He loves mind games. Reverse victim confusion - the disorder of when you wronged me but you acting like you the victim.

* Projection Infection - the illness of where how they see becomes your belief. They project their fears on you. Why they're not endorsing or supporting you? It's not that because they don't believe in you. It's because they don't believe in themselves and they project that thought pattern on you and the worst thing we could ever do is adjust to their projection.

* Never confuse adjusting as healing just because you have adjusted to the dysfunction or abuse does not mean you're healed from it. You can sit in the dark and eventually your eyes will adjust to the darkness but that does not mean you have night vision.

Moved People - Holy Spirit wants us to be purpose of cross or gospel

- Moved from familiar to forward; from petty to being unbothered; rebellion to repentance; death to life; lost to found; distracted to focused

We can never have a movement unless we have first become moved.

devil is not omniscient not omnipresent not all knowing

The only person that can be everywhere at the same time is God.

The devil doesn't have that much power, doesn't know what you're thinking, doesn't know what you're going to do, doesn't know the power of your purpose, he doesn't know. Greatest enemy is my inner me.

We don't have swift obedience because we allowed that inner critic our therapist.

Have you allowed your inner critic to be your counselor instead of the Holy Spirit to be a wonderful counselor? You're trying so hard to change, you're using willpower but many times a temporary fix will actually add more problems to the original problem because you're trying to change it on your own.

Inner Me - that mental bully that keeps defeating us to submission; it keeps me subscribed to everybody else's criticism

Keeps us entertaining stagnant people. What if I told you, you didn't fall for him, but your insecurity tripped you or your low self-esteem tripped you. 

Sometimes that has us entertaining manipulators and the crazy thing about manipulators they try to convince you to be grateful for eating crumbs.

God wants to take you to new heights, to new levels. He wants you to come out into the deep. He wants you to know the unknown waters. He wants for you to grow, to be strong, but He has to first address your head, the way you think.

BE TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING YOUR MIND.

The Lord prepared a table for me in the presence of my enemies. Not crumbs but a table.

It is dangerous when you cannot discern when it is time to shift. When it is time to move, it is a threat to your destiny, to your calling when you cannot identify when something has expired - expired people, thought patterns, relationships. 

When you cannot identify expiration dates, you end up consuming stuff that's spoiled. And you wonder why you're sick in your heart or your emotions, it's because you can't recognize this is no longer needed for your destiny. If you don't have discernment in this area, you'll stay in seasons longer than you have to and you'll make that very thing that God was using to be a season for it to actually transition into being a state.

Some things we have to deal with are divinely set up, other things are self-constructed. An area that the enemy likes to slither in and most of us don't like to address is - he likes to slither in former enticements. The war is not just over your calling (not just over your assignment), that war is also over your mind and your appetite. 

AS A MAN THINKETH SO IS HE.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS

What is your appetite?

No growth is no threat to the enemy. 

We're so caught up with our AT LEAST LIST that it has blindfolded us the reality that we don't even crave forward because we're so caught up consuming familiar. You can never reach up and grab your upward calling while still holding on to your downward craving. It's your mindset.

There's nothing more comical to the enemy than us being saved but powerless. Transformation must happen in your head first.

Your mind is the epicenter of your life because you will always move in the direction of your most dominant thoughts. 

YOUR LIFE IS CONSTRUCTED BY HOW YOU THINK.

How you handle information, content, intel - the way you think up scenarios. Some of us, your mind is a cinema and you keep making up scenarios. Have you ever made up a scenario in your head and you begin to get mad at the scenario and it's not even true. You're mislabeling bad days as bad thought patterns.

Your mind is the soil - to provide room and board for that seed and to push the identity of that seed out. 

Therefore view people as gardeners because whoever you talk to they plant seeds. Whatever you watch / music, whatever you're doing is planting seeds and you wonder why you can't change, stuck or no growth.

Out of all the place where God could have chose for Him to make a public spectacle over the enemy, He chose a place called Golgotha which in Aramaic is the place of the skull. God knows if you want to be victorious in your life, you have to first be victorious in your head.

And when Jesus gave His life the veil of the temple was torn from the top to bottom because the way you gonna have breakthrough is when things start to get torn in your mind which will manifest in your life. 

We want to keep going to a new level feet first and the reason it feels like your life keeps going in circles is because God keeps turning you around. 

* INTELLECT - library

* IMAGINATION - canvas

* MEMORY - flash drive

* WILL - steering wheel

Example: your intellect holds unforgiveness, so everytime somebody new comes in your life, your imagination is going to make you think that they're going to do the same thing, now your memory keeps on thinking all men are the same.

FORGIVENESS FREES YOUR MIND.

If you put on God's word in your intellect, you're going to start imagining yourself free, whole, at a whole another level, then the will of your life will start doing the will of God, so now He can give the desires after your heart because your desires are after His desires, and your will is to do His will. And all that started because I'm putting the Word of God in my intellect. If I don't put it in my intellect / head, I'll never experience it in my will. And a lot of us keep wondering why do I keep willing to do wrong, it's starting with what you're putting in your library.

Are your friends conducive for where you want your will to turn?

How do I renew my mind?

1. MENTAL DETOX

Whatever I eat in private, I'm gonna wear in public. Have to identify the toxin (music, tv shows, toxic atmospheres). Put a shark on land, it's not as strong, why? Because it is not its atmosphere.

View your flesh, your lust as a shark, it's a beast if you put it in the right atmosphere, but if you take it out and let it dry, you starve it.

YOUR FLESH WILL EMBARRASS YOU. NEVER TRUST YOUR FLESH.

2. TRIGGER AWARENESS

A trigger is anything that prompts a return. What in my life will prompt me to go back? 

Missing them does not mean return.

Isolation - is our attempt to hide the bleeding of trauma. You're not just cutting everybody off, you're hurt.

3. RELAPSE PREVENTION

Prepare. What you're gonna do if that ex comes back? 

Bitterness just contaminates the container.

Spiritual wisdom without practical reinforcement are the ingredients for relapse. Pray, read the Word and run 3 miles. I can't have my life filled with just spiritual wisdom and no recreational activity. Do something as well that's not sinful but it lets me have fun. 

Biblical Christianity is not boring.

Lack of calling engagement and recreation is having us say we're lonely.

4. STAY LOADED WITH THE WORD OF GOD (Psalm 1)

8/3/2020 TRY ME Part 30 - I need some space (Redefined TV)

* What God is about to do is gonna blow my mind.
* What God is about to do is gonna be bigger than what I expected, but it requires my NEVERTHELESS.

Luke 5:1-7

So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink

Sometimes when somebody asks for space- they're not saying this because you're toxic or smothering. Sometimes it's because you're causing for them to step up to another level of maturity that they don't want to step up to. 

Some people rather change partners than change themselves.

Wrong people will really have you be out here thinking that you're asking for too much but the truth is, they don't have much to offer. 

WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU WILL NOT BE TOXIC.

Some of us don't even recognize that we've hit God with that line. We've told God, "Hey, I need some space! I'm tired of being convicted. I'm tired of You keep on pushing me towards spiritual maturity. Give me a moment, why can't I be petty like they're being petty. Why do I have to live at another level of maturity?"  Sometimes we forget due to what God is calling for you to be, you have to be an example. "I need some space from that inward tension." 

When you know that you shouldn't be engaging in something, but you want to do it anyway - are you gonna keep your standard or compromise?

GOD ONLY GIVES YOU FAVOR WITH PEOPLE WHO MATTER. 

If they don't see how awesome your idea is, don't want to endorse, they must not matter to your destiny because whoever matters, God is gonna give you favor with them. If there is somebody needed in your life to usher you to a platform / to a room / to a place, God is going to give you favor with them. So you can stop running behind people. Many of us are frustrated because you want somebody to put you on but God is saying ain't nobody gonna put you on because nobody's gonna get the credit but Me. I'LL PUT YOU ON. You're looking for a pathway but God is calling you to be a blueprint. 

You can never LIVE IN THE MORE THAN ENOUGH until you give Me your not enough. God is saying, "Give it to Me, your pain, your doubt your insecurities, give it to Me. You have more trust in your doubts than do your faith. START DOUBTING YOUR DOUBTS. YOU TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE, WHY NOT TRY GOD.

God is saying, I need some space, not in the way culture means it, not in the way, 'stop talking to me, get away from me.' I NEED SPACE IN YOUR LIFE. I need for you to allow Me to step in because you're never going to experience the catch if you don't allow Me to have space in your life / boat.

You call the shots, you do what you want to do, you don't consider Me. You like people without praying first. You take deals without praying first and just because you have a peace about it, you make the erroneous assumption that I have peace about it too.

Give Me space in your decision making. God says, He wants you to be a lender to the borrower and I want you to leave an inheritance for your children's children. Leave an inheritance, not debt.

Space in your relationships. Some are so picky but picking the wrong one. That's the problem, you're picking and not Me. Seek My direction before your selection, because I am the Author and Finisher of your faith, this means I can see what you can't see. I can see who's conducive for your chapter 10 while you're in chapter 5. Sometimes God removes them now so He doesn't have to remove the knife from your back later. 

God didn't give Noah an ark, He gave him a blueprint.

Many of us are frustrated because we expect our answered prayer come in ark form. But God doesn't answer your prayers by giving you an ark, He answers your prayers by giving you trees. God blesses us in seed form not in crop maturity. 

We serve a God who can fill it. If your heart is broken, He can fill it. God doesn't just give me some gas for my journey, He fills the tank all the way up. Not provide with just some funds for my dream, but enough funds not only for my dream, but also fund the dreams of others. Because whenever God favors a person, He doesn't favor that person for that person, He favors that person for a people. 

Simon caught such an abundant amount of fish that He had to signal for his partners to come help him. This is why you have to be able to celebrate when other people celebrate when you learn that I have to roll with people who have made space for Jesus to step in their boat. This is the danger of being connected to disconnected people, you'll always experience a shortage. 

FAVOR NEVER TRAFFICS IN A SOLO, IT ALWAYS TRAFFICS IN A DUET.

Then He got into one of the boats  >>> He allowed Jesus to step in . 

Birds, they neither sow nor reap, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. How much more will God take care of you? But how many of us have forgotten because of out empty nets, because we have toiled all night and have caught nothing. Birds are supposed to be evidence that He's Jehovah Jireh. How discouraging empty nets can be? WHICHEVER ONE YOU LOOK TO THE MOST IS GOING TO AFFECT YOUR HEART POSTURE.

It's all of these, "by now's" that mess us up. I should be further down the line by now. Vaccine by now. It will get better by now. Be careful. Because the "by now's" are the permission slip which allows the enemy to turn up the volume of his voice, "you praying all hard yet nothing happening - quit."

Could it be that nothing is working because God is working on the answer. Could it be because God is not talking to you, He is talking to the answer. What if your yes is tied to breaking somebody else's chain? That book that you're so insecure about writing, God is working on you to answer His plea because somebody else is going to read that and get free from something. Example: Moses. The children of Israel were in bondage and were crying out to God for a deliverer and bondage 400 years. Saying, "God, we're tired of making bricks without straw." God goes over to Moses, "Go tell Pharaoh, let My people go." Are you procrastinating and somebody's waiting on your yes. You're giving God all of these excuses, while you're so frustrated because you don't recognize why things haven't happened. 

God is working things out ahead of you while you're in chapter 7, God is already finished with your story and He's just making sure the stuff's in place so when you get to chapter 8, you could just walk on in the room because He's in our tomorrow, today. The way God wires us is He dresses us for the future, while we're in the present. Example: I was going to NY on November. In Houston, it's 91 degrees, in NY it's 26. I wore on my jacket, scarf, boots and my wife was like, "you gonna sweat, why you dressing like that?" I'm not dressed for where I am, I'm dressed for where I'm going. People always make fun of your outfit when they're content on being where they're at. When I got to the airport, a whole lot of people had coats on. Now I'm in the atmosphere of people who are going places. If your circle keeps on criticizing you because of your outfit, it must be because they have classically conditioned themselves to adopt and adapt to the atmosphere they're at and why God keeps dressing you for the next is because you're not staying here. Stop worrying that you don't match the culture, that you're not fitting in with society that you're abnormal or doing things differently. God is calling you to be the blueprint. I'm making you My billboard. Set forth an example. You're gonna live a lifestyle that's awkward to other people. Are you willing to embrace the temporary discomfort to maximize the Kingdom lifestyle?

Simon was probably frustrated having caught no fish then there came this loud crowd and Jesus steps in Simon's boat with no permission. Has Jesus ever stepped in your business? What do you do when He becomes the God that stands in your way? In the way of that relationship? In the way of that opportunity? He wasn't looking for Simon's ability. He was looking for Simon's availability.

Give God your nevertheless. He is not looking for your excuses. He's looking for surrender.

WORRY - fear playing dress up and exposes the lack of trust in God in an area. Downpayment for a problem you may never have

CONCERN - when something disturbs me but it doesn't rob me, not robbing me of my sleep or joy

GOD FACTOR - when everything around you says no but heaven says yes. Example, they're not hiring but when they saw you, they'll create a position for you.

WHY HE DIDN'T CATCH ANY FISH LAST NIGHT?

1. It was on purpose. 

I need Simon to be in position because I need him in the morning to be my stage.

2. Answered prayer in disguise.

3. Introduction 

Simon didn't know who Jesus was. His first introduction was Jesus blessing his business.

4. Spaces create stages

7/31/2020 TRY ME Part 29 - Church Hurt (Redefined TV)

 Luke 13:10-14

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 

* Miracles are not for sale. Jesus didn't charge anybody.

* Spirit of division - Denominations. Hell breeds division. Hell knows there's a certain level of dominion when we get in unity. A certain power when we work together (Pentecost)

* Real shepherd smells like sheep. Some pastors with big thrones, celebrities 

* You need help because you're hurt, so I can't really serve you because my pains keeps serving me.

* You cannot be one that keeps getting infected by everybody else's sickness but then call yourself a physician. I need you to be tough because there are a lot of people who won't honor the person you are. Honor flies at low altitudes. As long as you stay humble before Me, I'm the One that's gonna honor you. It's better that I know your name than anybody else know your name. My Presence is better.

* Some of the most sweetest people I met in church, and also the meanest in church. That's why you need discernment.

18 years of being crooked and bent over. Was she used to this? Used of being broke? I wonder how a lot of us got used to crookedness. Just used to this state of dysfunction, used to pain, or never having enough. Or was she waiting, and hoping for a miracle. 

ANYTIME GOD HAS YOU WAIT, YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY.

Abraham, Noah, Joseph, even Jesus had to wait on God. If God has us waiting, it's for the purpose of what He's doing on the inside of you. 

WAIT - WEIGHT

God wants us to strengthen our faith, our perspective, discipline, prayer life. There's some things God wants us to grow in. He is not punishing us.

* Don't give up on the church because you encountered the wrong church. This woman has an issue for 18 years, but still going to church. The man with leprosy on his hand, still was on church. Matthew 21:14 - this man blind and lame, at church. The blind and lame - How did you get to church? 

They pursued despite how they feel, despite their issues, despite their illnesses, they still got to the house.

If it rains a little too hard, are we in church? We have all these excuses, but when it is time to party, it didn't matter if you got a class, it didn't matter if there's an exam, but still someway and somehow, you still manages to go to the party. But when it comes to the things of God, we have all of these excuses. But these individuals, got to the house anyway. Why? Because PURSUIT REVEALS VALUE.  Whenever you value a thing, you pursue it. Despite everything that happened, these people still came to church.

We have to fall in love with Jesus, because when you fall in love with Jesus, you begin to fall in love with what Jesus loves. You can't be done with the church and say you want a kingdom man. Because he says "Husbands love your wives like I love the church." Jesus is saying there's a level of love, that I want this man to love you and the way he loves you, I want him to love you the way I love My church. Because God loves His church.

This woman had no idea. What if she missed church that day? What if she was like, my back hurts too much that day. She had no idea that this would be the day that she would be loosed and no longer crooked.

This could be the day that you could be finally be loosed from that addiction, but you had no idea because sometimes, when you come to the house, you just don't come to hear the Word. Sometimes, you come to hear "a Word".