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".

7/27/2020 TRY ME Part 28 Wifey Material (Redefined TV)

 Ephesians 5:25-32

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

* Marriage was designed to be a representation of what Christ and the Church looks like. This is why it makes so much sense why that God will use "Unfaithful" terminology when He was speaking about the children of Israel indulging in idolatry - "They went whoring after other gods." "Adulterous and unbelieving generation."

God views it as cheating when we have a 'lifestyle' living according to the flesh but then yet claimed to be the bride. This is why the enemy sends you counterfeit after counterfeit, distraction after distraction - it is not necessarily about you. The enemy is messing up the representation. This is why a lot of people have issues with the church and a lot of issues with Jesus. It's not that they have a problem with Jesus, but with the people who claim to be followers of Jesus. 

2 Types of woman:

A. Doesn't have value application

Doesn't have any requirements thus whoever applies she hires. 

Even businesses and corporations understands the importance of application. If you want this position or want to work here, you have to apply- needs background check / info, do you meet the requirements for this position, degree, license, trainings, credentials and former employer to check if they're lying. If you ever know somebody's lying (not think or assumption because assumptions are the termites of every relationship), when you know that they're lying, don't tell them, just ask about it because I need to see how many problems am I really dealing with. Am I dealing with you just being a liar or with you being a liar and denying about you lying to.

You can do all of that, fill up application, background check and 3 interviews and still not get the position. Why? Because we know who we are looking for. They have a value of application.

She doesn't have full awareness of who she is and there are a breed of men looking for a woman like that. They know, she'll tolerate me, take care of me, she'll even make excuses for my poisonous behavior because she doesn't know who she is. She has all of these insecurities, she doesn't know her value in Christ. She doesn't know she's a queen, a woman of purpose, that God has a powerful plan for her life. Women do it too, you know this man has no chance, you don't like him at all, he has no chance but he likes you, but use his feelings to get a free meal, use his feelings to get what you want.

B. She knows who she is. She has a requirement and standard.

 There's a difference between standard and preference.

Standard orbit around godly fruit. Example He must be saved.

Preference orbit around flesh. Example 6 feet tall, curvy.

Sometimes men won't mess with her, they want her and they know that this is the type of woman that they need but they won't mess with her because she requires for someone to be mature, won't tolerate your boy type ways, abuse, narcissistic behavior, manipulation, and since these men can't get you, they'll settle for type A then sometimes you'll question yourself, "What's wrong with me?" Many have tried but many have failed. But you are the one that's favored. The Bible doesn't say, when he finds you, you get favor but, when he finds you, he gets favored. You're favored in your single state, and you're favored in your married state. You are the ticket to favor. Don't question yourself, because you're the one with the favor and men will begin to walk around and say you know what, that's wifey. 

Men / women - you are Christ's wife. You're the bride, He's the bridegroom.

WHAT TYPE OF WIFE AM I?

Am I asking God to send me somebody when I'm not even a good wife to You already? Instead of trying to get people to understand your love language, how you try to understand God's love language.

1. Jesus loves quality time

When you spend time with Him in prayer, when you dedicate the morning and bask in His presence, and seek His face and dwell in His word.

2. He loves words of affirmations

He loves words of affirmation, not because He needs to be affirmed but He knows when you affirm Him it affirms you. 

You don't read the Bible for God. All of these are for you.

You praying won't make God any more faithful, more holy, more righteous. You worshipping is going to help your mind stop worrying. because you can't worry and worship at the same time. A lot of us got it twisted. We think we're doing God a service because we attend church, we're giving, praying, fasting - you're doing this for you. God has no competition / adversary.

3. He loves when you use your gifts.

Because He gave them to you. When you worship, He gave that gift. When you exercise your gift of artistry, gift of speaking, gift of business skill. I LOVE WHEN YOU DO THAT BECAUSE IT SHOWS ME OFF.

4. Acts of Service

When you're serving your community, your husband / wife, because you're the hands and feet of God.

5. Physical Touch

When you touch the heart of God. Anytime you choose His will over your will. Anytime you say "God, I want to do this, but I trust You and You're my husband and I'm gonna follow You and I'm gonna submit to You." It gives glory. 

God loves us so much. If it hurt Your heart so much, why give me an opportunity to choose between the tree of good and evil, and the tree of what You said not to eat from - why give us a choice?  I love you and I don't want you to have control, I want you to have free will because anytime you choose Me over choosing what you want to do, that shows Me that you love Me.

Will you listen to Me? Or will you listen to culture? Me or your flesh? Which one will you choose?

It'll be hard to choose if you're facing the wrong tree. It wouldn't be so hard if you're surrounding yourself with people who aren't eating from the wrong tree, if you're seeking God's face.

If you're married or want to be married - let's say, you roll upon your spouse on their work and noticed they're not wearing the wedding ring. How many of us will have problem with that? It's one thing if you have an agreement, but you ask him or her about it and they pull it out and place it back. Most of us are like that. Ashamed of it, taking our ring off. Jesus is like, "Why do you keep taking your ring off that hang in that relationship, when you go around your friends, when you go to happy hour with them?"

"I want everybody to know that you're My bride. Represent Me well." You are the bride of Christ.

GENESIS

Story of creation; God spent 5 days establishing the order, the waters, the light, day and night. Heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool. Our God is so powerful, He spent His time focused on the environment before the arrival because God knows the power of atmosphere. He's showing us a portrait of how He operates. "I don't breathe in it until there has been a created space for it." 

A lot of us keep on window shopping at our dreams but then purchasing our excuses. It's really not faithing it if we haven't prepared space in our life to receive what we're asking for God to extend. Because sometimes God will bless you with double. Story of Isaac and Rebekah- Rebekah couldn't conceive so Isaac prayed (power of having a praying man), asked God for his wife to conceive, and God gave him twins. Sometimes, if you're bold enough to ask for one- I'm big to bless you with 2. 

When opportunity calls, only the prepared could answer. 

Value closed doors. It's the off season teaches you how to prepare, where nobody sees your mistake, where you train. Change your perspective. Just because the curtain is closed, doesn't mean the production is over. All it means is God is switching scenes.

Never mislabel a bad weather as a bad season. When the weather gets the most severe is due to the seasons changing. It could just be irrefutable evidence that you're in transition. 

God focuses on the atmosphere before the arrival because I need an atmosphere that could sustain what I'm about to do. I need a system in place for what I'm about to send. 

This is why you don't want to surround yourself with complainers, because it sets forth an atmosphere.

CHURCH (EKKLESIA) - assembly / called out ones.

I'm pregnant with a ministry, with a destiny, a calling, a purpose, a business, and due to what I'm carrying, I can't eat that. Because when you become pregnant, certain things now make you nauseous.

It's due to what I'm carrying. Things I used to consume, they now make me sick, just the smell of it now makes me sick.

You need to work out your own salvation. Don't expect only the pastor or preacher needs to study the Word. You study to show yourself approved, not just the pastor or preacher. It's recognizing that I also need to be diligent with my growth. Evolve so hard that you need to reintroduce yourself. This is why it's stupid for people to gossip about you because most likely that's outdated information because you evolve on the regular.

WIFELY DUTIES

1. CALLED TO REPRESENT

Need to have that proposal energy. The energy showing off that He proposed (posting pictures of the ring, etc) Let everybody know that you're a believer.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Jesus is saying, I want people to know you're married. I want them to know that you're Mine. The same way you're flexing that ring.

How to represent Him? 

1 Timothy 5:16

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Represent Me the way you behave, with loving one another, in Word, in the Spirit, in your faith, in your purity.

2. SCRIPTURE IS BOSS

It's the highest authority in our life. When I encounter a situation, I always reflect back to the Word of God. SCRIPTURE IS BOSS NOT MY FEELINGS. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters.

3. CHRIST-CENTERED AND HOLY SPIRIT LED

It's not about going to hell. A lot preach - "If you do this, you're going to burn!!!" 

Don't do things because you fear your spouse will divorce you. Do good things (going to your spouse every night, cleaning, flowers, etc.) - you do those things because you love your spouse. 

As a wife and being the bride of Christ, there's a lot of things God is going to ask you to do and you're not gonna want to do them, but at the end of the day, it's not about me, I'm trying to please my husband.

4. MAKE MUCH OF JESUS

If you live a life making much about Jesus, everything that you really want, you're going to collab with on the way.

This is why seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you.

A lot of us want the things but we don't want to seek the Kingdom. We don't want to study or to live pure, but we want the things. People who want God for His hand and not after His heart.

Be passionate about evangelism.

5. SUBMIT

God won't submit to you. You submit to Him. The hardest thing about a marriage context is that the man has the final say. Why are you with a man that you don't trust Him out of the final say, in the first place? Submission is never demanded, it's modeled. As a Kingdom man, He never puts His foot down, if it's not for the better of his family (Christ on the cross). It's never gonna be about him. He never abuses his position, like God never abuses His position. The final say - it's always for you and the children, not himself. 

If you can't submit to God now, what makes you think this person will be submitted to you. If she can't submit to a God who is perfect, how is she going to submit to your behind, you being imperfect.

He has to be kingdom of course. It's going to be hard for you to submit to a fool. God is saying, this man is already submitted before you ever came into the scene. He was already submitted to Christ. Getting behind him is going to feel like something that you already have because he's never going to use his position to treat you with disrespect. If you're with somebody who disrespected you, you kind of already disrespected yourself. 

Everybody wants to be kingdom until it's time to do kingdom.

6. DEVOTED TO DISCIPLESHIP

Go make disciplined ones. Discipleship requires nudity - have to be honest, open, nude. You can't heal when you act like it doesn't hurt. 

You can't expect the doctor to call you and you're the one with the virus. Doctors follow up but after a while, you got to let Me know that you got aches. You got to let Me know that you got issues, that something hurts. Because I don't know if you don't tell Me. Don't let all of the stuff that went from generation to generation, suffering in silence, that stuff didn't work. You would die miserable and in pain, and blame everybody else because you never recognize sometimes you got to get ugly for your deliverance. You can't care what people think, you can't care your issues exposed because they can't save me anyway, I need to be able to be held to somebody who could disciple me.

7. HAVE GODLY LEADERS

You need each other, many members, one body. You can't do this alone. 

 1-Church grows you. 2-Disciplines you. 3-Church is you.

7/17/2020 TRY ME Part 26- No More Entanglements (Redefined TV)

 * A lot of us want to change but a lot of us are struggling to change is because we're trying to change at a fruit level vs. the root level

* Store of Samson & Delilah - a lot of us don't even recognize that Samson was already in trouble way before Delilah came on the scene. 

Judges 14:1-3

Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”

>>> God already gave an instruction not to intermarry with them because they would turn your hearts after their god

* We already see Samson with an issue of lust, issue with wrong picks. Wrong picks create wrong cycles. 

Judges 16:1

Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

Judges 16:46

Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”

* The spirit of Delilah will always visit you in the valley - in that low season, season of uncertainty.

* The spirit of Delilah is anything that tries to attack where you're strong; wants to hit your strong spot and make you in bondage there. This is why we hear the enemy the most in the area that we're most effective

ENTANGLEMENT (Ensnared) - compromising relationship (example: relationship that you know won't last long but you're still tolerating it) 

* Pleasure

* Possessions

* Power

* Unaddressed pain

WEB OF PLEASURE

- they'll be intoxicated with things that are killing them and they don't recognize I'm killing them softly

CHASE POSSESSIONS 

- caught up with chasing things (cars, houses) but the enemy wants things to have you. You'll lie, compromise, forget Jesus to get them because I want more which helps me engage in idolatry

WEB OF POWER

- doesn't matter whom you'll hurt or destroy (chauvinistic, narcissistic, dictator)

UNADDRESSED PAIN

- not talking about your pain so that pain can add layers to you

Phases of Entanglement:

LURE - DRAW - HOOK

We have preferences for God. We have ways we want God to do it. When He doesn't do it, we think He's silent. Some people stopped praying because they think God is not answering them, but He is. He is just answering in a way that you don't want Him to. God does not have to do it the way we want to do it. We're not in control, God is. 

7/13/2020 TRY ME Part 25- The Trap of Comparison (Redefined TV)

1 Samuel 17:38-40 

Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off. Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

  COMPARISON (Covetousness) - wanting what someone else have 

> Envy, Idolatry  "I'll praise God once I get what they have" 

- when you put anything before God

> Robs us of discernment and ability to perceive our season like 2 women being pregnant, one is 9 weeks, the other is 9 months. Maturity is recognizing we're both pregnant. Can you applaud when someone else wins?

> Comparison robs you of the ability to perceive your oil. There are levers to OIL:

* King Saul - flask of oil

* King David - ram horn of oil

*Jesus - alabaster box of oil

If we don't understand our oil, we'll end up trying to get in the room that we don't have oil for.

Example: Moses and Pharaoh - God told Moses to go through on dry ground. Pharaoh saw it and tried to do the same thing and he ended up drowning, because this is what happens when you try to follow a Word God didn't give you.

> Comparison is the mother of infertility / keeps from giving birth to your gifts.

The reason why you can't give birth to your gift is because doubt keeps making you miscarry and why you're doubting is because you're so focused on everybody else. You're looking at their platform, views, at what they're doing. People don't post their failures, inadequacies, insecurities. Could it be they're not better than you? They're just a better editor than you. You're comparing an edited version to God's handiwork.

> There's something God wants you to do, who cares what they're doing. You don't know what's behind the curtain and here you are feeling inadequate and they could be giving you false advertisement

> Comparison is the spawning pool of insecurities

> Could you be insecure because you feel as though you being out of dress code is a problem? So what you're not like everybody else. You're out on dress code on purpose. You cannot be part of the pollution and then be the solution. You cannot be God's example and the devil's sample at the same time. God has called you to be light, not shade; salt not sugar.

Galatians 6:4

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else

 You match in the Kingdom of heaven, as a Kingdom ambassador, as a Kingdom trendsetter, not match with culture. God doesn't want you to be in uniform with your peers, God is making you His billboard, His example, His blueprint. You're so busy looking at everybody else that you're not looking at all the gifts God has put on the inside of you. 

1 Samuel 17:38-40 Then Saul clothed David with his armor. 

> David is about to fight but Saul begins to dress David with his own tunic. 

You have to be careful with who you are allowing to put stuff on you because wardrobe come with warzones. You know why your lust is raging, because somebody put their wardrobe on you. Why you're so bitter, complaining about everything, could it be your mother put her wardrobe on you? 

How to be free from people pleasing?

There's only one you in this earth. How do we get exhausted? We get exhausted when we haven't recognized that everybody's going to have a different version of you in their heads. Let's say we walk in a room with 20 people. There are 20 different 'you' in everybody's head. We get exhausted is when we go to each person and try to recreate the version of 'you' in their head. Freedom happens when you get to the place 'I don't care.' I don't care what version of me that you have of me in your head. The version of me that you have in your head is not my responsibility.' When you get to the place of as long as I'm the me that God created for me to be. It doesn't matter if anyone doesn't like me. I like me and God loves me. I love me. That you, that God called you to be. 

The truth that freed me is "I'm not for everyone". Whatever version of me that you have in your head, that's your business, but I know the version of me in my head. And this is dangerous when you don't have an accurate version of you in your head, you'll keep on following the trends because you don't have your own version of you this is why your feelings get so hurt when somebody tells you their opinion because you care more about the version that they have of you than the version God has of you in His head. Before you were in your mother's womb He knew you and all that matters is what God knows me. The best well-known is hearing well-done!

> Saul sees David is ready to fight, and so Saul puts his uniform on him. He puts him in dress code. He puts him in dress code with the rest of the soldiers because this is how you're supposed to look when you fight. Could you imagine if David struggled with security - he possibly would have thought 'You know what, everybody else is dressed like this, so since they have shields and they have armor, sword, maybe I should be in dress code too.' I think David would have lost if he would have went out there in Saul's armor because you will always lose fights wearing Saul's uniform.

1 Samuel 17:39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.

Quintessential question - Have you just adjusted to what someone put on you? Have you adjusted to their opinions or do you have a David posture - "I'm taking this off."

1 Samuel 17:49-51 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. 

>>> A lot of us would be content right there 

But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

>>> A lot of us, there's some problems that have come back in 2020, that were your Goliath and you thought because the stone stuck in his head it was dead, but it really was unconscious - 'I thought I was over this.' David said, 'I'ma chop off his head.' Head is symbolic of authority. 'You have no more authority over my people.' There's some things in your life that you've allowed to have authority- comparison, insecurity. By the power of God, chop the head off!!!! 

How do we become cured from comparison?

1) A FOLLOWED FOCUS 

When you have a focus, goal, vision, you won't compare yourself to others.

I'm so focused on what God called me to do. Did you hear? No. Have you seen? No.

You're so focused on what God called you to do that you really have no time to focus on the gossip or mess.

John 21:20-22

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?”Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”

Jesus is saying, mind your business, why are you worried about them? But you can't mind your business if you're on everybody else's business.

2) SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATORS VS WATCHERS

The people who are most critical will always have something to say are the watchers - they're on the bench, they have so much to say, they always try to give somebody advice. Here's my problem - can we look at you and tell you your advice works? Not judging but if you're so wise, all the advice you have why we don't see any fruit in your life? Why your tree so fruitless? 

Creators - especially if they're not insecure - they give the most encouragement.

3) DEACTIVATE THE INNER CRITIC

You're subscribed to your own criticism.

4) VALUE THE PASTURE

We live in a generation that everybody wants to arrive quick, fast.

1 Samuel 17:34

But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them

Pasture season is PRACTICE - Nobody knows your name, no platform, no follower, nobody's coming to your business, nobody's making an order, but you're learning how to perfect that slingshot. You're learning how to improve your gift. So many of us want to hurry and get to the palace because you have oil for it.  If you overlook what God is teaching you in this pasture, you won't be ready to fight Goliath in the battlefield.

7/10/2020 Try Me (Part 24) When Men Worship (Redefined TV)

Daniel 6:10-13 (NKJV) Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.
Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”
The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.”
So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

* Judah - means PRAISE; that Daniel whose praise can't be stopped

* One of the most masculine things a man could do is WORSHIP

  One of the most masculine things a man could do is PRAY

  Because their prayer life reveals HUMILITY, and prayerlessness reveals ARROGANCE

If you want to know if a man is humble, if he has a prayer life. If he has a prayer life, this man is saying, "God I can't do this without You. I'm lost without You. I need Your guidance, I need Your instruction, I need You to be my compass God."

A  Kingdom man recognizes I need the Lord to intervene because without You I'm gonna mess up.

* A foolish woman, she's impressed by what a man drives. But a wise woman is impressed by what drives him ♡♡♡

A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO WORSHIP:

-He knows how to cover his family 

  breaks the attempted yoke, because there are some things the enemy wants to attempt to put in your household, to put in your children, to attempt to put on your mind, to put on your esteem. But when you have a kingdom man there, the very strategies of the enemy, they don't even succeed because he breaks the attempted yoke.

WORSHIP is the DNA of the kingdom man. Worship confirms that this man's heart has been grasped by the King of glory. It is the evidence that I need the Lord.

Men are supposed to express the heart of God. Point of reference to God. Before your daughter / son knows the heavenly Father, she / he will be first introduced to her / his natural Father, either by presence / absence. Men are supposed to express the heart of God and we give identity. 

God has wired for men to be identity givers.

Genesis 2:19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 

We see Adam handing out identity. Could you just imagine how detrimental it is for the house infrastructure if our identity giver is in identity crisis. Even deeper, what if the identity giver is not even there. Anytime the father is absent of in identity crisis, we will always position our family to engage in identity theft so we reach out and put other names on us. Why do you think that young man feels so special when he wears Jordan / Yeezys? 

The war has always been and will always be over the man, and it was always the agenda, the syllabus of heaven for that man to be the identity giver. Because the man got to have a life of worship because worship is married to assignment and assignment is married to identity. If I don't know my identity, I won't be able to know my assignments and the reason I don't know my assignment is because I don't worship.

You gonna spend a lot of time with the King of glory, you were constantly in His face, basking in His presence, submerging yourself in His presence, you're gonna spend uninterrupted time with the Creator, and He's not gonna reveal to you why you've been created? Worship is married to assignment, and assignment is married to identity.

Joshua 5:13-14 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?” So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

He runs into God, an encounter, he begins to worship then after he worships, he's given his assignment and now I'm given my assignment, I know my identity. Worship expressed Worth-ship. Joshua to conquer Jericho; Joshua the conqueror.

Genesis 12:7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 

Altar - for worship

For the believer - worship is like our inward well and so what the enemy wants to do, he wants to dam our well, he wants to have some blockage, some boulder, some type of hindrance so that we don't have a worship life, and we don't have that internal reservoir because we're gonna need it when we hit dry places, because worship is that fountain. Dam that fountain with anxiety, distractions, counterfeits, rage, with all these type of things then they won't be able to glean in from the inside. It doesn't matter how saved you are or how great your calling is whether you love the Lord or not, all of us will eventually hit a dry season.

But this is the power of a man who knows how to worship, because men are wired to be leaders and when we hit hard season, I may not know where to go but you best believe I know what to do, I have this reservoir inside or me and the enemy knows the person who can tap in get breakouts. Just because it is bad all around me, it does not affect my worship. 

Worship - the psalmist says magnify the Lord with me. When you magnify- to make big. When you are surrounded by problems, that's when you command your soul to magnify the Lord. Worship is gonna affect the problem size. Why? Because worship invokes God. HE INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE. When Paul and Silas were in jail, and they began to worship and praise at midnight, there was a great earthquake. It's because the prison cell was too small for God to fit. Your worship and your praise has a locksmith personality. Everybody in the whole prison, their chains were broken, not because they were worshiping, but worship creates an atmosphere of freedom. This is why it's powerful for a man to be a worshipper.

* Crisis reveals who Christ is. 2020 not only  exposing hearts, is also exposing spiritual depth. 

W  ORTHY

O  BEDIENCE

R  EGULATES

S  URRENDER

H  UMILITY

I   NTIMACY

P  RESENCE

WHY WE WORSHIP?

♡ He is worthy - I won't know my worth if I don't know He's worthy. Me knowing He is worthy, helps me discover my worthy. When I discover I'm a man of the King, when somebody doesn't want me, I don't feel as though I need now to reduce my rate, I don't feel as though now I need to be on the clearance rack, because they didn't like me. They probably couldn't afford me, because when you know He is worthy He reveals to you your worth. A lot of us are crying over people who wanted you at a cheap rate, but God is saying, listen you're worth more than that.

♡ Obedience - the first time you see the word worship in the Bible is in the context of when Abraham is taking his son to sacrifice. 

Genesis 22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will 

(Heb. 11:19)come back to you.” 

Abraham is exemplifying obedience and following God's instructions. "I worship out of obedience."  Obedience opens doors that you never have to knock on.

♡ Worship regulates - if you're having a bad day or bad mood, why don't you try to worship? Worship is thanking God for who He is

♡ Worship is surrender - (Arms raised) I'm not trying to resist arrest. God arrest my heart, arrest my emotions, arrest my will, arrest my cravings, arrest my desire. I'm not fighting, I surrender.

♡ Worship is humility - it is saying, "God, without you, I'm gonna wreck my life, so be my compass." 

♡ Worship is intimacy - IN TO ME SEE. There's all these stuff in me God, there's all these stuff I don't like about me, there's all these stuff I want to give to you, all these stuff that you have for me God, I want to trust you, I want to love you, I want to embrace Your will, so I have to be intimate. If you keep on getting intimate, you'll end up pregnant - He's gonna put something on the inside of you and then now that it's on the inside of you, it begins to grow, and then once it begins to grow, everybody can see your baby bump - baby bump of purpose, passion and that pregnancy gets you to walk different eventually because now I'm catering on the what's inside of me, and eventually life comes with contractions and this is when you have to push because God wants you to give birth to something and you labor in prayer.

♡ Presence - I want the presence of God. God lead me and guide me. Unless we're like a child, we can't inherit the Kingdom of God.