we are about to start a serie that is about to be awesome
I think this is one of those things that God wanted to happen in this timing
I'm talking about relationships and we titled this message relationship goals
because we know that's something that is in popular culture and we see different things
all the pictures that that we saw earlier
people say oh that's the kind of relationship that I want
and that's what I want from my life eventually and all these things
so I thought it would be appropriate for us to do a series about relationship goals
and we're going to start from the beginning and we're going to go all the way through
this thing
you do not want to miss the next six weeks
because in this series we're going to talk so real
about some stuff that has not been said in a church you've ever been in before
but we're going to say that right here oh because I really do believe that
relationships are being defined more by pop culture and what the world says
than what the Word of God says
and because many people don't teach it with balance and with understanding and with wisdom
it just seems more easy to go with what everybody else is doing
but I really do believe that God is going to give wisdom and revelation through this series
and I am ready for us to start being an example of what relationships should
look like
she is happy about it
no no but honestly when people think of relationships they don't look at the church
when they think about relationships they don't think about Christians
when they think about relationships
they don't think about God's people and there's a reason
and honestly if we be real real about , many believers have failed their relationship
many people save, sanctify, love God, don't stop clapping all day and die lonely
preach to the nations, have no friends
I mean if we're honest with it many of us have had more sexual relationships than we
have had cars
you get a new one of those every three to five years
let's be honest because if we're not, then, we never ever get to see
we think that's normal
and what I came to tell you is that
some of these things that we've been doing that I've done
okay so don't ... he just came back he's judging us
no I did it ! but it was because nobody told me
they never showed me, they never laid out for me what is the biblical model of relationship
how are we supposed to do, I know Im not suppose to have sex before mariage I know I'm supposed
to be in a monogamous relationship
I know I'm supposed to date, court have a front what which one...
tell me how! show me how !
show me what the word says about it
so we don't do all of that in this series, today is an introduction
because I've been stopped up spiritually for five weeks
and this message could be four hours easy but it's going to be forty minutes this morning
Amen
and so I want to just kind of set the table for what this thing looks like Amen
why don't you get out your notes and and get out your Bibles right now
I want to look at this, from just the terminology relationship goals
everybody say relationship goals
say it one more time like you mean it
okay so how many would say they have some relationship goals
like there's something that you desire
people scared to lift a handed like I don't know
okay how many people have some relationship goals
friends family mariage you have goals in your relationship
I really think a lot of people understand the relationship part of it
they understand that they want to be connected with somebody
they understand that they want to walk and talk with somebody
but the goal part I think is a little misconstrued or a little distorted
and I want to look at the definition of goal okay
a goal is the result or achievement towards which an effort is directed
so effort has to be directed to reach a goal
it's the aim or it's the end
now I look at this because no matter if you're single you're married, you're divorced
it's complicated, you're a stalker
I don't care what level of relationship that you are in right now
God wants you to have successful relationships
this whole series is so that you can win at relationships
but many of us don't have our aim directed when it comes to relationship
we take whatever comes we do whatever is comfortable but we don't have aim
and if you don't have aim, you cannot have a goal,
you cannot have relationship goals if you're not aimed in the direction of what God has
for you
and I saw a video earlier this week that kinda accurately depicts what most of us look like
in relationship
I want you to take a look at this real quick
[Music]
target is over here
now as funny as that is isn't that what many of our relationships look like
I think he might be the one
I thought that was my business partner
I really want to hang with this group of people
and we're not aimed at anything so and we're blinded by what culture says and so we shoot
at everything
and what happens is people and things get damaged
when we do not have clear aim in what God wants us to have in relationship
many of us are products of people shooting and trying to have relationship without proper
aim proper goals
things that were the standard for our lives that were set by God so I want us to go to
the beginning today
because it's one of those things that I start to look at that a target needs to be standing
still
and if you're using culture as the barometer of what relationships should look like that's
a moving target
like relationship says marriage looks like this in one decade then it looks like this
and another decade
it's we're supposed to be like this this is what deigning
now we have Netflix and chill you don't even have to be committed to anybody to cross the
line into private areas
y'all came to be fake this morning
what I came to do is dispel the enemy that hides in darkness and to bring light to every
person that's listening
what God wants for every single one of us is for us to have relationship
but we have to have a goal that is aimed at something that is stable
and let me submit to you that the only thing that is unchangeable, unmoving unwavering
is the Word of God
see Isaiah tells us like this in Isaiah 40 it says that
that that the the grass will wither and the flower will fade but the Word of God will
stand ever lasting
and so I'm just asking you for six weeks
I know that you have the Kardashians have taught you a lot about relationships
like I know and I and I know that you have blogs that you listen to and people
but I'm asking you for six weeks
can we let the standard of relationships be the Word of God
and can we see what possibly may happen in our hearts our minds and our lives
if we would follow a biblical model of relationships instead of our feelings
when it comes to relationships is that okay?
okay! so let's go all the way to the beginning Genesis okay?
let's go to Genesis
in Genesis is the first time that we see relationship okay
I can't really go into it right now because that'd be a whole nother message
but before there was ever a person there was already relationship
the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
they were three equal personalities in one there was already relationship
that's why when when they came at the beginning they said let us make man in our image
that was a conversation that was relationshipthat was happening
but I just want us to focus on us for a second
and I want to show you something I was talking to my friend Charles this week
and we started discussing something
we found something really really cool in the Bible
we found the first time that God said it's not good
I mean the very first time you know you tell your children no no no that's not good
you tell people uh don't eat that that's not good
we found the first time God said it wasn't good so let me help you paint
this picture
Genesis chapter 1 verse 3 God says let there be light he creates
light and he says it's good okay?
then we go to Genesis chapter 1 verse 10 and he makes water and land
and after he makes water and land what he does he say it's good okay?
y'all help me
then he makes vegetation broccoli spinach kale all of those things
and then he looks over and says that is going to make some good soul food and he said it's
good
then verse 18 he says let me go ahead and make a differentiation
between day and night
here's the Sun here's the moon and then he looked over and he said it's
good
now y'all got to help me preach this He said it's [Good]
then he made the sea creatures Willie, Nemo
he made everybody in that moment he looked at all of them and he said it's good
then he made the wild animals Simba Pumba Timon he made all of them and he
looked back and he said it's good
look at Genesis chapter 2 verse 18 then the Lord God said after he made man it's not good
now hold on we've had six days of I mean perfect
I mean good it's good everything's good
and after he makes man in His image in his likeness then he looks up at now
he's God all by himself
he doesn't need nobody else who would know it's a mess-up
I mean who actually was there to say you messed up
how did he even get to the place that it's not good
unless he knew something about us that we didn't even know
So then the Lord God said it's not good for man to be
So he said I'm going to make a helper who is just right for him
my first point today is God wants a relationship for you
like some of y'all came in here
it's like that's all don't come to church because I just don't like people
and I just really don't understand why guy every once everybody say hello
and everybody wants to be in my face and we need to greet our neighbors
and I want to work from home and I really want to take online courses
because I don't want to meet people and all this
listen that's not God's intent for you
God created you to be in relationship with others
and all the introverts are like I hate this church
but this is this is what I want to tell you but it's a mate on the inside of you
that God created you to be in relationship and not that he's just like that's a good
option
he said it's not good,
it's not a good idea for you to set up a life that is guarded gated by
yourself isolated
because it's where the enemy comes to attack
you're isolated in your thoughts
you're isolated in your relationships, you're isolated in your dealings
that's where the enemy becomes your best friend and he'll suggest he'll whisper
and he'll tell you who you are that's not who you are
he will begin to convince you that you can't and you really can
Do you know the enemy's native tongue is lie
so if you ever hear anything that goes against the Word of God
what it is a lie
but how many of them do we believe
how many of them do we accept and we let them take root in our heart
and then they grow into things that stop us from reaching purpose and destiny
and what God is saying if you have somebody around you
they could plug those things on be like whoa what is
you're not fat you're just husky
don't believe the lie of the enemy but just think about why can never
and I will never and I won't and you just need somebody around you to help
and so Ijust want everybody to know which is not really where I want to stay today
but I just need you to understand that God wants relationship for you
somebody just say that God wants relationship for me
that's healing for somebody
no no you need to say it again God wants relationship for me
he does want you to have a best friend
though the last woman left you high and dry
no he wants you to have a safe place
no I'm I'm ministering healing to somebody right now
God wants you to find a pastor or a leader that can guide you and help
I know the last one huge G up and didn't appreciate you at all
but God wants relationship for you
He wants you to be in a marriage that works
that is surrounded by love honor respect and fun
the first three I know but my God is a redeemer
our God is a redeemer so whatever was broken
was messed up whatever was jacked up
God says I'll take all of that if you allow me to and I work it for your good
so God wants relationship for you
Okay so as we start looking at that I know you know this but
Ecclesiastes 4 9 says that two people are better than one
So we'll just leave it there
you can read the rest of that on your own time
but I just want you to realize that two of y'all are better than you
who are you linked up with who has God linked you up with
Because when you find those people you'll be better
Okay lord I have to read the rest of it okay
for they can help each other succeed who doesn't want that two are better than one
because they can help each other succeed if one person falls
how many people have fallen at some point in your life
me more than I want to admit but listen
if one person falls the other can reach out and help
maybe I'll talk about this next week
you can tell if your relationship is from God
just by the qualification does that relationship help you
they missed it
you can tell that if this fool you messin with
it's supposed to be in your life if this relationship is helping you
we tolerate more relationships that are taking away from us
are stealing our peace that are ravaging our joy that have us up Emma
oh my god I think he's gonna break up!
break up with him!
he is not helping you she's not helping them
our friends they are fly they are fake they are not helping you
so so it doesn't take a word from God
the people you around keeping you stuck to your chains
they're not if you're praying that God will remove symptoms
of the people that you hang around
they're not helping you and God wants every relationship in your life
was one of your goals to be that the relationships help you succeed okay
so God wants a relationship with you first
and then he wants a relationship for you with others
and I don't know why in church I
it's one of those things that is just like one of my pet peeves
gets on my last nerve that everybody act
like relationships are like Bobby Boucher is mama the devil
you ever seen the waterboy and she says everything is the devil
you some of y'all ain't seen that movie you're not going to get it
but but she thinks everything is the devil
yes foosball that foosball is the devil so you meant football girls are the devil
many people make you feel like relationship with others
especially relationships with the opposite sex are the devil
they're not the devil but relationships where the purpose is not known
Open the door to the devil and so I came to the conclusion that
if we know the purpose for relationship then we won't allow for the cracks
that let him into our relationships and so I want us to look at this because
I think that God designed in order for your relationships to be successful
I think that he laid out I mean because my god is really good
he wants us to win he wants us to succeed at relationship
so I think he laid out in order that every relationship that we ever have
whether it be friendship whether it be marriage whether it be business partners
whatever it can succeed and he gave it to us in the second chapter of Genesis
and a lot of us just skip over it so I want us to read this passage of Scripture
we're going to read Genesis 2 verse 8 then we're going to skip down to 15
and then we're going to see God speak to us this morning
it says Genesis chapter 2 verse 8 it says
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden
it was in the east and there he placed the man
underlying placed
the Lord placed the man he had made
underline made
verse 9 the Lord God made all sorts of trees go up from the ground
trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit
underlined the word produced
so he placed he made he produced in the middle of the garden
he placed the Tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
jump down to verse 15
he said now he's going to give us the reason that he placed man in the garden
the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it
so just underline tend and watch but the Lord God warned him
you may freely eat every fruit in the garden except
everybody just say except
just bow that just draw a circle and some arrows
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
if you eat that fruit you are surely going to die
then this is where we find I want everybody to get this now in progression
I skipped ahead and gave you verse to verse 18 earlier
it is not good for man to be alone all this was said
and then this is where this verse comes in
then the Lord God said you know what
it's not good for a man to be alone
I'll make a helper who is just right for him
the title of this message is before the person
I think there are five things that God wanted to give all of us
Before he gave us the person
I think he just outlined for all of us that there's some things
that he wants to deposit into our life before anybody partners with us
see because what we do many times is we look for people to take the place
of what only God can give us and he laid out a really clear foundation
so I'm gonna run through these and I hope I mean I hope you grab one of them
just catch it and be like my relationships will never be the same
what's the first thing that God desires to give you before he gives you a person
he desires to give you a place
not just your 400 score apartment that's not exactly what I was talking about okay
but but but what I am saying is God desires to place you in a place
where he knows purpose can happen in your life okay
now let me help you
many of us desire to place ourselves especially in my generation
I have so many people that come up to me and say I'm about to move to here
about to move to LA I'm about to move to New York I'm about to move to Dallas
I'm about the move to Oklahoma City I'm about to move
about to move I'm about the move they're searching for a place
and they're searching for people to validate the place that they're in
but what what God gave Adam was a place that he didn't have anything to do with
it he said God created Eden and he placed him
see what you think is the coincidence is God's placement for you
he placed you in that family they are crazy
there's some things that God had to teach you
there's some things that he had to develop on the inside of you
there's some things you had to build up a tolerance against
for the purpose that he has called you to and we fight the place so hard
oh come on y'all we fight the job that God placed us in
oh I'm coming in to y'all house
we fight the people God placed us around
we fight the church he planted us in
they don't do it like that they don't play my songs
they don't do what I knew I like the more like and they want a little woo
I decide I don't know
and God said maybe you're an answer for something
that's supposed to happen that I see up ahead
but you're fighting the place that I put toi on
can I talk to my college students for a second
he placed you at the school you are in
at yeah I know all your other friends went there
I know all your other people went there
but God he's the one over promotions
he's the one over access granted or access denied and he placed you
you may not see it Adam didn't see why he was in that place
When he got there
but this is the most beautiful thing
the second thing that God reveals in a place is purpose
see it said that he put him in Eden to tend and work the vegetation the land
see what people are missing is they're trying to get a person
they're ignoring the place and so they don't understand their purpose
God got you in that place on purpose but if you're always denying the place
I hate this job and God saying I'm trying to reveal purpose at that job
only I know you only make $10 an hour
but I'm trying to reveal who I called you to be
there's something at this level you gotta get I know it doesn't keep working here
but you got to get it right here because if you would embrace the place God has
placed you
you'll start embracing the purpose why he puts you there
and guess what this is all before a person
so God takes Adam before Eve he plants him and Eden he
I want y'all to get the the strength of the word I'm saying
he placed him this was not an option there's some situation God puts you in
that it seems like I'm just between a rock and a hard place why am I here
has anybody been at that plate like why am I here
and the only thing that I I can come to the conclusion of
is that if I'm here and it's uncomfortable it's for my growth
because uncomfortability and growth are like oil and water
they don't go together
so when you're uncomfortable and you can't stand the place you are
God's trying to pull back purpose in your life
and Adam started working in purpose before he ever got a person
so what I'm saying to you is that
while you're looking for him or looking for her
God's trying to reveal to you why he has you her
That's my Ebonics let me say it right
while God is while you're trying to figure out
What is going on with him or what's going on with her
God is trying to show you why he's placed you here
and until you stop fighting having people in the places that only God can fill
You Will Always be disapointed where God have you Always
Si the c'est trying God gave Adam was a place
Chen he gave Adam a purpose
and then I want you to see this other part and this really to me is awesome
because um this kinda is an indicator if God's in your place or your purpose
he gave provision that's so so I want y'all to see it cuz some of y'all don't believe
me
he gave provision verse 9 he said the Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up
who made him grow up
if you have to go and position yourself to provide for what God has called to do
it's not him he supplies where he calls us to
It's the point-blank period of walking by faith but God only funds his ideas
some of y'all just got your access denied to your plan
well god I thought this was what's gonna happen and I came away with this
after I listen to oceans and this was the plan that you gave me
and I only found my plan I'll listen to you prayers about yours
but I only provide for mine
so if you've been in a season for a long time
and you're trying to provide for that it just seems like
never enough and my God is not going through
it ain't like I'm always right here
you may need to go back and check and see if you're in the right place
that you're fulfilling purpose because God makes provision grow
wherever he is and remember this is all before a person
so so so he gives him what's the first one a place
then he gave him purpose and then he provided provision
now watch this then he gave him identity
let me help you
he says he says in verse eight he placed the man that he made he had made
and if you go back to Genesis 1:26 we find out how man was made
he was God said let us make man in our image to be like who
the world? Kanye and Kim? Qui?
he made us to be like him
so if your identity who you think you are your character your personality
all of those things are being defined by anybody else but God
you have a Mis view of who you're supposed to be
and this is the enemy's number one tactic for you is to have you not know who you are
the enemy is not scared of a faker
He's not scared of somebody who's posing to be somebody else
he's not scared of a fake a counterfeit he's scared of you finding your purpose
know of who you are not caring what anybody else is doing
obeying God flat-footed and standing and who you've created you to be
and why then is the age of this world always trying to get us to compare
to what somebody else is
Because If I can throw you off that your jeans aren't tight enough
For you don't have a house like this or your ministry is not big enough
or your family is kind of ugly so don't post pictures about them
and all of these other different things that we are always comparing
and trying to see it gets us off of our identity
let me tell you this one story that I had seen some guys who were preaching
and they were successful and where I thought I wanted to be
and I'm not going to say who and where when how
but I saw this one preacher in this outfit that I thought was cool
and I was struggling with my identity
see God had already called me something but I wanted to change my name
I wanted to start looking like somebody else
so I went to the store where this person allegedly got this outfit from
and I forgot that I got thighs and a booty and um and at the time
I had a little more of a gut and I put on the largest size in all of these items
and looked in the mirror and I literally felt like an idiot
looking like cuz I knew who I was but I had put myself in the position thinking
I could look like somebody else and it made me look like an idiot
I looked at myself in that mirror trying to suck everything
I I was so tight y'all my core my legs my everything else
and I still just look like a sausage
and what I realized at that moment this is a very small example
but what I realized at that moment is that I can never be completely comfortable
in the identity of somebody who's not me I will always be trying to curtail
and be and God this is a beautiful thing
You don't have to guess what your identity is
he's giving you an identity you're a king's kid you're joint heirs with christ
there is nothing that is impossible for you
because of Christ who lives inside of you
you are the head and not the tail
you are above only and not beneath
when you walk into a room Mountain start to move either you believe it or you don't
either you've accepted somebody else's identity or you know who you are in Christ
I dare somebody to stop accepting
What somebody who didn't know their identity told you how you don't believe
somebody who don't know who they are
so that's why I go back to the thing that doesn't change
I go back to the word of God
but I heard this one saying that if you don't know who you are
or if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything
y'all y'all heard that one
the problem is that most believers have not been in the book enough
to be able to find out their identity
so people tell you who your identity is on Facebook Instagram
business meetings and all this other stuff
and you take on that perception
and God says don't believe a lie don't believe it
I created you like that on purpose that little Kourt I'm going to use that to change
people's lives
a little thing that everybody's telling you is just a little
you're just a little oh what's wrong with you?
just burritos sure it's whole combo
that that's the thing that God wants to use to touch more people
who are missing some burritos they understand
You see what I'm saying God wants to use all of you
he wants to use every part of you
but you have to know your identity is confirmed and affirmed in him
and that's that's what God gave to Adam before a person
so so let me tell you the last thing we got four of them
okay so what's the first one he gave Adam A place
he gave him a place
then he gave him a purpose
and then he gave him
then he gave him identity
and then he gave him parameters
oh oh I love it he said verse verse 16
but the Lord God warned him you may freely eat now now freely eat
I love you dad that dad I could say anything he said he showed it you tell it
gimme say it y'all keep this seat right here forever
now watch watch watch watch
he said you can freely eat of the fruit of every tree in the garden
but what but watch what what except now what most
what the world will tell you is how can a loving God
why would a why we're gracious loving all-powerful God
that may make there be lemits what what why why is there an accept
because he loves you
and any good parent knows that if you don't set limitations on your children
they're not going to hurt themselves on purpose
but they're going to hurt themselves because of what's around
we got gates in our house because I got a three year old and a two year old
we understand what I'm saying and many believers are spiritually immature
and so without parameters now just think about it
every tree except like this wasn't like there's only two trees
You understand what I'm saying
I'll say it wasn't just this tree or this tree and as I went on
well I really he said every other tree but he gave them parameters
and he gave him parameters before a person because
if you don't have a standard
if you don't have a standard before you get in relationships
the relationships will create the standard that you live by
and why so many people are hurt by relationships is because
they did not listen to the parameters that God gave
for purity for accountability for being honest and open
we didn't listen to the parameters and so we get into the relationship
And we let that define what this feel good don't it feel good to you
Thanks it feel good to me
[...] nine months later
why? because we we did not have parameters and watch this
and two are better than one at everything
even messing up
so if I don't have a standard and I get with somebody that don't have low standard
guess what we got to do create a hot to mess
do you understand what I'm saying
okay but I want you to understand that these five things God gave before he ever gave a
person
and I hear some of y'all first Corinthians 10 this is just need to add this for you Paul
helps us
he say well I'm allowed to do anything but not everything is good for you
and you say I'm allowed to do anything under grace
under under the curse that has me...
but then he says not everything is beneficial
the real power of living a mature Christian life is when you know you can and you don't
have to
like like like like the real power of being secure because I know my identity
and I know I'm in the right place and I know I'm moving in purpose
and I understand what I'm doing before a person it's that I can do whatever
yeah I could got a dream yeah I could go yeah I could go talk to them
yeah I could start up some relationship online with some random person in New Zealand
but I don't need a rule anymore to tell me that
because I've been freed by the love relationship I have with God
but some things you only learn when they first start off as parameters
my daughter knows now not to run into the street because we set that parameter
now that she knows how to look out for cars
and watch out for stuff now I'm walking
if she said dad dad oh no no hold my hand
see what I once taught her she's now reminding me of
because the the wall of a mature believer is you set those parameters
and then you walk with somebody even somebody who's even younger than you in the faith
and they remind you of the parameters that are set to keep us safe
now hear me all of these things God gave before a person
and what we think is that people can take us to the place we want to go
and people can give us what we need provision and people can tell us who we are identity
and people can give us purpose and people can set our parameters
but there is only one person who can real and has everything you need
and that's God
I want to show you this as we leave
you just think about all the relationships you have in your life
you think about people you come in contact with this
little orange ball represents people like how many times we go to school
and we meet people and they tell us our jeans aren't cool
and the teacher tells us that we learn a little funny
and we have a brother that picks on us
because he has a problem with his own identity and then we get a little older and then we
like allow people to tell us you should go to this school
and you should be around these people
and you should you should stay around him
if you want to really succeed you should you should be around them
and then we we come into our adult lifes
and we look at what we should have by 19
and what we should have by 20 come on some of y'all are those
like I'm 24 I should have a house I should have a car I should have kids
come on how many of us have looked at our lives and said we should be here
why because of what people have said and you start to look at your whole
life
and you start to see what others are doing and you look at Instagram
and you look at Facebook and you see and you know people leave
but what happens is this is our vessel and what's filling us is what other people have
told us
we should be if this container represented our lives in those five areas
the place we're supposed to be our purpose provision identity the parameters
we've let society the world others fill us up
but then when I look at the word second Peter 1:3 it says
by His divine power by God's divine power God has already given us everything we need
I want you I want you to see those two words everything we need for living a godly life
Pastor Mike I know they're still stuff I'm struggling with
let me tell you when he gave it to you
when you received all of this by coming to know him
see Pastor Mike I got all these people's opinions
I got all this other stuff how do I get this out by coming to know him
before a person if you get to know the Creator
he'll begin to fill all the areas that are filled by people's opinions attitudes and
relationship
I see some married people I do not know these steps before I married her
PASTOR Mike I'm sitting here... and im stucked
see ...somebody are laughing too hard
look straight look straight okay what I'm saying is
all you have to do to see God start to move things that have been in your life out
is spend more time with him
how do you do that pastor Mike
through the word finding out your place your purpose your identity the parameters
by prayer talking to him and letting him talk back to you
by accountability and small groups
hey we're signing up for these B groups today not just so we can have friends
we're signing up for these B groups because the Bible tells us this is how we get healed
like some of us are dealing with real issues
and James tells us to confess those things one to another pray for each other
and that's how you get healing some of y'all come up here every Sunday for healing
but if you got a community group you'd get healing
you get real healing because it's not in me just laying my hands on you
it's in you being able to release that and you see in God's church
not the organization but the organisms surrounds you in love and help you be free
I'm encouraging every person today I don't like people I've never signed up for a
group
it's not good okay... so I dare you to get in a small group
because when you allow more God in
can you bring me that the pure water of the Lord
now just put that one down thank you
so this is this is what living water looks like
God I'm just going to start reading my word every day
and it doesn't feel like anything's happening it doesn't feel like anything changed
it just feels a little juicy on Sunday but real dry throughout the week
but anything that is worth doing is worth doing continually
and so that's why you have to get the discipline and you know there's some point
that the things in our life that have been defining us it starts to be overtaken
see where my identity was from people it starts to become defined by God
but what happens when we are better than we used to be
and we stop letting God pour into our life
what we look like is lukewarm so I can post anything on insta stories
because I don't have my identity
and it's my birthday so I can go while out
and and you know I'm I'm financial stress
so I can drink because this is what I do to release
but God is good hey all the time
and all the time God is made hey...
but from afar what's more visible
from back I mean if I was to take somebody to the end of the parking line
say what do you see they may not even know there's anything in here
all they would see is these orange balls
the same way that they see our inconsistencies
and I are being hypocritical then they see our flesh
and what God says you don't have to feel judged
by that just keep pouring me over it just just keep coming to church
just get into a small Group just allow me to overtake you and overrun everything
now watch this is my favorite part this is my favorite part I said this is the favorite
part
this is my favorite when the lies come back they only can stay on the surface
look see when you're filled up with God when the enemy comes to lie to you
that you're not something and you can't do something and you will never be
I don't care how muchI try they can't it can't stick I came to encourage somebody
allow God to put you in a place allow him to give you a
purpose allow him to define your identity allow him to be your provision
allows him talk set your parameters and allow him to fill you up
because when he does it nothing the enemy throws at you will be able to take
root
somebody give God praise in this place
come on if you're going to allow God to filled you up
I want you to give God a praise in this place hallelujah
hear me y'all be seated
hear me healings happening right now
all over this building there's some of you that that you're understanding
why God has not been holding back the relationship from you
he's the Bible tells us that he's merciful and patient he wished
that no one be lost so he's not been holding it from you
he's been holding it back for you
Oh see God why am I 35 and 40 and I'm not
he's been holding it that business partner you've been trying to con to be your partner
God said no no no no no because they have some things in him
that I don't want to become your identity
so until you let me fill it up I can't release him to come
because they can come when you're filled
because whatever they try to drop it stays on the surface
and you get a friend or a wife see my wife is the one she is liked what is that
know that your attitude ah you don't dress like that you know you don't do that
see that's why it's good for you not to be alone
but somebody else can come in and be like no I'm not them
but that only can happen when you're filled
I want you to understand that we're going to talk about dating and sex and marriage
and all those other things
but my last point is that if God's not enough no person ever will be
like like if he doesn't fill because what we do Myles Monroe said I say it all the time
where the purpose of a thing is not known abuse is inevitable
may I submit to you that many of us have been trying to put people
in the place of identity purpose parameters and so they get abused
and you get disappointed because they were never meant to go there
he gave all of these things and then said hmm now that I've filled all of those places
well it's not good with all of that it's not good for you to be alone
and so he made a helper just right
Frank I'm here to encourage you that there are people friendships relationships business
partners
that are just for you you gotta allow him to fill it up first
father I pray for every person under the sound of my voice
forgive us God forgive me God for allowing people to fill the place that only you can
fill god
I know we have all of these relationship goals
but God our first goal should be knowing who we are in you
god I just thank you that you are giving us the ability to be okay
with the place you've put us in, o God we understand God
that you have a purpose for us God and we will know our identity
and you as you make provision for us God
and we listen and obey and observe the parameters that you've given us
father God I pray for every person who this word is really trying to penetrate their heart
and pull back lifestyles that they've accepted
god I thank you that you do the deep work
Holy Spirit you're the one that illuminates and changes us from the inside out god I'm
asking you to do it in me and I'm asking you to do it in every person as
listening
God we trust you we believe you and we thank you Father God
that you're going to fill us up
come on somebody just tell God fill me up
fill fill me up father fill my identity fill my purpose fill me up God
and we will be sure to give you the glory honor and praise and thank you
when the people or the person comes
but father let us be content in what you do in our lives
before the person
in Jesus name Amen
let's give God some praise in this place
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