Can You Discern A Miracle | Discernment | (Part 4) | Jerry Flowers

is everybody ready all right i hope you love me after this word just the first verse messed me up this is jesus he's talking to mary and he's talking to his family about listen lazarus has died okay and they gave him a message and said if you would have got here he wouldn't have died all right so verse 34 messed me up in itself jesus says where have you laid him he asked and the reason this messed me up during study time as i believe god is asking us the same question where have you laid your joy take me to the tomb where have you laid your peace it died somewhere maybe in 2016 2015 after that breakup that bad divorce where have you laid it take me to the tomb you're confident something happened that took your confidence in childhood way back in 1996 and somebody in 1982 something has died where have you laid it take me to the tomb i'm just on one verse your your confidence in my word why do you keep digging up and doubt what you planted in faith where have you laid it those ideas that i gave you that you thought would never work and you buried it could you take me that take me to that tomb because i'm a god i'm not afraid of graves i conquer them take me to where you laid it that gift i have given you to generate generational wealth for your children and for your children's children for the purpose of you advancing the kingdom of god not for you flexing on the ground show me where you laid it somebody said where have you laid it come and see lord they replied jesus wept then the jews said see how he loved him but some of them said could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying jesus once more deeply moved came to the tomb it was a cave with the stone laid across the entrance take away the stone he said but lord said martha the sister of the dead man by this time there is a bad odor for for he has been there for four days then jesus said like he tells me all the time didn't i tell you did not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of god i wonder how many of us our unbelief is keeping us from seeing the glory so they took away the stone then jesus looked up and said father i thank you that you have heard me i knew that you always hear me but i set this for the benefit of the people standing here that they may believe that you sent me when he had said this jesus called in a loud voice lazarus come out the dead man came out his hands and his feet wrapped with strips of linen and the cloth around his face jesus said to them take off the grave clothes and let him go now john chapter 12 verse 1 it says then six days before the passover jesus came to bethany where lazarus who had been dead whom he had risen erased from the dead there they made him a supper we're speaking of jesus so they're making something for jesus okay they're speaking of jesus they made him a supper and martha served but lazarus said y'all looking at this lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him then mary took upon a very costly spikenard anointed the feet of jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of oil but one of his disciples judas iscariot simon's son who betrayed him said why was this fragrant of oil not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor this this he said not because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the money box and he used to take what was put in it a verses of importance a clause of concern and the part in this foundational text that had me messed up during sermon practice i'm reading this and i'm comparing because i want the word of god to speak to me i can't speak to everybody else but i try to read the word and squeeze it to get understanding the verses that trip me up are the end of verse 43 and verse 44. where the text tells us in john chapter 11 jesus said lazarus come out and he came out and his hands were wrapped with linen and his feet were wrapped with linen so he had grave clothes on him but then in verse 2 and verse 3 of john chapter 12 there's this little party there's this little dinner that they're having for jesus martha is serving mary is anointing but lazarus is sitting down i'm looking i'm like bro you were dead martha is in the kitchen she's like making jesus favorite broil fish because you know that's the type of stuff jews ate she making jesus lamb she's even hooking jesus up with a little unleavened bread with olive oil sauce jesus loves this she's doing everything she can to make everybody feel comfortable and mary's sitting there wiping her hair on jesus feet just thanking him for who he is and lazarus is sitting right next to jesus and i'm i'm looking i'm like don't you understand that you were dead like john 11 you're dead i mean lazarus you're like good and dead you're like you were in the grave for four days somebody say foe not four say four you were in the grave four days like that's longer than jesus was in the grave we we we eulogized you we had your funeral people sent in resolutions we read the resolutions at your funeral ceremony we wrapped you in grave clothes we stuck you in a tomb and now the tomb is submerged with the odor of death john 11 lazarus you're dead but jesus steps on the scene with that savior swag jesus steps on the scene with that gavel of sovereignty and jesus declares overruled i need to say that one more time they didn't hear me jesus steps on the scene with that savior swag he has the god gavel of sovereignty and yells overruled because listen watch this only a judge y'all missing it this is so good i'm an introduction look only a judge has the power to overrule something this is why i believe psalms chapter 89 verse 14 tells us that our god jesus is god and flesh our god is a righteous judge i'm trying so hard to get through this our god is a righteous judge righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne we serve a god who says overruled i know that you thought it's over i'm talking to somebody i feel it i know that you thought it's over but jesus just walked in the room slammed down the gavel and said overrule y'all need to help me preach y'all don't have the right to remain silent can i get somebody to say overruled i know that you think you're too young or you think that you're too old but jesus stepped in slammed down his gavel and said overruled i know you think that's a period but baby girl and my dude if you look a little closer you'll see that that's really a comma which means to be continued we serve a god who overrules i'm not done somebody you think your past is too bad you think that your past is too filthy you think that you made too much a mess of your life i guess you must have forgot that he's called the messiah he is not deterred by your mess he will step in and cleanse you and use your mess and call you his messenger because he's the god who overrules i'm so happy up here y'all somebody say overrule yeah i know that they just left you anybody ever been ghosted anybody been to ghosty okay okay all right you know too much yeah i know that they left you and i know that it hurt i know that you had no closure you're labeling that as rejection i overruled it i label that as redirection for resurrection listen i'm labeling it redirection for resurrection something in you died while you were there i'm talking to somebody something in you died in childhood take me to that tomb something in you died while you were dating him don't a man too hard ladies something and you die while dating her yeah that divorce caused for something in you to die but i declared overruled just because the chapter ends doesn't mean your story ends and your destiny is never tied to who left y'all better come get me your destiny see i wear short sleeves tonight i'm ready to sweat out my clothes your destiny is never tied to who left over ruled i know that they said that this pandemic in a few years can trigger a recession um overruled i'm jehovah jarrah i'm your provider i'm the one listen i'm god enough to provide you a brook in a drought i'm god enough to provide you manna in the desert i'm god enough to provide you an art in a storm i'm god enough to provide manna in the wilderness i'm god enough to provide meat from a raven just because you are in a pandemic doesn't mean heaven's in a pandemic heaven never has a shortage god declares overruled i know the trauma is real it was real i'm not minimizing it but god is saying i know how to transition your trauma that tragedy to triumph the very thing that hell attempted to use to break you i'm gonna use that to make you a chain breaker your story and your testimony is gonna break something off your brothers your story and your testimony is gonna break stuff off your sisters your story and your testimony is gonna break something off the generation i have a good plan for you but it requires your yes your obedience and for you to show me where you laid it john 11 lazarus is dead jesus steps in and declares overruled john chapter 12 we're having a dinner and jesus honor martha is cooking mary is anointing but lazarus is sitting down is there anybody else seeing something problematic with this text y'all got me preaching high pitched is there anybody else that sees a problem with this text i'm like how could you just sit there now i understand the custom of that day that's just what jewish men did middle eastern men that's what they did they sat at the table and the women cook but i'm like lazarus your own sister is breaking tradition because in jewish culture a woman is never supposed to let down her hair in public for any man besides her husband so your sister's like i don't care about religion i don't care about customs i don't care about what anybody else thinks something in my life was dead when you let somebody give god a bigger praise for your miracle something in my life was dead and jesus answered my prayer and now you are alive i'm like lazarus how could how could you just sit there and i want to make this message personal on tonight i want to make it personal because i know i'm not the only one and lazarus is not the only one where something in your life has died okay i'ma go deeper since y'all want to me something in your life has died dead i'll be the first one to admit dead in my sins dead in my soul something was decaying on the inside of me decaying due to addiction decaying due to pornography decaying due to anger decaying due to bitterness decaying due to pride they can do the entitlement decay and do the sex part after sex partner y'all not talking to me something on the inside of you was decaying but jesus stepped in and said overruled and i'm just sitting here wondering is there anybody in the sanctuary besides myself who got to the place where you're like there's no way i could sit down there's no way that's why i'm up here on tonight because in 2006 when jesus grabbed my heart i was like no way i can keep turning up in the club after i recognize i was dead no way see listen listen listen there's no way i could just sit here there's no way i could go days without talking to god that's prayer there's no way i can go days without reading my bible can i mess you all up real quick i was a student pastor i was like listen um we have all 39 books and all 27. we have all 66 books cause you imagine back in the old testament when somebody told you to turn i turned like jeremiah you didn't have books and chapters you had scrolls so i say turn your bible hold on let me get there real quick hold on we have all the books of the bible and then you have things like you version bible apps that will remind you you didn't read your bible today and if that's not good enough we have tons of translations and if you say you don't know the these the dusters and the dials i have different versions and i will read it back to you where you can listen to it thank you for the few golf claps i just recognized as i'm looking at this i see myself i know a lot of us looking at this text you might see lazarus but i see jerry whatever your name is brittany jamal ashley whatever if you say ashley brittany tiffany is probably one of them in here whatever your name is i see the fact that something in me was decaying and jesus came to my tomb and said jerry come out and i wonder if we have minimized the power of god to doing miracles in what we call major are y'all ready are y'all ready when i understand what jesus did for me i can't help but give him worship that's that's not just a feminine trait there's no such thing as that's just not my personality i just don't worship like that worship is worth ship okay it means i have an outward expression of the inward revelation of worth this is just an outward expression of an inward revelation i have i give you worth ship i seek you every day because you are worth it i give not because i want people to make post about me i recognize you are worth it somebody say worship and i've stated it before i know i'm new school but i grew up old school for me my parents taught me something called good manners y'all remember them they call me some they taught me something called good manners they said jerry if somebody ever opens a door for you you say what okay y'all helping me i told you i like this side let's try over here if if somebody ever gives you an opportunity that you didn't have before but they graciously gave you an opportunity the proper response is to say okay and if somebody is good to you and you know that you haven't even been good to yourself but despite all of that they are good to you your response is to say well as i think about a church family god has opened some doors for me and god has opened some doors for you i think the only proper response don't y'all play with me i think the only proper response is to say when i look over the fact that he's not the god of second chance because if he is we all didn't mess that up he's the god of chance after chance after chance of the chance after chance of the chance after chance after chance after chance after chance when i think about that i can't help but say and when i recognize the goodness of god how about let's pause real quick let's see if anybody has any good manners in the sanctuary let's see if anybody has any good manners online if god has been good to you and god has been merciful to you and god has given you chance after chance would you lift your voice and express some worship yeah that's not for me the fact that i'm still alive i give you worship the fact that i'm still sane in the membrane i give you worship the fact that i did marry that life wrecker i give you worship the fact that it didn't work out i give you worship i'm not just gonna worship you for the stuff i know about for the bullet i didn't know about for the std okay for the std i didn't know about i give you worship y'all sit down y'all rushing me y'all rushing me so i'm like can you discern a miracle and i think what has happened is we have made the mistake of stop having a heart of gratitude over small evolutions y'all ready so we we spend so much time intensely looking for god in the major we we spend so much time intensely looking for god to do the miraculous in the major that by default we overlook and under appreciate what god is doing in what we call the minor we underappreciate it because we're expecting god to do something massive and major like the fact that your heart was palpitating all night long involuntarily can you discern that as a miracle yeah the fact that you used to worry all night long tossing and turning and that worry caused you to have insomnia but now you can fall asleep in seconds mouth open like struggling to keep your eyes open on the freeway when there was a time you couldn't sleep but i'm talking about you drooling nasty and everything do you discern that as a miracle or what about the fact that your stuff was being monitored all night long and this isn't brinks doing this this isn't your dog doing this this isn't your alarm system doing this because there is no protection like the protection of heaven when you have angels and kept around you can you discern that as a miracle the fact that you are now disgusted i'm talking to somebody the fact that you are now disgusted over the very thing you used to plunge into like i don't even want to get high no more i said no more i don't even want to go to the club anymore it's hot it smells like weed in here i'm just tired of this i don't feel like throwing up i i don't wan like i don't even want it anymore and there was a time in your life when you look forward to turning up you look forward to going up on a tuesday you looked up you look forward to this but now you know i don't even want to try that i want to do things god's way you might be cute but can you pray are you saved do you know god what is your purpose what is your calling i don't even want that no more before a guy walk in the room you're like who is that now you're like listen i don't even care is this god's will is this god's will because if it's not bounce marriage on the ropes and now y'all laughing together went from divorce papers to vacation packages can you discern a miracle i know it didn't work out but just imagine if it did that would have been a life wrecker and a joy tranquilizer have you arrived to this place where god thank you you didn't give me what i asked for can you discern a miracle i think we always just believe a miracle is when you go to the doctor's office you are about to do chemo and now they can no longer find the lump on your breasts that's a miracle and so we celebrate that praise god that's awesome you are about to get surgery but they did one more ultrasound and they no longer see the cyst on your fallopian tube and now you're shouting and praising god and that's wonderful but can you see the miracle of a changed heart see how we don't really clap like that you see that the fact that your desires are changing like you just randomly man i need a fast girl what was that bro the church ain't declaring no corporate fast but but something on the inside of you is like i need to silence the noise in this season i need to probably not watch netflix tonight let me go do a sermon bench let me start to do something different can you discern your heart is changing [Applause] can you discern a miracle laughing somebody a few weeks ago you were crying in the dark pillowcase catching all your tears but now you're laughing in the light listen proverbs chapter 17 verse 22 puts it this way a merry heart is good like medicine the more you laugh the more you keep the doctor away there was a time when you were willing and now you're dancing and clapping or watching on a thursday night can you discern that god is changing your heart i know you're not where you want to be bro i know you're like man i got so much growing to do sis but can you even pause for a second and recognize god is doing something in my heart your ability to even comprehend what i'm saying do you understand there's somebody who doesn't even have the neurological ability to comprehend with intellectual strength what i'm saying and you're able to comprehend what i'm saying and not just comprehend it as doing something on the inside of you you used to fall asleep to sermons now you drive an 18 wheeler blocking the whole road i'm gonna go around in the gas station and get to church because there's something i need to hear somebody say discernment and so as i as i'm looking at this y'all saw the 18-wheeler right on a thursday night anyway we still had this y'all don't know a lot it's like an 18-wheeler block in the whole street anyway as i was looking at this i felt as though god was telling me something see a lot of people think that discernment because i'm in this discernment series we think discernment is just your ability to distinguish god's sense from counterfeits but what if i told you that discernment is also your ability to discern tables from tombs it's so good can you discern i'm no longer in a tomb but now god is placing me at a table look look and so what happens is when you can't discern that god has brought you out of a tomb your heart out of a tomb your emotions out of a tomb you can't discern that he brought you out of a tomb you'll say god's not moving in my life and this messed me up cause i'm like we're breaking down mr sermon i've heard so many sermons saying you gotta have discernment you better have discernment but we're stopping pausing putting a bookmark right here and we're performing surgery for weeks about how to have discernment and i'm praying and i'm asking god i said god help me how do we have discernment and he said a heart of gratitude gives you discernment i'm sitting there thinking about that a heart of gratitude yeah a grad a heart of gratitude when you have a grateful heart that enhances your discernment the reason hell can get us with weeds and counterfeits is because you're not content i'm trying to help us there is a lack of content with what god is doing in this season of your life you were saying god if you can just get me out of this season if i could just get more money if i could just get a race if i could just get a different position if i could just get off the market and get married so guess what the enemy is going to send you an opportunity where you can get a raise the enemy is going to send you opportunity where you can get off the market y'all not talking to me and god says if you have a heart of gratitude you'll be able to discern that's not me so just because they offer more money if i'm grateful for what god is doing in my life i won't fall quickly to pick in the weeds because i have a heart of gratitude just because someone takes interest y'all stop that's october we're doing cuffin season 2.0 in october but just because somebody takes interest you don't even think could this be because you like god is this you because i've learned how to be content see we're not clapping there i've learned how to be content in all seasons because godliness with contentment is great game and the reason we keep having great l's we don't have gratitude so god in this moment would you help us to have grateful hearts some of us have been deceived so much because we're not grateful with all that you are doing in our life we don't see the tombs we don't see the grave clothes that you have taken off we don't see your goodness we don't see the peace that we're getting we don't see that you're changing our heart we don't see that you're working behind the scenes and because our discernment is not looking in the area of the minor we're missing the major work that you're doing in our life would you give us discernment and give us a heart of gratitude in jesus name and everybody who agrees with that prayer will just shout amen this is so good y'all by the way for part four of this discernment series i want to speak from this thought from this subject can you discern a miracle can you discern a miracle listen discernment is not just the ability to discern who said this but discernment is also having a grateful heart when nothing is being sent it's confession time somebody said that's helped out that's tough it's confession time can i get everybody to say this as loud as you can y'all know how i do i just believe that we speak the word because death of life is in the power of the tongue so your mouth is either a delivery unit it gives birth or your mouth is a grim reaper stuff is dying but while you're here i'm gonna make sure that we're speaking life is that all right so if if i could can i get everybody to say this as loud as you can everybody online get your trigger fingers ready can i get you to put god give me a heart of discernment god give me a heart of gratitude and a spirit of discernment i just want to say thank you one more time god give me a heart of gratitude and the spirit of discernment i just want to say thank you sometimes please hear me sometimes discernment is not just compartmentalized into god is this you or is this the devil many times your discernment is enhanced when you're so close to god but god i just love you i just love you why do i keep falling for these things why do i keep falling for these opportunities how's your gratitude meter why is it we only talk about gratefulness in november why is it and the holy spirit was dealing with me he said if they don't have hearts of gratitude they won't be able to recognize what i'm doing so they'll keep on choosing please listen when you have an ungrateful heart you become desperate i'm trying to help somebody when you have an ungrateful heart you become desperate so you always confuse god red flag is a green light because i'm not grateful with where i am what i have and what god is doing and john 11 lazarus is dead jesus steps in and declares overrule in john 12 we're having a dinner in honor of jesus martha is serving mary is anointed lazarus is seated can i work this text y'all can i work this text can i work this text you're going to say i was a student pastor so i used to really strive to make the bible come alive i was like okay i've heard sermons about lazarus coming out the grave i heard that before i've heard sermons about he's the god of a comeback and the same way that lazarus came back you can come back to now sound like you the launcher i heard terms about that but i'm like i've never heard a sermon from lazarus's perspective i'm going to teach it and so i was talking to my wife and i said man let's break this down from lazarus's perspective you're sick real sick this is like before covet maybe you don't know what's going on you're feeling really under the weather and martha and mary they come into you know like it's okay lazarus it's okay just get you some rest just get you some rest we're gonna go tell jesus we know he gonna come through cause jesus didn't open up blind eyes he healed the sick jesus even walked on water he was a water walker we know he gonna get here to you you good lazarus just sit here and we gonna go tell jesus and in john chapter 11 verse five and six martha and mary get this message over to jesus jesus the one whom you love is sick i don't know if y'all notice they didn't just say lazarus to sit i was like yo the one you love let's modernize this yo day one your partner your boy yeah he's sick and when i looked at verse five and verse six my wife did a sermon on this if you haven't checked it out you should it's called when god takes his time and verse five and six in john chapter 11 we saw something that messed both of us up verse 5 says now jesus loved martha and mary and lazarus so when he heard that lazarus was sick he stayed where he was two more days is that just me or that don't sound like love i'm reading the bible it says when he heard first of all he loves mary he loves martha he loves lazarus and when he heard they were sick he said okay i'm gonna intentionally delay what if we were to tell you that sometimes god's showing you he loves you by not coming when you want him your throat i tell you your throat what if we told you that god is showing you how much he loves you by taking his time just go check out the sermon you got this on youtube go check it out she broke it all down and she was more passionate god is showing he loves you by intentionally delaying see you think that love is an urgency we have an emergency but sometimes love is i'm not coming when you want me to so lazarus is sick jesus takes his time and lazarus dies he's dead y'all come up here lazarus is dead i want you guys to see this i really want you to understand it they have the funeral service mary and martha are crying and the bible says that lazarus is wrapped in his legs and he is wrapped in his arms he buried somebody said he's six feet he's dead they put him in a tomb and after that i i think that mary and martha probably felt some type of way because when jesus showed up they were like lord if you would have been here my brother wouldn't have died jesus says show me where you laid him and then lazarus i want y'all to think about this what you think about lazarus lazarus is awakened from his death by hearing his name lazarus have you ever been woken up out your sleep and startled now i'm thinking about this had to be scary because you are awakened out of your sleep by hearing your name that's the first thing second thing when you hear your name you can't see because the bible says there's grave clothes wrapped around his head and then the second thing i'm like lazarus probably tried to move and i'm handcuffed i'm bound and i can't even move you wake up in a cemetery in a coffin folded up and somebody called your name how you gonna respond so i'm thinking lazarus was probably tripping he's trying to move he really can't move and the bible says his legs were bound so i'm thinking the only glimpse of light that lazarus could see is between the grave clothes seeing the entrance of the tomb see this is why i don't judge people because you don't even recognize they are still bound but they trying to come to the light they don't have it all together but they're trying to come to the light they haven't been discipled they don't know eschatology they don't know all the books of the bible they haven't heard the try me series they haven't heard the discernment series yes they still in the club sometime yes they still sleeping with somebody yes they y'all not talking to me they don't know all the scriptures yet but they all they know is jesus called me i said that's all they know and so since he's bound i'm thinking he's probably trying to come out or wobbly he's trying to come out but it's hard for him to do so but remember jesus called him somebody say he called him this lets me know you could be called but still bound he's bound but i'm thinking he's probably still confused because as he's bound he he's he's smelling this this foul odor and it's the odor of his death she says lord we don't even want to open the tomb because by now he's probably stinking so lazarus is waking up smelling his own death mouth probably dry with four day old morning breath told you gotta make the bible come alive he's probably not knowing what happened and so he's wobbling and he's trying to come out he's trying to answer jesus listen he's trying to respond to the call he's trying to stay in the scriptures he's trying to fast he's trying to live holy she's trying to keep it locked he's trying to keep a lot he's trying to be honest all he knows is jesus called him and he sees this light and i can just imagine as he's coming out the tomb he probably starts to hear people gasp lazarus jesus what lazarus doesn't know what's going on i think the only thing that made lazarus start to calm down is he heard jesus say y'all take the grave glows take the grave clothes off of him he recognizes that voice y'all take the great clothes off of him please don't miss this sunday i'm doing a message entitled that's not what friends do because he had people in his life that number one knew where to take jesus y'all mention it i got a wobble he had people in his life who knew jesus and didn't just know jesus but they knew the voice of jesus do you have anybody in your life that knows the voice of jesus and not just know his voice they obeyed y'all missed it he said y'all lose him y'all come on loose because i look funny so they're taking the grave clothes off of him i could just imagine the look on mary's face martha's face when they're like bro you were dead stop playing no you were like dead mary this is some sick joke you are dead and i think when he sees jesus then it starts to hit him because i don't think jesus will play like that could you imagine like after that y'all y'all have a seat thank you so much then my people wrap me up can y'all just imagine lazarus at a birthday party with his niece like come on uncle larry's just we going blindfold you hit the piano ain't nobody blindfolded me nobody don't sit out somewhere i don't play that you better go get that lamb that goat i don't play that just imagine when he's smelling this this stench and he starts to recognize that was me see i remember one day i was playing basketball and i came in the house my mom was like boy you stayed i said mom i probably smell like outside she said you stink and they go take a bath and i said give me a hug she said get back you stink some upstairs take a shower and as i'm getting out the shower i'm walking down the stairs and i begin to smell this stench it was the clothes i just had on but i didn't know how bad they were smelling until i got washed if i didn't need it i'd throw it see you really don't know how bad your mouth is until you get washed you really don't know how bad your lust is until you get washed why y'all look at me like that smile at y'all in line you really don't know how bad your pride is until you get washed you really don't know how lost you are until god washes you in that moment i just think i said you were dead and jesus has come and he called your name now you got to understand this y'all jesus when he went to the tomb he had to be specific y'all don't get it let me break it down because if the king of glory goes to any cemetery and says come out everything getting up because there was power branded to the paternity of his words there is power branded to the fraternity of his words he called him by name and i'm here tonight to let you know that god is calling somebody somebody i don't know your name but he does people know your issue they know you by your condition but he knows you by your name and he's calling you out and once they got loosed i'm looking at the text jesus goes to bethany a few days later they're having this celebratory dinner for jesus mary is at jesus feet martha is serving but lazarus is sitting down i'm like first of all mary's already breaking custom because she's a woman she's not supposed to be touching a rabbi anyway she's let down her hair and she's like doing the rapunzel on jesus feet and my question that i couldn't help but ask myself as i was studying is why isn't lazarus at his feet why is somebody else thanking god more for your miracle why why wasn't lazarus like this i know he doesn't have hair but he could have had a towel or something i don't know maybe the reason you don't spend time at god's feet is because you don't recognize you were dead too about to get real maybe the reason that you can't discern a miracle is because you don't spend time at his feet i'm like what is it about mary where she didn't care about religion she didn't care about customs well she was just so caught up with the fact that jesus has done something in my life and lazarus is sitting at the table how many of us are asking god to give us seats at a table when god is asking for you to come at his feet i don't want to just preach sermons hear me i don't want to just preach sermons where you say oh it was good or church was fire i want after church when you go home and you could see this six foot one man on his knees as a reminder this is what god is calling some of us tonight right now tonight this is where jesus is saying this is your confirmation i've been bugging you all day long all day long your attitude you know why your attitude is so stank you haven't been at my feet you know why everything is bothering you traffic lights dogs barking and you trying to sleep you haven't been at my feet and you're praying for me to do the miraculous i just want you at my feet yo discernment please hear me your discernment is enhanced when you get here when this is more valuable than a like when this is more valuable than a post when this is more valuable than what's in your bank account when this is more valuable than your clothes when this is more valuable than your oxygen when this is more valuable than your very life and you're like i just want to be at the feet of jesus forget what people are saying this is how you get discernment the lord was dealing with me he said i want you to go preach passionately and i want you to tell them that the reason your discernment is so low is because your gratitude is so low and if you recognize what i did in your life see i think when we get to heaven we're gonna be able to recognize all the close calls that should have taken us out but we didn't know about i'm like yeah you you supposed to die at 16. really yep that you were complaining about that car accident that was a wreck meant for you but somebody prayed for you before you even knew how to pray for yourself and my angels went before you y'all not talking to me my angels went before you and protected you i'm gonna give you some points and i'm done cause y'all looking like y'all can't take anymore i was looking at this and i felt as though god gave me some points and i want to share them with you and then by the way i forgot why i was on my knees i'm thinking judas is the only one that started talking read your bible juice like why she didn't go do that for the poor you know she could she could have went to uh go do that for the poor judas always minimizes worship judas will miss chur judas will miss worship i don't even want to hear that i just want to hear the word judas doesn't care about worship he cares about what he can get because he views what jesus is doing he don't view jesus as a person as a person he views jesus as a purse [Music] listen a judas spirit can never stand to smell the fragrance of praise be important on anybody else but himself [Applause] this is so good y'all it's so good judas has something to say so i have a few points let me get out your way you can go home get some food and tell people about it but hopefully you'll get on your knees tonight number one point number one is gratitude removes the debris of disappointment which clears the runway for discernment did y'all hear me and he said one more time this is powerful gratitude removes the debris of disappointment which clears the runway for discernment it's gonna be hard for you to discern that god has better when you keep on looking at the rubble of what was gratitude removes the debris of disappointment of what didn't happen and what you want it to happen and it provides a runway for discernment somebody said gratitude a heart of gratitude enhances discernment point number two y'all ready gratitude is an entitlement repellent gratitude is an entitlement repellent you'll never feel like you deserve a thing because you'll view grace in itself as the miraculous thing y'all hear me this is gonna change hearts if you let it penetrate gratitude is an entitlement repeller i worked so hard god should have done this i've been out here i've been out here being pure and i've been out here being holy where he at though you gonna let this girl get a man and she's been on stripper pole like four weeks ago she just now gotta say where my miracle act see we don't we laugh but a lot of us think obedience we automatically feel entitled can i give you all shocking revelation you know what we deserve y'all know want to know what we deserve hell and death can i shape your perspective what you deserve what i deserve is hell and death so this means my clothes my car my house my health my children my mindset everything else is grace and a blessing because what i deserve is hell and death some of us have been complaining so much because you don't know what you really deserve see we got one clap too you see that but you want discernment right it starts with gratitude you'll never view like you deserve anything because you'll view grace in itself as a miraculous thing a heart of gratitude enhances discernment number three gratitude is the uniform of humility it's what you wear when you understand that you've been blood purchased this is so good gratitude oh your uniform is humility you know why i've been blood purchased i've been blood purchased so my heart is filled with gratitude number four and last point gratitude magnifies the half i need everyone to say this with me because it got me teary eyed when i was studying can i get everybody to say gratitude magnifies the half so if we just stop for a second you have oxygen you have warm blood in your veins you have a purpose you have an identity you have a calling you have some money some credit card may not be as much as you want but you have something you have some food that you ate today you have shelter you have clothing you have life when you have a heart of gratitude it constantly magnifies what you do have what you do have when you magnify what you don't have weeds counterfeits tricks traps and so you fall for them because your heart isn't full of gratitude of what you do have i said god this changes everything because when your heart is thankful for who he is listen and for some strange reason he chose you somebody didn't see july somebody didn't see july you are in the over of halftime of 2021 somebody didn't make it you did same road you on tonight somebody didn't make it but god saw it fit to allow you and i to remain in the land of the living and i'm trying to tell y'all the secret not the sauce the whole generations after the sauce i'm after the oil i'm trying to tell you the oil it's in grateful hearts you've been praying god give me discernment god give me clarity i'm in such a mental fog my mind is so jacked up there are no mental straight roads they're just mazes and curves and ladders mental chaos i feel physical paralysis due to my mental analysis god could you answer me god could you speak to me god could you give me clarity no tonight he's giving it to you be grateful for me be like mary and see me as worth your worship and what will happen is you will start to value god for who he is so the enemy can't trick you with what you're not this discernment series is hidden different i'm like bruh if we could be as bold with our faith as we are in ig comment sections if you could understand god's not hiding nothing from you he's not hiding your purpose he's not hiding what he has for your life it's that our our prayer clauses are dusty and our knees are unworn because the only time we fought our knees is when something happens but god is saying if you would just fall to your knees everything is great even when i'm blowing your mind if you would worship me now how much more would i give you clarity when you're confused god in this moment kneeling before you not caring what people think would you help us to get our hearts full of gratefulness we repent oh god for the only time we pray prayers of thanksgiving is around thanksgiving forgive us god for complaining about what we don't have and they have a bigger house and they have a bigger car and this is what you've done for them and this is what you're doing in their life god would you help us recognize you brought us out of a tomb would you help us recognize that you died on the cross for us and you got out of a tomb so that we can get out of a tomb help magnify our gratefulness god because clarity and discernment is given when hearts are full of who you are in jesus name we pray and everybody who agrees with their prayer would you say amen

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Length: 57min 22sec (3442 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 02 2021