Consistency | Part 1 - Touré Roberts

[Music] it'll be here with you today I believe the Spirit of God is gonna move I'm I'm starting a new series today and I believe it's gonna bless you I believe it's gonna make some things clear for you it's gonna make some things plain and it's gonna align you in the things of God I want us to go really quickly to Psalm chapter 1 this is my very first this my probably my most favorite Psalm in the entire Bobby it might even be my most favorite passage of scripture but I would probably say it about thousand other places as well so but Psalm 1 verse 1 through 3 you've heard it before and there's so much truth in it we're gonna unpack it today and it reads blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper and then I'm gonna read the first part of proverbs 24 and 16 as well it says for a righteous man may fall seven times and rises again he may fall seven times and rise again let's pray father we we thank you so much for who you are you are the bread of life you are a lapping to our feet and a light to our path you are the way the truth and the light your everything and we love you and we pause this morning just to celebrate the fact that we can call on you now God we know that you orchestrated the gathering this is not of man's doing you set it up a long time ago that we would assemble together and that you would speak to us that you would dwell among us but you would lead us and we thank you God and so Lord in this moment I thank you God that you're gonna bless your people real good you're gonna prepare a table for us in the presence of our enemies hallelujah for some is the enemy of anxiety the enemy of fear the enemy of some sort of giant in the area of Health and I thank you God right here today in your courts and in your presence you're gonna do something wonderful lord I thank you for the spirit of wisdom revelation insight knowledge prophecy for uses of the gifts of the Spirit that you got through me this morning might pour out an incredible thing amongst your people and I believe you for this from Denver to Los Angeles to all around the world wherever people are watching from wherever they're tuning in from that you're gonna do a great work in Jesus name Amen amen god bless you you may be seated do me a favor just greet somebody in Jesus name before you take your seat come on hallelujah thank you Jesus today I want to begin a conversation about consistency and the theme of consistency and it is the more that I'm studying and I'm digging into this this truth this idea this thought it is becoming overwhelmingly convincing to me that consistency is everything it is not optional it is not who you want to be one day it is who you are called and created to be in fact if you're created in the image of God that means that you are in fact created to be consistent and I want to talk to you about that today there's so much to unpack so we'll be unpacking it over the next few weeks but I believe it's gonna bless you I want to give you really quickly a couple of thoughts about consistency first and foremost if you're taking notes write this down consistency is the bridge between dream and reality it's the bridge it's the bridge some of you God has put a dream in your heart or he's caused you to believe something and and to put your hope in to something however your reality is not lining up with the things that God has called you to believe you ever been there before where where there's a word maybe you you came to church or ever since you were a child there was a word over your life and and you've held on to that word of you've done the best in your ability to hold on to that word but you haven't seen that word show up in your life or I'm here to tell you that consistency is going to get you there and God is going to show you how to be consistent we're going to talk about it's gonna be really good I can't wait so consistency is the bridge between dream and reality and here's another thought about consistency that I want you to understand consistency is the evidence of maturity consistency is the evidence of maturity a and it is also the pathway to mastery because and when I say mastery I'm not speaking of you coming to a place where you arrive and you don't ever need anything else or you won't ever need to grow that's not what I'm talking about but there are levels to this thing do me a favor turn to your neighbor and say their levels to this thing and you do have to master life on a certain level in order to be in order to be promoted to the next level and so consistency consistency is the of maturity one-hit wonder a one-hit wonder situation is not maturity it's not you doing something once or twice that's why the Bible talks about how we are to not be like children tossed to and fro in the context that's Ephesians 4 in the context of God talking about how we are supposed to grow up and to become something he is saying that ultimately when this happens we won't be tossed to and fro we won't be happy today sad tomorrow hello somebody we we won't be full of faith today and full of fear the next day and so there is a working in your development there is an happening in your spiritual development that brings you to a place of solidity and consistency and it is a sign of your maturity and it is a pathway to mastery can we can we go further today are we tracking together this morning what I talk about consistent consistency ultimately what I'm talking about is you arriving to this state where there is a rhythm and a flow to your life that allows everything that God has placed in you to get out of you oh we're gonna teach today it's a rhythm it's a flow consistency it's a state you become consistent and becoming consistent is a process it takes time to reach that level of consistency I feel that because some of you are discouraged because you're wanting a promise that can only be manifest when you become consistent in a season where God is developing your consistency oh god I feel the Lord he's developed and it takes time let me let me see let me stick to my notes because because we got a lot of ground to cover it it takes time that this state of consistency it takes time watch this because you have to sort through some things and you have to first navigate some distractions to get there you have to sort through some things and so I want to talk about this aware Psalm one comes in I want to talk about the stages of maturation or the stages of becoming mature that bring you ultimately into a place of consistency here the three stages and we're going to see how they're laid out in Psalm 1 that bring you to this place of maturation so that you can become cos anybody want to be consistent anybody tired of being consistent up one day down the next day you know all over the place we're gonna get there and I believe this is God's will for our lives and he's gonna show us how to get there and I believe he's laid it out in Psalm 1 and so the stages of maturation are one clarity two consistency and three continuous revelation let's talk about it go back to Psalm 1 and let's get into it and so he says blessed is the man who look at where he begins he says blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful so he starts off talking about what a blessed man does but what is interesting to me is that as he is leading us on this journey ultimately to get us to a place to where we're trees planted by the rivers of water that brings forth our fruit and our season whose leaf doesn't wither and whatsoever we do shall prosper that's exciting and he says this is the blessed life the blessed life is to ultimately get to a place where you are like a tree planted by the rivers of water and you just continue to bring forth in every season that's consistency so so we see him trying to get us to the fruit of consistency but he has to take us through the process of becoming consistent in order to get there can I teach this morning so we all want to get there but it's interesting where he starts he says blessed is the man and then he goes quickly into not are you tracking with me look at look at you even get this this morning I swear to the Lord Denver you go good morning he starts talking about blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path to sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful he enters into this thing almost seemingly in Reverse this is the blessed man but the blessed man has to navigate some things first in order to be consistent we'll look at that in just a second to ultimately live a life that produces the fruit of God's consistency which means that watch this is important which means that the blessed person always begins out-of-place oh you gonna catch it this morning blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful the writer is dealing with watch this who we are not first because in order to be consistent on the level that God is calling you to be consistent it is not about dealing with who you are first in order to get to who you are you first have to get through who you are not and that's what he's talking about it's all about identity this blew me away God why are you starting there and it's because he understands that the Blessed man and this takes time the Blessed man has to wrestle through his confusion and find clarity in order to reach his consistency I said it before i'ma say it again you got to write this down you get known as I said you got to get this you have to navigate who you are not before you can consistently walk in who you are and the process of watch this unbecoming is more critical than the process of becoming oh my guys say that better the process of not being who your being is the longest of Phil the Lord is the longest process on your journey for some of you that's why it seems long it's gonna take you a while to figure out who you are not but once you figure out who you are not God's gonna show you who you are and you're gonna consistently be you and walk in the fruit of that consistency I want to move on but I want to almost want to stay there for a second you got to figure out who you're not that's why that's why that's why like comparison comparing yourself to somebody else is such an unproductive use of life because what I'm doing when I am comparing myself to somebody else is I'm trying to find myself through their reflection are you tracking with me and that's because it is in us to not be I've got to work out who I ain't I'm trying to lay hold of Who I am watch this in the disciplines and the pursuit of Who I am not you got to get this you got this is this very important I've got to work through who are not just as passionately as I try to lay all hold of Who I am I have to suspect in the moment that I'm in right now that there's a counterfeit trying to drive my life I've got to almost suspect it and this is a process and it's a process that takes time and it's a process that's significant and that's why the writer starts with it look at all you some what blesses the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly so all these things have to do with identity blessed as the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the ungodly right because my identity determines who I connect with and who I received from who walks not in the past of sinners right and sinners old to me those just not going anywhere right that's not a judgment is you're not gonna wear nor the seat of the score for those are just talking talking about it but not doing nothing just talking just talking you don't tell me you ever know somebody and they're gonna do a whole bunch of things I mean they just got a whole bunch of things that gonna do and they always talk about what they're gonna and you never actually see them do anything but they are full of ideas and they're full of passion for talking he says you got to get through that that's why the this this process of unbecoming in order to become is I think tied into that that proverbs verse that we looked at where it says that that a righteous man falls seven times what's interesting is that word may is not in the original transcript so really it reads a righteous man falls seven times and rises again that word seven is an interesting word it's it's the word Seba and it means perfected it means seven but it means perfection that's where we get the idea that seven is the number of completion that's powerful to me think about that for a second it says a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again don't you there's a connection between someone saying that I have two unbe come in order to become and this this proverbs verse which basically says a righteous man not an unrighteous man trying to be righteous but a righteous man has to fall seven times enough times to get to the place where he can rise once and for all I feel the Spirit of God that's why you can never count out a person who will not quit never underestimate a guy come on somebody will be quick to throw somebody off and and write somebody off and throw them away but you never I tell you what you better bet on somebody who knows how to get up again and again and again and are you tracking with me don't you count me out I might fall down but I don't know how to wear my people you've fallen but you didn't let it count you out you're here right now Denver where you at you have been through some stuff you have been through some struggle some difficulty that wiped out a lesser man come on somebody that wiped out somebody else but you said as long as I've got breath in my body I'm gonna get up and keep swinging you better not count me out I wish you would count me out I've got a rise up on the inside of me this is what we do because I'm after something I'm I'm still swinging at it I I haven't arrived yet I'm I'm forgetting what's behind keep swinging what if you were anointed to struggle on your way to hitting this Lane of consistency that changes your life for generations to come seven times crazy a righteous man I if I were writing that I would write it like this the person who may get it together one day perhaps falls seven times and hopefully they will rise up again and be who God has called them to be that's not how it was written see what what the Scriptures trying to help you to understand is what is normal what's normal you count yourself out on mistake one issue to issue 3 issue 4 and God realized that he is trying to work you out of who you are not in order to get you to who you are and oftentimes that process has to do with you falling and making mistakes because every time you rise up wiser stronger and sometimes more convinced to avoid foolishness are you tracking with me you have been there before sometimes you need a good licking sometimes seven times sometimes CC you know they used to say back Andy you know he what was it your hard what was it it was your hard a hard head makes it soft fun yeah it's something like that right but here's the reality God knows us sometimes yeah we have to learn the hard way so sometimes he allows us life to show us who we're not let's keep going just man's falls seven times don't count me out I'm just learning how to soar count yourself out and so so the clarity phase I can't get to consistency until I work through clarity and that's why he starts off with that blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful he has to undo some stuff that's why God told Abraham before he can even really launch him into everything he said now you're gonna have to get out of your father's house now you're gonna have to get out of your country you have to get away from your family why is your family wrong no but he's just saying because you're gonna have to unlearn some stuff man I feel it I feel like there's there's some under the sound of my voice and you're asking God how long you're asking how long and and God wants you to know that he's got his eye on you and he's got his hand on you and he's shaping you and what you have to do is you're gonna have to resist the liar when it comes to you and tells you that you were past your time hello somebody that if it hasn't happened by now it is never gonna happen you're gonna have to resist all of that because he is a liar and he wants you to give up before you grow up when the reality of it is God is shaping you for conceal the Spirit of God you are getting ready to meet you that you fall in love with there's some people under the sound of my voice right now and you don't even really like you real good not good you think you like you you you know you're you kind of like you but you don't like you but you're getting ready to see a version of yourself who you have always wanted to be you are getting ready to become God is shaping you right now into something and you are gonna be consistently that thing and the restoration that shows up in your life is gonna be so absolutely wonderful so absolutely incredible so amazing and so accelerated that you're gonna praise God for the next 10 years if that's your word if you claim that for your life give God a shout for me in this morning oh yeah yeah yeah yeah God's just working something out something just getting worked out up in here right now you are just getting worked out you got a walk out of one thing so you can step into the next thing and that's when consistency is gonna kick in I feel it that's why there's nothing that that wipes me out emotionally more than the notion of suicide because suicide takes place when an individual says it cannot get better than this it's when an individual determines that what I'm going through at the moment that I'm in the season that I'm in it's not working out for my good at all and I don't have what it takes and I'm better off dead than in my future and so ultimately it is a giving up before a growing up and you got a fight and so what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to help us to understand what's normal it's normal for things to be unsettled it's normal for things to be shaky it's normal for you to make mistakes it is normal for you to go through a process of unbecoming in order to become and I think that there's some of you getting ready to hit a lane and you're getting ready to hit a pocket and it's all gonna make sense like in the text like in the text so the tech C says in that first phase that clarity phase that clarity phase and I believe honestly I believe that's the longest season I think the process of figuring out who you are not is probably the longest season of your life can we have a real conversation to progressively shed off what's not you I think I think that's the longest season I think it takes decades to shed off ways associated with who you're not things that you you picked up for mom and dad you picked up generationally I think that is the longest that I think that's the longest season of your life cuz you're slowly but surely letting go of what you ain't what you not and it's hard and you discover it and God is speaking to you and the other guys speaking to you and we're going to touch on that next week next week it gets deeper and you're you're walking this thing out and you're you're trying to figure it out and you're yours there's something in you that's unsettled and and and you're just evolving and you are shedding that's the longest season but there's another season that you come into and this is a season where you begin to see things right and you lock into consistency and so it says blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful so this is undoing again but then in verse 2 it says but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates day and night that first phase was kind of shaky and and wait Who am I I thought I was this but I'm not that and then I thought I was this and I thought this was my tribe but it's not and I thought that this is how I was supposed to be but I'm seeing it it's not getting me anywhere and I'm not happy and I'm not whole and I'm not fulfilled and in that process you discover the voice of God in that process the voice of God continues to come to you and what it might look like for some of you is as you continue to come to service or as you continue to read books or as you continue to watch what to watch online that all of a sudden there's this voice of identity that is beginning to break through into your mind and into your heart hmm this voice of truth about who you are and and it convicts you about who you're not and it breaks through and it breaks through initially as a small light as a still small voice but it is breaking through and as it is breaking through it is making you discontent with who you're not are you tracking with me and and slowly but surely that still small voice begins to overwhelm you and it begins to overtake you and it begins to create a thirst and a hunger in you for more of what it says about you because the word says that every man is given a measure of faith and so when that word comes to you it produces faith in you and that faith begins to grow and grow and grow and now certain things that used to be tolerable are no longer tolerable and you need more of the truth and all of a sudden you have a new rhythm to your life you got to keep coming to church you got to keep listening to podcast you got to keep reading books because because something is happening on the inside of you and the phase of consistency is when now you are more committed to that voice than any other voice for it says that he shifts from from that that season of confusion and the lack of clarity to the season where it says that he begins to delight and verse 2 he against the delight in the law of the Lord the law the word the voice of the Lord and in his law he begins to meditate day and night there is consistency this is the process this is the beginning of consistency it's when it's when the word stops bouncing off of your chest and it stops bouncing it stops going in one ear and out the other I feel god I hate God saying to someone to two groups of people one group of people hear God saying that my word is working my word is working in your life I know that you haven't seen the changes that you want to see yet but I'm telling you my word is working it is not on your time clock it's on my time clock it's working it's working because some of you count yourself out because you're not where you want to be and you still consistently make mistakes but I hate God saying my word is at work in your life and it's not gonna return to me void it's gonna accomplish everything that I said my word is at work that's the first group the second group of people is and that's this particularly I think this might be for parents but you are concerned because you have been praying and you've been feeding your your spouse maybe or your child you've been feeding them with the word of God and you've been putting the word on them and you've been believing God for them but you're not seeing any evidence and I here to tell you too that the word is at work in that person's life and in the end it's gonna speak I am a witness of it my mom was feeding me the word she was praying for me and I was going in a completely different direction but without her doing anything other than praying at the proper time at the right time everything that she put in me all of a sudden rose up on the inside of me and I'm standing here today because of that if that's your word take about five seconds and receive it let it get deep down in your spirit it's working it's working it's working you sowing into God it's working it's working there's some in this room I feel this prophetically there's some in this room and you feel like you have washed your hands in vain so there's some of you you feel like this thing is not paying off serving God as paying off and you came here today and you were about this close to giving up I feel you in this room right now Denver I'm hollering at you and you're like you know what God if you don't do something I am just throwing this thing in and I hear God saying don't you be weary and you're well doing for induced season you're gonna reap if you don't give up and even if you give up I've got you I'm holding on to you in fact you're not even in your own sprint right now you are in my strength I love you I'm for you I am the one who is keeping you and I will keep what you committed to me if that's you just worship just worship just worship right now just worship if that's you just water the word is working it's working it's working it's working a Philip the word is working I'm speaking to the word that's on the inside of you and right now all this is doing is is adding water to the word that's working on the inside of you you are becoming a tree you're becoming a tree you're becoming it's working you haven't washed your hands in vain you have impressed in in vain and I know it's been long see here's what people don't realize here's what people don't realize people don't realize particularly in this this phase of becoming consistent is this the fruit of consistency is not immediately evident it's not immediately evident so we lock into something for a moment we're not consistent we're consists Co ans is that's not a word and I know that and we don't see fruit immediately and we want to give up see I want to help you to understand what's normal the fruit of consistency is not immediately evident watch this because some of you haven't been you long enough to produce all that's in you you have been you long enough yet that's all and instead of giving up because you don't see the fruit you got to understand that what God is doing the more you consistently become you your roots that the strength of a tree is not what you see outside the strength of the tree are the Brutes that are growing underneath the ground and it is what is happening underground that determines what will be on its branches that's why you got to stay planet that's why you got to be steadfast be easy on yourself you just got saved I'm sorry if we promised you that the moment that you say yes to the Lord everything is gonna immediately be okay I'm sorry I promised you that I didn't mean to I just got excited about the goodness of God I forgot to tell you oh by the way like my wife talked about the other night that there's a process I'm sorry I was just so excited about all the good stuff but you're becoming a tree I see it right now you're becoming a tree right now and it takes time to get those roots deep you know one of the things saves my birthday man like like one of the things on my land in a minute [Music] at school I screw I didn't want to do that right but I appreciate it thank you [Music] all right okay that's great that was a mistake but I appreciate I do thank you no furu I appreciate that yeah so much love I've been getting but but like here's what I'm learning this is this is what I'm learning family I'm learning that it takes time it take it takes time you can have a dream the dream comes early Joseph had the dream when he was a teenager the dream family particularly those of you younger he'd hear me today the dream is easy the consistency takes time don't don't want it so fast because what he's talking about here he's talking about he's not talking about coming up and then falling off in five years look look what this is it says and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper this is continuous forever which never stops this is a level family this this is a thing this is not you know a house a boo and a new car hey look this is not that this is tapping into a flow a flow that is so powerful because you have been developed for it that you hit in every season of your life even when you lose you win this is not no look cute sugar-coated lollipop promise and it takes time there is an old you inside of the current you praying that you receive these this word today there's a there's a there's a because because oftentimes we're looking for the thing and we think it's supposed to happen fast but I haven't seen anything that happened fast last it can start fast but you have to get into a process and a rhythm of developing this thing called consistency man looked it you know I've been in ministry now for for 17 years and like honestly and we're gonna land just second we understand but honestly it's like I didn't it wasn't just like one day fruit showed up and winning showed up like it didn't it didn't happen like that I look back after a season of growing and developing which I'm still doing but a major season of growing and developing I look back and I saw my tree branches overflowing with fruit it doesn't happen the way you think it does and that's the point that I'm trying to make right now it doesn't happen like you think we're in a culture now that celebrates instant success they're people right now that are household names that no one had heard of 18 months ago and here is the thing sometimes it is the case that 18 months from now you will not even remember the name so you have to understand that I am living against the culture that I'm consistently being fed with you got a rock steady you got to stay consistent you got to learn how to fight the lies which we'll get into next week I gotta land this plane I don't want to get ahead of myself but are you tracking with me when he talks about this thing being a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in his season whose leaf will not wither and whatever he does shall prosper man this is a saint and I don't know if that thing young I don't know if you hit that thing young I think you got to give a little gray that's why I'm growing out my Gray's on purpose come on somebody grown man hashtag grown man live now yeah yeah yeah because there's certain things you want it now but I'm telling you you got to walk through some stuff you got to fight some stuff you got to develop some things you have to be patient with the process and trust to know that God is working it and you're becoming because ultimately and here's where when the land ultimately where God wants to get your life to is he wants your life to look like who he is see if you look at that that third verse look at it basically what you see in that third verse is consistency and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper this is the fruit of consistency you know what the fruit of consistency is consistency my reward for becoming consistent is to experience consistency in my life consistency that's so powerful that I can pass it down that's why this is not a pie-in-the-sky thing God is consistent the reward is consistent which means that in order for me to be aligned with the reward I have to become consistent says his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates day and night that is to say that I have tapped into the voice of God and now instead of me walking in the counsel of the ungodly what does that mean that means living according to the wisdom of those who don't get me I love everybody but I can't take advice from everybody hello somebody not for everybody my life how I walk how I live my life is the most special thing that I have and there's so many hmm how can I put this nicely so I'm getting older my filters you know that's why I'm being more careful but but there's so many prostitutes you a you encouraged me on out it's your father but they're they're they're harlots is that better that they're these harlots out there and they are that's not any better I'm sorry but they're selling watch this this selling lifestyle I'm not mad at but I'm just telling you truth I love you and everywhere you turn someone is selling you advice and they're putting it in books and they're putting it wherever you can find it wherever you can find a quote and they're ultimately drawing you to them hello somebody your walk who you decide to follow and what you decide to give your life to it's precious because your walk will determine where you end up and sometimes we're wasting time listening to those who do not have the key to me you might be able to help me here but you can't help me I've got to tap into the voice of God for my life because because my identity can only be found in one place his voice because only the God who made you knows how to call you by your right name are you hearing me that's why only God can call you he is the only one so he doesn't even have to call you by your name he draws you what he invites you into is according to the real you that's how this man came because I'm done that's how this man this blessed man became consistent he learned how to navigate and sort out everything that wasn't him and somehow in that process he got a hold of God's voice he's not walking in the counsel of the ungodly you know what you got good ideas but you ain't got God ideas you have good wisdom but you don't have God wisdom watch this you are offering success but not good success that's Joshua chapter one he stopped walking in the counsel of the ungodly he stopped standing in the path of people that aren't going anywhere there's some people near on a prophesy right now you you and you know this is you you know this is you if you're in this room and today it's gonna stop but sometimes you put yourself in such in situations and in companies and with groups of people and situations that you know isn't you you know it's not you and you're there and you're trying to fit in you're trying to fit in so bad and you're even like you're even allowing I feel this with someone you're gonna get this gonna break but you're even allowing boundaries to be cross because you're so desperate to fit in to something that the still small voice is saying that's not you and you're compromising and and people that take an advantage of you and you get picked on just one prophesy that's you stand up and I'm had you come to Saul second in Denver I can see as well and you get picked on you get picked on they you get people make fun of you but you want to fit in so bad you want to fit in so bad so bad that you begin to compromise yourself and and you set these boundaries and next thing you know these boundaries are consistently violating violate it and hit got saying today I'm gonna make my voice so loud in your life and so true and you're like I'm gonna affirm you in such a way today that you're not gonna put yourself in that situation anymore this man this man you know what I'm landing a plane but why don't we all stand for a minute this man this man he learned how to not walk in that which wasn't profitable he learned how not to to stand in the path to people that weren't going in the same direction that he was going in just simply for the sake of company he learned not to sit at the seat of the scornful you know a lot of time to see the scornful it is you know scorning sometimes scorning is to talk about somebody sometimes when you believe that God doesn't have anything for you you become jealous and you become a hater and you just you and notice it says the seat of the scornful everything else must you know past and you know in the place and the wisdom and this this sometimes when you don't latch on to the voice of God there is this process of you going from standing from walking to standing to sitting and you sit on the outskirts of life and you criticize everybody else because deep down inside you believe that that God has nothing for you well that's your past your time this blessed man navigated all of that I feel God man when you have tapped into the voice of God and you know who you are and you know what God has for you you're not critical anymore because you're so full of winning that you want to see everybody win and if you have a critique you offer that critique and love because you know you're good you track it with me haters are not bad people they just stop believing that God has something for them he worked through that Ailish he worked through all that and all that you have to work through in life and it takes time don't give up and he locked into the voice of God in his law he meditates day and night you know what okay this word is shaping me this word knows who I am this word is developing me I have got to lock into this word 24/7 because the only thing that is going to keep me from being Who I am not is the voice of God who constantly affirms me in Who I am and when you lock into that place I'm telling you it's coming oh and pray for you when you lock into that place and it will take time consistency is coming this one speak that over you right now consistency is coming consistency is coming I'm telling you stability is coming it's coming it's coming it's on the way it is your portion it is your life it's part of your future it's coming if you don't give up if you don't get weary and you're well doing I promise you I promise you Psalm one in three is gonna be manifest in your life and I just feel something so strong I just want to take a minute and just let God breathe for a second it's coming I promise I don't care what it looks like now in an instant it will change you just look up and you'll say man I survived I survived man Wow I didn't I didn't even know how I didn't even know when I arrived but i but i arrived and and you're gonna look back and you're gonna see fruit even right now i want to pray for some people i feel the holy spirit stirring so strong in here if you hear and you say pastor that was for me that was for me i need endurance i need endurance so that I can reaches the state of consistency I want you to meet me at this altar Denver I want you to come I need endurance I need I need I need patience I need I need strength because it seems like what I need is not going to happen what I'm looking for is not going to happen what I'm after is not going to happen it seems like it feels like I want to give up sometimes it's coming I'm telling you you're gonna look back one day there's this this song that says I've been young and now I'm old but never have I seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread that's powerful and I don't rely you know for a long time I couldn't because I won't know I couldn't really relate to that you know and I grew up in the church and most of the people in the church were older than me and they used to get all excited about that verse you know it was literally says I was young and now I'm old but never have I seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread and they would go off man like whoa never go off a choice like oh yes and I didn't get it because I didn't really have that testimony yet you know I still don't have it I'm not old I'm like oh like the l2d that's not them just like like just but the older right I got the old one I've been young and now I'm old oh but I get it family it unfolds and all we have to do is work on tapping into the voice of God and walking in it consistently if you're here and I was praying for night I called you out about about knowing that you are more than the environments that you put yourself in I want you to come forward to because what I want you to do is I want you to step out of where you're at and step into with with those who are here I'll see you god bless you let's step into this is your company you see the reality of it is you're going somewhere it's all about consistency getting there takes time see the reason why God doesn't start you off in consistence inconsistent inconsistency is because you will be consistent in who you and who you are not so what you got to do is you got to wrestle first and you're saying God why is it taking so long not realizing that you're in the longest season but it's going to turn and there's lessons in it and you know what to be honest with you if you will embrace it there is a beautiful becoming in it I wouldn't change one thing in my past because that's a part of the process a just man Falls a righteous man falls seven times it is necessary I'm not saying go out and choose stupid that's not what I'm saying we choose wisdom we choose you don't I mean we choose well but I'm just saying the reality of it is is you're gonna choose on the level of your identity which means that you will choose lesser sometimes as you are growing and evolving into who you truly are it's gonna happen but don't let it take you out of the game and don't let people take you out of the game oh I still got on that don't let anyone define you by what God was doing to develop you are you hearing me don't let anyone define you by what God was using to develop you a just man fall seven times and gets right back up think about it how do you fall seven times unless you were getting up in between the Falls hello somebody and even that is the beginning of the rhythm of consistency I snap out of it I'll lick my wounds and I get back in the fight again if God has given me breath on this day I proclaim this is the day that the Lord has made I'm gonna rejoice and be glad in it because one day is gonna be your seventh time I feel the spirit one day don't beat yourself up take a minute sit in it process pray understand it make adjustments make shifts and once you do that get right back in the fight because you're still in it it gives and the callings of God are not he doesn't take him back he gives those gifts without repentance he doesn't take him back you're still called I'm talking to him trying to stop you're still called you're still chosen you're still gonna do great things he's still gonna build legacy through you through your family and the generations past you it's the long and he's gonna use everything you think that disqualifies you he's gonna use and you're gonna look back over your life and you're gonna see fruit and it's gonna be amazing and like God I didn't even know that while I was growing you were building and you were building you were building because I didn't quit are we together father I thank you so much for what you're doing in this house this morning God God you're raising up a generation of men and women a tribe a company that will walk in something greater than they've ever experienced before in their life oh god you are first of all allowing us to understand what is normal what is normal God and what is oftentimes the lengthiest part of the journey is discovering who we are not blessed is the man who walks not who stands not who sits not and father I pray that Lord through these these simple words that you have stirred something on the inside of your sons and daughters that first of all we'll give them a tenacity that they didn't have when they came in here that would give them a hope and a belief God that is stronger than anything that would throw darts at them and try to convince them that you are not good in that and that there isn't a version of them getting ready to spring forth that will be worthy of everything that you promised them father there's some here some here in this room under the sound of my voice right now who have been settling and I pray right now God that you're still small voice that the law of the Lord the law of their identity and their destiny God will just grow louder and louder stronger God that it would consume them overwhelm them God I thank you that they'll have patience and long-suffering for the journey thank you for what you're doing on the inside of them they are trees they're becoming trees literally trees that you have planted by the rivers of water and God consistency is their portion and they will God they will they will come into a time in their life where their leaf won't wither they'll bear fruit in every season even in the season of pain they'll be fruit even in the season of loss there will be fruit even in the season of challenges there will be fruit that their leaf will not wither that they'll mature and become and whatever they do shall prosper I thank you that we're all growing up into this reality and I just want to repeat after me Heavenly Father I thank you for your word I hear it and I receive it I thank you for the plans that you have for me plans to prosper me and not to harm me to give me a future and a hope I thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine all of my weakness all of my shortcomings all of my limitations you placed in his body nailed it to the cross and put it to death so that I can become like God consistent in every way and God has you raised him up free and victorious because I'm in him I'm raised up to Lord I love you I'm forgetting what's behind me and I'm excited about what's in front of me I receive this now in Jesus name Amen amen come on just take about 60 seconds and worship God with hate one second yeah I'm about to be consistent coming it takes time it takes time it takes time you know what's interesting that word consistency also as it relates to cooking is used to talk about the texture of something a meal that's being prepared the consistency of a dish right and to get that dish to that level of consistency and it's consistently that texture throughout the entirety of the dish as a process doesn't start off consistent things have to be added things have to be subtracted things have to be balanced just right that's what's happening to you you're getting ready to be I'm telling you it's getting it's coming I see it all over you I see it all over you you're getting ready to become consistent you're not gonna be tossed to and fro you're not gonna be easily moved you're gonna be steadfast and you're gonna start winning your wisdom is gonna be so OnPoint that it's gonna be like bullseye every time you throw it it's gonna hit it right in the center that's what it's coming that's mastery but it takes time and you can't give up on yourself and you can't give up on God and you got to make the tough decisions amen do me a favor high-five somebody if it's appropriate just just high-five somebody come on come on Denver high-five somebody something is happening something is happening consistency is coming it's coming it's coming it's coming and we're gonna be on this for a few weeks cuz I got a lot to talk about as it relates to it but it's coming I promise you I promise you who you're trying to be you are already you just have to be it consistently you it's already you you just have to walk out of who you're not that takes time takes time but you're gonna get there and everything that got promised and the beautiful thing about that I'm not I just feel I'm not want to come out everybody in here but the beautiful thing about that process it takes time but with each step with each step you're gonna go from level to level [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 08 2019