Detach To Attach: Seeing The Bigger Picture (Brie Davis)

well the funnest thing about leading a amazing life-giving church is that I am NOT the only gift in this house and and and the beautiful thing about it is is many times people want to just hear from me and to hear what I have to say but God told me not to build this church on my personality to build it on a vision and and I know I know I know a lot of people don't understand that but this thing we want it to outlast me we want it to outlast this staff we want it to be here when they're your children's children's children need to find a place to know God we want them to be able to find a transformation church in their area and so part of us doing that is the gifts that God has entrusted in this house is releasing them to share with our church now the person that's going to speak today she's one of my favorites and um she honestly carries the vision like myself and pastor Natalie we worked in youth ministry together and she's been from youth ministry all the way to our chief of staff right here I had like like so some of y'all don't know her but you feel her I lead transformation church she runs transformation church but as far as the Word of God on the inside of her I'm telling you it's something that's so strong and so potent and I believe that she has a word for you today and so one thing we're gonna start in this culture is we're not gonna celebrate people from the outside more than we celebrate people on the inside so transformation church would you stand to your feet right now and welcome our speaker for today miss Bree Davis as she comes to give them Aqaba give them Jesus go hallelujah y'all are in the place nine o'clock really eight o'clock because we lost an hour so get the scene please have your seat I received I am so excited to share with you today what I feel like God has been speaking to me and and really today I'm gonna tell on myself a lot and hope that maybe it hits you wherever you are in life today but I'm excited about what God wants to speak today and I counted an honor and a privilege to stand on this stage and to be able to give you a message from God it's not a privilege of it's not a something that I'm obligated to do or have to do it's something that it's a privilege for me and so I'm really excited about that a couple of things before we get in into the word today just a couple of housekeeping things number one I'm just gonna ask you to lean in today leaning into what God may be saying to you this is not for your neighbor today this is for you and so I'm gonna ask you to just lean into what the Holy Spirit may be saying to you today and number two and this this is the most important thing I have a new red lipstick on today if I happen to smile too big and get some on my teeth just okay just let me know so I'm not all over the YouTube okay with the red on my teeth okay now let's go to God in prayer this morning Lord we're so grateful for your love of God we're so grateful for your presence Lord Jesus Lord today we are leaning in to hear from you what is it that you want to say to us today God our ears are open our heart is ready to be molded by you God I'm so grateful that we had an opportunity to pray and to hear from you and God we thank you that you're in this place today and you have a word to speak to us and the name of Jesus we pray amen amen amen well so today I'm gonna jump right in because we got a lot a lot of stuff to get through today and so today our message title is detach to attach detach to attach now I'm gonna get into why that is a message title but before then I want to to kind of lay a foundation okay I believe that oftentimes as believers sometimes we lean towards one way or the other and I think God is calling us to a balance so I think sometimes as believers we can be over spiritual okay everything is spiritual like these are the people that when you call instead of saying hello they say praise the Lord okay the people that when you say how're you doing today blessed and highly favored and it's like I know you just got laid off from your job let's let's be real like these are the people that make being spiritual that it's like that's not really like the devil is not attacking your health like if you just ate a salad every now and then drink some water maybe you would see some different things in your body right so sometimes I think that we can be a little over spiritual as believers but today I want to talk about the opposite side today I want to talk about those of us that sometimes we're not over spiritual but we're under spiritual sometimes there's those of us that that we have so many practical ways to make our life better so many self-help things so many things that we put into place that we forget that there is a very large spiritual aspect to our life that we must lean into on an everyday basis today I want to talk to those of us that sometimes forget that God has given us a tool called the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us and we don't have to live like everybody else because he's given us a tool to live the abundant life that he has called us to I think sometimes we can be under spiritual and I think today God is wanting to challenge us and ask us do you see the bigger picture do you see that even though we are in this world we are not of this world do you see that there is something living on the inside of you that helps you to live above what you were living before meeting Christ I think that we can we can look at Jesus in the scripture and Jesus is a great example Jesus was not over spiritual and he wasn't under spiritual okay so Jesus wasn't over spiritual he did not come to this earth and use big theological words that no one understood and talked over everybody's head and couldn't have a regular conversation no Jesus used things like parables he will come here and say there was a shepherd that had a hundred sheep he had 99 ever'one was lost he left the 99 to go find the one because jesus knew that in order to make a difference on this earth he had to be relatable he had to understand the people that he wanted to minister to so as believers we have to still be relatable but Jesus also was not under spiritual Jesus knew the power that lived on the inside of him and so because we know that Jesus went under spiritual it Jesus was under spiritual we would have never seen the lame man walk we would have never seen Lazarus raised from the grave we would have never seen the blind see in Scripture and that is because Jesus did not deny the power that lived inside of him just so he can be relatable to other people the scripture tells us that there are type of believer that have a form of godliness but denied the power thereof meaning you believe in God but you don't allow his power to take up place in your life to see change within you and around you and so today I want to challenge you today I want to challenge you to see have you been living your life in a way that is totally up to you your works your effort your hustle your grind to get to where you want to be in life or have you leaned in to the Holy Spirit that lives inside of you to tap into the abundant life that you want to live today I want you to just take a step back and realize there is a bigger picture somebody say there is a bigger picture there is a bigger picture and the scripture that I want to start off with today is Decker I four and six and I want you to remember this as we talk all all day today it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord what are the things in your life that you have been trying to get to by your might and your power instead of the Spirit of God it's so funny because I was going to share this at the end but I feel like God is telling me to share this now I was in the back before coming out and my husband came up to me and was just encouraging me and telling me you know you got this whatever the case may be and it's so funny because three years ago that was not our story that was our first year of marriage and it was the toughest year not just of our marriage of our life and and is so crazy because I had a I had to have a shift in my mind now at this time we had been through some different things that were just it has shaken us to our core in our marriage and I remember the other day I was I was at this this place and I saw you know one of those massage chairs you know the massage chairs where he had to sit like this and lean in it's like the most vulnerable seating position ever that you have to sit in to get a massage but anyways I remember back then I had to go to them I went to the mall one day and I got a massage in one of those chairs because my body was just filling all the aches and pain that was going on in our marriage and I had so many different nights and stuff and and and during that week I actually was at that point where I was staying at a hotel for a couple of nights and I was talking to my dad on the phone and my dad said to me are you fighting and I was like that's why I'm here in this hotel cuz we only been fighting yes I've been fighting and he's like no no no have you been fighting for your marriage not not flesh-and-blood fighting in the spirit realm have you been fighting for your marriage and y'all I'm telling you there was a switch in my brain that night I don't know who was next door to me on both sides of the hotel room but they heard me praying all night long because my dad was reminding me there's a bigger picture to this breathe there's a bigger picture than what you see right now the things that you're finding the things that you're trying to win the argument you're trying to make sure your point is made there is a bigger picture this is a spiritual fight not a practical one so what are the things in your life that are really there really a spiritual fight but we've made them into something that they're not so we're trying to win the argument we're trying to make our point maybe the one we're trying to be be the best at whatever in God's name there is a spiritual world that you live in that you have to stay aware of and so when I'm standing back there about to walk out here on this platform I immediately get emotional because if I hadn't stepped back and saw the bigger picture if I hadn't seen what kind of character God could build in me from that situation if I hadn't seen that our marriage was supposed to be a representation of how Christ loved the church it's a bigger picture to this if I hadn't seen that this was something bigger than me and Aaron this is but this is what God wanted to do in our lives if I hadn't stepped back and see the bigger picture I would have been fighting flesh and blood and God called me to live above that and we wouldn't have had that moment behind the stage because it wouldn't have been no marriage because we would have beat each other with our words with our actions with our behavior we would have tore each other down but it took us stepping back to see there is a bigger picture there is a bigger picture than what you see in front of you so at the end of last year passion might was saying to us come up with a word for the year right and I felt like I heard guys say this word to me I didn't really like it I actually wrote something else down during the offering time but but I've since then have settled in this word okay my word for 2019 is detach and I ask God why he wanted that to be my word and it was because my hands were too full there are certain things that God wanted me to hold on to and grab on to that we're connected to my purpose in my calling but my hands were so full with stress and anxiety and comparison and trying to be what other people want me to be I couldn't hold on to who God wanted me to be and so God asked me and he may be asking you today to detach because I believe there's two things that we need to do in order to see the bigger picture in our lives the first thing is detach you got to make the small things the small things the things that really don't matter all that difference at the end of your life those are the small things but then after you detach or something else that you have to do and that is attached that's making the big things the big things so today I think God is asking us what are the things in your life that you've made the big things there really are the small things like your Instagram likes or getting that new car when there's other things in your life that are big and you've made the small like your marriage or your kids spiritual understanding yeah I know all your kids are in all the sports all weekend you're at the football field and and whatever else I don't know nothing about sports to say any other examples but how much time are you spending praying with your kids and teaching them how to pray how are you going to make the small things and small things and the big things the big things in your life I think there's four things that God is asking me and I'm gonna share with you to detach and attach to detach from and attach to the first thing is to detach from busy and attach to becoming I think that in our society busy is a badge of honor like people love saying hashtag I mean like trying to like act like they're complaining about being busy but really people love being busy cuz it makes you feel important but you got a whole lot of things when your schedules all filled up when you got a whole list of to do every single day it makes you feel important that you're busy but in all of that busyness who are you becoming and all of that rippen here and running there and fast here and hurry here who are you becoming because that's the important part there's a there's a story in the Bible Mary and Martha and and it's a great story because every time I read it I realize on Martha and that sucks but Mary and Martha are at home with Jesus Martha the responsible one is in the kitchen cooking that chicken show or whatever she's making and she's in there be responsible getting the meal together for everybody a Mary seemingly lazy okay it's sitting at the feet of Jesus and Martha comes out and she is like Jesus I'm here slaving in this kitchen and Mary's out here chilling what is going on and Jesus says the Martha Martha Martha just so worried and upset about many things when only few things are needed while Martha was busy Mary was becoming while Martha was in the kitchen doing everything that she thought was necessary to do Mary's character was being changed Mary was becoming more and more like Jesus because she was sitting at the feet of Jesus now how many times in our life do we sit still enough stop my busy schedule sit ourselves down and ask ourselves Who am I becoming not what am i doing not what goals am i achieving who am i becoming from the inside out who am i becoming but see that makes us have to stop the rippin and the runnin in the past and hurry and the rush you got to stop all that to really ask yourself that question Mary could have been in the kitchen helping Martha but she knew the bigger picture the bigger picture was what kind of person was she going to become there's a scripture in 2nd Corinthians 3 and 18 and it says so all of us who have had that veil with that they'll remove can see and reflect the glory of God and the Lord who is a spirit makes us more and more like him as we're changed into his glorious image to become it requires us to lean into the Holy Spirit in our lives because that scripture says it's the spirit that makes us more and more like the glorious image of God now if I was to sum up the glorious images image of God in one word that word would be love love is not a character trait of God it is God God is love he cannot act outside of love because it's not just a part of his personality it is his entire being he is loved so if we're becoming more and more like God it means that we're becoming more and more like love so so here's the thing a sign of a mature believer is not how many prophecies you got it's not how much word you know how many church connections you have it's not even how many years you've been involved in ministry and it's not that at all the sign of a mature believer is how well do you love I don't care how many words you have every person that walk past you you got a prophecy for that's great you know the scripture backward and forward you got five different translations in your heart that's great you've been coming to church this church was born all right but if you're not becoming loved you're not maturing a sign of maturity is how well we love ourselves as well as the people around us and that is the glorious image of God that we should be becoming so the question we ask ourselves is not just who are we becoming but am i becoming loved in all my busyness is it making me more loving or is it making me more frustrated and stressed that's what we have to ask ourselves now number two what we have to detach from is trying and we have to attach to trusting there's a scripture Hebrews 11 and 6 it says without faith that's right without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe the Higgs did and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him I think sometimes we get this scripture confused because it says without faith it's impossible to please God I think that a lot of times as believers we spend more time trying to please God than trust God and the Bible tells us that in order to please him you have to trust him there is no pleasing God without trusting God so all the many years and times it's been trying trying trying trying to please God he's saying but do you trust me I know you trying but don't you trust me here's the thing I want you to think about this think about two different relationships in your life think about the relationship where you feel like you're always trying versus a relationship where you feel like you're trusting those are two very different types of relationships one feels like you're never going to attain you're never going to be worthy enough you're never gonna be good enough the other one feels like you can be yourself mistakes and all flaws and all and you're still gonna be loved that's the kind of relationship God wants with us but if we have put God in the box of trying to please him versus trying to trust him we've now belittled our relationship with him to something that relies on our works instead of him and His grace I think God is asking us a great example of this is trying to remain sexually pure okay now the way that I grew up this was the instruction for remaining sexually pure don't have sex before marriage okay that was basically all the instruction we got now that it was up to us to figure out how we do that okay many failed because there was not enough instruction given but but what happens is it turns into our works rather than God's grace that lives on the inside of us it turns into okay I just got to do this and do that I got to set this boundary and make sure I don't answer the phone after this time and hang out with these people and don't hang out with these people and I'm not saying any of that is bad but if that is not connected to you know what God created this body I trusted as he created it he can control it I trust that if he knows how this body works and what this body desires that he can help me curb those appetites with something that's healthy for me he knows how this body operates I'm gonna give this body back to him and say you know what God I will do everything I can in the natural but what I know is to do it to Carmody do it take the supernatural so I have to trust you in Philippians 2 and 13 it says for God is working in you giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him you do not have to try to please God all you had to do is trust that he will give you the desire and he will empower you to do what pleases him we spent so much energy trying to keep God pleased with us and he saying just trust me just trust me just trust it if I said that this is what I want you to do I will empower you to do it now that is what I'm talking about when I say we have to make sure we're not living an under spiritual life because everything that God has asked us to do everything that God has called us to do he's already put that ability inside of us he's already empowered us to do what he's asked us to do but it requires us trusting him to actually lean into that God knows and he asks you to forgive those that have hurt you he's asking you to do that on your own he said I put I am the forgiver and I live inside of you I need you to trust in it to forgive him this inside of you he will help you forgive those that have hurt you he said yeah I asked you to cause I called you to love those that have used you and done you wrong you don't think I'll give you the power to do it's it's it reminds me of any time I'm trying to hang a picture up at home and I can't find the hammer I get very impatient I find shoes bricks pills whatever I can find to hang the picture up until finally my husband finds a hammer and comes to me and gives it to me and says put that crap down that is not the tool to get this nail into the wall your works your your efforts your your your energy that you are spending right now trying to please God is not the tool that he is giving you to please him he has given you the Holy Spirit and that's how you please him by trusting the Spirit that lives inside of you this is why we can't be under spiritual this is why we got to see the bigger picture because often times we try to do things on our own and God is saying I'm giving you a tool put the heel there put the brick down here's the hammer lean into me and trust me and then it doesn't feel like you're on a hamster wheel trying to break cycles for years on your own trying to break generational curses all your old I've given you the power to do that but it requires you trusting me third thing that I think we have to detach from and attach to we have to detach from pride and attach to purpose now every single one of us when we're born into this world we're giving a given a sinner starter packet okay you come in and what you come into this world with as a sinner starter package okay and that sinners start a packet it is described in first John it's three things the way that the enemy will always tempt you now if you grew up ring King James Version like me you heard lust of the eyes list of this flesh pride of life another translation in NLT I think is great it's a craving for physical pleasure this is how the enemy Tim shoot you can probably link every single one of the mistakes you've made and since you've done back to one of these things a craving for sit for a physical pleasure a craving for everything you see and a pride and achievements and possessions so as holy as you may be more than likely you're gonna deal with one if not all of these three temptations pride is something that each and every single one of us deal with and I know as soon as you think you have eliminated pride in your life is when you realize that you have not okay so did you thank you humble you not humble okay and so here's the thing prize separates us from our purpose in God now we can see that in many different ways we see in an Eve okay even Genesis that the serpent tempted her three different ways that she was lured into this temptation she saw the fruit was delicious physical pleasure the she she saw the tree was beautiful craving for everything that she sees and she wanted the wisdom that it was going to give her a pride in her achievements and possessions so so the enemy knows I got three different tracks now I'll use it in many different ways it'll be different scenarios in your life but at least three different ways I know I can lure you in and after those three things Eve ate the fruit and it separated her from purpose it separated her from the presence of God we saw the same thing in Lucifer he was angel over worship as soon as I started taking worship for himself separation immediately because God don't share his throne with us that's his room and as soon as we get an inflated view of ourselves which is pride an inflated view of ourselves it separates us from purpose now this point is really really special to me because it's something that God has been talking to me about in my personal life and and it's because of this go ahead and put that that chart up there for me okay so really quick this is an org chart for our church all those little boxes at the bottom have people's names in them but we didn't put their names in them today as you can see it starts with Pastor Mike at the top and then after that is myself and then all of our staff after that okay you can take it down now this point is important to me because I know what you see when you see me up here you see a very confident slightly funny cute little girl 32 year old bold enough to cut all our hair off and dye it blonde I know what you see but you don't know what I see I see a girl in second grade whose mom curled her hair and little Susie Q curls for picture day she went didn't realize that the weather was going to include rain went to recess and came back in with a totally different hairstyle after I came in from recess mind you I was in the second grade Heather walked past all the fourth grade boys and they did not stop themselves from saying what they thought it was the first experience in my life that I was ever bullied it was the first experience in my life that I ever felt the feelings of unworthiness and that things stuck with me so much so that even though there's a 32 year old woman on that war chart every now and then that second grader shows up that second grader that needs some approval that needs some attention that needs to feel important that second grader that doesn't realize that she's loved that doesn't realize that she's worthy that doesn't realize that she enough every now and then that second grader shows up and I know for you it might be the six-year-old it might be the fourth grader it might be the fifteen-year-old sometimes it shows up in your life and what it does is it leans me into pride because all of my immaturity comes to the top and all of my insecurities come to the top and when that comes to the top I have to prove my worthiness and that's where pride starts when you feel like you have to prove your worthiness to those around you so now God has blessed me with this role as chief of staff at this church not normally a role that a woman has honestly and and oftentimes I'm brought face to face with are you going to lean into pride or are you going to lean into purpose because the reason God gave me that role is not to be served it's not to be admired or respected it's to serve every other person on that organizational chart but to stay in a place of purpose means two things you got a plant stay in a place of service because purpose is always directly linked to people and you got to stay in a place of humility because purpose is always and I mean always bigger than you and so so it's up to me to make that decision on a day-to-day basis am i doing when I'm doing so people will admire me and respect me and love me and tell me that I'm worthy or am i doing what I'm doing because God had called me to serve people that he has called me to leave it lead in such a way where I hope to find out what God has called other people to and push them towards their purpose it's not about what people feel about me it's about how I make other people feel pride separates you from purpose so what if God came to me day and said breathe there needs to be multiple Chiefs of Staff at this church nah-uh that's where I get my significance that's where I get my worthiness what if God comes to me one day and said breathe I need you to transition into something else oh because this lets me know that I'm great we have to realize that in order to establish purpose to order to move towards purpose in our life it requires humility it is not something that we have to do in our own in Galatians 5 it tells us the fruits of the spirit the spirit that lives on the inside of us produces fruit in us and one translation instead of gentleness says humility because they are synonymous in the Greek language gentleness is humility so while we are trying to be all and try to prove our worthiness to everybody else God is saying lean into the spirit that lives inside of you cuz it's gonna produce something in you that you cannot produce in yourself and that is humility that is okay we're playing the background so somebody else can play the foreground and that's where our purpose is directly linked to because it's not about us there is a bigger picture what are you spending your time and energy on and why is it cuz it makes you feel significant and worthy or is it because it's directly linked to the purpose that God has called you to so we have to detach from pride and attach it to purpose now that here is my last thing last thing we have to detach from empty and attach to eternal let me read this scripture in Matthew 16 matthew 16 21 to 23 it says from then on Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and that he would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders the leading priests and the teachers of religious law he will be killed but on the third day he'll be raise from the dead but Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him cuz he is crazy he began to reprimand Jesus for saying such things and said heaven forbid Lord he said this will never happen to you Jesus turned to Peter and slapped him I'm sorry that's what I would have done mother I'm sorry I apologize forgive me Father okay sorry okay Jesus turned to Peter and said get away from me saying you are a dangerous trap to me you were seeing things merely from a human point of view and not God's now I want you to imagine this we're saying detached from the empty and attached to the eternal what if Jesus wasn't attached to eternal what if Jesus was not attached to the eternal plan that God had for mankind and yet instead he was more attached to his ideas and his opinions and the things that he wanted to do Jesus showed us in the Garden of Gethsemane that he did not want to go to the cross but he was so attached to the eternal purpose that God had for you and for me that he still went to the cross allowed them to do all the things that they did to him when he could have took himself off of the cross died and rose three days later so that we can experience a life in Him Jesus was attached to the eternal things how much energy how much stress how much anxiety are you spending attached to that empty things in life a test of the things that when you leave this earth they're not going to matter attached to your money and your cars and your house attached to fame and fortune attached to my friends on social media God said love is bigger than that there is a bigger picture but you got to realize one of the things I'm attached to that has eternal value versus the things that when I leave this earth ain't nobody gonna care about there's one thing that I had to do here at working at this church that you know is a little difficult and that is going to many different funerals we have the privilege of serving a lot of families that are going through a grieving process because they've lost someone in their in their life and one thing that we have to do is is put together a service that that so Beautif beautifully represents a person that passed away and it has made me think on many occasions what are people going to say about me when I leave this earth what's the impact that I'm gonna make here is it gonna be empty or is it going to be eternal well people's lives be changed because they come into contact with the God that lives inside of me Oh will I be so busy that I'm no longer becoming love am I gonna spend my days trying and trying and trying to please God or am I gonna trust him am I going to lean into all my little second girl pride second great girl pride or am I gonna really focus on the purpose that God has called me to you have an eternal reason for being on this earth but you got to see there is a bigger picture in Psalms there is a scripture that says teach us to number our days every day we have on this earth is a gift are you gonna spin it on empty things or eternal things I think that's what God is asking us today look at your time look at your schedule look at the things that stress you out look at the things that bring you joy is it empty or eternal let's pray today lord I thank you so much for your presence and for your power thank you God that you live on the inside of us and you are alive in us God thank you so much that today you spoke so clearly to our hearts and that got you want us to just lean into you that you don't want us to understeer achill Isaac's experience you also don't want us to over spiritualize me God but you want us to be those that trust in the Holy Spirit on the inside of us thank you for teaching us how to do that thank you that we don't have to do that on our own we love you in the name of Jesus we pray amen

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Published: Mon Mar 11 2019