"Driving On E" Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. Sunday May 16, 2021

welcome aboard the virtual ship with fellowship chicago while we can't have church traditionally we can still be the church consistently new method same message new platform same power new season same god now let's go into our worship experience hey family good morning to you and to your family i am so delighted that you've tuned in aboard the virtual ship another sunday here we are gathered together in the name of jesus christ so to all of our visitors to all of our first time watchers welcome and to those of you who always join us we so appreciate you the bible says i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord what we've learned over the last year and a few weeks here that it's not just about being in the house it's about bringing the house of the lord to your house so wherever you are today you're in the perfect place you're in the perfect position to receive a blessing from the lord so let's go further and worship together our praise team's going to kick us off and then i cannot wait to share this word god has given me come on let's go to church listen wherever you are whatever you're doing you can't be too busy to give god praise hallelujah listen i want to be where the praises are i want to be where god is i want to be [Music] i want to be [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] take me upstairs [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] he wants to be are two three [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] where you are every time i think about giving you praise i really wanna praise you no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no [Music] [Applause] [Music] happy sunday fellowship my name is pasha spencer and this is your weekly edition of fnn the fellowship news network [Music] we are so excited to honor the graduating members of the class of 2021. we are planning a special graduation weekend for our graduates and we need you to register you can do that today by emailing graduation fellowship chicago.com the deadline is this tuesday at 12 p.m do you have an experience in a particular profession or do you have a desire or passion to help young adults navigate the transition into adulthood well fellowship chicago is launching a new mentorship program and we are looking for motivated members to mentor our young adults if you are interested in being a mentor please email mentor fellowship chicago dot com by may 25th are you on board in an effort to ensure your membership profile is updated and accurate we are asking everyone to complete fellowships online census starting today this information is important to us it will allow fellowship to share information and connect in a greater way with our members again this begins today stay connected be informed you matter mark your calendars for sunday may 23rd as we celebrate pentecost sunday pentecost sunday is 50 days after easter when we celebrate the gift of the holy spirit on pentecost sunday we want everyone to wear the color red we wear red to remind us of the fire and flames of the spirit so get ready to wear your red take your pictures and share them all over social media as we celebrate the gift and fire of the holy spirit aboard the virtual ship calling all millennials join the good life young adults ministry for a q a session with pastor sharp this thursday may 20th at 7 pm central via zoom pastor sharp will answer live and previously submitted questions so we encourage you to submit questions to good life at fellowshipchicago.com we cannot wait to see you ladies the soul mates marriage ministry and sisters with vision women's ministry want to meet you on saturday may 22nd this is the wives only edition of conversations over coffee please join us with our first lady brianna sharp as we gather virtually over a cup of coffee or tea to fellowship and discuss what the bible says about marriage bring a friend and log in on the 22nd join our senior care ministry for the lupus awareness workshop on friday may 21st at 12 noon see the zoom details on your screen now and check our social media and website for more information now we have some special announcements for you check it out [Music] our first business is callahan funeral home since 1983 the name callahan has stood for uncompromised quality personal service and genuine care edward and shirley callahan are leaders in this profession offering traditional funeral services as well as cremation services at callahan funeral home incorporated they take any steps necessary to ensure that the needs of families are met their brand new facility integrates innovative technology with personal care resulting in award-winning leadership in the funeral care field next we have mogul d llc darren montgomery is a custom clothier who creates quality custom suiting and handmade shoes through his company mogul d llc he feels that looking your best not only enhances your physical appearance but also instills 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more their renovated gallery style venue can host covid compliant parties for up to 50 guests good life events can customize items fit for any occasion and our last business of the month is triple o polish triple o polish is a nail care brand diversifying beauty in the nail care industry they provide imagery of underrepresented skin tones paired with imagery of colors many women feel like they could never wear in 2016 owner samantha onyechi decided to hand make her own polish only setting out to make a few new shades based on her skin tone she quickly fell in love with creating unique colors that radiate on every skin tone to learn more about these and past featured black businesses head over to our website to browse our online black business directory there you can find special discounts to purchase featured products and services specifically for our audience to apply or have your favorite black owned business showcased visit our website fellowshipchicago.com backslash black business [Music] we are praying for the family of robert allen iii in the passing of his mother and our member mrs donna allen please keep this family and all of those who have experienced the loss of a loved one in your prayers that's a wrap for this week's edition of fnn please check out our church website and social media pages for these announcements and more for real-time updates from us text fellowship chicago that's one word to 31996 we wish you a great week [Music] good morning fellowship and friends as we continue our health and fitness national month my name is dr joseph mcrae i'm a doctor of optometry and today we'll talk about glaucoma the sneak thief of sight it's called the sneak thief of sight because there are absolutely no symptoms that you may have when you have glaucoma you can read the eye chart be told that you can see 20 20 and you can still have glaucoma because it has no symptoms african-americans develop glaucoma up to seven times more frequent than any other race and nobody even knows what causes it so get your eyes examined on an annual basis and you'll notice on the streaming across the screen one of the resources where you can have this done have a good day and mask up thank you dr mccray for that wonderful information and i'm dr karen fields leaver fellowship and i'm here to share a little bit with you about oral health are you still a little concerned about the pandemic and returning back to the dentist well don't fear i have a couple tips to help you with returning back for your visit first things first remember to tell your dentist about your fear him or her are prepared for your anxiety and will have some things to make sure that you are comfortable and safe in the visit second thing make sure that you book an early or shorter visit that will eliminate any jitters that you may have speaking of jitters avoid caffeine drinks with high caffeine such as pop or energy drinks will send those jitters over the edge and we don't want that lastly make sure you ask about nitrous oxide or sedatives to make your visit comfortable it's all about being comfortable when you return back any more information check out illinois dental society thank you hey fellowship good morning i pray that you're already being blessed by the worship service let me just take a minute to say thank you for supporting us this has been a journey it has been a journey filled with ups and downs updates and setbacks and comebacks it's just been a journey and without your support your prayers your thoughtfulness i don't know if we would have been able to sustain the way that we've been able to sustain so this is just a moment for me to pause and say thank you so much for being you it means so much to me as the new pastor of our church to know that i'm not out here by myself i'm interrupting this worship service because recently i was contacted by the city of chicago because we have a major opportunity we have an opportunity to have the vaccination bus pull up to our church from two o'clock to four p.m on may 23rd on the property on the grounds of fellowship chicago listen that's major they will have johnson johnson and pfizer as you know the president of the united states just made a comment this week that if you're vaccinated if you're vaccinated you can return to life with some normalcy so with that said there are a whole lot of us in our community unfortunately regrettably who are not vaccinated i understand our fear i unders i understand our trepidation i understand our communal and cultural apprehension when it comes to vaccinations but if we are going to return to some level of normalcy we have to be vaccinated so the bus is coming to our church and check this out from the ages of 12 years old and up all are welcome to come be vaccinated next sunday and then they will let you know next sunday where you go for your second shot within about i think a 20 day or so range so about 20 plus days after your first shot you get your second shot they'll give you all of that information on site what i need you to do today is go to fellowshipchicago.com and register although they're taking walk-ins it's best if you register we want to be prepared and over-prepared for you and your family from the ages of 12 and up y'all this virus is now impacting younger people now just like it was impacting the seasoned saints earlier so this is not a time to get completely relaxed and lazy we have to care for ourselves we have to cover ourselves so come to fellowship from two o'clock to four o'clock uh may 23rd on the grounds of our church you can be vaccinated there hey we walked into this pandemic by faith and the only way we're gonna walk out of this pandemic is also by faith let me tell you quickly we are preparing here at fellowship for a soft reentry soft reentry we're not just going to run back in and rush back in no we're being wise we're being judicious we're being cautious so we're preparing for a soft free entry what we will now allow coming soon coming soon for the people who you know you know y'all just hear what you want to hear yeah coming soon i'll let you know as so you'll be the first to know as soon as that date is set we'll be allowing all of our members who are members of our church to have funerals if they happen to pass uh we're gonna open back up for funerals very soon and we're going to allow at least 50 60 people to start coming to our pre-recordings so that you could be in the house you could be in the ship uh in person to worship with us in spirit and truth so i'm just excited what's happening but i need you to be vaccinated in order for us to have a healthy continuation i need you to have your own vaccination so listen y'all know i love you there's nothing you can do about it we're gonna jump back into worship god's gonna bless you today disengage from anything that can distract you and just focus in on god today i promise you you won't leave here like you came in jesus name peace peace hey fellowship god bless you thank you for tuning in to the virtual ship again wherever you are can you help me give god a big hand clap of praise for bringing us through another week thank god for carrying us and leading us and guiding us and not just that god's been protecting us and shielding us so we thank god for god's keeping power and i thank god for you where would fellowship be without people like you who tune in week in and week out just to worship with us in spirit and in truth hey before we go any further can we just pause and have a word of prayer together god we thank you for this day that you've made we celebrate the fact that you've brought us a mighty long way you've brought us all the way through this year up until this third sunday of may and god for that we say thank you we give your name praise honor and glory because nobody but you did it so from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same we're gonna use all of our energy to give your name praise honor and glory now god breathe on this service breathe on every song breathe on every word that will come forth out of my mouth i pray oh god that someone is touched revive renewed strengthened today by your might and by your power have your way we give you glory in jesus name let everybody say it is so and amen if you're expecting god to do something great today come on one more time put those hands together and give god praise for what you are expecting now if you're not expecting anything please don't clap please don't say amen but if you're expecting god to do something miraculous and something mind-blowing in your life this week through his power and through god's divine activity it's always a good place to give god praise hey family sometimes you gotta praise in advance it may not be what you want it to be right now but you have to go ahead and put some praise even on credit i thank god for this opportunity to worship with you and as always it's giving time every time we come into the house of the lord we have an opportunity to sow into god's house i told you during refuel wherever you grow you ought to sow so you can grow some more yeah yeah m-o not m-o-r-e mo i know what i said come on it's given time we know what the word of god teaches us we hear it every week if we honor the principle god honors the promise and so the principle is bring ye all the tithe 10 a dime out of every dollar a dollar out of every 10 10 out of every 100 belongs to god so i don't want to mess with anything that god says belongs to him i believe in tithing and i'm the pastor so i want to encourage you to be a tither and on top of that if ever you're led to give and to sow because your soul is blessed because god has given you something to sow into the offering that's always above and beyond but our tithe is the baseline our offering is above that look at the seven ways to give pick whichever way is most convenient for you and your family and less so come on come on less so less so i am so grateful to have this opportunity to come back into your homes again another sunday i don't take it for granted a few days ago i was able to take my mother my mother in love my wife on a brief little getaway and i went and got me a massage uh yeah i i really believe in the ministry of massages but before you go and get a massage they will if you go to a legit place they ask you a list of questions to try to figure out your health history and y'all i started looking at that list of about 20 things they asked me about glaucoma cancer have you ever had surgery and i mean they listed 20 things and when i realized i could not check yes on any of those things my soul began to rejoice sitting in the lobby of that massage parlor let me tell you something you don't know how blessed you are just to be alive you don't know how blessed you are that there's so many things on the list that you might have to check but it's so many more things you don't have to check so don't ever take another day for granted let me stop talking before i get happy on something that's not even my sermon i'm excited to jump into this word today i want to invite you fellowship virtual ship come with me to the 40th chapter of isaiah i thank you band i thank you music ministry thank you media ministry all of you behind the scenes that make this virtual ship what it is isaiah the 40th chapter and i want to call your attention to verse 28 verse 28 verse 28 verse 28 verse 29 isaiah chapter 40 verse 28 and verse 29 it reads like this out of the new revised standard version have you not known have you not heard the lord is the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth god does not faint or grow weary god's understanding is unsearchable verse 29 god gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless have you not known have you not heard the lord is the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth he doesn't faint or grow weary his understanding is simply unsearchable god gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless i want to talk today from this stuff very simply on e driving on e brothers and sisters can you just say that with me i've been driving on e even if you're not driving on e currently all of us have had the experience when our gas tanks got close to e or either our our gas tanks were on e and i don't want to rob you from this imagery early in the sermon but i should tell you i'm not just talking about your car but i'm also talking about your soul i'm also talking about your mind how many of us have been driving on e recently a cyber attack that shut down a major u.s pipeline on may 7th has induced and created fuel shortages across much of the southeastern region on top of this fuel shortage shortage rather that some of you all have heard about it is actually heightened our awareness of just how weak our cyber security is in our nation's energy infrastructure we have a fuel shortage on one hand that has kept people from being able to fill their cars up with gas and it has increased greatly the amount of money that is required in order to purchase gas we have a cyber security weakness in our infrastructure because the colonial pipeline was hacked and this pipeline based in georgia supplies gas to 45 percent of the east coast and because of this hack it has created a shortage and it made me ask just a simple question of the day i i know i've seen on the news you've seen it this week on the news that lines have been wrapped around sams and walmarts and lines have been wrapped around gas stations and all over the country on the east coast you keep seeing signs that they're out of gas but what really has arrested my attention family is what do i do if i'm already on e and the place i go to for gas doesn't have what i need is it's one thing to be on eve but it's another thing to be in the vicinity in proximity to what could supply me with what i'm lacking and the place i go to find my refuel to find my uh uh to find the find the liquid that i need the gas that i need to continue my trip to continue my daily surgery and that place that i pull into does not have what i need and i'm already on e what do you do when you're on e and everywhere you look no place can seem to fill you up with what you need what happens when your family is on e what happens when you are not just driving on e but you're leading on e and you're preaching on e and you're working on e and you're trying to be there for others and keep them on f but you're on e what happens when you can't go anywhere to fill yourself back up and you have so many demands and you have so many responsibilities and you have so many expectations but the truth is if someone was to check your internal gauge the only thing they would see is that you are a christian who's on e and what's worse than being on e is when i pull into the gas station of life pull into the church if you will pull into therapists art therapy offices pull into doctor's offices pull into the email of my spiritual leader and i cannot find anybody who can help me because while i'm on e they're also experiencing shortages what happens when wherever i go i'm i'm trying to give my all but i've really given all that i have and i'm waiting on somebody to pull back into me but everywhere i go to be poured back into they need somebody to pull back into them as well what do you do when you're driving on e i don't have a lengthy message for you today but i came to talk to some people who are christian and exhausted i came to talk to somebody today who feels the weight of fatigue pressing on your chest i know you can't tell your family i know you don't want to tell the prayer team i know you don't want to alert your boss or your supervisor but the truth is you are navigating through 2021 and from january to the beginning of may something has happened that has robbed you of your energy robbed you of your vitality robbed you of your creativity robbed you of your strength robbed you of your focus robbed you of dreams and visions and vigor and fortitude and now you're faced with feeling like i don't know at any moment i'm about to give all the way out and the places i go to to fill me up don't have anything either what happens when the ambulance needs an ambulance and the tow truck needs a tow truck and a doctor needs the doctor and a preacher needs a preacher and a mama needs a mama what happens when i'm driving on e and i don't have anything else to give i'm so glad that god allowed me to tiptoe across this text today because this text is tailored to teach us a couple things to do and to know when you're driving only i told you i don't have a lengthy message for you today but if you if you tune in and just disconnect and disengage from everything around you that could be a distraction this morning i promise by the end of this message somebody is going to go into this next week feeling like you feel even when you're still on e and here it is in our text today isaiah chapter 40. it is known as scholars were called second isaiah or deutero isaiah see most hebrew scholars separate the book of isaiah into three chapters you have first isaiah which is chapters 1 through 39 then you have second isaiah or deutero isaiah with which is isaiah chapter 40 through 54 then you have trito isaiah or third isaiah and that's chapters 55 all the way to chapter 66 and scholars suggest that each of these sections first isaiah deutero or second isaiah trito or third isaiah are three different sections that make up the whole compilation of the book of isaiah but right here we are in second isaiah or deutero isaiah and i can sum up what this whole thesis and the thematic thrust of second order isaiah really means and it simply is this that god knows that god's people are in babylonian captivity that they have been in slavery that they have been dealing with tragedy they've been dealing with captivity captivity they've been dealing with slavery but god sent the prophet to let them know one thing is not going to always be like this now if that doesn't shout you ain't nothing gonna shout you because i need a god who can remind me in the middle of seasons that i cannot get myself out of that it ain't always gonna be like this turn me up a little bit obey is there anybody that can pause right there for the calls and give god 10 seconds of a praise that is not always going to be like this you're not always going to feel like this you're not always going to be under this amount of pressure you're not going to always be this lost you're not going to always be this clueless you're not going to always be this perplexed you're not going to always be this tired you're not going to always be this exhausted you're not going to always feel this grief you're not going to always feel this tragedy you're not going to always be stuck in a season that you can't get yourself out of god sent the prophet to let them know you're not going to always be like this and then to a people who were living on e to a people who were trying to survive on e to a people who were walking on east serving on e living on eve isaiah asked them the question in verse 28 have you not known have you not heard that the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is he weary you ought to stop right there when you're driving on e leading on e serving on e trying to handle your business on e number one you got to know who your source is somebody say i know who my source is is right there as they asked this interrogative lifts this question y'all don't know this you ain't heard this i know you're tired i know you're exhausted i know you're fatigued i know captivity has gotten the best of you i know babylonian exile hadn't been pleasant hadn't been no tiptoe through the tulips or dazzling dance through the daisies but have you not known have you not heard that there everlasting god the lord is the everlasting god and the creator of the ends of the earth i like this because he lets us know a little bit of god's personality and then he lets us know a little bit of god's activity he lets us know who god is but then he lets us know how god is well who is god the lord is the everlasting god and he's the creator of the ends of the earth that means that that's what exactly what the book of revelation captures when it says that he's alpha and omega he was there before the beginning began and he'll be there when the end in he's the creator of the ends of the earth and then it gets even deeper it says he faints not and neither is he weary so even if your own e your god is not on e so as long as you stay connected to your source you will always have power come on help me somebody you will always have a little bit of you have a little bit of energy left if not because of what's in your tank but if you stay hooked up to god god can fill you with what god has in his tank and god has an eternal everlasting supply that's not going to run out so even if your own e if you stay connected to him you'll have what you need somebody ought to help me give god praise and hear that even when i don't have what i need god has what i need and the other day i was meandering through the airport and you know they've began to put plugs everywhere over the all over the airports but there are certain places in the airport where there are more plugs and more outlets than other places in the airport can i can i just tell you what happened i'm walking through the airport knowing my phone is dying so i had to go searching through where some power was i knew where the power was because wherever there were more people seated that was a sign for me that there was power over there and the sections where nobody was seated that meant there was no power because we are technological people we have laptops we have ipads we have cell phones so when you're in the airport if you're looking for power usually look where people are sitting because people like to sit where the power is because if they sit where the power is all that they need can stay alive can thrive they can have no business they can get stuff done because they're seated by power but if you want to know where there are no outlets just look where nobody's sitting because in 2021 people don't sit in airports where there is no power i'm preaching better than you acting i'm trying to let you know something if you're sit by power your stuff can stay alive you can still handle your business you can get things done whatever was depleted and low on battery if you get in the area where the power is god can help i'm trying to help somebody understand god is your source let me tell you how bougie we've gotten i don't even want to be on planes anymore that don't have outlets because even when i'm flying high i might need to charge my phone up i may need to do some work on my laptop so i like to fly delta because delta is so fancy now that they've put outlets right by your seat on the airplane because for those of us who are leaders for those of us who are supervisors for those of us who have to live at high altitudes i don't care how high you go you still need some power can i talk to somebody around here you wondering why you're struggling you're wondering why you're wondering why you're low on energy you're wondering why you feel so disconnected you wondering why your heart feels so empty you tune in the church and you can't feel anything i dare you to plug back into god the other day a young lady hit me i may not get to know more of this i'm just trying to help somebody today because i'm trying to tell you somebody shout god is my source come come on just write in the check god is my source yeah i might be on e but as long as i stay connected to god i'm gonna be all right i was talking to a young lady the other day and she asked me she asked me what do you do when you feel like god has forgotten you she said what do you do when you feel like god has forgotten you i said well i said well i would ask that person what would make them feel like god has forgotten them she said well i keep on trying i try everything i i've graduated college and i'm working a decent job i try to save my money i i do my best to be ethical immoral she said but i just feel like no matter what i do nothing is working and she said on top of that i can't even hear from god i said let me let me ask you a question have you ever been trying to listen to music on your phone and watch youtube at the same time she said absolutely i've done that before i say yeah anybody and yeah and most people who have iphones i don't know what the android family does but i do know that those of us with iphones we can listen to music and you can have your airpods on and you're trying to listen to music and if you're not careful you'll stumble across an instagram post or a facebook post or youtube and music or voices start being played and so you got two things playing at the same time i said well here's what you got to do something has to be turned down so that you can hear something else you can't have music loud and youtube loud at the same time sometimes you got to go back out of your app and lower the volume in another app so you can have more volume in another app i'm trying to help y'all here what i'm trying to tell you is maybe you can't hear from god maybe you can't feel god in your life because other stuff is just too loud what your family thinks is too loud your own personal ambition is too loud all that smoking and all that drinking and all of that partying is just too loud maybe if you lower the volume on that you can be reminded of what god is trying to tell you in another place you got to know who your source is i know you're driving on me but but but has thou not known has thou not heard that the god the everlasting god who created the ends of the earth watch this faint if not neither is he weary i know you're weary but god's not weary i know you're tired but god's not tired i know you're fatigued but god is not fatigued and so you don't just have source your source but you also have strength somebody shot strength what do you mean strength because the bible says verse 29 he gives power to the faint and to them who have no might he increases he increases their strength it's right then your bible as you tore it out it says he gives power to the faint and to them who have no might he increases their strength let me recognize it to those who are driving on e he'll give you just enough to make it when you feel like you don't have nothing left yeah the brothers appreciate me right through here you know a family if if i can be honest if i can be straight up and honest with you this pandemic hadn't been too kind to you boy uh it hadn't been too kind to me in the area of obesity yeah you know just keep looking straight ahead because if you start giggling and start flicking your eyes and looking side to side you're going to tell on yourself and i'm going to tell on myself but you just keep looking straight ahead because i don't want you to have to be vulnerable like me in this moment and admit this it's been hard on me because through this pandemic my weight has been up and down i've been in the gym i've been out the gym i've eaten well i've eaten horrible in the last few months because of stress come on somebody and because of a lot going on in my personal life with my family i found myself coping with eating real real good so now um recently took all my clothes to the cleaners not all of them most of them took them to the cleaners and i realized the cleaners are shrinking all my clothes i i don't understand it i pay way too much money for i listen i pay way too much money to take my clothes to the cleaners and have them shrinking but but the cleaners are literally shrinking all of my clothes and so i got members of the church trying to tell me pastor come on work out with me work out when we work out with me and you know i went to work out you know for a few days with one of my members went to work out and he had me don't say i'm good on cardio i can do elliptical all day i can do treadmill all day but he wanted me go over there and work out with my weight he said pastor man can you imagine one day you sit up there refuel and you got biceps and you got triceps you're going to be one of the most fit pastors in chicago i say yeah let's go i got dumbbells and i got barbells and i'm pulling stuff down and letting it go and i'm doing back presses and whatever this is and he i said i got to do all of this he said yeah if you want to get stronger you got to do all of this i said lord have mercy i said we got to meet 7 30 in the morning and do all it is i got to pull on stuff and yank stuff and lift stuff but when i read the text that's not god's recipe for strength the bible doesn't let me know i got to do more i got to exert more strength to get more strength the bible says he just gives you strength and somebody ought to stop right there and give god 10 seconds of a praise and i'mma give him 15 that when it's time for god to give strength he doesn't require me to use more strength to get more strength he just gives it to me and and if i by myself in this house who can testify there have been some days when i was lower than low weaker than weak tired and tired but god just gave me what i needed and that's why i'm still here today that's why you've made it over a year in a pandemic because when you lost your way god just gave you strength somebody ought to lift your hands to heaven right now and say god give me some more strength if i'm gonna raise these children i need strength if i'm gonna stay on this job i need strength if i'm gonna survive in a world filled with bigotry and hatred and racism and white supremacy and patriarchy i'm gonna need some strength bible says that the lord is my refuge and my strength a very present help in the time of trouble come here paul he said even when i'm weak he's strong his strength is made perfect in my weakness see when i get to the gym i gotta use strength to get strength but when i come to god he gives me strength when i don't have any strength i'm talking to a mama mother's day was absolutely horrible for a lot of people and you wondered how you gonna make it through the day emotionally can i tell you why you made it because god gave you strength he's your source he gives you strength but i got to be honest with you you better be ready to struggle yeah yeah i know you won't eat already but just just just go and get ready for the struggle why because even the youth shall faint and get weary young men and young women shall utterly fall i'm trying to tell you i don't want to tell you this part of the verse but i got to be fair to you all this verse is saying in verse 30 is that even the strongest among us will have moments where you lose your strength even the most righteous among us will have moments where your energy is utterly depleted when midnight gets the best of you when the winds across your face walking through the storm will feel like they're never ceasing when the lightning will be right in this signature across the sky of your life thunder will be roaring winds will be howling rains will be beating hell will be falling and i don't care how saved you are none of us are exempt from dealing with life's heaviness and that's why churchy fake people annoy me like life never hits them like nothing ever affects them you know you just hallelujah thank you jesus 24 7 the devil is a lie i don't care how much you pray you're gonna still have pressure i don't care how christian you are you're gonna still have chaos i don't care how much of a believer you are you're still gonna be burdened i don't care how much faith you have you're gonna be frustrated i don't care how many hallelujahs you shout every now and then you're gonna need some healing i don't care how many scriptures you can quote every now and then you gonna struggle and you already on e and now i gotta face the reality that even though i am bishop dr reverend deacon mrs mister captain professor lawyer dentist even me even you which is why you might as well go on and find a humble posture is why you might as well not judge people when they're going through their storm because your name is next on the list it may not be your season right now but you might as well be humble because your day is coming my day is coming when we all are gonna faint we're all gonna get weary but they that wait i feel like preaching by myself upon the lord here's what he's going to do after you realize he's your source after you realize he gives you strength after you embrace the fact that you're going to struggle get ready for god to stabilize you somebody just write this is my season of being stabilized somebody write that in the chat this is my season to be stabilized somebody just talk to your neighbor and say i'm being stabilized because they that wait on the lord he's going to renew your strength yeah it didn't say in this text he's going to give it to you he's going to renew what you already have meaning you already got something in you that you forgot about so in some verses he's going to give it to you but in other verses he's going to renew it for you yeah because some seasons i need new strength but in other seasons i need him to renew strength you just miss what i said this morning i said sometimes i need new strength but the other seasons i need him to renew strength and when i started reading about how god will renew your strength i did a little research elder vessel and i discovered something i was wondering when and when when when when people are driving on e is there any hope for folks whose gas tanks are already on e and i discovered something else the vessel is that the manufacturer of every car implements something in the gas chamber that's called the reserve tank so when your gas gets on e whether you know it or not there's something in the reserve tank just when you think that you don't have anything left you got something in your reserve tank that can help you make it a few more miles down the road and i don't know who i'm preaching to her on the third sunday of may but i am a living witness that god will give you something in your reserve tank you're looking at a pastor who's been riding down the road of life on the reserve tank i've been leading people out of my reserve tank there have been some seasons that god gave me new strength but there have been other seasons where god just renewed my strength it means i already had it i just had to tap in to my reserve tank well what's in your reserve tanker i'm glad you asked no weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper that's in my reserve tank the lord is my shepherd and i shall not want that's in my reserve tank he makes me lie down in green pastures that's in my reserve tank surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life that's in my reserve tanker for the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed that's in my reserve tanker this light affliction is but for a moment but is working for us a far exceeding weight of glory that's in my reserve tanker yeah they that wait on the lord he'll tap in to their reserved tank he'll renew their strength and then they'll mount up on wings like an eagle run not get weary walk and not faint can you tell somebody sitting around you guards getting ready to add to your reserve tank the devil thought he took everything you had but he forgot to empty your reserved tank so i feel a second wind flowing in the spirit i feel a second blow of the rock of god in the spirit i feel somebody's getting ready in the second quarter to tap into your reserved tank the devil can't find it hell can't destroy it water can't drown and wind can't blow it fire can't burn it liars can't ruin it the enemy can't defeat it somebody ought to throw your hands up and give god glory that you're making it right now even on e because you got something left in your reserve tanker and when the battle is over and the storm comes down and the pandemic ends and the liars get finished and the demons stop working and the fire stops blazing you're gonna be able to stand on the mountain of your own testimony with a gas tank on f and testify if it had not been for the lord on my side [Music] somebody give them glory that somehow you're gonna make it somehow you're gonna live somehow you're gonna survive you may not even know how but you made it on a reserve [Music] tell three people i got some left i've got some left i've got some left i've got some left i've got some love this joy that i have it's in the reserve taker this peace that i have it's in the reserve taker this hallelujah this thank you jesus this glory [Music] tell one more person i said i got some left so this next praise is not because my gas tank is only f it's coming from a deep place it's coming from a real place it's coming from a broken place it's coming from a reserved place somebody give him glory [Music] i said give him glory i got to sit down okay you just help me preach one more time pointing somebody near you with that holy finger telling me you might be on e right now telling me you might be on f right now but tell them for the rest of my life i'm gonna be driving okay look at say who is k what is cave i'm driving on camp because that's how i made it he kept me cars were breaking down my mind was shutting down my energy was down my life was falling down but he kept me so now unto him who is able won't he keep him won't he do it won't he hold him won't he help you won't he make it all right say hey see yay [Music] to keep [Music] be not dismayed whatever they tied you god will [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he's about to move you from driving on e to driving okay somebody bless him [Music] you were tired you were exhausted but he kept you divorced but he kept you sick but he kept you he moved radiation but he kept you dialysis insulin but he kept you high blood pressure [Music] [Music] don't move me now can i ask you a question have you been kept have you been kept have you been kept you have [Music] somebody wondering hey y'all go again here y'all go again cutting up on the virtual ship listen if you ain't never ran out of power if you've never ran out of some gas and found yourself on the side of the road and god dispatch the angel to just cover you until you can get it together again then sit down and close your mouth but if you know god [Music] take three seconds give god [Music] you were depressed and both didn't even know it you were woe out and nobody knew it you were about to quit and nobody knew it had your resignation letter in the email and nobody knew it but god put your hands together [Music] hey he's a keeper [Music] he's a keeper [Music] you'll do more than you ever expected he'll do more [Music] than you ever expected he [Music] he'll do more he he'll do more look over your life look over your life look over your life look over your life he's been good he's been kind yep you sang in your right mind just when you thought that you had nothing left god stepped in gave you what you need he'll do more he'll do more he'll do he'll more more he'll do more he'll do more i said he'll do more i said he'll do more and the enemy can't stop your purpose i said the enemy can't stop your calling i said deliver me can't block your blessing i said the enemy cake cause he'll do more he'll do [Music] than you ever expected [Music] [Music] did you ever expected [Music] i didn't mean somebody open your mouth and give him glory for the reserve [Music] i said somebody give him glory cause you got something left you might be 60 you might be 70 you might be 80 you might be depressed you might be fatigued anxiety may have a grip on you uncertainty has a grip on you but god told me to tell you he's not just gonna do more you already have more [Music] you already got it somebody right in the chat i'm driving okay this week come on somebody's like somebody say i'm driving okay this week [Music] somebody gonna say what in the world is k say that's cap [Music] come on fill that chat up and give on some crazy praise cause you're driving okay and you're gonna be okay as long as you stay on case strength god is your source god is your strength [Music] and you might struggle but your season of stability your season of being stabilized is coming but they i want to be in the they crew i need to be in the they crew that but they that wait on the lord he's gonna renew and if he can renew it for you that means it's already in you you have more in you than you think you do stop doubting yourself stop wondering is this enough is this good enough i don't have i'm not in my groove i ain't in my vibe in this season i i just i just can't get it that god said i don't need you to get it let me get it he's gonna renew your strength so that there can be rejuvenation elevation and motivation i speak that over your life god's getting ready to rejuvenate you god's getting ready to elevate you so that god can accelerate you i hope you're listening in the spirit cause i just gave you something to hold on to he's gonna rejuvenate you elevate you so he can motivate you they shall mount up on wings elevation like eagles run not get weary walk and not faint that's your acceleration and even when you don't eat god will let you drive okay and he'll keep you you're looking at somebody this sermon did not come from a commentary or from a magazine the sermon did not come from exegetical hermeneutical homework but this sermon came directly off of the laboratory of my own life i know god's a keeper and i know he's worthy of all praise hey family if you need christ today he has come to be your source and your strength i know you i know it's i know you feel empty i know you feel empty i know you feel empty and you will feel empty sometimes but when you can't drive on f christ trust me will empower you to drive okay because he'll keep you if you need christ send us an email or text if you need a church home send us an email or text come on we're about to be led in worship by our own minister of worshiping arts elder kevin vasser and i don't need you to watch him after a word like this let's worship with him come on elder wherever you are lift those hands right now as that word should have taken you to another place father we believe right now the report of the lord that you're able to do exceedingly and abundantly and even right now someone's tank is being filled in jesus name come on wherever you are just lift those hands you begin to worship him father we love you yeah you provide the fire and i'll provide the sacrifice oh [Music] and i will open up inside fill me up god [Music] me provide the fire [Music] and i'll provide the sacrifice anybody need them today you pour out your spirit yeah and i will open up and say come on tell em [Music] everybody feel me [Music] yes i [Music] less of me hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] me of god why don't you fill me up i don't wanna be the same no more i need more of you yeah i don't wanna be the same no more i need more of you yeah come on tell them i don't wanna be the same no more i need more of you come [Music] won't you feel me up [Music] fill me up god feel me so as our hands are lifted father we thank you because we know you do all things well and we know that everything that we need is already in you so we're not going to take this moment to ask you for anything but why the minstrels play we're going to open up our mouths and thank you thank you for being our keeper thank you for being our protector thank you for being our provider come on wherever you are just open those mouths come on on display lift those hands and worship the lord come on and we'll never be the same no more now come on let the glory of the lord feel wherever you are you will never be the same no more you will never be the same no more god's gonna change your life god's gonna change your life feel [Music] god he's gonna feel you all yeah hey family wherever you are right now in this moment can you lift those hands to god again lift those hands to god again and simply repeat after me [Music] even when [Music] i feel like i'm driving on e [Music] remind me oh god that i'm never empty when i'm connected to you [Music] thank you for allowing me [Music] to live to drive to lead and to love okay thank you come on repeat after me thank you for keeping me thank you for keeping my family thank you for keeping my church thank you for keeping my spouse stronger because i have the right source now oh god we ask as we seal this worship experience that you would fill us up fill us up lord fill us up lord fill us up fill us up with more wisdom fill us up with more power fill us up with more patience fill us up with the fruit of the spirit fill us up with more long suffering more self-control more gentleness more kindness more meekness more humility more spirituality fill us up god with more energy fill us up god with more dreams with more visions fill us up god with more strength for the road ahead and we give you praise we give your honor and we give you glory in jesus name let everybody who feels god filling you say amen amen and amen may your struggles keep you near the cross may your troubles show that you and i need god may your battles end the way they should and may your bad days prove that god is still good i pray your whole life your whole week the rest of this month the rest of this year keeps on proving that our god really is good have a blessed week fellowship have a blessed week virtuous ship come on elder [Music] [Music] cause i really don't need to feel me [Music] thank you for worshiping with fellowship chicago on the virtual ship we've always had a commitment of service and during this season we've increased our efforts to serve you better we have made it easy for you to stay connected to get the complete resources you need you can email us at info fellowship chicago dot com call the church office tuesday through friday 9 a.m to 5 p.m at 773-924-3232 and our social media on instagram twitter and facebook [Music] for real-time updates you can text fellowship chicago to 31996 we have exciting and informative resources throughout the entire week designed specifically with you in mind go to fellowshipchicago.com for the full schedule until we dock again thank you for your prayers and financial support of fellowship chicago remember we are in this together

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Length: 84min 21sec (5061 seconds)

Published: Sun May 16 2021