Finding Clarity | Pastor Sim

[Music] amen listen i want you to grab your bibles would you grab your bibles and go with me to nehemiah chapter one but before we do that i want to say thank you for all of you for sharing with us where you're watching from we have florida california fort mill rock hill baltimore maryland providence rhode island chester virginia dayton ohio atlanta georgia chiefly in florida i don't know what it is but thank you puerto rico favor north carolina concord north carolina tampa florida columbus ohio y'all ain't saying nothing i um warren ohio uh i hope i'm saying this right newton newington connecticut lynch uh lynchburg virginia gallanton not gatlinburg i know what i'm reading uh gallatin tennessee beaufort south carolina hempstead new york the bronx new york dallas texas elk ridge maryland bowling green ohio alexandria virginia we have people watching from all over we want to say thank you for watching us today we're so glad that you're here and now we pray that uh you share this so press that share button let someone know that we're on it's going to be a good one today guy i just guys i just want to have a bible study today if you allow me to do so thank you son uh i just want to have a bible study right quick uh and i'm i'm praying this is going bless us nehemiah chapter one and then we're gonna begin reading at verse eight and we're gonna conclude that verse 11. nehemiah chapter 8 chapter 1 verse 8 through 11. it says remember the instruction you gave your servant moses this is nehemiah talking to god he says saying if you are unfaithful i will scatter you among the nations but if you return to me and obey my commands then even if you are exiled people at the father's horizon i will gather them from there and bring them to the place i have chosen as a dwelling place for my name they are your servants and your people whom you redeemed by your great strength in your mighty hand lord let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man i was a cupbearer to the king i just want to continue what i talked about last week as relates to finding clarity last week if you didn't watch i really encourage you to watch the video from last week speaking about clarity and a lot of people are seeking god for clarity trying to understand what it is that they're supposed to do but the one thing i wanted to make you are certain of is that before you can ever be clear you have to be sure i think we have to pray and ask god for the assurance to know that this is what we're supposed to be doing when i grew up the bible says uh in hebrews 11 and one faith is the substance of things hoped for it is the evidence of things not seen but in the niv version it says for faith is the confidence of things hoped for and the assurance of what i do not see and when you understand that as we walk with god he wants us to be sure of our calling sure of our assignment sure of where we're going sure of our direction and when we are confident in that we can ask god for clarity because we already know for certain what we're supposed to do sometimes we just don't know how to do it so god then gives us the clarity to do that and so i want to continue in that thing today but one of the things i want to talk about today specifically is understanding how god speaks to you at different times last week when we talked about samuel the bible says that the young boy samuel is now serving in the house of the lord with eli and the lord begins to speak to samuel directly and samuel being a young boy did not know the voice of the lord and the bible says that when uh god spoke spoke to him that he got up and went to eli thinking that eli was calling him and so eli says son is not me i need you to go back and lie down and after the third time eli recognized that it was the lord that was calling samuel so he said listen the next time you hear this voice this is what you say yes lord your servant heareth or your servant is listening and god began to speak to samuel and sometimes when you are praying to god and you are asking him for direction or he's trying to reveal something to you there are times where he will speak to you directly but there are other times he will not speak to you directly and he will use people to speak to you are you with me so in nehemiah chapter one in our lesson today the bible says that nehemiah is is actually serving the king and and the bible says in uh in in chapter one verse two that he has a conversation with the old friend of his and he says how's everything going in my hometown jerusalem and his friend says you haven't heard would happen he said what happened is that the people those who have survived there's only a remnant remnant and they're going back to jerusalem and they're trying their best to rebuild it it was destroyed the gates were burned with fire the walls are all broken down and and they don't know what to do and they're trying to rebuild and and we just don't know what's going to happen and the bible says the response of that problem was a burden to nehemiah and i want you to know that sometimes you are called to respond to the burden sometimes people are carrying burdens they should be responding to you should pray about it see some is interesting this is really really funny to me people who are normally um who have a drive for counseling a lot of times are people who initially needed it no offense just hear me and not in every case but it's interesting because in order for you to be an effective counselor you have to be able to feel what the person is saying but you have to make sure that you don't transfer what's going because you can counsel someone and it can trigger something in you instead of you counseling them you end up putting some of you into that and you have to be healthy as a counselor when you're giving direction because you can literally poison someone with your issues instead of helping them get through their issues the way they need to get to it and so the burdens that we carry are often a sign that we may be the answer to that problem if you cannot let things go i don't advise you to get into a certain work i don't you you can't be in counseling and social work and you can't let stuff go you you can't work at the police department in the fire department and see certain things or work in a prison you you have to be able to see that stuff and you got to drop it at the door and you pick it back up when you walk in some people are not wired that's that way that's why certain people can't work certain jobs it's not that you're evil it's just like you can't let stuff go you can't sleep you can't you can't you can't eat you you worried and you just your whole life just jacked up because you don't know how to let go watch this of other people problems and so it is when you have a burden god puts a burden on you because sometimes he wants you to respond to that so the bible says in verse 3 of chapter 1 it says they said to me those who survived the exile and are back in their providence in great trouble and disgrace and the walls of jerusalem uh is broken down and his gates have been burned with fire verse four and when i heard these things i sat down and wept for days for i mourned and faster than pray before the lord god of heaven and then the next thing we see is nehemiah begin to pray saying lord the you you say you who keep your covenant with your people he says please please let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear my prayer he goes on and he says god we confess our sins we we messed up and we shouldn't have done this and we we've done wrong against you he says we've acted wickedly towards you we have disobeyed your commands we've disobeyed your decrees but then he says but lord remember you said you told moses that if we were unfaithful you would scatter us we were unfaithful and you scattered us he says verse 9 he says but if you return to me and obey my commands then even if you are exiled at the farthest horizon i will gather them and bring them back to the place i've chosen as a dwelling place for my name in other words you can mess your life up being unfaithful to god but there's a promise that god has for your life that even when you are unfaithful if you make the choice to turn back around and become faithful again that he would gather all of the pieces that are broken and he'll bring it back together now i know it's talking about the 12 tribes or the 11 tribes and bringing them back together but god will bring things back together because that's a part of the promise yeah there's a part of god that if you don't do what you're supposed to do you have to deal with the consequences but god doesn't end with the consequences he ends with the blessing but if you do what i tell you to do you will experience the blessing i have for you and i want you to know you may be in a place right now where everything is falling apart and you feel like oh my god i don't know if i'm going to get this together i came to tell you today god will bring it all back together he'll bring your marriage back together he'll bring your family back together he'll put you back together if you are faithful and obey his word he says god you promised this he says in verse 10 they are your servants these are your people whom you redeem by your great strength in your mighty hand he says lord please pay attention to this prayer now i love this he says in verse 11 give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man look at this last clause first chapter i was a cup bearer to the king there is no wasted words in the bible sometimes you can see something you say that's insignificant every word is significant and i want you to know that one of the things we miss about nehemiah is that he's a cupbearer now what's so important i had my son to grab me a cup right quick a cup barrel what was important about a cupbearer see the cup bearer's job during this time because they want to make sure that the king would never get poisoned by the wine he would drink that they put people on payroll and their job was to pour the wine into the cup that the king would drink from and they would have to drink it first to make sure it wasn't poisoned okay his job was to pour wine into the king's cup taste it before the king drinks from that cup and if he died they would know that that cup was poisoned so to make sure that the king wouldn't die they had to have somebody in the middle to make sure that that person would taste the wine to make sure that the king could live nehemiah's job is to drink from a cup some of you are saying pastor i don't have a big title i'm not i don't have um any degrees behind my my name i don't have this long history i don't make six figures i'm not considered to be successful all i have is something small and insignificant and it may not seem like much and i want you to know sometimes what seems to be insignificant are oftentimes the greatest contribution to any organization or family or anything that you are a part of the bible says that this man is a cup bearer more than likely if we just want to just make it kind of plain he doesn't have a degree he doesn't have any uh he doesn't have a bachelor's he doesn't have an associates he doesn't have a master's degree or a phd he hasn't been a part of a uh academic uh program he hasn't come to uh the the the the course of education that some would think that would deem him successful he hasn't gone to any of that he's just a cup bearer and and the thing about this that's so important is because now his service as a cup bearer is important now because he has presence with the king so even though his job doesn't seem to be major everybody else knows the importance of nehemiah's job and sometimes we don't think our contribution to something is as significant as it is for others what would happen if we didn't have a nehemiah what happened if we didn't have an intercessor what would happen if we didn't have somebody in between this one and that one what happens and sometimes god will put you in the middle so that you can help people on both sides because you've been graced to do so and the bible says he's a cup bearer which means he's tasting the the wine from the king's cup why is this important i'm getting ready to show you right now because he's praying he says god here's my prayer i'm a man of order our people have been exiled i'm here with xerxes and i'm his servant i serve him not don't think about slave because when we think about servant um or we hear the word servant we think slave and i understand that terminology but i want you to see the word service in the word servant i want you to see the word serve i want you to see the word wait i want you to see the word assist i want you to see the word minister this is why paul said that we are all ministers it's not someone who sits in the front row uh with the turnback caller it's not that a minister is someone who serves as a matter of fact if you go to other countries you will see that their titles are minister of such and such minister of this minister of that and they're in political seats because they are a servant to that country a servant in that area so when you are a minister you are a servant in that particular area and god has called all of us to be servants are you with me so listen to me he's serving because he's a man of order he understands in order for him to be released to do what's on his heart he must have the king to release him which means he needs a person to release him this is in control this is not a control message it's a order message so when you are serving the king you don't go and make a move without having a conversation with the king so the bible says he's praying god i know what you promise your children i know what's going on with jerusalem and i know you can turn it around because you're going to redeem us again but god i want to do something about it but i know i can't move on it until i've been released by the person i serve so he's praying for favor because he was a cup bearer so here it is uh nehemiah chapter 2 in the month of nisan in the 20th year of king xerxes when wine was brought to him i took the wine and gave it to the king i had not been sad in the presence in his presence before so the king asked me oh look at this why does your face look so sad when i know your heart is not ill this could be nothing but sadness of a heart his response is i was so afraid but i said to the king he got some courage because courage means doing it afraid he said i was so much he said i was very afraid but i said to the king may the king live forever why should my face not look sad when the city of my answers where i grew up are buried in lies in ruins and the gates are destroyed by fire and the king says what you want okay let me let me start over again he brings the cup but his face is revealing what's going on with his heart and the king says you may never look like this you've never looked that burden in my presence before i've never seen you carry yourself like this what's wrong where i grew up it's just it's just falling apart this is what happened and and that's why i look the way i do king well what do you want i came to tell you that in order for you to get the king to respond to you with a what do you want it was preceded with how you served every day you put your life on the line every day you would sip a cup saying i hope this isn't poisoned and you would drink and put your life on the line every day you sacrifice your life i present you therefore brother by the mercies of i beseech you therefore brother by the mercy of god to present your bodies a living sacrifice every day i'm sacrificing every day i'm sacrificing every day i'm putting my life on the line for the king you're not hearing me every day i'm doing what i'm supposed to do in my position to serve him i'm doing everything possible that i know to do and i drink it to make sure that the king is good and because i serve the king well and because i sacrificed well and because my presence was always uplifting when i walked in and something looked off the king excuse me god said something wrong with your countenance why you look like that and then once you share the burden that was on your heart the king says what you want i came to tell somebody you've been serving you've been giving you've been helping you've been administering you've been ministering you've been doing everything you know to do i came to tell you god came to tell me to tell you this morning what you want what what what do you want anything you want at this point i'll give it to you and the bible says he lays out he says then well i love this i love this you got to put this put this in the comment put this in the chat nehemiah four and five chapter one excuse me chapter two four and five nehemiah two four and five i'm gonna read it to you it says the king said to me what is that you want look at nehemiah's response then i prayed to the god of heaven and answered the king so he asked me what i want i had to pray to god right quick and then i gave my answer see some of us are not giving the god answers some of us are giving god the me answer so he says i prayed to god and after i prayed to god god gave me the answer for the king and he says if it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor oh that's what i prayed for if i pray for favor in his sight let me send me to the city of judah where my ancestors are buried so i can rebuild it uh oh here it is verse six then the king with the queen oh his boo next side of him said how long is going to take and when you gonna get back these are not yes or no's this they're trying to position themselves for the release because how long you gonna be gone we have to make sure we have somebody in position to take your place while you're gone and to replace you isn't easy i don't know who i'm talking to but some of you some people don't want to let you go because they know your value to the team and so sometimes it's not because you're doing a bad job it's because you do such a great job and so sometimes what happens is people don't want to let you go because of the value you bring some people are not holding you back because they don't want you to go any further they don't want to they don't want to let you go because if they let you go their burden is going to change because because you carry so much weight where you are yeah okay so here it is he says i got you he says how long is it going to take i love this i love this how long is it going to take when you get back he says if it pleases the lord send me send me so i can set a time he doesn't tell them give me six months he doesn't tell him give me two years he says let me go assess the situation let me see and get back to you the only way this can happen is because there's trust can i talk if there's ever going to be a healthy relationship in any any area of relationship there must be trust now there is something that our generation is missing and i have to address it it is a term called reciprocity we are living in a time where people have relationships that are more transactional than reciprocal so let me explain a transaction is an exchange of good in services so that means you go and you pay for gas you get the gas you gave them your money you went to the grocery store you paid for the grocery you you got you get the groceries that you paid for right you see some clothes you go in there you buy the clothes you give them the money you get the clothes that's a transaction and many people are living with relationships that are transactional it's only an exchange of goods and services it's because you scratch my back i scratch yours this isn't a mutual an investment on both sides paul said this he said i gave to you spiritual things shouldn't you give me material things see paul's in prison and what he's saying is you don't understand that i gave you one thing but because this relationship should be reciprocated that something should come back and so many of us have one-sided relationships which are transactional because we only go with them because they add value to us but the truth is you may not add value to them so we are buying our relationships and they're calling people mentors we are buying ourselves listen i have my own programs and i'm coming out so i have not i'm not against online classes and all no i have my own stuff coming but there's some people understand there's some classes you take that you pay for and the reason let me tell you this let me please let me help you with this if you don't okay i remember once i had to go to a conference i was asked to go to a conference and the price tag to me was fairly expensive i thought it was expensive so i called the mentor of mine and i said i was asked to go to this conference but it just cost too much money i don't want to spend that much money and he he asked me how much the cost and i told him and this is what he said to me he said are you not worth that much i said i'm worth more than that i just don't want to pay that he said that's your problem he said you have an opportunity to be in a room with that most people would dream of being in here's a price tag but you see a price but you don't see you see a cost but you don't see an investment in yourself how much would you pay if it was an investment to you but many people don't look at it as an investment they see a number and they see a cost and now you're trying to figure out why some people are getting access to stuff that you're not it's because they're willing to invest more if you can't afford it that's one thing but if you have it and you're not willing to do it what you're saying is you don't think you're worth it somebody put a price tag oh this is going to cost a thousand dollars oh the devil is a lie i ain't spending that much money there's that and the third bye bye bye that's too much it's because maybe you can't afford it and that's fine but there's some people who have it and they say that's too much is it too much because let me tell you something people put price tags on stuff because they don't want to talk to certain people i'm gonna give myself an offer i'm preaching better than y'all responded people put price tags on certain things because certain price tag keeps certain people out of the room and then when you get to a certain place you're not trying to have abc conversation you're trying to have an in-depth conversation about something a waiting matter that causes you to think not go to something that makes you feel a certain way so when you start seeing larger price tags that means there's a larger investment which means there will be a way to your conversation that can really change your life to go into a different direction but you'll never see it because you're not willing to make the investment so you keep taking all these 50 courses and figuring out nothing is changing because you're getting 50 worth of information i did this i found this course it was online with uh oxford university it was executive leadership course um i think it lasted about 10 12 weeks something like that and i took it online and while i was in the program i said now i know why oxford is oxford said i know why oxford is oxford because the way they were teaching the information was so different than what i've ever that i've ever seen it was just i it was causing me listen to me they were they were teaching me processes that i had to apply if i was going to live up to an oxford level of leadership it wasn't just information they were giving frameworks they were saying how do you do this there was conversation with people all over the globe who were addressing certain topics making me think about stuff i never thought about before but i would have never gotten the information if i would have never made the investment and once you bite that fruit and you understand it you would save up your money for a class not a bag you would save up your money for that and not shoes y'all okay i know i'm coming for you it's all right i love you anyway but what's happening is because of that we are we are in a time you must invest into yourself but you know what we're living in we're living in a time where relationships are more about themselves i think the bible says something like this in the last days people will become lovers of themselves more than lovers of god so people go if you don't add no value to me then i don't want you in my life this that and third this and everything about you so everything about everything is about you so you don't talk to anybody who don't add value to you the question is who do you add value to the bible says a virtuous woman her value her worth she doesn't have a price tag is her presence is what she has is who she is as an individual her value is far above rubies her worth is far above rubies amen your value is there as well but if you don't understand who you are and what you bring to the table you will miss out on opportunities because you don't know who you are are you hearing what i'm saying to you today so it is interesting that now because of nehemiah being a cup bearer he understood god i served well in this who would have ever thought a cup would have got you access who would ever thought something so small would have given you what you needed here it is what nehemiah did was serve and put his life on the line but because he served well listen to me please hear what i'm saying how long are you going to be gone let me assess it and i'll get back to you i trust you enough that you will bring me back the information you said you would bring me because you can't serve with me and be this close and not be integral look oh jesus let me let i i okay i am trying to hold this together i don't know how much time i have listen jesus jesus jesus was a smart guy like really smart i had a revelation last week that made me like it sent me it reset me who was jesus top three every time he went garden against gethsemane when he went to my transfiguration who was his top three peter james and john right matthew wasn't up there phillip wasn't up there but telling me it wasn't up there luke wasn't up there judas wasn't up there of course not uh phillip was something that thank you wasn't up there like none of that why weren't they up there and then it dawned on me after preaching the message on vantage point the three he chose were three fishermen he chose the three listen to me let's talk the fishermen were wired a certain way they were strategic because they knew when they had to fish it when they had to drop the net they also knew how to build structure because they had to mend their nets to make sure it could handle the catch so it was not only just sowing but being able to carry the weight of the catch when they caught the fish they also had to work a certain way physically be able to handle pulling in the fish dealing with the tug of war they had to be able to have eyes on what was the type of fish they should have be knowledgeable of know to what to throw back and what to keep they had to know how to mentally prepare themselves for a catch and they had to be wired to do all of this and be disappointed not to catch anything a tax collector ain't thinking like that a doctor ain't thinking like that not that they're not thinking is that their job requires them to think about something else so here it is he had to choose to dream that was white like him we you had as a leader i learned this i'm i'm giving y'all more i'm telling you you don't even know what i'm giving you right now as a leader we are choosing the wrong three you chose your three because you grew up with them but are they wired like you you're not here when you are a ceo or you're a business leader you are passing down to the next person the way they are wired because they can handle the weight because they're already naturally wired we're trying to make people be something they are not and you're beating your head against the wall and you're licking the paint off the wall trying to figure out why these people can't get it and it's because they're not wired to do it the reality is you can't be a supervisor cause you don't like people you are a hard worker you meet all the deadlines you kill every excel spreadsheet and every powerpoint and you're a great presenter but you don't like people so we need to put you on the excel spreadsheet team and the powerpoint team and the presentation team but keep them away from all other people because they're going to quit if she supervises them or he supervises them we're going to put you in this program you put them in a program and it still didn't work because they're not wired i like you you i like you i think you'll be great have they proven themselves in that area like can you really do the job i don't care how nice your teeth are i don't care how nice your smile is i don't care how bubbly you can you get the job done jesus chose people the three that was wired in such a way so when jesus dies and is resurrected what three do we keep hearing about peter james john then the apostle paul comes in later you don't hear much about the other ones it's not that they have a contribution but they weren't wired as a matter of fact he never told matthew i'll make you a fisher of men they never told they thank you i'll make you you're not hearing what i'm saying for my bible when i read it he told three that he would make them fishers of men but he didn't say that to the other ones so you're trying to ask somebody to fish you don't know how to fish matthew do the excel spreadsheet judas be over the numbers luke make sure every healing i do you account for to make sure i did it right all right i took the exit back to the interstate so here it is here's the problem ipad don't do this to me right now thank you very much all right so he prays for favor i'm getting ready to go all right we get already wrap it up somebody say reciprocal all right it's mutual i give to you you give back to me i give to you you give back to me i give to you i give it so what was happening was this hear me every day every sip was a deposit every sip each and every day was a deposit small deposit a deposit nonetheless so now when the king has to go to the bank account to see the withdrawal that nehemiah is trying to ask for he sees that he made enough deposit that he can have access to his resources so what the king does is that okay i'm going to read it to you because it's better if i read it to you it's not on the screen i don't know how fast you can give nehemiah chapter 2 verse 6. then it came with the queen sitting beside him as how long will the journey take and when will you get back it pleased the king to send me so i set a time verse seven i gotta read this slowly i also said to him if it pleases the king man i have letters to the governors i need access to your relationships because if i leave to try to go over there and i cross all this property they're going to ask me who i am and they may possibly kill me but they won't kill me if you put your stamp on me so that i may pro so that they will provide me safe conduct until i arrive in judah i'm asking for your protection all right and may i have a letter to asaf the keeper of the royal park so he can give me some timber to make beans for the gates in the citadel by the temple for the city wall and for the residents i will occupy because while i'm down there i'm gonna need a house jesus y'all not hear what i'm saying i'm going down here to build but i'm gonna need resources to build a house while i'm down there and i need to be comfortable while i'm building the cities so he just told me he was honest i got to build a house with me while i'm down there and because of your gracious hand of my god was on me the king granted me my request see i need to be running around your living room right now because i served everything i asked for he gave me when you serve this is why some of us ain't stressing over our prayers because we know where our prayers and where our service went the people scratching their heads wondering if god gonna do it or not are the ones who were not serving and not doing what they're supposed to do but the ones who kept grinding and kept praying and kept fasting and kept believing and kept tapping in and wouldn't give up and kept continuing to serve and did everything they had to do they're saying god i did what i was supposed to do and according to your word you want to bring everything back to me so i'm asking you to do it but i realize i can't get it unless you give it to me through this person okay i need to show you this i got to show you this i taught you this before but we need to go there again i want you to grab your bibles on your ipads type it in the comments section matthew 13 24-28 matthew 13 24-28 matthew 13 24-28 then i need you to go to matthew 13 same chapter down to verse 36 all right i'ma start reading right now matthew 13 24 jesus told him another parable the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in the field but while everyone was sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds and among the wheat and went away and when the wheat sprouted and formed the heads then the weeds also appeared the only servant came to him and said sir didn't you sow good seeds in the field where then did the weeds come from and the enemy did this he replied and the servants asked him do you want us to pull them up the response that jesus gives in the parable is no leave him alone because if you try to pull up the wheat if you try to pull up the weeds you're gonna pull up the wheat as well so here it is let the two struggle together so there's a season in your life where sometimes the enemy comes just to create a struggle and you gotta understand that god has to allow you to endure the struggle because if he deals with the weed he gonna destroy you with it so there's some things you just have to fight through until you get to the end and once you mature enough he'll then separate you and you won't have that struggle any longer okay now go down to verse 36 then he says this so jesus is now giving the explanation of this parable i'm almost done then he left the crowd and went into the house his disciples came to him and said i said this earlier explain the parable to us of the weeds in the field and he answered the one who sowed the good seed is the son of man the field is the world and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom the weeds are the people of the evil one and the enemy who sows them is the devil the harvest and the in age and the harvesters are angels all right the harvest is in the in age and the harvesters are angels so here it is he said the good seed was planted by the son of man the bad seed was planted by the devil the good seed is supposed to produce wheat wheat turns into bread weeds don't produce nothing and the problem is sometimes we don't know the difference between weeds and wheat until it begins to grow i was thinking about this the other day i said god you're going to help me with this and he said sim he said it takes the same thing for both of them to grow simple in revelation but but why is it that they bless because they need rain why are they growing because they need a ground to be in why they growing because they need the sunlight why they win because they need a certain environment so if they're in a certain environment they're going to grow automatically because we think that the wheat is going to go away because we spoke to it sometimes there has to be a separation because here it is weeds don't produce nothing they grow but they don't produce i'll leave that to you later oh i'm growing i need yeah everybody grow i need you to show me something at this point that's why because of the fruit of the spirit this ain't abstract it's proof i see this some of you lord help me hear what i'm saying when you are in a relationship you're looking for somebody who can add value not company so so many too many people are settling for company and not value it be that god wants you to be alone during this season so he can speak to you directly but we don't want that so god is saying here it is i'm trying to help you here we go the wheat turns into bread bread is symbolic of people so when jesus prays and he tells you pray give us this daily bread he's simply not saying god paid my bill he's saying god send me the right person you are somebody's brand okay let me give you another example jesus is out teaching he don't want to teach but people keep following him so he sees all these people he sits down in the middle of field he starts teaching he starts looking around the sun is going down and the disciples says okay jesus the revival is over send these people home the sun's getting ready to go down jesus says but before we send them home we got to feed them judah says we don't have it in the budget one of the other disciples come and say okay jesus we got this little boy's lunch two fish five loaves of bread the bible says now here's the thing the bible says he took the bread i don't think the bible said i i might be wrong i can't stand to be corrected i don't think he ever grabbed the fish when i read it it said he grabbed the bread he took the bread he blessed it he spoke over it then he broke it and then he gave it that was a person because when god is getting ready to use you he'll speak a word over you then he gonna break you then he gives you away because that's what wheat does wheat turns in the bread and bread becomes nourishment to somebody else and i came to tell you that god has been trying to get you in a place that you carry the blessing and that you stop looking for people to be a blessing and that you when you show up god says that when you show up everything changed because you are what they've been looking for that's why you've been going through the hell you've been going through that's why you've been struggling the way you've been struggling this is why you've been confused in your mind and trying to figure out god what am i supposed to do am i supposed to go here or am i supposed to go over there am i supposed to do it right here do i talk to this person or that person do i say something do i keep my mouth shut god is saying i'm doing all of this because i'm trying to position you so i can multiply you because the world is waiting on you so now it makes sense why nehemiah had to go into captivity and get that job oh my god i'm trying to stop why i got this job i don't like colombia i want to be out here i don't like baltimore i don't like tallahassee i don't like jacksonville i don't like dallas i want out of here i want something new i want a new experience i want a new place feet let me help you out you can move to a new city but if you still got the same mind you still gonna have the same problems maybe god gave you that job to hold something that you thought was insignificant to simply give you access so that the king who is not a believer by the way to pay for your stuff the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just there are people who don't know your god but they have a bank account that god gave them because the earth is the lord in the fullness of and he owns everything so god will turn the heart of the king in your direction to support your vision even though they don't believe in your god come on hebrew boys i'ma put you in the fiery furnace and after you come out of that not smelling like smoke the king says nobody can talk about their god because i saw what their god did for them so sometimes your witness and your presence and your ability to just endure eventually be the bread that changes somebody's life are you hearing what i'm saying so now nehemiah has access and the king is supporting it i ain't gonna preach the book but there are two people to buy it and send ballot they come up they don't like me of mine making these moves who he think he is he don't have no lineage no stock he understands and they're trying to start confusion they write letters to the king see what he doing that's what i love see when you have the conversation on the front end and you honest and you're integral when people try to bring up mess later on it don't even interfere with the process because the people they're trying to talk to already know you y'all hear what i'm saying see there's some people who don't know where you are and this is why they can't give you a reference but when they know who you are they could then say please why are you bringing up this you're lie and you messy so i know not to mess with you anymore because because the person i'm dealing with has integrity you showing me you don't so you asking god for clarity i came to tell you it's two things either you nehemiah or you the king you either you're the one who's been serving and god is getting ready to bless you or you have the resources and it's time for you to start being a blessing i'ma say something to you and we'll stop the answer god has called the church to be the answer and because the church should be the answer i mean he called us to be the answer so he sends you to where you are he sends you where you are whether in banking or finance or education or the dmv or social security or an engineer or an admin assistant or no matter where you are god puts you right there and says grow here serve here god what does this have to do with anything just sit here and serve and put a smile on your face i don't know if nehemiah enjoys sipping wine that might kill him every day yep guys this might be the last day so good seeing you if i would make it this time i just love all y'all i don't i don't know if that was his i don't know if that's enjoyable knowing every day this might be the last sip but he did it anyway and he did it with a smile on his face if you like me i pray you don't have your pastor's spirit i have a tendency to wear everything on my face so if i don't like it you know it do you like it did you see his face he didn't like it at all we don't have to have a meeting look at his eyebrows it'll tell you everything but some of us got that poker face we can be in something can't stand it you won't even know how you feel about it god is calling us listen to me to move um everything i just said all that was my introduction here's my first point and my last point god i need clarity he gives you a problem you pray about the burden then he gives you an answer through a person and you know what makes it clear all the doors open because when he went to the king he didn't go um well i kind of think i need by the time he got to the king and the king said what do you need he was like hold on for a second let me let me pull out my um my list because i've been working on this what you've been working on you can't be in front of the king and the king actually what you want and you him and han you got to be ready he was ready and gave an answer to what he saw in his heart and the king wrote the check the king wrote the check and supported his vision sometimes the clarity doesn't come until after you say yes to the burden you had and then god would send people in your life to help resource what you have on your heart so now when people say how did that happen how did you meet that person how did that connection it's like it was god and god use people because that's who god uses god doesn't need money we do [Music] god doesn't need more time we do [Music] god doesn't even need your praise he got enough angels already doing that you need that the re god god is so nice to us he says he's seeking for people to worship because at the end of the day when you worship you get a piece of heaven god god isn't looking for a piece of earth but we do need a piece of heaven and worship allows you to have that experience so god is calling us to make a shift in our prayer and our clarity and i came to tell you get excited get ready because it's coming get ready the relationships are coming because you served and you cried and you didn't you lacked sleep and you did it when you were exhausted but you didn't complain and even if you did complain you complained in private and sometimes you had to tell your friend you were frustrated but god said i saw all of that i caught all your tears in a bottle and we gonna make that happen and because you did it because you sowed in tears you're gonna reap enjoy and because you were doing this i'm gonna do that and i came to tell you don't give up and don't quit watch god work it out it may be dark during this time you may be frustrated during this time but the bible says that even though weeping may endure for a night joy comes in the morning i want you to know that better is coming more is coming grace is coming peace is coming joy is coming abundance is coming because you serve and god has seen you he hasn't overlooked you but he saw you where you were and when you thought you were buried buried god was planting you there and now you look back and now you got limbs and now you got branches and now you've got fruit and you you're providing shade and someone says how did you get that you said i don't even know because i thought god gave up on me but now when i look back and i look at where i am now i realize he did all of these things to position me where i am i came to tell you get ready for more get ready to get ready get ready get ready for more get ready for the abundance get ready for the overflow getting ready to see god do great and mighty things [Music] get ready for it get ready for it you can't see what you don't believe you know why some people they keep going it doesn't stop them because they believe god gonna do it god makes himself available i'm seriously this is my last thing and i'm gonna stop the bible says jesus goes to his hometown and can't do many miracles why was that he couldn't do it no he could have done it they didn't believe but if those people would have believed and they would say i believe he's a dude i believe he can heal but no that's mary's boy nope i don't care about mary's boy i believe he can so open up blinded eyes and he can make the lane walking he can make the dumb talk i've seen him cast out demons i believe he can do that here you will be amazed to see what happens when we can get two or three gather together agreeing and watch god stand in the midst of that and watch how he magnifies himself in our midst and this is why the enemy's been attacking us trying to cause divide because he knows you can't produce if you're disconnected but i came to tell you expect more expect more more of his glory more of his word more of his presence watch god show you more miracles and show you greater things greater mighty things greater mighty things great and mighty things i believe god's going to give us great and mighty things great and mighty things [Music] watch him do it i'ma pray father we thank you that you're doing great and mighty things in our midst we thank you that abundance is is ours we thank you that the blessing shall overtake us father we thank you that you you you've prepared our hearts and we've served but god we thank you that in this season you're going to do things we never thought could happen god we served in places we thought were insignificant we served in places that we thought were just just just futile and it's just mundane but god you've been graceful and you've been gracious to us and we say thank you for what you are doing we say thank you for where you're taking us and god we give you glory for what you're doing if you're watching if you don't know jesus as your personal lord and savior i want you to repeat this prayer to me say jesus i'm a sinner come into my heart and make me brand new i believe you died on the cross for my sins i believe you and i accept you as my lord and my savior if you prayed that prayer for the first time we want to say welcome to the kingdom of god let us know that you accepted god put a hands up emoji in the in in the chat or put a number one to let us know that you gave your life to god i believe that god is gonna do great things listen if you need prayer we want you to know that we're praying for you there's information below on the screen that we want you that we want you to respond to we are praying for you and listen i am looking forward to what god has in store for us listen i pray you have a wonderful week i pray you have a blessed week i pray that you have a wonderful weekend that god shows you his face make god's face shine upon you in every area of your life and we thank you and we'll see you next week because we give god praise and we give god glory and watch what he does love you guys and see you next week hallelujah [Music] what another great word from our pastor look make sure that you are sharing this experience [Music] them if you are in need of prayer we do have our prayer lines open and somebody is waiting to pray with you that information is on the bottom of the screen and you can call in and somebody can pray for you and join in covenant with whatever your needs are that you are praying for during this time again y'all we are family and we are joining together so if you need to connect make sure that you are doing that the other way that you can connect is make sure you're following all of the social media including youtube so make sure you're following on facebook instagram uh twitter and youtube we want to make sure that we are staying connected with you and that you are in on all things the book y'all i am michelle i hope that you have an amazing 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Published: Sun Sep 26 2021