Finding God In the Chaos (Part 1 & 2) - Sam Emory

we're gonna endeavor to teach a little bit today we'll give you the first half and we'll finish it up on tomorrow so our topic is going to be finding God in the chaos finding God in the chaos this is probably just on ministry rather than leadership the the more you work in ministry the more you figure out that it's it's a really tough job and it's not a pursuit of a job like working in a factory or calling to an industry has to be a calling of God on your life or do ministry will kill you it won't it won't be very nice to you especially when we live in the world like we live today our world is filled from time we get up in the morning to the time we go bed at night we're running here running there sometimes in a state of utter confusion seems that our common sense have been we roll down the window just throwing it out of the door and everybody's going to make neck breaking speeds got a pickup kids got to go to there's got to be there this conference this down don't doubt it data so when you go to bed and now you're totally exhausted unfortunately for us we thrive on these kind of livings we thrive on we are inundated with disasters and overloaded with breaking news of new crisis every day every day comes to us with some kind of world ending crisis from some point of the world or another and we don't actually notice it but it starts to take a toll on you whether you know recognize it or not does either a storm or a tornado or hurricane or earthquake or terrorist attack and in one place or another this is Dave after Dave and we're we've just been bombarded with chaos so how do we how do we find God in in our life and times when it seems that not only is our life moving out of chaos but time is seemingly ticking faster or maybe I'm just getting older I'm not quite sure it seems to me like days are like shorter than what they used to be I remember when I was a kid it spins like tip forever for Christmas to come maybe that's because I wasn't paying for and I was just looking for a present but now as an adult and a father and a grandfather and a great grandfather seems like Christmas was just yesterday's matter of fact it seems like we just started this year and how we are almost nine months into it a big year for me it's already over I'm already trying that we're already trying to plan for what's going to happen in 2020 if the Lord's Chitauri so here we are three or four months before the end of the year and it feels like me just started it last week and we're just in a rat race of time unfortunately being in the rat race I'm feeling a lot like the rat you know the hamster and the little you know in the little wheel you're just a lot of energy and a lot of emotion and a lot of this and a lot of that and when you go to bed and I didn't feel like you get a whole lot done I don't get any amen so this must be just about me we very rarely have a moment of nothing we very really have that even seems only time to breathe what's the last time you just sit down clear your thoughts cleared your mind we can tweak Harley can't do because we're already thinking of what's what's going to happen tomorrow what we haven't even lived out today yet but our minds are still going so we don't even rest when we go to sleeper we're in the flux of time and movement we go to bed tired and we get out tired because we don't sleep well and we're always thinking about the next thing to do but a moment of nothingness you know in a moment of just sitting down in a place where there's no noise or there's no chatter where there is no chaos where there's not a looming hurricane coming my way or I'm not trying to you know get out of town before the the next tsunami hits or PG&E which is our power deal is having a blackout and you're gonna have no power or there's a forest fire where I am and it just seems like every day it is chaos however if we stop and think in our fast-paced world it causes so much noise and because of the changing and bangle and we don't really realize how stressed out we really are we have learned to live with stress we've learned to live with chaos and we've conditioned ourselves to believe that we don't need a place of retreat I came today to kind of kind of break that mold and say yes Jesus is coming and yes so we need to have revival and yes we need harvest and yes we need to pray and yes we need to fast and yes we need to and yes we need this but could I say yes we need to rest somehow we got to get our cell phones and our planners and our Mac books and our pcs and schedule rest because if you don't schedule it in your schedule it won't happen you have to just block out put a big r e st not too many MS okay we'll move on I do want you to understand that that even God after creating the heavens and the earth schedule a day of the the scripture says that and he rested from his labor well I don't you think it's time we take a little cue from God if God can rest and he doesn't think it's gonna mess up his schedule a little rest might do us good I know you want to hear something really deep and profound actually this is pretty deeply profound because it's something that we don't think about kids got to get their husband's got to get off some work you get up and go your alarm goes off at five o'clock in the morning or four o'clock in the morning or six o'clock in the morning you hit the ground running and you don't stop until it's time for you to lay your head on the brick called the pillow and we're going from place to place from A to B to C to e to F and G hijk LMNOP and we don't stop till we get to Z and sometimes no Z's we struggle to rest some of the things we need to think about is that the Bible says stuff like Oh taste and see that the Lord is good we don't we don't stop to taste even our food goes down like what was that again now we shovel a lot are we gonna hear something deep this is deep we shovel I flew we don't even taste it anymore it's putting them up hope it goes down throw the wrapper back in the car what do you have for like something I know my stomach feels my heads it was a burger God isn't worried about the stuff so a friend of mine said this and I'm this is not original with me and it's difficult to throw stuff out other guys don't take it you know butts are given credit for it but you know we that that tastes to see that the Lord is good it's just a taste it doesn't give you the whole slice he gives you everybody a taste taste it and so he has scriptures like and this is the rest wherein ye called the weary to rest I think that's just important this x2 38 or axe to 39 or axe 4 and 10 or X 4 and 12 that scripture is just not in there it's in there because he says and this is the rest wherein we call the weary to rest and if we're not careful because it following the chaos and we get so weary of it we never rest but y'all with me now and somehow we sit in our mind if I rest there there's some kind of sin that's involved with that if I'm not moving at breakneck speed every day that just getting up and putting my get in my car and get to the office so over here over there we thought I would haven't accomplished anything of our life every day it's not filled with something I come and tell you today and sometimes you got to schedule some nothing into your day some quiet some nothingness where my brain is on hold on peace mode on was the car cruise control well I'm not in I'm not in charge it's just automatic pilot just flying I see bumper stickers we live a bumper sticker life I like the one that says Jesus is my co-pilot I go say okay let me get over cuz this guy's an idiot if I had a bumper sticker my bumper sticker read Jesus is to pilot please driving he's got the destination he knows what I wanted if I'm driving it's gonna be a wreck someplace if I don't kill somebody else I definitely look at myself we war we fight the psalmist says or Paul says we wrestle not against flesh and blood notice the word there wrestle that means hand-to-hand combat against principalities against powers against the rulers of darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places in other words our stress and struggle is not what the results of fighting in this physical opponents we're continuing it gets spiritual powers now these casts don't have to sleep you do angels don't sleep rulers of darkness this world spiritual wickedness high places these are spirits their eternal during their nocturnal they don't sleep and if you're being honest with me that even when you go to sleep sometimes you're in warfare because the enemy knows if he can't get you in your date walk he'll try to invade you in your night time you get harassed you get this you get bad dreams and you wake up and you're just it's hard when you wake up as you were when you lay down kind of get any men anywhere y'all just listen to me because I'm really I'm really teaching really deeply I know you are trying to figure out where I'm going don't worry I don't even know where I'm going we'll get there together everybody said we were in the war Isaiah 95 says for every battle of the Warriors with confused noise and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and feel the fire in other words and the battle when the ballot is raging all you can hear is the confused north of the battle if you're in the middle of the storm you're gonna get distracted by the sound of the wind and you're gonna get overwhelmed by the fierceness of the storm if you're not careful the battle which is raising against your mind creates confusion causing conflict in your home and your marriage and your churches so sometimes people we need to take a moment and find the place where we can clear our mind so that God can come I fees we need we need a moment of silence so we can find God in the chaos well y'all with me now Jesus has just fed 5,000 people 5,000 men not including them women and children and people lot smarter than me said the crowd was somewhere around 25,000 people which is a great miracle and then disciples saw them with your own little eyeballs as a matter of fact they were passing out the bread Jesus just broken passed out and they went through the crowd breaking and passing out and so when they broken past that the bread was multiplied in their hands just like it was multiplied in Jesus hands so they're part of the miracle as a matter of fact every time there is a miracle we're a part of the miracle do y'all not understand that you are part of the member when God does America in your life you are a part of that miracle amends the the the woman that had two sticks she had a to stick dinner like through the drive up at McDonald's I like a to stick diner please got two sticks and a little oil on a little mill my prophet said make me a cake first and she did her obedience to the man of God lost a miracle but she had everything she needed before the man of God got there and you have everything you needed for God to do a miracle in your life but you got to recognize that God is a God of miracles and he wants me to be involved in that miracle make a process there's nobody ever got a miracle on their own I mean without I mean God always used the people that the guy last night he well he had to go wash if he didn't go why she wasn't gonna see the guy was laying for 38 years he had to actually pick up his bed if he never picked up to bed he would lay there for another 38 years so God wants us to be a part of the miracle but we're in the middle of the battle the sound of the battle becomes part of the confusion this is why Davis says he leads me in the valley and there he restores my soul he Psalms 23 we read that and we don't really the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down well yeah but see the deal is he made me he made me to lay down because I didn't really know how stressed out I was I didn't know I was underneath to something else it looks even good you need to lay down you need to take a nap but I can't I got this to do I got that to do got this just taken out you'll be good I'm not a of a Frank a guy like Binger Frank but I think he's a little bit screwy Thanks something he was such a genius that he has stuff all wrong in my world since I'm Dyslexic you know so he says bin says I'll never put off tomorrow what you can do today I think that's crazy I say never do today what somebody else might do for you tomorrow I right it just depends on how you say it man my wife is like on it we need to get this dough necklace like what is it she telling the girl huh tomorrow she said you said that yesterday si si I prophesied here's tomorrow already every bus is I need a place to clear my mind I need a place to get away from the battle I need a place where the storm is stilled in my life on that boat when they're crossing over the Sea of Galilee the lake of Tiberias Jesus is in the boat he says to them now children let us watch they'll let us pass over to the other side what does that say to you this is what it says to me we're gonna make it over there he doesn't get in to us said let's go over the waters it's gonna be a strumming I don't know we go to make it oh my god he said let us pass over to the other side meaning we're gonna make it over to the other side they didn't hear word he said then work mode Jesus goes in the back of the boat lays down sleeps he's a real man so he snored didn't have a seat pass her snort loud and the storm is raging notice that Jesus is not even caring about the noise of the moment he is sleeping through it no I'm sorry folks my wife has about teeth too maybe one to two minutes to say something to me you know she's talking we're in you know going to bed gonna sleep she's talking enough this means first gear cut second third fourth fifth I am no I'm on the Autobahn bro I'm Jude she's like wake up you know I listen to a word and I have this knack I can tell her the last few words she said I said I heard everything said no you didn't you were snoring that goes like I can snore and listen at the same time I'm a multitasker I don't know how can do that but is it's one of my gifts let me ask you something how many times did we go from victory to victory or I should say how many times do we go just from battle to battle to battle to battle until now as we stand here we are battle weary because we never stop to celebrate the victory of the battle we just go from one battle to another battle to another battle to the none of the battle we get used to the clanging of the swords and the sound of the artillery booming we don't think that we're we're not living for God is something in going wrong Israel understood every time they had a battle and they won you know what they would do celebrate what I like about Miriam now Miriam is the older son of Odin daughter of Moses who put him in the ward and watched him go down and when pharaoh's daughter brought him out she said I know somebody some readers it pretty she's a pretty cool cat girl whatever whatever to us and so so what happens now the Deaf angel is coming through Egypt are y'all with me all right the Deaf Taylor is coming through what does Miriam do everybody's supposed to pack and pack light because we're running put your shoes on gorgeous up and get out now I know Marion was spiritual because she had to leave one of her dresses behind to Pat something in there or a pair of shoes and ladies you know my wife is going for three days and she packs enough for three years and the ladies are laughing because and the guys are gonna all preach brother I just can't say no because my wife is sitting here you know but Miriam packed something that nobody else packed Miriam packed a tambourine because she anticipated victory on the other side of the Red Sea so Miriam says I'm not going from one battle to another I'm gonna finish this battle and then I'm going to celebrate them I feel the Holy Ghost trying to help somebody today I want to ask you we've won many battles how many times have we stopped to celebrate the victory that God gave us that tells me not many of you we're just ready for the next battle if we don't find it that one will go make one will make a devil out of something I need somebody to whoop up on you're laughing because you know it's true we'll manufacture oh that's all they'll double let's get on it no we did take that moment we need to find that still quiet place we need to let him let him lead us beside the steel water so he can restore our soul neither leave me in the paths of righteousness for thy name say for yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me so I can celebrate because it's not my victory it's the victory that he won for me so why am i waiting for the next battle why not stop right here Miriam then get that far from the Red Sea they could steer here the chariots going down they can still hear the dry owning of the Egyptian soldier and Miriam has already got a groove on and everything what are you deaf but the Lord has wrought a great victory we need to shout we need to praise we need to worship with come on you know what happens because refreshing happens in the middle of the dance and renewing happens in the middle of the celebration of what God it's not the battle that I wanna it's the battle that God want somebody shout Amen I need to ask question because something happens in the shouting something happens in the dance something happens in the worship something happens when in the celebration of the tambourine and the dance something supernatural happens to you and supernatural happens to me we don't actually feel it because we don't do enough of it we go from battle to battle the battle the battle to battle the belt ok God we got that let's run turn but somewhere in between the last victory in the last battle I've got to find the place where he can renew my strength I gotta find it oh come on somebody I gotta find you to put faith back in me I gotta to put joy Beckham if you're not we're gonna arrive we're gonna ride without joy and without faith oh come on somebody and then the next battle maybe your last battle but in the wrist in the rejoicing my strength is renewed in the rejoicing I cannot hear the sound of another battle another clanging or y'all with me now and so we're gonna do that in just a moment watching the clock I know at tea time and I'm not gonna mess with y'all half British can't mess with y'all half British people and y'all little tea things going on we don't ever I said we don't stop we don't stop to celebrate we don't what's the last time you we just stopped what's this now and celebrate it now I'm talking about a real celebrate sometime I ate so down party I'm on somebody yeah Jesus all the springs got baptized I bet that 47 years ago wonderful and then we gone so my god [Music] where you going next battle what would happen if every time somebody got baptized I'm talking about we will throw a celebration he's a pastor watch this now we don't have time that's too much other stuff to do then to celebrate one baptism really because God doesn't think so cuz in the book in the manual it's not a Mexican name man you'll still be in the book no maybe I'm just I'm not the smartest cat in the on the block I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but somewhere in the book it says and the angels rejoice when one sinner repent I don't know what they do when that guy or that woman goes down in the name of Jesus if they rejoice just when they say God can you forgive me and there is a party in heaven oh come on somebody when what come up when one sinner with hits and then there's a party in heaven I wonder what happens when somebody gets baptized in Jesus name I wonder what happens when somebody gets to hold it goes if there's a party well just one sinner repents why don't we begin to do like they why don't we begin to rejoice with the angel whether we begin to stop the victory why don't we begin to celebrate the fact that another soldier has come into the army why do we need to go from one battle nope we need to stop in the middle and celebrate the victory by job amen there's something about the celebration that renews us we do not stop and and celebrate we God does miracles every day and I missed him we don't see it you do realize this is a absolute miracle that you can just step up to this nondescript place and say a prayer and asked the Living God that created the heavens and the earth to forgive you of your sins and in that moment it happens now maybe that is not miraculous to you but that is miraculous to me giving the fact that I know what he forgave me for CC so we're not excited about that anymore because it's been so long and somehow we've come to the point where well he was supposed to forgive me but I'm telling you God did not have to forgive us of anything I just awful quiet I said God did not have to forgive me because sure he does this why not you know no no no no God is very selected he didn't have to forgive me I see that you don't believe that then why people go in the hayloft down there it's because of his mercy that he forgives because of His grace that he forgets I don't know about you but I'm still glad I'm forgiven I don't maybe you take that for granted but I don't take that for granted I still remember what I was 39 years ago and I'm glad for Who I am today and it's only by the blood of Jesus that I'm standing here today I'm not here because I'm talented I'm not here because I'm great I'm not here because I'm a genius I'm here because there's a god that looked down and had mercy on me and say hey I'm gonna forgive me under the hey it's time to shout do you not remember because some of us it's been so long do you not remember what that feeling was because at 39 years ago in 1980 I still remember the feeling maybe it didn't happen and you like it happened to me I remember the feeling pastor I'm watching the clock seriously Watson o'clock I was on the back pew I had an afro bigger than my attitude trust me I had a big attitude I felt fingers pressing me into that terrible begin to pull me up out of that chair and I go whoa slow down my prayer was I want to know that you're real he goes okay you see God is real to me he you can say what you want to if he's not real for you you got a problem because he's real for me and so I'm like I'm like whoa whoa whoa whoa so now I'm too slow so slow too fast too fast you know I didn't like the church I've been everywhere I had Bible studies with everybody trying to find God no God tries to find me and I realized God was never lost it was me that was lost you never did find God you're not getting in I capable of finding him you don't know where he is he's never lost he's always there and the problem is you don't even know what there is because you're there it's not is there you're there he's here he's here he's gone outer edges of um I've got my message I still remember being baptized I'm living when being baptized no no no no no not not really but do you remember what that felt like but maybe you didn't get it I don't know but but I still remember pastor I still remember walking down that long I mean I was like okay god this is a little bit too fast or yeah slow it down I still remember going home getting my water about all hip he said what a bit longer because even the black cast me way out of this I remember God invades my work he invades my word he doesn't even ask my permission is when he came down it's like oh my god this is God is this you God does this better be you if it's not you I'm gonna roll another joint right about now I'm serious I still work it's like it was yesterday to me it's been 39 years I remember taking my drug box and everything I had and flushing it down the toilet this was without 10 steps or 12 steps or 15 steps this is one step called Jesus I remember flushing that mess down the toilet that was that was 39 years ago I can still remember when my pastor baptized me in Jesus name it was unexplainable to me I was in the water and it felt like there was electricity in the mortar it was like I asked the guy goes like hey man what's up dude well y'all got in this water man cuz we can say all this stuff on the street corner we would be rich if we could sell he'll say why are you talking about across what's in the water bro was this something in the water my pastors looking at me like what is wrong with you I used to peddle stuff that don't make you feel like this did not get what I'm saying he said that he baptized me I don't know what happened to you but when I came up out of that water I felt like a hundred pound weight had dropped off for me then am I the only one that anybody feeling that's enough to celebrate right now Desson that's enough to say I can throw a party right now but nah but come on Bo tell us what happened 39 years ago and accurate I can still party over that I don't think we need to stop partying or what God we don't need to stop celebrating and giving God thanks for when we need to be thankful for the little things the medium things in the beach God doesn't have to feel big miracle for me the fact that he knows my name it's enough for me to get excited about the fact that he knows who I am and where I live that's enough for me to run the house that's enough to breathe away by Hannah that's enough for me to shout my pastor pushed me up out of the water I'd go back in I was a real Trinitarian one for the father one from the Sun one for the Holy Ghost at that pathway then NiO the Psalms that you said the number is higher he said get out of the water there were other people I feel like I'm standing in row he's gonna having the water man get out no really he said get out of the water there were people I wasn't getting out I had never felt like I was standing in the water he said go out the water I said there's something in the water every time I hit it was electricity I'm not kidding you folks I remember like it was the last night that was like twinkle a week and we can sell this little vows on the collar man you gotta get some of this water dog does a cat downers he's his peddling holy water maybe he sprinkles and electricity just happen man I could have been rich right in there man I must be driving through that tunnel that he built in Los Angeles right now my pastor says son there ain't nothing in this water but there's power in the name of Genesis can I tell somebody just feel power in that name can't you somebody there's still power in the name can I tell anybody in here there's still power in there man there's still Holy Ghost power did you forget that the name of Jesus is power in it that's enough to celebrate every day of your life slow down find God in your chaos slow down and celebrate the fact that you know who the king of the universe is cell come on swim don't worry about what's happening tomorrow this stand to our feet right now and before tea we gonna celebrate the victory celebrate the power celebrate their mourning celebrate what come on lift your hands and open your mouths and shout out to the Lord Oh somebody you are to celebrate I said you ought to celebrate gotta celebrate your victory I made it to turn in point one more year I got come on I can feel God one more time I can still feel the Holy Ghost I can still feel the anointing I'm still a now look at your neighbor tell your neighbor I'm still the Norden come on I'm stealin on it I'm still alive I still got the victory today oh come on what do you sound for that God do a miracle yeah I'm still alive I'm still here I know you're going through trouble well let's shout the victory from one battle another come out this is the less hallelujah the Bible says listen very carefully God knows how important he said this is the rest that causes the weary to rest some of us came to Turning Point weary from the battle you came here looking for something that will give you a break in the storm you were hoping to hear a word that will cause everything to make sense in your head I didn't come with that I came with one word rest in him celebrate him worship Him magnify him glorify Him and in the rest in them and the magnification and in the dourif occasion something begins to happen in your spirit your hands will begin to raise your voice will begin the tremble and something from the inside of you begin to come out in a sound such a lot thank you Jesus I give you a glory and honor and Kelowna I was a handsome Pentecostal then still remember oh I feel the Holy Ghost I still remember how good god is or how great God is how merciful he is I should have been dead but I'm still alive I should be on the street too but I'm in the house of God that's enough to celebrate get out of the chaos sir get out of the battle move out of the stream of the noise and get it to a quiet place [Applause] [Music] brothers two brothers ladies the ladies stretch your hand out to somebody pray with them right now cuz you don't know what they're going through you have no idea what they're fighting you have no idea what the battle that they're in Chicago Hermosa she cut adobo sabudana Boca Haram Oh son out of a car come ona the children might be on the stranger they might have financial problems you don't know what's going on but we're gonna break the battle right now with a little worship with a little praise somebody's husband may be sicker somebody's child may be on the stranger but we're gonna lift one another up come on we're not worried we're thanking her lift those hands and thank God lift those hands and give them praise or let's don't have the to a refreshing of the Holy Ghost and raise your lighter this is the rest and where he called it the weary to rest [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on be renewed in the holy ghost ride hammer in the name of Caesar sir I lose to holy ghost in this house I lose the renewing of the Holy Ghost I release the reviving of the sprit of the Lord I lose the joy of the Lord which is my strength I just the rest of God in this house today [Applause] [Music] okay we left off about for those of you there or not in the first session we left off about celebrating the things that God has done and and not getting my optic and not getting overwhelmed and so let's go down that road just a little bit more didn't I do one more session tomorrow sir yes okay so we'll finish tomorrow okay we stopped about remembering where God has brought us from we want to talk about when we do that talk the last thing we talked about was Miriam who brought out her tambourine and was had enough sense or had the cosmic precocity to bring her tambourine a instrument of praise and praise God for the victory before they went to conquer and we explored when's the last time we really praise God for the victories that he has already done before we move into the very next one praising God for the little things the small things that he does every day we must understand that the Bible tells us that we're supposed to praise Him in the firmament firmament of his power and then according to his excellent greatness I I'm sure that we can muster the the physical physicality to praise Him in the firmament of his power but I don't think that we can actually get our praise to the point to where it matches the the excellence of his greatness I I think the call is to try to get there but I don't know if we actually ever get there where we begin to praise him according - as the Pentecostals we are just powerful and great about praising God after he's done something but when I praise him according to that I praise him an expectation of what he's about to do so I'm trying to allow my expectation of what I know God is able to do to match what I expect for him to do Paul said that he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we able to ask or think according to the power that worketh in US but he doesn't tell us what that power is so I always just interpolate from my brain that power is the place of my expectation because God will always meet you at the level of your expectation and he always is challenging us to raise our expectation of what we think or hope or that he might do for us and so God will meet you there and so we talked about resting in him and let's pick it up there and we'll go on a couple of them will say the rest for the more if we rest in him it is a place of quiet now which means now we stop murmuring and complaining to be stillness to is to not to be idle it is it is to uh is to get in a place where we're we're still enough to get Direction we're not being idle here we don't confuse stillness and quietness with inactivity it is me pausing have I said pause it's me pausing for God to tell me the next step in the event you're here I don't want to go off half wheeled or have half equipped to do what God wants me to do I'll just I'll mess things up and so I have to take that moment of quiet to folk and God will meet us there in that in that quiet place and because well as I was saying we're actually not used to the quiet place we sort of like the noise and the fervor and the frenzy but when Jesus wanted to to recuperate and refill and refocus and get you know get realigned he always got away he always escaped from the crowd he would always get away and not that he wanted to move from people but he wanted to make sure he could hear the single voice of God so he knows this is my next move this is my next step so it was always where did we go from here all right we've come to this point in the and our progress we come to this point in our journey it's a great place to be but as as our let's give our diskette to have a great job let's giving a hand today that's awesome man awesome and so so what do we go from here what do we do now now that we've got here because this is not the end of the journey this is a place that we strategically plan to be here and so now we need to go to the next phase so we're talking about getting to that point rejoicing with the understanding that there's a next phase and now I need to be repleted I need to be refueled I need to be refilled because the last thing we want to do is try to run on empty just you know because you you're drilling would only carry you for it will only carry you to that it won't carry you to the journey our adrenaline would burn out on us but if I can get renewed and the Holy Ghost if I can get renewed in the spirit of my mind if I can get a fresh vision of the next stage that we're going to and get some directions from God my I can plan my stages based on what God wants to do or you understanding what I'm saying God always has a plan and so what I've got to do is make sure I know what that plan is God is very strategic and what he does and oftentimes we do not understand his strategic it's not my job to understand what God's doing my job is obeyed what he tells me to do and so the disciples now they're a little bit slow they do pick up the pace you know after the crucifixion but they're a little bit slow and so so Jesus now is working strategically again and he says you know boys I know we were gonna go around Samaria because that's what they always did you know they always went around Samaria there was not ever supposed to go through there so they're there they're going around Samaria now and then there's ten lepers that or see him and they're jumping and screaming and waving and they're they're shouting oh Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me you know and that seems like just a scripture but you've got to understand that the Bible is a portrait and and and there's one central figure in the Bible and and so everything else is nothing more pastor than brush strokes you know and if we're not careful we'll get focused on the brush stroke and never see who the central character is and so these the Samaritans of these lepers for their inadequacy in their their fingers being a doff in the nose being Adolf sort of catches a glimpse of the central character that's in the book and and the brush strokes start and you gotta pay attention because it's a tapestry and only see it's a blank it begins with a a blank of what he call those things campus canvas and and and he is the he is the painter we're not we're just sitting there watching the master piece come into fruition and everything there's a brushstroke you know and so he begins with a brushstroke that is part of the picture but it's not about the picture at all but everything has a background I got with me now everything has a background scenery in it that that encapsulate and then it goes around the central thing that the painting is all about so Ruth begins to the Book of Ruth is nothing more than then a brush stroke that begins with a woman named Naomi who changes her name to Margo's from Pleasant to bitter and her and her husband go to Moab seemingly for bread because there's no bread in the house of bread so they run and they go over there she loses her husband's she loses her sons and then she winds up with two daughter-in-laws with no husbands and one goes away and one stays with her and her name is Ruth but the story of Ruth is nothing more than a brush stroke it's not about Ruth at all it's not about Naomi at all it's not even about Beau acid all because Boaz you know he marries Ruth and they have a they have a son and his name is so bad and he Obed it's not about oh but he's just he's just a brush stroke Oh Beth has a son that's named Jesse but it's not about Jesse Jesse it's just another brush stroke on it on the canvas that's this masterpiece is being painted and and jesse has the son of that's named Dave in it but the the portrait is not about David the king of Israel it's another brush stroke that that comes in are you getting what I'm saying but but these these ten lepers they they see and they said oh we got it this is not about this is what way Jesus that that's a central figure in this brushstroke that God is doing this masterpiece that he is finishing or you understanding yet and he said Jesus thou son of David Oh y'all don't get it you see because the son of Obed thou son of Boaz died son of so he notices the brushstroke and he under they understand something in scripture that this is the sense portrait this is the central figure in the masterpiece of God and if I can get a hold of that then something good is going to happen in my life and they say hey we know who you are we've seen the portrait we've seen the masterpiece you're the central figure and if you have mercy on us something will happen oh Jesus thou son of David have have mercy owner and the brushstroke today canvas doesn't know the paint doesn't know the brushes don't know only the master knows let's understand friend and and what we are we're just part of the brush strokes when we feel and experience exhaustion like I'm interest in things that we're trying to do and we strive to if we're not careful we'll be striving to be successful about all the wrong things God cannot fight for us if we continue to fight for ourselves God cannot deliver us if we're always trying to deliver ourselves God can't guide us if we're trying to guide ourselves we have to allow God some time and space in our life sterli goodness and mercy will follow me but if I show if I slow up a little bit it might catch me y'all didn't get their part I don't want his goodness to be following behind me I want to back right up and eternal until it's all over me I won't I want to have goodness on my left and in righteousness I'll come on somebody I'm gonna I'm gonna have goodness and mercy always very close to me all the days of my life it's because that allows me to dwell in the house of the Lord so so we strive to be successful when we want to feel fulfilled in our ministry in our life and life will make daily demands of us and it's relentlessly and so sometimes our race to succeed can quickly collapse into a struggle to survive it's very easy we've been caught up in the rat race and almost impossible to escape the ominous situation called burnout what does burnout is when we are experienced a exhaustion and a lack of interests of things and resulting in decline in our job performance due to chronic fatigue and chronic stress if left unchecked burnout will affect your health your happiness your relationship and your job performance first kings we see Elijah and first King 19 and I would go over that really quickly that Elijah has Eli Elijah is is is he's a burnout guy he doesn't even know he's burnout he's he's taking on the whole nation he took on 850 guys at PI himself and he's built an altar where he repaired to altar brick by brick and then he dug a trench and then he went and got water it's a famine I don't know where he got the water from how much water did he get I don't know he he didn't have a hole so he had to go and get it and bring it back this had to take forever this cat calls fire down from heaven and fire comes down and he cuts up the bullet and he does all this stuff and then he goes and prays and calls rain down to put the fire out this is a tough cat and then he gets up and out runs a chariot I can barely run to my car this dude out runs a chariot and it's talking to the talking to eight have like men in heaven so that seriously do your outrunning me I got horses he does that yeah man I mean hey your wife just told me she's gonna kill me and I'm running from my life he finds himself in a cave depressed he's at panic attacks anxiety symptoms of warfare fatigue he's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder no seriously you need to read the story you need to read the story he's he's suffering from classic battle fatigue trying to do it all by himself are you listening to me because if we're not careful we base our success on how many people we have or the size of our building or the number of constituencies that set on our pew if we're not careful we'll become a failure in our own eyes because your success should not be based on how many people are in your church or how big your edifice is your success should be based on one thing or several things number one are you in the will of God I will be our I would rather eat bread with a few people that are in the will of God then a pastor a thousand member church and don't know who's on my side who's on my left or who's on my right if you if you can if you can say I am where God wants me to be doing what God wants me to do I have been called to be in this city or that city or this village or wherever I only have a handful of people but they love God can I say sir you are very successful don't base your success on numbers base your success in it I am in the will of God right now because if you're in the will of God nothing else matters more you will be miserable with a thousand people and you can't trust one of them but you'll be happy and know I'm in the will of God if I got a handful of people with me do you understand what I'm saying David only had a handful of men there in Zig lag he wasn't king of the whole nation but he was in the will of God there are you with me now and so when when the Amalekites came and they burnt this sitting down and they took if they thought everybody was dead and so these guys now there's a mighty man there going from battle to battle to battle to battle and pastor they never stop to celebrate God they never did and so when this thing hit they it floored them they all these are supposed to be mighty men a Balor mighty men of valor mighty men but they had no faith they were faith out and so they be this is burly cats man these are WWF drop down boom you know these are these are Hercules and Samson's and Iron Men and Batmen and all the superheroes you can talk about but they come into the village and just one instant they're crying like girls the Bible says they cried until they couldn't cry anymore what does that mean I don't know if they exhausted their tear ducts or their fountain of Tears or they just figure you know what what's the use of crying and then they got mad and and began to pick up rocks and chunk them up the guy that lost as much as they lost why are you chucking the rocket me I didn't take nobody from you they read now they're ready to kill the leader as it always is so if you're the pastor you know what I'm talking about the very people you counsel the longest is the one that throws the first brick at you the one that you pour more into is the one that walks out say hey see you don't want to beat ya'll want to say Amen cuss some of them are sitting in here with you I guess I don't know gotta be careful and so he they're doing all this and this all this stuff is going on and and down the and and and the Bible says David is left alone and in he's he is there all by himself these 600 men have no compassion for them for him and all he's a and everything falls squarely on his shoulders but David knew what to do he was drew from the fray he got away from the central part where everybody is murmuring and complaining about how bad it is and what we knew is scheana did this and yadda yadda yadda and he the Bible says and he found the linen ephod and he went into the tent and when he went into the tent it simply says this and David encouraged himself in the Lord I'm gonna tell you something as sometimes when you're a leader you're not gonna really find a lot of help and encouragement everywhere but I tell you if you can find that quiet place with the Lord he has the ability to lift you up come out somebody I love turning a turning point but turning point and every all day in my life is it's a few days out of the 365 days out of the year that we get when you leave Turning Point what are you gonna do I won't be here this gentleman won't be here who's gonna do that who's gonna lift you from the morass you gotta know that God is your help and God is your strength and if I can just get the right garment on the garment of humility that the linen ephod well you don't sweat nothing it was a linen because you're not supposed to sweat it when you're in the presence of the Lord you're supposed to just move in there come on somebody and gosh I hear the moving of your skirt in there and then it sounds like worship inside of that temple and the browser and he encouraged himself in the Lord what that's really mean what does that how do you courage encourage yourself I don't know but it's in the book but the only thing I can say in my head is that David understood the enemy was the Amalekites and there was a scripture that said the Lord says I will have war with the Amalekites for the rest of their existence so God David knew at least I know I got one guy on my side me and God can become a menorah Geordi and if God if God is against them then I am against them if they're God's enemy then God is my friend and they are my enemies now so David encouraged himself said God if you ready to take these black boy down I'm ready to take them down too and are you hearing what I'm saying and David said I faced situations before I still remember I still remember that old man with that horn of all pulling on my head I still remember what they announcing felt like when that old man poured that all on my head and I remember one thing after he did that the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and he said I remember come on I want you to remember that the Spirit of the Lord just doesn't come and go it stays us an abiding thing but you got to access it and then you got to understand it and you got the stick after God you just can't let your situations overcome you you got to step out of the fray and get out of the battle and get out of the north so you can hear him and begin to say okay God here's the deal here's the deal you're still God and you're still the same God your your your immutable which means God never changes he said but I remember I want to bring God I don't know if you remember but I remember I remember that bear that came and tried to take one little lemon and the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and I defeated that enemy and the lion came and the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and I know this is a giant situation but I faced giants before there was a giant by the name of Goliath and I remember what you did when I faced him I was just running and he said grab you some Stones out of the brook coz I was gonna kill him with my bare hands no really because he said he killed the bear with his bare hands he took the lamb on of his mouth and broke us that he killed the lion with his bare hands and said this uncircumcised philistine would be as one of them and God says no he's uncircumcised I don't want you to touch him but he's running through the water what is water that's the spirit it's real and he grabs five smooth stones and he said God I remember I faced a giant before and he looked that thing I don't believe it was just David there threw that rock I believe there was an angel set that rock embedded itself the Bible said if it went deep inside of his skull and you know what he said oh come on somebody my enemies changed but my God doesn't change I come to tell somebody he's the same God I don't know what enemy you're facing your enemy may have a different face but your God's got the same face the enemy may look different but your God remains the same your enemy may be bigger than the last one but God is still bigger than have you forgot the God that brought you out and you forgot the God of your user and you forgot the God of your negativity I haven't forgot that same God I said that same God that fought for me then I will fight for me now that same God that deliver me from Georgia will deliver me from the uncircumcised that same God that removed me he will do the same for me and you'll do the same for you my sorry man so David is saying but we're talking about Elijah and Elijah is Derek now he's in this cave and his head is wrapped in a mantle she has a classic signs of burnout he's he's in this place and he doesn't even know why he's there his head is wrapped up he's he's in a dark place and the Westons now and he wraps his face and now it's darker are you listening to me Thunder comes see here's the sound listen now hear sounds and noisiest of the battle earthquake shaken he's waiting on one thing the voice of God but what he hears is the sound of the battle he's just he's just standing there then he hears you're not a still small voice that's why you have to get away from the battle because God's not gonna yell at you are you listening God's not gonna yell at us very rarely do you find God yelling do you understand Moses hear mine he didn't yell at Samuel he just said same reason Samuel seven he gets up and goes to the old man he's buying you that he you barely can see did you call me yes I know I did call you I heard your voice Sammy goes I mean the old the old prophet either I said you heard my voice you see I heard your voice he does that hurt a voice he said I heard your voice isn't it funny how the voice of God can sometime sound like the voice of your pastor I wish I had some help in here you better start listening to the man of God because sometimes it is the WHA I'm heard yo he just had heard the voices I heard your voice you called me he said yeah I didn't call you the yeh you called me so you go back on me down boy he laid down again Samuel he said come on pop somebody messing with me you call me go fight then go back and lay down this time say yes Lord that serveth here if you can hear the voice of your pasture a lot of times you're gonna sound just like the voice of God to you I knew I loved ordinary minutes on that we only want to hear the pastor when things are going wrong and then we and then we don't do half of the things he tells us to do that voice is still and is smaller that's it was not in the earthquake it was not in the it was not in any of the things of the sounds of the that noise happens what is this burn out these are these are there is the results of us trying to do things on our own now realizing that our strength is made perfect in his strength is made perfect in our weaknesses its power is glorified in the my infirmities being in a still small hearing that still small voice may have to happen in a quiet still place and away from the strange noise is a battle we need a place we can rest and we gather our thoughts to renew our mind but fill our spirits regain our strength and recover our vision here's a prophet in the ditch exhausted from the battle at Carmel he's a results that he's there and he is he doesn't know what to do exhaustion lack of motivation frustrated he's become cynical what are you doing here he just says I'm better than my father's he goes like what is this and I thought what do you what do you mean by that why are you why are you now comparing yourself with everybody and then and then he gets cynical I'm the only one left that's serving you God was like seriously you really believe that he isn't he's got my optic he's got cynical are you listening to me this will happen to us when we're burned-out and the devil I select you so you're the only one living for God don't ever believe that lie you're not the only one God's got more people on the ground and you got above ground and I don't mean in the grave I mean they're there millions of people in China that cannot come up from underneath but you I'm telling you there are millions of people with the Holy Ghost been baptized in Jesus name that we will never know their face and we will never know their name do you understand what I'm telling you today let's not get my office you think we're the only one living for God he goes like no I have a 7,000 that have not bowed their knee to bail nor kiss this image you're just one of them buddy don't think I need you that bad God needs me like I need a tan how's that funny it's not that God needs me is that I need y'all don't get this stuff Oh God news me no it does it Jesus tried to make that quite sure to the Pharisees and the Sadducees all these cast men they're all thinking they're all the big muckety-mucks you know cool rows nice cars no brains they're it's you know just says you know what listen boys I know y'all think y'all with that in the bag of chips he's standing there at the Jordan River he's standing at the exact place that they crossed thousand years ago and he sees the twelve rocks still running with the water running over those twelve hours he says God is able to raise up from these stones those stones that Joshua net generation put in the Jordan River we're still there in the days that Jesus walked or you understanding me and God said God don't need you any more than that a man in the moon he said he's able to raise up a voice out of these stones if you don't praise Him he said he'll make these stones cry out I don't want God to have to raise up a stone to do what I'm supposed to be doing I don't need God to raise up a rock that's thousands and millions of years old to do what I need to be a living Rock a living so I need to wave my hands and give God praise and glory every day but you can't do that if you're suffering from burnout you become a failure to yourself you you don't believe that God knows who you are you have a lack of motivation your your-your-your used to be energetic about things you have a loss of joy or excitement it's harder for you to get motivated differently for you feel your drive is gone you can't move forward these are classic signs that you need something in your life you like the motivation and all of these things you're exhausted you don't get enough rest you don't get enough sleep and these things you're just going again from from from one battle to another and then the psalmist gives us a little like he said he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty I will say unto the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress my god in whom I will trust you need to understand that the only way that I can avoid burnout it is is because it doesn't happen overnight it creeps on us at the long exterior periods of time so we must have the step back a little bit and be honest with ourselves and evaluate ourself and said where am I right now is this just a temporary slump or am i experiencing more chronic burnout to avoid I need to know because if not I'm slipping in my job performances he's standing there elisha lets me know he's having post-traumatic stress what are you doing here lodging leister says the last I'm no better than my father's do you know what that means that means I'm a failure I'm not any better than anybody else you call what are you doing here why you just standing here in the dark I got got work for you to do so Elisha now goes from depression to being suicidal he asks God to take his life that's what I am alas I'm no better than my father so he lied to said game over and God gave him a moment to change he says okay it's game over he says yeah okay then we're over before you quit you must remember you have to remember that you'll call you wouldn't ask you a call you must remember in that calling God could have called anybody he wanted to but he called you are you listening to me here today there is what seven or eight billion people on the face of planet Earth today why are you here why am I here God has to pick of eight billion people he had to see something in us he had to see potential in you are you understanding what I'm saying but potential without purpose is dangerous so you have to get let God's purpose get back into you you can't do this thing about what you want to be you have to find out what this God wants you to be doing and put your shoulder to that wheel because your potential has no validity if it's not purposed if it's not conducted if it's not directed into the right place where you need it to be the fact that you're here the fact is you're in ministry means that you have potential the potential is a great thing but you have to have purpose as well and if you have purpose that drives your purpose keeps you keeps your wheels rolling and you know what your purpose is in the kingdom if you lose sight of your purpose then you'll start drifting off to every other little place that sounds good looks good and feels good this is the this is not this is why we're losing a lot of young men in our movement is because they don't know what their purpose is they have potential if something is burning inside they got all this energy but they have they don't know what the outlet is and so they're just going over here because this sounds good it doesn't matter what it sounds like you can't do what sounds you got to do what the book is written for you to do you don't abandon you don't abandon who you are and what you are because of a sound it may be the sound of your enemy are you in or listening to me today so you've got to have purpose to direct your your the process I will talk about the process tomorrow but you have you have to have that the purpose to direct that potential that you have because we have potential to be anything you can you have the potential to be a loser or you have the potential to be a winner but you have to choose how you direct a potential that you have you didn't choose god I had no we think we did because even when we testified I'm so glad I found the Lord I want to ask you a question how did you find him God was never lost God wasn't lost I was lost I didn't find him he found me I just just stumbled into the church hello I didn't stumble into the church God went through eight billion people looking for you know after you probably like oh god this is the only one he's crazy girl you gotta work on him but he'll be all right aren't you glad that God didn't stop working on you are you glad they got him to give up on you what if God hasn't given up on you don't you give up on God I'm gonna say it again I don't know where you are I don't know what you're doing but this is not the time for you to give up on what God called you to do it's not working out the way I want it okay let it work out some other way but don't give up on God because God will never give up on you he'll never throw you away he'll never catch you to the side he'll never turn his back on you if you'll hang in there with him he'll hang in there with you as long as you got this potential and you got a hunger deep down God I know I'm not what you suppose I want you to be I want to be their God if you'll give me one more shot at this I reckon also I need some man to rise up it's not going the way I wanted to go then I got potential on in something is burning on the inside of me that wants to do something for God what is being great I got five minutes you said 115 what is being great for God be seeing you I'm almost there what's that mean God chooses the awkward people I'm a little bit witness God doesn't choose glory stealers you know the glory still is its people to do Stephanie and steal God's going like a little dog did and gosh alright what what what do you mean what you did like I did it on my own you're liar we can't do anything without God everything we do this because God is doing it through us if he's not doing it first he's doing it in us if he's not doing the twisting is he doesn't in spite of us I could just call the demon well you're gonna have to fly over the pond and did this little thing at Turning Point oh man I wish they called me over there I don't I don't respond to that that's like drop my name that's what that is dropping on that goes like no I don't know how I got here but I did I call you to go I didn't know who you were I think he had to text me like 15 to 20 times will you come I don't know brother Emery yeah well brother stonking oh god that's not the way to get me over here I actively actively now when I go to the airport I do not go by that Starbucks [Laughter] [Applause] cuz if Leroy J Stoneking can drop dead at that Starbucks I am NOT going by that Starbucks I am not drinking that coffee if I was spitting it up no if I see the Starbucks I go way over here I had a guy goes ourselves like this brothers don't kick I said you want to drop dead at Starbucks seriously that's your goal in life is to go buy the Starbucks in the airport is Sydney Australia and drop dead because he may not raise you like he raised with his donkey that is not much that's not the top of my boat I won't God to deal with me the way he deals with me I was somebody help me don't hey don't ever want somebody else's anointing because you don't know what it costs them they get it I say God just I'm not Li whatever that means whatever that come on somebody don't want somebody else's ministry because you don't know what it costs them don't want somebody else's come on somebody you don't know what that big church cause you don't know what that ministry called you don't know what it cost somebody lay hands on the sick and they recover stay standing well we'll pick it up tomorrow so he's standing in a cave his face wrapped in a mantle not only is he suffering from post stress disorder he is a manic-depressive credible how many people what kind of people God uses Elijah's a manic-depressive he's either really high or he's really low his mood swings from from one polarization to another he's an idealistic guy that can kill 800 people and called all the children there is the back to God and he swings all the way back over here to the pragmatic and suicidal I'm no better than my father's you might as well let me go I'm done I'm I can't do this no more this is it for me he hasn't found the place of reality where there's some things I can do and some things I can't do but I can do all things to Christ if he will strengthen me okay so on tomorrow we'll we'll wrap this up about not falling into the pit of being burnt out running from always addicted to the sound of the battle and and getting in the place where God has me where he needs me to be and and we'll talk about vision and some of the deals but I want you to understand something if you're where again if you where you believe you are where God's called you to be and you believe you in thee that's perfect that's perfect of the will of God as you can be and you're doing your very best with what God has put into your hands then my friend you're right where God wants you to be listen to me Rick F and I close with this they looked at David and they they looked at him down their nose and says what are you doing here watch what they said why don't you get back over there to those little handful of sheep that you've been watching that's kind of a slap in the face that's condescending they were you know I'm a big brother I'm up here fighting Dave's gonna like you'll fighting like a whole lot like hiding to me is that what you call fighting hiding from the giant evil wall he's big well I can see that I thought you said you were fighting you're fighting from behind the rock or you and I get in front here he is scared of the battle it is telling his brother get back over there with their little handful of stinky sheep you didn't even smell like a sheep you smell like a coward I don't know listen when you're in the will of God don't minimize yourself maximize your opportunities the right man in the right place for the right reason submitted to God equals success no matter how many people you don't know do you understand what I'm telling you the Bible says godliness with contentment it's a great game at some point ladies and gentlemen we got to learn to be content where we are before God can lead us to a higher place why don't you buy his father today this is a great group of ladies and gentlemen they're called of you let us not be errant m'god that it's not being mistaken let us not get caught up in numbers and sizes of buildings and numbers of heads counts jesus said I have all that you gain to me which was twelve people and our lost one the son of perdition he wasn't worried about the crowd God he wasn't just worried about God I thank you for the ones you've given me and I'm gonna love them and I'm gonna feed your sheep I'm gonna feed your sheep pre adventure you give me more sheep but I'm gonna feed the one I'm gonna feed the ones that you give me and I'm gonna be happy and I'm gonna lift up your name I'm gonna rejoice for every battle that you've won I don't want to fall in the place of depression and burnout and post-traumatic stress where I lose my way I begin to fight you and fight my instead of fighting my enemies I'm fighting my friend now fighting my wife or fighting my husband I'm just in a fight and I don't know what to do when I'm not fighting I don't know how to rest I don't know how to find a place of seclusion God bringing me lead me beside the still waters and restore my soul leave me in paths of righteousness for your name say for yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me God let me be the man that's that's planted by the rivers of water that that that will bring forth fruit in my season and nothing all things I do shall prosper in your name help us to see you and everything we do great and small a pretty blessings on these great people they're not they don't realize how great they are because they're using the wrong ruler of measurement but God I can see greatness in this room today breathe on us your Holy Ghost power breathe he are my Elmo grab us a table by October lift up the heavy burdens right now lift up thus the hands that hang down lift up the Chin's that are dragging the ground lift up my eyes unto the hills from which cometh to my help and my help cometh from the Lord the maker of heaven and earth Oh God you will not suffer my foot to be mood Oh God emotional elbow cutter for he that dwelleth in the secret places of the Most High God shall abide under the shadow of your wings Oh God let us find solace there let us find out happen is there in your presence let us fine our grace there in your presence of God let us find joy and grace and spirit today breathed on us or God thank you for everyone and see God bless you in Jesus name you

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Published: Tue Sep 17 2019