"From Anxiety to Awe" | Power Hour | Ep.77

[Music] [Laughter] [Music] guys you're live [Music] you're also muted can you unmute [Music] yourself starting we cursed the music by accident oops i don't know [Music] because we just we just said oh that music really needs to change and so we probably had cursed it and then of course it came on ridiculously i'd quite like some jiggy kind of like violin kaylee dancing music are you all right so that was the most hilarious we've literally just been trying to go live for ages and the video was coming on and then we were coming back on the screen and then the video was on and then we were coming on and honestly it was like what was going on he's like okay i'm looking are we alive are we not live i think something more sort of like you know i don't know uh star wars kind of elvis is coming in the building so music music intros like each day for like a week and uh david could see you know which gets the most votes uh not particularly i mean i don't dislike the music but um no i was thinking more you know his introduction music we had friends who got married and they came in to elvis's um tune that he used to play when he would come live on stage they had smoke they had flashing lights um into the reception it was great fun and i thought well that might be something that we could look at it's not a song it's like uh oh you're now talking johnny cash oh dude i know but what kind of song should we come into it wasn't up the aisle it was into the reception could you imagine walking up the aisle martin martin and karen the great and actually he does an amazing elvis impersonation and they called their dog he was from the same litter as your dog joy they called him elvis because and martin loves elvis so much you have met him he's amazing amazing at taking elvis on but that's called elvis our first cat was called but our first dog was called amos so we had amos and elvis that's like our friends in switzerland with their big dog but they call him amaz don't they we know yeah and uh and then elvis the cat anyway the worst music i ever heard accidentally at a wedding was after they they'd signed the you know whatever they do the the wedding license and then and they're proceeding out of the church and everybody's standing to applaud uh the guy on the cd machine accidentally pressed the wrong track and they left the church to the theme tune from schindler's list oh gosh oh that's all about death oh dear oh great not great no no anyway what was it meant to be can you remember some some upbeat something but not schindler's list is your wedding march anyway although what i was giggling about this morning was sam uh for those of you who don't know is really uh very easy to scare and he take he gets frights and jumps just and the office staff actually one of them said to me i'm so missing at making sam jump uh it's right i mean it's like every day somebody would sneak up on him and go boom or just get their hands near his ear and he would like completely jump out of his skin uh so yeah it's really super cool isn't it so so he's usually first on these things and i click in and my face appears in the screen which we do every day and today you nearly jumped out of your skin i don't know what i i expect it happens every day honestly it's happened so many times where i've been working away and then like david has been sitting in the chair he's coming to talk to me or nicola or emma they've just sat in the chair and i have just looked up from my desk and not heard them walk in and just jumped and shouted because i didn't expect it seriously you know honestly my family love it because i try to give them frights and scares and then they open the door and i get afraid before i give a chance get a chance to give them one so i just i just have to embrace it now on the other hand jessica says to me this morning uh mummy i've been standing asking you the same question and you've said yes every time and it's not a yes or no question i'm asking you i'm like oh i'm so zoned out you know mommy what's the weather going to be like for my birthday yes jessica mommy what's the yes jessica mommy what's the weather yes jessica you know so uh you know on the other hand zoning out yeah profits we're very good at being in the room but not being present like zoning out you know yeah and people having a conversation with you and you can nod and look like you're there but then you're zoned out so that's like what's happening before i think you know at dinner if i'm so if i've zoned out like where are you come back you know into the conversation and i'm mulling something over oh dear i think i'm doing it more and more thomas keeps saying i close my eyes more when i talk he says mom can you keep your eyes open because i'm like it's like i'm half praying or something you know you know what i think it is though in in our work environment we we spend so much of our time looking in the spirit that so much of our interactions with each other you know as a core team are semi-looking at the person and looking at what the angels are doing and you kind of get used to talking to each other with kind of only the person half with an eye on and half of it somewhere else i think i think that's true but i have to say i don't think it's always that i think you know it can be we're half asleep because um there are many mornings when i would come into our office and catch you out if you were not quite with it in the morning just giving you a fright you are definitely not definitely just waking up it takes takes like an hour in the morning to warm up to people something when i'm by myself but then i'm just typing away just warming up and then i guess that's me awake for the day yes you've got to know that you you love us because yeah the mornings are not great and i'm actually not the best in the first thing in the morning i did the early school run today uh which at the moment is getting up and leaving the house at half seven and being back in the house just before 10 o'clock because it's quite a commute but um soon to be shorter and and i just don't talk sophie knows not to really talk to me much for the first 10 minutes that i've had my cup of tea when david does the early morning swimming run with peter that's a peter's got to be in the pool at 5 00 a.m which is proper early i mean it's brutal and then he's back in the pool at five o'clock in the evening uh those i mean they're horrible and they just take the um the the tupperware boxes out of the cupboard uh ready with porridge heat the porridge up and eat the porridge whilst they're driving out of the tupperware boxes because it's so brutally early so it's horrible isn't it nice anyway should we do some lovely spiritual things tonight anyway we're glad you guys are all with us this morning and we've titled this from anxiety to all um because i feel like we have to have a session today where we come into a great vulnerability and authentic truth telling about how we are feeling emotionally and we don't want to uh slide over that and and just talk about angels or prophesy the future or you know even talk about witchcraft as we've done over the weeks but actually to that uh honest conversation where i think we have all felt um a bit low and a bit flat uh even personally and that sense of um you know david said to me how are you feeling this morning i said i feel a bit flat this morning you know and uh i know you guys have both in our interactions over text you know this morning said similar things to me and the fact that we don't want to to hide that um but we want to just bat that around uh between us and the fact that sustained change sustained change leads to sustained trauma and that sense of sustained trauma meaning that you find yourself in a deeply distressing or disturbing experience and i think we have come under that uh and it's very very deep within us and i think their senses of being low or flat or grief or weariness or sadness uh many of those things that are just or swirling in the atmosphere around our lives and when we look at those um uh things that uh that you know the google lists as the most stressful things that can ever happen in your life you know on top of the list you know the death of a spice or a house move which you know uh certainly most of us have done the heist move one i think you understand certainly in the heist move like sarah jane as you move heist next week is that you build to a moment you hit the moment and then you process the other side of the moment but that actually all of us are still in the process of change we are not hitting a defining moment we are in a defining season which is incredibly uh challenging and we are not even in the place where we can say well let's reflect and let's recover because we are still in catastrophic change like if you don't feel that today high five well done you but you may need to just save this and come back to this and of course we know in trauma that you have three stages response recovery and reconstruction if we can even get those on the screen three stages of trauma response recovery and reconstruction response recovery and reconstruction and the experts who you know deal with earthquakes and bombs going off and famine and tornadoes in lands use those three words response recovery and reconstruction and processes that the whole society will go through after crisis and i'd still believe that we are in the response uh stage we are not even in recovery yet and we are certainly not anywhere near reconstruction yet we are longing to be and so we need to be those who know what it is to pray the right self-care prayers what does a good self-care prayer sound like and how do we uh uh you know have the right words on our tongues rather than just the ownership of the emotion now you do need to own the emotion you do need to say i feel like that any person who is processing the first point is i own the emotion so i feel this i feel that i own the emotion i don't say well i'm a christian i should never feel that you know i'm a christian i should always be floating around you know on clyde 9. no you own the emotion and god is is happy with that you own the emotion and then you start to pray self-care prayers that are not prayers of desperation but prayers that will move you to cope better and we're going to go through what some of them are but sam you had some great thoughts on um on the weariness of the season yeah totally and just as some of you are watching and hearing some context and you're you're sharing very honestly which is great but you're using words like some of you that are commenting that you feel that you've hit a wall or that life has grown to a halt or that you even some of you are feeling a bit numb because of the weight of the emotions that are around and i think we've just got to acknowledge and have a moment of honest acknowledgement that particularly the last five days last five to seven days that there has been a period a time where there has been a heaviness and now we've got different words different categories for some of this heaviness but i think the word that describes what so many of us have felt over the last while is the word heaviness and this morning i woke up praying and i was praying for grief and weediness and just that heaviness that was around and you know i know that when god wakes you up with a prayer already in your spirit that there's something important that he wants to do and just as i was praying about in this weediness this heaviness this grief i heard the spirit of the lord say over and over and over again don't forget that my mercies are new every single morning that my mercies are not seasonal that my mercies are not present when crisis is not present they are new every morning and i create new mercies for you new grace for you new opportunity new life new strengths strength for you to wake up into at the beginning of every day and the lord really is bringing a simple but an often forgotten truth back into many of your lives and he says this look don't wake up to complete tasks don't wake up to struggle forward don't wake up just to fight you know we love to war but don't wait half that is your wake up almost first thing don't wake up and expect that it's going to be another difficult day wake up to meet with me wake up to meet with my mercies wake up to embrace what is new that i'm giving to you wake up the lord says and declare out loud my heart is ready for more of you god and that was a statement that god really released to me and said i want you to pray that every morning or say that out loud that every morning this week as a holding prayer you've got to start to see out loud my heart is ready for more of you god now why are we doing that because number one we're acknowledging that god's in control that he has a good plan in that day but we're also saying no matter the chaos and the crisis my expectation is that you are going to give me more of who you are today that you're going to work in my life today that you are going to turn up in my life today and that we've got a shift out of that expectation of god i just need strength because it's going to be a battle although we do want to pray that into the first prayer of the morning being my heart is ready for more of you god because the truth is your mercies are new every single morning that that is something that is so consistent about god that as you sleep he's creating and he's working with angels in the heavenly realms and he's making a new mercy for you so that as soon as your eyes start to flicker in the morning as soon as the sun beams through your windows as soon as your alarm maybe wakes you up abruptly when you'd like another hour you wake up to newly freshly created mercy that is specifically designed for your life and he's saying in this time of heaviness do not forget that my mercies are new every single morning and so why don't you just take that that prayer in the comments so that you remember it my heart is ready for more of you god simple prayer but it cultivates an expectation that god's gonna turn up in your life yeah i mean i think that that verse is so delightfully rich isn't it that mercies are new every morning is that sense of a god who's saying here is freshness in your staleness here is life in your repetitiveness here is energy in your lowness here is my beauty when it's dark you know here is my joy in your sadness here is my hand in your loneliness here is my friendship in your isolation here is my love when you feel that you have no value and so when god says my mercies are new every morning it is not just a light kind of fluff it is a weight of the freshness of god to where you are and it is not god who is saying look my mercy requires that you come up to this height no no or my mercy requires that you do three hours of bible reading or my mercy requires no no my mercy is new every morning for where you are for as you are for the circumstances that you are in and it is a god who is saying freshness i bring freshness i bring life i bring freshness i bring life and so when we when you pray those prayers you know that sam has got you my heart is ready for more of you or i receive new mercies though that is the entry level to self-care prayers self-care prayers god i'm ready for more of you i'm ready for the mercies mercies is new every morning okay because that alone what it does is that it reestablishes the connection between you and god it re-establishes the connection of an ability to receive and sometimes god is absolutely present in your room with all that you need and the issue is not his absence the issue is our inability to receive and so when we say i receive you open up more than you would be in the natural aware of for a recalibration a resetting and a redemptive work just saying i received is massive and let me tell you an aside i mean i do i trained as a counselor oh decades ago and i actually and of course we've added to that with sozo and chabar and d id i mean you you name the sea of foster rtf you know we start all of the kind of courses that you can in inner wellness i i i really love that kind of those kind of therapy areas and what i would find is the people that that will heal well or the people that i can get to a place the freedom as they sit with me in sessions are those who know how to receive from jesus and and let me tell you i mean i can't heal i mean nobody can really heal you it's only jesus who can heal you so there has to be a created space of receptivity for what god has for you for you to have a hope of being well if you cannot get a place of receiving a receptivity i can guarantee that you will not be able to be washed in the wellness of christ so sometimes saying i receive i receive your new mercies or sam's terminology was i received what did you say some i received more of you for today yeah my heart is ready for more of you god or i receive more of you today god the kind of is the opening up of your whole being to a god who is well so good christ has the perfect mind so when i say i receive i come into a collision course with a perfected mind now what i tend to do is i say to people uh in the counseling room my first thing is um to to say ask the word jesus is in the room uh in that sense of can you see jesus where's jesus in the room and you get a you understand a lot about the person's psyche from how they answer that question and and very often where is jesus in the room or is it actually in the next room or is it the corner of the room or is it he's pushed back against the wall and my question is can you invite jesus into your space and they think that's odd because if i can get that person to invite jesus into their space they can get healed mm-hmm okay whoo sarah jane you felt um it fit well you're a science prophet so you'll feel the weary this is a different way to the rest of us absolutely um i absolutely i woke up this morning with this kind of heaviness on my chest and this tightness across my chest like a band that just got worse as i took got ready and took stuff to school this morning and and i felt the spirit of heaviness and it was like an elephant sitting on my chest you know it was like it's it's like a heart attack waiting to happen you know in the spirit and i was like i said to sophie when we were driving stuff what are you seeing in the spirit on my chest because i just feel this heaviness and she's like oh mom you know it's like it's too early i can't be bothered you know like oh thanks very much leave it to me you know figuring this out so the spirit of heaven is sitting on my chest like this elephant and the lord saying it's a heart attack if you will a heart attack in the spirit and the scripture that came to mind um that i've been meditating on this morning as we prepared for sharing with you is second corinthians four and just as we've been saying from verse uh what's that verse eight here we are hard pressed on every side but not crushed we are perplexed but not in despair we are persecuted but not abandoned we are struck down but not destroyed and this sense of actually reminding ourselves that though we're going through a trial though we're going through a tough time that actually felt to me like trickle as i was walking this morning like i'm pushing up hill or walking through treacle to get anywhere and that sense of the weariness in the spirit because i i do feel it because i'm a seer i was feeling what sam was explaining there this morning and what was in his heart about the spirit of heaviness this sense of actually reminding ourselves that even though things are tough there's a reason for it and if we read on in second corinthians four we are reminded the reason why because we have the death of jesus on the inside of us but we also have the life of jesus on the inside of us we have this contradiction of things that are dying and wasting away of what we see and then we have the new life that is coming out and being renewed and reborn and uh exploding and wanting to explode out of us every day and so sam's prayer of the mercies are new every morning god took me to verse 16 which says in in an antidote if you will to this heart attack of the spirit this elephant on our chest of the spirit of heaviness it says therefore we do not lose heart therefore we do not lose heart we don't give up we don't and come under that heaviness we though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day so again this you know we are aging we are going through a process of things breaking up and dying around us it could be people it could be loved ones it could be things that we hold dear that are breaking and dying and falling away yet we are told to hold on to the fact that there's this inward renewal this day by day renewal that comes by and of the spirit of god and so it is that sense of actually reminding ourselves who we are and who is in us and why does this wrestle why we are feeling the crushed but we're not destroyed because we are moving through death into the fullness of life and there was more on that that i think we'll share share later but i really felt like this renewal portion is so key to remind ourselves of and this exchange even that we see in isaiah 61 of the spirit of heaviness for praise and the joy instead of mourning that god is reminding us that whatever we're feeling this morning and even every day as we go through this trial and this place of tightness this place of reshaping that there is a renewal uh that is yes tangible and real like emotions but also it is oven by the spirit in a renewal way of the life that is in christ jesus and that's a powerful scripture in second corinthians four and 13 you wanted to take us to pray for a gift of perseverance i think that's really necessary um yeah yeah i i really felt like um some of the things god was speaking about the antidote in this season and i know that we've touched on this a little bit already emery and sam but i really felt for us all that this is one of those key power gifts if you will that god is giving us right now is the gift of perseverance and perseverance means despite difficulty despite delay it means to achieve success it means we keep on going that we keep on moving that we keep on stepping one front in front of the other and interestingly i mean we know some of the great scriptures about perseverance and from romans 5 four that even in our sufferings that we rejoice oh my gosh that's a hard scripture isn't it we rejoice in our sufferings because we know it brings perseverance and that jesus said that when good truth when good word falls on good soil it is perseverance that bears the fruit and guys that that is one of those things we have to get ahead around that actually god loves that we go through what we go through because at the other end it produces fruit of perseverance that is going to be so remarkable even in the pushing through the treacle right now even in pushing through these difficult mornings when you get up and you feel like oh everything's so tough everything's so heavy god he's saying you are producing the fruit of perseverance and let me tell you as a science prophet i love it when god teaches me through signs that are really good but when it's challenging i do a little bit of a child sulk sometimes so i told you a few weeks ago i told you a few weeks ago that i had taken up running i'm still doing that i'm persevering it is not an easy thing but i feel like god is teaching me perseverance even in this couch to 5k running program and in my second week of running i tripped and fell over i tripped and fell over on the grass verge as i got off the off the road because the car was coming and then i went to run back on the road i literally went down like a sack of potatoes right on the road and i hurt myself i i graced my knee there was blood pouring out drama drama and the driver of the car turned around and came back thinking that i think he'd knocked me over or something he was like are you okay okay and i was like i'm fine i'm fine and and i just fell i just have to get going i just have to run and my knee was sore my my hip was sore and my foot was so but i just felt the lord say just run just run and i thought this is a sign here right now i know that i'm gonna get knocked down but i'm just gonna have to keep getting up i'm gonna have to keep getting up i'm gonna have to keep persevering and i thought god i don't like this sign right now i'm not loving this sign right now but i know that i'm going to need this and so i really feel for all of you feeling that right now of i just want to give up i just want to stop i just want to sit down i just want all of this to go away to remind ourselves that actually it's important to choose life to choose to keep moving forward to choose momentum to choose actually to keep going one foot in front of the other as emma was talking about through the effectual door of our lives that are open right now that we have to keep saying i'm gonna just keep going even if it feels like we're one of those divers waited with the steel boots on the floor of the ocean that we're just pushing through and saying i'm gonna persevere i'm gonna keep going because god has told me that this produces fruit and it's fruit of righteousness and it's fruit of goodness for his kingdom not just for my life not just for your life but actually for the kingdom of god to be revealed in the midst of our enemies and so hebrews 12 hebrews 12 was where i landed and god speaking even hebrews 12 22 which is where we're going guys mount zion where the clouds of witnesses are cheering us on and it's this sense of the whole of heaven is around us and we need to get strength from scripture but we also need to get strength from each other and actually encourage each other and say come on sj come on emma come on sam come on keep going you can do this because actually there is good fruit coming out of this trial that is in your life right now and i think if we ever reviewed where the church had been we would have said things like light weight lacking in character you know diluted uh you know easily swept aside by an incoming wave of satan i think that and and some of that would have been fair comment a bit harsh but some of it would have been fair comment and so what's going to arise on the other end of this is a church that has persevered on mass that will then have produced another level of character and therefore the ability to steward a greater weight of glory perseverance produces and so what we are going through as we cheer each other on is not a wasted time it is not a useless time it may be a frustrating time but it is a producing time and i've got to keep saying to you come on you can do it come on let's keep going come on let's keep believing come on let's keep praying and worshiping and reading our bible come on let's just keep saying jesus is lord even if that's all you can muster out of your mind in a moment why because that is enough to build in you the production of fruit and character so that we can be a church that holds a greater weight of glory i mean that that is really what we're all about so sir jane you were really on it there can you just release that gift of of uh perseverance so yeah lord we just come this morning and we thank you god that some things that you that you say in your word are ch challenging to us god that perseverance produces fruit that actually trials are some things that we should rejoice in and so lord for my brothers and sisters right now and even for myself lord we just step in and we put on perseverance we put on that suit of perseverance actually if you will that god is giving us of hebrews 12 that is that running with endurance running with perseverance of hebrews 12 and i see it like a running suit which is bizarre from hebrews 12 that god is putting on us a suit of perseverance this morning and so i want you just to raise up your hands like a child who's waiting for its parent to dress it and say god put on me perseverance put on that power gift that you have for me of perseverance and let it strengthen me right now and as you do that god as i see you do that on your church this morning dressing us as a church body and individually with the suit of perseverance we respond and we say god we will run and we will keep putting our step in front of the other that we will be those like marathon runners who cheer on the runners beside us and we will be those who are like in the crowd saying come on you can do it and so we just release the voice of perseverance back to the church release the language of perseverance and the language of the champions who will overcome through endurance and who will overcome through keeping going and not giving up and so for those of you who felt like i just feel like the lord said you've sat down in the side of the road and you felt like i just can't go on we with our prayers we come and we raise you up we raise you up with faith and we say come on you can do it come on you can do it and we come around you and we link our arms with yours and we say sister and brother get up with us because we're not going to leave you behind and god is not going to let you stay there and we're going to say come on with us and move forward in jesus name so we loose the wave of perseverance back to you as a strength to the core of your being we lose that truth of day by day renewal for perseverance to come to you and say we're doing this together church we are doing this together as those linked in the race of endurance of hebrews 12 thank you god and we say to you endurance endurance i make a degree over your life wherever you are right now whatever state you find yourself in this morning whatever room you're sitting in in whatever nation in the world endurance is yours in the name of jesus perseverance and endurance are wrong together they are going in the spirit they are colliding with the very core of your being right now and you are being transformed by the weight of the glory of god with an unfurling of endurance and performance in the end in the midst of you and this is not just gonna help you just kind of get up and be a plotter a longer but there's going to be a momentum there's even going to be a joy there's even going to be a speed that you're going to find and you are not going to be one who is taken out by this situation in this pandemic you are going to be an overcomer you are going to be a victorious one the mantle of leadership will come on your shoulders and you will show many how to be in the body of christ and in the name of jesus i gather you back into this military forming army of god that is only moved to start to take land and territory and in the name of jesus you are being changed in how you think how you feel how you respond you are being changed out of yo-yoing you are being changed by the boomerang type mindsets you are being changed from the ups and downs to be somebody who consistently knows what it is to have victory because perseverance and endurance are yours now in the mighty name of jesus oh man you had some other things yeah do you know i just hear the spirit of the lord say uh to those of you that are watching i you're going to know me in these days as the psalm 3 3 god who is your shield and your glory and the lefter of your head and the lord says i'm speaking to you my children chin up eyes up for the lord says that as i come as your glory and the lifter of your head you're not going to see through your situation you're not gonna see through what you're facing the lord says i'm gonna give you the ability to see up and over to see what is beyond and the spirit of the lord says would you let me i'm just watching as his hand is coming under your chin and he's going chin up he's lifting your head he's lifting your focus and some of you even need to just look up almost as a prophetic act of god i let you lift my head up because the spirit of the lord says you're going to know me as that psalm 33 god who's your shield your glory and the lefter of your head so in the name of jesus i bless you with the ability not to see through but to see up and over so that you start to know how to partner with what god is doing and really god is mantling you with the gift of perspective that he birthed in paul in philippians 1 12 to 14 and this gift of perspective really is the whole not just the holding gift but the transformation gift that is so key for right now that will enable you to shift your situation out of heaviness into praise and into life and one philippians 12 says this this is what paul says here now i want you to know brothers and sisters that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel but what the enemy tried to put on me as a heaviness as a limitation actually served the purposes of god and as a result of this it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that i am in chains for christ and because of my chains because of my limitation because of my heaviness most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the lord and they are all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear and paul says here my prison my oppression my heaviness has actually become my platform and though it is difficult and though it is oppressive and although it feels like i'm hard-pressed on every side there is an advanced that was able and has been able to come to me that actually if i wasn't in this situation maybe couldn't have and at sea you see it with paul paul saw his opportunity his present as an opportunity for soul saving you know peter and silas saw their present as the perfect environment for a worship service and for the miraculous of god to be poured out esther saw you know the the oppression of her jews as an opportunity for the salvation and the divine reversal in a nation and god is saying i want to give you perspective that up and over that you're going to see what is actually going on in the spirit and be able to partner with me in that process and so in your places where you feel oppressed where you feel sad where you feel like you're grieving where you feel weedy where you feel worn out god what are you doing in me that is actually going to advance your purposes and this is what we've got to say you know we grieve not as those who have no hope our sadness you know isn't the same as everyone else's why because even in the middle of weariness god's purposes can be advanced and so i want to speak a word to you that actually i get that the heaviness is strong i get that the sadness is strong and we want to bless you in processing that but that does not disqualify you for from an invasion of the kingdom of god that is in a holding position where you can't do anything where you can't move where you are a place that god can visit where there isn't a purpose in your life because this actually says when you're in chains when you're bound when you are in a place where you feel like i can't even move and paul was physically in chains that there is an advance that god puts on you and we've got to just lay our hands on our head and say give me the gift of heavenly perspective give me the gift of heavenly perspective so that i don't get caught in viewing my situation from an earthly realm perspective so that i don't look at what i'm going through with an earthly realm perspective but i start to see it as you do and in turn when i start to see my situation as you see it when you start to see your situation as god sees it you are empowered then to make a place of transformation you're empowered then to make a place where god gets to turn up so in the name of jesus i tear off anything that the enemy wants to put around you that is telling the you that what you're in right now what you feel right now is a dead end street that you are on pause that you're in a holding position and that there's not anything you can do where you are and i loose to you a heavenly perspective like paul had here that you will be able to see your situation as god sees it which will then empower you to be someone who's jewish transformation i bless that and you in the name of jesus that's powerful powerful stuff sam thank you so much i think you know in in our own musings we already know that we don't grow much in extreme blessing and we don't grow much in repetitive comfort and we don't grow much in the deeply familiar and the sense of heart cry within us to want to be more like jesus i want to be an echo of who he is i don't want to pee an independent voice i don't even want to sign like i'm carrying something new and whizzy i just want to sign like i'm carrying christ that i am an echo of him and that sense of if i want to be an echo of him i know that in my repetitive comfort and familiar places i am unlikely to become more christ-like yeah that is our reality so i embrace the strength of the verse that says he disciplines those he loves he disciplines those that he loves and that sense of the prayer of god discipline me because it's a sign of your love god put me into the tough places because it's a sign that i can be more like you jesus in the midst of the valleys it is only there that i have a hope of being refined to be in the image of my god and if i am serious about my faith there actually is a richness of joy in the journey you know just like jesus said for the the joy set before him he endured but actually there is a joy in these moments because i know whether i see it clearly or not that somehow the gift of god to me is a greater christ-likeness and i think that has got to be the anchor and the foundation that holds us in the ebb and flow of life that my self-care prayer my self-care prayer if i really am wanting to be nurtured if i really am wanting to be well if i'm really wanting to be who god wants me to be my self-care prayers must not be uh whimsical and self-focused but they must be god do with me whatever it takes to be more like your son because that is ultimately a self-care prayer whatever it costs whatever it looks like that my salvation is not me being free to be whatever i want to be my salvation is freedom to be like christ my salvation at its core is the privilege of christlikeness which means i must go through the process of a trial to be like christ and discipline the other thing i would say on that i i think that changes how you see suffering i think it changes how you see trials it changes how you see your roadblocks in this there is the only opportunity i might have to become more like my savior god i would rather you know somebody turned up an angel in disguise and handed me you know the keys of a witty house i don't know whatever floats your vote you know i would rather that you know i just was promoted with ease in my work i would rather and maybe there are moments but i think we have to lose the i would rather it was easy and understand that in the roadblocks is my only true opportunity to be like jesus come on and i wonder whether charismaticness has sold us a line that we need to bend trash of this microwave christianity you know where there's an instantaneous field within the charismatic church to you know supply and demand is instantaneous and the god who says well yes i will produce healings i will produce miracles and i will produce but but actually there are some things that come in the process of pain that are the best thing that could ever happen to me [Music] sometimes my pain is the best thing that a loving god could have opened up in my life sometimes it is the very thing that i never wanted to have happen that he graced in my life is the very thing that prunes me enough to be a better version of jesus in the earth and that truth of god is good all the time yes yes yet he is but his goodness does not always take the form that i like his goodness does not look like i would like it to look on many occlusions but his goodness is utterly certain and steadfast and although you know i watch some of my team in difficulties and although you know as a as a manager of people or even as a mom i want to skip in and make that go away i want them not to face that thought i want them not to hurdle that you don't have to hurdle that issue i i want you know as a leader and as a parent for smooth paths there are sometimes i have to say i will not run to fix that i will not put my hand in my pocket and financially give if i could there because actually there are some things that i know you must win with god by yourself that i cannot kill all your inner demons and sometimes you i can deliver you of a load of them but sometimes you need a trial to make a war on the inside of you that you kill your inner demons and that you will rise with a fortitude that has the ability to steward more of christ [Music] well we've not even got to we've called it anxiety and all i've not even got to the orbit maybe we'll do it from next on okay first often the way it is isn't it you know our notes god leads in other directions but i want you to find a place in your heart my family to smile today and be christ-like for the joy for the joy of your future for the joy of your destiny for the joy of what god wants to put in you there will be an inner solidity of endurance and perseverance that you bind yourself to knowing that where you may find yourself is not your forever but it is the necessity of the christian walk he prunes those that bear fruit don't you love that god doesn't prune those who are fruitless he prunes those who bear fruit he prunes the fruitful vine he prunes the fruitful vine he prunes the fruitful vine takes you right back down isn't it amazing it is amazing that god knows what we need every single step even though we would rather have it another way so some sir jane do you want to comment on that uh if i've missed something or pray i think it wouldn't be great to pray unless sam you've got something you want to add i think you said that very well yeah i think you know that you know a powerful so so good emma i think what a season like this and an invitation like this requires is a deep quiet but consistent bravery a bravery to confront how we feel a bravery to be honest with our own selves actually i feel like this and not hide it a bravery to wake up every day and actually do something that makes a difference or do something that works towards our healing or our wholeness or whatever that may be a bravery so that every day you make regular good godly decisions and when i say bravery i'm not talking about a moment and there are moments great moments where we need you know lots of bravery but this invitation uh our impartation in some regards that i certainly want to pray for you all to have as the quiet but consistent daily bravery to do what needs to be done and so in the name of jesus for those of you that are walking i loose to you that deep quiet but consistent bravery that you will not be scared about how you feel that you will not be scared about what's going on uh that that would then lead you to hiding it from jesus but i bless you with that bravery to confront how you feel to be honest about how you feel and to be honest with jesus that you will find solace and safety and joy in being honest with jesus bravely honest with jesus bravely honest with yourself for it is in the bravely at the bravery of being honest that you are then the lord says able to walk in quickly and well into your wholeness and healing so i bless you with that in jesus mighty name amen anyway just before we fly off we uh obviously have miracle clinic appointments if you don't know that they are on zoom and we have some slots which is rare uh until we get the rest the team which some of you are getting trained uh to come on to the team uh and there'll be more slots then but right now there are bookable online zoom appointments where you can get your miracle with two or three of my team and they will take 15-20 minutes and you know just contend for you so that you can have a testimony of the turnaround of god so you can jump onto the global prophetic alliance glasgow prophetic center prophetic scots website and you can book in for a miracle clinic appointment and the team will uh with jesus sort things out okay great to spend time with you today we will see you tomorrow bye [Music] do [Music] so [Music] you

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