"From Devastation to Restoration Pt.2" | POWER HOUR | Ep.25

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lose it you know screw like doing furry animal that claims the tree everybody's wanting me to yes I thought was gonna be a squirrel husband invading our screen well David only a tech-savvy person can do that so yes yeah yes yeah water mud tree if you send me one I'll have one I need to post a full one okay right so had an amazing day of looking at from devastation to restoration and boy were you guys with us and honest and really desiring of your deeper healing and we had never done and you know masking for healing but I think thises off he went through a process of nasty for healing and I just want to go high five to you guys for going on the journey with us and so we have come to this this sense because really at the weekend we felt like oh I'm not a minute the atmosphere started to shift and that sense of the church is waking up here we had had had been slammed in the face with crisis and some of us felt like punk and a bit like well how do I know somebody does anything did anyone get naked after I gave you naked homework and all that so and so dodgy if you weren't listening but there were genuine and there was a genuine spiritual reason for it okay in case you are just knew just you wonder what she's talking about the naked prophets maybe we should call ourselves Oh No okay simple and that sense that we wanted to be those who could come out of the devastation not just as we were before but come right into restoration better than we had ever been before and so we're going to build on that and as Sam's gone read again let's see how funny because for other livestream as everybody commented on saying I got naked I think the only one so I just think yes that's great nice traits and the process okay girls by the way somebody had shot a squirrel for eating their flowers yeah yeah I won't say anything just in case somebody one of my neighbors knows but yeah my husband and my son have done that in the past anyway moving on squirrels do you make squirrel boy oh no no pheasants yes pheasants but not Owen pigeons yes but not squirrels no oh now I'm dr. hotel we went to and there was zebra on the menu yeah let's move on but if they were a service snake anybody eating a snake oh let's just in Wales of all places anyway right we're going to get deeply spiritual history with so from from devastation to restoration part two and that sense of you are going to be so gloriously shining yeah that there is this an ability within you to be one that Isaiah talks about where a man come you because you are the ones who are carrying the glory of God and of course our pain takes up so much space doesn't it it's like carrying moldy cabbages inside your art and that sense of I know what an image you know and we want to be rid of all of that so there's space for the weight of the glory of God and really what we're looking at is that whole scripture concept where it says we are made alive in Christ what it doesn't look like for you to be fully alive in Christ I act that verse over and over and I pray a lot God make me fully alive in you all my senses super sensitized to you none of me in decay none of me dead none of me leaning into mold and and in destruction and what fascinates me about heaven is the fact that ma is something that is earthbound only so if there's no decay in heaven it's why you don't read about ultim seasons in heaven you actually read about cycles where the trees bear fruit every single month because there's no death or decay capabilities in the city and you know in the New Jerusalem and in the new heaven and so this sense of I I want to be like that right now where I am in this continual place of the bearing of good fruit no matter what is going on because I am so alive in Christ and so some of you would I have to start to pray that I think that is a key prayer of moving from devastation to restoration make me alive in Christ make me alive in Christ that actually the fullness of who you've made me to be because I think we we have this thought about heaven well and the kingdom of God the noise and the not yet and that is biblically true there's stuff we get nine and the stuff that is or not is a not yet concept but I think we fire so much into the not yet that actually we forget the abundance that is possible right now making me alive in Christ and some of us will I mean I can actually you know I didn't think we would part there but I feel like I'm parking there right now you can feel even as we say that make me alive in Christ you could feel the Spirit of God just starting to land on all of this power our family make me alive in Christ that God is doing something right now supernaturally and miraculously where you sit and close my eyes I see in the spirit realm that just wherever you are in whatever nation whether you're in bed I'd have been running standing still it doesn't matter there is a surge of the life of Christ shifting you out of a place that you were stuck in and there's a restoration that you didn't even know was possible by the life of Christ somebody's saying yes you can feed it right now Sam help us i if you want to comment on that but you have some great thoughts a bite actual and scripture reference David if you can put the scripture is this a couple of times in Scripture we were made alive in Christ you wanted to deal with an assignment and that was keeping us in devastation of lessness mmm-hmm don't matter I think that sense of agitation and I just can't quite switch off I just can't quite find an equilibrium but you know my daughter has just appeared as a cup of tea but but I would get her to come are you fully dressed yeah you can pop pop you've got no makeup on do you understand hi that's my my 17 year old she'll come and speak another day but sound let's deal with this restlessness taller yeah that's Ephesians 2:5 that talks about being a made alive with Christ that you've been made alive and Christ's or the life that Christ has you have also but as we move from devastation to restoration it's not just something that God is gonna superimpose on us but there are some things that he's asking us to partake and that will help us move from a place of being devastated to being restored not just back to what we wear but forward into our future and God is really saying one of the pathways into that is rest and because of em the need for rest to be restored as part of that word the the largest thing look there's been this demonic assignment of restlessness that has come to the people of God that has stopped you from fully entering into rest and my rest now let me read you one of my favorite quotes on rest and it's probably on the best book I've ever M read on Sabbath by AJ swabbo that's called subversive Sabbath the surprising power of rest and a nonstop waddled and he is really setting the context for who our God as that we serve and he says this unlike those other gods however Yahweh commands that humanity is to work hard and rest well and no other creation narrative do the gods provide this kind of rest to creation no other God gave a break no other God carries the well-being of creation as close to the heart as this one does no other God carries the well-being of creation as close to the heart as this one does and God is really saying look if you want to move into this place of restoration where you are fully restored and to all that I've called you to be you need to learn fully to enter into the rest that I have created you to obeyed N and have you ever let me ask you this question have you ever stopped to wonder why exactly God would get so upset when Ezreal forgot to practice the Sabbath and Ezekiel 20 the prophet Ezekiel he's going after the realize for this very thing and it's God that says this look I gave them my sabbaths as a saying between me and them that they may know that I am the lord who sanctifies them and that's Ezekiel 20 verse 12 now particular reference but with that instruction Israel still refusing to arrest and I think the key is this when we forget to stop almost by proxy and by byproduct of that we start to forget God and the refusal to lay down our work so that we can open our arms to God means that our busy hands are always full unless then Rob's god of the fullness of his glory of his weighty significance in our life's and really I want to say this look if we won't stop to experience the glory of God and rest then we won't be able to properly glorify Him and work either and it's not that you can be really really good at glorifying him and work and but really bad at glorifying him and rest if you can't marvel at his glory and rest then you'll never be able to fully glorify Him and your work either and when I say work I'm not just talking about your employment work as the need to always be in production modes I always need to be doing something I always need to be producing something there must always be something in my hand is tangible I'm really forgetting God when we forget a Sabbath has super deadly side effects and if we don't worship God and rest then our work and everything else we do then metastasizes and to some sort of idol so let me just err before we deal with restlessness ask a question that will help you test whether or not you have a restless spirit and whether or not you love the Sabbath and you love resting as much as God wants you to if you close your eyes and you imagine a filthy 24 hours of actual wrath where you're not working or producing something where you're not thinking about work do you start to feel a little bit anxious and out of control can you start to feel a little bit oh I'm not sure what's gonna happen I'm not sure that that she's gonna be good I think if I do this then my work may start to snowball into some sort of bad place when we stop and we think about those questions we realize this that our fear of stopping mmm always actually ends up revealing who we truly worship because actually anxiety is often the evidence that we don't really believe that God is in control and he has all things in hand and I think we've got to say look we have been arrest less people and I just felt this so strong on Monday I had a day off and I was sitting on my bed normally coming to to read about quite just what I love to do I could read a book all day yeah on a day off and I felt like I need to be doing something I need to be prepping for tomorrow I need weed that's that's that's that's this and I was up and down a note and there and I went to the shops to get essential food and then came back and thought is there something else can I do is there something in the garden is there something there and this restlessness kind of ruled in and I realized there that this was a spirit an assignment that was coming against the people of God that was making you an unable to fully enter into the rest that leads to restoration and it's a demonic curse of restlessness and gotta sing look today we need to repent for restlessness we need to break restlessness we need to come out and under it from underneath thats better of restlessness because rest is so important and if you want to move from devastation to restoration you need the first four letters of that second word rest as an essential ingredient for your life to be fully transformed I don't know if any of you guys want to add I've loads of other thoughts but before we keep going it's funny isn't when we read the comments here I think there is this no sense of agreement that we're just not that brilliant at knowing what it is and I love your honesty you know that sense of you know I always feel like I should be doing something or I can't rest unless it's clean and ordered I have to say that is me hands up here if the highs in trouble there's a great word as the houses of God all and a mess I feel like I cannot wine dine and somebody saying they haven't even stopped during this lock during the period you know I mean absolutely and the irony of what I'm about to say to you is not lost that the books on my shelf to read at the moment that I've just that I've recently ordered it Walter Brueggemann Savin has resistors so he's a controversial guy but sound resistance you know rest and then this other one you know garden three these are both great books on work rest what does he say at the beginning were dressed okay the art of being human not the fact that I'm trying to read books on rest to do something to understand dress the irony of that is not lost on us and the fact that we have to read books to understand rest you know be going like oh my goodness you know and so many books to read to me but yeah guard Garden City to be perfectly honest I have skim read I have to say I have not done a detailed work so yes it is or father help us and I think we have that sense and it you know in rest that and a change is as good as a rest I want us to kill that lie a change is as good as a rest that is nonsense and so rest is not doing the laundry rest is not doing the garden rest is not doing the shopping rest is not doing something West is not doing and so when we say you know I you know firmly said I have a new vacuum and it's not helping me rest is that there oh that's our mug maker tray I trade but that that sense of I have to do something and I would challenge you can you even sit still for 60 and actually I do that sometimes in the day I will sit for 60 seconds completely self eyes shut completely completely because sometimes I need a recalibration that only doing nothing achieves you are not a machine and I want to speak to you I lift off that false responsibility and that lie off your shoulders right now that you must keep doing keep doing keep doing is at the hand of the enemy and the problem is you and I are a bit like toilets I know it said I know I know but the sense is that you know you know what happens when you flush the toilet and then you try to flush again and then you try to flush it too many times in a row and then it stops functioning properly and I think we just try to you know that's and that flushes stress busyness achieved do you know flush flush flush and actually you never get reset you never get to flow properly what an awful analogy sorry about that one but that's it but that's all that's what you do to your adrenals you need then your body is how you get adrenal fatigue where there's never a Ries a reset and and stinky cabbage and toilets I know but I I was talking about this with the British Isles kinds of prophets on our conversation earlier in the week I find that true rest probably goes through some three stages that what we do is and most of us will do this on them you know our day off a week if we actually ever take one is we do I call busy rest busy rest so I'm off work but I'm in busy rest what I do what I do what I do scurrying around like a squirrel or busy for busy rest I need a project I need to feel there's a goal being achieved here I am a task orientated human being and some of you you know will just know that busy rest then I think if we sit in rest we hit stage two and stage two is exhausted rest that oh my goodness I cannot even move a muscle I feel like I have been hit by our bus and that sense of I am so deeply fatigued that I actually just cannot function so there is busy rest then there's exhausted rest but very rarely do we come to restorative rest and restorative rest is that place where I can dream again where I start to get a different perspective again if we do not hit restorative rests we have lost the art of finding perspective that helps us navigate life restorative rest will enable you to see oh your life in a completely different way searching you've great thoughts on this as well you know I just think as you're talking what I'm thinking about is often we have missed the beauty and the gift of a weekly Sabbath and so now we're in this extended Sabbath and I'm sure like many many folk out there there was this sense of oh great I'll get all those jobs done I'll clear out the Wardrobe you know the shed will get sorted and then eventually you run out of all of the jobs that needed done and then you find that there is nothing else to do but rest and in the in-between times but I think we're finding this so challenging right now many of us is because we've never built in a rhythm of rest and as you're saying Emma like Saturday for example in our weekends would be a day where normally you would have done your household chores gone shopping done the housework sunday would have been the the rest day because all the shops were closed and and of course then we became a 24/7 culture and so I think actually our culture has not helped the the nation's rest but yeah God has been really challenging me on that and I was sitting in the garden actually listening to the birds and listening to the wind and the trees a couple of weekends ago and I felt there's this there's this opportunity here I can either choose to keep the brain going and choose to keep the option list going and fulfilled or I can choose to say God I want to enter in to your rest and one of the the biggest problems I think are challenges for me and actually one of the things I've always had a bit of a god I really don't want to be like the Israelites we missed your rest because remember in Psalm 95 when David is speaking and quoting from the Old Testament about the Israelites who were at Meribah and Amasa and they chose not to enter God's rest and they chose to quarrel and they chose to kind of stay out and he says he cursed them and said you will not enter my rest and I I've always read that and thought Lord I want to be one who enters into your rest because I know that is the place where you overflow out of me I know that is the place where the anointing comes and fills me so high that I can operate in a place where with you and move in a place with you where you just pour out of me and I don't have to make myself be poured out in in the same way and sharing that story yesterday about our goddaughter dying and going into a terrible time initially I had then three months off with God my job as a freelance marketeer ended and I had this period then of what I would call rest and restoration where I had a rhythm of life of walking the dogs long walks of being able to take my time doing what needed done in the house having young children but at the same time having time to dream with God soak with God read the word and journal and God had a lot to say to me in that time and I just think we missed so much when we're busy and I have to say I have felt very challenged in this time to say god I'm choosing to enter into your rest because I don't want to miss the restoration I don't want to miss the overflow that you can do because we're you look at Leviticus 25 which is particularly speaking about the Sabbath rest of the land and it's speaking about the Jubilee where the land and the people have rest you will see remarkable analogies really for our time because it's saying in Leviticus 25 13 in a couple of places actually in this year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property so even in the fact that we are in our own homes as families together that God wants to reset us and give us rest in our own family home because he knows the importance of that and a couple of other things that we we get and I'll encourage you to read it because there's a lot of rich things in it is that we can come out of this time I believe saying even this week that this time of lockdown is actually a joy and it's a gift that it's not something that is to be endured that it's not something that we have to grit our teeth and get through but that the Lord is saying choose your attitude to enter into my rest and receive it as a gift and so there's a couple of things one is but cystinosis when you enter the land I'm going to give you the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the Lord and so I believe that as we choose to rest God is saying I've already prepared you new territory I've already prepared you a new place to occupy whether it be spiritually whether it be geographically or both but actually the only way you get there is by resting first and he's almost bringing this enforced rest on us so that we can enter into a multiplied place the second thing is the land when the land gets a rest and lies fallow actually it says I will give you in one year three years worth of fruit three years worth growth and imagine you know what is God going to do with us if we say I'm choosing right now God to rest because not because there's going to be multiplication because it's a gift but actually what comes out is multiple fruit and exponential growth and fresh territory so I say let it be those who say God I choose to enter into your rest and let us be those who say I'm choosing to see this time of rest as a gift I'm giggling a little bit at one of the comments which I've just last year but somebody was saying and that they don't Sunday restful that the kind of busyness of of church it's not really a Sabbath rest and I have to say amen to that way so who will that song easy like Sunday morning thing yeah that was the commodores yet we need to pick a day that works for us and I work some people are on night shift aren't they but we have to have I believe a day when we are resting are we an easy like Sunday morning Lionel Richie had clearly never worked in insurance procurement otherwise you would never spend those words you're right we do need you [ __ ] we do need to find a rest that absolutely works for us now somebody is saying here how do I deal with the nagging to-do list and AH let me deal with that because I'm about to deliver your demons of that you know let me think three words to you that I think you need to know rest creates dependency the rest creates dependency rest creates dependency oh this is the demonic root that we're exposing rest creates dependency and when you are in that dependent place with God you give him a space to do things it is why and we talk about it a lot it is why Adam is put to sleep and goes into rest and Eve is brought forth and it is only when Adam is fast asleep in the Garden of Eden that his greatest fruitfulness comes forth from him God knocks the man I to bring fruitfulness from him and sometimes the most fruitful thing that will ever happen in your business in your marriage in your relationship is when God knocks you out oh my god you know we learn a lot from dear dad one day you'll actually see him in person that whenever we can get right into his house and make zoom of work on his computer because he's in his seventies and you know sometimes well you just need a little tech support hi dad whenever you get to see this okay we'll get your zoom working but this sense that um when when Adam is not done and when you are not died then you get mop you get multiplication but what my dad taught me was this he and he said when and I did not take this as years and years and years ago in pastoral life when I did not take the rest that I was demanded off by God that day a week God actually withdrew his hand and allied sickness to come to my being for the same number of days I had not taken off in order and honoring rest what ash what a shocker boy did my dad learn lessons through that know the demons I need to kill in you are these you [Music] we'll have a Presbyterian and that Presbyterian work ethic or that Protestant work ethic and whether you're Protestant or not but that Presbyterian Protestant work ethic that drives perfectionism but make sure you driven and ambitious that is a demon that will need killed because if you have driven ambition and that perfectionist spirit you will always find a nag somewhere know do I want you to be brilliant yes do I want you to be highly motivated yes so it's not a bike becoming some kind of lazy you know good-for-nothing vagabond it's that sense of you are exchanging you're driven as' and your perfection for godly motivation and success and you can even just feel the difference when I say those words you know that that you kill that that driven perfectionism and you pick up excellence and motivation and so you may actually do jobs to the same degree and you may be an aerial high flyer because I would love you to be real high fliers I mean I want you to be as influential as you possibly can be and don't let anybody put a damper on that you need to be highly influential but that must come from motivation and excellence rather than driven ambition and perfection and once those demons get their nasty little talons into you it will rob you of the ease of entering restorative rest so you are going to come out of lockdown some of you I know already are from the devastation of that driven is that you knew is wrong and you simply could not shake it to a place of motivated excellent we are going we are boy I'm on a warpath today with demons and there is in that that the the demonic driven ambitious perfectionism slime soup that we that we live in that is that I must not let people don't I must not let people dying I must not let people don't is in that and so actually with it is the release from false responsibility so there's almost like a partnership of demons that will be wound around you and they will be false responsibility here you have nothing to prove exactly sure McKenzie you have nothing to prove okay so you will have falsely I'm right I'm not writing a list of demon Stein false responsibilities just so we don't forget and perfectionism and driven Asst and that is a horrible partnership force responsibility perfectionism and driven less and we need to shift you into motivation excellence and right responsibility before God who you are going to go and get very free right now and you're gonna understand what it is to be a restored human being who actually can work hard and actually can deliver and be very influential but also has a god-given ability to switch off which many with false responsibilities can never do so some of you are discovering that you had a demonic partnership sorry about that but now that we have discovered that you have a demonic partnership let us get rid of it who wants to start repenting Sam Sarah Jane get people repenting what you know the drill you repent and we repeat after for false responsibility perfectionism and driven this hmm that prayer there I think at the end if we can just break that course of restlessness as well that has come to the people of God but I think I think that's Richard very much end those three spirits that you mentioned there which are perfectionism remain me just I've got them in my head false was ability eNOS and ravenous perfectionism false ones ability and driven us so repeat after me and we're gonna repent a name will start to break those Bettis and off of your life so father God and the name of Jesus father God in the name of Jesus I repent I repent for each and every way for each and every way I have partnered with I have partnered with perfectionism perfectionism false responsibility false responsibility and Rev Ernest and driven as' I'm sorry God I'm sorry God for where I have welcomed these attributes for where I have welcomed these attributes and developed a life of striving and developed a life of striving and not abating in you and not abiding in you today I break agreement with these three spirits today I break agreement with these three spirits and tell them to Ghul and Jesus mighty name and tell them to go in Jesus mighty name this is the day your activity is ending this is the day your demonic activity is ended in me in Jesus name in Jesus name so let's just pray around that and start to unhook I and cast those demonic spirits and off of you and I love you so in the name of Jesus I right now speak to those three demonic spirits of perfectionism folks responsibility and Rev Ernest but I protect Lee start with you perfectionism and everywhere you have cloaked the people of God where their best wasn't even enough where their best work was still even seen as a failure and your hold over the people of God I just list the light of Christ to expose you and unhook you right now in Jesus mighty name and everywhere are tightly perfectionism but everywhere perfectionism driven 'us and false responsibilities have and an under pend an inability to rest I break right now in Jesus name and unhook protect Li from your mange because a lot of that happens in your thoughts and in your thought life and then the thoughts that you have in your mind about rest and about work I just speak that right now even your thoughts are being renewed and they are coming out from underneath the influence of perfectionism false responsibility and driven as' and so that that is produced a wrong striving CC's now in Jesus mighty name nobody now we love you too type some of these things don't just because I think it gives you ownership so if you are able to tight to type I reject I reject but there's a lot of spelling here false responsibility perfectionism and driven s I reject false responsibility perfectionism and driven s if you can just start to type that I reject or own it own this process of I reject it those things are not allowed in my life and and as you own as you only that by typing it that and the demons actually even watched you reject it they realize they're gonna run for the hills because they're not allowed to get their claws into you I reject false responsibility perfectionism and driven us I do not want i reject these three things well done Pauline Cockburn saves you typing out all the words very clever okay and so that sense of like Jesus we do not want to be this we do not want to be the people who are so punched drunk exhausted and so with I hope and so with like an idea of our future Jesus were crying itu-r mask because we realized we've lacked the creative solution we realize we've lacked the dreams we realize we've lacked the ability to heal our bodies because we were so determined to work rowing the clock and not to rest I mean cry lord have mercy for how we squandered your gift of life by crane easy rhythms father have mercy on your ride while we we didn't even go to bed right times and we stayed up late watching TV and we didn't take seriously the need for this restoration emotionally and spiritually and so right now in the name of Jesus as we cry I list to you the exchange right now that where you have been motor driven when you have been driven and ambitious I rip it off you and I put on your shoulders the kindness of godly motivation come on the exchange is happening on your clothes right now the mantling of God is starting to shift on you and driven this and ambition is being grabbed by the hosts of heaven and it's coming off your shoulders and the motivation of Christ is coming where you know what to do when you know when to do it and you know the rhythm the rhythms of God that are landing on your shoulders as you watch us right now roast responsibilities that I see like shoes on your feet that you've got diamond shoes on God is just peeling peeling those off he's taking off the fosters these shoes that have made you walk into situations that you didn't know how a remit for were you going to be a doormat where you're going to be everybody else's salvation where you're going to be the yes person when God says hey no hey no and I love back to you the shoes of peace in exchange for false responsibility and I give back to your vocal cords the ability to say no that is yours that is yours right now in the mighty name of Jesus and where you are a perfectionist and you simply cannot let things go and you're doing a hundred and fifty two hundred percent I'm great I break perfectionism off you come on you just shake it off do a Taylor Swift shake it off shake it off right now wherever you are and I release to you a goggling excellent you can say that is enough when it's completed rather than driven by perfectionism I feel like we are we are flipping some of you completely upside down I feel and on the ceiling and you couldn't quite get a rhythm in life not a drop you don't a place where you could actually start to move forward God is doing remarkable right now in a readjustment of who you are Sam crucify restlessness yeah so we just want to break that Sparrow of restlessness I am really where you can say to in Scripture even which is an awful blaze but it's that whole idea of the false god of fatal who demands ceaseless work to gain entry and to has sort of designed heavenly realm where actually we need to come out of that main set of restlessness and I actually come into the idea not the idea come into the belief that we serve a God who has done all the work necessary to invite us to rest fully in him and so we're gonna break restlessness but I also want you to breathe God's teach me the art of rest teach me the heart of the art of rest and so right now in Jesus name we just see that demonic spirit of restlessness that demonic curse of restlessness that has come against the people of God and where there is that that cloaking that makes you feel like you need to work work do do do what work do do do and that ceaseless work is demanded of you we just break right now in Jesus name and I am that false driving that has come from restlessness that inability to set still without feeling guilty that inability to think about a day off without feeling anxious we just speak an end to that right now in Jesus name and so I want you to type I rep restlessness off me in Jesus name and I choose to learn the art of rest i rep restlessness off and I choose to learn the art of rest and you're gonna have to be and you're gonna have to be be determined really to work with God and that's because restlessness isn't just a personal thing that all of you have dealt with personally as a real national and international effort any Western stronghold that is ingrained for generations and society so you're gonna have to work with the Spirit of God that the power of God to resist thats better of restlessness and to learn the art of rest and so in Jesus name I just lost strength to each and every one of you to go on a journey with God where you learn the art of rest and reintegrate rest as an absolutely foundational aspect of your walk with God in Jesus name wow that's really powerful so change you want to add to that yeah I was just watching in the spirit as we were praying there and I was aware of this wit and that many were holding in their hands to wit themselves is this driven asyou know the demon of driven as' and it's almost like now we're looking at it in our hands going what do I do with this and and it is a case of a choosing to let go of driven as' and but the other part of that I felt was we've been using that whip on ourselves but we've been using it on others as well and that was a real eye out you know we've been driving members of our family all we've been driving if we're in management we've been using that width of driven us to drive others rather than this godly motivation for success and so I think you know for those of you that know that's you oh I partner with driven us for myself but also I've been driving others with that whip I think it's I repent for using that driven 'us against others that is not a godly where any ask forgiveness Lord for that because it's almost caused people to and yeah yeah in difficulty to give them difficulty let's just say that so in the name of Jesus we just choose right now to let go of driven us and we let go of the the the machines imaginations if you will of driven us the tools of driven us and we let go of that spiritual whip that would hit ourselves but also would hit others and were choosing God right now to reset and refrain how we work but also how we and manage other people and how we encourage other people and you may have teenagers or young adults in your family and the Lord is gonna give you new words to encourage that is rooted in godly motivation and success and not kind of like cracking a whip of come on get moving get working and so Lord we just ask you right now for those strategies from heaven those words from having those thoughts from heaven of being able to encourage godly motivation and success in the workplace and in the household mmm me and all of this you know just like with you I had them because according my children knocks at school and so now I'm supposed to be a full-time you know home school expert and I mean there's just things I don't know about I can't help my 13 year old with his maths and one of the school teachers are agree to say you know how you're getting on with the homework and how are you getting on with all the schoolwork and I actually felt a little bit annoyed on the phone with her and not because she was doing anything wrong no no I'm gonna push back here very respectfully and very kindly to her because actually I don't want my children to live under this taskmaster driven it well you must perform you know not so much as we as adults are and that actually what is important for my children is at the end of this and it's important for you that we come out emotionally well enough to navigate what is going to be on the other side of Lockton that actually is not just you know can I with my children into algebra but actually can I create emotional stability the hums actually in a little bit of rest but your emotional stability comes in rest and your ability to make good decisions comes in rest and your ability to feel loved and navigate love comes in rest and your ability to dream comes in rest and your ability to connect with God comes in Wrath and so really what we're not saying is you need to rest because Leviticus 25 says fallow time we're starting to understand and I like I think I'm preaching to myself as much as I'm preaching to you today but there is that sense in us that we it's so kind your culture what the Word of God says here we deeply struggle with it to actually believe that my sitting dine reading a cookery magazine or my sitting diet and just with my eyes closed before God in the garden is as powerful as writing 26 emails and we we have to start to get that balance back in place that that might my life is not measured if you know in my iPod when it is measured actually in the rest time that was an inspiration to me and so come on work with me I think we are all going on a journey together here to to start to understand that that biblical truth is actually my moving from death devastation to restoration you know and I want you to be emotionally well you want you to be emotionally well and that must come in rest I'm gonna give you one more top tip stay with me because this is kind of like a another homework but don't worry it's not a naked homework okay I think in all of this and our mind takes over doesn't it I must do you know I must perform I must sheen I must not be seen to be you know falling behind and the anxieties is all actually in our thinking up here and one of the top tips I've learned for navigating this is to let my had my knife I know the site we talked to my heart my emotions to try to reconnect my heart with my head so my head which is going do do do do do form perform be has started to speak and say heart how are you another great Ulster word how are you so I want you to start a conversation with your own heart heart how are you this is emotional intelligence and of course the New Testament says I hope that you will prosper as much as your soul prospers remember that New Testament thought and so so Jesus clearly has that that you actually are only as well as your deep insides are according to Scripture so heart how are you now you're gonna have to write these questions and do this as homework heart am i looking after you properly ask it in other words my emotions okay provoking a heart hi are you a mind looking after you properly are you cross with me for not nurturing you and sometimes people you know when we've done this exercise with them they cannot hear their hearts speak why because they have steamrollered over their own emotional well-being with what they think needs achieved in life that their heart won't even have a conversation in other words they're emotionally and shut dying and and amputated and so actually we do have to say i'm sorry her actually somebody alice is ahead of me we do have to say you know heart I am sorry that my head took over and I did not listen and so there is this question of heart what can you cope with today that's the killer question heart what can you cope with today and so that that completely revolutionizes and certainly my life so you know I always have a left you know I have less Malayalis I am lists of usually people that need care because I'm a past you know I'm a church leader and there's always somebody who needs something but actually when my head talks to my heart and I say heart can you actually cope emotionally with that conversation because you know that person's gonna tell you about adulterous relationship and abortion or something that's gonna need in your emotional my emotional intelligence and so sometimes you actually have to say part can you cope with that do I have time for yeah maybe I do and you can do I can I fit that person to an hour slot yes I can and my head's going you've got the time you've got the are you need to do you get paid to do this yet ever you know but actually my heart is saying you know what Emma you emotionally don't have the bandwidth for that today and and that internal conversation between my head and my heart it is incredibly freeing what do you need to do right now you know what is emotionally restorative heart what can you handle on what do you need and so will your cuz your head will always say you need to do something whereas your heart will actually say do you know what you need to have a giggle with your friends and your heart will say you need to see something beautiful you need to go and buy cut flowers you know you need to listen to some uplifting music and and your heart will tell you things that your head will go that is ridiculous get on and do it but actually you need to start to and listen back and forwards and find that balance between what is my head's demanding I do and what is my heart screaming that I actually need for restoration and so go and try that from work heart high are you are you cross with me heart because I've not looked after you I need to look after you what do you need what do I need to do heart what can i emotionally cope with and actually that feels I have to say it's a little bit weird it is self-care totally Thomas it feels a little bit weird at the beginning but there is that sense that night is instinctive where you know actually I could do that but that will wear me out or run me dine if I do that today but actually I can put it in tomorrow where my heart has the capacity to do it and I will do a much better job and an actual fact if I do it tomorrow that person or that task and my well-being will actually come alive in it where I tackle it today it we are absolutely going to get worn out and that toilet flush and I just will feel completely flushed out all of the time so we is we're getting it emotionally intelligent here as much as we're understanding these biblical principles this is how you go from devastation to restoration practically conversations at the heart and that sense of coming back to say what does rest look like for me what does rest look like for me because rest is very very different and so I don't want you to think that Sarah Jane dress needs to be your arrest or my rest needs to be your arrest ask God what does rest look like for me how do I regroup you know my husband regrets alone he's E's mancave 101 kind of territory but but I regroup you know but by cuddling my children and that kind of stuff and or watching a movie with my children you know you've got to know what works for you any comments and that we're way over time look at this today we talk so much any other comments and then we'll fly yeah I think you just need to work out what you need in a moment sometimes and even the things that normally would work sometimes just don't you know if you are go to rest is just that the thing that actually isn't working then you need to just check what as actually do I need and it might be a phone call with a dear friend or family member or it may be and as we were chatting about yesterday some looking at something beautiful you know I've got this really weird craving to go to the Art Gallery which I haven't been to for ages because I can't get there I want to go look at some art I just feel the need to look at something beautiful and gaze on it for hours so that's what I'm planning on doing when I go here and but yes I think it's just different for everyone and you will find what works for you and you will find how you can slip quickly interests Liat well we bless you you go from devastation to restoration to live fully live in Christ with your heart in your head rightly balanced and the rest of God's established in your life so that God can rush to where you are and create miracles and do things that you could never do because you have gone to the biblical place of rest and we bless you in it and we will see you is it ready it's ready tomorrow we'll see you tomorrow at midday [Music]

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Published: Thu May 07 2020