Gardner or Guardian: Get back to living in God's grace! | Chad Gonzales

[Music] scholars what was happening in genesis chapter one and chapter two creation creation and uh god's making making the trees and the birds and the bees and the grass and the all the kind of good stuff there genesis chapter two uh he creates man creates adam and then when he creates adam if we just go to verse 8 we'll read a little bit maybe you've never read this before genesis chapter 2 and verse 8 says the lord god planted a garden in eden there he put the man in whom he had formed and out of the ground the lord god made every tree grow that's pleasant to sight and good for food and the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and a river went out of eden to water the garden and from there apart and became four river heads and so if you go on down there it starts talking about the rivers but go to verse 15 and this is where we want to kind of hang out today verse 15 it says the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to tend and to keep it anybody ever read that before put them in the garden to tend it and to keep it and so it's interesting that you know god creates this garden and you know in this garden when god was creating the the world did you notice every time god made something he said it is it is good and so it's interesting that when god made made the garden and he put man in it everything that man would ever need was right there everything that adam needed was there he had shelter he had protection he had food he had clothes and ain't the type of clothes that we got on right now what type of clothes did he have on at that point it was the glory of god it was the light of god shining and emanating from him that was this close but i mean when adam got up in the morning i mean he had food it was already made i mean it was almost like he had a butler and a maid i mean things were good things were good but what's interesting here is that in genesis chapter 2 and verse 15 when it says that god put adam to tend and to keep the garden you know there were no weeds adam wasn't out there digging holes and planting stuff and he wasn't having to do all those things everything was already provided all that he needed was already there but what's interesting is that this phrase tend and keep in the hebrew it literally means to guard it means to guard it says that god he created this garden this beautiful garden this lush garden everything that was needed for adam was there and he put adam there and he told him to guard it now why would adam have to guard the garden why would he have to guard what was there because there was an enemy there right so if you just read your bible a little bit back in the beginning kind of understand some things with what was going on was that when god was creating the universe here in in the world in in chapter one versus verses 3 on it was really kind of a recreation and that there was a world that was there before and satan who was lucifer at the time was ruling things right and then you read over there in ezekiel and some other places it says that that lucifer he got real prideful right he got real pride was that i'm gonna exalt my throne above the heavens why because his throne was his throne was here on earth he said i'm going to exalt my throne in the heavens and i'm going to be like god and so anyway lucifer he loses his position he loses the anointing he loses his authority his dominion and god kind of does a do-over with the world so satan's still here when all this is being done and now adam has what satan had and what satan wanted you with me so far adam had what satan had and wanted or when he was lucifer so god puts adam in the garden he said everything you need it's right here but you need to guard it that word keep it means to guard let me read this to you of the uh the amplified translation it says god took the man and put him there to tend and guard and keep the garden now this is interesting i've never read this translation before but it's out of the orthodox jewish bible i think i figured a jewish rabbi might know more than me about the hebrew language there so i tend to hang out with people smarter than me and so the orthodox jewish bible says this it says god put him in the garden and this is what it says god put him in the garden to be a shomer over it shomer s-h-o-m-e-r a shomer over it now i'm not smart like you i looked at that i was like hmm what's a shomer i didn't know what a schomer was i figured it was probably significant and so i had to look it up and so looking at some some jewish history and stuff and this is what a schomer is a shomer and jewish religious law a shomer it's a jewish legal guardian it's a legal guardian that's entrusted with the care and protection of someone else's property isn't that interesting so god put adam in the garden to protect and guard someone else's property which was whose gods he put him there to do what he put him there to guard it and you find the same word keep and most of the places you look in the old testament where they're told to keep something they're talking about being a guard a guardian or sometimes it's translated as a watchman a watchman and so if you read kind of some things in the old testament you read about the watchmen on the walls well what were they there for they were to watch for the enemy they were to watch for the enemy and so you know how many of you realize that that adam he's in a place of being a guardian he's in a place of being a watchman right that's his position but then when satan comes and tempts him tempts him and his wife eve and they sell out they sin and they sell out it's interesting the bible says that that eve she was the one that was deceived but adam wasn't adam knew what was going on he knew the rule that he was in and and he did it anyway and then this is interesting in genesis chapter uh chapter three if you go to verse 17 god is talking to adam about what he has done here and the consequences of it jesus chapter 3 and verse 17 it says god said to adam because you have indeed heeded the voice of your wife and you ate of the tree of which i commanded you saying you shall not eat of it cursed is the ground for your sake so when adam sinned something happened to the earth didn't it things changed where there was life now the cur the world was being ruled by death where it was ruled by the kingdom of god now it's being ruled by the kingdom of darkness where it was being ruled and adam had dominion over all of it now that dominion got transferred and satan had dominion over this world it's why in the new testament jesus and the apostle paul refers to satan as the god of this world the ruler of this world the prince of this world why because he has the dominion right and where did he get it from he got it from adam and how did he get it from adam because adam decided to stop watching being vigilant and being a guardian and adam is the one who he gave it away he gave it away and so god's telling him these are the consequences of it and notice verse 17 he said cursed is the ground for your sake notice this he says and now in toil you shall eat of it now in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life both thorns and thistles it will bring forth for you and you shall eat the herb of the field and the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground now my my my how things have changed now because adam was in the garden i mean everything's provided he wakes up breakfast is there lunch is there dinner is there post dinner snack is there he's not having to work for food he's not having to do anything all his job is is to guard the garden all he's got to do is guard it he doesn't have to work the garden he's got to guard the garden but after sin after he was taken out of the kingdom of god and translated over into the kingdom of darkness now he's no longer a guardian now he's a gardener now over here in the garden he was a watchman now outside the garden he's a worker listen to this over here in the garden which you could call the grace of god this covenant of grace everything is provided it is a life of rest it is a life of peace it is a life of nothing missing nothing broken everything provided by jehovah jireh but when he sinned and he got kicked out of the garden now i imagine that you know if we could go back and see it i mean there was feet marks of him and eden being being pushed out because they didn't want to go they get pushed out kicked out now they're outside the garden now they're living in a place that is not like where they came from and now all of a sudden god says everything that you eat is gonna is gonna be because you had to grow it everything that you do everything you have is gonna be because you had the toil for it so now they just went from living under a covenant of grace now they're over here and living under a covenant of law so to speak of works where now i'm my own god i'm my own provider i'm my own healer i'm my own protector i'm my own sustainer i'm my own deliverer me me me me me do you maybe see where we're going with this me me me me me that's where adam ended up and toil you shall eat by the sweat of your brow so i got two little things here to show you so when we got some binoculars and now we got a little shovel okay so so in the beginning in the garden adam's job was this this is all he had to do he had to be a watchman but when he got kicked out he traded tools he traded his binoculars for a shovel he gets kicked out of the guard and now he's no longer a watchman now he's a worker he's a worker before he was a guardian now he's a gardener and how many of you understand doing this maybe i flip it around because you looked really small now now i see dale's big mug so this right here is a whole lot easier to do than this isn't it this right here i mean you can rest doing this i'm at peace i mean i can do this all day long i think i break a sweat and i mean this is this is literally what adam's doing i mean he's a watchman he's on guard i mean but everything's provided i'm hungry let me grab something i mean it's already there but now he had to trade tools because now he's not living under the covenant of grace now he's living under the covenant of me and now when i'm hungry i got to grow it i've got to work for it i've got to sweat for it i have to toil for it i have to get what i need well thank god that god had a plan and that plan was jesus that plan was jesus and so the bible refers to jesus as what as the second adam or the last adam and jesus literally came to put us back in that first position that adam had with god that's what god jesus came to he didn't come just to get you to heaven and change the destination he came to change your position did he not he came to change your position to get you one with the father why because when you get one with the father then that puts you in the position that the first adam had with god he was in union with god and everything was provided things change when you get saved the problem is most people don't realize it the problem is is that adam was here adam's in the garden and he's a watchman adam's in the garden he's a guardian he gets kicked out of the garden now he's out here and now now he's a worker now he's a gardener and it's sweat and toil sweat and toil sweat and toil but then jesus comes to restore us back and change tools once again to take the shovel out of our hand to take this tool out of our hand and basically put us back over here where everything is already provided once again and now i get to go from being the gardener to now i guard what i have look let me show you a couple of these things because some of you may never heard this and if you haven't hey we're excited you're going to learn some stuff this morning if you have heard of some of these things well you need to hear it again because i guarantee it for most of us it ain't real like it needs to be and it can always be more real look over to ephesians chapter one and verse three ephesians chapter 1 and verse 3 says blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who's done what you there he's done what he's blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in christ he's blessed us with everything that we need in christ all heaven has to offer he's given it to us where in christ when i get in him everything that i need is right there everything that i need is right there this is why i know you've all heard this this is why you read over in proverbs i believe it's chapter 4 verse 23 it says above all else guard your hearts you say your soul for out of it flows the issues of life guard your heart why would you need to guard your heart why would you need to guard your thoughts he's telling you that everything you need is on the inside not because of you but because of the one that's on the inside of you the one you've become united with he said guard your heart for out of it flows the issues of life it's interesting that over in first peter uh is it chapter 4 let me see first peter chapter 4 verse 8 i believe or 5 8 i'm sorry first peter chapter 5 verse 8. first peter 5 verse 8 he says be sober be vigilant be watchful be on guard because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lying seeking whom he may devour see where we where adam was in the in the beginning genesis chapter 2 that was god's plan for mankind we were never supposed to be in this place and position where we were trying to work to provide for ourself we're trying to work to get ourself healed we're trying to work to prosper ourselves we're trying to work for this and work for that we were never supposed to be depending on the sweat and the toil of ourselves to provide for us protect us and heal us we never were to do that that was not god's plan god's plan was that he was our source he was our provision he was our everything you're all i want you're all i need type of thing but when adam sold out and and looked to uh satan's way of doing things to get provided for then he jacked everything up for everybody but jesus came and restored us back to that position the problem is is that most christians still think that we're outside of the garden when in reality god put you back in the garden adam was in the garden got kicked out of the garden jesus came back living outside the garden to get us back into the garden so that everything is provided everything that's needed the problem is we got put back in the garden when you got in christ we got put back in the garden but we think we're still living outside the garden so we got all of our scriptures and we got all of our confessions and we know all the the spiritual things we need to do and we sing you're all i want you're all i need and while we're singing that we're working to get what jesus already provided you're all i want you're all i need all right how do i get myself healed god i believe that you're my healer i believe by the stripes of jesus i'm healed now i got to get it come on we've all been there all done it we've all said the right things doing the wrong thing saying the right things right look let me show you some more of these things i know this might be a little foreign to you look at um look at romans chapter 6. i want to help you realize that we're back in the garden it's not supposed to be about us toiling and sweating anymore working to get what jesus already got see jesus already got it but many of us are on the outside thinking that we still got to get what jesus got and as long as you're trying to get what jesus got you're never going to get it and that's the ultimate deception because is that not what what satan did to eve he said he looked at eve he said if you'll eat of this fruit you'll be like god right and that he said if you eat of this fruit you'll be like god and the bible says that when eve saw that the fruit was good she ate of it why was it why was it a deception because god had already made her like him she didn't realize it she was deceived because she didn't know who she was and what she had it was the ultimate deception i mean on satan's part it was brilliant it was brilliant because he went up to somebody that had what he wanted but she didn't know it and he said here if you'll just work for it you can have it and it was a deception because she didn't need to work for what she already had because she did but she didn't realize it and so many of us as christians we've been put back in the garden and the same deception has been working for over 6 000 years we're sitting there in the garden and and the devil's coming up and say hey if you'll do this you can have this not realizing what he's saying that you can have we actually already have we just don't know it and so many of us fall into that trap of doing good things doing good spiritual things religious things doing those things trying to get what we realize or don't realize we already have all right we'll get there romans chapter six look it's it's a totally different way of of seeing this is about changing your perspective changing your mindset remember what paul said in romans chapter 12 verse 2 he said do not be conformed to this world but be transformed or be conformed to another world the world of heaven be conformed there by how by renewing or changing the way that you think so that you can prove what the will of god is well what's the will of god jesus told us what the will of god is the will of god is heaven on earth so the way things are supposed to be in your life is the way it is in heaven right now right and how do we know that's to be true because we just read it paul said over in ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 the blessings of heaven have already become yours all the blessings of heaven have been given to you in your position in christ that means if i'm in him all that heaven has to offer is mine and we're big on healing around here and we're going to kind of we're going to kind of turn that a little bit we're going to talk about healing but healing is one of those things it's already mine it's already mine it's already mine well but but pastor chad i mean that don't make any sense because i'm sick yeah but if you're a christian it's already yours and actually i'm going to say something that's going to make you mind kind of go tilt but you're actually already healed well but you're just saying deny the symptoms i'm not saying deny anything if there's something going on in your body hey it's there i'm not a dum-dum it's there but we have to begin to see according to god's reality not the world's reality look at romans chapter 6 and look at what paul says here in romans 6 and he kind of talks about these things and look at verse 4 he says therefore we were buried with him through baptism in the death that just as christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in what a new type of life he said in the very same way that jesus was raised up even so we should also walk in a new type of life what type of life the type of life that jesus lives now that's what he just said here he said just as what does that phrase just as mean in the very same way right if i told you i want if i'm sitting here walking like this i say i want you to walk just like this and you go like this you ain't walking just as right just as you got to be a copycat right he said just as christ was raised even so you also should walk in a new type a newness of life what type of life that jesus gives us that's why you see in first john 4 17 as he is now present tense is present tense right grammar students is as he is so are we in this world well where's jesus he ain't right here where's jesus in heaven seated by the father god's right hand as jesus is there so are we now i know that sounds weird believe me i lose friends over it all the time it's all right i know it sounds weird but it's right here in your bible so i hear in your bible a new type of life this is why jesus talks about in john chapter 17 he talks about they are not of this world as i am not of this world any of you believe in aliens i do i'm not talking about the little green guys i'm talking about us you're not from here jesus said in john 3 when he was talking to nicodemus he nicodemus said you know he's asking about uh eternal life and jesus said you have to be born from above jesus said you have to be born from above to experience the kingdom of god you may have a birth certificate that says that you were born in jonesboro or you know blivel that's how you say it i've heard you don't pronounce it properly bible mine says i was born in beaumont texas but you know what that's where my body came from but chad when i said jesus be the lord and save my life chad came from heaven i ca i come from some good stock i came from heaven when you were born again you were born from heaven and sent here and these are the things that you see jesus trying to endeavor to help the disciples see that hey we may be in this world but you got to see differently because there's there's another world that you can live from there different rules even though you're here in the kingdom of darkness we can live from the kingdom of light even though the world's living outside of the garden we can live in the garden see the world is out here working and working and working and working trying to get things that they need but we're supposed to be over here living out of the garden where everything's already provided we're not supposed to be the gardener we're supposed to be the guardian we're not supposed to be the worker we're supposed to be the watchman guarding what has already been given to us you have to understand that when we got saved jesus put us eternally on offense but so many christians are over on defense trying to get the ball when in reality when we got in christ he gave us the ball let's talk about it from the standpoint of sports how many of you realize if you're playing football if i've got the ball it's a whole lot harder for you to get the ball from me than it is for me just to hold on to the ball we're always on offense but the problem is most christians think we're on defense we're always over here trying to get trying to work for trying to get and yet we should be over here and realize what jesus did and that jesus already got we just need to guard it but over here this is why you have this is why you have christians today that are so frustrated stressed out anxious mad i've been doing all the right things i've been saying all the right things and it ain't working you know why because you're working you know when it starts working when you when you put that one tool down and you get back in your position see again i can chill doing this all day long ain't gonna break a sweat bro but that right there that'll break your back do it long enough you'll be walking around like this anybody going out and dug holes for a while get a bunch of animals and you got to build fence for them all the time yeah for a day or two i got a bed i got a bed of the day i finished doing some fencing i got out of bed other day i started walking like this and lacey said what is wrong with you you look like an old man i said you realize what i've been doing for you woman i've been spending my time and my money just for animals to stay on our property and poop i mean that's all they're doing we go out there and put food out there give them all this food just so they can put it all on the ground i don't understand horses you have hay out there they pull it out of the hay bed they start throwing it all in place they eat some of it then they pee on the rest of it i don't understand it makes me mad i see my money on the ground but i did why because that i'm walking like this for a little bit just because my back got kind of stiff from bending over and doing all this why it's work but that's why you got a lot of christians today man i mean saved spirit-filled know the word confessing the word but man they're walking around i'm so tired i'm exhausted what have you been doing i'm just living by faith brother i'm living by it i'm exhausted i'm exhausted i might need a little something to drink i mean i'm just exhausted friends look that is not the faith life the life of faith is not going to like i'm just no the faith life is a life of peace it is a life of rest now that does not say that you will not have to deal with an enemy coming because adam was in the life of faith the life of grace but he still had to be on guard why because an enemy that's out there that is about going around trying to steal to kill and destroy was trying to get what adam had adam was not having to go and take what was in the enemy's camp we used to sing this song when i was a kid went to the enemies camp and i took back what he stole from me took back what he stole from me whoo took back on his store and then we got a little gospel when i went into the enemy's game a little b3 would kick in there hung back on his door me he's under my feet he's under my feet well but think about the the weirdness of that i went to go take what he stole from me but he but he's under my feet well if he is under your feet how do you steal it if you're standing in your place of dominion how to get it it's a logical question see i got so smart in church i almost got kicked out i started asking questions like this ain't making sense i mean you're saying this out of one side of your mouth but you're saying something else and they counteract each other but you got to realize again we don't have to go to the enemy's camp to take what he stole from me because jesus went to the enemy's camp and he took it once and for all jesus went to the enemy's camp he went to the pit of hell for three days and paid the price it's called redemption he paid the price and got what the enemy stole from us and then he gave it to us and said boy enjoy enjoy it i did all the work for you now all you have to do is enjoy it rest in it it's called grace but you're still going to have to guard it and watch over it because there's somebody out there that's going to try to take it guys i know it's a very subtle difference but it is a massive difference to be on guard of what you have and then to be trying to get what you need because if i'm always trying to get what i need i'm always working i'm always stressing i'm always trying to figure out what do i need to do what do i need to do what do i need to do tell me the five steps the five keys i mean the one two three abc's what i got to do to get this that's where most christians are that's why you have so many christian books that are you know seven keys to this and seven steps to that and five steps to this why we're trying to figure out what do i need to do to get it and it's the ultimate deception by the devil i'm telling you he ain't stupid he's not stupid why would you fix something that ain't broke if it worked on the first person 6 000 years ago and us dumb christians keep doing it over and over and over again why would i change anything if it just keeps working we must realize things changed and i don't have to work for that anymore god already provided he put me on offense not on defense look let's keep reading here real quick i didn't realize what time it was so verse 4 he said romans chapter six verse four even so we should also walk in a newness of life look at verse uh six he said knowing this our old man was crucified which which one the old me right the one before christ was crucified with him that the body of sin would be done away with it that noticed this phrase underlying this highlight this star this in your bible that what we would no longer be a slave of sin and that word sin i mean you can put in all of the other results and effects of sin in this world too sickness disease lack depression whatever addiction for he who has died has been what has been freed so in one sense if you receive jesus christ as your lord and savior in here you're dead you're dead to the things of this world you're dead to the to the curse of this world and yet you are alive unto god it just goes back to this thing that paul talks about we're translated or taken out of the kingdom of darkness and placed back into the kingdom of god's son we were taken from outside the garden put back into the garden we were taken from being a worker to being a watchman we're taking from being a gardener to being a guardian look keep reading verse 11 it says that the death that christ died he died to sin once and for all but the life that he lives he lives unto god likewise what's that likewise therefore what's likewise mean in the very same way very same manner very same degree so he said exactly what jesus is doing likewise right likewise who who's he talking to now you he said likewise me likewise you also what he said reckon or consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin but alive unto god in christ jesus our lord therefore what's the therefore therefore as a result of you beginning to think and consider and seeing yourself the way that jesus is he said because of that mindset now therefore do not let this thing reign in your body do not let sin reign in your body do not let sickness and disease rain in your body do not let addictions rain in your body do not let depression rain in your do not let these things rain or rule or have dominion over you anymore why would he tell you don't let it have dominion over you anymore because obviously you must have dominion over it god would not tell you to do something that you could not do he would not tell you to do something he did not give you the authority and the ability and the position to be able to do well what is that position then how did you get that ability and that authority because i became alive again unto god this is why god told adam don't do this because in the day that you do this you'll die well when adam ate of the fruit did he die physically no he didn't die for another 900 something years but in that instant he died spiritually and when he died spiritually he lost the dominion lost the authority lost the position that he had and now he's over here working why because he has no dominion anymore he has no position anymore look keep reading here real quick he said therefore do not let it rain verse 14 for sin sickness disease poverty depression addictions it shall not have dominion over you for you were not under the law but now you are under grace you could say you're no longer outside of the garden i just put you back in i just put you back in it no longer has dominion over you because you're not outside the garden anymore i put you back in the garden now you don't have to work for yourself grow for yourself fend for yourself heal for yourself now all of a sudden we're back in the place of jehovah jiren jehovah rapha the lord my provider the lord my healer it's the grace of god where he gets to be our father he gets to be our source of help and source of strength that he gets to take care of us isn't that the purpose of the shepherd to take care of the sheep isn't that what jesus says he's our shepherd the sheep don't go out trying to find something for them the shepherd takes it to them the shepherd is the one that shears them the shepherd is the one that cleans them he does everything for that sheep and that's what god's been trying to do for us and he did it for us positionally but we've got to understand it we have to stop being deceived by the devil and thinking we're trying to get something when jesus already got it for us for sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not in the law but you are under grace now real quick we'll end right here i just want to just show you this and we'll stop here first peter 2 24. many of you have read this just want you to read it one more time just kind of the light of this i wanted to get a little bit further but first peter chapter 2 verse 24 it says jesus who bore our sins and his own body on the tree that we having done what we died to sins right we just read it over in romans chapter six we having died to sins that we would live for righteousness right we died to sins we died to the dominion sin had over us sickness and disease had over us we'd live for righteousness notice this statement here by whose stripes you were healed so grammar students is word is that past tense present tense or future tense it's past tense it's a done deal that means it was already done for you it was already done for you it's already been provided so literally in the eyes of god not only does he see you as forgiven he also sees you as healed now it's interesting that we don't have a problem with god seeing us as forgiven do we we don't have a problem with that all the bible says that jesus became sin for us so we see ourselves as forgiven but man when it comes to this healing thing we have a hard time making that shift why because the church hasn't made that shift we haven't made we made this shift when it comes to forgiveness we do we have still not made the shift when it comes to healing when it comes to forgiveness i'm over here and because we've preached so hard on sin over the years people become so sin conscious i'm watching out to make sure i don't say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing or no don't have a wrong thought i don't want to give the devil any ground or didn't you i don't want to do anything wrong but when it comes to healing brother give me the hard hat in my dickies because hi ho i ho it's off to work i go got to get my money and my healing from my body off the work to go but as an intern he said by the stripes of jesus so jesus did the work didn't he jesus didn't do the work he said you were healed past tense present day reality so you could put it like this that that in reality healing isn't a promise it's a reality see under the old covenant it was a promise under the new covenant it's a reality under the old covenant it was god said while you're outside the garden if you'll do these things healing will be yours under the new covenant of grace when i get over here i don't gotta do nothing i don't gotta do jack it's already mine and it's not just mine he made me that way so the issue is this because people will say okay i get that i see that but you know i still got stuff going on my body all right so we need to make the shift so instead of me seeing myself as sick and trying to get healed i need to see myself as healed and guard in my healing let me say it again instead of seeing myself as sick or you can say instead of seeing myself on defense trying to get the ball i need to see myself with the ball i've got to see myself with the ball i got to stop seeing myself as sick now i'm not saying we deny doctors reports and deny things like that i'm not saying you deny it but i'm saying you got to change the way you see because as soon as you start to see yourself the way that god sees you all of a sudden things begin the issues of life begin to flow because now i'm not the guard gardener now i'm just being the guardian now not the worker now i'm just the watchman you never were designed to heal yourself you realize if you could have done it you would already done it right but how many of us are trying to do it and we're trying to do it with with good spiritual principles good spiritual things but you know what you can confess scriptures all you want you're not going to ever confess enough scriptures to get yourself healed i'm all about confession declaring the word of the lord the word of faith but i mean you confess all you want ain't going to get it it's not just about saying the right things or doing the right thing it's about it's about listen guys it's not about doing it's about being the secret to christianity is not about doing it is about being and friend i'm telling you as long as you're doing you're going to be tired you're going to be frustrated you're going to be in work mode for the rest of your life but once you get over into this place of being all of a sudden i can i'm gonna say this last thing i promise i'm not gonna lie for the third time i promise but but this is this is this set some of you free i can't tell you how many people i've told take a break from your bible for a few days [Music] you know why i've said that because many people that i that i was talking to in the area of healing stuff i mean they were trying to make sure they read their five chapters or their 10 chapters a day or they had their their five sheets of confessions and all this type of stuff they're trying to do all these things and i told hey take a break take a break you know why because my bible thank god for the word of god but this was never to turn into a job for me this was to lead me into a life with him that's good i'm gonna go back and write that down and put it on twitter this was never supposed to be a job for me and many of us had made made it a job this was supposed to lead me into a beautiful abundant peaceful restful life encounters and experiences with him this was supposed to lead me into a relationship and fellowship with him not not give me a list of to do's because if i have a list of the news i missed it and if i have a list of to do's jesus didn't do enough praise the lord catch a little bit longer but i i hope that uh makes some of you just go come on let's just do that for a second lift your hands nobody nobody look at each other but just just just lift your hands and just worship him and and thank him for his grace and thank him for what he's done for you that you can just thank you father you meet all my needs you take care of me that you are my healer you are my provider see jesus before he left he told the disciples he said my peace i give unto you my peace i give unto you father i thank you that you love me so much you love me so much to put me back into the garden where you provide for me come on the lord is my shepherd i shall not i shall not want i shall not want he leads me come on guys he leads me peaceful streams and rivers and green pastures he restores my soul the lord is my shepherd not my task master come on guys this is a life of rest yes it's not denying that there's problems out in the world it's not denying that there's an enemy out in the world but it's realizing the position that we are in that we are always in a position of victor we're always in a position of more than a conqueror in christ we're always in a position of being on offense not on defense not trying to get what jesus already got for me but realizing the position of holding on to the ball holding on to my healing holding on to my p protecting my peace protecting my healing hallelujah hallelujah father i ask you right now those that are here in person those that are watching online father open our eyes help us to see and understand these things help us get a revelation of this right now to set people free set people free from the bondage that they've put themselves in of working and working and working and working and doing what you already did father thank you that you have made us a watchman you have made us a guardian and took the shovel and the work tools out of our hands father we make a commitment right now we put those down we vow to never pick them back up again to never get in the way of your grace and your peace and your sustenance and healing and life flowing in our lives and in our bodies father if there's anybody here right now who's watching online that has any sickness or disease or pains or aches or anything in their body father we just release your life right now we release your grace right now into their bodies and we declare every single body every single symptom every single ache every single problem we declare it to be whole right now nothing missing nothing broken absolute peace in people's bodies right now we thank you for your grace we thank you for the dominion that you've given us thank you father for setting us free thank you for setting us free by the blood of jesus christ hallelujah praise the lord come on some of you ought to walk out today just oh thank god i've been there i've done that i was just talking to somebody the other day and i'm very very close to looked at me with tears in their eyes and said i'm so tired so tired i just want peace i'm so tired my response was stop working stop working sometimes you just need to realize who you are you need to take the nest plunge remember that [Music] praise the lord [Music] you

Channel: Chad Gonzales Ministries

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Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Chad Gonzales, healing, miracles, faith and healing, the healing academy, faith healer, cures for cancer, blind eyes, deaf ears, covid 19, god and the Bible, inspirational YouTube, inspirational sermons, tv preacher, Steven furtick, bill Johnson, Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, Kenneth Hagin, smith wigglesworth, John lake, healing revival, awakening

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Length: 49min 58sec (2998 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021