Getting Beyond Offense | Christa Smith | Expression 58

okay by show of hands who in this room has found yourself in a situation where it turned out different than what you thought it would turn out like every single hand should be raised right we laugh because we're like that's kind of normal right that's not the rarity that would be the normalcy there's many times I know in my own life I went in with a certain set of expectations I thought it would look this way and it very much looked another way sometimes that's happened in jobs that I've been hired for the Job Description said this the reality looked like that and there is an adjustment that happens internally that you have to make because if you don't make the adjustment you can miss the assignment well it was no different for the disciples have you ever thought about how much they had to give up and sacrifice and how much a walk of faith it really was when they heard the words follow me and they literally dropped everything to follow this man Jesus that they had heard about they might have encountered once they heard his teachings maybe once or twice maybe some of them none of them he might have just walked by them but there was something he carried that was different there was something in the words follow me that beckoned them to literally pay any price to put down the career to put down the fishing nets to leave the family to get out of the comfort zone the words follow me had an invitation and they responded to the invitation but you and I both know that every one of those 12 men that were quote-unquote in the inner circle that were disciples of Jesus they came in with a set of expectations of what this discipleship would look like of how doing life with Jesus would feel like be like right whenever we come into a situation whether it's a new job or a new church or we move to a new city we come into a place where we go it's gonna look like this but you and I both know it never looks the way we think it's gonna look and the disciples think about it we're no different so they come in and do a life with the sky they're sitting in the teachings they're getting to know him there they're trying to understand the way he talks he talks a little bit different he uses stories to explain stuff sometimes things are in riddles they're not necessarily simple or plain so they're asking a lot of questions he's stopping for people they don't expect him to stop for he's stopping for the least of these he's not necessarily drawn to the connected or or maybe the wealthy per se or the ones that have the title sometimes he's stopping for the woman with the issue of blood simply because he felt something be pulled from him he'll stop for the child has stopped for the tax-collector he'll stop for the prostitute in the center and there's probably many times the disciples were like I don't get you I don't understand your ways why is this looking different than what I expected but we also know that in that intensity of a unit the 12 disciples with Jesus it very much became a family right I mean I think it would be safe to assume that if they looked on the left and then the right of who they were doing life with they would have said these are my ride-or-die these are the people that are gonna be with me till the end whenever it gets tough they're gonna be here whatever is facing our way these people are gonna face it with me there's no way these brothers because this was a brotherhood this brothers these this family of mine is not gonna go the distance with me and then the unthinkable happened betrayal entered the family and when betrayal enters the family a distrust begins to break out suspiciousness begins to happen that's never been there before sight conversations begin to take place and we all know when there's betrayal in the camp alliances are made because people begin to look at the people a little bit sideways they begin to look at people a little bit different when betrayal and the unthinkable happens you had a set of expectations I thought my family unit was gonna look like this I thought discipleship from jesus was gonna look like this and Jesus you talked about Oh take overtaking a kingdom you talked about overturning a kingdom you talked about breaking down cities and building them back up I thought that was gonna be in the natural I thought it was gonna look like this but you and I both know it looked very different than what the disciples thought it would look like but they found themselves in the unthinkable they found themselves broken they found themselves disappointed they found themselves disillusioned and they found themselves betrayed by someone they thought would never betray them one of them scholars and even commentaries would read that they don't believe that necessarily Judas intended or even thought that Jesus would be crucified from that betrayal scholars and commentaries would say that they believe that Judas was simply trying to force Jesus's hand see Judas wanted the corrupt political system to be overturned and Jesus and the disciples to take power and control so he thought okay this is how we're gonna do it Jesus you're taking way too long you're over the timeline it's over the timeframe it's not fast enough it's not looking their way I wanna I'm gonna force your hand because my agenda isn't being met my expectation is it taking place so I'm gonna push you into it he did not know the ripple effect of that push that push of agenda that push of expectation Jesus ended up being crucified and here can you imagine this is called a breaking down moment in one day they are a tight family minute unit and a one day there's betrayal and all of a sudden Jesus is taken away everything begins to fall apart and then this second unthinkable happens he's actually crucified no no no this man who was supposed to be our deliverer has been crucified three days they're grieving not understanding can you imagine the disillusionment you're so confused there is no way you thought it was gonna look like this when you heard the words follow me and you did you never thought it would look like that if you're one of those disciples right it's totally different than what you expected but then the third unthinkable happens then he's resurrected and then you're like whoa whoa I just was getting used to you being dead and now you're alive and we know for the next forty days after his resurrection he's hanging out with the followers and the disciples and he's teaching him he's eating with them it says and then he starts talking about I'm gonna go away again and they're like whoa whoa whoa I just got used to you being here so everything shifting constantly from the moment of betrayal everything becomes unpredictable unfamiliar and brand new territory and everything is requiring them to shift their expectations and stay in the teachings of this man that they've done life with but he's changing in front of them constantly they find themselves in the most vulnerable place can you relate it keeps changing it's unpredictable you thought okay fine alright I'm dealing with the death wait now you're back now you're telling me you're gonna leave again I don't I don't know how to emotionally deal with this that would be our 21st century verbage but those eleven disciples that were left behind recognized there had to be restoration where the betrayal was they recognized that there needed to be a 12th person added for the intention that the discipleship of what Jesus had deposited in those men they were called to build the church they were called to be sent out and because it had been fractured it needed to be restored so they went through the restoration process which requires bravery when you've been betrayed and you're willing to someone back into the place where you've been betrayed what does that require courage trust faith can be a little scary you're going back to the place and remember everyone's still probably a little suspicious a little on guard but the Lord left some requirements as to who would take Judas's place and what they needed on a prerequisite to have been exposed to so that they could actually properly build the church there were some teachings they needed to hear there were some things they needed to witness in the ministry of jesus so if they were going to duplicate what Jesus has done there were some things that they needed to have been a part of I want you if you have your Bibles to turn to acts 1 and we're gonna read verses 21 through 22 I'm reading in the New King James Version it should be up there oh yeah they're quick great job there four of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us beginning from the baptism of John to that day when he was taken up from us one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection so that portion of Scripture is saying he needed to be around the teachings in the Ministry of Jesus the man that would replace Judas needed to see that when John baptized Jesus he needed to have been there and he needed to have been there for the crucifixion and the resurrection these are the requirements so they're looking at this pool of men that have done life with them see there's the disciples and then there's the followers so they're looking at the followers who of these followers could become a disciple so there's one open tslot would it be safe to say that that one open slots considered the inner circle that one opens locks like the coveted position everyone's like buying for internally but acting like they don't really care if they get it but you know because Humanity is humanity humanity's humanity and as humans what do we do I want that I want that place of influence I want that title I want that position I want the inner circle it so it was a coveted position it was something that was desirable and I think you and I could relate if we saw a position like that in today's standards we'd have all these prophetic words we would have spent time with God and had these personal encounters and revelation and we have it all lined up why we are the perfect person to fill that spot and this is our breakout moment where everyone is going to see just how awesome we are and what a great leader we are and this is our moment of influence so in our minds we have absolutely lock stock and barrel so to speak locked ourselves into you this is our moment this is the fulfillment of the prophetic words and what God has put on my life and then the disciples the eleven get together and this is what happens let's keep reading so we just read verses 2122 we're now gonna read 23 through 26 and the eleven disciples proposed to Joseph called barsabbas who sucked who was surnamed Justus and Matthias and they prayed and said you O Lord who know the hearts of all show which of these two you have chosen to take part in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place and they cast their Lots and they fell on Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles I don't know about you but I read that and I went awesome for Matthias ouch for barsabbas imagine if you were bur Sabhas that is the perfect moment that you and I can find ourselves in and if we are not careful this is the moment where we begin to question whoa something wrong with me because they just prayed a crazy prayer Oh Lord you know the hearts of these two men tell us which one you have chosen and then you're not chosen that's not awesome that's not awesome what do you do with that what do you do with it you've got really what are you guys what do you do with that when you're not chosen what do you do with it when you have the expectation that that's my spot this is my moment that's my job that's my man that's my woman what do you do when you've claimed things that haven't been given to you and you don't get them and you get quote bypassed for the opportunity the job the interview the audition the part whatever it may be what do you do when you're the personís in the moment everyone's like Matthias awesome welcome come on in where can have a disciples only lunch come on any and your bersama signore like cool see barsabbas had to have been respected valued looked at as a man that could be trusted to carry the weight of the responsibility he was believed it he was all the things but for whatever reason he wasn't the one to be the final disciple and because betrayal had slipped in there it could have been really easy for Barabbas and actually even even the other eleven disciples because barsabbas wasn't selected it would have been easy for barsabbas to go oh am I like Judas 2.0 do I have betrayal in my heart is there something in my heart that's wrong when in all actuality nothing may have been wrong at all he just wasn't the one for that assignment see we find ourselves often in places that we didn't expect ourselves to be in I want to tell you friends that it is at those places that we are the most vulnerable and it is essential how we respond to places of contradiction because it's the places of contradiction that determine the longevity and the destination of your destiny when I was praying for this sermon I said lord I need some personal illustrations because I like to kind of unpack my life in the process of when I'm just sharing and there were so many that came to mind there was just so many options so I just chose a doozy of one I just chose one of those real good zingers for you because I certainly found myself in a place where I never expected to be I had been working a job in the fashion industry and I had actually been running a twenty two million dollar company successfully at the age of 26 I resigned that position because I felt called to preach and minister but I knew I needed more biblical training I had my undergraduate degree but I wanted more Bible training because if I'm gonna be preaching the word about another word it's logical there's a program overseas and through a sequence of events God had really put it on my heart to go to that program for further training I resigned that position I got all these prophetic words Krista this is your training ground and then God's just gonna like catapult you though that was the word actually I got lots of catapult words of that season in my life I was just I mean I I was just being thrown apparently that season Am I so in all these words and with prophetic words come expectation so I go and I'm serving and I learned to serve and I get the fear of man broken off me and I learn how to be a great helper and my ego is a dress I mean I'm thinking okay I have been stripped we are good to go I am ready to lead the church because I am like nothing now great so I think I'm ready probably a week before my return ticket was booked I got called in to number two of that church it's a mega church and it was one of those churches a lot of people wanted to be a staff at and certainly all the school of ministry student sirs probably like 500 at that time or so it's grown quite a bit now but this is years ago 500 at that time everyone wanted to be hired that was kind of like the mentality for a lot people it wasn't my mentality because I felt called to the US and at that point I was already a part of a church planning team that was from that nation but called to San Francisco area to build a church in downtown San Francisco and do that and God was giving me prophetic dreams I was getting prophetic words I had an intercessors group praying for America and the other nation I was recruiting people to pray for us and I had such a heart and a vision for what God wanted to do in the Bay Area I get called into this office and they this woman sits me down she's number two of the church she said we really love you Christa named your job and name your salary and you're on staff and I was like what that doesn't happen and I was really flattered and I didn't quite know why they necessarily saw that in me but I was grateful they saw that in me and I was because I was flattered I said like give me a couple days let me pray about it I went to my prayer time and I heard the Lord say so clearly if you stay in this nation you will not walk in your destiny you are called to live in America to be based out of America you might go to the I'll go to the nation's but I'm called to be rooted and grounded in America so I went back to this person I think them for the opportunity I thank them for the offer I was grateful for the offer but I knew God was calling me to San Francisco I had prophetic dreams I'm a part of a church plant team there is a plan in motion and then I move all the way across the world back to the bay and I'm staying with my sister and her help and her family for a few days and I'm doing jobs searching in the city and I'm thinking I'm gonna go back into the fashion industry because I you know it pays really well and I enjoy it and it can actually give me enough income to actually afford to live in the city so I had this whole plan September 10th 2001 dialing to that date September 10th 2001 I had to verbal offers from two companies great pay exactly the packages I was looking for was more like which one do I want and then 9/11 happened in our nation and everything changed in America because we were in a place we had never been before our I went into crisis our nation went into fear our nation went into paralyzed mode so every corporation for the most part went into a hiring freeze and understandably so September 13th I got those cone phone calls from both of those companies and they reneged the verbal offers because I hadn't signed any contracts they were not legally bound to the job so I found myself at my sister's house I've just moved halfway around the world and now there's a job priests and then the team that I was gonna do the church plant with fell apart so now I have no church plant team no employment opportunity I've just turned down that position and I'm all the way around the world and things were not as I thought they would should could be so I went back up to Oregon cuz that's what you do you just leave California you just gone out I'm out I gotta go now it's what we do so I went to mom and dad's cuz I'm from Oregon so that's like super safe place for me so I go there and I'm like Jesus what the heck did I hear you wrong I start doing that whole what I'm confused by the contradiction I'm in my quiet time probably a week after that and I hear the Lord just asked me this question what are you doing in Oregon when I called you to San Francisco and I'm like well I don't have a job and a place to live and you can't just show up in San Francisco you better have an income to live in San Francisco it's kind of like LA and so I found myself with a challenge from the Lord I didn't move you across the world to be in that state I moved you across the world to be in this state so get in your place get in your location so I call my sister and I say hey can I live with you she's like totally because they're super gracious and nice people she's like but you'll have to share a room with your ten month old nephew max and you'll have to get yourself like a bed or something like that and so my old boss whom at the time I was working with she happened to learn that I was in the area she goes hey I have a denim couch you can sleep on that further record slight slope box why would you ever make fake sofa furniture out of fabric that fades and stretches out like worst idea ever hashtag worst fabric ever for furniture like the worst so I'm giving this denim couch I'm sharing a room with my ten month old nephew who wakes up every morning at 2:00 in the morning and I'm like Jesus what are you doing cuz I need to know I need to know right right now I need to know my sister comes home one day she does I got you a job I said awesome I'll take anything you know when do you think you'll take anything but then when you get the anything cuz I've had any anything jobs and I'm like I don't take anything is like cool and I'm like not that anything more top of the list more not so much bottom of that list go ahead and move up so I'm like I'll take anything I'm so desperate whatever it looks like to serve you Jesus cool so you're gonna work as a front desk receptionist at a mortgage broker firm and you're gonna answer phones receive packages make syrup Xerox copies and send them to Bank and title companies for escrow hey am I gonna do it's not gonna happen but I had created a loop at that point and my loop sounded like this I didn't sign up for this I didn't move across the world for this this isn't what I agreed to I don't want to do this and that thing was on repeat there was a loop in my mind I mean that's all I heard I didn't sign that was like my mantra I did not sign up for this this is not what I want this is not what I moved back this is not my catapult moment so I'm serving in the office I don't want to be there my heart's not engaged and one day my boss calls me in her office I'd never been confronted never since then but this was my day of confrontation for my boss and she said Chris did you want this job and I was like [Music] internally I'm like you know I don't externally I'm like I need this job she's like cuz I need you to want this job because you're making a lot of mistakes and you're sending the wrong bank papers and escrow papers to the wrong companies and it's delaying people's mortgages it's not awesome at that moment I was like and then I heard the Lord go Christa this is your moment where you choose to thrive in your assignment and they're gonna stop hating every moment of it and your work has gotten sloppy because all you ever hear is what you don't like so your heart's not engaged and so you're making a ton of errors because there's no ownership and the Lord said I want you to thrive even where you don't like it I want you to thrive even when you don't like it and I just went Oh Lord forgive me so I turn to my boss who was a really amazing woman I said Laura I'm so sorry you deserve better than that so here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make the best coffee you have ever drank I'm gonna answer the phone so friendly you won't even know what to do with it I'm going to organize the file and the paperwork and I'm gonna and I'm gonna make sure and double if not triple check where I'm sending those papers and I will not make another mistake I commit that to you and from that moment on my attitude totally shifted and I didn't make any more mistakes why because I engaged with the assignment and I got out of the complaining and I got out of the offense see we have an urban term called salty right this church specifically has been talking about salt a lot and we if we want to be salt which means influencers people that change things people that bring the kingdom of God we can't be salty if you want to be salt you can't be salty what a salty mean offended petty irritated annoyed see Oh salty toward God why would you bring me all this way and put me in this situation but see if I wanted to serve or lead the church or if I wanted to have a voice in the church the Lord saw some things in my life that needed to be uprooted and cut down he loved me enough to address some things in my life see sometimes like a barsabbas we find ourselves in situations with an expectation it's gonna look this way I want you to know that when my attitude changed in their workplace I then had the opportunity to minister to four or five of the mortgage broker people did you know the Lord gave me the opportunity to lead one of those women to the Lord doors begin to open for me to speak in minister and I was able to invite them to come and they actually would want to come because I wasn't a miserable person my first ministry opportunity and job opened while I was down there God did move in the bay at that time of my life and he opened up a door for me to run a school of ministry with the help of Bethel Church you see what looked like a contradiction was actually an on-ramp from my destiny but I had to embrace the assignment and get out of the offense I had to get out of the offense to actually see the blessing and the assignment I can't unify what I'm divided on internally Sieber sabes what I love is not always in Scripture do you get the end of someone's story but I kept reading in acts and if you have your Bibles I want you now to turn to acts 15 verse Sambas pops back up and we get the rest of his story it says in verse 22 then it pleased the elders and the Apostles with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas who was also named barsabbas and Silas leading men among the Brethren when you read the full context of what trip this was about what the purpose was of this missionary trip it's actually quite incredible did you know that Paul and Barnabas were going to a church because heresy had been taught and even some teachings where it was just taken out of context and a lot of offense had risen up in the local church so Paul and Barnabas were on assignment to address offense in the church and who did they take with them the man who had passed the test of offense in acts 1c had Bush sorbus stopped in acts 1 and gotten a bit salty a bit petty I didn't get chosen for that opportunity I wasn't given that position I'm not going to respond to those calls when I text I'm not gonna use any emojis have you ever done that I've totally done that and then I felt bad and then I sent a heart right cuz you're like really I'm gonna withdraw emojis because I'm like being a little salty what I'm serious let's just be real we we would draw from community when we get salty we isolate ourselves we get a little offended we get a little put out didn't meet our expectations we didn't recognize like we should have we didn't get asked included I wasn't in the Instagram photo op why but see barsabbas clearly responded incredibly because what I love about this verbage and if we can put it back up on the screen cuz I want you to see it we read it but I want you to see it it says to send chosen men remember in acts 1 they prayed you know their hearts for which one have you chosen sometimes we think because we're not chosen for an assignment we're not chosen friends you are chosen regardless you are always chosen a door may not open for an assignment but I just feel like the Lord seen this morning to all of us don't get caught up in the contradiction of acts 1 because you have an ax 15 assignment waiting for you you have to understand that an ax 1 barsabbas could have totally gotten salty isolated withdrawn and he could have sabotaged his favor and influenced due to offense how many people do we know that have sabotage their influence in their favor because things didn't go their way maybe some of you are those people and I don't say that harshly I say that with the intent to challenge you to not repeat that pattern and today break that pattern because you have to recognize that when God has called you he sees the big picture see the Lord saw the picture he was always working with barsabbas and loving him from the place of acts 15 in the fullness he recognized the necessity because any leader any person with a voice any person that's gonna actually be salt and being influenced you're gonna go through some stripping because we're called to be created in His image and there's aspects of our humanity that have to be torn off of us I've certainly gone through that process and I am in no way shape or form done you know the ver the verse from going from glory to glory we think going from catapult to catapult no no glory to glory actually when you study it biblically it means going from character development to character development that doesn't happen without some acts one moments here's what I love barsabbas sat and heard the teachings of Jesus he saw the miracles the baptism of Jesus the resurrection he sat with Jesus in the forty days after the resurrection before the Ascension here's someone that understood the Heart of Jesus so he recognized if I am NOT selected for that assignment it's okay I still love this Brotherhood I still love this family I'm still kid I refuse to allow offense to drive a wedge in my relationships because I recognize I'm supposed to be a part of this community and in his heart there was a solidification because he had sat in the teachings of Jesus and let those teachings transform him he had allowed those teachings to take roots did you know that Judas was exposed to all the same things what's the difference in very simple terms Christa terms I would say barsabbas was a follower and Judas was a fan what do I mean by that you know fans they're like wannabe at all the vents they'll wear the swag they have the gear they might wave a flag or two they might even put pomp on their car they'll dress in the gear where the colors they like to be in the action they certainly want a front-row seat they're a fan they're in it to win it but a follower is right or die follower says even when there's betrayal I'm in even when it's hard I don't understand my heart stays connected to you I don't operate from a culture of punishment operate from a culture of love even if it doesn't make sense I believe the best in you Jesus I don't understand why you're taking me on the street why'd you move me halfway around the world why does it have to look like this followers leaned in to the contradiction not out of the contradiction I believe the Lord is sifting those aspects of our heart in the church and I'm talking big picture Church because I believe we are in a time more than ever where the church has to be unified with the love of God we have allowed division for too long to be one of our key platforms speaking into society we have to have a united front and we have to have a united family regardless of theology regardless of this social issue or this socialist we love Jesus Jesus loves us and he loves this world and they're hurting and they're broken we do not have time for that petty salty mentalities or behavior you have a city to share Jesus with Jesus wants to overturn this city and you're a part of that yeah come on [Applause] look back where you have passed the test of contradiction in your life and if you follow that trail you will often see that is exactly the place he uses you in authority when you trust him through the entire process friends that's where the intimacy with Jesus is cultivated the roots of walking with the Lord in with depth happen in the places of contradiction they happen in the places of ax1 that's when you lean in versus step out you know my husband has this phrase and I love it he says we have such a quick quit button I'm gonna say that again we have such a quick quit button if you don't like it it's not your vibe you're not feeling it you're out I think the church is supposed to annihilate that thing because jesus never gave never never will give up on us he died on the cross for us he hung naked bloodied and bruised for us it might sound extreme but I guess it's just the way sometimes I personally process things when I find myself getting a little salty or a little bit like put out or whatever it may be I feel like the Lord slag did I die on the cross for you yeah did I take all the sickness and diseases so you wouldn't have to yeah have i forgiven you Christa yet and he's like so how can you hold on to that when I've done all that just perspective of our covenant friends we have to get a bigger picture because what a saltiness do saltiness focuses on you and friends it's all about him I feel like the Lord wants to shift the eyes of the church and I'm talking about you and I as the church he wants to shift our eyes from ourselves and become aware and engaged and present with a world that is craving an encounter with Jesus I'm gonna invite the worship team to come up and I want you just to take a moment to have some inventory because I know I challenged you at the beginning of this message tonight and I said don't listen for the person on your left to your right but listen for yourself and there's many people I know that are in here you have been walking with Jesus for years but let's pull back the layers of our heart because I feel like the Lord wants to take some inventory this morning and he wants some freedom to happen in our lives because we can't bring a unity where we're divided internally you have authority over what you love when we walk in love we walk in the kingdom of God so can you just take a moment what's God saying to you what's he putting his finger on in your life are the areas of pettiness offense we've been a little salty about this or that maybe even offended at God why did you bring me here Los Angeles is so different than what I thought it would be I thought it would look like this when I went to church or I thought I would have these type of friends or whatever it may be whatever the contradiction looks like in your life take an inventory of your heart because I believe the Lord wants to free us from offense and he wants us to be unoffending imagine the impact we could make and the voice and the influence we could have if we were unoffending me fiercely loving refusing to come underneath that division imagine the influence for some of you it might be family for some of you might be your spouse your children there cannot be restoration where there's a fence you want that relationship to be repaired you have to let go of the offence because there's an ax 15 assignment waiting for you and the Lord saying we got to get out of ax 1 we got to get beyond the betrayal we got to get beyond the offense that's you and the Lords put any sum his finger on something in your life I want you to stand yep I said Stan [Music] come on get honest with yourself come on no holds bar just get honest [Music] anyone else [Music] anyone else [Music] not forcing it just lingering a bit feel like there's a couple people your heart's pounding and you're like I'm supposed to stand you standing just breaks that thing and yes I'm at a prayer of you but I feel like it's you just going enough you know if I'm not letting that thing linger anymore awesome [Music] if your standing can you just put your hands out there's nothing special about that beyond I just feel like it's what I see in the spirit I feel like it's just a posture of receiving but it's also a posture of letting go because I feel like there's some receiving that's gonna happen this morning but that happens because there's some letting go that's gonna take place [Music] Lord you see every single person that is standing right now alors we just say right now forgive us for where we have partnered with offense in our lives [Music] but forgive us where we've allowed a fence to take root and we've held judgments in our hearts towards you toward ourselves or toward others we ask you Jesus to come into our hearts right now and break the stronghold of offense to uproot it and sever it completely out of our lives spirit of offense you no longer have authority your eviction papers have been served lord I thank you that you are filling us with a love and a peace you're filling us with hope you're filling us with compassion and you're renewing our minds right now I just felt a wave of the Holy Spirit just come through the room and I just feel like he's settling in on some people [Music] Lord we just thank you there's a transaction in the spirit that just happened we let go of a fence and we are receiving your piece we're receiving your love and we're receiving your compassion [Music] so Lord just pour out your love right now just pour your love greater portions impartation but I think that every person standing is recognizing there's an axe 15 waiting for them Lord I just applaud the courage to stand and say and I'm getting out of the contradiction I'm getting out of the axe one because I recognize my destiny is too important to be sabotaged by a contradiction and we just say as a community of believers we trust you Jesus we say yes to you [Music] we love you lord [Music]

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Published: Mon Jan 29 2018