I Am Not Afraid | I AM | (Part 5 ) Jerry Flowers

says then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said let us go up at once and take possession for we are well able to overcome it but the men who had gone up with him said we are not able to go against the people for they are stronger than we here it is very relevant scripture verse 32 and they gave the children of Israel a bad report somebody say bad news have y'all been hearing a lot of that lately on Facebook on Instagram bad news a bad report of the land which they have spied out saying the land that which we have gone in as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature there we saw Giants that the sentence of a knack came from Giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight and so we were and their sight our cause of concern and where we're gonna Park and unpack for the time that we have together on tonight takes residence in verse 32 just a few words and they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land father I think of that you anoint my lips to be the PA system of heaven help us father God glow-in-the-dark be lights in the midst of darkness father and I'm trusting you to use me as your agent touch the hearts of your people settle our spirits Oh God for those who are possessed with fear and we pray that you're gonna do the miraculous on tonight in Jesus name we pray and if you agree with that prayer just shout amen all right so let's get to work Church family we are now in Lesson number five lesson number five of this I am sermon series that we started a few weeks ago and the purpose and the mandate of this series has been to provide a collision course encounter with the great I am that I am because if I don't know I am I won't really know who I am and every single week we come out here and I give you a short review and I give you a short recap and let you know what you missed if you didn't watch last week and if you want to hear I usually do not doing that on tonight I'm not doing this on tonight I'm going to give you a word that I feel God led us to talk about I would like to speak from this topic for a few moments I am Not Afraid I am not afraid for God has not given me the spirits of fear fear does not come from God it comes from hell this does not mean I am NOT oh I am not aware but it does mean I am not afraid for God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind can I hear by say sound sound mind so if my mind is is filled with worry I'm not trusting God and many times fear comes wearing this different mass sometimes fear comes in the form of worry other times fear comes in the form of anxiety other times fear comes in the form of insomnia and these things do not come from heaven they come from Hell all right so we have to understand that Jesus told us in this world you will have trouble not you might but you will have trouble but he said be of good cheer cheer means when you are filled with joy he's saying look you're gonna experience bad times and they're gonna have bad news but you those who follow me you'll be full of cheer for I have overcome the world now for those have been here every single week we talked about this whatever he is I am so if he says I have overcome the world this means by default our inheritance is to be an overcomer overcome depression overcome doubts overcome suicidal thoughts because you are an overcomer and man so Jesus anybody under the sound of my voice if you are a follower of Jesus you proclaim to be a Christian you rock the label as a christ-like one you know that Jesus is your Lord and your Savior because there's a diff - just call him Saviour it's another thing to call him Lord all right Jesus truly is the world's Savior everybody can be saved from wrath if we repent and give our life to Him but he's not everybody's Lord are y'all ready he's not everybody's Lord Lord means to rule over when a king is ruling a kingdom his rules are decreased and it don't matter what you think it doesn't matter how you feel what the King says goes to better cooperate my claim while I was growing up there was this childhood game that I used to love very much it was a board game called checkers do y'all murmur this game checkers my father loved chess I didn't really like chess too much but I really enjoyed the game of checkers okay now the object of this game is to hop over your opponent's pieces and you perfectly want to get to the other side and if you were like me when you got to the other side I said it kind of cocky I said King me now once you are a king you are able to do stuff that you normally couldn't do you're able to make moves that you're more normally couldn't make you're able to hop over stuff that you normally couldn't hop over I don't know who I'm preaching to all tonight and I don't know who I'm preaching to online but God is saying if you King me I will empower you to make moves that you normally couldn't make if you King me I'll have you hop over stuff that has other people terrified if you King me I will not just make a way out of no way I am the way but I need for you to King me somebody say King me I am Not Afraid I begin to discover the secret to success is not just tied to discipline consistency and obedience there is another attribute when you want to be successful rather than success in your diet plan success with paying off debt success in your marriage y'all finally feel the love again can you feel the love tonight you normally couldn't feel it but now you feel it all of those things are forms of success and I want us to make sure that celebrating marriage engagement the arrival of a newborn all of those things are sellable celebratory things but let us not forget to celebrate that friend who just left a toxic relationship and then doing everything necessary to make sure that the healing let's celebrate that too let's not forget to celebrate that friend who's exercise and dieting and losing weight celebrate them too let's not forget to celebrate that frame who's going back to school to get a GED a PhD or whatever degree let's celebrate that too sometimes all people need is encouragement I notice in football if somebody takes a hard hit and they're on the ground and they get up and they start limping nobody judges them they start clapping for them because the hit hurts you but it didn't break you and sometimes you need somebody in your life to say I know that you're not where you want to be but you're successful in getting there somebody say successful truthfully if we think about it success is relative to your situation and if I could define failure I would define failure as succeeding the most in the area that matters the least that's what failure looks like and so therefore we have to have this conversation it's dangerous when you and I can't discern a win because when you can't discern a win you'll begin to miss label victories you'll begin to miss label victories I was having this conversation with a brother not too long ago and he was still talking about 2019 I'm like bro we're in 2020 like the third might he's like yeah man I just I just can't get over what happened in 2019 it was such a hard year I was like man is it a hard year or did you think victories will be followed by happiness can we talk see we think that victory is followed by people clapping for you that's what we think victory looks like we think victory is followed by you being handed the trophy as the number one of the first-place contender we think that's what victory looks like we think victory looks like you holding your hand up as the champion and you're undefeated that's what we think victory looks like but if that's victory explained to me in Colossians chapter 2 verse 15 when the Bible says Jesus was on the cross and he was disarming the principalities and making a public spectacle of them openly so in actuality Jesus on the cross as ugly as it was as messed up as it was as heartbroken as the disciples were this was the position of him actually winning and I wonder how many of us will never actually experience true spiritual wins because we don't want to get like this preach holy ghost we don't want to crucify our flesh we don't want to trust God we constantly try to think that we have control a lot of us our issue is we're trying to control everything but when you get to a place I don't control outcomes you can experience true freedom and so like I said before we have to be able to identify a win if you lost them but found you you want I can't wait to get to this series we're gonna start a series called relationship status relationship status because too many people have this status is complicated you're supposed to have clarity if you lost them but you gained a prayer life you want alright so I give golf class when I talk like this right if you didn't get the position you didn't get the promotion but you got character along the way you got integrity along the way you discipline along the way you want somebody say you want that's victory if you didn't get this and it wasn't what God had for you anyway baby you want and here we go if the financial floodwaters rose due to unexpected events which cost for you to actually try to figure out something on how we could make more revenue is this is how people are now what am I going to do if I can't work what am I gonna do if they keep on saying you don't have to come to work but I still have to do rent right I'm like okay look I said my wife this other day since everybody's in the spirit of canceling stuff why not cancel this mortgage let's cancel that yeah you feel like doing that cancel that until they council this mortgage until they cancel this rent we still got to work I think many times we forget success is relative to your situation and anytime god puts you in a situation where there's limitation but their limitation has sparked for you to encounter innovation maybe God is using this where you have limited things to show you how creative you are what if I told you limitation is the breeding ground of innovation you didn't know how much was in you until you would do that you didn't know maybe I should start trying to do a Facebook lob or some type of online thing until Corona hit Joe city you really didn't know what was in you it's almost like God has a supply and demand type of method God will put a demand on you to show you how much supply is in you if I don't put you through the fire you'll never get on fire if I don't allow you to go through the storm you'll never recognize you grow from storms if I don't allow you to experience loss you won't be able to actually recognize what matters so sometimes he has this demand and supply I'm will put this demand on you so all of this supply can come out of you because a lot of us have gotten too comfortable in a dysfunctional situation there's too much on the inside of you and when we try to settle we wonder why all this turbulence is existent and God said listen at first I want you to understand that turbulence is only given to those who are flying turbulence is only given to those that are flying and secondly I'm putting you through this turbulence because you have got comfortable and I don't want my worshiper to get comfortable I don't want my preacher to get comfortable I don't want my entrepreneur to get comfortable I don't want my business land to get comfortable I don't want my intercessor to get comfortable I don't want my father to get comfortable I don't want my son to get comfortable I don't want my daughter did get comfortable I have to put something on you so that you can give it out of you our refuse have a child that will have a stillborn destiny there's too much power on the inside of you there's a platform you need to be on there's a bloodline that you need to change there's something that you need to shift so sometimes God puts weight on you to show you how much is in you I know that we can give God praise but when he makes away but can you still give him praise when he rewrites your way say I model this before you guys last 72 hours I said you know what we don't come up here and i'ma speak about I am a bodybuilder I said I like that that's clever I'm gonna build the body come on Holy Ghost I like that yeah and they're different weights when you're a Christian they're different types of gifts that we have and sometimes when you're struggling with a weight you need somebody to come disciple you and this is what it looks like to have a spotter I say I had my illustration I was gonna have a press up here and I'm gonna say this is what it looks like when your disciple when you can't lift it on your own but God said recalculating route have you ever put instructions or an address in your GPS and you're following the GPS you didn't touch it you're not bothering it but just out of nowhere it just says recalculating that ever happened to you and you start to look down and it has this little load inside and it bothers me because I don't know if I need to make an exit or not first of all I don't really know where I'm going I don't need for you to give me recalculating my routes but there have been times I trusted my GPS and it recalculated my route and it made me miss something yeah I don't want to talk it made me miss an accident that would have prolonged my process because it has a full aerial view what if I told you that God doesn't just see your life he sees what's coming in your life God doesn't just see to the corner he sees what's coming around the corner God doesn't just see the hill he sees what's over the hill and ever so often he will allow a breakup to hit your life because your plans are gonna wreck you recalculating your routes every now and again you get comfortable in the situation and he allows something to hit you that calls you to pray because we're not talking when your life is good so I have to have something coming your life so that you yeah I don't want to hear me on tonight so that you guys could trust me recalculating recalculating recalculating there is one thing to give God praise when he allows you to get you away it's another thing to give God praise when he recalculates your way and I wonder just for the sake of being a countercultural preacher if we can give God unorthodox praise how about thank him for the time you didn't get the promotion thank you for the time they said you know what it is over how about thank you for the time they did walk away thank you for the time the door was closed can we give God a praise for him recalculating y'all don't wanna praise him for that right see but look for us to get to the place to where we trust when God recalculates our rock we have to trust the one who gives us directions okay so many times there is a mystery in victory there's a mystery and victory and I came here tonight to tell you that sometimes your success is not just tied to your discipline your consistency and your obedience but your success is also tied to who you don't listen to yeah maybe your success is tied to thinking fear is lying to you I'm not listening to you you know a fierce favorite words are two words if you know how to know what beers talking what if what if you get it what if you touched your mop before you wash your hands your throat filling funny oh my god what it what if what if what if what if what if they tell me it's not working they'll give me a check what what what if I don't have all the tools to be an effective mother what what if what if I don't have enough to pay the rent next month what what if there's mass pandemonium what if you know what faiths favorite words are even if oh yeah beer what if faith even if beer tells you what if this faces even if that does happen I know he's able yeah beer says what if you don't have enough for this face says even if I don't I served your homage our so some way and somehow he's gonna make provision see this is what I'm learning about God you'll never trust him you'll never really trust him you'll never know him as your hope a gyro if he doesn't put you in a situation when you don't know how to provide for yourself God loves coming at eleven fifty nine point fifty nine he loves leading you to Red Sea situations he loves leading you to dead ends he loves leading into where I don't know what to do I've ran out of options it's not my degrees it's not my influence God if you don't make away God is saying that's when I can get glory that's when I can step in and show myself strong because you recognize at the end of the day I'm your source while you're treating all your resources as your source of your source and until we get to the place where I don't need to see a Red Sea to trust you guys gonna keep putting red seas before you because he's trying to teach you okay I need to have people in my life that will hold me accountable it's dangerous when you're running with fearful people because they will pass on their fear okay does this make sense so I need to have some people in my life who are anointed I need anointed friends you ever felt like that I didn't really get that revelation to last year it's cool having friends people you disciple but I'm like man when you have friends friends are people who will be there but when you have anointed friends these are the type of people who will be there and they break stuff because the anointing breaks yokes I need friends in my life that come to break throughs woo what's up relationship when they come in my life some things break my depression breaks I need a friend one I'm having a bad mood I called him they speak God back into me I needed anointed friends because anointed friends comes with breakthroughs I need a powerful Church please hear me powerless preaching creates powerless pews powerless preaching creates powerless pews and the caliber of a man is directly tied to the teaching he sits under please listen we're all a byproduct of the level of teaching we sit under and whoever has access to your ears has access to your sight and I hope y'all are hearing this whoever has access to your ears has access to your site and many times how we get in trouble is we're letting other people see for us a lot of us doing it we're letting the way CNN sees it affect the way that we see it there's something that a lot of us forget Christians forget this all the time and if you forgot about it I want to remind you of it if you are a follower of Jesus you have something called the god factor the god factor you know what the god factor is the god factor is if they say we're not hiring hiring you apply anyway and you still could get hired the god factor is no matter what they say no matter what you hear I don't go off the final line because God has the ultimate say there have been too many people who have went off something that everybody else said no but God said yes you have the GAR factor you have the type of God factor we see in the Bible Paul gets bit with a venomous snake he shakes it off don't nothing happen to him I'll see we don't get talked about that huh maybe I'm not saying don't wash your hands please wash your hands over and over use your life saw do whatever you want to do go get your water do whatever you want to do be aware but I am saying I do believe we have a god factor that even if something were to cross our paths God could have me immune to it is actually churchy you don't believe see a lot of times we let society bleed over into our Christianity and since it doesn't make sense in society it doesn't make sense success since and our mindset and what we have to understand nothing about your faith makes sense nothing about your faith makes sense you start to ask God all these questions you'll start to doubt his existence where did he come from how did he just okay if you really knew that sin was gonna get this bad why don't you create all this why did you have a good tree and a bad tree if it really hurt your heart God just have a good tree in a good tree if you know all this stuff is gonna happen how you the Son of God where's his mama you start to ask all these questions and you'll cause yourself to go crazy you know why God is so big that your mind can't even grasp him that's how powerful he is he is so infinite he is so massive if you try to get your logic and you try to get your science and you try to get all of these concepts and how this you'll start to doubt his existence because he's so big you can't even fathom him so whoever has my ear has impacts to my sight and a lot of times how they speak is because of how they see all right I want to show this you in the Bible and our foundational text numbers chapter 31 is this good it says but the men who had gone up with him said we're not able to go against the people for they are stronger than we somebody say that's their opinion and they gave the children of Israel their opinion which they have spied out saying the which we have gone in as spice is a land that devours its inhabitants oh I want you to see this based on how they see is bleeding over into how they speak okay how you speak is tied to how you see and how you see is tied to who's been speaking into you did y'all hear what I just said how you speak is tied into how you see they were saying we are as grasshoppers that's how they see so they began to speak how they see and one of the worst things you could do is allow somebody else's eyes to become your vision ear infections are bad anybody ever had that somebody said no you don't want one ear infections are bad sinus infections are bad but there's another type of infection that a lot of us don't talk about it we don't preach about it enough a lot of us are unaware that we even have it because our momma had it our grandma had it our daddy has it our brothers had it and so we don't even recognize that we all have been exposed to this infection it is a projection infection the illness of how they see affects what you believe it affects what you believe and so there's some things about fear that I would like to discuss with us and please understand the opposite of faith is not fear its sight right we walk by faith and not by sight and so there's some things that fear likes to do and I would like to share them with you fear wants your number one distract me number two deceive me number three paralyze me number four poison me number five react to me and number six will talk about more reverence me okay please write this down please fear how do we know if this fear it wants to distract me you know what a distraction is a distraction is anything that pulls you in several directions that's a distraction and they usually come once you get close once you get close think about this you finally made your mind up to be black pure like for real for real right I always talk about this for real for real because there been times when like man you know what I'm gonna do this for real but you really not for real for real for real you really not like for real for real for real there's still like some foreplay played there but you're not really talking about the play play sometimes we say we for real for real because we want to believe we for real for real but we really don't know if you for real for real so we just gonna speak those things that be not as though they were like for real for real but you know what I've understood about the enemy since he sees in the spirit we talked about this since he sees in the spirit realm he always knows when you for real for real right I believe in the spirit room he sees oh snap they praying like for real for real and it's not due to a church fast that like they're fasting for real for real like that heart break was so bad you like reading your Bible on your own like that type of for real for real anybody ever been there when you got like for real for real when you fast and you just feel the need to you don't know why just like you know what just water today I'm hungry by just feeling need to fast right it's at those moments when the distractions come because I believe the enemy sees they're becoming who are always fear for them to be what if I told you the devil is actually more scared of you see look here's the thing when it comes to fear gosh this is so like equals both sides when it comes to fear you don't tell everybody everything and so what the devil does he leaves our parts of the story one of the news does that leave that alone but they don't fully tell you the whole story I began to think you know the devil knows the Bible right probably better than some of us will ever know the Bible I mean he's only been doing this for like a gazillion years he knows the Bible and it just dawned on me if he knows the Bible he knows he's a defeated foe please listen if he knows the Bible he knows you win did y'all hear what I just said he knows I'm a defeated foe he knows if they rebuke me and they resist me I gotta flee he knows they have been given the power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the works that I have and nothing by any means shall harm them he knows no weapon formed against them shall prosper he knows he can't touch nobody without God's permission he knows this all that the problem is do you know it because if you don't know it I can speak a language to you or fear I can speak a language of doubts I can fix peak a language of insecurity and you'll never walk in your god-given power the devil even knows you're gonna win the devil even knows you got more power over me the devil even knows I can't touch the sons and daughters of God in fact my whole squad if they start calling Jesus they start getting chills and they get terrified because demons are terrified of Jesus but if they never know the truth I can get them to believe my lies and lies sell lies cause pandemonium lies cause stress lies call for people to be fearful lies call people to forget what they believe lies cause people to forget their faith lies so what I try to do is I distract you I distract you for the most important thing what you're really supposed to be doing man if you are intentional about washing your soul as you are about washing your hands wash your soul like you washed your hands somebody sneeze you duh can do that with sin when they text you and say hey girl what you're doing you want to come on while shoot duck like they just sneeze like they got the corona I'm not saying don't wash your hands but I'm saying are you more concerned about washing your soul are you more concerned about washing your mind are you more concerned about washing your appetite that's the bigger fear when you are more concerned about catching a natural virus than being disconnected from the father we have an issue in America not just in America this is a global issue we are stressed about a virus but we're not stressed about being disconnected wash your soul like you wash your hands I hear people making songs what's the plan wash your hands what's the plan wash your hands and why okay that's cool that's catchy but what if we got people wants to plan surrender what's the plan trust what's the plan obedience listen your dog you'll rock wala your life saw your disinfected your 9-millimeter your 45 your bring security system all those things can't protect you the best protection is in the hand of God the number one in the most safest place you could ever be is in the will of God I'm not gonna fret for what people say about me I'm not gonna fret for the things that are around me 100 may fall at this side 10,000 at the other hand but nothing shall come to me safe like come on children of God we aren't this is the best time I'm getting ahead of myself but I'm gonna show you my first point look my son I'm gonna go back to the fear of things in a second but my son used to always tell me when I would leave his room he said daddy hold up before you leave turn on the nightlight turn on the nightlight cuz he was scared of the dark so I would turn on the nightlight and it was just too something this morning when I was preparing this message I said Christians are supposed to be night lights and the midst of darkness we can shine and show you their still away he wants a night he wants to light so he can still see thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path just imagine if all of us were to be night lights why are you saying Nigeria because it's dark in our world it's evil in our world but when they see you can they see the lights when they come around you they really only have one option they either gonna get burned or they gonna catch on fire with me but I'm not going dim down my fire because you're not burning somebody say distraction it means the pool in several directions number two deceiving me the enemy operates in fear because he doesn't want you to see what he's really doing deception this is why many of us have entertained counterfeits we fear not getting married see what I just said so the fact that you 30 plus and your biological clock is ticking and you have no candidate his or her arrival makes you gravitate and accept it without prayer because we fear if this ain't it who is you get an opportunity to make more money but it takes you out of serving you fear what will my oh we got quiet there right we fear what will my bank account look like if I don't God will give you a blessing and he wants you to give it away but you fear what will I do if this happens and I no longer have this and so fear has you hold on to what God wants you to release deception everybody say deceiving next thing fear does it paralyzes you can't move you ever been incarcerated to you there's something called invisible prisons and you're incarcerated because of your what if list and so fear has you paralyzed or you won't move won't move our worship you won't lift your hands what would they say you need sometimes you just need something to happen in your life to where you have an economy God you lift your hands up you'll hit all type of wrong notes it don't care a flat B I don't care about the scale I'm giving God glory paralyze me this one right here is interesting fear poisons me how because it kills you softly let me tell you something mother devil the devil doesn't try to take us out swiftly he tries to wear you out please hear me on the night he tries to wear you out he's not coming out round one trying to knock your head off it's not he's coming out round one hitting your stomach body shots so that by the time you get to the sixth round you're so tired you're so winded see some of us our commitment is tied to our level of rest and you'll even recognize it so he wants you tired he wants you fatigued in your spirit because you're more susceptible to entertain distractions and to be deceived because you're exhausted I don't feel like praying this maybe it's not the ministry for me I don't feel like going to church all you need is a vacation that's it are now staycation depend on how you view it if you bowed and you have faith look you a flight airline tickets on clearance [Laughter] okay paralyzing poison reacting what if one of the number-one strategies of the enemy was to get you to be reactive because he knows if I can get them to be reactive they could disqualify their character because nobody wants to eat a five-star meal from a trash can lid doesn't matter how awesome the gift it doesn't matter I want them to do something to cause them to be reactive this is why the this is why the devil loves those who get anger quick he loves those that are easily offended he loves people who are extremely sensitive and boy if somebody talks that you talks to you the wrong way you go on 90 to 100 real quick why because your reactive when your reactive you'll become impulsive last one is reverence me you know the Bible says the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord but then later on it says God is not giving you the spirit of fear so anytime I see something like that I'm like okay God what you're trying to show me he says I want you to reverence me to where you don't make a move without me because you fear moving without me it's not necessarily about being terrified of God like this is I love you so much and I reverence you so much that I'm scared of stepping outside of your will this makes sense so it's more for me when you move I move just like that not when I move you move see that's not a lot of us do Christianity God when I move you move just like that he's like no no it don't work like that when I move you move just like that I want you to be where I want I want you to be in the same place with me same thing with my daughter she came to Rome it was like two years ago and she was crying she was telling me daddy picked me up I said look daddy just playing with you for a whole hour no children don't understand that right ain't no off day when you're dead I'm tired right we're running you're jumping on my back okay I'm tired daddy pick me up daddy I want to pick you up right now okay and you know if you if you're married I say go to mama go to mama I know I don't want mom I want you to pick me up I said okay well here's here's the iPad you can watch Barbie or whatever I don't want that pick me up so as I pick her up she goes to sleep and that moment it was like God was teaching me I want you to be like that she wasn't swayed by what you can give her as a father she wanted you and when she had you she found rest there are so many believers if I just give them the blessing they'll forget me if I just give them to give them the promotion they'll forget me if I just give them the raise they'll forget me if I just give them the boo thing they'll forget me if I just give them the platform they'll forget me but I want to be able to try to give you stuff and you reject it because I want you saying I don't want to be in a room without my daddy that's what we reverence the Lord God if you're not here it took for me to learn this don't matter the booking you don't matter the honorarium god if you aren't there I don't want to be there anybody here how many children okay when they were younger have you noticed that you really couldn't put them down and leave the room never happened yeah you ever tried especially they start trying to crawl y'all ever seen that like my dog was more my daughter my son I could put her down going like what are you doing I'm gonna be right back I don't want to be in a room without Daddy and God wants us I don't want you to be in a room without daddy I don't care if your name gets bigger I don't want you to be in a room without daddy I don't want you to desire something without daddy if my hand is not on it you should want it either what was it about Caleb that caused him to see the same thing to speak a different language we spoke about it before he saw things differently one person sees an obstacle another person sees an opportunity opportunity one person hears fear another person here's faith a lot of all this stuff I'm hearing right now in the news my mother and my father were all the same way we're like man this is the best time for the church this is the best line for the church and I was telling Tanisha the other night I said I am so glad we have like an online following because they don't matter how bad it get people always gonna go on YouTube you no matter if they say nobody leave the house we will preach a sermon in our house it doesn't matter so then I got to this place okay God what is it what is it that you want your people to see in the last days they'll be hard to deal with times perilous times ten men lovers of themselves blasphemy disobedient to parents I want you to recognize the days of the great falling away on us and what really separates the church from the world is those who are living fearful versus those I already know how this ends I already know the end of the story I want to walk up to people and I see them reading the Bible I want to blame let me tie the ends we win we win and so you're in you're in the time listen you're in time where's the best opportunity to be a nightlight not be scared girl what you gonna do what you gonna do I'm a trust God I'm a trust God so point number one I already gave it to you we need to be it needed the times require a needed night like too many people are walking in the dark and it's your job to shine a light okay point number two confrontation can I get everybody say confrontation now I want everybody to see this could you turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 32 verse 27 and 28 what i'ma read Genesis chapter 32 verses 27 to 28 if you don't have a tangible Bible we have a projected for you for those who are afraid some people are I don't know where we are in our Christian journey there are some people on the side of my voice you could be a theologian there are some people under the sound of my voice you could be agnostic even atheist so you're just considering this stuff I got a message the other day from a person saying I don't even believe in God I don't even know why I'm messaging you I just feel like I need something more to life like you ran into the right person what do you do when you have this moment of fear because a lot of churches tell us don't speak it y'all ever heard that you hurtin just say I'm doing it y'all ever heard that okay that fake it to you'd make us tough don't work right so this is story of this guy who was a deceiver and he had this collision with God he ran into the I am and he finds himself wrestling with God you know I'm talking about he finds himself wrestling with God and I find it so funny that he went from wrestling with God to holding on to God and saying I won't let you go until you bless me right and I really wondered how did how did Jacob get to this place to where he stopped he went from wrestling with God to holding on to God the Bible says when the light start to come this mean dawn was happening I believe it dawned on him okay I believe it dawned on him who he was fighting and once he recognized who he was fighting he went from wrestling to holding what if I told you a lot of us need some donning moments what you're fighting could be God okay and so this is when he says I won't let you go until you bless me look at this response Genesis chapter 32 verse 27 you there you there okay it says so he said to him what is your name he said Jacob and he said your name shall no longer be called Jacob but Israel for you have struggled with who God and with who men and have prevailed so I begin to think about this two things that stand out number one why do you ask him what his name was God you know my name and then the second thing I was like okay how did he prevail he never won the fight and as I'm looking at this I believe God was showing me he won the fight because he recognized once I acknowledge Who I am true victory can really flow okay he says what is your name Jacob means deceiver so it's really like God was saying tell the truth who are you I'm a deceiver I'm a liar I'm a con artist I'm a manipulator I'm a narcissist I'm a porn watcher I'm gonna do to her I'm a LESBIAN I'm a thief I'm a marijuana smoker I'm a cur this is who I am God if you could tell me who you really are then I could tell you who you really are gosh I hope y'all are getting this it takes for you to be honest enough to say that I am Jacob for God to say that's not who you are Jacob you're Israel but as long as you think you're Israel you'll never be Jacob I called you I called you and your victory is when you stop acting like you're victorious your victory is when you acknowledge God I can't do this without you that's how he prevailed he won and then as I spoke about this before God refers to himself as the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob I like now you messed up bro you're supposed to be the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel no I'm the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob no no no no no verse 28 you said your name is no longer Jacob is Israel okay until I got this Epiphany God changed all these boys names God of Abraham used to be called Abram now we're gonna change that you're gonna be the father of many nations so good God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob if I'm the God of Abraham this means I am the God who is a promise keeper if I'm the god of Isaac I remember you if I'm the God of Jacob I'm the god of your struggle I'm calling myself God of Jacob on purpose because that fill your side they're fearful side that doubtful side I'm the god of that to what you think I don't know about your struggles you don't think I know about all the stuff that you're crying about at night I'm your God in your in that state too when you're doubtful I'm still your God when you're prideful I'm still your God when you're fearful I'm still your God when you're stressed I'm still your God I'm not gonna remove that because that's too bad that's too filthy that's the mess I'm the Messiah I come and I clean people from that confront it and sometimes the only way we can confront it is when we go face to face with God I say God I'm afraid God help my unbelief that's when God can truly touch us somebody say confront last point perfect love cast out all fear perfect love cast out all fear trying to stop being fearful is not the answer Trust is the answer is not in and it's not being scared the answer is I need to trust I need to trust his perfect love casts out all fear God's perfect love for us when we really recognize God loves us perfectly and we believe that that casts out fear cuz then it's like God if you really really love me like this I know you got me so I cast out my fear I remember when I was about six years old my father was teaching me how to swim right we moved into this house and my mom said Reverend if we don't get this house you got to teach your son how to swim we're not gonna be on the news and I son floating in the backyard teacher - women my dad put this lifejacket on me I wish I had one he put this lifejacket on me and every day we went outside and he would tell me to go you know with the lifejacket and I will try to learn I screamed like no you fight in the water and then one day my father you know just lost his mind he said all right take off the lifejacket and jump now our pool was like from 3 feet to what like was it 12 feet 12 feet you're telling a seven-year-old to jump in 12 feet this is bad parenting you don't love me and then he said do it without the lifejacket I'm sitting there like nah I'm gonna do it says jump I don't know if I could swim you know I've only known swimming with my lifejacket I don't know swimming without my lifejacket and he says boy John so I'm thinking about it okay one Mississippi dad I don't know if I could do it I don't know if I could do it if you go under I'll hop in and get you all right so you got me right jump dad if you go under i'ma get you jump I jump and I mean I'm telling you it was like oh I'm over to the other side and when I'm holding the edge I was like wait hold up I did it cannonball so then I was like dad how did you know I could swim and he said because the life jacket now started to get in your way the life jacket used to keep you up but now I'm noticing the life jacket is limiting your full potential and as a father I see what you don't as a father I see when you're ready for the next season and if you trust me enough to jump some of us don't know you can't swim because you'll never jump you gotta have all the answers you gotta have every T cross every I dotted and you'll never jump God's saying jump if you jump I'll show you you can swim if you jump I can show you your water Walker if you jump like I show you you're a miracle worker if you jump like I show you that you have power bring it to who you are but you gotta jump my father said I'm not gonna let you drown even if you jump and you start to go under my father would have got me before any water filled my lungs and your heavenly father's the same way before you get in trouble if you don't know how you're gonna get out I'm not going to let you drown doesn't matter what the news says it doesn't matter how it bad CNN says it is you don't matter that they cancelled the NBA you don't matter they cancelled all this stuff trust me I'm not gonna let you drown I have not given you the spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind and I think right now we should give God praise for him being a god that's not gonna let us drown [Applause]

Channel: REDEFINED TV

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Keywords: jerry flowers, pastor jerry flowers, I am not afraid, coronavirus, corna virus, Michael todd, time of celebration church, pastor flowers, redefinedtv, redefined tv

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Length: 52min 40sec (3160 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 13 2020