I Need Some Space | Try Me Finale | (Part 30) Jerry Flowers

all right come on in the room come on in the room i hope you guys are ready for tonight's thank you so much for joining me it is a privilege and an honor for me to serve you week after week after week and listen the aircraft has finally landed on the termite and we are taxing to our gates the tribe me series this is the finale this is it this is part 30. part 30 that's that jesus number part 30 of the try me series and it is coming to an end but i believe this word is going to just like make all of the messages come together so if you would go ahead and get your screenshot tag us let us know where you are in the world invite somebody let them know that the message is now live and we are about to be blessed by the word but before we get started there's this declaration i want everybody to say you can either say it like just looking at the screen and say it or you could drop the comment in the room but i want everybody to say this with me can i get everybody to say what god is about to do is gonna blow my mind what god is about to do is gonna be bigger than what i expected but it requires my nevertheless yes yes i need you to know that memorize that what god is about to do is going to blow my mind what god is about to do is going to be bigger than i expected but it requires my nevertheless as you can tell i'm excited and i'm ready to get to work thursday we're starting a brand new series world war me and i hope you guys are ready for that because you are drafted in this war rather you chose to sign up or not world war me so let's get to work luke chapter five um it's a familiar passage of scripture but i'm gonna take it a different route luke chapter five we're gonna launch our reading at verse one it says so it was as the multitude pressed about him speaking of jesus to hear the word of god that he stood by the lake of geneseren and saw two boats standing by the lake but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets then he got into one of the boats which was simon and asked him to put out a little from land and he sat down and taught the multitudes from the boats and when he had stopped speaking he said to simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch but simon answered and said to him master we have toiled all nights and have caught nothing he's basically saying lord i'm a fisherman this is what we do you're a rabbi teaching is what you do but they ain't biting tonight nevertheless that's that word somebody dropped a comment nevertheless nevertheless at your word i will let down the net and when they had done this they caught a great number of fish and their net was breaking so they signaled to their partners and the other boats to come help to come and help them and they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink what a catch is that a verse of importance our clause of concern is the halfway mark of verse three then he got into one of the boats god we are a high anticipation we just want to honor you for being awesome thank you for allowing us to come together and dissect your word so that we could grow search the deep crevices of our heart oh god and change us in the areas that we need to be changed and let this be the day when we look back on the files of our life we can say it was this day that changed happened and as usual my typical request oh god make me your spokesman allow me to be the pa system of heaven allow me to be your oracle to touch the hearts of your people in jesus name we pray and everybody who agrees with that prayer would you drop the comment in the room amen amen then he speaking of jesus stepped in to one of the boats as we're ending this this particular sermon series church family i just feel it's necessary to speak around this thought from this subject for the time that we have together on tonight i need some space i need some space i believe one of the most confusing and sometimes one of the most hurtful statements that one could hear especially when they love you is when somebody hits you with the statement i need some space i need some space has anybody ever delivered that statement to somebody listen i just need some space you're doing too much i need some space or has anybody ever told you i need some space i need some space now please understand sometimes when somebody asks for space they're not saying this because you're toxic they're not saying this because you're smothering sometimes people ask for space because you're causing to you're causing for them to step up to another level of maturity that they don't want to step up to and what's crazy some people rather change partners than change themselves they'd rather change partners than change themselves let me tell you a little secret let me help somebody who may be struggling with low self-esteem or insecurity wrong people will really have you out here thinking that you're asking for too much wrong people will really have you out here thinking that you asking for too much but the truth is they don't have much to offer i'ma say that again cause that should just help somebody somebody should just start shouting because that was your deliverance right there maybe we are talking to the wrong people on the wrong corporation because wrong people really have you out here thinking that you're asking for too much but truth is they can't offer much i just firmly believe what god has for you will not be toxic what god has for you will not be toxic and some of us don't even recognize that we've hit god with that line we've told god hey i need some space i need some space lord look i'm tired of being convicted okay i need some space you coming too much i'm tired of being convicted i'm tired of you keep on pushing me towards spiritual maturity give me a moment why can't i be petty like they're being petty why do i have to live at another level of maturity i guess it's because sometimes we forget due to what god is calling for you to be you have to be an example and you're like god listen i need a moment if they can be petty i should be able to be petty too give me some space lord because you keep on pushing me towards spiritual maturity and i'm tired of it give me some space i'm talking about i need space from that inward tension y'all ever had that that inward tension that that gnawing in your soul that static that agitates your whole being and your mindset when you know that you shouldn't want you shouldn't be engaging in something but you want to do it anyway that's that inward tension i'm talking about that inward tension that starts in your soul once you got that text at 9 30 on saturday night that said you still coming through immediately this tug of war am i gonna listen to the flesh am i gonna listen to the spirit am i gonna do my thing or am i gonna do the lord's thing am i gonna do my will am i gonna do god's will that tension that tension that static or that tension when you have made your mind up i'm gonna live a life of purity and they're taking you home and on the way home he puts his leg on you he puts his hand on your leg and not just him because ladies do it too she put her hand on your leg she's not looking for her seat belt she's not looking for a seat belt her seatbelt is on women do it too and immediately that tug of war begins to happen in your soul what are you going to do right now are you going to keep your standard or are you going to compromise are you going to keep your light on high or are you going to be dim that tension that tension in your soul have you all ever asked i prayed the prayer of forgiveness before y'all do something don't judge me i'm being transparent there were times in college i'd be like god i know i shouldn't go to the club but let me get back home safely let me get back home safely if they start shooting don't let no bullets hit me now y'all ever done that don't judge me please don't leave me out here by myself you're like god i know i'm not supposed to be here but please let me get home please let me get home without anything happening to me that tension that tension on the inside of us and really a lot of us don't even recognize because we haven't been taught how to discern the voice of god that is the holy spirit that is the holy spirit on the inside of you we learned this throughout this try me series we have the indwelling presence of the holy spirit and dwelling in hebrew means bowels it's that gut that gut feeling that's like that's where the holy spirit resides that gut feeling when you know that you shouldn't do something maybe you shouldn't do this or maybe you should that's that gut feeling that's not gas that's the holy spirit that tension in your soul just telling you i don't know if i should do this i was mad i was upset november of 2019 my parents my pastors they told my wife and i hey you know what i think you guys should do a thursday service and i'm like no i think it'd be better to do like a sunday morning service that's what most people do like that's a traditional thing to do let's do a sunday morning my wife is on board my parents on board my sister's on board like no i think thursday will work and i'm like no this is not going to work it's not going to work and so i began to get on google you know how we doing we don't believe stuff i begin to look on google how many churches have things going on on thursday night and i proved myself this is my confirmation hardly any churches have anything going on on thursday night churches services are friday saturday and sunday if they have a service it might be on wednesday nobody really does bible study anymore so why are we going to do thursday sidebar sometimes the reason we can't find an example is because you're supposed to be the example see a lot of us you know why you're so upset because you expect for somebody to put you on but let me tell you what jerry has learned god only gives you favor with people who matter i'm trying to help you so if they don't see how awesome your idea is they don't want to endorse your ministry they must not matter to your destiny because whoever matters god is going to give you favor with them if there is somebody that is needed in your life to help assure you to a platform to help us shoot you into a room to help usher you into a place god is going to give you favor with them so you can stop running behind people saying hey look at what i created hey look at my video hey listen to this song i made hey check out this book i wrote if they can't endorse you and they don't see how awesome you are they must not matter to your destiny and so many of us are frustrated because you want somebody to put you on but god's saying ain't nobody gonna put you on because nobody's gonna get the credit but me i'll put you on you looking for a pathway but god's calling you to be a blueprint i'm upset i said it's not gonna work it's not gonna work god i i don't i don't see how this is gonna be something that you could use and you know i'm not one to be deep and i'm not one to always say god told me but i'm standing in the fruit of this god told me i'm sitting there vacuuming over in the pew upset convincing myself this ain't gonna work i'm just upset it's not gonna work god told me two words try me try me try me you thought this was just a creative sermon title no this is something god told me back in november of 2019 i'm frustrated i'm upset and god is saying try me you don't believe anybody will come try me you don't believe anybody will watch the live stream try me you don't believe that i've anointed you for a time such as this try me you don't believe i put a word in your belly that could reach your generation former generations and generations to come try me try me and i wonder how many of us just like me in that moment we keep belittling our two fish and our five loaves and god was revealing to me a methodology listen you can never live in the more than enough until you give me you're not enough god is saying give it to me your pain give it to me your doubt give it to me your insecurities give it to me he was revealing to me he said jerry you have more trust in your doubts then you do your faith you know what i want you to do start doubting your doubts start doubting your doubts that's what the whole try me series has been about you tried weed why not try god you've tried alcoholism why not try god you've tried cheap sex why not try god you tried getting drunk getting faded and turning up why not turning down and listening to the holy spirit and turning up for the kingdom try me my life stays on my life stays on i'm constantly trying to get people to understand if you try me i'm gonna blow your mind but you gotta trust me what god was really saying was jerry i need some space i need some space not in the way culture means it not in the way stop talking to me get away from me no i need space in your life i need for you to allow me to step in because you're never going to experience the catch if you don't allow me to have space in your boat i need some space and i don't know who i'm preaching to but god is saying i need some space in your life you know why you're so miserable and single because you haven't given me space you know why your marriage is on life support because you haven't given me space there's no room for me there's no room for me you call the shots you do what you want to do you don't consider me you like people without praying first you take deals without praying first and just because you have a peace about it you make the erroneous assumption that i have a peace about it too now i need you to give me some space you know why your finances are so tight for a lot of us because you don't give me space in your decision making about to get in trouble there's no space in your decision-making because god said look i want you to be a lender to the borrower and i want you to leave an inheritance for your children's children that's not jerry that's bible i want you to leave an inheritance for your children not debt all right i feel it's getting quiet all through the retina display i feel it he's like listen um i need space and your finances so that's gonna mean i gotta have space in your decision making we don't need all these tvs we don't need all these tvs i need space in your decision making we don't need to keep eating out like this you would be surprised how much money you have if you stop eating out like this yeah let me have space and let me call some shots you don't need all these subscriptions apple music uh netflix and hulu you don't need all this i'm not saying nothing's wrong with entertaining yourself sometimes but that shouldn't be your main consumption allow me to have space i need some space and your decision making i need space in your relationships some people walking around like man i don't understand how is it i'm so picky but i just keep on picking the wrong one and god's probably like that's the problem you picking and not me seek my direction before your selection because i'm the author and finisher of your faith this means i can see what you can't see you see to the heel i see over the hill you see to the corner i see around the corner i can see who's conducive for your chapter 10 while you're right now in chapter five and sometimes god removes them now so he doesn't have to remove the knife from your back later i need some space somebody say space i need some space i need some space you got to understand this about god god did not give noah an ark he gave him a blueprint he did not give noah an ark he gave him a blueprint and you know why so many of us are frustrated because we expect our answered prayer to come in ark form but god doesn't answer your prayers by giving you an ark he answered your prayers by giving you trees whoo and y'all hear what i just said and so you're frustrated saying i don't know why i should keep doing this god is not answering my prayer could it be you're expecting an ark but god has given you trees listen listen god blesses us in seed form not crop maturity if i didn't need my towel i would throw it god blesses us in seed form not in crop maturity and somewhere and somehow we have this drive through mentality when it comes to god said i need space i need space for you to trust me i need space for you to know that i'm gonna see it through i need space i need space i would like to suggest to us that the most popular part of our foundational narrative that most preachers preach is verses six and seven because it will flat out preach where the text tells us they cause such a great number of fish that their nets begin to break and their boats begin to sink so one could abstract from this biblical narrative we serve a god who can feel it yeah we serve a god who can feel it if your heart is broken he can feel it if your marriage lost his love and you need to love again god can feel it because he's a god who can feel it and i have to understand that god doesn't just give me some gas for my journey he fills the tank all the way up he doesn't just provide me with some funds for my dream but he provides me with enough funds to not just fund my dream but also fund the dreams of others because whenever god favors a person he doesn't favor that person for that person he favors that person for a people did y'all hear what i just said when god favors a person it is never about that person when god favors a person it's about a people we spoke about this all throughout the try me series when god blesses you is so that you can lengthen your table not so that you can heighten your fence when god blesses me is for me to bless you when god blesses you is for you to bless them and we see this reality in the life of simon simon caught such an abundant amount of fish that he had to signal for his partners to come help him see this is why you have to be able to celebrate when other people celebrate y'all gonna make me get happy up in here you gotta be able to celebrate when other people celebrate see when you learn that i have to roll with people who have made space for jesus to step in their boat see this is the danger about being connected to disconnected people you'll always experience a shortage i gotta hang with connected people simon had jesus in his boat and i'm connected to simon so no it's not my season but it'll end up feeling like my season because i'm connected to people who are in season and this is what you gotta understand i might be in a different boat but we all gonna eat from the same catch because i'm rolling with people who are favored because favor never traffics in a solo it always trafficks in a duet it's about harmony and i can preach that and i'm pretty sure it will warrant some hallelujahs some amens some bro you better preach some running man emoji but that's not what i want you to notice what i want you to see is this particular text halfway mark of verse 3. then he got into one of the boats and he stepped in to simon's boat he allowed space for jesus to step in are y'all ready to work the gospel of matthew matthew's letter was written primarily to the jews because the jews needed irrefutable evidence to be convinced they needed proof to be convinced that jesus truly was the messiah which is why this particular gospel this particular book of the bible this particular gospel has the most old testament references along with historical review mirrors it also has the most fulfillment of prophecy it keeps referencing things like the virgin shall be with child and she will give birth to a son and he will be called emmanuel which means god with us that's matthew chapter 1 verses 22-23 but it was originally declared in isaiah chapter 7 verse 14. or we can consider matthew chapter 27 verse 10 where jeremiah lets us know that 30 pieces of silver are going to be the set price that's going to be used to betray the messiah the particular book of the bible the gospel of matthew is my favorite gospel and in matthew chapter 6 verse 26 jesus says this amazing passage he says look to the birds of the air they neither sow nor reap nor gather in barns but yet your heavenly father provides for them are you not much more valuable than they it's almost like god is saying the same way i placed a rainbow in the sky as a covenant sign not a logo for a movement or a group some of y'all missed that i placed this logo in the sky of a rainbow not for a group a community or a logo but as a covenant sign that i will never flood the earth again just like i've created that logo this this rainbow not a logo in the sky i put birds in the sky so every single time that worry tries to grab your heart find a bird you start doubting you start feeling insecure look up and find a bird find one they could be in the grass they could be on top of your car they could be on a basket find one and i want you to consider that they neither soul nor reap no gathering bars but i take care of them how much more am i going to take care of you but if we be honest can we be real how many of us have forgot about the birds because of our empty nets because we have toiled all night and have nothing to show for it if the birds are supposed to be evidence that you're jehovah gyra i forgot about it you're up here delivering a sermon talking about i need some space but i need god to answer my prayer cause i've been out here all night toiling i've been out here all night fishing and i keep coming up with seaweed i keep coming up with algae dirt and mud i need god to answer my prayer i'm not looking to a bird not looking to a bird i need him to come through my muscles are aching my mind is racing due to the bills due to the layoff what am i supposed to do what about my empty nets what about the deductible what about the medical bills what about the fact that i got laid off what about covent what about this pandemic what about my marriage what about my singleness but i'm too old but i'm too young but the approaching first of the month but i don't know what i'm gonna do with rent but i don't know what i'm gonna do with my child i don't know where school to put him in for virtual learning what am i supposed to do oh how discouraging empty nets could be how discouraging empty nets could be and i want to challenge your perspective whichever one you look to the most is going to affect your heart posture and i think it's all of these by now's that mess us up i should be further down the line by now i thought 2020 would have done this by now i thought they would have had a vaccine by now i thought it would have got better by now i thought he would have changed by now i thought she would have changed by now and be careful because the buy nows are the permission slips which allows the enemy to turn up the volume of his voice quit quit you praying all hard ain't nothing happening quit why are you watching this sermon log off he's sweating too hard anyway quit why are you sticking to a prayer in the morning i don't see any change you've been told all night in prayer but where's the fruit you haven't caught nothing in your neck quit quit whichever one you look to to the most is going to determine your heart's posture which one are you looking at the most the empty nets are the birds of the air that neither sow nor reap no gathering barns but yet your heavenly father provides for them let me challenge your perspective could it be the reason nothing is working is because god is working on the answer you know i'm a prospective preacher i don't do the glass half full of glass half empty i'm like somebody's dying to dehydration you got water it i'm a prospective preacher could it be the reason god is not talking to you is because he's talking to the answer what if i told you that your yes is tied to breaking somebody else's chain that book that you're so insecure about writing god is working on you to answer his plea because somebody else is going to read that and get free from something i'ma give you bible just to cooperate my claim the children of israel were in bondage and they were crying out to god for deliverer and bondage 400 years saying god we're tired of making bricks without straw god goes over to moses hey go tell pharaoh to let my people go god we're so tired of all this suffering hey i need you to go tell pharaoh let my people go god this is so painful we keep getting whip every day don't worry about your speech impediment man i need you to go tell pharaoh let my people go god when are you going to send us the liver we thought you were yahweh we thought you were adena moses listen i need you to go tell pharaoh to let my people go are you procrastinating and somebody's waiting on your yes you're giving god all these excuses the book ain't gonna work ain't nobody gonna listen to my song ain't nobody gonna listen to my business idea who gonna subscribe to my youtube channel and god is saying your yes is tied to somebody else's deliverance maybe the reason god is not speaking to you about what you pray for is because he's speaking to your answer he's speaking to your answer and while you're so frustrated because you don't recognize why things haven't happened god is working things out ahead of you while you're in chapter seven god's already finished with your story and he's just making sure the stuff's in place so when you get to chapter eight you could just walk on in the room because he's in our tomorrow today see the way god wires us is he dresses us for the future while we're in the present it's almost like this one time right i was going to the airport back when you know things were normal what we call normal i was going to the airport it was november once again i had a speaking engagement in new york so back then it was like 91 degrees in houston like we're talking two weeks out before thanksgiving 91 degrees in houston but in new york it was like 26 degrees so i put on my jacket and i put on my scarf and i put on my pants and i put on my boots and my wife's like you gonna sweat why are you dressing like that and i said i'm not dressed for where i am y'all missed it i'm not dressed for where i am i'm dressed for where i'm going see people always make fun of your outfit when they're content on being where they're at i'm not dressed for where i am i'm dressed for where i'm going so i might look stupid to you right now because i'm not dressed based on this atmosphere but i'm dressed on the atmosphere i'm going to but you know what happened when i got to the airport i saw a whole lot of people who had coats on who had scarves on why because now i'm in the atmosphere of people who are going places i'm in an atmosphere where people who are going somewhere sometimes if your circle keep criticizing you because of your outfit it must be because they have classically conditioned themselves to adopt and adapt to the atmosphere they're at and the reason god keeps dressing you for the next is because you're not staying here i don't know who that's for but that helped me stop worrying about that you don't match the culture that you're not fitting in with society that you're abnormal that you're doing things differently god has called for you to be the blueprint i haven't called you to be i haven't called you to be like everybody else i have not called you to be typical average mundane or average but i've called you to set forth an example i'm making you my billboard so you're gonna be uncomfortable you're gonna live live a lifestyle that's awkward to other people but here's the question are you willing to embrace the temporary discomfort to maximize this kingdom lifestyle ah god is saying i need some space and maybe the reason you're so upset is because you're looking at the empty nets and not the birds of the air simon is probably frustrated he's frustrated i can just imagine he's humid he's washing his nets siegel's flying all around flying all around him he didn't catch nothing he's getting mud off the nets and then all of a sudden here comes this crowd this crowd all loud and jesus comes along and he steps off in simon's boat doesn't ask for permission let me mess you up has jesus ever stepped in your business see i understand that we could shout and then there's so many messages talking about he's the god they'll make a way out of no way but i want to ask you this question church family what do you do when he becomes the god that stands in your way yeah in the way of that relationship in the way of that opportunity that you were pursuing in the way of that business deal that you thought was him but it was really you what do you do when god gets in your way so washington's nets mind his business and jesus just steps off and simon's boat watch this he's not looking for simon's ability he's looking for simon's availability i need you to make space it's not even about you right now bruh i know you're upset cause you ain't catch no fish i know you're tired because you've been toilet all night long it's not about you i need space because they're people who need to hear me and we talked about this in the try me series that what jesus was really looking for was a stage he was looking for a stage let me challenge your heart do you want marriage for the purpose of it being a stage uh-oh do you want god to bless you for the purpose of it being a stage do you want this ultra entrepreneurial pursuit to have implications of wealth because you're looking for god to make you a stage you're not looking to get a bigger house you're looking on what can i do for the kingdom are you really desiring it for a stage now here's the problem church family so many of us we cannot be the stage we forfeit being the stage because we're so caught up being like the crowd we're so caught up being like the crowd but in this moment jesus is saying i need some space because i need a stage i need some space in your mind because i need a stage i know you don't understand what i'm doing right now but i just need you to give me space and this is the crazy thing what god really wants to do is totally take over but he's saying look if you just give me the space the size of a mustard seed you can speak to this mountain and tell it to move and it will move and i'm like my god if he could do that with mustard seed faith what can he do when you have gigantic faith what can he do when you have colossal faith what can he do when you have massive faith what can he do when you have football field size faith god doesn't just want space he wants everything but until then try me try me you'll taste and see that i'm good try my way aren't you tired of the cheap sex try me aren't you tired of getting intoxicated try me aren't you tired of waking up and not knowing what happened last night try me aren't you tired of the hangovers try me because you're searching for a peace that's only gonna happen in me it's not in the man it's not in the job it's not in your career it's not a notoriety it's not in your status it's in me you tried everything why not try me so simon is sitting there it had to be awkward y'all because he don't even know who jesus is yet it has to be awkward he just sits down just a man jesus got comfortable got in the boat sat down and began to speak to the people i know simon was probably sitting there everybody looking he's probably like okay this is kind of weird i don't this dude just stepped in my boat he's saying some powerful stuff though that's pretty good that's that's good i want you to see what what jesus does look at this look at this um verse 4 it says when he had stopped speaking he said to simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch hold up wait a minute simon didn't catch anything last night okay he's mind his business jesus just steps in his boat simon doesn't even recognize he is a part of launching jesus revolutionary ministry he has no idea that saying yes to jesus first is positioning him for what he was trying to catch last night y'all are missing it this is showing me the first principle he's saying okay you ain't catching that last night that's cool bro that's cool all right i need you to push back from sure i need to speak to the people and once jesus is done he turns around and says okay now um i'm gonna help you catch what you were trying to catch without me there was a reason you couldn't catch it it's because i needed you to be in position for me so let's go ahead and go out into the deep and let down your next four catch now look at this verse five it says but simon answered to him and said uh master uh we've toured all night i'm a fisherman lord they ain't biting tonight they ain't hungry i don't know what's going on they ain't biting tonight you're a rabbi i'm a businessman who fishes it ain't happening nevertheless at your word i will let down the nets see so many of us want to bless life so many of us want to live in abundance so many of us want to have spiritual maturity but i want you to understand this spiritual maturity doesn't happen by accident because you don't catch health you catch sickness it takes intentionality you're not going to spiritually evolve on accident it's going to take intentionality it's going to take discipline and it's going to take repetition and we want to arrive at this place where i have kingdom benefits and i'm experiencing miracles and the power of god and i'm living a blessed life but you're not giving god you're nevertheless he's saying listen i need your nevertheless it doesn't make sense give me your nevertheless it hurts give me your nevertheless you don't understand it give me your nevertheless you confused give me your nevertheless it doesn't look good give me your nevertheless i don't understand it god give me your nevertheless it hurts god give me your nevertheless i don't want to let them go give me your nevertheless this is all i've known give me your nevertheless because your nevertheless is going to allow you to catch what you've been trying to catch and i don't know who i'm preaching to but god is saying i need your nevertheless before this message started you said to listen god is about to blow my mind god's about to do something bigger than what i expected and the whole try me series we've been in this thing for five months since march we've been talking about try me god is saying i need your nevertheless and i need you to try me i need you to try me i need you to try me i'm gonna give you the peace that you're looking for i'ma give you the joy that you're looking for i'm gonna give you the state of fulfillment that you're looking for i'ma give you identity i may help you heal from that pain but you gotta give me your nevertheless you keep giving me your excuses and i'm not looking for your excuses i'm looking for your surrender looking for your surrender nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless worshiper nevertheless obedience nevertheless praise her i don't understand it but nevertheless i'm gonna trust you and he caught such a large number of fish that his nets were about to break and his boats were about to sink and so you may be watching this message and you say okay but what about the night before what about the night before why did he do all that and catch nothing i'm glad you asked before um i go to this one part i want you to consider something that there is a difference between worry versus concern okay there's a difference between worry versus concern truthfully a lot of us don't even recognize worry is really fear playing dress up yup worry is really fear playing dress up and it exposes the lack of trust in god in this area what if i told you that all worry is is a down payment on a problem you may never have all worry is is a down payment on a problem you may never have let me go a little deeper you know what worry is saying god i don't trust you in this area i i don't trust you in this area in this area i'm not gonna give you space i'm gonna have my hands on the wheel and i'm gonna try to control it and i'm gonna have a down payment on a problem i may never have worry it's really fear playing dress up concern is when something disturbs me but it doesn't rob me yeah things that are happening in the world yeah they concern me and they could stir me but it's not a robber it's not robbing me of my sleep it's not robbing me of my joy it doesn't mean i'm not affected by it and it doesn't concern me but worry if you could worry you could meditate if you could worry about it you could pray about it god said i want you to give me peace i want you to give me space so that i can give you peace and you're not so caught up worrying about stuff that you can't control because you're making a down payment on a problem you'll never have things may concern you but i got you see when you when you understand this principle you really understand the god factor you know what the god factor is when everything around you says no but heaven says yes the god factor they're not hiring but for some reason when they saw you they'll create a position for you the god factor i'm talking about the god factor when a little small stuff nobody else there's all these seats are filled on this flight but somewhere and somehow they call your name to come on and get on the flight because somebody didn't show up i'm talking about the god factor and so many of us were looking at how things look and we're creating our feelings based off what we see but we walk by faith and not by sight and we learned this throughout the try me series the opposite of faith is not fear it's sight because we walk by faith not by sight and god is saying maybe you're so worried because you're going off what you see why didn't he catch anything last night and what was the point of all the toiling part number one it was on purpose it was on purpose check this out it had to be on purpose because i need simon to be in position i need simon to be in position because i'm going to need you in the morning to be a stage and so nothing's going to work right now no fish you're going gonna get in your net right now you won't catch nothing but rocks and algae because of what i need you to do in the morning what if i told you it was on purpose you so caught up thinking like i don't understand why all this is happening it's on purpose jesus is coming in the morning and i need you in the morning and i need your boat and i need to step in and i need for you to create space so nothing's gonna happen tonight not a minnow not a tadpole not even a frog you're not gonna catch nothing but you're gonna toil but it's all on purpose so that you'll be in position because if you caught the fish last night you wouldn't be in position for me in the morning if you caught the fish last night you wouldn't give me praise and bow down and say master i'm a sinful man depart from me and then jesus will tell you listen that ain't nothing i'm gonna now make you a fisher of men you will never be in that predicament if he allows you to catch fish last night so sometimes you have empty nets because of what god's gonna do next it was on purpose they didn't break up with you some of us are so if i were to get this if i would do that listen god is saying many times that wasn't you and that wasn't them it was me i got better i got better somebody said it was on purpose part number two it's an answered prayer in disguise it's an answered prayer in disguise and i'm recognizing this so much standing here right now november almost a year later november of 2019 i was vacuuming right there doubting it questioning it saying god this is not gonna work and here i'm standing before you almost 800 000 views later 800 i'm like almost a million and god is saying this is just a small fraction of what happens when you trap me doubt your doubts doubt your doubt somebody needs to put that in the room doubt your doubts doubt your doubts stop believing the lies doubt your doubts stop believing the worry doubt your doubts stop believing it look so bad doubt your doubts because you have something called the god factor and it's promotion in disguise i got all discouraged then when we started the service and i was like man how covey gonna pop off as soon as we start the service cover gonna pop off people are finally hearing about it and covert popped off and i'm upset again i'm to god see i told you i told you we shouldn't hit thursday's service i'm thirsty i told you we shouldn't have did it and then god had to check me and said don't you even understand it's not about you this is not about you it's terrible situation that's going on and i have people right now who are looking to me more than they've ever looked to me before and looking for real preachers they're looking for people who are really hungry for the word of god they're tired of pimps and pulpits they're tired of the hype they're tired of all the false histrionics they want real doctrine they want the word of god and i've anointed you for times just like this you're so caught up in you it's not even about you boy it's not even about you it's about people isn't it crazy that the church claims that constantly keeps claiming we care about souls but then they don't care about people's situations i care about shows but you don't care about my situation his promotion in disguise david had no idea that the day he was handing his brother some pizza that that was his promotion in disguise the fight with goliath was his promotion it announced to the whole world that there's a giant slayer and i'm standing right here in the fruit of god saying try me since sometimes when we don't understand god is saying is really promotion in disguise you didn't catch it because of what i need you to do in the morning somebody say promotion number three it's an introduction simon didn't really know who jesus was didn't really know who jesus was and his first introduction to who jesus was was him blessing his business was allowing him to catch such a great number of fish maybe the reason some of us are going through things that we're going through is god wants to introduce himself or for others of us he wants to reintroduce himself because you learned me wrong you learned me wrong all that stuff that your bishop said that was false that's not how i am all that stuff at the former generation hellfire and brimstone that's not me some of us i honestly view god like we view ourselves and the reason you keep giving up on god is because you would have gave up on you by now but god's not like you and you're like man how could god put up with somebody like me that's because you can hardly put up with yourself but god is not like you he's merciful he's tender he's kind he's loving he's forgiving he's a redeemer he's a savior he's a keeper he's a covenant keeper he's a promise keeper god is not like man some of us need a reintroduction and maybe that's one one of the things that could happen in the midst of this pandemic is you get to see another version of god that you never knew before but if you would have caught fish last night you never would have had this introduction last point spaces create stages spaces create stages what if i told you if you create the space in your life the space in your marriage the space in your finances the space with your prayer life devote the mourning of me let that be your first fruit give me your morning prayer changes the course of events you don't know what you just altered by seeking me first that day and if i be honest when i don't pray in the morning i'm more moody i'm more irritable i look when i pray somebody cuts me off i just kind of keep nodding listening to my music you cut me off when i haven't prayed some words start to come up and i'm like lord where did that come from that's something that just did all this is flesh all this is flesh yeah your soul is saved but your mind constantly being renewed constantly being renewed saying listen i need you to understand if you create space for me your life can be a stage you don't have to know you don't have to have all the answers it don't have to make sense y'all told me at the beginning of this message god just wants you nevertheless nevertheless i don't know how this is going to happen i think the hardest thing about this pandemic the hardest thing about 2020 is just this unknown factor are we opening are we closing are we hiring are we letting people go are we doing in school we're doing virtual it's this unknown and it troubles people who are controlled freaks because you're constantly trying to hold on to the steering wheel and god is saying you don't have no control don't have no control and and this is an opportunity for you to make space in your life for me so now that you've created that space it can become my stage and when you allow god to use your life as a stage you don't have to have all the answers i believe once you have an experience like simon when you didn't catch any fish but then jesus steps in your bowl the next time simon doesn't catch any fish he probably not even tripping he probably yo jeez up left side right side what we gonna do just let me know cause uh they ain't biting tonight he didn't have that outlook until jesus stepped in his boat sometimes god lets you experience lack so when he comes through the next time you experience lack you don't experience worry because i could reflect the last time i caught nothing he came through and had me have abundant catch i'm gonna change your perspective i want to change your perspective your heart posture is tied to which one you're looking at are you looking at the empty nets are you looking to the birds of the air they need a soul no rape nor gathering bars but yet your heavenly father provides for them how much more valuable are you than they but the only way you can experience this peace you got to give them space god is that i need space in your life ma'am sir i need space you've been trying to do everything in your own strength and that's not working you're so tired you're so frustrated because i don't have any say in your life stop calling me lord and you don't listen to what i say i need you to surrender i need you to tap out wave your white flag surrender and we've been in this since march because god is trying to convince you drop me so god we thank you we thank you here's a crazy prayer we thank you for not letting us catch anything last night because we wouldn't be in position to receive you in the morning and god we're praying allow our hearts to become hearts that have made space for you until we have recognized that just surrendering our life to you is better than trying to hold on to the will of uncertainty god you know all things you control all things we're lost without you we're hurt without you and god right now we were picked not just remorse but we repent i say god we surrender we tried everything else from cheap sex to bars to marijuana to position notoriety but there's only one thing that satisfies we all have a hole on the inside of our hearts and we constantly try to fill it with corruptable things but you are the masterpiece and i'll have peace once i surrender to the master help us try you instead of trying everything else in jesus name we pray amen

Channel: REDEFINED TV

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Keywords: jerry flowers, pastor jerry flowers, tryme, try me series, I need some space, redefinedtv, redefined tv, Michale todd, jerry and tanisha flowers, dharius daniels

Id: bZsVN9SvciM

Length: 50min 47sec (3047 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 02 2020