I'm Not Greedy; I'm Hungry

Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 says now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us I want to speak from this subject in our time together tonight I'm not greedy I'm hungry I'm not greedy I'm hungry for those of you who are unaware each year our church adopts a theme that describes an area of emphasis for our organization that year and this year we chose a theme that we believe depicts and describes what God wants to do in us through us and for us this theme is captured in one word and the word is more and I want to know if there's anyone under the sound of my voice that is unashamedly expecting God to do more in 2020 if you are shouting more now I am aware that that the enthusiastic expression of our expectation for more evokes a number of a different emotions in the room that some people may struggle with the idea of honestly admitting that you're expecting more especially in a church context right some people may feel like honestly admitting that I'm expecting more is self-serving that is selfish that it's unappreciative that it's discontent some may even go so far as to say it's greedy and for those who hold that position and share that sentiment no judgment from me I'm not judging you but I would like the opportunity to at least explain to you while some of us in this room why some of us in this room have absolutely no hesitation no apprehension no timidity with expressing our expectation for more in 2020 it's because we recognize the difference between being greedy and being hungry I'm not greedy but I am hungry you see greed is wanting more than what God has for me hunger is wanting all God has for me say it again greed is wanting what God has more than what God has for me but hunger is wanting all God has for me and I believe there's some people in this place who now that you've seen that definition know how to properly classify and categorize yourself because you recognize I don't want anything God doesn't want for me some of us are in a season where we're at a place where we can say I don't even want anything that requires me to be someone other than who God has created me to be I don't want a relationship where I've gotta be someone other than me I don't want to opportunity where I've got to be someone other than me because if God sent it to me he's sending it to me for me which is not going to require me to be anybody else but me so if me ain't enough then it's not for me yeah I don't want more than what God has for me I want all that God has for me and is there anybody here that wants all in every area say I want all in my mind I want all in my career I want all with my emotions all with my ministry and I refuse to put a period where God wants to put a comma and I refuse to allow other people with low expectations to hold me hostage to their expectations for my life and not God's calling on my life I want more let me hear the church say more when we say we want more we are simply saying I want my Metron everybody see Metron somebody in the back was like Megatron he preaching on transformers no no not Megatron Metatron was what's the Metro I'm pastor Darius it's it's a word that the Apostle Paul uses in 2nd Corinthians chapter number 10 verse number 12 he's writing to a group of believers in Corinth check this out fam this is what he says we do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves when they measure themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves they are not wise may in 2020 you cease comparing yourself to people who are not created to do what you're called to do he says he says this is what he says he says we will however not boast beyond proper limits but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us a sphere that also includes you that word sphere is a word in the Greek Metron and it means sphere or circle of influence that God has predetermined listen to this the audience for your anointing your anointing your gifting your capability your influence has an audience you are not for everybody but you are for somebody's and these somebodies that you are for represent your Metron and Jesus when he sent his disciples out in Matthew 10 two by two gave them insight on how to handle people that were not within their sphere of influence he says if you go to a village or to a city and the people don't receive you he said this is what you do he says this is the metaphor and this is hyperbole he said I want you to go out into the street don't do this real he says go out it's hyperbole he says I want you to go out into the street and I want you to shake the dust off of your feet here it is what is he teaching them to do he's teaching them not to wear rejection that comes from people that are not the audience of your anointed when he saying shake the dust off he's saying do not take the rejection of some people in your past into your future because for everybody that will not listen and will not receive and will not value your insight and input I've got some people assigned and hungry and open and waiting on it so don't take the rejection personally they may not just be your Metron got me and so when we say we want more we don't we are saying we want to step over the line of our Metron we're saying we want to toe the line of our Metron we're saying we don't want to live life experiencing less than God's best when God is the god amore and this is the heart of what Paul is saying in our foundation of text in Ephesians chapter number three the the the the part of Ephesians three that we read is what's called a doxology ooh I'm gonna give you a big word somebody I want you to use that tomorrow - somebody say doxology does ya doxology doctor what is that that's a liturgical expression of praise it's basically when the writers would take praise tag it on the end of a prayer in liturgical food to remind the prayer about the power or the attributes of the one they're praying to I'm saying again they will put the doxology at the end of the prayer to remind the person that's praying about the power or the attributes of the one they pray in - because when you are reminded of who you're praying to it increases the likelihood that you will believe it's gonna come to pass because it's not just if you pray it's what you believe about who you praying to and so paul here in Ephesians tells the believers at Ephesus he says now unto Him who is able if you don't hear anything else tonight I want you to hear me when I tell you he's able I don't know what you're believing for in 2020 I do know he's able I don't know what you lost in 2019 but I do know he's able I don't know who stayed that you thought was going to leave and who left that you thought was going to stay but I do know the God that you serve is able he put the Red Sea in the Bible to remind you he's able to make ways out of no way he put Jericho walls in the Bible to remind you he's able to knock down obstacles that are inhibiting you from advances he put the miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee in the Bible to remind you he can take water and turn it into wine meaning he can take something and he can turn it into nothing is there anybody here that can testify God doesn't have to use anything new to do something new in my life he's the God that's able he's able to do immeasurably more more than all we ask or imagine he's saying whatever you're asking whatever you're imagining I want to remind you God is able to do more than that that's the one you're praying to what is he trying to do he's trying to ground their understanding of God in an accurate biblical theology he's trying to get them to see that the God you see is the God you get and if the God you're praying to in your head is a small God then that is the experience with God that you will have he's trying to get them to expand their understanding so that they're not limiting the bigness of their God to the bigness of their problem he's saying to them I don't care what it is it does not determine who he is and as long as he is who he says he is he's able are you here yeah I can tell the size of your God by the size of your prayer I'm gonna say that again I can tell the size of your God by the size of your requests God is not intimidated by the enormity of our requests God honors bold request because bow requests under God they say to God I know you Abel yeah they say to God I am requesting this of you because I know you possess the capability to actually pull it off if I didn't believe you could do it I wouldn't ask you cuz there's some people I know not to call when I need something because I know they can't come through for me but I'm talking to you about it because I believe you possess the capability to bring it to pass so big prayer is worship it's worshiping God it's honoring him and Paul gives them this doxology to remind these believers at Ephesus yeah the one you're praying to is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us so Paul not only tells us what God is able to do more somebody say more but Paul also tells us listen to this how God is able to do I love this I love it I want you to let this sizzle in your spirit like Nick bone juice Thank You country Wayne here it is his power is at work within us that's how he's gonna do it you see that more is what he wants to do but how is he gonna do it he's gonna do it according to his power that's at work within us more is what he's gonna what he's going to do but what he wants to do but how is he gonna do it he's gonna do it according to his power that's at work within us so it means then that that watch this more does not happen magically that's not spirituality that's magic hop around three times on one leg that's not spirituality that's the magic that's superstition watch this he says there's something at work in you and if you work what is that working you then you're working of what is at work in you will open up a door called more it means that more requires my participation we've been singing about what God is getting ready to do we've been preaching about what God is getting ready to do we've been celebrating affirming confessing declaring what we believe God is going to do but I got a question for those of you who are here tonight and that question is what are you going to do God is ready to bust the move if you will just participate in the performance of his will for your life God's standing on the outside of the wrestling ring saying please tag me in I want to show you what I'm able to do but I need you to express your faith by partnering with me and participating and working the power that I've given you I got a part to play it does anybody here that says I want to play my part I do I want to know I want to know that's why I'm so honored that you here tonight you you're here because you understand the importance of getting your inner world right because you know as your inner world goes your spiritual life as that goes so goes everything else because I'm telling you right now if you're waiting on people to stop being people in 2020 I'm sorry yeah the same thing some of them did in 2019 newsflash that they're gonna be something we'll do the same thing in 2020 you waiting on people become more understand or more understanding and more empathetic right and more considerate I'm sorry that may not be the case but you cannot wait for them to change in order for things to change you've got to make a decision that I may not be able to change it but this is the year I changed me and if I changed me I'm able to handle it so pastor tell me what to do if I want to experience more my Metron to tell me what to do I want to give you five keys two more in these 12 minutes and 24 seconds I got left are you ready mm-hmm I know some I'm telling you right this is my fourth time tonight I'm not preaching the twelve we're gonna dance something I don't know what we're gonna do I don't know I'm not preaching that long okay yeah that's what I do know I got to be in check no I'm not preaching to 12 we're gonna figure something out we're gonna two-step or something Electric Slide I don't know we'll figure it out here it is it is number one I'm going to experience more number one I need a mindset for more more requires an attitude adjustment more requires and adjusting of the altitude of my attitude the Scriptures seem to communicate that God advances a person's life he at first the first thing he moves is your mind did you hear me I said the first thing he moves is your mind he gives people a mindset for more by giving them an unexplainable dissatisfaction with the state of mind they were previously satisfied with all of a sudden something you used to be okay with is no longer okay all of a sudden a standard that you used to settle for is a standard you can no longer settle for it is what one leader calls a holy discontent is when God starts making your mind play tricks on you it's when he uses frustration as an indication that it's time to bust a move because if I would make you uncomfortable you will stay stuck and settled and stagnant in a stage that should be a stage but you're gonna turn it into a state so he says I gotta start messing with your mind because you are wherever your mind is are you here this is I want to give you a mindset for more I think I think the best one the best examples of this is the book of Deuteronomy this one it's an incredible book it's incredible book it's where it's Moses is a reiteration of the law to another generation who's born in the wilderness right but they're going to inherit Canaan so they born in a place called the wilderness they're going to inherit Canaan born in the wilderness they're gonna inherit Canaan born to parents that came out of Egypt which is a metaphor for salvation but they were satisfied with just coming out and not going in so they were people that were that had salvation but not transformation and they were cool with that so this generation is born in the wilderness and God has assigned them to occupy Canaan and he has these he does it he does something that's incredibly interesting to me what does he do pastor Darris he starts having these conversations that I think are intended to move their mind before he moves their body he starts saying now when you get into this promised land and he says when you get houses you didn't build vineyards you didn't plant Wells you didn't dig he says you are to remember the Lord your God for it is he who gave you the power to get wealth now here they are sitting in the wilderness they are not in Canaan at all nothing has changed about their location physically but God starts talking to them about Kalin while they're right in the middle of the wilderness because God knows that if I can get your mind out then your life is going to follow and I believe there may be some people here where God's been having some conversations with you about the next level and maybe it's because he knows be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind you must have a mindset for more what's shaping your mindset your history or your destiny or your natural family or your spiritual one your friends or your Heavenly Father a mindset for more alright number two in the seven minutes in 35 seconds I got left here it is number two we need maturity for more so we not only need a mind that wants it we need a heart that can handle it mark Batterson puts it this way this is why we need maturity mark Patterson says this he says whenever you get more of anything you get more of everything Jesus put it that way put it that put it this way - whose oil but much is given much is required come on change I've taught you this you don't get a promotion without pressure does that make sense yeah yeah you don't get to start your own business and get more freedom without getting more bills come on you don't get more notoriety without more criticism you don't get successful without people starting to act strange a person needs a degree of maturity to be able to handle the backside of those blessings and that means that they must be willing to submit to the lessons that God is trying to teach you through crisis because those might be some of the things that God is trying to use to help mature us what if I told you there are some things we learn about in church but we don't learn in church we learn about faith in church but we don't learn faith in church we learn about patience in church but we don't learn patience in church we learn patience when God puts us seasons and situations where he makes us wait when we don't want to and man maybe this is the you this is one of the reasons we'll walk in the house through basic training in 90 days in the word cuz spirituality works better when we mature because some promises in the Bible are reserved for grownups the glow-up spiritually is in the grow up okay okay I got I got I got Bible now I got Bible I got Bible in Galatians chapter 4 verse number 1 it says watch what Paul says what I'm saying is is that as long as an heir is under age see that Paul he's no different than a slave although he owns the whole estate come on family do you see that he says a person can be an heir a royal heir but as long as the heir is under age his life's experience is no different than a slave even though he owns the whole estate you'll see that it's like someone put it reserving something in a trust but putting a stipulation that you can't get it until you turn a certain age you got me and so Paul is letting the church in Galatia the churches in Galatia see this he's saying listen that it is possible for you to be an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus Christ yet you're experienced spiritually not be consistent with that because some things are only experienced when we mature peace that passes all understanding that's for grown-ups will you not grow your piece so fragile one phone call will take your piece one person not speaking will take your piece one person handling you wrong at the register will take your piece when you're not grown did you hear me but when you grow up you'll start saying things like our grandmother this joy that I have the world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it away come on be alright are you here there no weapon formed against me shall prosper you know prosper if you're not grown I'm trying to find real people in here who are honest enough to say you know what I can look back in some seasons in my life and I can see where prosper now we'll keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him said that's for grown-ups you tell in your mind we're not thinking about that today coz when we keep thinking about that that takes us down a downward spiral we're not just gonna ruminate cuz if I keep ruminating on that it's just making me mad and it's making let me find the real section y'all lit tonight it's making me mad I want to call somebody see see you know were you thinking on the wrong thing when you re arguing something you already argued about but you're not arguing with the person no more you just arguing with yourself you telling them off y'all lost the realness I'm going back over here where's my real section you say pastor I told some people off they just weren't in the room and I'm telling when God's trying to grow you up he's slowing you down he slows you down to grow you up he slows you down to grow you up those that are planted in the house of God will flourish he plants you to grow you and some of you you feel stuck and you feel stagnant I promise you God's not through with you yet he's just planting you in order to grow you because where you're going requires maturity that's a different kind of pressure past this my year this my young step out on faith I'm an entrepreneur I'm getting ready step out there it's just it's all on me listen I can do this I can do this better they can do this all that might be true and you might have the skill I just want to make sure your heart ready cuz we're freedom comes responsibility that's pressure so our church has a few locations in different places and listen multiple locations means multiple frustrations y'all got me okay number three y'all ready to go cuz I know you got a prayer meeting after this your your friends you're gonna pray together so I want to let you let you go so you can see can intercede for the nation in a sea for the community I know number three number three nuru third is number three I need a method form or a method for more this is my prayer for you family my prayer this year is that God gives you and I uncommon ideas that it gives you spiritual wit wittiness cuz the more doesn't just happen magically it comes through methods and ideas and strategy most of the miracles in the Bible happen because somebody worked a plan Jericho walls fell cuz of a plan a method walk around it once a day for seven days on the seventh day seven times on the seven times I want you to shout a method and my prayer is this year God grants and gives uncommon ideas number four this this my fourth time doing this tonight and I didn't get a lot of a man's on the first three at this point but I know this just the last service so I know y'all y'all got y'all got your boy right you got me okay here it is number four I gotta make room for more [Applause] okay here's my prayer here's my prayer here's my prayer my prayer is this year God makes unexplainable eliminations see some of you have already experienced it you just didn't have language for it you like somebody woke up you say what happened with your such-and-such you like oh no we just I don't even know what happened gods like I know exactly what happened I supernaturally sabotage that okay let me see I felt realness way in this section right here so um it's because some of you wonder why see when God and I'm not being cynical here but I do want to be honest surreal when God removes certain things or people from my life he wants to do it preemptively meaning he wants to do it before you see why it needs to be done do you hear me because in order for you to actually see why it needs to be done you know that means that means that you're probably gonna have to experience some wounds and some betrayal and some hurt and gods like I want you to trust me enough to learn the lesson without having to bleed every time he says I want you to learn some lessons without a knife in your back I want you to learn some lessons without loss that comes from mismanaging and misplacing people in the wrong seasons so I pray that everything that needs to be moved to make room for what God wants to do I prayed I prayed he does it without permission I pray he does it without agreement cuz more requires more did you hear what I just said did you get it more requires more but one human divine distinctive one thing that separates us from God is he's unlimited and we have limitations Bobby says come on Bobby says I can do all things through Christ they give me strength plus I can do all things not everything so I gotta make room okay I'm gonna see if this service can handle this before you go here it is can you handle this before cuz some of y'all give me some strong looks already Kenya for some of you this one tell you there's a level of more that no longer allows you to have high-maintenance relationships with people that don't have your last name you see y'all do you see how y'all just played me just like that I thought you were ready did you hear what I just said that there's a level of busyness but there's so much that God has you stewarding that it is impossible to manage high-maintenance relationships with people that don't have your last name and you're gonna need those kind of people in your life who understand better Betty here for you this week you weren't you aren't acting funny you busy okay they don't want that you need those kind of friends in your life that won't you to experience more even if it means things between you have to be adjusted now I hear you you argue with me no okay go do it your way but some more requires adjustments and those that are signed I'll talk about this in the book those that are signed to be a part of your life will be people who you will always be able to meet their needs you just won't always be able to accommodate their preferences and some people confuse meeting their needs with accommodating their preferences I needed you you needed God you wanted me and you were upset with my absence but my absence produced the presence of a prayer life with you because since I was not there you had to go to the one who ultimately holds your future in his hands anyway is there anybody here that can admit that that's happened in your own life that you are upset with some people who did not come through the way you wanted them to and God use that to push you to him this place on let's go we got to figure out what to do for 23 more minutes I'm not preaching that long it's the last point I got this all I got for you number five I want y'all to hear me on this cuz it's probably something you expect to be said in an environment like this but I really think it has deep theological roots and very practical implications number 5 is this you got to make noise for more right that just sounds so like churchy doesn't it it sounds so charismatic it's what it sounds we know it's for more but I want you to see something zechariah zechariah chapter 2 verse 10 zechariah chapter 2 verse 10 says shout and be glad daughter Zion for I am coming and I will live among you declares the Lord listen to me family he did say shout and be glad because I'm here he says Howden be glad because I'm coming don't wait to be don't wait until it arrives to be glad but your gladness before it arrives is an expression and an indication that you actually believe it's coming now what am I talking about here I'm talking about becoming a person appraised now let me tell you the practical implications it is all right gratitude praise Thanksgiving requires mindfulness you can't be appraiser without practice and mindfulness not mindfulness as culture defines it but mindfulness as Paul describes it in Philippians chapter 4 when he says this whatever is lovely whatever is pure whatever is a good report if there be anything virtuous anything praiseworthy think on these things and the peace of God that passes understanding come on it's gonna rule your heart it's gonna guard your mind through Christ Jesus you can't praise without getting your mind full of what's praiseworthy about God you understand that yet praise this spiritual warfare it's you taking control of the thoughts in your mind I believe this is one of the reasons David said I command my soul to bless the Lord that you do what I say and I say we're gonna we're gonna get our mind on the goodness of God and as a spiritual discipline we're gonna live a life of gratitude and Thanksgiving can I show you all the scripture I'll show you one and I'm done here it is Philippians chapter 2 give me verse 13 I think that's what I want in the back Philippians to give me 13 it's 13 or 14 that I won't give me 13 first give me 14 ok put 14 on the screens cuz they not gonna believe this in the Bible [Music] do everything without grumbling or arguing hey guys in about give it to me in the in the New King James give it to him in New King James same scripture do all things without complaining or disputing what am I talking about I'm talking about grata praise gratitude as a spiritual discipline to discipline the mind to think on God to goodness Pesa Darris where you going with this no takers write this down please gratitude is the seed for more God gives more to the grateful don't wait until you get more to be grateful be grateful for what he's already done cuz you're better off than you think and you're better off than you feel and you're more blessed than you know and God has come through in ways that you have no idea there are people who would love to trade positions with you but somehow the grace of God has covered you and kept you and there were people who went through less that turned out worse but you went through worse and you turned out better [Music] and so I want this this year to be a year where we we make noise for more maybe to be a house a gratitude Thanksgiving a house filled with praise a house where our praise is not arrested by entitlement Lord I'm entitle you should have why you know I think all of us wrestle with that when I when I wrestle with that sometimes this is one of the things that I say to me too helps me when will you start thinking about what you don't have that you think you do deserve you need to pause for a minute at yourself do you deserve what you already have well what since you said that Jesus thank you never mind [Music] [Music] you see this word one of my mentees called me today and we were talking he said pops I know you're gonna spit fire tonight I said I'm too old for that and I wasn't talking about physical age I was talking about I've been pastoring long enough and I've done enough of these to know that the best way I can serve you is not by being a holy hype man for you on New Year's Eve but but to give you tools and handles and to give you what I believe God's burden my heart with for us it's something we can use as we step into 2020 Lord give me a mind for more give me give me maturity help me grow in the areas where I'm immature Lord you know and I know I'm petty in some areas I need to grow there lord give me methods for more give me uncommon ideas supernatural strategies Laura helped me to make room for more and help me to make noise for more father I love you and I thank you today and I pray this year that you would arrest your people with a holy discontent that they would only find satisfaction when they told the line that each and every area of their life is an area where they are in pursuit of your best for it and may this be we pray for two things may it be the most fruitful and most fulfilling year of their life in Jesus name Amen clap your hands everybody you glad you came to church tonight what's up y'all thank you so much for watching this video this is my hope this is my prayer I hope it was simple yet significant I hope it was easy to understand yet impactful and I'm so glad to have the opportunity to share God's word with you hopefully add value to your life as always I'm asking one thing of you and that is if this message bless you I want you to share it exit email it to somebody else as my mission is to help as many people as possible change their life so that they can be able to change the world that's what we're all about and we want to extend the reach and you can help us do that thank you so much for being a part of this family we consider you back and I can't wait to see see you real soon hopefully you'll give one of our locations we've got locations in New Jersey on their live Sunday mornings or services right now and two locations there we also have a location in Orlando Florida on them live there every Saturday at 5:30 I speak on Saturdays at 5:30 in Orlando and then Sunday mornings in New Jersey meet us at one of those campuses for our Los Angeles traditional community that we've got that meets every Sunday evening but even place I hope to see you there so take care god bless

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Published: Wed Jan 01 2020