Jesus Walks // Stride (Part 1)

we are starting a four part series called stride again just one more time because we got to get it in our hearts everybody say stride and this is not a word that's commonly used it's probably not a word that you've used any time this whole year probably not in the last five years probably not in the last ten years how many people have never used the word stride in a sentence come on just be honest look at child like yeah I didn't even know that was a word okay I didn't really use it either until God started to do a work in my heart and I begin to pray in August as I do every year about what God wants to say to our church last August I prayed and God gave me the word beyond and I was like I like that word oh come on that means exceeding the limits going past where we are breaking out of limitations beyond and God did it he clowned us like like he went beyond personally in this church I mean y'all do y'all see what God is doing here he went beyond well this year I'm beginning to pray and I heard this word stri and if I can be honest with you because we're a hot church a humble open and transparent church I hated it it that's weak like like stride like what's our words for this year doc come on give it to me stri is there some more with that I mean God we just had a bee on here and I'm a mover and I mean you did all that this year you can do exceedingly abundantly above you can do all it so can we try another word can we do like explosive like I was trying to give God suggestions of what the words should be like expanding moving and God said no stride so I went to our lead executive director and she said what's the what's the word for the year I couldn't even get energy for it I'll sit astride she said what does that mean I said I don't know I said put it down put it on some t-shirts we're gonna strike it this year and it's funny because some time God gives you a word before he gives you explanation so sometimes he gives you what he wants you to do before he explains it all to you and so for four months I'm walking around I try I tried to change it every week we were in a meeting and I was like what the word is strike and I was like no it's gonna be wind Fateh Singh that's what God is saying is we're gonna win souls and we're gonna invite people and the Holy Spirit every time I go back to prayer strike so I said fine we're gonna stride this year but I thought if he didn't bring clarity to it I would be ignorant and so I could just do what I wanted to do and say that I didn't really understand what he was that God I didn't understand you oh you meant stri but I thought you meant run like you said stride but I thought you meant take over like I didn't mean really and sometimes we do that we try to interpret what God's saying in our plan and he said no Michael I want you to stride it wasn't until the beginning of December when we were in a meeting a strategic meeting for our church and what we're gonna do in this next three years and we were there with one of our oversight pastors pastor Tim Ross and we were chronicling all that many amazing things that God has done in the past three years since me and Natalie have been pastors of this church and he stopped us he said I feel like God wants me to say something right here and all the staff members in the room can vouch for this he said what God has done at transformation Church has been absolutely phenomenal he says I mean the growth that's happened the the different generations the different ethnicities we've grown almost 500 people in one year when the average church is 200 people in America can we give God praise for that right now y'all wasn't here last year hey like God did all of this in one year and he said and it's awesome and it's glorious and it's amazing he said but you guys have been running and you only can run for short distances he said it's time for you to start walking and when he said that I was offended I was like what did we invite him here if we bring him to this meeting and he stood up in the authority that God has given he said it's time for this church to start walking and I said you're gonna have to give me some more explanation on that and this is what he said and it changed my life and I hope it changes yours he says it's awesome what God is doing but it's unsustainable and I begin to look in my life and I want you to look in your life what is happening in your life that seems awesome that but that is unsustainable do you have a relationship that seems awesome right now but it won't last the test the time she does do you have a drive for success that's awesome that people are applauding you four men he's always grinding he's always on the move he's doing some he got three jobs five jobs seven jobs he's doing it and God's saying that's awesome but it's unsustainable you're losing your family like the house that you wanted is tearing down the house that I gave you like it's awesome what's happening but it's unsustainable it's time for you to stop running and it's time for you to start walking and I said God okay I hear you but God you've given us this church and you've given us this awesome opportunity so you're telling us we're supposed to slow down and stop doing stuff he said no I'm telling you you're supposed to be deliberate and do what I tell you to do not what you think you should do and if we're honest many of us are not in purpose we're doing things around what we think we should be doing come on let's just be honest like if somebody sets you down in a room and said are you functioning in your purpose most of us would be like well I you know I just you know I maybe I don't know come on let's be honest we're we're working jobs that pay us the most that we hate so that we can live a life to kind of feel some type of satisfaction where it's actually empty and we're just trying to provide Jordans for our son or our daughter or our a vacation and we're not working in purpose and we're empty and we're making everything look perfect for Instagram but we cry ourselves to sleep at night and and we're going through the motions and we're acting like it's all together but we're really so up to our head in debt trying to keep up with the Joneses and we don't even know who they are they never come over for dinner it's like so many things that we're striving for and this is what the Holy Spirit spoke to me he said Michael as a leader and for your church in 2018 I want you to stop striving point number one stop striving and start striding and I said okay striving striding he said striving is you I want you to write this definition down because because many of you are doing this right now you don't even know it striving means to exert oneself vigorously to try hard to go after it to use your own wheel to use your own resources to use your own connections to try to make it happen and God says what are you striving for you're striving for love some of you some of you are striving for acceptance some of you are people pleasers and you'll do everything and kill yourself striving for somebody to say you're a good enough god already called you good enough Oh y'all y'all didn't hear me some of y'all are in this rat race and on this hamster wheel trying to climb this corporate ladder that reaches nowhere you think more zeros in the bank account is going to give you self-worth it's not gonna and you're striving and you're trying to make people feel like you always fresh but your drawers thing come on come on y'all let's be honest we're trying to always act like we always got it together and you're striving so that somebody can think that you're really better than the version of you that you really are and you're just reaching and you're exerting your energy and it's like being on a treadmill you expend a lot of energy and go and God say Michael that's why every year you get to the end of the year and you like we so glad for the next year because you feel like you're gonna get off of the treadmill and start something different you just scoot over and get on a different treadmill you just stepped off to the 2017 treadmill that you were striving for people to like you and striving for friends and striving for promotion and striving for a bigger house because some of y'all want things so you want the boat in the lake house and you're just striving and he said it's a new year it's a new season 12 o'clock midnight step on to the striving of 2018 and that's why some of you feel like nothing's changed this year and gods saying it's not gonna change until you learn the pace of grace he said there's there's there's a pace that I want to set for you that is going to allow you to walk everybody say walk not run walk into everything that God has for you and that's what I want to present to you because I see you're tired there's so many people in here broken I mean literally if you would just stop long enough and stop running for approval and stop trying to prove your parents wrong you almost say lie right there because some of your whole existence has been trying to prove to a father that's not even here anymore that you're worth it but when you called yourself a child of God he accepted you he called you his own he adopted you into the family it doesn't matter what they called you he says you're approved you're accepted you're called you're loved and I have a purpose for you but why are we still striving why are we still using all of our effort and energy going after something that wasn't even made for us some of y'all have met people you were never intended to meet because you met them while you were striving for your own wheel you dealing with problems that weren't even supposed to even be in your life because you wouldn't walk the path that God called you to walk you wanted to run in a lane that you saw somebody else running in and God said when you out run me when you don't step in my pace he said you have to sustain yourself out there has anybody ever um seen snow when it's freshly fallen and it's just like a blanket and it's covered everything it's like something so quiet and beautiful and peaceful and I'm the kid that disrupts that I'm the one that goes out there when it's all beautiful and pretty and I just start stepping on everything and I want to make footprints in the snow and God said to me he said Michael he said what you have to realize is when you stop striving using all your effort and energy and you start striding which let me give you the definition of that so that you can understand this write this down striding means to walk everybody say walk with long decisive steps in a specific direction like like God has a specific direction that he wants to set your life on course - and he doesn't want you to run into purpose he wants you to walk into purpose and what he showed me about the snow is he said see many of my children are out here like you Michael trying to make your own paths and make your own footsteps but what you have to realize is I've already made steps for you that you don't have to make for yourself and if you follow my steps and find the stride I've already been there before see see one of the things that you have to realize is God doesn't want you to blaze a new trail he wants you to walk the trail he has for you and some of us are out here trying to blaze new trails and he says what you don't realize is I've already been in the valleys and I've been already been in the hills and if you step where I step I'll keep you from danger if you step where I step you won't meet the things that were there to take you out I've been there before the Old Testament tells us he's the God that goes before us for many times where he's at or where he's been we're not it's cuz we're striving we're trying to make our own plans I already done my vision board I already know what I'm doing for 2019 I'm gonna get these apps I'm gonna get married I'm gonna get this business I got my 501c3 have you even prayed about it once like you're planning a wedding and you haven't even asked God is this the person my destiny is supposed to be tied to like can we be honest you're about to move to another state because you see an opportunity and God says that's the state of obstacle your opportunity was where I planted you I know it's not your best and I know it's not what you wanna do he said but this is where I've called you will you step where I've already been before and everybody this year as a church as a people God wants us to stride to stop working outside of the grace that he's already set for us and to get into a rhythm and a pace that is going to produce our purpose no more years of making missteps and having to ask God to recalibrate our whole lives at the beginning of every year like even if my intended goal is way down there I'm not stepping this way this year if it's only one step I make I'm gonna step in the direction of my purpose do you understand what I'm saying it may not be a run to it but I might get two steps towards what God has called me to be and being in purpose is better than pursuing your own wheel every day cuz there's fulfillment there so somebody shot at me stride now this is a very hard concept for me to give so I'm not trying to come up here and act like God's working this in me and I figured that it would be better to be a leader that shares what God is doing in my life than me getting to a place where it's finished and then let me tell you the great exploits of God I want to be like Jesus he told people he said just follow me they said what are we going don't worry about it just follow me and they walked together and for me my desires is that every year every moment every week it'd be bigger faster more quicker results and and God said Michael what if this year I want you to walk into your blessing and not run into it see see cuz you're so excited about running into your blessing but the thing about running into anything there's always damage running run into a PO run into a wall run into something and many people are running into what they think and they're getting damaged cuz it's not what God called them to you didn't even see the trial you didn't even see the struggle you didn't even see that you were losing your family you didn't even see that you were losing your identity you didn't even see cuz you was running to the next thing oh maybe this is my purpose oh maybe this is my husband oh maybe this is my church so that's my church so this is my church or maybe and we're running into things that's damaging us and damaging others and God says if you would find my pace of grace you would begin to walk into everything that I have for you so how do we do that Pastor Mike I don't know never done it before like like I'm not again I want you to hear me say that my only example can be found in the Word of God so when I don't know how to do something I go to the Word of God well was there anybody who walked is there anybody who lived at the pace of grace that was able to learn and teach lessons because they were going at a pace that people could follow them was there anybody that was able to have success and not alienate everybody around them was there anybody that walked and actually made impact in this life but didn't isolate themselves at the end of it I'll shoot jesus walks point number two just write it down Kanye profit Kanye said it Jesus walks just say that with me everybody say Jesus um as I begin to look at this when God's telling us to stride and find the pace of Grace and walk in long decisive steps towards an intended in I begin to get a revelation that changed my entire life the fact that I've never ever slowed down enough to even see this in the word I don't know about you but when I read my Bible it's for sport come on let's be honest if you reading them that everybody else ain't reading them so there's like but but when you read your Bible I set my timer and I'm trying to get through this whole chapter and I'm trying to move this thing God's God's telling all of us slow down there's some things I want you to see in there yeah you might get stuck on a verse but God I need this new revelation he said it's in there just keep reading that one over and over and I begin to read the Bible after God told me through our over one of our overseers that we got to start walking and this is the craziest thing y'all don't ever forget this cuz I mostly I've never heard this because I'd never heard it before Jesus fulfilled the entire Old Testament 39 books of the Bible hundreds of Messianic prophecies from about 1450 BC to 430 BC I mean people were saying there was a messiah coming of Savior coming he was gonna fulfill he was gonna he fulfilled all of the prophecies in three years and you never hear about Jesus running to his next appointment Jesus walked it hit me like a ton of bricks there is a pace that you can live in this life that is countercultural that you can fulfill everything that God placed in you to dude and you don't have to lose your life's doing look people don't even know don't even know what to do that cuz all your life they told you to grind cuz all their life they told you to work harder than everybody else cuz all your life they told you that you got to be two times better than somebody else you you can't stop won't stop rockefeller you you just been doing all this other stuff and trying to make all of this stuff happen and it's out of your own works but remember what Jesus came to do he came to save us from our works and to give us grace and I'm not talking about being lazy and I'm not talking about about not doing anything I'm talking about being diligent of what God has purposed you to be here for and too many of us are striving and not striding and Jesus gave us a perfect eternal example of what striding looked like he was walking and long decisive steps towards the cross the whole time and on the way that he was towards his purpose hey Peter John follow me I'm not breaking my stride to go get people I'm telling people to follow me as I walk out my purpose see too many of us have been breaking our stride to find a husband breaking our stride to find friends break it and God says you meet the one as you continue to walk in purpose at you Oh y'all better help me the job that you really want is coming as you continue to walk in purpose the family that you've always seen is coming as you continue to walk it you better not let nobody break your stride in 2018 you gotta keep walking towards God and Jesus started walking now this is crazy and I'm just learning all this stuff about walking like I've been so against walking all my life you know what I'm saying like walking that's stupid let's run let's get a scooter let's get some rollerblades let's get a bike you don't say let's let's go and God say you miss so much when you run through the process and what you don't learn in this season has to repeat itself because you didn't go at a pace that you could be able to see what I was doing is you ya God's trying to develop some people's character right now and you running you trying to run through this job you're trying to run away from these people and God says it's okay they coming back in another form they gonna have long extension braids next time and they gonna be even louder than that one was they're coming back cuz the lesson you don't learn repeats itself so you have to walk out a pace that you can see what God is trying to do in your life stop running away from what God is trying to do and start walking into what God has called you to do and so I look at this and we look at Jesus walking in it begin to mess with me because y'all know I see movies and so I'm trying to go through the whole Bible find in a place where it said at least one time and in haste Jesus and the disciples dashed you know I'm saying like not one place do you see and with the quickness Jesus it said they walked from town to town and so then I begin to do research and I looked at different theologians that that said where all the miracles according to all the miracles that Jesus did that he walked in three years approximately 3,000 miles now I don't know if you've walked even ten miles but in three years ten-mile 3,000 miles would be the equivalent of somebody starting in LA and walking to New York for three years but that that's what you would do hey today I'm a walk 3,000 miles to my purpose like I'm not gonna run I'm not gonna jog I'm not gonna sprint I mean if it was me I'm the son of God I know every I know the end for the beginner I saw the the electric car all the way I mean the electric car was in my creation when we was walking I mean me I would have at least invented a bicycle or a Hoveround yeah I would have been the only one up there on a Segway keep up disciples I would have I mean I would have been doing something but he decided to walk can I begin to ask myself why would God walk I mean just think about it he could have at least ridden a horse a horse is a running animal and it's a galloping but do you know what I found when I searched the Scriptures the only animal that Jesus ever got on was a donkey and what type of animal is that a walking animal you ain't never seen a or like you ain't you ain't never seen a or moving fast and I begin to conclude that the only reason that God would do this is to show us that we can reach purpose at a pace of grace yes some of you needed to hear that because you've been struggling and striding and you feel like you've lost too much time and God said all things all of that that's where the wall Pastor Mike on 32 do you know what God did for Abraham and Sarah at 90 and 100 like right like if you would just start striding and find the pace of grace God says I'm gonna make everything whoa I gotta get this business off the ground this year he said what if you just get the business plan done this year and it's a good one and you proof read it and the numbers are right because when you're running you can't pay attention to details you know what I'm saying what if this year you didn't get the bomb house for your family to to have when you when you pass on but what if this year you and your wife actually liked each other yelling it do you understand what I'm saying like we're striving after all of these things and God's saying what if we stride in the purpose this year I know you want more degrees than a thermometer because it feeds your insecurities that you're nobody so when you can tell them you got a master in a double master and all these masters you have so many masters they should just give you a green jacket do you understand what I'm saying like some people don't play golf but my boy Jason got that I love you okay uh do you hear what I'm saying but but but that's not that's not gonna allow you to actually feel fulfilled God says you being in the purpose that I created for you that was before you were in your mother's womb that's where I want you to be so this year we have to stride somebody yell let me strive so I begin to search Jesus walking why do I need to walk this year I had big plans Ivan already made my list and you're messing up my plan this church was going to expand to like 2,000 3,000 I wrote down 5,000 Lord you know I did come on cuz the word says exceedingly abundantly oh can I be honest but he said what if you only grew 50 families this year but all the 400 you took in last year really loved me like like like like hear what I'm saying like like like what if your whale went deeper this year and not wider like like I'm trying to ask you like what what if God did our work in you then nobody else could take away and and so I'm asking you could you allow God to teach you how to stride this year like to find a pace that is full of grace let me give you one reason why cuz for the next 4 weeks we're about to walk this journey what are we gonna do in this journey we're gonna walk see cuz I know right now this is cracking like your your thought process right now like some of y'all don't even take a break on the weekend you're still working you're still moving like like your kids don't know you they know the things you get them like you're Santa Claus to them you're not their father or their mother like like Google you always be honest I know you've been trying to do the things so that your kids didn't grow up how you grew up but what you're doing is you're repeating a cycle of loneliness just covered by things like like if we're honest about it and gods saying to us could you cuz you find my pace this year could you walk in the steps that I've already set out for you so as I begin to look at this I want I want I want you to hear this quote that I heard that really solidified this for me I heard a quote that said if the enemy can't get in front of you and stop you he'll get behind you and push you just think about that what are you striving up but who told you you had to be married at 24 who who told you society culture things are pushing you every time you walk into your mama's house when you gonna have some grandkids when I get married and I have a job and I have a husband take care of that dog do you understand what I'm saying but hear me what but hear me if the enemy can't get in front of you and we learned last week if God is for us who like who Kimball who can be against us so many times for believers God gets behind us and pushed us the enemy the enemy gets behind us and pushes us and makes us feel like we missed it and we lost time and so now you got to start working and striving and God says if you would find me I got a pace of grace and a stride that will produced your purpose so why walk write this down if you run you miss moments where miracles happen if you run you miss the moments where miracles happen and the the reason that many of us are unsatisfied with our lives right now cuz we've missed the miracles God's already done because we haven't stopped long enough to look around and see them like some of y'all shouldn't be married right now like you're sitting next to somebody that you should not be married to but you don't even consider that a miracle because you haven't stopped long enough to see that God has changed our life did y'all hear what I'm saying we're running from place to place what's my next thing what's the thing that I got to do what's the thing and you didn't even see that you were barren and you have a child now like like you you were divorced you you couldn't pay to get the application in college and you just graduated when you're running you can't see the miracles in front of you and some of you are saying well I ain't got all that stuff the enemy's tried to take your life several times but God has sustained you that's a miracle but you won't see it if you don't run at the pace of grace just think about Jesus walking because Jesus was walking and was not running okay because he was doing that he was able to do his first miracle at the wedding of Cana and he stayed at the wedding long enough to be able to produce the miracle if he was running he would have just stopped in to say congratulations I'm on to heal some people I'm on to do something else and he wouldn't have been in the place long enough to even be effective many of you have been so busy that you won't stay in a place long enough to be effective when he got there they had what they needed it was because he stayed that they ran out and then he became the one that created a miracle oh that's some good teaching right there you're trying to get out of that job because you think they got everything there need there's coming a time where they're gonna run out of something and if you're artists still write and you're obedient to God he will use you in that place to perform a miracle that nobody else could but you will not stay if you don't stop running if Jesus was running he wouldn't have been able to curse the fig tree in Matthew 21 some of y'all know what I'm talking about he was walking at such a pace somebody say jesus walks I'm trying to help you understand that our Lord our Savior human divinity wrapped in humanity to our example came and showed us how to walk this life out he's working at such a pace that he says mmm I'm hungry let me get something from this fig tree has no fruit like ya shrivel up and die the cycles like what just happened did he just did he just curse that fig tree and it actually shriveled up and died see Jesus was walking at a pace that he could pay attention to details and he could see what was in his life that wasn't producing fruit you've been running so long that you see you don't even see that the relationships that you've got on your call log right now are dead and not producing fruit and you should have been able to speak to those things a long time but all you can do is see oh that's a fig tree when you're running when you're running oh that's my broken family when you're running yeah I still got your security issues but when you're walking oh yeah they're my insecurity issues and it started when I was 5 years old when my father left and then the stepfather came in and just talked down to me but you're not producing food in my life anymore so I curse you and in the name of Jesus you no longer have power to you no longer have power to hold me back see if you don't stop running you can't address the issues oh that's good if you don't stop running you will never address the things that I've been holding you back and keeping you from receiving the nourishment that's supposed to be there but if Jesus was running he would have never been able to even see that can I tell you my favorite example of Jesus walking I want you to go to mark mark chapter five and we'll start at verse 22 cuz this one it really tells you like how can you prove that Jesus was walking past their mic I mean it's not that detailed some of y'all real scientific you know I'm gonna search it out I'm gonna find a place where it says in haste okay go ahead try I've already looked but watch this example mark chapter 5 verse 22 it says then a leader of the local synagogue whose name was gyrus arrived when he saw Jesus it fell to his feet and he said pleading fervently with you my little daughter is dying please God right now come and lay your hands on her I know if you lay your hands on her she can be healed and she can live I want you to see the level of urgency gyruss came with like his daughter was dying so so he didn't approach Jesus with the hey Jesus god bless you worthy is the lamb it it was no time for formalities my daughter is dying come quick let's go and many times we allow people's problems issues or their urgency to take us out of the pace of grace to break our stride and look what look what it says it just says and Jesus went with him it didn't say he took off he didn't say everybody let's go there's an urgent message no he said he went with him and and here's where we find out the pace it said and all the people that were crowded around him followed so so Jesus was not just walking slower than what gyrus wanted him to walk he was walking surrounded by a group of people okay so I want you to hear me all my dudes right here on the front row come here okay quickly okay uh Brent come here okay come here right here okay so it's time to leave and people are all around Jesus okay people are all around Jesus gyrus okay okay Jay come up here B gyrus okay hurry you too cool gyrus all right right there it's right there gyrus gyrus is saying my daughter's day and he's probably already leading and trying to run towards where the problem was but Jesus says hey guys we're gonna start walking towards irises house okay all right come on let's just start walking gyrus was probably frustrated gyrus are you frustrated gyrus gyrus you're not frustrated [Applause] now watch now watch though Jesus could have moved the people out of the way to pick a new pace he decided to walk with people and in his walking with people people were changed because he decided not to leave them behind so so he's walking and I bet Jireh excuse me for one second I bet gyrus if gyrus was really upset was up here like all right y'all hup-two-three-four two-three-four come on can we pick up the pace can we can we can we go a little faster can we really kind of leave the process behind break protocol can we get to where we're going faster than what we should can we forget about the character of Jesus and just get to the content that he can provide because that's what we want to do many times we want to forget about the character part of God developing us into who we're supposed to be and we want to get to the content of ammonia yeah I got what I'm saying and gyruss has to wait okay I just wanted to paint this picture thank you guys okay now watch this go back to the scripture because I wanted you to get a picture that he was walking at a pace that a whole crowd could follow him okay and wow that was happening first twenty five a woman in the crowd who had suffered for 12 years what consistent bleeding not passing like why does that even matter some of y'all have heard of the woman with the issue of blood okay there was a woman in that group of people that was around Jesus that had been bleeding for 12 years now I've never had the end of a sentence okay a period somebody office slow oh there it is I've never I've never experienced that but I've been around enough women to see that sometimes that pain can make you not want to talk to nobody it can make you want to lay down on a couch and it can it can make you and-and-and-and and so this woman just imagine a non-stop menstrual cycle for 12 years oh the woman's oh god I repent right now I give it I give hey God all you can use okay but just just think of that and this is what that woman was dealing with and Jesus was walking at a pace to where this woman who had been bleeding for 12 years could reach out and touch her I want you to see that if Jesus was running that woman that needed a healing would have never been able to touch and some of you have been running and you have the Jesus on the inside of you that if they could just get close enough to you to touch you they could be healed but you're on to the next thing and you want to be the best and Jesus said will you please live at a place and at a pace that somebody can touch your life and that you can touch somebody's life they can find healing they used to be you and you used to be to him you used to be broken and jacked up and limping and hurting and broken and God said I waited on you why won't you wait on them but God I got so much to do you don't think the Son of God had things to do people to heal a humanity to save but he still walked at a pace that the most broken person could catch him and touch him and so now remember our character Jerry's gyrus gyrus that's such a black name he had to be left it's okay I said it all the way from look when we go you ain't never met a white dyrus anyway and then with dyrus Williams anyway so if your name is iris Williams see me after church okay this is so watch I know at this point gyrus is done he's undone because he needed Jesus to come quickly his situation was dire and his daughter was dying but Jesus doesn't just walk at a slow place where the woman can touch him this trip meow he stopped the woman touched him who touched me and I do gyrus is like what why would you and the disciples like who touched you Jesus you're walking in a crowd everybody's touching him he said no I felt virtue I felt freedom come to somebody I felt that somebody somebody got changed when they got in worship that somebody actually lifted their hands and meant it and it started to heal the sickness and they're like virtue went out and he was like who was it I mean he stayed there who and the woman trembling who's now just in her body getting strength for the first time she said it was me I knew if I could just touch that you didn't even have to say nothing to me if I could just get in your presence and touch that I'd have the ability to be healed and made home Jesus said I'm coming y'all hold on woman your faith has made you owe and at that very moment word comes back from gyrus his house yeah yo J bro I don't even know how to tell you this your daughter's dead so um don't bother the master it he doesn't have to finish walk-in this distance cuz she's already gone and look what the Bible says in verse 35 it says while he was still speaking to her like si I love Christ because he'll interrupt our death sentence like somebody spoken death over the marriage and somebody spoken death over the dream and somebody's spoken and it says while he was steal do you see why he was still speaking to her messages arrived from the home of Jairus the leader of the synagogue they told him your daughter is dead there is no use in troubling him now verse 36 but Jesus overheard him and he said to gyrus don't be afraid have faith and I came to encourage somebody this morning who there has been a death sentence to something in your life a dream a book a vision of business and God says don't be afraid have faith I'm still here see gyruss didn't know who was walking towards his house he had no clue he had only heard but he had never experienced who was walking to his house and this is the funny thing that Jesus is the only one that can manage a miracle and mayhem at the same moment he just healed the woman from bleeding for 12 years and then the word comes back that she's his daughter is dead and he speaks into the middle of that situation miracle on this side mayhem on this side and he says don't be afraid have say I don't know who I'm talking to in this place right now but I came to tell you don't be afraid somebody shot at me have faith I feel the presence of God in this verse 37 it said then Jesus stopped like I want you to see he just started walking again he didn't he didn't speed up his pace cuz at this point if I was Jesus thank God I'm not but if I was Jesus at least start jogging to show Jarius you're on set bro don't even worry you won't saying really y'all know that faith jog like you might as well be walking like you like I would at least start at that Jesus didn't break his pace or his stride for anybody okay he then he stopped the crowd and they they wouldn't let anyone go with him except Peter James and John there's a miracle that's gonna happen that everybody's not going to be able to see there's some some there's some things God's gonna do that it's not gonna be a Facebook spectacle that he's gonna only call a few people around to be witnesses of the miracle that he's gonna do in your life okay I'm just trying to dis the Bible he said when they came to the home the synagogue leader Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing and he went inside and as well these folks acting up why is there all this commotion and weeping the child isn't dead she's only sleeping your vision isn't dead it's only sleeping your marriage isn't dead it's only been in a place of slumber your children being saved and and and walking in the things of God that dream is not dead and when he spoke faith into the situation the crowd laughed at him don't be surprised at the same people who act like they're crying over the thing you're crying over start laughing at you when you speak faith into it oh don't don't don't don't be surprised when they say God told me to do this and they'd be like see because everything God's gonna do is not gonna need committee approval it's gonna need people with faith but look what Jesus did you're gonna have to do something he made all of them leave he cleared the space and he took the girl's father and the mother the only people with faith and his three disciples the only people there were even disciples that didn't have enough faith oh I wish I could teach this there's some church people that don't have enough faith for the miracle that God is about to do in your life I know they believe him for costs to be healed but you need cancer to dry up and everybody's not gonna be able to believe with you for that so I need you to make sure you have the right inner circle that don't believe with you verse 41 holding her hand he said to her to leave you kumi which means little girl get up and the girl who was 12 years old immediately stood up and walked around they were overwhelmed and totally amazed did y'all see the miracle that happened because Jesus was walking this is the thing that tripped me out the woman who got the miracle at the beginning had been suffering for 12 years the age of the girl who got the miracle was 12 years old that means that at the beginning of both of their situations and their lives that God saw a moment that if Jesus would have sped up he would have missed this moment if he would have slowed down he would have missed this moment that there was a pace that he was walking to end him up at that place at that time to not just perform one miracle but to do a double miracle because he had found the pace of grace time like what are you saying to me right now the thing that you think is sick the thing that looks dead if you would find the pace that God wants you to walk out both of them will live both of them will be healthy Oh y'all didn't hear me your family and your business your church and your ministry y'all I'm telling you stop believing the lie of the American Dream because you can have stuff and be empty but God says if you find my place of grace I'll make you have money and your family you'll like you didn't hear me oh I'll let you walk out a way that you can impact culture and you can give back to people in need both miracles happen because Jesus walked at the pace of grace this is the season where God's challenging all of us less of me more of him less of me working learning and making a plan I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do this yeah you got a lot of skills but what has God called you to do not forever but right now yeah he told you to serve in the children's area and you too busy and your fly is too nice and you don't like children you try to be ready from when he comes but your husband is back in the children's ministry working right now and because you won't follow the pace of grace you're missing what God has for you stop trying to strive reach use all your energy for things that God said if you would just follow me it's on the path as I change your stride and you'll find it in the pace I want to encourage everybody to reevaluate your life right now because I know for me there's areas that God is challenging me and he said yeah you need to change your pace in that area one of them is this church y'all imma go get it like if God wanted a person to build the church he picked the right person cuz I'm gonna do everything I can I'm gonna do the Instagram post I'm gonna make the music I'm the lead praise and worship i'ma preach i'ma play the drums I'm gonna do everything God said slow down he said what what if what if my plan has you ten years out to being most effective are you gonna spin all your energy in the first three years burn out and quit cuz you won't find the pace of it is your wife gonna have to leave you oh this is what's happening all over America everyday in the name of Jesus I only can be transparent with you and so I told God during this 21 days of prayer and fasting I'm putting everything on the table my desires my wants what I've already said put it on the table God if you want to change my pace you can change it well tie some like we have another campus on the other side of town it's on the table what we already bought it it's on the table cuz if God wants us to open that campus three years from now and let another church use it and deal then what why why would we try to plant another Church on the other side of town that God has not given provision for yet cuz I said it I'm done but y'all know what I'm saying like I'm just him I'm just tryin to I see in part I hear in part but I would rather be going at the pace of grace then trying to prove myself to anybody else I'm telling y'all this is the time some of y'all are in careers that you've never liked and you're only there because of the money and God said I'll give you less money and more fulfillment if you would walk at the pace of grace I don't know what it is for you but I know there's no better time to stride remember what stride means taking long walking and long decisive steps towards our purpose there's no better time for God to change our direction than in this time of prayer and fasting I'm asking everybody if you're watching online everybody in here it's time for you to give up something so God can give you something give up food give up TV give up social media give give it up so that God can clear your head and you can stop being distracted and that you can hear his voice remember what Adam and God did they walk together in the cool of the day why because I can hear you and we're walking if I start running I miss stuff what is it Oh go get I don't know if you've ever tried to talk to somebody while you're running but but it don't come out clear but when you're walking with when you're at a pace of grace I can hear everything you're saying oh that's what you want me to do god that's where you want me to give that's where you want me to serve that's where that's what you want me to do so during this time I'm asking us to put everything on the table for the next 21 days starting tomorrow we're gonna be here and we're gonna ask God to give us a pace of grace we're not gonna out run him we're gonna step in the places where he's already gone before us does that mean some of your plans are about to get interrupted yep cuz you made him without him like you you told your family y'all moving into a bigger house you told them and it was by faith you didn't even consult the one who's gonna provide the resources maybe he wants you or a debt before you do that so this next 21 days yeah some of y'all are in relationships that will not last past January I'm so sorry oh not Jerome yeah he's he's got to go cuz he broke your stride you used to be on fire and you used to have a purpose now you don't know nothing but doing whatever he says and giving him whatever he wants come on y'all I counsel you I counsel people I know what's happening God wants to change our stride so I want to pray for you right now because you know what I've come to the conclusion of running is overrated and I know some people who've been trying to lose weight that's like yes that is my pastor a word today loving is overrated no you don't still be fat let me just help you you still gonna be fat if you don't work out okay but what I'm talking about is in our lives as we're striving running after things that God said he would provide remember the scripture in 2nd Corinthians says that we walk by faith and not by I see it though I see my dream I see my wife and God says yes I'm showing that to you so now that you can walk by faith you can catch a stride and you're gonna get there but it's not gonna kill you in the process father I pray for every person under the sound of my voice come on just lift your hands all over this place I want you to receive kind of thank you that you're changing our stride father God that we are gonna walk this year father God not trying to prove ourselves and not for validation guy were already called we're already loved and you have a plan for us God let us turn our ears to what your plan is for us God let us stop striving for things and let us start striding walking with you father I pray against fear I pray against doubt I pray against father God that thing that will make us be afraid father we say to to you say to us like you said to gyruss father don't be afraid have faith God you're raising dead situations and you're reviving and healing others situation we just believe as we trust you and we find our stride father you're going to teach us the pace of grace have your way in this entire series and do a deep work as we start this fasting and pray in Jesus name we agree somebody give God a shout of praise in this place come on [Music]

Channel: Transformation Church

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Length: 58min 55sec (3535 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 08 2018