Make Me An Answer

[Music] you ready for the word today all right well let's go in our Bibles to the Book of Luke chapter number 10 beginning at verse number 35 Luke chapter 10 beginning at verse 35 it says this it says the next day Jesus I mean the next day he took two denarii gave them to the innkeeper look after him he said and when I return I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have which of these three do you think was the neighbor to the man who fell in the hands of robbers the expert in the law replied the one who had mercy on him Jesus told him go and do likewise this is the reading of God's Word I want to talk for a few moments from this subject the subject is actually a prayer it's my prayer now hopefully it will be your prayer at the conclusion of this message and the statement prayer is simple Lord make me an answer make me an answer family as I even to this introduction I want to impart ikkyu late something to you that many of you are going to find unnerving disturbing and perturbing so I want you to take a deep breath buckle up listen intently and closely you've probably never heard this statement said in a sanctuary here it is there's a warrant for your arrest some people got nervous for real right there this is the 11:30 there is a wanted poster in the hallway of heaven with your picture on it an all-points bulletin has been issued on your behalf and angelic authorities have been instructed to bring you in by any means necessary and because I know the nature of the one who is after you I want to advise you to come out with your hands up wave your white flag and turn yourself in because the one who's after you eventually gets who he wants you can come now or you can come later but if he picked you you come in he is passionate and he is patient in his pursuit you will wear down before he does he will pursue you with supernatural stalker-like tendencies there's nowhere you can run to that he is not already there and he will be sitting outside of seasons and circumstances of suffering and then look at you and say you ready to turn yourself in yet I believe I can pause for the cause because I got some witnesses in this room who can testify you preaching the truth already pastor Darris cuz when I look back over my life God weighted me out God wore me down and God got what he wanted in my life and for those of you who may be wondering why do I feel like I'm being dealt with uniquely God why is it that you seem to require to require things of me you don't require my friends why is it that it seems like I am not allowed to have the leniency and the leeway that other people have why is it that I have to be the one that you are requiring this of and I just want to say a statement that one spiritual giant said that many of us are familiar with favor ain't fair very often when we say that statement we're referring to the blessing of faith and we say oh I got blessed favor ain't fair Oh God opened the door for me favor ain't fair I want to tell you that statement not only applies to the blessing of favor it also applies to the burden of favor favor ain't fair I'm simply reminding some and informing others that you have a calling from your Creator that your purpose on this planet is not a cosmic coincidence it is not a relational accident it doesn't matter if your parents planned you or not God did and you were created on purpose for purpose by purpose with a purpose and your purpose is an answer to a problem in the earth and the only Avenue to your fulfillment there's a hole in your soul only purpose can feel a man can't feel it a woman can't feel it a job can't feel it promotion can't feel it resources can't feel it and when you attempt to feel an internal hole with an external substance substance it is the equivalent of giving salt water to somebody who's dying of thirst you think it'll quench your thirst but once you received it it just makes you more thirsty there's a hole in your soul only purpose can fulfill somebody shout purpose but here it is family your purpose isn't picked it's discovered once you become aware of your purpose you must accept it therefore if we're going to master the subject of purpose we must master an S word that seems to be taboo in churches it is avoided in churches and are under saying why because it's been abused misused mishandled and manipulated yet I believe you don't fix wrong teaching by non teaching I believe you cannot adjust something if you're constantly avoiding it because and ifs were you and I have to master if we're going to master purpose is an S word called breathe deep submission what if I told you that Jesus wants to do more than save your life he wants to lead it what if I told you he wants to do more than become the one who intervenes and rectifies and adjust and fix things on the back end what if I told you he wants to lead it on the front end what if I told you that David said in the twenty-third Psalm not the Lord is my Savior he is that but David introduced us to another aspect of God's existence David said the Lord is my shepherd and he says because he's my shepherd I shall not want because he's my shepherd he's gonna make me lie down in green pastures he's gonna lead me beside the still waters he's going to restore my soul come on he's gonna lead me in paths of righteousness for his namesake yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me nor my head with all my cup runneth over I skip y'all favorite part didn't I know y'all you prepares the table before me in the presence of my that only applies to people who made him his Shepard submission submission is the synthesis of two words submission so it means below and so it's simply a person saying god I'm going to put my preferences below your mission for my life because I know your mission for me it's what's best for me I know you've got my best interest at heart I know you know me better than I know myself I know you know what prayers to answer and what prayers to ignore uh I know you know when to say yes and when to say no I know you know that I think I know what I want until I get what I want then I realize when I get what I want this ain't really what I wanted so instead of taking me through the process of me asking for what I want thinking that's what I want and you giving me what I want in order for me to find out I don't want it thank you for saying no to some things that I thought I wanted that I didn't need cuz you love me enough not just to tell me yes but to tell me no so I'm just going to get under your mission cuz I'm gonna see if I got some honest people here cuz I'm honest enough God to realize I am not smart enough to lead my own life I can look at some of my exits I can look at some of my decisions I can look at let me go to this side I can look at some of my choices and say God I need you to help me with me take the wheels Jesus lead my life submission is a refusal to get in the way of what God wants to do with me for me and through me it's a refusal to get in the way of what God wants to do with me for me and through me God wants to do some things with you you didn't even know could be done with you God wants to use you in a way that'll surprise you acts sera God wants to bless you with a Isaac that'll make you laugh he wants to do some things with you he wants to do some things for you I'm beginning a series in the first Sunday of October called big and it's been a long time since a word hit my heart like this because I believe some of us have been believing too small see that you see how you see that response that means some people's faith has been tamed by their trauma you've been disappointed so much you're scared to believe in a God who wants to do exceedingly and abundantly above all you ask think or imagine it's time to believe here I serve a bit God who wants to do big things in my life but I refuse to get in the way of what God wants to do with me for me and through me I want to put my preferences under your mission coz your mission is what's best for me your mission ultimately is what's gonna make me happy so I trust you enough to recognize you're smarter than me so I submit my wisdom of yours and so even though I may feel like I should be further along in life right now I submit my opinion of yours even though I feel like I shouldn't be going through this right now I submit my perspective to yours cuz I know your mission is what's best for me because the mission is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of purpose when we live unsubmitted our purpose goes unfulfilled what does this look like practically y'all it means that we're submitting our time our talent and our treasure to God's mission and an example of this is personified in Luke chapter 10 in Luke chapter 10 Jesus has asked a question by this religious leader and the religious leader says Lord will talk to me about the commandments what are the most important Commandments and Jesus simply says to him well listen all other Commandments can really be summarized in two sentences love the Lord your God with all your heart all your mind all your soul and strength right and love your neighbor as yourself so this leader of the law this pontificate er wants to get petty so he says so who's my neighbor Jesus say cool in the game I got this he said no problem no problem he says this what he says he says there was a man who was on his way down to Jericho and as he is walking to Jericho he encounters an unexpected inconvenience he gets attacked he gets robbed and he gets mugged it is unexpected and when something is unexpected and unpredicted you bet you feel unprepared for it it's one thing to be hit by a blow you see coming cuz you can brace yourself for that blow it's another thing when you hit with something you didn't see coming and in life that way you can be on your way somewhere and deal with an unexpected inconvenience that didn't kill you but it bruises you some people aren't bleeding but they're bruised and if you touch them in certain areas you get a response that doesn't make sense that's because something hit them in a previous season that's less that's left them sensitive in this season the Bible says he was stripped of his clothes he was robbed of his resources isn't that true some things don't destroy you but they do strip and rob you they take some things from you and the Bible says this man is lying on the side of the road and a priest just so happens to walk by and the priest is walking sees this man walks right past there does nothing the Bible says a little time later a Levite a church leader walks by this is really bad y'all the church leader sees the man laying there goes all the way on the other side of the road so that he does not have to deal with the guilt of walking past him and not intervening you know how some people you maybe this didn't happen at this service but I'm throw it out just in case you know sometimes you run into some people who you see see you and then act like they didn't see you cuz they don't want to speak which section is the petty section right here I want to write mr. petty section yeah cuz cuz the petty section no when they I'd like to help see you you make him speak being don't you hello hello act like you ain't seen me right here it is it's interesting now check yourself and then here comes a Samaritan a person whose doctrine was a little off who was seen at that time to be mixed-breed who was seen as a people group that was not to be fraternize and interacted with don't don't fool with them I mean their relationship with the Jews were so it was so untenable that the Bible says Jesus in John 4 is having a conversation with a woman that I will who had had five husbands you remember that conversation and the Bible says because she was a Samaritan the disciples were surprised he was even talking to her I want you to see the significance of this Samaritans activity because the Samaritan then is looking at somebody in a situation probably knowing that if the roles were reversed this person would not stop for them because purpose will make you help people that you know will help you back let me go back to this side over here I said purpose will cause you to help people that you know won't help you back here is the Bible says he walks to the man bandages his wounds stop what he's doing bandages his wounds puts him on his donkey takes them to and in and and gives the owner of the end the innkeeper rather resources and said hey here's enough for him to stay for a while if he has to stay longer than what I've compensated you for just keep him around and I'll take care of you when I come back okay so notice what he does now first of all he has to stop where he's going to engage with the man that's wounded y'all see that then he has to use his ability to tend to the man's wounds then invest his resources in giving the man a place to stay close those are three things that the text says he does now I'm sure that's not all he did but those are the three things at the text sense okay everybody breathe deep cuz I'm about to say something that's a bit controversial here it is I want you to see what the text says he did do but this was the text said Texas does not I won't you look at what text did not said he did did not say it but the text did not tell us he did y'all understand my point the text didn't say he walks over to the man and says I'm praying for you it's real tight right here what happened no it didn't say he walked past the man and say I'm praying for you and then keep walking I'm about to say something I don't mean it literally I mean it figuratively I don't mean it literally I mean it figuratively I don't mean it literally I mean it figuratively sometimes Christians pray too much I'm not saying we shouldn't pray but sometimes prayer is used as an excuse to abdicate our responsibility to actually help people who have problems because I can say I'm praying for you and there's no accountability as to whether I actually did that or not and the Bible is clear this man moved from being a intercessor to an answer to the problem I don't want to just pray about problems I want to be an answer to a problem Lord make me an answer I'm not saying we should pray but I'm saying people who can't eat need more than prayer I'm saying people who leave clothes need more than prayer I'm saying people who need property need more than prayer people who need a place to live need more than prayer people who are having trouble making decisions they need more than prayer people who need just an opportunity to use their gifts and talents who need a door open for them need more than prayer they need somebody to see into them and see into their future and say I see the Peter on the inside of you I see the Israel on the inside of Jacob I see the Abraham inside of the Abram and I'm gonna use my access my influence my resources my power my privilege to open the for you so that you can walk through because somebody opened the door for me Lord make me and answer thank God for press somebody prayed for me had me on their mind took the time to pray for me I'm so glad they prayed I'm so glad they pray thank God for intercession askers but we also need some answers Lord make me this man was an answer because it's in a text he submitted this time he has somewhere to be but he was willing to call and say I'm gonna be late because what some people saw as an interruption he saw as an assignment and what if I told you that some of Jesus's greatest miracles were interruptions that when He healed a woman with the issue of blood in mark chapter 5 he wasn't going to heal her he was going to Jarius his house but on the way he got interrupted with an assignment in mark chapter 10 he healed a blind man named Bartimaeus he wasn't going to bartimaeus he was going outside of jericho but he saw the interruption as an assignment there's a time he stopped a funeral procession and raised the dead man back to life he wasn't on his way to the funeral but he saw that interruption as an assignment what if i told you that there are some things that are too coincidental to be coincidence here's the question pastor how do I know which one is an interruption and which one is an assignment because I can't stop for everybody right cuz every need isn't your responsibility understand that but but how do I know which one is which pastor you see if I answer that question for you I would be God I'll have the answer to that question right that's why God leaves some areas gray because it requires a personal relationship between you and him so that he is able by promptings and leadings to let you know when you're supposed to engage but but here's the question who is benefiting from the use of your time besides you is it submitted to God's mission Lord I got plans for the day but all the time I have is the time you gave me what you want me to do with it Oh Lord I got some things that are important to me but if there's some things that you want to throw my way today that are more important to you I submit my time because I want to be an answer I'm so glad somebody gave me time whew I'm glad when I had decisions I needed to make somebody took the time to talk me through him I'm glad somebody took the time to pray for me to coach me to counsel me to mentor me because they couldn't be an answer to me if they hadn't submitted their time to God's mission number two the Bible says he deals with this man's wounds now if I had ran into this man I wouldn't be able to help him with his with his wounds I could get help but I don't know how to tend to wounds which means this man had to talent the ability to do it he used his talent to help somebody else because he recognized something we tend to forget whatever gift we have it's been given and you're not we're not owners we're stewards and no matter how gifted you are you can leave out for work tomorrow slip on a step hit your head lose all your cognitive capacity every gift every good and perfect gift comes from above that's like I gave you those gifts the good Lord can give and the good Lord can take away I gave you those gifts the question is is anyone besides the people you're working with or working for benefited from the gifts I give you or somebody so abused and misused manipulated underappreciated and undervalued your gifts that you refuse to generously use them on other people in the future because somebody else is abuse in the past so I guess I'm the only one that's ever said something like you see they just messed it up for everybody else I'm the only I'm the only one y'all just the real section over here today so am I making sense like yes see they just messed it up at everybody else and last last he did just give us time in his talent he used this treasure here it is the Bible says he took two denarii gave it to the innkeeper and then said if he stays longer don't worry about it I'll take care of it when I get back here's the question how's my time being used to fulfill God's mission how's my talent being used to fulfill God's mission number three how's my resources being used to fulfill God's mission and it's like people can really rock with number one they like yes Jesus I'm gonna give you my time they can rock with number two yes Jesus I'm gonna give you my time but it's difficult for them to write with number three because we see ourselves as owners and not stewards when you see yourself as a steward you understand that all surplus is it for splurging when surplus comes in you pause for the cause of asking the question laws whose is this cuz if this is mine I don't know what I'm gonna do with it but if it's yours I need to oh so I can put it aside and use it to accomplish your mission here it is I'm getting ready to close but here it is the Good Samaritan was able to be a good Samaritan because the Good Samaritan was a good steward he was able to do it because he had it Lord make me an answer and when it comes to stewardship kingdom management theologically we would call it Dominion taking authority in that area kingdom stewardship really begins we're asking a question see culturally with stewardship the question is ax what do I want to do with my resources but in the kingdom a different question is asked I'm done y'all a different question is asked a question is this what do I want my resources to do for me cuz they don't master me I master them they don't tell me what to do I tell them what to do I can't serve them in God I can't obey you both because nobody can serve two masters so stewardship is Dominion this it is mastering over that area of my life and I believe Kingdom Kingdom stewardship begins but asking that question what do I want my resources to do for me and I think the Scriptures rolled out four key things number one provision God is a provider Abraham called him Jehovah Jireh the Lord will provide why because there was a ram that's got his horns tied in the thickets that's an indication that when God has something for you he'll tie it down until you get there that if it's yours he'll hold it in place until you get there if it got up and ran off it wasn't yours when your name is on it God will hold it in place until you get that he's a provider when the Prophet needed food he made Ravens take food out of their mouths and bring it and drop it off to him birds don't feed people people feed birds but when God's determined to get something to you he'll make something change its nature you'll bring water from a rock he's a provider and he wants us to make provision for those who are responsible for first Timothy 5:8 says if a man or a person doesn't do this they denied the faith and they're worse than an infidel in other words we need to make provision for those who are responsible for here's the problem I'm gonna see if I can get a good a man here there are people that think you're responsible for them and you not like no YouTube grown for me to be responsible which provision number two protection I want I wanted to use my resource for protection God is a protector he's a defender I'll call him he's a blocker I'm here today because he blocks some things there were some things the enemy wanted to throw your way and my way but we're still here because God blocked it can anybody testify God blocked some things he's a protector but but one of the ways he protects he uses instruments to protect us and one of the instruments he uses to protect us is wisdom he gives us wisdom that's that's one of the ways we protect God protects us by giving us wisdom and we gotta we gotta use the wisdom right you need you need sometimes you need wisdom for the provision not just for protection but for provision never starting the Old Testament where Israel needed some some food and the Bible says that God gave them manna which was like this seed that was on the ground and meta means what is it because when Israel looked at it they was like what is this cuz some blessings come with assembly required did you hear what I just said some blesses in other words that Israel got a revelation they said if we take this seed and we grind it it becomes grain and then we could take the grain and we can make bread because some provision comes in the form of a project and you got to be willing to grind to turn it into what it's supposed to be some people are missing their blessing because they won't grind but if you grind you can turn the grain into bread you can turn one opportunity into ten opportunities you can turn one door into 10 doors grind wisdom wisdom protects us gives the provision in it for Texas in proverbs 6 the Bible says go to the go to the ant and learn its ways and be wise it has no commander no overseer yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest said our ant knows winter's coming so in the summer time to ant put something away so that when winter comes unprotected [Music] number three peace God wants to use our resources to give us peace you can't buy peace but when I say peace I'm talking about peace regarding the things that can be fixed with resources see if some stuff we can't fix with resources but some stuff can be does that make sense yeah so it's like so if something goes out in the car you don't have to miss sleep why cuz I got it I anticipated winter was coming please don't wear your peace teach it they list it please please some people's pieces in their closet where's my piece Jesus in your closet where's my piece you got a remote to it where's your piece you driving it where's your piece you drank it up it was adult weekend but it's gone now and you had a great weekend you can't even remember it [Applause] it was fun I can't remember [Music] [Applause] [Music] I promise you life's gonna give you enough to worry about life's gotta give you enough to worry about I don't want to have to worry about those things that can be rectified with resources you can have my piece I need it cuz if I don't have it I don't have nothing that make sense and less not where my resources to to allow me to carry out purpose that's what I want me to do for me purpose I want I want to be an answer like there are some things I don't want to pray about I want to hear about when there's a need it's like I need to hear about that Lord is that one you want me to meet and here it is in other words I'm just talking about stewardship because it's about freedom it's about freedom okay it's about freedom to live after purpose and not after need because when we get to that point it means we can have a Purpose Driven Life not a life that has purposeful moments see the difference like moments where I'm able to do purposeful things it's different than a life that's driven by purpose Lord that I'm doing with my life what you called me to do where you call me to do it the way you you called me to do it I live a Purpose Driven Life because that's the only thing is gonna make me fulfilled when I say happy I mean it's gonna give me joy I want to be free to do that purpose and I'm telling you when a message like this comes it's because God is getting you ready to give a yes to a question here and actually yet right cuz God wants the answer to be ready before the question is asked he wants you to get to the point where you say Lord before you ask you already know what the answer is not my will your will be done I'm trying to get us to move from we should want to be blessed but God wants to do more than bless us he wants to use us this is your season whoa somebody better receive this of epic usage look at somebody say epic [Applause] [Music] epic epic epic he says if you'll give me a yes I'll blow your mind if you'll give me a yes your phone will ring and the person on the other ear will be someone you don't even believe if you'll give me a yes you'll open up your email and you'll see people have been watching you that you didn't even know we're watching you if you'll give me a yes I'll show you that I'll do exceedingly and abundantly above all you ask or think if you'll give me yes submission so father I prayed today for the grace for the strength for the courage to give you a yes I ask this because we recognize we can't do this on our home for someone who's in this room watching me right now I pray for another yes give us grace to give you for we recognize that yes it's seasonal then I gave you a yes in the last season but I need to give you another one this one so thank you for grace for yes in Jesus name Amen and a man clap your hands everybody Wow well listen everybody I hope you enjoyed that message hold on one second before you click me off it I just want to say thank you thank you for finding this YouTube channel as a trusted source of spiritual nourishment for you whether it's your first time or whether you're consistent faithful 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Published: Mon Sep 09 2019