My Purpose Is Pulling Me | Pastor Josh Hart

grab your bible grab your notepad i was glad when they said unto me let us go to the house of the lord and we are here today uh to hear from god does anybody want to hear a word from god i need to hear from god today uh and so i want to do so by way of matthew chapter four matthew chapter four matthew chapter four and i'm going to start at verse 8 18. matthew 4 and verse 18 says and jesus walking by the sea of galilee saw two brothers simon called peter and andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen then he said to them follow me and i will make you fishers of men they immediately left their nets and followed him lord bless the reading of your word and everyone said amen and amen look at your neighbor and say buckle up here we go i i want to talk to you just for the next few minutes uh on the subject my purpose is pulling me my purpose is pulling me my purpose is pulling will you say that with me my purpose is pulling me my purpose is pulling me um freddie go ahead and pay uh just play me about 30 seconds of whatever solo you feel like playing right now [Music] all right stop now first of all don't y'all act like you can do that i told freddy to complete something and i don't know if y'all heard that pause of about seven seconds uh before he hit a note i told freddy to play something and it took him a few seconds to decide how he was going to do it after he spent the first four seconds deciding why i just asked him to do that why did you just ask me to do that why did you just ask me to do that i i gave him a purpose that i wanted completed but for the purpose to be completed he still had to do it for you to hear what i just called him to he had to answer that call there is a difference between god giving you a purpose and you being in the purpose god has given you it is two completely different experiences to have a call from god and have you answered the call from god and freddie was confused as to why i wanted him to do what i just told him to do but it was to show you the point that god may give you the purpose but you getting the purpose don't mean anything if you don't walk the purpose out you've got to walk out what god has created you to do it is not enough that god has created you to do something in this earth purpose just gives you access purpose gives you permission purpose gives you opportunity to respond an opportunity to respond with action to play that solo right now without me asking him to play that solo would be out of order it would be chaos it wouldn't make sense but the purpose in asking him is what opened the door and gave him access to be able to enter into a moment that he would not have entrance into had he not been purposed to do it called to do it it's one thing to know god gave you a purpose it is another thing to do it would you touch somebody just with the elbow if you came with them whatever and just tell them i have purpose i have purpose i have a reason for living and the reason we got to talk about this is for several of us 2020 talked us out of what god had been making us into we moved perpetually as a nation as a world into nothing but survival mode and when you move into survival mode your mind goes away from what i'm becoming and on to just getting through what i'm in right now so to have a purpose of god you've got to understand is grace from god it is favor of god it is a blessing to have a purpose from heaven it is access purpose from god is permission to be great permission for greatness everything we are is because god has been pulling us into a purpose pulling us in to a greater reason for living and having a pulse on this earth that you don't have pulse to just breathe you have pulse for purpose so so no man comes unto the father except god pulls him god draws him the spirit draws him which means that we don't even recklessly approach the throne room of god i know they talk about you can come any way you want but you can't come to god recklessly there is still a protocol and we are in a age where that itself is a cuss word we don't like protocol anymore we don't like structure anymore we don't like order we are we are the come when we want to come people and believe when we want to leave people and do what i want to do people because we don't understand structure but if you don't get structure it's no wonder we don't get our bible because we live in a day now where things like yes sir are out of style i know you're going to talk to me things like things like no ma'am don't matter anymore all structure has been thrown out the door but god is a god of structure he's a god of order he is a god of protocol he is not a god of confusion he does not allow us to do our his stuff our way however we want to do it is not up on the table it's got to be done the way he wants it to be done in order for us to have the access to him we're looking for we see the power of this inner great illustration by way of queen esther who knows that she cannot come before the king unless the scepter is extended to her the scepter being extended is the thing that gives her permission to access so the scepter is extended and she is given permission to access the presence of the king and i am excited for you because whether you know it or not the scepter has been extended it is what jesus came for to be in jesus is the scepter of god being extended to man and extended to a dying world that through him we would have access to a god we didn't have permission to before so because the scepter is extended if i don't respond it's no longer god's fault the scepter has been extended the access is so extensive that you don't even have to be in a building on a sunday morning the scepter is not extended from 10 to 12 on sunday the scepter is extended for your life you don't have to wait until an altar call to have access to god you can be in your living room and access god you can be in your bathroom and access god you can be at your kitchen table and access god in fact if you make your bed in hell he said i'm still there you can access god you can access god sitting under a bridge with a needle hanging out of your arm access is open he is omnipresent it is everywhere it is everlasting it is eternal it is unchanging you have been given a purpose for such a time as this the scepter is extended would you tell somebody that the scepter is extended the scepter is extended to me so the question then is not permission the question is not do i have purpose the problem with purpose is is it's not it's not permission because he already said whosoever will who whosoever will come god is looking for availability he don't care about perfection purpose itself is permission i thank you for that holla purpose itself is permission which means the prostitute can find purpose you ain't going to talk to me it means the church mother can find purpose it means the the executive and the drug dealer can find purpose it means the rich and the poor can find purpose it means the beautiful and the homeless can find purpose it means the abuser and the abused can find purpose whosoever will is a call to everyone the problem is not purpose the problem is response response response response because sometimes when we are given such free access we take access for granted i know what i'm talking about we take access for granted we take the presence of god for granted we we we hire praise and worship leaders to do praise and worship for us while we sit in our seat and watch them entertain god for us we we take the presence of god for granted and when you have it too easy you don't appreciate opportunity i'm a preacher whether you want to hear it or not you're mad because your kids aren't grateful but you gave them more than you ever had because you didn't want them to walk through what you walked through but the reason you are grateful for what you have right now is because you know what it is to not have you ain't saying nothing it was the struggle that made you grateful for what you have today it was less that made you grateful for more and the bible said you don't believe it the scripture tells us the more they afflicted them the more they grew which means that it was less that taught me how to expand myself and we have a grace that has been given to us that is so bold and so bodacious and so big and so overwhelming that the greek word that is given to us for grace in the book of romans is the word promiscuous it means it's sleazy grace it's literally available to anybody who wants a piece of it it is promiscuous grace that that essentially he says this is the grace that works the red light district it's the grace that says anybody can have a piece of it if you want it grace is the thing that walks the streets and says whosoever will come and get you a peace and somehow in the process of grace being common to us our lives have become unresponsive unresponsive jesus is walking by the sea of galilee and he sees two men fishing in it and he walks by him and he says hey follow me and i'll make you fishes of me there was no 60-minute sermon there was one sentence hey follow me and i'll make you fishers of me this can change your life if you let it what he's really saying is when i passed by you you were operating in one level of life one dimension of life you were fishers of fish but if you respond to my call i'll make you fishers of men in other words you're acting out your purpose you're just acting it out in the wrong place hey lord that's about to get good but but when i get through with you i'm going to take some old skills from your past and i'm going to transform them and use them for a new realm and you will see then that everything you went through was making you what you needed to be for what i was about to take you to not only am i going to save you yes you were the right person you were just perverted you were using the right person wrong so i'm not just going to save you i'm also going to save your skill set right person right personality it's just in the wrong place so i'm about to set you in a realm where you can flow into a purpose rather than continue to sweat over your past if you believe this will be just shall i have a purpose hey fam follow me hey follow me purpose of god and about five of y'all going to know this the moment i say it the purpose of god is disruptive freddie was cool waiting for the end of the sermon for me to hit a note that he was going to find because that's how we always flow he was comfortable until i said his name and when i said his name it made him spring into action because purpose is disruptive people don't want to be disrupted and when you don't want to be disrupted what you really don't want is your world to change and if you are looking for a nice little cute jesus that can fit the storyline you've already built for him to walk through and if i can just get a quick 30 minute thought and go back to living exactly how i was living before i heard him and doing what i was doing before i heard him then fam you need to leave jesus alone now because the jesus i know messes up stuff and he disrupts plans and he jacks up circumstances and he flips your whole plan on his head he sets things on edge because the jesus i ca i know says i don't come to bring peace i know your law i thought you thought he said no i don't come to bring peace i come to bring a sword i come to stir things up i come to make some noise in your life and i know some of you are already committed to dropping out somewhere along the way because you refuse to have your process disrupted so you're cool with jesus as long as he's quiet you're cool with jesus as long as he's passive but the kind i want the kind of jesus for me that i can carry in a you version in my pocket and pull out for a quick hit whenever i need it but i don't know about you i'm not looking for a jesus i can carry i'm looking for a jesus that can carry me i wish you would just holler at somebody and say he's disruptive he's disruptive he's disruptive if you want to keep rowing your little boat and doing your little thing and working your little plan and catching your little fish leave jesus alone if you're cool with your nice little business just satisfied with your bills being paid then leave jesus alone because if jesus comes walking down the seashore of your story he's going to mess up your intentions because he is disruptive i want you to holla at somebody and say he's shaking us up jesus is disruptive he'll come right when you got things going right when i felt like i had things figured out i had a i had a nice flow going i had everything just seemed like i was catching a rhythm i was finally comfortable and here comes jesus i was finally good with where i am i finally accepted that this is where i am and here comes jesus messing up plans he is disruptive there i was on my uh on my my good job i had a good job and and i was glad for my good job and things were going good maybe if i i stay in this thing for about seven more years i'll get the promotion that they promised me yeah and then here goes god calling you out of your good job and telling you to go in to something not that looks good something that looks scary something that don't make sense something that don't even feel like it's worth leaving what i'm in right now god is disruptive and he'll mess you up he'll get all in your business he'll get all in your comfort zones he'll get all in your flow lord i know how to do this i don't know anything about what you're calling me into i'm secure over here and you're asking me to get into something shaky over here i'm living life cool in a boat here and you're asking me to walk on water over here and he will never ask you i wish he would but he will never ask you to do something you feel comfortable doing he will always give you a purpose that says lord i can't do this unless you help me do this i can't make it without you i can't move without you i can't walk without you i'm gonna lose if i don't have you hey follow me leave your comfort zone and if you do i'll make you follow me and i'll make you follow me and i'll make you a man follow me and i'll make you a wife follow me and i'll make you a ceo follow me and i'll make you a leader even if it looks like you start with a loss you ain't talking to me follow me and i'll make you the head follow me and i'll make you above follow me and i'll make you the lender follow me and i'll make you be healed follow me and i will make you make you make you in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth and the earth without form and void and darkness covered the face of the deep everything was calm everything was cool everything was quiet until god decided to open his mouth and when god decided to open his mouth he cleared his throat and said let there be light light disrupts darkness darkness can't survive in light until god opens his mouth there is nothing but when he does everything changes and everything is disruptive men love darkness because their deeds are evil whenever light comes it disrupts the evil deeds and so as long as you don't know you can't feel conviction but whenever the light comes on all of the sudden i start to see things that i didn't see before let there be light i'm here to tell you that 2020 was not a season of darkness 2020 was god turning on the light god turned the light on in the year of our lord 2020 because where there was no light there was no responsibility but because the light came on we started to see ourselves we started to see our preachers we started to see the condition of our churches because i'm without excuse where there is no light to see and i can't blame people for what i don't see but when the light comes on if i trip i can't blame nobody else and so the lights came on and we saw us we saw our depravities we saw where our faith was not where we thought it was the bible says at the entrance of that word it giveth light that whenever god speaks a word it is called to bring light wherever it is spoken light then makes you accountable follow me lights on follow me and i'll make you two different things follow me that's your job but if you do your job making you is not your responsibility you missed it follow me that's my job but if i follow him it is god's responsibility to make me into what i'm trying to hustle my way into what i'm trying to kiss but to get into what y'all ain't saying nothing i can't hear you uh what what i'm trying to fight my way into and scrap my way into if you follow me you ain't gonna fight your way to be what you're trying to be if you follow me i make you follow me i'll make you follow me you do that i'll do this i'm not going to do this until you do that i okay here i i'm not going to make you nothing until you commit to follow i'm not going to transform nothing until you commit to follow which means you've got to leave something for me to take you to something follow me and i'll make you follow me and i'll make you follow me you do the following god will do the changing you do the following god will do the transforming you do the following god will do the making uh follow me and i will make you interesting you're gonna it sounds like you're gonna make me the same thing follow me and i'll make you fishers which means i'm going to keep some of the stuff from your history when i make you what i'm trying to make you in your future follow me and i'll make you fish i'm going to keep some stuff and i'm going to throw some things out you still going to be fishing you just ain't going to be fishing for what you used to fish for lord this is good preaching you just ain't going to be going for what you used to go for this is good preaching if you listen follow me and i will make you you sh i follow me and and and you're still gonna be a hustler you're just going to hustle for the king of kings yeah yeah you follow me you're still going to be a fighter but but i'm going to show you how to fight the good fight follow me and i will make you fishers not a fish fishers of men and the bible said immediately they dropped their nets immediately they dropped their nets right and so there is something about the initial pool of god and i got to remind you because it's void in this generation there was something about the initial pull of god to purpose that gets an initial response whenever there was a true experience of god and i got to tell you america is in the crisis of true experiences from god i don't think we've lost christians i think we forgot what authentic conversion is you don't like that but i'm going to keep going we have praise breaks now where we can praise while we fix our hair and we can praise while we tuck our shirts in and we can praise and not break a sweat and praise god but it's void of real encounters because i i grew up and it may have been a little much for y'all but i grew up in a place where people would praise and forget where they were well they would praise and they didn't care nothing about their outfit no matter how much they paid for it on the way well they would praise god and they would lose themselves i remember times where we didn't care about what we looked like what we sounded like how we felt when we left there are times i left feeling like i was doing aerobics after a praise and worship service but it was the crazy radical things that pushed me outside of myself so i could find a god encounter i lost control i moved out of the way and the holy ghost began to rock my world in those encounters and there's a few of y'all in here that come from the school i come from where we would experience the kind of power in praise that would destroy yokes that devils would scream out in praise and worship and people will be set free in praise and worship i'm talking about disruptive praise and i'm looking to awaken some disruptive praises in all nations south. the bible said when he called them immediately they dropped their nets now y'all about to get real quiet on me now but i'm talking about the kind of conversion that makes you go home and pack your stuff out of his house i'm talking about the kind of conversion i know silence of the lambs the kind of conversion that makes you leave service and sit in car and delete text messages i'm talking about the kind of conversion that that makes you get rid of screenshots you're keeping for receipts i'm trying to to talk you into the type of conversion that that makes you go and just move contacts off your contact list and now i got to describe it to you because we don't know what it is anymore i got to tell you what it is i'm talking about the kind of conversion that will make you give up a woman you can see for a god you can't see i'm try i'm trying to describe it to you because we don't know it i'm talking about the kind of conversion that will make a dealer drop his dope and an alcoholic pour their liquor out i'm talking about the kind of conversion that i would see people bringing cigarettes and condoms to altar calls you're talking to me i'm talking about the kind of conversion that would take strippers and turn them into evangelists i'm talking about the kind of conversion that requires a reaction that requires a response we want church to inspire us but don't you dare try to change us i know i know inspire me don't change me push me to feel better about myself don't piss me to conviction inspire me don't mess with me i i'll leave your church if it mess with me and find me a church that will inspire me don't tell me i got to drop something don't tell me to follow you i got to drop my nets jesus you you can come get in my boat but don't mess with my nets my nets are how i make a living my nets are my relationship circle my my cause jesus i could be doing something else you better be glad i let you in my boat period it used to be because i don't blame this all on the on the pews i blame a lot of it on the pool but it used to be that people weren't trying to preach to shouts their design was to preach to repentance i i know that that that the goal was not to preach into a praise break but but that that that we would preach until sinners came to the altar saying what would must i do to be saved that we would preach until a spirit of conviction would hit a room so i didn't say condemnation because y'all hear those two words the same but but conviction would hit a room where nobody would make altar calls but altars would flood nobody would would call for a response and people would still respond and they would begin to make commitments with god not with man not with churches commitments with god without even being provoked by a pastor i remember seeing bags of things being dropped on altars i remember seeing bottles people brought in pockets being left on altars i remember seeing people run to their car and getting the stuff they had out there and leaving it on the altar out here i remember when a pull to purpose made you drop your nets made you drop your nets made you drop your comfort zone made you john i don't expect you to holler back today but i still ain't scared of none of y'all and to be honest i'd love to preach it when it starts to scratch the service because because when people start to get mad at me i know that i'm talking to some nets i know i'm speaking to nets just help me find them just elbow somebody and say you got to drop nets you got to drop nets you got to drop debts you got to drop nets that means that i'm coming if i drop nets that means i'm coming empty-handed that means i'm coming to your purpose and i'm not coming with my own agenda that means i'm coming to all nations and it's not because i want to be on a cd i'm coming to all nations and it's not so i can get matthew stevenson to see me i'm coming to all nations and my agendas have been dropped i'm not in honor to be discovered i'm in god's house to be changed somebody holler drop your nets preach man drop your nets so the bible said immediately they dropped their nets and followed him they dropped their nets and followed him and what i want you to see is that what they did immediately is change gradually what they did immediately is change gradually they immediately started a process they immediately started because we read it as if it's in this moment they are transformed into the fishes of men from the fishes of fish when we read it it sounds like it's over then follow me and i'll make you and they dropped their nets and they followed him end of story right no this is the beginning of a brand new way the beginning of a brand new life the beginning of something completely new what i'm trying to help you is to lose the condemnation because what i'm going to show you is they followed him but they still struggled in the follow they still struggled in the steps to become in fact peter's boat stays around for several chapters peter's boat don't go nowhere in fact god uses peter's boat it's about to bless somebody right here god uses peter's boat the god who called him from the boat preaches from his boat the god who said leave that boat gets on his boat and preaches from his boat the god who said drop that struggle stands on his struggle and preaches from his struggle the bible said that later jesus got on the boat with peter you know the one you were supposed to drop and leave and move on from and follow me he got on the boat from peter and used what he was supposed to leave as his platform he preached from the very thing he called him from good god that the very thing that he was trying to separate peter from was now a platform for god's glory to be revealed and peter drops his nets and he jumps them in a moment but he picked them back up yeah he dropped them but he picked them back up yeah he left it but he went back to it yeah he moved out but he called her again he went back to what god called him from in 2020 much of the church was tested by temptations we thought we were over i had i had people hit me up that that i didn't think i would ever hear from again i had i had some some thoughts that i never thought i would ever have again i ain't been depressed since i was a teenager and all of a sudden in this year i had some suicidal thoughts that i struggled with in 10 years yeah i moved on from this but when times got tough i still picked up my nets again started struggling with some things i thought i was over with again that and he had him on the boat and he had him on the boat the whole time which means that there's some things that maybe you dropped but you didn't cut off are there some things that you said you're over but you still have in your back pocket just in case i i've been drunk since i was a teenager and this pandemic came and slapped me in the face and i coped with what i thought i was over jesus preached on peter's boat the one that still had the nets that he told him to drop and follow him he used the same boat with nets to cast out devils from he used the same boat with nets to preach from jesus was keeping peter alive in a storm in a boat with the nets he told him to leave when the storm came out and the boat was about to break jesus saved peter walked to the end of the boat that we were not even supposed to have and said peace be still on the boat that still had the nets that still had the struggle that still had the thing i needed to move from and i know we can't shout right now because you don't want anybody to know that jesus saved you on a boat with nets that jesus carried you through a crisis on a boat with nets that jesus helped you survive and gave you favor on a boat with nets that jesus gave you a promotion on a boat with nets that jesus gave you jobs and better jobs raises and bonuses sales and commissions on a boat with nets that jesus did what jesus does on a boat with nets because sometimes we can move into situations because he's trying to move peter from being a fisher of fish to being a fisher of men and sometimes god sees things in you that you don't even see in yourself and i know you don't want to mess up your church image and i know you stayed home and watching me from the couch and you're glad you did today because you want to act like god only delivers you because you are holy and because you were perfect and because you just committed to purity and because you stopped being selfish and because you were never jealous but we're the real church at have you ever had god rebuke a storm in your life on a boat with nets [Music] saved my life in a boat with nets and and i can't see what god sees so i'm having trouble letting go of what he's calling me from jesus calms the storms and we make it over but we make it over on a boat with nets he heals me on a boat with nets he stops car wrecks on a boat with nets he delivers me from rejection and yet i still sit in a boat with nets and he's bringing me through this process i told you they immediately started a gradually thing and so jesus preaches from the boat and even though he preaches from the boat even though he rebukes storms from the boat over and over again he keeps challenging peter to move from being what you were into what i'm trying to make you to be you keep going back to what you see but he keeps trying to pull out of you what he sees and to me this whole text is about nothing but the amazing patience that god has with us the patience that god has for people that are committed to getting his future but only if i can keep my boat witness it's the patience of god that will work with the man and ride on his boat with nets and preach on his boat with nets and rebuke storm on the boat with nets and yet while i use your nets i'm gonna keep calling you from them i'll use the boat but i'm gonna keep processing you out of it this is the process of purpose i'll use you while you got this boat but i'm never going to stop calling you out of it i'll use these nets but i'm never going to stop telling you to drop them follow me and i'll make you fishers of men you think that you're just a fisherman but that's because that's all your family's ever been that's because what that's what they raised you to be this is what they built you to be this is what they fashioned you to be all your friends are fishermen and so fisherman is a fisherman because fishermen hang with fishermen do you want to know what you are show me what you run with you want to know what you are show me what you surround yourself with and that's why you got to make sure that you find the right family we had a whole group that went through our discovery class yesterday and joining this family because they had to find the right circle i had to find the right context because before i could ever find my purpose i got to define my family before i ever find my next i got to define who i got in my boat you are defined by your environment and that's why i told y'all follow me because i'm changing your family follow me cause i'm changing who has your ear and who you give your mouth to i'm pulling you out of the circle that you once found your identity from out of your friend base out of your support base out of your comfort zone out of what is easy for you out of what you do naturally you are used to hanging with fishermen but i'm gonna put you in a new family i'm gonna put you in a boat and i'm gonna put you in a boat with tax collectors and i'm gonna put you in a boat with physicians and i'm gonna put you in a boat with people who ain't good at what you're good at i'm gonna surround you with people who don't share your strength so they can challenge your weakness which means i'm about to put you in a circle where you aren't going to feel like you fit in i don't fit in this boat because i'm not calling you to be what you were because you're always trying to fit in with what you think you are but i'm taking you out of your circle to help you find a family for your future follow me and i'm going to change you and you're never going to know the day it happened you're not going to know the moment it clicked at some point you're going to look back and see i'm not who i was i don't know when it happened i don't know when i stopped calling them i don't know when i stopped drinking that i don't know when i stopped coping with that but but at some point i found myself in a moment where i turned around and i realized i'm not fishing for what i used to fish for i'm not building for what i used to build for and he says he says i'm gonna i'm going to push you into some scenarios where you're going to have to find confidence in a place that is not built to give you self-esteem that that you're not even going to know when it happened to you but soon you're going to stand up peter and you're not going to fish for fish you're going to speak to an entire church and birth the thing i'm here to die for when i get through changing you the very people who denied me are going to preach for me follow me i know you're going to deny me i know you're going to betray me i know you're going to get mad at me i know you're going to talk bad about me i know you're going to lie and say you don't know me i know you're going to hit a scenario and say is he even real i know you're going to act like i didn't do what i did for you but when everybody wants to put you out i'm still going to come back and say where is peter where's peter and in 2021 i i see jesus walking the seashore of the american church saying where's peter where's peter where can i find him where is peter at and we've got to understand that what jesus is trying to grow in us is can you follow me even when you're wrong can you follow me when you feel like maybe i'm out of purpose can you follow me when you feel like it's not i'm gonna test you and i'm gonna put you in storms and then i'm gonna come walking out on water and out of all the 12 people i'm going to give you opportunities that i don't give the rest and i'm going to say come on and walk out of that boat and you'll step out of the boat into the water because what i'm trying to do is the same thing i've been trying to do from the beginning get you to walk out of what you came from i'm doing the same thing on the water that i did on the seashore come out from the boat and step into the unfamiliar things got dark and things got bad that the guy i left my business for dies i left for you and now it seems like you left me i i gave up all that for you and i got out here where i don't even feel like i can really go back and now i feel alone i left them for you and then i hit a season where it feels like you left me i hit a year where it felt like where did god go all these people dying where did god go a pandemic where did god go i left all that and i'm out here on water where did god go jesus comes back from the dead raises because we got to understand that what he's doing the whole time is birthing the church but he's also birthing a people that can birth the church so he comes back from the dead and when it got dark the same peter that left the boat with nets says what a bunch of us said last year i'm going fishing forget all that i'm going fishing appreciate your church thing i'm going fishing i'm tired of giving all that up for a purpose that you let die in this moment i'm going fishing you told me start the business and then took me through a financial crisis i'm going fisher i'm going fishing literally means i'm going back to what i know i'm going back to what's comfortable i'm going back because i know how to do that i i know we want to act like we don't know how to do what we used to do but i can still do the same thing i did i can still roll a blunt the same way i used to lord jesus y'all i i can i can still hang with the best of them i can i can still do what i did and i could probably do it better now because i'm a little smarter now i can i can still do what i did and so he goes back and he gets back on the boat because i'm going fishing it's not just an event it's a relationship i'm in i'm in relationship with my history and whenever times get tough i call my old girlfriend back i'm in a relationship with history i'm i'm in a relationship with what i used to be in because now i want to go back into completely giving up what i've been changing and that is the challenge because these things don't happen quickly these adjustments don't happen quickly and he says i hit a moment of pain and crisis and now i'm ready to forget it all i'm ready to forget the process i'm going fishing means i am what i am stop messing with me i'm going fishing means this is my personality don't you try to adjust me i'm going fishing means i'm sick of this stuff i'm going fishing means i'm going back to where i'm comfortable i'm going fishing it means i'm going to jump back in what's natural to me i'm going fishing means i'm going to cuss the out of everybody that tries to cross me again i'm going fishing means i'm going back i'm going fishing means i'm dropping this church game i'm going fishing meats i'm going to get rid of them church dresses and go find me some mini skirts i'm going fishing means i'm not going to do what i've been setting my eyes to do and i think it's weird that that peter has this moment of change and the moment don't happen at the height because it seems like it would have been great to culminate the change at the mount of transfiguration you took me up to the highest point and i saw what nobody else saw i literally saw jesus i saw dead men talking to jesus moses and elijah are in a conversation with jesus and peter is at the pinnacle of his christian experience and he's ready to build three tabernacles that peter at this time is ready to sign himself up to be the elder of mount transfiguration i'm i'm gonna stay here this is what i've been waiting for this is the moment i've been building for it's the pinnacle the glory appeared everything started happening now i have arrived this is the greatest point for the greatest change peter's excited peter's ready to do it all put me in charge i'll run this whole thing because listen i've had people that ask for positions in church and they don't even come to church consistently how are you going to be a leader in zion and you don't even attend zion leadership is not cheap leadership is not easy leadership ain't about talent leadership ain't about sp uh spurts of inspiration leadership is about can you be inspired when there is no inspiration can you be committed when there is no inspiration it ain't about a title it ain't about a parking space it ain't about an office it ain't about a suit it is about a disruptive nature that god gives you that says come hella high water i'm a leader and he says i'm going back to comfort because christ will always disrupt you to the point of inner conflict christ disrupts him on his path to purpose and he starts having inner conflict conflict you pulled me out of the barn you pulled me out of the club and you pulled me out of relationships you pulled me out of all this stuff and you disrupted my situation so much that i don't even fit in with my old clique anymore and they say you're trying to be holy and you think you're better than us now but but i saw you do so i saw you do this and i saw you do that and i was with you when you did that and now you're up there praying on the intercessor team who you think you are who do you think you are i know what you really are lord you don't want to talk to me let me hurry up when peter says i'm going fishing push has come to shove and he's walking and he's walking on the boat again and he's out on the water and he succumbs to his base understanding of his identity i'm going fishing and in closing he goes back to who he was and he starts throwing nets again he starts throwing nets i'm throwing i'm just doing what i know to do i'm just going to go back and do what's comfortable and look at what god does to him he throws out what used to come easy and he doesn't catch a fish all night long and he goes into more conflict now because he says i know how to fish i know how to do this because god will take you to a point in the process where you think you can manipulate your way into purpose but he's going to show you you can't do any of this without me you can't even do what you used to do because i won't let you be good at it lord jesus he'll shut every door where you can't even get a job in your old field nobody will help me nobody will bring me back in because he said follow me peter threw nets all night caught nothing caught nothing you didn't catch one caught nothing fishing all night long fished until he was naked fished out of his clothes literally he's losing his mind because i can't find a coping mechanism anymore the thing that used to do it for me ain't doing it for me no more the thing that used to help me survive ain't helping me no more and he caught nothing until the morning and in the morning look at somebody say in the morning in the morning here comes jesus walking down the seashore first of all you're supposed to be dead so don't forget that here comes jesus the dead man now alive walking down the seashore the same place where you first met me the same place where you first called me out and jesus comes walking down the seashore eating a fish sandwich he's literally on the seashore cooking what peter's searching for he's got in his hand the thing peter has been fighting all night for letting him know that everything you fishing for i already got it lord jesus what you're trying to find i already have in my hand it's not in your hand and it's not in your nets and it's not in your boat what you're hungry for is in my hand can't nobody love you like me can't nobody help you like me can't nobody use you like me can't nobody be there for you like i can everything you've been searching for i got it in my hand and you got to understand that peter has been casting his net all night long for what jesus already has cooked up you sweat for an entire day what jesus has for you in a moment you are working for what he's trying to gift you with do you hear what i'm saying this is how that jesus calls out to him he don't even know it's jesus jesus calls out to him and says hey bro have you caught anything look at look at petty jesus have you caught anything have you eating meat this is jesus language for how's that working out for you how's your way working out how's your path going how's that thing working out for you now how how's that doing your own thing working how's that you showing out working you you don't been through three relationships now how's your way working out ah you you done trying to get your way into the job and every door is closed and now you're having to do things you never thought you'd do to try to get where you're trying to get how's that working out for you how's that trying to pay your own bills working out for you how's that trying to get your own future working out for you you insist on doing your own thing how's that going have you any meat have you any fish your heart is broken because you're sitting at the side of the bed at night thinking about cutting your own wrist how is that working out for you you were on your way to purpose and now you feel like dying how's that working out for you he's letting him you got to understand how's it working out for you while i'm sitting on the beach cooking what you say you want what jesus is letting him see is i'm going to let you catch the aroma of your next dimension i'm going to let you catch the smell of your next level just just a hint of it i'm gonna let you catch a whiff of what you could be and what i'm trying to make you i'm gonna let you catch a smell of what i could make you if you would say yes to me and all of a sudden peter just on a whiff of what he could be dives out of the boat and starts swimming to shore and the weird thing is he leaps off the boat right after jesus finally helped him catch some fish you finally caught what you're trying to get all night and you still jumped off the boat and came to me it's the last test of peter uh i'll give you what you want but i want to know if you want me more than what you want do you want me or do you want the fish i'll give you in church language do you want purpose more than you want the father are you making an idol of destiny and forgetting the god of the harvest the weird thing is he leaps off the boat after jesus helps him catch the fish jesus helps him catch it and that's just like showing showing you how to pull out what you like and to pull out what you want and jesus tells him drop the net on the other side of the boat and there's a catch but now peter is so stirred because he don't even know any longer want the fish he wants jesus i want jesus more than i want the fish you just gave me so the fisher of fish has left a boat full of harvest to go and pursue the god of the harvest i finally got it and i'm willing to leave it all if i can have you if i get you i'll leave everything i've been living for it's the same thing he does to abraham and isaac you gave me the son of promise the last test is will you sacrifice to me what i gave you it's not just about you getting the dream it's can you still love god when he gives it to you can i still have a heart for his way when he gives me what i've been pressing for everything you did you told yourself you would never do it he said i've already got it cooked and prepared for you i've already got this thing finished everything you need is already completed he said i'll give you houses you didn't build and i'll give you vineyards that you didn't plant and i'll make you the head and not the tail and when i open the door nobody will be able to shut it but when i get through blessing you i'll make up for anything that you lost on the way to the blessing everything you gave up i'm gonna give it back to you press down shake it together running over and you ain't gonna have to catch it you ain't gonna have to wash it you ain't gonna have to scale it you ain't gonna have to cook it in other words when you get this right i'll give you a prepared blessing [Applause] i'll give you a thing that's already finished i'll give you a thing that's already worked out and i'll know you're prepared not because you left the boat not because you left the net but because you left the fish i'll know you're ready because you'll say god even though i have this if i don't have you i'll leave that this is the job you said i should be in but if this thing keeps me from pursuing your presence god i'll quit today it ain't about the boat it ain't about the net it's about when it goes right where are you when you finally get the spouse where are you when you get the moment you've been waiting for where are you and what god is about to do in this house and in this people you could just place saul what god is about to do in this house and in this people is i fully believe that god is about to release to you a favorable moment and a season of harvest but his call for you is don't forget the jesus just because you caught the fish don't forget me just cause you got what you've been wanting in other words don't make me your genie in a bottle and don't praise me until i give you dollars and jobs and and happiness and joy can you praise me no matter what the day is praise him in the morning praise him in the noon day praise him when the sun goes down i praise you on good days praise you on bad days i'll praise you when you're in the grave and i'll praise you when you're resurrected i'll praise you when i'm not catching anything at night and i'll praise you when my nets are full can you have the same posture about me no matter what level of life i have you in in the moment a lot of the test of 2020 was in a down time how do you feel about me when everything flipped on his head how did you feel about god and i don't want you to avoid what your thoughts were over the course of the past 15 months what did you think about god last year you need to press into that did you think god abandoned you you need to press into that do you think god forgot you you need to press into that because that means there may still be some orphan spirit in there there may still be some rejection in there if i don't have resolved in my spirit in my soul that he loves me even when storms come that he is with me even when the wind blows you got to lean into that because that's the same thing he's going to test with the catch how are you about me and my pool for all nations south is to make sure that some of you a are not on your boat again and have not run back to your boat because of what we just went through but to also make sure for those of you that are in the harvest of what we just went through that you're not forgetting the god who carried you through i can't forget god remember the lord and his benefits every head bowed every eye closed father i'm asking you to take us in a journey of our own soul father if any of us would be honest in here there are several of us i know i'm one of them over the past year that felt some peter stirring over the past year that felt some felt some man i would be better off going another way i would be better off doing an old thing i could be better off doing was this the right decision did i go the right way peter don't pick those nets back up don't go back to that boat the call of god right now is you got to sink that boat sink that boat i highlighted it about a month ago but but several of us our boat is our plan b our if god don't do this i'll do that if god don't give me isaac i'll go get hagar and get me ishmael what is my plan b and what is god trying to get me to sink because god's already cooked up everything i think i need and everything i think i want but he's asking me to look for it in his hand and not just his work father may we not be so committed to doing that we don't commit to being help us be what we're trying to do make me before you send me follow if i follow you god help us follow you when it doesn't make sense and follow you when you're asking us to leave things that we love and follow you when you're asking us to abandon things that we thought was intake attached to our future as we follow you i'm asking you to make us over make us new make us afresh make us something we were not before and father i thank you that everything i went through is not going to be left behind but father you have allowed us to endure some things that are necessary for where we are going and i'm asking you to take some of our old skill sets and put your hand on top of that thing father i'm asking you we were good communicators father don't let us abandon that but let us find a way to get your hand on that father i thank you for being a god of provision and a god that makes a way and i'm asking you to help us sink our boat so we can find it in your hand you have a prepared blessing you have a finished blessing you have something that is already done and already completed father may we not strive to make it happen in our own mind and in our own power but father may we know that the reception of this if we don't do it the right way is going to be by your spirit open the heavens to us and may we find the fish in your head that we find the future in your hand that we find the version of ourselves that we're trying to become in your head it's already prepared it's already prepared it's already prepared lord as we commit to you now in a fresh way if there's anybody in this place that you say there are some moments that i've had a peter encounter but i'm ready to get off the boat and find it in his hand and you're going to commit to keep your eyes on him no matter what i want you to stand right where you are and lift your hands and say father i'll sing the bow to follow i'll sink the boat i'll sink the boat i'll sink the boat i know i was not my last crisis but i won't go back to the boat in the next one i know that was not the last time pain will come but i won't go back to the boat again i'm seeking it once and for all and father i thank you that my future is only established on you on christ the solid rock i stand all over ground is sinking said may the garage of the future through the hands of labor be broken in the name of jesus lord give it to us in your way order our steps we will follow come on tell them that for yourself i will follow i will follow where you lead me i will follow the i will follow i will go where you go if you shoot me i'll go if you say do it i'll do it if you say leave it i'll leave it if you say pursue i'll pursue and i hear the word of the lord over some peters in this room saying pursue the future pursue the future now that we've resolved this i'm ready to birth the church i'm ready to birth your purpose i'm ready to perk your debts i've been waiting on you to be the version of you you are now you endured the crisis you enjoyed the pain and you kept your eyes on me and if you keep your eyes on me there is help coming down the way now well help is on the way for those whose eyes i set on him father i for launching us into a season of come out of the boat come out of the boat walk on water walk up what you used to seeking walk on what you should trap you walk off what dominion over what we used to ride in defend yet over what we used to fall in father i thank you that you're going to send us back to the water we came from [Music] [Music] of making sure that the world knows that i'm not who i am because i'm good i'm who i am because of who i'm under because of who's carrying me because of who wants me because of who made me i am who i am by the blood of the lamb and because of that i give your name the praise and they will know that there is a god that can change them that there is a god that can make you better that there is a god that can make them bigger if you know that you survived and you endured and you pressed and you're not going back to the boat clap your hands and let him know i'm going to the future i'm going to the future i'm birthing what's next i'm pushing out what i've been created for in the name of jesus just tell three or four people i'm leaving the boat i'm leaving the boat i'm leaving the boat i'm leaving the boat lift your hands may the lord bless you and may the lord keep you may you make his face shine upon you may he establish him and may he give you peace and as you seek your vote may you walk on water in the name of jesus amen and amen all nations i love you i love you online we'll see you next shot

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Published: Tue Jun 29 2021