Sometimes I Just Don't Know

Romans chapter 8 is where we're going to go today I want to just read a few verses of Scripture if you have it and you can stand for the reading of God's Word let's do that quickly and then I'll let you sit down but don't rush me because I got to stand the whole time and these y'all can stand Wow well we read this let's begin at verse 20 Romans chapter 8 beginning at verse 24 and the scripture says for we let me back up I went back up just a minute go to 23 and not only they but ourselves also which have the firstfruits of the Spirit even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body for we are saved by hope now we are we don't always hear that we always hear that we're saved by grace so this is a little bit different for we are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for but if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it likewise the spirit also help with our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groaning with groanings which cannot be uttered and he that searches the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose verse 26 says that likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities because if the truth be told we don't really even know what to pray for we know not how to pray and so there are times that the spirit within us begins to make intercession for us I'm grateful for those times because there's times that I don't even know how to ask I don't even know what in the world I'm what I'm asking for what I'm I don't know what to want I don't know what to pray for there are just times that that I just I just I don't know I don't know if that scares you to think that you're sitting here today because when you come to church on Sunday morning you want to think the pastor knows but there are times that that I just don't know and I dare say that if everybody was honest in this room today even those of them were the most spiritual ones among us there would be people who would say there are times when life hits me that I I don't even know I don't know what to say I don't know what to do I don't know what to think I don't know I know where to turn but that's about all I know I know to turn my face toward him but life can hit you so hard that you just you don't know look to your neighbor on the right and say neighbor sometimes it's okay to not know turn to your other neighbors say neighbor sometimes it's okay to say I just don't know I don't know I don't know I'm not God I serve God but I'm not God I love God but I'm not God make no mistake about it I am NOT him he's greater he's amazing he's wonderful he knows all things spirit of the Living God what an awesome moment to sit and just break open this word I pray God that you would just move in this place today your word is quickened it's alive it's sharp it finds us right where we are says what to says to us what we need to have said to us I prayed that you would just anoint me God to declare your word in this place find every year or every hungry person every reaching person every person that wants to hear the sound of your voice may they hear you in this word today and we'll give you things for it in the name of Jesus on your way down just touch somebody and tell them I don't know come on say it with a little attitude I don't know why are you asking me I don't know the beginning of wisdom is learning what you don't know I said the beginning of wisdom is learning what you don't know whenever I got to that part that said that we are saved by hope when I read that not that I hadn't read that before but it's it just kind of jumped out at me last night as I began reading that and so I want to just explain what what that means or what I believe that that means when it says we are saved by hope the Bible is not talking about our spirit because our spirit is is saved by by grace through faith our spirit man how many of you know we are spirit we are soul and we are body so when it's talking about I'm safe I hope it's it's talking about our body when Romans 8 and where we just read that says we are saved by hope it's talking about not just not just the saving of our spirit not just the saving of our soul for my my spirit is saved my soul is being saved and my body shall be saved by that what I'm saying is when I when the candle of the Lord is lit and I accept Jesus Christ into my heart I am immediately saved if anything happened to me I would be with the president I would be find myself in the presence of the Lord because my spirit is saved however my soul being saved is a journey because it is daily that he begins to renew my mind and he renews the way I think and and when it comes to my body my body shall be saved because whether you know it or not right now your body is not saved okay you're looking at me funny but it's really not safe your body's not saying your spirit is saying your soul is being saved but your body's not safe because if your body was saved you wouldn't have that corn on the end of your toe you wouldn't be looking in the mirror saying the Lord where is that coming from so our body is being saved and the salvation of our body that is the Blessed hope that we have as as the believers and so my body is not yet saved the redemption of my body is my Blessed hope and it is until that happens the Bible says it is with patience that we wait for it and we are all waiting on the redemption of our body and in the meantime as we wait life sends us these reminders periodically along the way that life is really but a vapor it is here one minute it has gone the next and if you are feeling young and spry be happy about where you are because if you live long enough that's going to change if you feel like you are young like my mama would say she'd say she'd say Cheryl you are young and on your first legs run upstairs and get me I don't know how many legs she thought we were supposed to get in a lifetime but whatever apparently I was always younger though my first ones and she would say you're young and on your first leg so if you're young and on your first legs or if you feel in invigorated by my life and my passion then seize that moment because as you continue to live in his life life happens and you see people that you love as you see them die and you see them pass away you you start to begin to understand real quickly that there are some things in life that you just don't have control over you don't have control over as many things as you think you might have control over look at somebody and tell them there are some things out of your control now I don't know if that does for you what it does for me but every now and then it helps me to be reminded of that because for whatever reason we feel like we have to be in control of everything and we are control freaks and don't act like you're not because all of us are to a certain degree are like that but it does us good to be reminded every now and then that I can't fix everything and I'm not God and and I I can't I should act like I am because I am NOT and just when I think I am he will quickly remind me that that things are out of my control and if we're not careful life will kill us trying to make us feel like we are in control and we have to have the perfect thing to say and we have to be at the right place at the right time and and we've got to do everything just right but but at the end of the day God is the only only God that is actually in control of everything he tells somebody he's in control he's got you he's in control of you your house your dreams your desires your family your vision he's and he is the God that is in control Bishop and I had our phones out the other night and we were we were looking at our American Airline app and he was telling me that he was at the Million Mile status and and so I pulled my phone out - and so am i and I showed him that I was I believe I had him I don't know how much he had but I had about a million and a half air miles that I have traveled or that I've got credit for anyway let's say it like that but before we were million milers in air miles we were million milers in car miles because we traveled all the time and road miles I'll say it like that cuz we traveled in just about everything you could imagine but we we have we have a lot of miles on us that's what I'm trying to say we look young but I'm mileage is very high very high and I remember we used to travel and we'd go preach in every just about every little city you can imagine cities that you didn't even know where cities we were there and we had come for a revival and so back then we didn't have those little devices that you put in your car called gps's and we didn't have smartphones we had to stop at every every little corner store and pick up a map he might know where the map is okay I mean a physical Rand McNally map you know what I'm talking about one of those who big old maps that you open up and it's just it's that big and so we would we'd stop and I we'd get him map and I'd open it up he'd study it a little bit and then he pass it over to me and he'd take off driving and he forgot some or he got confused he'd say no what does that road say what do I do when I get right here and and I'm be like I don't I don't know I can't even see it it's so small I can't even see the print on it and and so it became a little stressful having to get where we were going on those maps I'm grateful to this day for a GPS on my smartphone okay and and it became stressful because when you're not sure that you're on the right row old then that's going to be worrisome to you have you ever found yourself like about an hour down the wrong road going in the wrong direction we've done that before and and I'm I mean he's a genius so he'll always figure out how to get back where we were going but it's it can be frustrating and stressful to be on the road and and not know if you're in there on the right Road sometimes you can be on the right road but because you're unsure that you're on the right Road or you don't you're not quite positive that you're on the right Road you find yourself in stressed out by it all anyway but the truth of the matter is you are on the right road and everything is gonna be alright but it is that uncertainty that brings stress to your travel plans have have you ever especially if you've never been there before if you're going someplace that you have never been there before it really gets stressful because it feels like it's taking you forever and you're like this cannot be right but then after you've gone that way when you get ready to come back home you'll find yourself getting home a lot quicker than you then you got to your destination because you kind of had been that way before I've been there done that and you realized it was right and so it can be stressful when you are on a road that you're not for sure that that's exactly where you you need to be and and the difference between going and coming is you were uncertain when you were going but on your way back you got this town and you're and unsnapping wears you out like uncertainty at least if you're me I hate being uncertain I want to know the plan okay what are we doing I want to know don't say well we're just kind of gonna play it by ear and no I need you to play it by mouth and I need you to tell me the plan I don't like that uncertainty wears me out if it causes my patients to wear thin and it because uncertainty drains me and it depletes me and and we find ourself wore out of the journey not because of the vehicle that we're in and not because of the road that we're on and not because of the fact that we are moving and and moving but but it's it's the pressure that that that causes me of uncertainty that makes me uncomfortable comfortable the pressure doesn't come from the car it doesn't come from the tires it really doesn't come from the potholes or the passengers that are in the car with me but it comes from driving with the feeling of being uncertain now when you know where you're going you can be you can almost get there subconsciously you could almost shut your eyes have you ever went someplace so many times that you could like blindfold me and I can get you there y'all ain't like that like but it's true I mean I and you don't even think about it you'll be talking on the phone while you're while you're driving which don't do that cuz you're gonna get in trouble for that but you you could be your mind can be a thousand other places but you still get where you're going because you're a creature of habit and you've done it so many times you don't think twice about it the problem with life however is that we are all going at all times to a place that we've really never been before and so that makes life stressful we are moving in a direction that we've never been before we are navigating a course that we've never been before we are raising children and we've never raised children before and so now we're like okay so so how do I do this we find ourself changing careers and even in later in life and we're like God okay I've never worked in this career I've never worked in this field and so we find ourselves stressed out I'm gonna seize it god I'm in a stage that I have never been in before and it's one thing to be in a stage you've never been in before when you're 20 but when you start those 40s in those 50s and your life god I'm having to learn everything all over again that's stressful it's stressful because I've never been here before and like you have never been the age you are right now before and just when you learned the master your 30s you have a birthday and like I'm cold between I'm cool between 31 and 39 but when I cross over that thing into forties I remember it bothered me and then I was okay at 41 but then when I cross over that thing that sent me into the 50s that bothered me I'm get ready to be 60 this year I know I'm fine he knows I'm fine and that's what matters but the truth of the matter is I don't know how to be 60 okay I just I don't know how to do it and that makes it stressful every age brings new challenges okay I used to watch my mom talk about her back hurting well I didn't know what that was like now I know my back hurts and I didn't pay attention how she how she processed it cuz I didn't think it was ever gonna happen to me watch out though cuz it happens to you too I remember when I was a child when I was a child I learned how to be a child I learned how to learn how to work my dad and I was his I was his favorite I was a special kid and so I could say things and I could get my way I loved being a child but then I grew up and and I be I found myself becoming a teenager when I became a teenager I had to learn how to be a teenager I knew how to be a child but now I gotta learn how to be a teenager just when I learned how to be a teenager then I had to becoming a young adult how do you be young adult you know I spent all these years trying to be a teenager and the moment I figured out how to be a young adult then I realized whoops I'm not a young adult anymore you know what I'm saying that's how life does you you're single for seems like forever and then all of a sudden when you master being single now you got to master how to be married and then you I've mastered that being a woman but now I gotta master being a wife and now I got to figure out once I get good with my rhythm of being a wife then I got to figure out how to be a mother cuz all of the mothers in the world at one time was a first-time mother and so the problem the problem with life is you make mistakes along the way but you don't get a do-over I said you don't get into a I don't never get to do my 20s again I'll never get to do the things I did when I was younger again and so and and and just Friday night it was listening to a book on audible and this woman was talking about the stages the development of stages of children and how that if you do not give that child the mirroring that they need when they are in their infant stages like if they smile at you and you don't smile back to them then that causes them not to have self-worth and you got to give back to them what they're giving to you and it causes them to grow up knowing that they are somebody and if you don't give them the things that they need I believe she said between the age of of 15 months and 25 months then then they're gonna grow up dysfunctional and I'm like whoa why wouldn't you in my life telling me that when my babies were born you know I mean and because I can't do it over I can't go back and say okay come on we're I'm gonna we're gonna reel in this moment and you're gonna come into the world and I'm gonna do everything perfect no I just had to raise them with all of my insecurities with everything that I didn't have I just had to raise them I had to raise them Bishop and I had to raise them through trial and through error we had to raise them being unsure but the one good thing that we did have is we had enough sense to tap on the resources that were around us and say hey can you help me with this I can't stand people that are so arrogant that they got resources right at their fingertips but they're so full of pride they can't open their mouth and say how did you handle this you better open your mouth and holler and say hey you you've done this so when my kids were little I would just like call my sister or I would call cuz they had kids that were grown by the time I started having kids and so they would they would tell me things I'd ask my mom I would say is this normal in a child it what's normal what's not normal is this little temper tantrum is this is this okay when I run after them and they they turn around and keep running and instead of saying instead of coming to where is that normal should I let that happen or should I yank them up as I go to ever run away from me you know I think are they is this an allergic reaction what is what is all of this and and and and I had that problem because I had never done that before and and so I was drawn the resources I but I had to raise them uncertainties and all I had to keep on being to them what they needed uncertainty is not comfortable and look at your life I guarantee that every last one of us under the sound of my voice today are living right now with some kind of uncertainty because life is filled with uncertainties you never outgrow it either you never out age it either and once lana was my first born shoot and she was sick all the time and i didn't realize that she was allergic to her formula and and and finally when i'm mad sir that I felt like I had her race little did I know that ear infections were coming little did I know that uh preschool was coming and that she would go through separation anxiety and I would go through separation anxiety I'd take her to preschool drop her off and we didn't have cameras back then so I would just stand back and I'd be like she's gonna be okay maybe I should swoop in there and get her I'm the helicopter helicopter mom but now I'm a helicopter grandma because I look at them on the little screens and like you need to help my grandchild right now Lord when Mason and Mariah were born by then that was my eighth and ninth grandchild and Mason was in the NICU and we had those little cameras that we could watch and watch him in his bed I was I was a tyrant because you know that was my grandbaby and he needed some help but see it's all of those were first things in life and and just when I got my kids into into preschool then it came time for me to take him into into real school and then once we conquered that Lord we had to go to middle school that was like that was a game all by itself then we had to go to high school Lord and then they started dating Jesus have mercy they started driving and I will never forget when Lana and Tina Landon was at the wheel teen Anita were in the car and when I watched that car drive off out of my house for the first time I nearly had a meltdown I'm just the blood of Jesus the blood Lord do not take my entire family away from me at once I mean it was crazy it was then they got married it was said those first stages of everything are stressful when you were single and you got married you had to learn how to be married you looked at your friends and you thought because you watch them do it that you knew what to do about it then you had to learn to be married with children then you had to get used to them children being in your house and in your space and finally when you conquered that then you had to get used to them leaving and so now your house is a wreck because you know like it was noisy at one time and it was driving me crazy but now it's so quiet that it's driving me crazy I couldn't wait for them to get out but now I'm like are they coming are they coming back to them you're coming by today because such is life and and and just just when I thought that it was gonna be me and him then I had to move mom in so here we are again dealing with changes there are a lot of firsts that we have to face in life and because there are a lot of firsts there are a lot of uncertainties and because there are a lot of uncertainties we live with a lot of pressure the only people that have ever conquered life and the only people that know what life is really about our teenagers they know everything you know what I mean they just know everything no mom I'm telling you right now this is how you have to do not know anything never mind that you have never done this one day in your life but you still think you know everything about it but the guys y'all are like that too because you'll be sitting on the edge of the on the couch and you'll be watching a football game and you'd be like what in the world was he thinking that was the stupidest move but we do that because we're not in the game and because when you're in the game you see everything you see angles and you see twists and you see turns and but when you ain't never played a day in your life it's easy to sit on the couch and judge everybody else who's out on the field look at somebody say don't judge me don't judge me because when you I never done it you think it's systematic and you think well that's just obvious you should know how to do that but you don't realize that there are different dynamics that happen when you actually get involved in the game and so there are a lot of different scenarios there are twists and there are turns in life and it's easy to judge me and my kids and totally ignore the fact that you and your kids are crazy too if you've never done anything then then we have the the tendency to underestimate what could happen because you don't know what could happen but experience will teach you how to how to respect what you find yourself up against I said experience will teach you how to respect what you find yourself up against oh yeah one minute I'm a young person okay I'm getting married you're getting what you just met him well ma this I know I just know yeah I mean I just know I love him well couldn't it could it be that the reason you love him is because you haven't met him I mean could it be I'm just asking no mom I this is the one we're getting married we're getting married in six months I've already got my eyes on the dress and I got I know how I want everything decorated I know everything all about it and then they get married and three months later mom I just can't take this anymore I'm done I'm finished I'm over I'm over it I'm just over it really that's cuz you put more time into and more expense into building the wedding than you did building the marriage and so when you come up against your first bump in the road you're ready to walk away from everything so but if you keep living you learn that you can't control everything about life and you can't control every person that is in your life either and and you learn uh you know you learn like okay I thought I'd have a white picket house with a white picket fence but you you learn okay so maybe maybe I don't maybe I'm just going to live in the project I don't know where I'm going to live I lived in inner city Detroit I just know I was going to have a nice house because I put my time in living there but instead I lived in a bus and we traveled all over the world in a bus that was my home life can be unpredictable and the longer you live it the more you realize how unpredictable it can it can be and then it becomes those uncertainties calls us to have all kinds of pressure because uncertainty creates its own pressure like meat creates its own gravy it'll stress you out but people who really understand worship and I believe this is why worship has always been so real to me is that people who understand worship they also understand that the further they go into worship the quicker they leave those uncertainties behind so when I tap into worship ain't worried about those uncertainties you cannot worship and worry at the same time I said you can't worship and worry that something happens when you cross over that threshold and you enter I'm not talking about church worship I'm talking about real worship when you enter into real worship you start magnifying the Lord and when you magnify the Lord then you'll make small all of your circumstances your circumstances become smaller because your perception of God becomes bigger it's not that you're making God bigger because he is as big as he wants to be but you began to see what's in him if I had a magnifying glass I could hold it over this water right here and I would see things in the water through the glass of magnification that I couldn't see with my naked eye so when you start magnifying the Lord the song that said all magnify the Lord because I start seeing oh he's not just the Savior he's a healer he's a pro fighter all do you know there's a way maker down in there do you know there's a wheel down in there do you know there's a shelter down in there there's a strong tower down in there do you know that there's a rock down in there do you know that he is God and beside him there is everything you need you'll find it in the magnification look at somebody tell him oh magnify the Lord with me because the more you magnify God the bigger he becomes and the bigger he becomes the smaller your insecurities become and the reason that so many of us have huge problems in our life is because we're looking at our problems through our presence but we're not looking at our problems through his presence but when you start looking at your problems through his presence they don't see nearly as big as they saw when you were looking at them through your presence and your perception and so you begin to understand the importance of bringing your trouble into his presence you understand the importance of bring your problems enjoy his presents what you doing I'm going to church and I'm taking my problems with me oh no no you ain't staying home waiting on me for me to get back so that you can drive me crazy no come on you go with me and you drag your problems into the house of God and you drag them into the presence of God and you say sit here and watch me worship because as our worship and magnify God you get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller look at somebody tell them I dare you to worship as you begin to worship Him you you start understanding he can do exceedingly abundantly above everything I can ask our thing and so that is why when I come to church I enter his gates with Thanksgiving and I come before his courts with praise let's see here is why Church don't work for a lot of people because they come to church like they go to the movies you're here to watch us perform and so Church don't work for you because the only way you can really benefit from worship and the presence of God is by actually accessing the presence of God and you might get a little bit running over from my cup but at the end of the day if there's gonna be real change in your life you've got to really access God for your self you got to go in for yourself you got to reach for yourself you not to run for yourself some of you are stressed out cuz you won't go in for yourself some of you are hateful cuz you won't worship for yourself some of you are worried and stressed out and walk in the floor because you won't worship some of you are moody and everybody's gotta walk around you like they're walking around on their tiptoes because they're scared of you because you won't worship you're a tyrant because you won't worship you're judgmental because you won't worship your head because you won't worship y'all ego say ma'am but I ain't gonna stop you're out of control because you won't worship you're a 40 year old but you'll still have two year old temper tantrums and the reason you do that is because you will not worship it's you enjoy watching us to it you have a pornographic type relationship with worship you like watching us do it but I'm gonna tell you it's not until you get in it for yourself that it really changes your life tell somebody stop watching me and go for it yourself bring your tired self bring your exhausted self break your hateful self break your were itself break your depressed self into the presence of the Lord drag your mind drag your heart drag your wheel and tell your soul you will bless the Lord oh my [Applause] just somebody bless the Lord yourself and you can drive to church 52 weeks a year or 365 days a year and wear out 20 sets of tires and still never really tap in to worship and have a life-changing experience because you're refused to fully enlist you refuse to fully commit and begin to know God on a personal level and until you open your mouth until you sing your song until you clap your hands until you humble yourself and say Lord I don't know about anybody else but I love you I acknowledge you thankful for you I bow my big ol head in your presence I live my points in adoration does not recognize that you are bigger than I am and you're greater than I am and you are my strength you are my joy you are my glory and the truth of the matter is I couldn't water and should have been dead but when you saw me squirming in my own blood you passed by me and you wouldn't let me tie you made sure that I lived look at somebody and tell them I'm alive because he let me live some y'all think you did it for yourself but I dare you to tell somebody else he did it for me ain't nobody did it for me but Jesus that's what he's waiting on he's waiting on some other just stop acting like we got it all together just stop acting like my skill got us the job you got to stop acting like we're strong enough and we're bad enough that were talented enough and we're mighty Allah and we are powerful enough you just come as far as I can go can't be a wife without you I can't be a husband without you I can't build a family without you I don't know how to get out of debt if you don't get yeah I don't know how to be free I don't know how to be [Music] [Applause] [Music] it starts off it starts off telling us there isn't therefore now no condemnation no not not one ounce not one drop not one not a zero not any not a hint not a trace there is none there is no condemnation you have passed from death to life and there is no condemnation when you are a new creature that is in Christ Jesus that means there is no judgment that means that that it is finished that means the debt was paid that means the case has been settled because you are a new creature everything you ever did wrong has now been settled it's covered in the blood and you you are free at last but then if that's the case why are we walking around with so much guilt when we have really been set free don't be more aware of your guilt then you are your freedom think about it we are more aware of our guilt than we are of our freedom so this book it it starts out in love it starts talking about I'm sorry this chapter that the book with the chapter Romans eight it starts out about love because it talks about God's sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh and we all know that God so loved the world that that was why he sent his son so it begins in this chapter talking about the love of God and it also ends talking about the love of God for who shall separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus but it's what happens in the middle and we're talking about today but the text is sandwiched between love love over here you've got love over here but it's in the middle with the groaning takes place it's in the middle where the travail takes place see raising kids starts out wonderful yes this is my baby and we put all these crazy outfits on them we take pictures and is so soft so innocent so cuddly starts out wonderful and if you do it right it is wonderful too I said it ends wonderful too it begins wonderful he can in wonderful uh I know my mama it started out with her holding my hand so that I wouldn't fall but as time progressed and we changed lanes there was me holding her here so that she wouldn't fall and she trusted as much in me in her old age as I trusted in her in my young age so it can start off wonderful it can in wonderful if you do it right that middle in between somebody knows what I'm talking about in here today no they need when they put an eighth when they take you out of that Hospital they need to put a warning label around your baby's foot that says watch out for the middle watch Alka look at somebody and tell them you got to survive the middle survive the middle survive survive survive the middle if you can survive the middle you will be all right you ever seen the old couple walking down the mall holding each other hand other's hand they both got gray hair they walk slow then they sit down together they're holding hands and they're just enjoying one another's company let me tell you something it ain't always been like that you've got to survive the middle Romans 8 and 22 says for we know for we know somebody say for we know all we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now then it goes down to Romans 8:28 and says those same words for we know somebody said for we know for we know that all things work together for the good to those that love the Lord another call according to purpose but verse 26 is in their sandwich between 822 and 8:28 and 826 that's in the middle says for we know not all we know for we know so we know not we don't know what to pray for when we get in the middle of it we're like God I knew how to pray in the beginning and I probably will know how to pray at the end but Lord right here and now I don't even know how to pray anybody ever felt that way I don't know I don't know if I've got what it takes to be a good wife in the middle I don't know if I know I won is hard and and I trust that I can I can live in old age with him but right here in the middle I am wondering if I'm the woman for the job I don't know if I can stand in between having the dream and seeing the dream manifested and still call myself a dreamer I don't know if I can stand there and have the vision and wait for it to come to pass and still call myself a visionary I don't know that I don't know if I'm still a dreamer while it's trying to come to pass I don't know if I'm the visionary that I said that I was I don't know if I can make it in the middle I don't know if I can make it through the uncertainty yes I'm fighting and yes I want to win but I'm gonna admit to you I'm fighting scared and I'm fighting tired oh do I really have what it takes to go all the way do I have what it takes to run on and see what the end will be do I have what it takes to stand in between what's been promised and what's new truly been possessed and say I feel like going on I don't know I might sing it but I don't know if I feel like it I mean I wanna win but I'm not sure that I will I want to make it but I'm not sure that I will I'm not I'm not it's nothing I'm not doing it because I'm doing it I'm in the fight I got the whole armor on I'm running but I'll be honest say I don't know how it's gonna turn out in the end and it's that not sure I don't know part it makes us weary in well-doing and I tell you today that it is our approach to this part in particular that will determine whether we make it or not if you try to act in the middle like you know it all like you've got it all together and like you don't need anybody's help for anything if you take on that attitude you ain't gonna make it if your pride and your ego is so big and you are so arrogant that you can't humble yourself and say God if you don't help me if you don't help me God if you can't humble yourself and say Lord I've done everything I can to stand and to be honest I'm just standing I don't feel like I'm Friday I don't feel like I'm making it I don't feel like I'm progressing I am just tending if you cannot humble yourself see the reason that you won't make it and the reason you won't make it it's because you never really will worship and the reason you won't worship is because in order to really worship you have to become vulnerable but because we are such control freaks we can't let anybody see us be that vulnerable because they will think that we are weak because we are not in control of our emotions are we are not in control of everything and since you have branded yourself as somebody that's always got it going on and always got it together and you are always in control now you have to hide the pain and the fear that is attached to your uncertainties and it is eating you away like a cancer because of your arrogance you can only find yourself being cast in roles that make you look like you know and because of that now you have to hide the gross painfulness the gross painful reality that says you really don't know anything let me bring it home so you you act like you know what a marriage is yeah I know what a manager's you act like you know how it's all supposed to work you know who's supposed to do what I'm supposed to do this and you're supposed to do everything I tell you to do and them kids they've got to do everything I tell you to tell them to do and so then when everybody doesn't do everything that you tell them to do and the and the right listen women can be just as bad but when people don't play the role that you have assigned them to play in the way that you have assigned them to play it they're caught that's cause causes problems and now there's friction because they doing it like you you wanted them to do it never mind that you have never done this before never mind that you think you know what a marriage is supposed to be like but truth the truth of the matter is the ones that you were looking at as examples they weren't right either never mind that you don't really have a clue what you're talking about when you say you you do this and and I need you to do that I need you to do this so now you're mad at everybody in your world everybody that you that is around you because you built a stage play and told them what role to play and then playing their role but it's your stage play cause you wrote it and you produced it and you're starring in it and the spotlight is on you and your whole play now is about to go bankrupt because you don't know how to humble yourself it's a god I thought her knew but the truth of the matter is I don't know I mean but look at it like this and I'm almost done can you imagine how different your life could be if you would be willing to quit acting like you know it all you only go say no because your spouse is right next to you and you will hear about it all week if you say anything because they will hold you responsible uh I saw you can you imagine how what the level of peace and hot on your home can be like when you open up and say let me just look at it through somebody else's eyes let me look at it from your person let me change the lens and look at it in a different can you imagine how much more peace can be in your life if you could open up to different philosophies and different mindsets and different mind shifts and humble yourself down and say god I just don't know but I really want to know hit somebody and tell them just imagine imagine imagine how different your life could be maybe it wouldn't fall apart and maybe they wouldn't walk out maybe they wouldn't leave you sad thing is that for most of the time by the time you get to that point she's gone and now you are singing more love songs than Luther Vandross trying to get it back the chair is not here now I promise the closer I'd get y'all a bunch of sinners I'm telling you [Applause] [Music] now you're doing all that and here's why because there's something about real failure that will make you change and do what you should have done in the first place and say look maybe I don't know how to work this if you've got some insight tell me I'm hoping let's talk this thing through cuz I lose the best thing I told you in 2019 it was gonna be the year of great growth and for some of us it was but there's another bunch that it wasn't your year of great growth because everybody came home with themselves thank God I need to grow in that area because we think other people perceive us to be grown in that area and so why should I say I need to grow in that area but because the truth be told you ain't grown in that area but you gotta be willing to say God I don't know I I don't know everything god I don't understand everything experience brings humility and humility causes you to say Lord we know not we don't know how to raise this family we don't know how to build this business we don't know how to build this ministry and we'll tell you something there is no room for God in a mind that is full of itself I said again there is no room for God when your mind is full of you and that's why a lot of people can't worship because to really worship you have to give God your heart but your heart is so full of your thoughts and your opinions and the way you thinking you are so busy occupying the throne of your heart that God has nowhere to sit down in your life so we say reign and be Jesus but ain't nobody reigning in you but you rolling oh say no but I'm telling you the truth today and if you'll hear me I'll help somebody under the sound of my voice you want to say he reigns he reigns in me but the truth is your opinion reigns in you and the way you wanted a ring will be what reigns in you and your narcissistic behavior is what is reigning in you and you don't realize that all up it's destroying somebody that really loves you and really cares about you and really wants to be a part of your chain [Applause] those who usually are the best worshipers are people who are broken people who are not afraid Florida I don't know everything in a thank you for this husband that you've given me I thank you for this wife that you've given me I thank you for the one that you're getting me ready for you can't wait to be ready no it's when a man finds they got a girlfriend not a chick on the side when a man finds it that's why some people don't want to find a girlfriend they want to find somebody else's wife because she doesn't learn how to be a wife through the years there's a difference between a girlfriend and a wife and there's a wife that you really want to find you can still keep her as your girlfriend but at the end of the day you gonna need a wife when a man finds a wife when a woman finds a man that loves her like Christ loves the church [Applause] she she'll make enchiladas for you into a plum or when you love me as Christ loved the church ain't no mountain high enough [Applause] so people who are broken people who make mistakes people have done crazy things they usually end up being the best worshipers because they understand a desperate for God I'm desperate I'm desperate for God I need you I need him in my life I need him to show up in the middle god I need you to get the middle of some things in my life I need you to get in the middle of my chaos I need you to get in the middle of my ministry I need you to get in the middle of all of my fears I need you to get in the middle Lord I know you told me to dig ditches but I don't see any sign of water I need you to help me dig ditches Lord I'm sick and I don't know how to get well I need you to show me how to get to the border of your garment Lord I need you in my life I need you to show up I need you to help me before I make a mess out of my marriage before I make a mess out of my career before I make a mess out of my ministry before I make a mess out of my life I need you to come and get in the middle of things God I need you to call me to my doubt I need you to come into my disappointment I need you to come into my discouragement I need you to come it to deal with that critic that's inside of me that always tells me I'm not enough Lord I know I'm not enough but I know that with you I am more than enough and so god I just need you to help me I need you to be a transformation transform in force in my life I need you help me God Romans 8 tell us it says that the Holy Spirit makes it 4 however because there's no vacancy in our heart God has no room to move in the Holy Spirit has no place to come in and start interceding because why should he when you've already made up your mind and you got a picture I've got a picture in my head how we think it's supposed to be so why would he come in and start fighting you when he comes in he don't come in to pray nor will he comes in to pray the will of the Father unlike us will be will be praying God I need you to get him I needed to change by this time tomorrow it's got it and that boy God I need you to turn I need you to make him respect me and I'm the omnia but the spirit when he begins to anything it's like God help me help me whatever if there be any wicked way in me Lord drive it out of me Lord I'm asking you to touch me create in me a clean heart renew a right spirit in me there's no vacancy in our Court in the courtroom of our life there reason there's no vacancy is because we are at large and we are in charge yeah we are sitting on the bench of judgment and we are holding the gavel in our hand because we are in control and if we don't get up off that bench and lay down that gavel and start praying his will for our lives we're gonna grow old and be in a very lonely place don't you tune me out right now I'm talking to you I'm trying to give you a warning why would God talk to us like this on the first Sunday morning of 2020 because he wants it to set the pace for our year because he wants us acknowledging him and he wants us seeking Him and he wants us to have a progressive mindset and not a fixed mindset you don't have to grow old and lonely by yourself just open up don't know toughen up when you don't know what to do just just learn learn how to handle those that you ain't gonna be able to handle the whole world but learn how to handle those in your space in your world cuz you're gonna need them the intercession of the Holy Spirit is what works to destroy arrogance it's what works to destroy preconceived ideas and it will cause us to humble ourselves

Channel: Sheryl Brady

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Length: 64min 5sec (3845 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2020