Start Building - Stephanie Ike

hey family i'm pt pastor toray roberts i'm the lead pastor of the potter's house at 1la and denver on behalf of my wife pastor sarah and myself we want to welcome you to our channel and to this word i cannot wait for you to hear what god has for you in this message i want to tell you a few things really quickly subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel subscribe so that you can be made aware of all of the word that's coming at you week in and week out and also turn on your notifications so you don't miss a morsel that comes forth we're also grateful for you and your partnership if you are so uh compelled we invite you to support what we're doing not just our church but what our church is doing there are a number of outreaches a number of things critical necessary things that we support and we're able to do it because of your generosity so without further ado let's get right into this word god bless you i'll see you soon hallelujah family i'm so excited to be with you today if you are tuning in from whatever part of the world just put it in the chat where you're from it's so lovely to just know the impact that we're having and just where everyone is tuning in from it's beautiful you see family this past sunday we just celebrated easter and i'm still on the easter high because you can never get enough of celebrating the resurrection of our lord jesus christ when i think about the lord i think about what the book of ephesians tells us that when he ascended that he took captivity captive and he gave gifts unto men that is so affirming to me because it's a reminder that lord when i think about the cross i think about the fact that whatever could hold me bound whatever had the power to keep me captive that i no longer have to worry about that because your resurrection was the guarantee that i would also rise up too that anything that had the power to be a hindrance to my ability to walk in the fullness of who you know me to be that you took it captive and you gave gifts unto men did you know that you are the gift that the gifts unto men is that the lord gave you you he gave you the ability to be unhindered by fear and doubt and insecurities and to tap into the fullness of your faith because of jesus and so just right now i want you to put in the chat just say no excuses no excuses you can move for the hashtag if you want to feel more cultural right it's a beautiful thing but before we go into the word today i want us to pray heavenly father we just thank you for your goodness we thank you for your love we thank you for the word that you have purpose to go forth lord only you can do with it what i can't only you can cause a word to bring conviction into our hearts only you can cause the word to bring transformation and healing in our lives and so move lord in jesus name amen amen family today if you're taking notes my message is start building and i'm gonna be reading from genesis chapter seven from verse seven to nine and it says so noah with his sons his wife and his son's wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood of clean animals of animals that are unclean of birds and of everything that creeps on the earth two by two they went into the ark to noah male and female as god had commanded noah now this is so this first of all this scripture just has so much that is so intriguing to me i mean imagine right all the animals of the world coming to you and before we dig into it you know i don't want to assume that everyone knows about the story of noah you know noah was a man who really in a time that god had purpose to send a flood to wipe out all of humanity and it was just because of the deep level of corruption and violence that was taken place on the earth that god found favor in noah the bible tells us that noah found favor in the eyes of god rather and so noah was this man who really intrigued me because i was like god in all of the earth noah was the only one that you could see would carry this out you know sometimes when you read the bible you want to really get a full context of it like lord you know wasn't there any other person any other families with the animals that were worth saving but then the lord began to show me that it was not about who was being who was worth saving because the lord would not turn anyone away but the key thing about noah is that the bible tells us that noah walked with god you see there is such a difference right between between knowing god and walking with god many of us we know the lord right you had an encounter with god or you know there are things that happen in your life that really makes you understand that jesus is real i have that on my shirt jesus is real but there are things that happen in our lives and we're like you know what lord i know that you're real but there's a difference between saying i know that you're real and i'm walking with you because to walk with god is to say that god i'm in agreement with your will over my life that whatever you you desire of me whatever you say i am that i am walking this thing out with you there's a scripture in the bible and it tells us that can two walk together unless they agree that in order for us to walk together we have to be in agreement how many times have we found ourselves that when god gives you a word you start arguing with him even when we have this false humility that lord it can be me who am i to do this it's a disagreement in those moments we're not walking with the lord you see the difference with noah in this times is that he had the stamp of obedience a lifestyle of obedience that separated him from everyone else on earth because god knew that if i was going to find someone and instruct them to do what no eye has ever seen that i can count on noah this was about god looking for who can i trust on the earth with this assignment and noah was that person you have to understand that in that time the whole idea of a flood by the way of rain is something that literally no eye has seen because it never rained up until the time of the flood and so when god meets noah and he's telling noah hey this is what you're going to do and this is what i require of you we see this obedience that just oozed out of noah's life even when it was something that he had never ever seen in his in his world he there was no reference for it noah said yes lord you see you might be that person perhaps maybe there is a dream there is a vision that god has put in your heart and there is no reference for it there is nothing that would really inspire you to know that this is possible but i want you to recognize that when we look at the stories of these men and women in the bible it tells us that that's not an excuse that it is possible with god and it is time to start building i want you to be the type of person that you would have the confidence to say i am one who walks with god you see i believe that you know noah had a a great grandfather and his name was enoch right enoch was in the bible it tells us that enoch walked with the lord and then he was not just all of a sudden god just took him away and a fun fact about enoch is that he lived 365 years 365 that's the number of days that make up each year but you see what i love about this story is that god shows us this picture that what life is about is about walking with him is about being in agreement with his word over your life i believe that enoch god just took him because enoch figured it out that as long as i am in sync with god i don't even have to see death he was such a great example to us that this is what life is about and so when i'm telling you start building it's not just about you know what let me just get this vision going is to say don't miss a step with god don't miss a beat with god when the lord gives you an instruction when the lord puts something on your heart when you start taking time to argue and question if you're not the one that you are you're moving behind him when god says walk with me let us move in agreement don't be in disagreement with me because this is what causes men and women to stand out in the world and so let's look at this scripture right the scripture tells us you know it introduces noah so noah builds the ark noah is obedient to the lord and then it says something that is so fascinating to me it says two by two now referring to the animals that they went into the ark to noah male and female as god commanded noah now the animals are responding not because god commanded the animals but because noah did what god commanded him to do i find this fascinating because when i read a story like this i'm thinking it's the bible is going to say something like you know the animals came two by two as god commanded them but then it says no as god commanded noah then in you know even previous to this scripture in genesis 6 20 it gives us another picture it says of the birds after their kind of animals after their kind and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive this is when the lord was telling noah look when you do what i've said the animals will find you this is so beautiful to me because a lot of times one of the arguments we find with between ourselves when the lord commands us to do something is that lord how is this going to be how is this going to happen that there are so many elements to this there's so many layers to this you start we start thinking like okay god tells you to build the ark now you're panicked because you're like okay if i build the ark now am i supposed to go find the animals i am not the person that will go on an animal hunt first of all because by the time i see a spider i don't know who's going to be more scared me or the spider it's probably me so i don't know how i'm going to lead something that terrifies me but you see it was never about that because the place of your calling that is the place of partnership with god there is a role that you play and there's a road that god plays all noah had to do was play his part noah build the ark stop going seven steps ahead how many times do we find ourselves in that that when it's time to build the vision we're thinking about okay in month three you know how am i gonna keep up with this how is this gonna work out and all god gave you was the first instruction you see the instructions of the lord are not given to you for you to add your vision to it the instructions of the lord are given to you so that you would be dependent on him that lord okay what are you telling me to do right now let us walk together it's not a race it's a walk with the lord that step by step okay lord i'll build the ark and it's beautiful because as noah built the ark the animals responded to the sound of his obedience he said i want you to write this down for those taking notes that obedience has a sound when you are obedient to the things that the lord has spoken to you it has a sound it releases a sound on the earth to everything that is connected to your next step to find you you might feel like but god i don't see the next step well we don't walk by sight we walk by faith we walk by knowing lord that you are in this thing with me you see recently my mother she started this new real estate project now this project it's it's has so much value to the family because for 20 years my mom used to tell me about this dream that she would have and she would say stephanie there's this dream that god keeps showing me literally maybe even over 20 years but i can track as far as 20 years and she will talk about this land that is close to like a bed of water and she's just like i don't understand this i keep seeing this land over and over again and i don't know what it means and every time i have this dream it's different right you know at some points there's construction that starts at other points the building is finished at other points there's something else being added to the building and literally year after year there was not one year that my mother did not have this reoccurring dream just recently we discovered that there was a land that my father my father was murdered when i was a baby we just discovered that there was a land that he left behind that we had no knowledge about so my mom had sent some people to check this land out and when they sent some photos to her she called me and she called me just with tears of joy and she said stephanie this is the thing i've been seeing in my dream all these years that when she looked at the photos and looked at the videos it was literally next to a body of water and she said this is what god has been showing me and she knew just instinctively that if god has finally brought it to me it's time to build on it and we started praying we're like god what is the purpose of this and through just clarity from the lord we begin to understand this is the this is what god actually wants to do with this property and the truth of the matter is that you know as a family we come together we talk about things and there's so many other things that we're working on so at first my brothers are like hey you know why don't we do this why don't we wait till next year and my mom reminded us because my mom does a lot of different real estate projects but every time she starts she says the same thing she says i don't need to know how we're going to finish it i just need to start it because when i started i know that god will make the way for me to complete it and so with this very property my mom just said look i know we may not have all that it takes if we are trying to think about how we're going to finish it from the from the beginning from the conception of this i don't know if we're going to do it but my mom said but as long as i started god is going to make a way that he is going to make the provision for what needs to happen and just like my mother i believe that we all have to embrace this understanding that i don't have to have it all figured out in order to start you see it's so interesting in life that we find ourselves crippled by this idea of how is it going to happen it's happened in my life before you know it not too long ago actually there was something that the lord had put on my heart and i really found this it's almost like you know how you you may find yourself settled in this idea of discouragement because you're like god this feels too big but then the holy spirit reminds you don't fall for this idea of false humility when the lord speaks to you it's a mirror he already sees it in you he already knows what you have the ability to do and he's telling you would you come into agreement with what i know about you don't be crippled by the how no i wasn't crippled about how are the animals gonna come to me he just believed that god as long as i do my part i know that you're going to make a way as long as i do my part whatever else needs to be settled you're going to send that to me you see whatever the lord has said to you the how is not your issue and many times we've heard about that but what i want you to be more focused on is not the how but the why why is god telling you to do what he said what is the why behind your assignment you see just recently our pastor and first lady pastor sarah jacks roberts she released a book called woman evolve when you read the book even just when you look at the book immediately you understand her why you understand that there is a why behind this that this is for women everywhere around the world to break up with their fears and revolutionize their life that this is a book it is a calling to every woman that wherever you are that it is possible for you to walk in the fullness of who god has called you to be what i love about that is the is just the the reality that you see the why right in front of you you need to get back to the why of what god called you to do there is a why behind your assignment and when you begin to embrace that why the deeper you are in the embrace of the why the more connected you are to the heart of god because the heart of god is in the why god doesn't just tell you to do things because he's bored and he wants to see let's play the game of obedience right who is going to be the most obedient on the earth god is not born he doesn't need to play games when the lord gives you an assignment he recognizes that there is darkness on the earth and i've called you to be light in this area by walking this thing out with me when the lord gives you an assignment he says i can trust you to represent me i can trust you to be light you see one of the things i'm so fascinated by this i this idea of embracing the identity that we are light because the bible tells us something so beautiful right it says that jesus is the light of the world but jesus also calls us the light of the world and so when we find ourselves in this place of wrestling with god where are you look at all the evil that is happening the lord says i sent you you represent me as well that you are the light of the world just as i am and so when i give you an instruction we are walking this thing out both as light to invade darkness and to show the rain and rulership of our lord jesus it's not just about this game that god wants to play with you there are lives on the line connected to the very thing that god has called you to do and so when you begin to embrace the why behind it you understand the heart of god and when you embrace the why you can trust god with the how now to be honest when i say start building i recognize that you know as creative beings we we have a lot that in our minds we want to build right if you give me 10 minutes with a pen and a paper i'll probably give you 10 ideas of amazing things i can do so when i talk about start building i'm not just talking about the random ideas that we can come up with because that is our nature we can come up with all kinds of things i'm talking about the god things i'm talking about the things that the lord has placed on your heart the vision that is bigger than you the vision that is not just about you and yours but the vision that is connected to the people of god that is connected to communities that's connected to seeing people set free that is connected to seeing the kingdom of god being established what of the kingdom of god being established looks like it looks like freedom it looks like justice it looks like love it looks like healing it is beautiful it looks like transformation i'm talking about that thing that will keep you up at night the thing that you know that without god it's not possible you see when you have a dream when you have a vision that if you just take enough time you can plan your way to the finish line then you need to rethink where did this come from did this come from me or did they come from god because whatever comes from god it requires him what comes from you you can figure out with your with your connections your relationships and your finances but what comes from god it has a sense of dependency on god and i'm not so i'm not talking about that i'm talking about the very thing that comes from him i'm talking about that place where god becomes your partner and without him being your partner there's no way forward this is the kind of vision i'm talking about this is what i'm calling you to start building you see there's one of my favorite scriptures in the bible and it's in psalms 127 verse 1 and it says that unless the lord builds the house they labor in vain who build it now some of you might be wondering well if the lord is building child i'm going to chill but when you listen to that scripture it says unless the lord builds a house they labor in vain who builds it now when the lord is the one building the house if you flip it then they don't labor in vain so there is the lord building but there is also labor happening this also mirrors again this idea and understanding of co-working co-laboring with the lord the lord is building and you are building because you're both building the same vision and it gives us this sense of balance right that look i can trust in god i can trust that god you are the one who will be the waymaker i can trust that god you are the one that would open doors for me but while i trust in god that i'm still gonna move with actions because the bible tells us it says faith without works is dead i love this scripture because it shows us the balance it says yes have find rest in knowing that god has you but also be responsible to do the work don't just rest and lose the idea of responsibility because it is a co-partnership with the lord don't just say that god i have faith in you but then where you are right now with what you can do you do nothing there's a parable there's this scripture when it talks about you know the parable of the talents and it talks about how jesus gave you know i mean it's not jesus of the parable but he's the one he's really speaking about himself but it's about this man who gave different talents to his servants but then there was one servant that he gave a talent to and the servant said well you know what i just buried it because when you whenever you came back i'm like hey here is what you gave me here's the one talent you gave me i buried it didn't do nothing with it and when that when that servant spoke up the lord said look you know what i'm gonna take what i've given you and give to those who understood how to multiply that there were those that he gave talents to and there was one he gave to and he brought him back four i believe right and the lord looks at him and he's like yes well done good and faithful servant and then rewarded them with more so wherever you are in life you have something to start whatever god has put in your heart don't be so crippled by this idea of okay what is going to happen in year two that you don't do what needs to be done on day one there's something that day one requires of you have you committed to it and again don't look at this as just let me do this for the lord no this is how we walk with god this is how we step in agreement our everyday lives is in tune is in step with god this is a beautiful thing family you see and i recognize that perhaps for some of you it might not be about you know building the vision it might not be about building this you know grand thing or whatever the case might be you may feel like well this sounds amazing but god hasn't really put anything in my heart then it could be about building you you see there's a scripture that the bible tells us about in first corinthians chapter three verse nine it says that we are god's fellow workers you are god's field you are god's building there are moments in life when we are taking the role of being in partnership with god to execute a vision to execute a word because when god gives you a word it is his will revealed for humanity is his will revealed to touch the earth right it's heaven touching earth so there are times that that is the case but there are times that we take on the identity that we are god's building that we are god's vessel and in order for god to use his vessel the vessel has to be healthy the vessel has to be equipped and so when i say building you i'm talking about building yourself into the likeness of jesus that you begin to guard your heart from anything that could be contaminants you see sometimes you may feel like god i'm i'm praying for clarity about this you know who am i what have you called me to do but when you search your heart there's unforgiveness there's bitterness these are things that clog us it clogs our channel from receiving from the lord and so there are moments where the lord says right now i want you to focus on becoming everything in my image becoming taking on my likeness that right now there are things you're dealing with issues of the heart and you need to get that stuff cleaned up because it clogs you it contaminates even how you perceive things it even contaminates the word that flows through you because when the lord begins to speak all of a sudden the way you might receive it might not be the way he intended for it you see there's a scripture that tells us that blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god and it's not really talking about these are they're not saying when they go to heaven they will see god they're saying their lifestyle the lifestyle of the pure in heart is that they shall see god what is beautiful about that is that when you have a pure heart you s you have the perspective of god over everything that it's not just an argument when you're looking at it you're not looking to pick up you're not looking to pick a fight you're looking to be the peacemaker that you have his perspective over every area of your life this is the beauty of a pure heart and so when things start to contaminate your heart the lord says pause now let's focus on you as my building because if i'm going to use you you have to be clear you have you can be clogged up so it could be that in some for some people that what god is focusing on right now is be my building represent me and you're going to be tested in those areas your love is going to be tested your patience is going to be tested your faithfulness is going to be tested don't look at it like woe is me look at it and recognize wow this is an opportunity for me to see myself for me to recognize what is in my heart that in this place i stand my ground that i'm not that person who was moving in bitterness anymore that i've chosen love i've chosen forgiveness and so even this week some of you are going to get tested because the test is not working against you the test is to reveal you because many times we don't even know what's in our heart and many times we are taking on the narrative that we are still holding on to so much pain not even recognizing that you are healed you know one of the assignments of jesus was to proclaim liberty to the captives that hey i know you're living like you're bound but you're actually free could it be that you may think you're bound by what broke you not recognizing how much you've grown and how much you've developed and you are so far from that person and god uses situations to show you i am not who i thought i was i've matured i've developed i am not who they say i am but actually i'm embracing them who god says i am this is the beauty of when you recognize that you are god's building you see family i do believe that this is a message that the lord wanted me to share with you because you have to recognize that there is always an appointed time for everything in life and we honor god by being in position for his appointed time there's an appointed time for the things that god wants to work in your life and how we honor him is to say god i'm going to prepare myself i'm going to position myself for the appointed time i don't know when it is right the bible tells us that times and seasons belong to the to the lord they don't belong to us and god has a track record of doing things when it's not convenient for us you see as i began to pray over this message i began to hear this phrase that make room for now and i was wondering god what do you mean by this make room for now because now is this present moment but now it's also recognizing now is a moment that comes upon you and it cannot be delayed so when the lord says make room for now he's saying that you're not going to recognize when i just sneak up on you with the appointed time that you're not going to recognize when a destiny not that you're not going to recognize rather but you're not going to know the timing you're not gonna you're not gonna have the awareness of it's not gonna be on your calendar when god has scheduled something to take place in your life so he says make room for now and how do you make room for now you position yourself and you prepare you just don't you when you yes yes you're in prayer and yes you say you're one who believes god is going to make a way but have you prepared the very things that the provision is supposed to serve and so make room for now god is going to interrupt your normal but when he does would you know it that's why the scripture says behold i do a new thing and now that it now that it rises up do you not know it now that it springs forth don't you see it that the lord is doing a new thing he interrupts your normal but you cannot see it because you did not make room for now you did not make room for that moment that inconvenient destiny moment because all along the lord has been speaking to you about moments that would lead up to this and true faith has actions connected to it what are the actions that you have been sitting on that the lord is saying look i didn't tell you step a for you to try to figure out step d e f whatever you can do that with your own vision but with my own with what i give you you walk with me you don't go ahead of me you walk with me so make room for now there's an appointed time by the lord see i was talking about noah to you earlier but i recognize that even noah even the flood i do believe that the flood even had an appointed time because there's something that intrigues me about the story of noah you see his grandfather enoch when the bible tells us that enoch walked with the lord there's not that much we learned about enoch in the scriptures but there are few things that the bible you know believes was important to highlight it's important to highlight his age what happened when he started walking with the lord you see there's a scripture where the bible says that when he fathered he had a prieta son named methuselah and it says that when he fathered methuselah that enoch walked with the lord and when i saw that i'm like god you're a god you know you you play with puzzles sometimes i said there must be an insight about this man methuselah so i began to study him i said what was it about methuselah that caused enoch to walk with the lord what the bible shows us about him was how old he was when he passed away how old he was when he had a son how old his son was when he had a son and it shows us the lineage all the way to noah and what i discovered when i began to study their ages and what happened when ina and when methuselah died you see in the year methuselah died that's when the flood happened that was when the flood began methuselah is the i mean he's known to be the oldest living person in in the whole bible and what shook me was the fact that could it be that when metsuzella was born there was a revelation that came to enoch that enoch in the year this child would die there would be a flood that will wipe out all of humanity but i will preserve humanity through your seed could that be one of the reasons that influenced enoch to recognize i need to walk with the lord because the bible clearly tells us in the after he fathered this boy he began to walk with the lord so there must be a connection there nothing ever happens randomly no story you know one of the most boring things to read in the bible is to read about people how old people were right the book of numbers sometimes you're like why maybe you're just a number in the bible right but these stories are so key for us to understand what god it's it's almost like these little puzzles that god is trying to say nothing happens randomly and so when i saw this i said could it be that even the flood had an appointed time by the lord but what would have happened if the lord encountered noah and noah said no because at the end of the day we have free will what would that have i don't even want to know i mean i wouldn't even have the ability to think of what would have happened because i would not be here and so when the lord gives you a dream he puts a dream in your heart he puts a vision in your heart he gives you a word he reveals his will to you you honor him by being positioned and prepared for the appointed time we don't know when that time would be but the lord does but the question i have for you if what you have been waiting for for so many years if what you have been praying for happened tomorrow it happened right now if while i'm talking to you had a phone call you received an email would you be ready would you be prepared you see so many times we walk away from opportunities not because it's not supposed to serve us but we realize that we are not as prepared as we once thought and so if all the things that you've been saying god if you just do this what would you do if he did it right now and we have to be honest with ourselves you see the person that deserves 100 of your honesty god already knows it but the person in the mirror when you look in the mirror that person deserves your truth don't lie don't don't eat your own hype right don't do that people might hype you up but don't eat that up when you look in the mirror be real with yourself have i done what i can have i given it my best am i putting the best effort i'm saying this to myself as well they're things that i had to also assess in my own life to say god am i actually ready if you did this right now am i actually ready so family let's start building maybe you're building the vision with god or maybe you're in the place of letting god build you maybe you're in the place of just saying lord i surrender i'm dealing with some heart issues right now i'm dealing with some stuff my heart is contaminated and i cannot move from this place i give my heart to you help me to heal if you need to go for therapy hey get in therapy but even while you're in therapy submit yourself to the counsel of the holy spirit he is the greatest counselor submit yourself to the to his leading what he tells you to do submit yourself to that get a professional and get the counselor right and so in this time i want to pray with you you see i recognize that there are times that god would just draw you to something and you don't even know why you're being drawn to it and i recognize that there are some of you right now you're watching this but maybe you have not given your life to jesus and so you've been building things even when i talk about start building you just feel like you almost felt irritated because you've been building things and you've watched it crumble you've been building things and it came to nothing you see that scripture says one of the scriptures i read it says unless the lord builds a house those who labor labor in vain you want to invite god to build with you you need jesus in your life if you don't know him and the beautiful thing he's always ready to get in he's always ready he's like look i've been here all along i've been with you all along i just needed you to recognize my presence i just needed you to submit to my leading you see you may feel like submission means you know relinquishing control of your life but submission actually submission to jesus is gaining your life that is what happened with the resurrection he rose up he took captivity captive and he gave you you in jesus we know our truth in jesus we are revealed and so maybe you've been wrestling with i don't know about this god and i don't know you know it just seems too controlling it's not at all that's religion that makes it seem controlling your truth truth by definition has restrictions so you cannot be everything you can't be this and that no the lord jesus begins to show you the reality of who you are and you want to know what he calls you and you want to know the things that he's called you to build and the things that he will partner with you on and so if that is you you're saying lord i need you in my life because even before we we get that we start to remember you know from uh romance this idea that okay i just want to build this thing no i need you i need to be built up first i need you i don't need the things i'm supposed to do i need you because the reality of life anything we do from the lord it flows from the place of relationship with god we don't do things to just have a status or whatever it flows from love and that comes from him it flows from compassion and that comes from him it flows from kindness and that comes from him and so the first thing you need is to have a relationship with the lord and if that is you i just want you to put in the comments right now that's me that's me i really want to accept jesus i want to make him lord and savior and what does that look like we're going to pray and we're going to declare that lord you died on the cross and you were raised up when you were raised up i was raised up to you died for my sins and because of you i now have access to the father but it doesn't end there that's just the beginning that's your declaration of saying look lord this this is who i am i want to be submitted under your leading and then you begin to surround yourself with like-minded people in the faith i would encourage you to sign up and join one of our small groups get connected to people that can nurture your faith that can fend the fire of your yes to the lord you need that so you're going to see a qr code and it's going to link you to a form i want you to fill that up because we're going to get your information so we can get you connected and get you plugged in with groups that would really build your faith and so right before we pray i also want to just you know recognize those who are saying look lord i have not been building with you i've been building my own thing but i want to build with you i want to walk with you i've known you my all my life maybe right all my life i've known the lord i've known you but i haven't walked with you when you talk to me about who i am i begin to argue with you i'm saying lord that's not me that's for someone else i've been playing this whole false humility game and i want to say lord jesus i say yes to what you see in me i want to walk with you i want you to put in the chat too here i am here i am i want to walk this thing out with god this is what life is about family it's about walking with the lord and to let us pray heavenly father we thank you we thank you for your love and we thank you for your goodness we thank you for the presence of your holy spirit that is ministering to each and every one of us right now lord god have your way i thank you for those that have said you lord jesus those that say lord i declare with my mouth that you are lord and savior that you died on the cross for my sins and when you were raised up i was raised up to in you those that are saying that lord i don't want to follow this past life i don't want to follow the way of brokenness anymore i want to follow you i want to follow what you know about me i want to get in relationship with you i thank you lord jesus that you would be the one who protects their process that lord you would increase them and just heighten their discernment to know what are the relationships that i have the ability to entertain and what do i need to let go of recognizing that this is a sacred space and this is a sacred time that i want to be built up in you lord god and i don't want to be lukewarm i don't want to be dancing around you know one moment i'm with the lord and the next moment i'm back to the thing that broke me lord i thank you that you would give them the strength right now to say no to the things that they need to turn away from in order to follow you fully and to lord have your way i thank you lord jesus for those that have acknowledged and saying lord i haven't really walked with you i've known you but i haven't walked with you i thank you for the grace that will come upon their lives lord god the grace to recognize that lord i am who you say i am lord i thank you that they would also walk in a discernment of knowing what does not please you knowing that false humility is not pleasing to you that what you say about us actually echoes who we truly are and so lord i thank you that they will begin to receive that i thank you that they would receive your love because when they know that they are loved by the father they would know that everything he says about them is true and they are worthy of it and so lord god have your way thank you for your goodness and thank you for your love in jesus name amen family we love you

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

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Length: 43min 48sec (2628 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021