Stop Stressing Over That // Pastor Darius McClure // Blessed Series

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Applause] so so [Music] so [Applause] so [Applause] what's up family i'm dream hey what's up rock city it's your boy james fortune yep listen we are so excited that you have decided to rock with us today james how you feeling i feel great it's the first sunday in june yeah first sunday in june i'm excited about this when you go there you gotta ask me how i feel you know what i do i'm still getting high i feel out i haven't tried but how you thank god because i'm still alive yeah i'm still getting all the lyrics but okay i got the first two lives pray for you we are feeling great yes uh if you don't have that song make sure that you download stream the newest song by pastor pastor mike junior entitled grateful what is he grateful for with so many things including seven stellar nominations congratulations pastor mike uh keep doing what you're doing i'm feeling grateful too yeah and i'm also really grateful because this is the day hey that the lord has made our rejoicing and we are glad in it you said something backstage that blessed me that it is the first sunday of june yes it is you begin to speak prophetically that june will be a month of prosperity yes blessings favor healing restoration uh i just believe that this month i just had this expectation yeah going into june like there's so many things that god was speaking to me speaking the series of being blessed and understanding how blessed i am i want to speak the same blessings over my rock titty family and to everybody else who's watching the stream just in the comments i am blessed i am blessed it's not a feeling it's a fact i don't have to feel blessed i am blessed you are blessed so let's go ahead and spread blessings everywhere today i received and that's why here at rock city we have one rule yes but you can't rock blast the law you oh come on now i like that you can't rock blessed alone because you are blessed you gotta share you gotta let somebody know share like tag send the link to your family and your friends this series has been life-changing it's been such a blessing and you don't want to just be a hearer of the word what else you want to be do you want to be a sharer terror of the word yes we love it so make sure that you invite people because i believe today's word is going to be a blessing to all of us and speaking about the word being a blessing i love every morning waking up starting off my morning with the word of god uh the bible talks about early in the morning will i seek thee uh and i just think for us as we get together share the word if you lead as many people who are being used by god it allows us to kind of connect in that spiritual way as a family and really growing the word together yeah and even just thinking about the devo you know i go back to sunday yeah and how i have received so many messages shout out to state representative marika coleman i got a chance to see yeah she said that she got a chance to tune in to sunday's message where we know our very own pastor holly is preached about the importance of not wasting don't waste it he said that we cannot afford to waste our time our treasure or our town right and so even with this week's debo we talked about the need on tuesday not to waste time i often times say that time is one of the greatest assets that we have it's the one thing that we cannot get back you know and so when you think about sunday's messaging this week what is something that just kind of resonated with you yeah we don't waste it and we talked about also he talked about talent not wasting talent and many of us have gifts we've all received gifts from god but we don't use it because we're so busy comparing our gift to someone else's gift there is something that god has placed inside of you inside of everyone watching that nobody else can give to us but you yeah so what is what gift what is it that you're sitting on uh that other people are waiting on we are waiting for that book what is it that you're sitting on that so many people are waiting on we need that book we need that movie we need that script we need that song we need whatever that boutique whatever it is we need the bundles whatever you're going to do a guy is asking you he's calling for you to do it not to waste the talent that god has given you by comparing it to what somebody else has that's so good yeah yeah so i think the series for me uh it's been a blessing last week and i love how in devo we go back and we spend every day kind of re-uh regurgitating the work that we received on sunday and i think that's what helped me up tuesday uh wednesday every single day has been a blessing so you want to make sure that you wake up central time 7 21 a.m central time on facebook and youtube and be a part of over a thousand people waking up every morning days a week six days a week monday saturday over a thousand people logging in just to talk about the word of god i absolutely love it yeah absolutely i mean it's so exciting you know when you get a chance to talk about jesus and what we know is that who he was back then is the same man as he is even today he's still performing miracles he's still opening doors and we see that even throughout our ministry when we think about what god has done through the life of pastor mike you mentioned earlier just the seven stellar awards and you yourself were also nominated we have different individuals that are making history i got a chance to talk to dre about two folks that are part of our ministry that are bodybuilders and they were named i want to say national champions like that is a big deal but that's what happens when you are connected and you when you are deeply rooted into good ground yeah absolutely and pastor mike he he wakes stuff up inside of you you know he's such a dreamer he's such a visionary shout out once again to our pastor he wakes things up inside of you and he reproduces after himself yeah uh he is showing us in just a short amount of time what he's been able to do being nominated for artist of the year in the gospel community and so many other awards and accolades are coming his way and he's touching lives all over so to see that it's not just happening with pastor mike it's happening with so many other people as i look at you do you reading the awesome work that you're doing and i just want to take a moment to highlight my sister just this past weekend tulsa uh being down there what we know uh was the site of a mass it was murder and uh the tulsa riots uh the 100 year anniversary now yeah to see you uh boots on the ground as you've been in so many i think it's a moment that we can just celebrate our own d read and just show her some love in the comments because she is definitely doing it from the right place and she's not wasting it she is out there she's making it happen and we appreciate you how what was that experience like i've had a chance to go down there uh some years back but what was it like being there for the 100 year anniversary of those tolsa riots i mean it was powerful to think that i was standing in the very place where 100 years ago you had more than 300 people who were murdered yeah more than 10 000 people were displaced right just simply because of who they who god created them to be yes um but but not only you know did we kind of stay in that place but it also created an opportunity for us to imagine what the future looks like and how do we begin that process of rebuilding and restoring and reimagining what green woods can look like all across the country wow that's awesome you gotta think back 1921 you know black millionaires but they had their own wall street yeah it was it was the favor of god and we know the enemy was uh you know didn't like it uh and what happened there was so so tragic uh to be there even myself and and kind of read i didn't know anything about that until i had a concert in tulsa i had never been taught that growing up in texas i had never heard about the toaster ride so thank you for not only going but also helping us to remember not forget what happened because we know that's how history repeats itself when we don't remember so thank you once again i celebrate yourselves for all you're doing yeah absolutely listen i tell you no place in the world i say it every single sunday i'm gonna say it to the day that i die there's no place in the world like rock city right so you want to be sure that you have your notifications on yes via youtube because there are some big things that are getting ready to come y'all some major announcements yeah can we can we share it with you oh well we might as well okay okay listen starting breaking news breaking news starting next sunday yeah our pastor pastor mike jr is going to be starting a brand new series details are coming but i'm gonna just say this uh you don't want to miss next sunday i've kind of had a chance to look behind the scenes i've even seen some of the notes it's going to be crazy you don't want to miss make sure you set your notifications in case you forget you get that reminder but the new series is starting next sunday and i'm going to just throw this little out here like this and say that rock city u is in full effect you'll find out what that means so listen the last thing that i want to mention before we go y'all because i'm ready to get into this word me too father's day is right around the corner i know you got about 20 000 kids yeah give or take yeah is the most incredible part about being a father oh my goodness being a father for me it's just seeing the way that i'm able to pass down the things that not only my dad taught me my grandfather uh but also with you know i have teenagers as well to share them some of my mistakes my flaws you know i think growing up a lot of times our parents kind of hid all that from us yeah so a lot of things that my dad struggled with i didn't realize was in me i thought it was kind of something wrong with me so you know i have a son he's 16 uh daughter 17. so even talking about not just my successes that they know about but also some of my failures some of my shortcomings and just helping i believe they're already better than me but they're even going to be more than what i you know i believe like pastor mike tells us that you know he gives us a seed we're supposed to make it grow yeah so if that's important to my children i believe they're gonna be so much better than me and just shout out to all the fathers out there we gonna do it big we gonna talk about the fathers because we believe uh that the enemy hates it when the fathers are involved when they're active when they're being celebrated yeah so uh we're excited about that and speaking of we're gonna do this we'll let them send the pictures in photos so send your photos to dadsrock at the rockcity.org that's dadsrock the rockcity.org because we can't wait to celebrate father's on june 20th absolutely listen so wait i almost said you're good we're throwing it home it ain't i ain't got nothing all today we're good you gotta just feel it it's all good i gotta just feel it i'm gonna look at your imaginary clock y'all it is about that time but you gotta run i gotta go thank you all right so listen y'all as you know we have one rule here at rock city stand with me you cannot rock alone so be sure that you are tagging a friend you're tagging a cousin you're tagging it in because the feast of the lord is going on right here so let's go into worship in five four three two one what's up family for we know that god has not given us the spirit of fear with a power love and a sound mind today it's time for you to fire fear and higher faith we put here in the unemployment line rock city no matter what the doctor said no matter what the doctor says let's go [Applause] says is [Applause] come on and raise your hands come to on is [Applause] oh is oh [Music] [Applause] come on [Applause] right now come on and lift up the name of the lord i need you to lift up the name of the lord last time i checked he's still a good guy let's have a chat he's still the mighty god come on and lift up the name of the lord i said come on and lift up the name of the lord hallelujah father you are a provider come on and lift up the names of god he is everything you needed more i say he's everything you needed for hallelujah many of the afflictions of the righteous but the lord delivered from the heart hallelujah god we thank you god you're still mighty you're so strong father you never gave us the spirit of fear i said he never gave us the spirit of fear i said he never gave us the spirit of fear let me tell you what he gave you he gave he gave you power thank you god thank you god for your power thank you for the strength thank you god for being my hiding place thank you god hallelujah you are very present in the time of leader you are everything we need [Music] come on we came to talk to somebody right here who got a reason to praise him you got a reason to give him glory you got a reason to let your hair back move that table out of the way and give god praise because god if god beat voice who can be against you i don't care what the doctor told you i don't care what it looks like i don't care what it feels like open up your mouth and give god glory go ahead and give the devil a black eye go ahead and praise him because they don't fear what's gonna take you out i know we was in the pandemic i know what was going through some stuff but you're still here and you've got a reason to give god praise open up your melbourne christ come on go ahead and bless them i need a blessed believer to lift your hands up right there come on slip your hands up and receive the blessing come on everybody under the sound of my voice even on other end of this lens begin to open up your mouth and worship him god we rehearse your reputation we rehearse what we know about you god you are faithful you are just you are a keeper and we take this time to pronounce this blessing over you everyone watching can you lift your hands right here the lord bless you and keep you make it stay shine upon and be gracious to you the lord turned his face toward you and give you peace lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon and be gracious toward you and am ah [Music] [Music] be gracious [Music] [Applause] peace come on if you believe in declaring every word he's spoken if you believe that god is a promise every word he spoke over you listen to this may his favor be upon a thousand generations may your family and your children and their children and their children you say i'm gonna declare it and a thousand generations generations may yours and your children and their children and their children and faith go before and behind [Applause] is [Music] yourself come on [Applause] when you're going is it is so it is so can you declare that over your life that it is so that's what amen means ah every word that spoke over me i believe i decreed every word that you spoke over me a degree i believe [Music] oh i'm gonna say right there say amen when you say that you're saying you agree with every word it is so you're blessed it is so you're healed it is so you're the head it is so your favorite it is so your family's coming out it is slower i need you to declare it amen lord bless you and keep you make its face shine upon and be gracious to you lord turn it face what you the lord turn is [Music] in your situation plays [Applause] [Music] the lord turned his face toward you turn your face toward him he turned his face towards you in your situation he is for you he is for you he is for you he is fine he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you he is foreign [Music] out every negative thought in our mind that tries to undo what just spoke over us sing i [Music] yes enlarge my territory enlarge my territory [Music] my territory bless me bless me oh lord bless me indeed enlarge my terror my territory oh lord bless me indeed i pray for increase i pray for increases come on can you decline i pray for increase i pray for lord bless you and keep you make its face to shine upon me and re-graces me the lord turn is face toward you and give can somebody go ahead and bless them right there give them a high glory give them a high praise right there come on just take a second if you believe that the promises of god are yes and amen take us there right come on if you believe the promises of god are yes and amen go ahead and praise him for your yes praise him for your amen praise him for your promise praise him for the blessings of god make him rich and adam no sorrow i declare it over my life that my kids are blessed that my family is blessed that everyone connected to me is blessed go ahead and glorify him go ahead and glorify him we break every curse we break every curse we declare that we're blessed [Music] [Applause] he is for you he's fighting for you he is for you you don't even realize that there is more for you than against you for if god be for you who can be against you he's fighting for you that's why you ain't got to swing no more that's why you ain't because god made you a promise that i'll be with you i'll never believe you no forsake you is fighting for you he is for you he's a promise keeper wow that was absolutely incredible we thank god that he is still in the blessing business i triple dog double dare you to just begin to speak blessings over yourself in the comments speak by faith that your children are blessed that your household is blessed that your dream your career your relationship is blessed that everything that is attached to you in this season and even in the next season that you're walking into is blessed we believe by faith that it's already done in the song it says ah man we know that the promises of god are still yes and a man meaning that it is so i am excited about what god is doing through this ministry y'all i tell you wow this is truly a blessed place speaking of the blessing we know that our man of god you know god is just continuing to take him from face to face and glory to glory and elevating him in so many different ways if you have not had the opportunity to download the song grateful be sure that you do that today it will absolutely bless your life and while you're downloading if you have not already subscribed to his youtube go to youtube type it pull it up on your phone on your laptop and look up pastor mike jr subscribe but also turn on your notifications so that way you can stay locked into everything that's happening listen i'm full already but i do believe that god is getting ready to take us higher because the word of god is getting ready to come forth and what we know is that when the word comes forth chains are broken lives are changed forever so go ahead and stand to your feet clap your hands do your dance and join us in welcoming our associate pastor pastor darius mcclure come on give god praise everybody in the building and that was cute i said give god praise somebody if he woke you up this morning now now we take it for granted that there are thousands of people all around the world streaming online but god favored us enough to be in the room so this time praise god because you're in the room praise god because you're on the stream let everybody that has breath give god your best praise we're so excited that you decided to join us on today welcome to rock city i'm pastor darius mcclure i serve on the pastoral leadership team here at uh rock city church i want to give honor what honor is due can we celebrate the greatest pastor on this side of heaven pastor mike junior and lady jay come on come on type i love my pastor in the chat we love you so much we're praying for you and we're so excited about this new series that he'll be starting soon so be prepared keep your hearts ready and your mind open uh on last week i was excited to be in a room did we not receive an incredible word from pastor hollis thomas he tried to look humble he know he brought that word down don't waste it listen if you missed it be sure to go and watch it on the youtube channel uh after this message don't leave me right now come on get this word today but i'm telling you'll be blessed if you missed the word of last week all right are you guys ready for a word all right grab your bible go with me your phone your ipad uh your iphone as long as your apple you good with me um we praying for all android saints in jesus name go with me to genesis chapter 29 i'm going to pick up in verse 35 but we're gonna preach through verses 31-35 but i want to park at 35 i believe this is what god wants to speak to us about today all right genesis 29 verse 35 is on the screen if you're streaming online here it is then she stopped having children then she stopped having children here's my topic today i want to i want to say it but i want you to type it in the stream and i want you to say it to your neighbor and to your left and to your right are you ready rock city stop stressing over that no no no don't just say it tell your neighbor stop stressing over that now i want you to get a preacher finger and point at him and tell him stop stressing over that you can be seated in the lord's house stop stressing over that i want to announce that there is an emotional epidemic that is adversely impacting most of us sitting in this space and streaming online it is an epidemic that is invisible and intangible yet is undeniable what epidemic am i talking about it's an epidemic called stress it's aggressive and in some ways it impacts absolutely everybody check this out everybody the student is stressing about taking the test while the teacher is stressing about grading it someone is stressing because they don't like their job while someone else is stressing because they can't find a job someone is stressing over the wedding while someone else is stressing over the divorce someone is stressing because they cannot find a house while someone else may be stressing because they can't sail their house someone is stressing because they cannot stop losing weight while the rest of us are stressing because we can't stop gaining weight all types of people and all types of seizings are struggling with somebody shout stress and stress if it's not anything else write this down screenshot it stress is an intoxicating emotion that affects our ability to think rationally settle emotionally and rest physically i'ma say that again stress is an intoxicating emotion that affects our ability to think rationally in other words when you're stressed you can't think clearly you're making irrational choices choices you would not have made when you were not stressed you make while you're stressed because your mind is not thinking rationally but you also cannot settle emotionally and watch this everybody you you have to be careful because sometimes you're stressed out because you're connected to unsettled emotional people y'all are not talking to me today do you have somebody online right now that's making up in your mind that you may be on an emotional roller coaster because you're connected to people who are not subtle or stable emotionally but what about rest physically so we're seeing how stress attacks our mind our emotions and ultimately our body stress is such a crazy weapon of the enemy that it attacks you in places that you can't see then it shows up in places that you can't see i'm not talking to you so you think you may have cancer based off of the food you eat when really maybe you were just a stress eater and because you were stressed you began to eat unhealthy food and the unhealthy food produced a cancer in your body when you think i need to change my diet when really you need to deal with that stress [Music] i'm not helping anybody here so so check this out everybody i want you to check this out y'all sit down y'all making me nervous 70 watch this 70 of physical diseases are caused by stress i have a nurse in the house and my life 77 out of ten physical diseases are caused by stress in june 2005 there was an article in wall street journal that suggests stress kills more people watch this everybody than smoking drinking and not exercising combined so in other words the grave is filled with people who are stressed out and i don't know who i'm preaching to in this in this sacred space called rock city today but i want to declare over your life that you're too blessed to be stressed somebody type that in the chat i'm too blessed to be stressed jesus did not just come to save me from my sins he also came to deliver me from my stress do i have anybody that's made up in your mind that i refuse to be stressed when i'm living in a pandemic already dealing with racial injustice i'm too blessed stop stressing over that stop stressing over that stop stressing over who don't like you and who won't support you stop stressing over that when god said i will never leave you nor forsake you i cannot stress over what i can't control check this out because here it is however i got good news for everybody here it is god sent me here to let you know that he wants to put your stress under arrest y'all are not heaven church he sent me here to tell you that he wants to put your stress under arrest the bible does not specifically use the word stress but it does use words like anxious anxiety to describe stressful states and paul says in philippians 4 and 6 do not be anxious i'm about to run out of here i'm gonna reword that do not be stressed out about some things what what does the text says about what but in every situation by prayer stop could it be that you're stressed because you're not praying because paul gives us the solution to stress he says do not be stressed out or anxious about anything but in every situation by prayer petition with thanksgiving present your request to god and here's the result of prayer here's what most people don't realize here's the result of prayer here it is verse seven and the peace of god see see you looking for peace by getting what you want in a relationship by getting more money by getting a new house by getting a new car when i'm telling you if you just sit down and learn how to pray the peace of god not peace with god the peace of god not peace with god the peace of god y'all not having touch with me what's the difference between the peace with god versus the peace of god peace with god means we are incompetent we're on the same page we're on the same team the peace of god means i can be in the midst of hell but i'm in control i can be experienced as attacks from the enemy but i will be steadfast unmovable all things can be going wrong on the outside but i got peace on the inside and the peace of god which transcends all understanding god is about to give some of you peace that don't even make sense when you should be breaking down throwing in the town ready to quit about to lose your mind god is saying in this season of your life don't ask me for stuff ask me why do i need peace because paul says peace is a bodyguard he says and the peace of god which transcends all understanding will guard your heart and your mind maybe there's a mental health crisis in america and in the church because we don't have the peace of god we have the peace of the world just because you have peace don't mean you have his peace even jesus looked at his disciples when he came back and he said my peace i leave with you see most people have confused culture's peace with christ's peace you think just meditating and doing yoga exercises is going to give you peace when that's going to give you silence that's not going to give you peace peace is when you are in the midst of chaotic loud crazy situations and god has said peace be still it's when you're in the middle of a storm and it's dark and it's cloudy and jesus is in the middle of it with it and say peace some of you need to look at half the hell that's been jumping off in your life and speak to your hell and not talk about your health and say peace be because it guards we need to talk about that your heart and your mind sometimes you're going crazy over stuff because you're pursuing the problem instead of the peace and check this out y'all said i need to teach this because here it is this sounds simple but why would paul tell us not to be overwhelmed by anxiousness why would paul say don't be anxious about anything here's a thought could it be he's telling us this because god if he's anything else he's a strategist i didn't get the amens i thought i would get uh on the stream right now type a man uh because they went silent on me because i knew that most of the time we want to shout because god is a healer god is a deliverer god is a savior he's a keeper he's a lawyer in the courtroom a doctor in a sick room a friend when you're a mother hello i got to say mother to the motherless but here's another shout god is a strategist in other words god doesn't just make good promises he has good plans he does not just make good promises he has good plans god is a strategist can i prove it noah had a flood problem and god gave him a strategy moses had a red sea problem and god gave him a strategy joshua had a jericho wall problem and god gave him a strategy we had a sin problem and god gave us a strategy salvation is a strategy for an unsolvable problem but sometimes we're going to god for a solution when god said i'm not going to give you the answer but i will give you the strategy because if you work the strategy i'll make you the solution are you hearing me today i want to preach to somebody right now who is looking for answers from god when god has said i'm going to make you the answer maybe you can't find the answer in other people and other places and other things because he said if you work what i gave you i'll raise you up to be a moses to lead my people out of bondage i'll raise you up to be an esther to deliver my people out abundance am i preaching to anybody in this room and online today that while you're looking for a solution god has already given you the strategy he's given you the strategy everything you need you already have he's given you the strategy and look at this because what if i told you watch this everybody that maybe you think i'm being too deep when i say god is a strategy but my grandmama would have said why you trying to figure it out he already work it out somebody shout work it out telephone disconnect somebody stop working there waiting on my next paycheck somebody shall work it out the text says what if i told you that stress not only makes you sick stress also makes you blind that many of us we're in this blessed series here with pastor mike here at rock city many of us are blessed but can't see it because we're stressed because stress won't steal your blessing it'll just rob you of your enjoyment of your blessings are y'all hearing me so you'll be blessed and stressed at the same time are y'all hearing me so check this out because here it is this is the case in our text today all of that was my intro now let's go to work because in our text we meet a sister who's suffering in silence on a search for fulfillment she's blessed but stressed look at verse 31 let's go to word look at it it's right there on the screen when the lord saw that leah was not loved he enabled her to conceive but rachel remained childless verse 32 leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son she named him what ruben for she said it is because the lord seen my what misery y'all missed it surely my husband will love me now god blessing her all alone but she wants to receive the blessing from somewhere else y'all not talking to me and watch this everybody verse 33 she conceived somebody shot again she blessed on blessed on blessed she conceived again and when she gave birth to a son she she said because the lord heard that i am not loved he gave me this one too look at this so she named him simeon again here it is this is where we're gonna park at we're gonna have a little bit of church i feel freedom happening when she gave birth to a son she said now at last this is not the one we're going to shout out now at last my husband will become attached to me because i have borne him three somebody shot three three sons so she named him levi let's do work deductively because you have to understand the context of this is jacob is on the run from his brother who he stole the blessing and the birthright from right you remember that on last week i think pastor hollis began to talk about this whole this whole war between two brothers jacob and esau so jacob is now on the run based off of dysfunctional and deception of his character now he's on the run you got to be careful because whenever god wants to change your life he'll send a person and whenever the enemy wants to change a life he'll send a person so when people show up in your life you have to ask the question who sent you because jacob shows up on the scene and we preach about jacob and we love jacob when real really the story of jacob is how god is trying to transform israel that's inside of jacob because jacob was born in deception he was a trickster he was jacked up but god says there's a you and you that you have not even met yet and watch this everybody he says i still love you even when you don't look like me i still love you even when you messing up women's lives i still love you but i'm not gonna allow joy watch this dysfunction to tear down my daughter what am i talking about he wanted to marry rachel but he got deceived by rachel's father and had to marry leah remember he went to the wedding he shows up at the wedding they go to the honeymoon and he's making love to his wife he was like man this was incredible mary i can wait to marry you he lifts up the veil and like this is not what i asked for this is not what i asked for do i have anybody that's streaming online or sending this room that has ever been in the season to where you got something that you wanted but it was not exactly what you asked for i mean you got the marriage but you did not ask for the stress that came with it you got the job but it was not the drama that came with it you got the house but it was not the roofing issues and the plumbing issues that came with it this is not what i asked for so he feels deceived and i just told you his name literally means deceiver what do you do when you reap what you've been sowing in other people are y'all talking to me today that sometimes you cannot be mad when you reap seeds that you sold in another season that sometimes you have to allow god to do a you on you y'all not hearing me that sometimes maybe god is using rachel and leo's father to deceive jacob because the only way jacob could run back to god and be transformed into israel is if he experienced how he treated other people and check this out because here it is in the midst of all of that he's mad this is not what i asked for but leah is laying there rejected you got to be careful who you reject because what if i told you god is attracted to who people reject god here's a tweet alert god loves to use who people abuse god loves to use who people abuse now watch this everybody because here it is leah is not easy on the eyes the text literally says that she has an eye problem that when she's looking this way her eye is kind of leaning that way right i'm gonna just dress it up churchy to where you can catch my girl so if i was looking in the camera you would not be able to tell i was looking at the camera if i was leah because my eyes had problems and so jacob is looking at her and it's like this not what i asked for and he finally gets rachel so he's married to both of them god does not approve polygamy and you have to realize that this is not something that god ordained but check this out everybody he wanted rachel marry rachel had leah married leah he wanted to have kids with rachel here's the only problem rachel was beautiful but she could not produce leah was not beautiful but she could produce see you have to be careful because sometimes god will produce some of your greatest blessings in your ugliest seasons that you may be bitter towards how ugly the season is but maybe god is birthing something beautiful out of something ugly y'all not talking to me this grown folks church children's church is next door but check this out everybody i want you to see this leah could produce and now we're in the test because she kept producing i mean the girl was fertile she had one son named reuben named ruben ruben means watch this behold the son she had another son named simeon this means hearing god has heard me she had another son his name is levi watch this this means joined in harmony unity this is what the name means but that's not what she labeled the season i'm about to write out this church because she named him reuben but she labeled her season misery watch this she said leo became pregnant and gave birth to a son she named him ruben for she had said it is because the lord has seen my misery named him reuben named him misery had another son named him simeon but labeled the season rejection had another son named him levi but labeled the season loneliness whatever you're going through be careful what you call it i feel like preaching here it is put the seatbelt on because whatever you label a season will determine your life in it y'all not having church with me i'ma say that again whatever you label or season will determine your life in it maybe you're living in pain because you spoke it maybe they make you sick because you kept saying you make me sick maybe you're exhausted and wore out because you kept saying i just can't get a break be careful what you label a season because it will determine your life in it life is not about what happens to you life is more so about the story that you tell yourself see all of us have an inner narrative that we repeat over and over and if you're not careful you'll allow that narrative to become your reality to where you're blessed but blind because you allow stress to blind you from your blessing y'all hearing me this girl is blessed with three beautiful sons that will change the world but she's blind to enjoy it initially because she's stressed over her marriage not working out and i want to argue what if leah isn't mad at jacob but she's mad at her daddy she didn't have a choice to get into marriage so maybe she's projecting some of these issues on jacob because of what her father didn't give her when she was growing up see sometimes you have to have understanding to realize wherever there's fruit there's a root maybe this type of behavior did not birth in the marriage maybe it was developed when she was being raised by a daddy so maybe she's labeling these seasons of misery because of the misery she had growing up as a daughter maybe she had rejection from her father because maybe she didn't look like her sister rachel maybe she's experiencing loneliness because she was not valued at home and check this out everybody this is what's so good because it didn't stop right there see that's not how oh i got a baptist church in here today that's not how the story ends because four babies later she gave birth again watch this everybody verse 35 that's my easter speech right there here it is she conceived again i feel like preaching to somebody because i just i almost had a praise break over that one word again because the devil thought you would lay down but he didn't realize that you would keep getting back up and producing again he thought you would give up and not try again but you will not be trapped by your trauma somebody shout again write the book again pursue the business again try to trust somebody again believe god somebody shot again she conceived again and when she gave birth to a son she said this time i feel like preaching right here this time watch this instead of complaining this time instead of being frustrated this time type and attack this time i will praise the lord watch this so she named him judah i thought i had i thought i was at rock city you don't even realize judah means praise i'm i guarantee leah is giving birth and she's thinking about i gave birth to ruben i didn't get what i wanted they didn't love me they rejected me i gave birth to simeon i still was rejected and miserable i gave birth to levi he left me out here by myself and was hanging out with rachel but this time can't nobody do me like the lord as she began to praise god watch this everybody because judah name literally means praise why is this a blessing because praise attracts god's presence into our situation y'all not hear me praise attracts god's presence into our situation if god has i'm sorry if the enemy has not attacked anything in the body of christ during this pandemic it's our worship see many of us are more comfortable praising god in a building outside of your house but what if god was using this pandemic i'm not saying he caused it but what if he allowed this to happen to tap into your private praise see she's not praising god from pleasure she's praising god from a deep place of pain pastor mike once said that praise without pain is just a performance see some people are looking at you praise god and think you're crazy and they're judging you but you don't know how much this prayer has cost me i'm gonna give you 30 seconds right now in the room and online to give god a praise from a painful place think about all the hell you went through think about who walked out on you think about the tears that you cried and praise them i don't just praise them when i'm up i praise them when i die praise them not just for the mountain praise them for the ballot praise them for the pits this has to be a real praise that'll make a woman praise god in the delivery rules see it's not just about the past pain even the present pain she knows i'm birthing greatness that what i'm birthing is judah and jesus would come through the bloodline of judah see this is why you got to praise god not just for your past pain but also for what you're birthing because what you're birthing is going to be able to change a whole generation you have to be careful when you allow the enemy to mute your praise open up praise is not just a weapon praise is a principle praise is not just a weapon praise is a principle praise is what they use in uh uh therapeutic industries reframing praise helps you reframe how you see something so in other words before you appraising you saw how big your problem was but when you praise it reframes your mindset and you see how big your god is y'all are not heaven church see sometimes you need to learn how to praise god not because the preacher is telling you to but sometimes you have a mindset problem and when you praise god this time it's gonna change the way you see something somebody ought to praise god and say this time when i praise god he may not change my situation but he's about to change the way i see it i see it differently i see it differently i see it differently and here it is she names him judah and verse 35 says then she stopped having children let's get ready to close out right here because i want everyone to see this there's nothing wrong with having children children are a blessing from god but she's showing us how sometimes you can be doing it from the wrong place you can be doing the right thing from a wrong place and watch this everybody i want you to see this because the strategy that god gave her was a emotional health strategy a strategy for emotional stress this is a huge issue for many people and one of the major reasons for stress and i believe the strategy she worked in her story is going to help us in our story so check this out everybody number one the first strategy she replied was she had to stop doing the right things in the wrong season she had to stop doing the right things in the wrong season because because sometimes you can't be doing the right thing at the wrong time sometimes you can be being a wife in the season when you're just a girlfriend you're giving them too much sometimes you can be giving some someone too much too soon right then long season and there are four seasons in life you know the four seasons in life right winter summer spring f that's an earth i'm talking about in life though can i give you my four seasons of life you have your becoming season you have your birthing season you have your building season and you have your breaking season see if if you're not careful i'm gonna say this again four seasons in life here it is a becoming season who am i becoming because if god has you in a becoming season and you're trying to birth something you'll miss out on what god was trying to do in you because you were so thirsty for what you wanted god to do for you i'm in a becoming season or a birthing season now that you have become god says now you're ready to birthday you can birth that ministry you can birth that business you can birth that marriage you can birth that child you're ready to to birth you're ready for more because now that you have become you have the capacity to birth are you hearing me even in physiologically a woman cannot give birth to a child a girl cannot give birth to a child until her body becomes fully developed so it is in the natural it is in the spirit sometimes we're trying to birth things when we're still spiritual children you're too immature to try to birth that or build this season now that your birthday god wants to give you the shoulders to build it he put nehemiah in the season of becoming that he birthed the dream in him because nehemiah took the time to become a man of character integrity the king trusted him watch this his assignment was not to go and birth something it was to go and build something see sometimes we don't realize there's a difference between birthing it and building it see some people are called a birth other people are called a build are y'all hearing me see everyone does not have the nurturing pastoral shepherding gift to be a birther but some of us have that apostolic edge to be a builder but outside of building birthing and becoming this is the season we don't like talking about what is that a break-in season well sometimes god has to break your heart in order to blow your mind sometimes that relationship didn't work out because god had to break something not just the relationship he had to break something at you here's why i feel like shouting because jesus did a great miracle with two fish five loaves of bread he he blessed it but he also broke it then he gave it y'all not having church with me as long as it was one piece it can only reach a few amount of people it was when he broke it that it was multiplied see this is why you need to learn how to praise god for your breaking season because when he breaks things he breaks them to release it to do even more to go further to go higher to become stronger to make more of an impact somebody said god thank you for breaking me he had to break it number one stop doing the right things in the wrong seasons i gotta say this this is why you have to discern what season of life you're in am i in a becoming birthing building or breaking season why is this important because every season of your life will determine the seats in your life just because certain people were sitting in certain seats in one season don't mean they'll be in the same seat in the next season not only did she stop doing the wrong thing the right things in the wrong season number two you have to stop doing the right things for the wrong reason she was birthing children but from the wrong reasons she wanted a husband to be something that only god could be reason what motivates me to do what i'm doing the most see god does not look at the out appearance he looks at the heart motive and if you don't understand motives you always struggle with an identity crisis if you don't know why you're doing something you'll never know who you are ah reasons reap results now here it is because you have to be able to discern this write this down motives move the reason why you were doing something before won't always be the same reason why you do it motors move and don't be married to your motives be faithful to your assignments so you need to number one stop doing the right things in the wrong season number two stop doing the right things for the wrong reason last but not least number three stop doing the right things for the wrong people because your gift changes other people's life but it is your wisdom that changes your life see you need wisdom to discern who's the right and wrong people you need wisdom because if you're not careful you you will become a people pleaser and when it's time to change dynamics and boundaries in a season with relationship you'll stay longer than you need to stay but stress is often the result of relying on yourself more than you rely on god and today i want to challenge everybody online and in this room that maybe god is calling us to a place to where we become more god-reliant than self-reliant stop stressing over that because stress is about you trying to be in control trying to hold control over something that you've never had control over in the first place you're being hallucinated of thinking you're in control when god has said no you're not i am and watch this everybody stop stressing over fill in the blank this week what is it you need to stop stressing over is it your future is it your career what is it you're stressing over father right now i pray for each and every individual under the sound of my voice who may have been stressed out who may have been overwhelmed who may not know what you're doing they may not be able to discern the season of life that they may be in god i ask not only do we eliminate stress so that we don't become sick physically spiritually emotionally or mentally but also that we don't no longer live blind help us to be blessed full of joy full of peace that surpasses our understanding that there's someone right now who wants to give their heart to you they want to be saved repeat after me wherever you are in your room on your job in your car maybe you're working out you're on a treadmill and you're listening to this message repeat after me father forgive me for i am a sinner i believe that your son jesus died on the cross to save me from my sins holy spirit come into my heart lead me guide me i surrender to you i confess with my mouth and i believe in my heart that jesus is lord and savior over my life over this world in jesus name i am saved can we give god praise right now come on give god praise in the stream give god praise in the room right now souls are being saved people are making a decision you have decided to make jesus your choice right now there's information on the screen you can text home right now to 28950 we want you to make that decision because you should no longer live your life not just in sin but also in stress jesus wants to arrest your stress if you're making a decision today to take that next step and become all that god has created you to be and do all he's called you to do text home to 28950 the information is on the screen maybe you are saved and you want to rededicate your life to christ that maybe during this pandemic you fell off that you got comfortable doing things your way instead of god's way i want you to look at the information on the screen because today we're beginning a new semester for pathway to purpose and in pathway to purpose we have shifted the entire curriculum not just to help people to become spiritually stronger but also to deal with emotional pain to discover your purpose if you want to make a decision not just to be saved but to take that next step and join pathway to purpose today at one o'clock central standard time text home to the information on the screen 28950 can we give god praise for everybody that's making a decision we're so excited about that listen we pray you were blessed by this word today listen never come into god's presence empty-headed empty-hearted or empty-handed all right whenever i come into god's presence i'm always saying how can i honor you because i know god doesn't need my resources but when i give to god it's an expression of my heart jesus said where you're treasure lies that's where your heart will also be and i want to make sure that it's clear that my heart is not with netflix my heart is not with my favorite restaurant god you a first maybe what if god is saying to some of you come back to your first love right how can i honor god right now if you want to give there's information on the screen on ways to give and when you give here rock city you're not just giving to a church you're giving through a church you're giving into the kingdom of god and allowing god's plan god's purposes to advance this mission to be able to bless we were able to feed thousands of people about two weeks ago and because of that because of giving we're able to do that we want to change as many lives as possible that doesn't happen when we don't trust god in this area of our giving i know for me i can remember there was a time in my life when i struggled with giving i was like why do i need to give to a church when i was spiritually immature but then i began to read the bible for myself and i began to realize that it's only a selfish person that wants to receive but don't want to give jesus says more blessed to give than it is to receive that sometimes the greatest way to receive a blessing is to become a blessing so right now we're excited that here at rock city we don't have to give we get to give information on how to give text iraq to 28950 and the amount that you want to give that's on the screen let's give god praise for everyone that's given right there we love you so much we pray you are blessed be sure to join p2p today and we'll see you next week well in the morning with the devos we pray you were blessed have an incredible weekend god bless you you're incredible you're incredible listen when you got a clap behind every syllable you know it's a good word what an incredible word yeah that's what a great word truly truly a blessing i'm sure it blessed you if it blessed you yeah which i'm sure it did go ahead and share it right too late in the chat with the fire emoji the world was on fire yeah also you can still share you still send to some people like listen girl you need to hear this word hey bro you can hear this word it's gonna change your life like share it to your friends and family members so they can be a blessing and maybe it's bless you in such a way that you want to give your life to christ how can they do that yeah so listen that tongue that you're feeling at your heart that's not gas y'all that's the holy spirit holy spirit so listen you want to go ahead and take the word home to two eight nine five zero make your next move your best move absolutely and if you're giving the reason we're able to do all that we do in ministry is because of your continued support family so remember this is good ground good soil if you're going to give you can do cash app that's how i usually give the money sign at the rock city the money sign the rock city uh cash app and also text again yeah that's my favorite way two eight nine five zero i rock i'm gonna speak by safe one day i'ma takes a million dollars i'll receive that do it for her lord yeah she gonna do it for me but listen family uh we love you so much i want you to remember martial calendar set your notifications up because next sunday pastor mike is starting a brand new series the details are coming make sure you download the app subscribe to youtube everything's turning notifications on you don't want to miss nothing next sunday it's happening right here like i'm gonna say like this i've seen a little behind the scenes rock city u is in full effect get ready for it until then tomorrow morning devos 7 21 a.m yeah yeah i'm turning on facebook and youtube we love you god bless you and we'll see you next week peace you

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Published: Sun Jun 06 2021