The Beauty of In Between

coming up on The Potter's touch if you have convinced yourself that you are right and everybody else is wrong you miss the opportunity to learn the lessons that life came to teach you because when life call the role for school you were not present you were not present you were either in yesterday or groping after tomorrow and you were not present this is the posture grace and peace be multiplied unto you from God our Father their Lord Jesus Christ I am grateful and delighted to have the opportunity the sheer beauty of speaking to you about Jesus Christ in fact what we're talking about beauty that's exactly what the subject is no I'm not talking about air fingernails tire search none of that the beauty of in between in between what's beautiful about that I'm glad you asked as we go into the Word of God today I'm going to answer the questions of those of you who are in that nebulous in descript indefinable spot that you've not been able to articulate to anybody why do we work so hard not to look vulnerable if you can't be vulnerable you can't grow stop acting like you got it all together it's okay there's a beauty in being in between take a look why why why are we so afraid to be vulnerable why do we work so hard to not be vulnerable maybe it is the past we came from and the pain it created that teaches us to be masters of disguise could it be possible that we think in the anals of our mind that if you knew who I really was you wouldn't love me and so out of fear of rejection I give you somebody I think you would like and hide who I really am because I'm afraid if you saw me as I am you wouldn't like me because I count not myself to have apprehended I teach it I preach it I have not attained it do you know what pressure it is to teach something that you haven't mastered to help other people with their problems and then go home and try to figure out what in the world are we gonna do to teach ten points to a strong marriage and argue all the way home with your wife raving children in the head munition and the fear of the Lord is going to be my sermon this morning and your son just wrecked your car in a drunken stupor because you cannot control life and some of us are exhausted from trying to control life we would rather spend our energy controlling our image than to be vulnerable for a moment and say I count not myself to have apprehended and run the risk of your rejection or retaliation or your vicious cruel cycles of gossip look at the energy we spend hiding our vulnerabilities to protect ourselves from people that many times don't even matter and poor of all people my theological hero says I know you study at me Jake's but listen boy I count not myself to have apprehended and I wonder how in the world that we leap over that and start talking about forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those they which are before and overlooked this moment of vulnerability from the Apostle the of Tarsus stumbles up to us and admits I don't have it all together but can you love me anyway and can I lead you any way in and can I teach you any way can I add value to your life can can I hold my womb while I stitch your scars I count not myself to have apprehended is an indulgence in vulnerability and I think the reason that we are so afraid to be vulnerable is that the past teaches us to camouflage it teaches us to cover up because the last time I tried to be real I got hurt and the last time I tried to be myself I got fired and the last time I opened up to somebody they betrayed me and the last time I confided in her she went out and told my business and so we become masters as shutting out the pain and the hurt and the sorrow and the disappointment and the only problem with that is that when you become numb to the pain and the sorrow and the disappointment you also become numb to the joy and the peace and the life and the love and the vitality and the excitement and you start living your life like the walking dead going through the motions and you can't remember what day it is is it Thursday or Tuesday I'm not sure because all of my days look the same when I'm numb all of my days are the same and I'm loved because when I'm numb I lose all sense of time and yes I lose all sense of pain but I lose all sense of joy too and this tasteless life of mine is filled with indulgences to cover up its emptiness because what I built to protect myself and insulate myself has now incarcerated myself and I am missing the pain but I am missing the joy I'm missing the confusion but I'm missing the love because when today called the role I was not present yeah I'm not gonna be President I'd rather be spiritual and not be present I'd rather put all of my energies into forgetting the things which are behind me dealing with yesterday or let me get over here shout about tomorrow tomorrow about this time hallelujah before the clock strikes 12:00 and at midnight and Sunday and after I see we got faith for the pass and we got faith for the future but what do you have for the now are we always just going to be forgetting and reaching forgetting and reaching forgetting and reaching forgetting and reaching and looking over today because we don't want to talk about today because today I count not myself but you can't embrace the now without embracing the vulnerability of I count not myself to have apprehended I'm not finished now I'm not complete now and people don't like things that are not finished they don't like things that are in between girl I left him because he was not ready for me please not please please do you are you really as wonderful as you try to project that you are have you sold your beliefs as realities that what you believe about a thing you convince yourself that your truth is the only truth are you telling yourself a narrative about you that is conveniently made you always right and everybody else just doesn't get it and when we can't be vulnerable we can't grow you can't grow if you've got to always be there you can't grow if you have convinced yourself who y'all acquired if you have convinced yourself that you are right and everybody else is wrong you miss the opportunity to learn the lessons that life came to teach you because when life called the role for school you were not present you were not present you were either in yesterday or groping after tomorrow and you were not present you be shocked at the people who come home every night but never come home who show up for work every day but never show up who live with you in love with you and sleep with you and deal with you but are not there with you because we're saving ourselves for you to get right for you to be perfect I'm not gonna reward you with my love cuz you don't deserve to be loved you imperfect thing you why would I love you you don't even pay the bills why would I love you you told me hi why would I love you you cheated on me you imperfect little thing you don't deserve this kind of glorious wonderful special delicious love I got but don't worry if you ever become as good as I am then then I will give you the prize of my attention but until you get as good as I am then I'm going to be absent I'm not going to be present in your life I'll be there but don't expect me to be there I'll come home but I won't be at home I'll be your husband you keep the ring on but but you'll never really have the man that I could be because because I'm still mad over something you said and I'm here but I'm not present because our situation is not perfect and I can't deal with not perfect so I'm reaching after other kinds of stuff some utopia some euphoria some place that's wonderful in thus we buy we show me everything's we shall in the sweet bye and bye after a while some day because it's easier to reach for it than to deal with the naked reality of I countin on myself to have apprehended and if I could just get the courage to be vulnerable enough to peel down my church face and rip off my mask and say you know I'm Superman sometimes but I got kryptonite II suppose this rips in all of us as I can't not myself to have apprehended he brings before us a Geylang wind of opportunity to see the beauty of you between still to come on the Potters touch there is no way you can have this many people in the room and people not be leaping out of wheelchairs if we ever went into some real water but we have been in a fake the funk generation so long that we don't know the real thing when we run into it we're so busy trying to make sure we got a hair right and we're sitting right and everything is looking good but when was the last time that you really showed up and loss of God men we are fathers we are leaders and real husbands and we are friends and teachers so we have to lead by example no other place on the planet can you experience a powerful anointing such an impartation it strengthens and uplifts us every every time this is only my second time I just appreciate man powerful with your doing this god bless Grissom Jace but Woody's put together no empower the men at our church to come and you know really receive some revelation from God before we can reign we have to learn how to we deal with things throughout the year and I look forward to it you know every time I wish that it happened more often because about legacy and leaving some for your family your kids I feel that God you know coming to this conference gives you confidence to lead and be a great leader it's good to have how that foundation to strengthen the man teaching and you know just a fellowship the camaraderie of other brothers that are sharing you are on that uh that are excited for price is just awesome I can't not myself oh what a Liberty were free idea it is to be gloriously confused and not quite they're always so wonderful not to have the answer to every question and not to be the all wild all-seeing all-knowing persons and a half the glorious liberty of saying look boys I don't know at all I don't have it all I don't understand it all and I haven't figured it all out but I do know this I am forgetting those things which are behind me whatever it is that I'm supposed to learn about life it's not in my past I sifted to it I search to it I rubbed it rubbish that ran to it and I am convinced that there's nothing back there for me glory to God there is nothing in my history that is controlling my destiny so I'm forgetting those things which are behind me and yes I'm reaching to those things I've got some goals and I got some hopes and I got some ambitions and I got some dreams and I got some players and I got some hope for and hope so and wish I could and think I could it maybe I can but in the meantime I just want to stand right where I am and tell you baby I can't not myself to have apprehended you will never be alive to love and life and peace and victory when you run from pain and sorrow and disappointment because they are inextricably connected one to the other and you can't have one without the other and your fierce need to protect yourself from the vulnerability of what could go wrong or what did go wrong or what might go wrong or what might happen to the kids or what the spouse might do stops you from seeing the beauty of what they are doing it until you are open to the beauty of in-between you will miss the greatest moments of your life I'm almost finished but can I go can I go a little further this is how God and I talk when we get alone and he teaches me things I didn't see and things are overlooked I looked at my speaking of Father's Day as I talked about Jairus daughter being at the point of death and and how Jesus went to wake him up you remember that and and I knew there was something else here for me to see and I had to go back and look at it J iris of rich did not rich the young ruler synagogue ruler the synagogue comes to Jesus and says my daughter is at the point of death and he says I can't do anything else I got I need you to come and rake him up and the Bible says that Jesus got ready to go and the crowd and throng him and and he was on his way to ji restorers house to heal her he was on his way he was reaching toward it and as he was reaching toward J IRAs daughter's house there were the woman who came through the crowd Jesus was reaching towards something in front of him and in something in the future and something far off and this woman was trying to see so now she was trying to see some now and she's one if not the only person in scriptures who got healed while Jesus wasn't even looking he wasn't even looking in her direction he was reaching to Jay IRAs daughter's house he wasn't even look in her way but she was crawling up in behind him and say it's not it's not all about what you gonna do up there it's about the things that are going to happen to you along the way and she talks she touched the hem the hem of His garment and when she touched the hem of His garment she says I need something today I need something right now I need something in this small matter I need something in this moment right now I'm running out of blood I'm running out of strength I'm running out of time I count not myself to have apprehended so I'm gonna try to snatch at what God has for me somebody ought to just snatch at it I yeah I don't have it so I got a snatch after it I don't have it so I gotta pull after I don't have it so I got a grope for it feel like a crawl after it I know you got it all together you don't have to reach for anything but I count not myself to have apprehended so if I have to crawl to get my healing if I may if I may since I'm a zom-baby touch the hem of I don't care if you're in Houston or Hong Kong if you don't start reaching for today if you don't if you don't start reaching for this moment if we don't get to call the roll and you are present you will have missed it all maybe your life would be better if you would just be in it some times and bring your whole self to it sometimes and throw your everything into it sometimes and if you would love violently without limits with full aggression without expectation for anything back in return maybe what's wrong with your life is that you are not there and you're saving yourself for some day and you're missing today and this is the day that the Lord have made this is the day you ought to rejoice and be glad in this is the day that God deals with your issues and stops your bleeding and delivers you from the pain if you have the courage to show up in between God will show out in between ho ho ho ho who touched me jesus said I am around people who never touched me they're so busy trying to figure out who's go sit on the ride and who's go sit on the left who's gonna do the inaugural message and who's going to be promoted and who this that I am surrounded by people but I am not being touched they're asking me when will the kingdom come and when will be the end of the age and when will you restore Israel win-win-win-win-win and they're looking to win and missing now until this nameless woman this broke nameless sick woman this woman who laid out in the hot Palestinian air bleeding with no air-conditioning this funky woman moved through the crowd with her smelly self no time to take a bath or refresh herself and she couldn't fix up herself and she could prepare herself for an appointment she just simply knew that Jesus was passing by and if she didn't have this moment I don't have time to fix my hair I don't have time to find my favorite blog I don't have time to put on my sunday dress but if I made but but I know I stink a little bit but if I may what we need in the worship service is some funky folks who've been through hell and high water who will open up their mouth and say I'm hurting too bad to worry about anybody thinks about me I got some messy stuff and some smelly stuff but if I'm a butt my god I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost coming in his play tell your neighbors somethings about to happen in this place I dare you to be present in this moment I dare you don't open your mouth and lift your hands and really out of your belly out of your belly out speak to me Jesus journey and I am missing I am crazy and I am I am here Lord these are my hands I lift them up to you this is my life how open it up to you this is my mouth and give you the pray somebody open your mouth and give break tested people's now gotta touch him I gotta touch him I gotta touch I gotta touch him I got attention I got attention I gotta touch him today I got to do it today I got to do it today I got to do it today I can't wait for heaven I got to do it today I can't wait for him to sweet by-and-by I got to do it today I can't wait till the end of the year I can't wait another 24 hours I gotta do it today I gotta touch him today I gotta touch him today Here I am just as I am without one plea but that thy blood was shed for me and that thou me come to thee o Lamb of God I come anybody want to touch them today I gotta stop there we have to learn how to open our hearts uh but we have to learn to become vulnerable enough to take off our masks and show our weaknesses until you open to the beauty of the in-between you will miss the greatest moments in your life Darla the enemy robbed you another day allow this word to dwell in your heart my failure I'm Mitchell tini jinx and I approve this message god bless you past failures current situations where are you getting your identity it should be found in Christ and Christ alone learn that your problem doesn't have to define you through Bishop series I am when life call the roll for school you were not present you were either in yesterday or groping after tomorrow for your gift of any size you will receive bishops revealing message the beauty of in-between on CD from the series I am made in His image it's not about works and air just receives on the basis of rings and when your gift is $65 or more you'll receive bishops to message series I am made in His image on DVD it is so epic Asus that that blood is effective against diseases that were not even discovered at the time that the blood will sit however for your gift of $110 or more we'll also include our iron poster embrace your identity with Christ when you say I am his today you're so busy chasing after tomorrow you have cheapened today and if you would slow down put your hand on the shoulder the person in front of you let them know that goodness and mercy have been chasing you it's been following you his way know you to slow down long enough so that it can touch you goodness and mercy are following you slow down and let it catch up to you today this is the bomb

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 14 2015