The Blessing of the Busted Nest | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom Connection we got a future generation it's alright to stand all by yourself [Music] you have your Bibles I'm reading from Deuteronomy the Old Testament Deuteronomy chapter 31 for just a few moments he found him in a desert land and in a wasteland a howling wilderness and when he was in the wilderness look what happened he encircled him he instructed him he kept him aren't you thankful in your wilderness he encircles you he instructs you he kept you when you couldn't keep it together mentally and you were about to have a breakdown he kept you he encircled you he instructed you he kept him as the apple of his eye verse 11 as an Eagle stirs up its nest hovers over its young spreading out its wings taking them up carrying them on its wings so the Lord alone led to him verse 13 said he makes him to ride the heights of the earth to high places the King James says to eat the good of the land to draw honey from the rock notice that there's the starina of the nest and then there is the new level a blessing and I want to talk to you for a few moments this morning how of this text that Moses wrote as a sermon to his congregation and I'm preaching today on the blessing of the busted Nest joked 29 I want him to throw up just the one verse for the sake of time but he starts describing how that he whisked in verse 1 he talks about how that he wished he could go back when he had his family when he had his well when he had his hell when he had locked not lost everything he said in that time I was in my prime the favor of God shine don't need like a light and on my tent on my family said my steps were but like butter my steps were like butter I just eased into everything there was no struggle it's just blessing blessing everything I touched turned to gold and then I said 29 and 18 I said I will die in my nest I'll just I'll just stay here the rest of my life and God said I heard that and I'm gonna introduce you Joe to the blessing of the busted nest a nest is my cozy smug place to rest to retreat to it's a nice place to be born into it's white birds and other animals build nest is to have a safe secure wonderful place for their babies to be born into but it's in this text one day Moses was out in the wilderness he looks up in the cleft of the rock or in a high tree and he sees a mother Eagle stirring up the nest and he sees the église as they are being moved and shuffled around out further further further to the edge of the nest and he grabs a pen and he begins to write the sermon to Israel and he said as an eagle stirs up the nest so God will deal with Israel the female eagle picks her mate in an interesting way if you want to qualify to be her mate first of all she's picky she's choosy about her mate that would be a great lesson to learn and she takes a stick she puts him through a series of tests and she flies to about 15,000 feet and she would drop that stick there he comes flying chasing after her trying to flirt with her she won't have anything to do with him she drops the stick and I could almost see her folding her wings and looking at him and all of a sudden he realizes oh she wants me to pick that up and he starts flying down they can fly up the 200 miles per hour and he doesn't nosedive and grabs that stick in midair and brings it back to her she then goes down and gets a much larger loose from a stick to a log she picks up a large branch and flies up not to 15,000 feet but to about 5,000 feet and when he comes soaring out there trying to impress her she drops the bigger stick at a lower level and that stick is racing to the bottom and he has to go even faster and when he grabs it it pulls him down me now he's breaking a sweat now it's really getting tough and just when he thinks that he's finally impressed her she goes down and basically picks up a small tree and she flies to about 500 feet and he looks at her and she looks at him and he knows what she's about to do she drops it and when she drops it he flash takes off and goes down and grabs it it's pulling him down he's doing everything he can to not let it crash on the rocks it's taking all the strength that he has his talons his claws or just as strong as they can be holding on to that that huge huge limb the question is what is the lesson you're supposed to learn and he learns a lesson that all men learn soon that it's impossible to please a woman they man no no let's keep moving that's not discerning today never enough but but here's the beauty of this this is so important catch it now it's the mother Eagle that stirs up the nests where the little eaglets are but it's the father Eagle who circles and she's testing him to know that when she stirs up the nest and they go tumbling and falling and squawking about to hit the rocks that that father Eagle is powerful enough is fast enough is strong enough to not let them fall and ultimately ultimately be destroyed I want to preach to somebody today if you're tumbling and falling and the nest has been busted up and everything seems like the bottom has fallen out of your life and you don't know it looks like the rocks are getting closer and closer you have a father who can fly faster than you can fall and you may fall but you will not be destroyed you may be cast down but you will ultimately find the loving arms of God grabbing you rescuing you and taking you up where you belong so don't lose heart God will bust up your nest to teach you to fly what seems most cruel can become most beneficial in our life and if you don't learn that lesson you'll misunderstand and think that God is a cruel God but the truth is when he's going to take you higher he will bust up your earthly nest many Christians have folded wings they won't know change they won't know challenge they won't know risk in their life I only want security I only want happiness here on earth that's it but you're called to a higher calling a heavenly calling is on your life not and earthly calling there's more to life than the house and the car and the comfort and the nest that you built it's important and God blesses you with it and if he's blessed you with it you ought to be thankful but don't ever think that's what your life is about it's not about earthly things but you have a heavenly calling on your life and until the Eagle starts disturbing the nest the eaglets will never step out into their potential you've got a heavenly calling you've got wings that can lift you above the storms do you hear me you're gonna need this sermon you've got wings that can lift you above the other birds our nest gets too nifty too comfortable some of you are so comfortable in the place you're in right now that you don't even need to read the Bible you don't even need to pray you got all the answers and I'm a self-made man like somebody said why'd you make yourself like that but I promise you life has a way of tearing up your little nest and you're gonna need him you don't need him like you've never needed him sooner or later and then you'll discover the blessing of the best in this had I not gone through it had I not suffer sometimes we want to shield our family and shield our children do we don't want them to go through nothing and won't for nothing in lack for nothing but the thing that made you what you are is what you went through the hardships and the struggles and the tears and feeling like quitting and giving up and now you just want to give everything to them you need to hear this preacher God says I'm gonna bust up some of those kids nests until they get back on their knees and they realize that what they were cien was not a lie there is a God in heaven he does have victory for his children and I cannot make it on my own I never would have made it if the Lord was not on my side oh here's something powerful she doesn't dismantle the nest she comes twice she doesn't dismantle the nest she just makes it uncomfortable by pulling out the fur pulling out the skin the animal hides now the twigs are sticking those little keep those little anklets because they don't even know that they have two gifts they're not even aware of talons or claws and wings they don't even know that they have it you never know that in the soft luxurious penthouse big-screen laying around all your clothes all your stuff laid out you never know what you've got you'll never find some of your gifts as long as you're in a place of comfort and ease but when she tears that place up all that's left is sticks and at that moment for the first time those little eaglets take those talons and they grab hold of a stick and they learn how to stand because that mother eagle understands that we've got to teach a new generation that before they can fly they need to learn how to stand for something you got to learn how to stand for morality and stand for character and stand for integrity and stand for the Word of God even if nobody else hears even if nobody has any stand if nobody else will leave it you learn how to stand all by yourself because if you don't stand for something you're gonna fall for anything and it's some point if you go ever fly high you first gotta learn how to take a stand and say yeah I'm different yeah I don't have your morals yeah I don't go there I don't do that that's who I am and I stand for some things why am i screaming I don't I apologize and I feel this we got a feature generation it's alright to stand all by yourself I don't have to have your support I don't have to have you liking me I don't have to be popular I don't have to be in your little clique me and Jesus is all I need to go to the high places I stand for some I stand for holiness I stand for righteousness I stand for the Lord I'm not ashamed of it you have to take a stand so tired a little weak little teenyboppers college students that are so intellectual that this book is stupid to you I have a prophecy for you you're headed for the blessing of the busted nest and when your nest gets broke it's gonna be amazing how you get on your knees oh I promise your life will sooner or later bring you to your knees big and bad arrogant and intellectual your there's some things your money can't buy your intellect can't fix your friends can't help you gotta go to Jesus leave me to the rock that is higher than I know where my help comes from it comes from the Lord comes from the Lord you're supposed to file he's supposed to be going higher supposed to be growing in the Lord not sitting in a comfortable niche when I got baptized back in 53 and back in 73 I gave a special offering and you you're in a nest of religion thing about the eaglets when they start falling and tumbling and plummeting they look foolish can I preach a minute are you willing to look foolish are you just gonna stay comfortable the rest of your life some of you young people don't ever take risk you say no to every challenge you're not open to change you just gotta stick yeah get out of your nest you will look foolish go somewhere if you're lonely go somewhere where some people are get out of your nest just get in their circle and stand there and act like you know what their time but but that you gotta get out of your little loneliness and yes there'll always be critics when you jump out of the nest who will be sitting in the nest I know them they're from my neighborhood why you dreaming like that why are you risking like that you gonna make a fool out of yourself it's better to fail trying to fly than to sit in the nest and die say it with me again it's better to fail trying to fly then sit in the nest and die why sit we here till we die I'm gonna take a chance I'm gonna get out I'm gonna use my wings of faith I know there's more to life than just getting up and paying bills so Lord here I come I'm coming up higher I'm ready for the wind to take me where I belong the high places tell somebody besides you you don't you you don't belong with the other birds so let me tell you this I'm almost done the ego is one of the few birds that does not flap chickens flap notice the text said the Eagle flutters she's testing and waiting on the wind she gets on a rock she's just waiting to feel the wind it's not by my it's not by pop oh I feel oh and then she flies in circles they start out small but the thermal draft gets in that circle and it starts to this every time she circles the circle gets bigger and it goes higher and gets bigger and go if you will learn to wait on the Lord and seek after the wind in the upper room the Holy Ghost came like a mighty rushing wind and when you feel the Lord leading you to do something you say here I go God says your circle of influence will get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger not because you're talented but because it's not by mind it's not by power but the Spirit is enlarging my territory my circle is getting bigger and bigger and no man can keep me out if I'm supposed to be there the Spirit will make a way job said everything was blessed in my life I was walking in butter I had my family I had my wealth I had I was the richest man in the East I had cattle silver gold more than any man in the East beautiful wife beautiful children and then I said to myself listening to it again and joke 29 I will die in my nest and God said I heard that and I want to teach people that I am NOT the God who wants you to settle just when you think I've done all I can do in your life opened all the doors that I can open bless you all that I can bless you once you settle it disturbs me God says you get my attention with your lackadaisical spiritual attitude toward me and he says if you don't want me to tear up your nest you better you better get out of it you better be like Isaiah 40 said they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength I may need to run to the rest to the to the nest for rest and refuge for season but at some point I got to get up out of my discouragement get up out of the divorce get up out of the bankruptcy get up out of the depression get up out of the addiction at some point get up out of the past out of the heartbreak out of who left you if somebody left you it was heavens vote that you don't need them to fulfill your destiny for the rest of your life six billion people on the planet life doesn't end when one walks out of your life the nest is when you're totally afraid of change totally afraid of taking a chance totally afraid of risk faith dispelled RSK risk we build our security we've even built our little spiritual nest we've experienced all that we ever plan to get of God because I'm just happy where I am I know that Holy Spirit stuff is real and God bless Franklin Jensen and all them over there you know I just like to sit up here in my nest I just I got my little seat up here everybody knows in this section that's my seat and I leave it alone and and and and and and so so I just I'm just happy like I am that is until your nest get busted up when your nest gets busted up you don't need more than you had yesterday [Music] so he said in Hebrews 12 everything that can be shaken will be God doesn't owe you anything you owe him everything God doesn't owe you anything get that in your head he doesn't owe you a perfect life sweet little picture perfect little family everything beautiful and I thought if I said the Lord everything God doesn't owe you anything gave his son you owe him everything so who you gonna trust in some of you think you're in a wonderful little financial nest you determined giving you kind of do it but I don't really need the Lord's help well we we need them because we print paper God makes gold you better never forget if your nest is blessed and thank God for it you ought to be the biggest praise the biggest praise are all not to be the person who's about to lose everything and they're really coming after God the biggest praise are all to be the person who has the blessed nest you're in a season of bless nest and you make sure you let God know my joy is not from my nest my joy is from you and that's why no matter how much you bless me with I'm gonna give you the glory I'm gonna give you the praise I'm gonna give you the honor [Applause] [Music] recently we partnered with a wonderful organization in Israel called a Yale during the peak of the cove at nineteen crisis together you and I are providing food and much-needed supplies and services to Holocaust survivors in Haifa Galilee and Jerusalem these people have already experienced the worst horrors that this life can offer and because you are committed to bringing comfort to the nation of Israel these elderly survivors now have hope care and comfort I need your help with this great project there is so much we can do together we have people on the ground through a partnership in Israel who are stocking our comfort my people warehouse to bring comfort throughout the nation to the elderly and those in need numerous Israeli government officials are letting us know how critical this work is and we are honoured to continue what I believe is the biblical mandate from Isaiah 40 comfort the comfort in my people I was so honored to receive the special greeting all the way from Israel on your behalf I wanted to share it with you and we appreciate it very very much all the best for me Miki's thank you when you send your best gift today we have some special gifts to honor your commitment bringing comfort to the nation of Israel here is my announcer to tell you more there are more than 190,000 Holocaust survivors living right now and with every passing hour one of them is entering into eternity we are losing these living treasures every 60 minutes the hidden tragedy is that far too many of these precious people are living out their final years and loneliness isolation lacking even the basic necessities that's why we've partnered with yell this organization has identified the most needy of these Holocaust survivors living in Israel and is 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when you go on trips like this it's a form of blessing Israel it's a form of saying I'm blessing you God and I'm blessing your land and I'm blessing the people and when you do that there's a blessing that comes back spiritually and in every other way can't wait to see you get on the bus let's go forward conference 2020 is now online is free just text forward to three one three one three one for your instant all-access pass this year's lineup includes Sadie Robertson rich Wilkerson jr. Hillsong yelling it's free Peter and Laura taug reggie dad's free chapel music and Jenson Franklin for conference is live online at June 25th through 27 to get your free all-access pass today at four conference org or text forward to three one three one three one this program has been sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom Connection we hope you've enjoyed this teaching by Jensen Franklin and thank you for your continued support of this ministry your prayers and financial support make these programs possible for more information about this message and other ministry resources visit us online at Jensen franklin TV

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Published: Sun Jun 21 2020