The Gift of Imperfection - Touré Roberts

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we're not doing that and god did that with me and it's been my experience when when god invades a message and when he interrupts it means that there is a people there are people assigned to a specific word and so i'm excited because i believe this message is going to bless you i believe it's it's going to unlock something in you and i just believe that god's going to get the the glory in your life and so so i'm excited pray for me this may lack some of the sermonic structure that you're used to you're gonna have to let me be me today but i promise you i've heard from god uh and and it's connected to the things that we've been talking about and i believe that it's gonna bring victory and breakthrough into your life and so so let's go let's jump right into it let's go to second corinthians uh the 12th chapter and we're gonna look at verses eight through ten this is not an unfamiliar passage of scripture if you've been around any church any bible study anything you've seen this you've heard this but we're going to dig deep into it and perhaps maybe understand some things about god about life about ourselves that we had never considered and uh and so let's let's go right into it paul is writing and he says concerning this thing i plead it with the lord three times that it might depart from me and he the lord said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness paul says therefore most gladly i will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me therefore i take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in needs and persecutions in distresses for christ's sake for when i am weak then i am strong i want to talk around the idea of the gift of imperfection the gift of imperfection let's pray father thank you so much for your word it is a lamp into our feet it is enlightened to our path your word edifies us it builds us up and god you've given us this beautiful expression this wonderful passage of scripture that is loaded with so much truth divine resources that bring healing and strength and wisdom and victory so i thank you for every person that's listening right now every person that's watching and i thank you that this meal that you have prepared for them is going to fill them to the full it's going to be exactly what they need to push them further along their journey to becoming everything that you've created them to be and we pray these things in the matchless name of jesus amen amen and so early this morning i was just in my meditation time in my private time i was just moved to to think on the goodness of god and i and i went back over my life and and and i just was looking at stages and seasons and and so many things that god had had brought me through so many tricky situations and and even dangerous situations and and so many broken things that were happening in my life and and and i just have you ever done that before you you just you just look back over your life and you see how god you see there's some things see god will bless you so wonderfully that you will forget about how jacked up it used to be or sometimes you will realize that you were shielded from perceiving how jacked up it was when you were in the midst of it right and sometimes not just how jacked up it was but how jacked up we were you follow him saying anybody ever gone back down memory lane and you just start thinking about god and god just starts saying yeah you remember that you forgot all about it because he's been so good you forgot that you were there and i had one of those types of of experiences with god this morning and and uh early in the morning and i just started thanking him and i and i was overwhelmed with gratitude and i was overwhelmed with thanksgiving and then i saw something about my history that i had never seen before i saw a consistency a consistent truth that had played itself out in my history and and when i look back what i saw was everything that god used to make me great over the course of my life was flawed i had everything that he used my background was flawed my relationship with my dad was flawed my dad was flawed my mom is amazing but she was flawed everything that god used to move me forward in life to bless me to raise me everything he used to raise me up was imperfect there was not one thing that god used to bring me to this point that i am in today that was not flawed it was not perfect and that's amazing because what that tells me is that god uses broken busted and imperfect things to weave together the tapestry of our lives oh god isn't that something so so perfect doesn't start with perfection come on somebody see when god is perfecting something he doesn't use perfect things to perfect it this is the mystery of god no one is produced by perfect circumstances no one who is great became great through perfect materials all of it no not some of it all of it not most of it all of it was flawed oh god can i can i talk to you today a little bit it all was flawed and so so what i'm learning is that perfection maturity wholeness and growth is not born from perfect circumstances watch this it is the byproduct of the fusion between god's strength and our weakness oh god help me and that's what the text that's what the text is talking about i love this the apostle paul before verse eight in verse six and seven he's he's basically talking about how he so that he would not be exalted above measure so that he wouldn't be puffed up so that he wouldn't uh get a big head so that he wouldn't you know because god had raised him up and god had done great things with him i feel that for some some of you you've got great lives god has raised you up and here is the thing if you're not careful it's easy to get amne amnesia and it's easy to forget who you were when god found you and so god says says you know i you know so that i wasn't exalted above measure i was given a thorn in my flesh uh something to remind me a messenger it says it says a messenger from satan something to remind me watch this of who i am not something to remind me that that that i wasn't always casting out devils and i wasn't always preaching the gospel and i wasn't always laying hands on the sick and i wasn't always walking in integrity i wasn't doing it he gave me something watch this that i couldn't shake he says and i and i asked the lord in my pursuit of perfection watch this because he's after perfection this is the same paul that said i am forgetting those things that are behind and i'm reaching forward to those things that are ahead i'm pressing towards the mark so we know that the apostle paul had a growth mentality we know that the apostle paul wanted to be everything that god has created him to be he was not satisfied in his desire to be greater and greater and greater he says god i've got this thorn in my flesh and i'm trying to be perfect and i'm trying to get it together in god i need you to take this from me and there's no indication in the text that the lord ever took it but instead of the lord taking it the lord begins to teach him and to help paul to understand how the power of god operates and so he tells him after he pleaded with the lord three times lord please make me more please take this away i wanna i wanna not have to deal with stuff i wanna watch this i wanna be so strong that i don't need you see he didn't realize that that is what he was asking for to take this one thing that keeps me on my knees away from me i feel the spirit of god take away this this one thing see watch this he was asking for a curse and he didn't realize it but because all of us need something in our lives that keep us on our knees before god he says humble yourselves under the mighty hand of god and in due time he will lift you up oh god i feel it so in order watch this to be elevated i've got to get low in fact that word [Music] where it's so when jesus replies to him after he asked us and he says my grace is sufficient for you that word sufficient at its root is the greek word iro and it literally means to lift up see see you're trying to be lifted up and you think that your perfection is what lifts you up but your perfection is not what lifts you up your humility and your recognition of the fact that you need me is what will actually lift you up and my grace will come in and elevate you because i've learned that the fastest way up is down are you hearing what i'm saying oh we we we gotta we gotta work through this today we gotta work this today and so he says my grace so i i'm not taking this thing away because you think that it's something that's hurting you but it's actually something that's helping you i feel the holy spirit there you you want this thing to be removed and i'm not being insensitive to the fact that it's painful i'm not being insensitive to the fact that it's frustrating i'm not being insensitive to the fact that that because this is going on in your life life is harder and it's more confused i'm not being sensitive to that but there is a dynamic between that and what that produces in your heart and in your spirit the humility that it cultivates there is a connection between that and god's power that works for your good can i talk to you like this today he says he says my grace will elevate you my grace is sufficient for you and then he says watch this now this is where it gets real interesting god's jesus says for my strength is made perfect in weakness there's something there my strength is made perfect in weakness so what is god saying god is saying watch this in order for my strength to be complete it needs your weakness and in order for your weakness to be strong it needs my strength you better catch what i just said god we're talking about the evidence of god and i can't think of any greater evidence of god is when god causes a person to become something in spite of in spite of i i remember i'm telling you people people got saved just by knowing that i got saved people that were familiar with the old me oh you didn't catch what i meant with it people got to say toray no no no no no torey thomas roberts is saved oh there is a god somewhere you follow him saying because it was because of of of seeing my life and on all roads should have led to death all roads should have led to destruction because of of the elements and the environment sure there was good there but there was a lot of cray-cray there and so when god blesses you and causes you to become in spite of it is evidence are you tracking with me he says no he says it i'm not going to take that away from you he says because because my strength is made perfect in weakness in other words he's saying that my power cannot be made fully evident without your weakness if you're taking notes i want you to write this thought down the tension watch this listen carefully the tension between our weakness and god's power is the furnace of greatness eli my shot i feel the spirit of god i want to just dance and run i'ma say it again the tension between our weakness and god's power is the furnace of greatness it is where greatness is realized you know if you're like me you want you want everything you want everything you want everything now you want to be able to see everything god gives you a command god gives you a vision god gives you an unction you want to see the steps come on somebody you want to see the money you want to see the relationships you want to see the property you want to see the team you want to see everything but there is something see and all of that is you saying remove this from me oh i feel the spirit of god i'm talking to somebody right now when when god has given you an instruction and when god has given you a command and you're like god if you show me i'll move god if you if you show me i believe you and god is saying if you believe me i'll show you because there's something about that space where there is a need that space where you are weak god i don't have it figured out i don't have the money i don't have the power i don't have the relationships i don't have the connections i don't have all the things that society is telling me i need god i am weak take this out my flesh and god says no baby uh-uh you are right where i need you to be because my strength is made perfect in your weakness and i hear god saying i need somebody that is willing to be weak i need somebody that doesn't have to have it all figured out i need somebody that will say i don't have all the answers i don't have it figured out i don't feel strong right now but i'm trusting in you my eye is on you if that's you say god i'm weak i'm weak god is looking for somebody that's willing to be weak god's looking for somebody who understands how this thing works who understands that the power is in the tension that the power is in the gap between your ability and gods and god's ability to make himself evident needs you need your weakness and your weakness in order to demonstrate god's power and to become evidence needs god's power and so here we are we have we have god who is like a mother with with breasts that are ready to provide milk and then we have us hungry children on the other side of that thirsting and longing for what god has and it is in that hunger that that desire watch this to be the baby that needs the milk here's another thing since i'm talking about babies of milk and breasts which i feel completely unqualified for but i have heard that when the baby cries the milk is formed in the breast that's scientifically off whatever the point is amazing but i think it's true that when the mother hears the cry of the baby hormonally instinctually she begins to milk begins to form in her breasts and so there is this gap hunger and supply and there's something powerful that happens in the middle can we talk a little bit can we go further today and so and so it's in the tension the the furnace of greatness i feel the lord the furnace of greatness is not when you have everything the furnace of greatness is not when you have the background the the backing the furnace of greatness is when flawed stuff is your portion i feel the spirit of god oh god help me say this the way you showed it to me early this morning that's the furnace of greatness it is the tension it's amazing so so jesus is saying that my strength he's talking about my strength right he's educating us on his strength that word literally is dunamis it's the power of god jesus in this text is educating us on how his strength works how god's power works we're getting a lesson in how his power works and he's saying that my power my strength is that i can make in you and through you incredible things watch this in spite of your weakness but because of your weakness i wish i could say that better which i said it better in other words i i i actually need your weakness isn't that something because we look at grace's graces well if i'm weak then then then his strength no he said i actually need that the way that my power is wired the way that my power is designed it is designed to be an answer to your and my our inherent weakness oh god yeah that's that that's that that's how it works it's honest it works it literally says look at this let's take a look again he says my strength is made perfect that word literally means complete my strength is made perfect in your weakness in other words god is saying that my power can't be full without your weakness my power cannot be fully manifest independent of your weakness watch this which means that we were made imperfect by design to show to make his power evident to make god evident see see that should shift some things see i think often times we're too hard on ourselves we're too hard on others and we're too hard on circumstances because we have somehow deduced that imperfection and being flawed watched this is unnatural unnormal and it disqualifies us but what if it's the exact opposite what if we were imperfect by design what if imper imperfection was a gift oh god i know it's crazy i know it's crazy but but what if that were the case and jesus is teaching us he's saying my strength is made perfect in your weakness in other words my strength cannot be fully demonstrated without your weakness and you're over here trying to be strong how you doing fine save sanctify fill with the holy ghost never felt better well that's a problem for god first of all it's not true you're having a good day but you're still flawed still broken still imperfect imperfect still living in imperfection and that needs leaves no space and no room for god's power jesus says my strength needs your reality you realizing that you need some work in order to be fully manifest are we tracking we we're judging i'm just thinking about how and maybe it's just me but we we judge things and we render things unusable and unprofitable people situations circumstances when we see defects come on somebody we throw people away we throw opportunities away we have very little patience patience for people when when the reality is the truth of the matter is it's those things are the things that get used the most you ever judge somebody you i mean god just used them in incredible ways but you're like look at that just as fleshy as they can be come on somebody you've been there and god is using them they understand the formula god doesn't use he specializes in using things that are unqualified i feel this i want to give you this insight where we're almost done here this insight given what i'm saying today and i'm reading it right out of the scripture given what i'm saying today i want us to do the following number one i want us to begin to look at imperfections differently i want i want you i want you to begin to look at your imperfections differently look at what paul says we go back to the text paul says therefore after you know he talks about he pleaded with the lord three times that this thing might depart and after he acknowledges that god says my grace is sufficient my grace will elevate you for my strength is made perfect and weakness what jesus says and paul says therefore since i understand since i've come to understand how god's power works he says all right well then therefore most gladly i will rather boast in my infirmities come on come on we'll read over that stuff and we'll be like hey man hallelujah but can we just get into it for a second just for a second paul starts talking crazy y'all paul starts talking therefore most gladly most gladly i will rather boast in my infirmities watch this that the power of christ may rest upon me we may give we may do that you know what i mean you know um i'm coming through weeping may endure for the night joy comes in the morning we might you know we might be able to stir ourselves up to that a little bit but then he takes it further he says therefore i take pleasure in my infirmities in reproaches in needs in persecutions persecution [Music] in distresses for christ's sake he says for when i am weak then i am strong so paul gets a revelation about how god's power works right and because of that revelation he has a new perspective and he has a new perception about the difficulties that he faces and i believe that that the first thing that we need to do is we need to look at imperfections differently we need to start seeing things right and the first thing that we need to start seeing right is we need to start seeing ourselves right so paul says i take pleasure in my infirmities okay can we can we just have an honest real conversation there you know because paul you know paul sometimes you get paul come on talk to me don't talk to your brother paul paul you i don't like paul you fall he says i take i take pleasure in my infirmities now this is the exact opposite of what we do let's just be 100 when we have a weakness when we fall short in some way when we don't measure up to the the standards that we set for ourselves or the others set for ourselves we we we do not take pleasure it is weak watch this we can be more damaging and critical and hurtful and judgmental to self than anybody outside of us our mind our self-judgment often times not oftentimes every time is worse than exterior judgment and we can be and we can be extremely hard on ourselves just think about it for a minute and sometimes you can and i'll do i'll be i'm telling myself sometimes i'll be like that's right to myself that's hooray you ever done that talk to yourself and you just give them to rey boy like and here's the thing we're supposed to be our own best friends but because of our weakness and because of our imperfections and because of our flaws if we don't understand that we are flawed by design to manifest god's power so that we can be evidence then we will be unnecessarily harsh on ourselves and paul says no no i i i take pleasure therefore i take because i understand that god understands because i understand that god understands because i understand how this thing works i feel the spirit of god lord help me preach this the way you gave it to me today because i understand how this thing works instead of me coming down on myself watch this when i see my humanity i rather take pleasure and that word take pleasure as a greek word watch this it means to think well isn't that something in other words i rather think in a healthy way about my imperfections i feel that i rather i rather you know because my lord just taught me that his strength is not even made full until it connects with my weakness and if that's how he's seeing me and that's how he is perceiving my shortcomings and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god right none of us measure up to the mark that's why paul said i'm pressing toward the mark there's a mark and all of us without christ fall short of it so it is not unnatural or unnormal to be imperfect or flawed it is by design and so paul says i'm going to think well about it i'm gonna my perspective my attitude towards self my attitude towards these things is gonna be healthy i'm not watch this i'm not going to be anti-me i've got enough people and things and circumstances and sickness and disease and all sorts of things outside of me that are anti-me i am not going to join the enemy of me i'mma think well what how do you think well how do you think well about infirmity i recognize that my lord's gonna make up the difference i recognize that there's that that there's power available for my deficiencies not just power available for my deficiencies but power that is a sign power watch this that was designed for my deficiency that's why he says when i'm weak say i'm strong because at the moment of weakness is where i am close to the power of god i will never be more close to god's power than in the moment that i am weak and i acknowledge it are we tracking and so i want us to i want us to look at i want us to look at our imperfections differently i i challenge you to see your imperfection as a gift can i mess with you today i i challenge you i challenge you got to get this you got to get this i challenge you i don't care who's talking about you because of your flaw i don't care who has given up on you because of your flaws i don't care who has kicked you out of the club because you don't seem to measure up i dare you to think well about your perfections i'm not saying i i'm condoning you continuing to do something that you know is outside of god's will for your life that's not what i'm talking about but i'm talking about when you have done all that you know to do and yet you still seem to come up short i'm talking about when god is giving you a mission a word and an assignment but you don't feel like you have what it takes to get it accomplished i dare you to begin to think well what if for the first time in your life you are right where you are supposed to be in that tension between your weakness and god's power this is the furnace of greatness greatness is not forged in the place of abundance greatness is forced in the place where there is a gap between your strength and god's are we tracking together and so i want us to look at our own imperfections differently i want us to look at the imperfections of others differently see i believe that when we can embrace the fact that we are flawed by design yeah flawed by design made whole by design too we'll get to that in just a second but when we can embrace the fact that we're flawed by design then we are less critical and judgmental of others wow fellas there's somebody right now that you're judging that is postured perfectly for a power move from god there's someone right now and you're looking at their flaws and you're looking at their mistakes not realizing that they're closer to a divine breakthrough that makes god evident that they've ever been before be careful who you judge put that in the feed right now be careful who you judge because you have no idea whose weakness god's power is getting ready to meet i feel the holy spirit and that's why we got to always build people up we can never i mean there's a time i believe there's a time for separation and their time you know but even when i separate from somebody i'm still not cursing them even when when your weakness you know even when i'm no longer safe around your weakness and i have to make the decision to separate myself to part ways from you there is still a consciousness on the inside of me that knows that god's strength is made perfect in weakness and all that individual has to do is get to the power of god through confessing their weakness and things can change and things can turn around always leave a little bit of grace for people are you tracking with me even when you got to say goodbye don't say good riddance and so we got to think well about the imperfection of self we got to think well about the imperfections of others are you tracking with me if you're tracking me put it in the feet right now i know this is not normally the way we get down but are you tracking with me well i'm gonna think well i'm i'm learning something about my imperfections i'm learning something about my flaws right now i used to beg god god please take my flaws away but i'm starting to settle into it and i'm starting to settle in and to recognize that that if i humble myself then the grace of god is going to come and his strength is going to be made perfect in my weaknesses so and so i'm i'm going to look at imperfections differently god retrain my mind so that i'm not hard on myself anymore so that not hard on others anymore and so that i don't falsely judge circumstances and so we gotta look at our imperfections differently the second thing we gotta do and this is where i'm gonna leave you kinda sorta is we have to develop a do it anyway attitude a do it anyway attitude see a lot of times not only are we judging people judging ourselves judging others but oftentimes we are also judging circumstances right can any good thing come out of nazareth that is a judgment of a circumstance of a situation there's nothing there that's a that's an unprofit that's a weak city that's a weak region who who comes from there and so we have to be careful not to judge circumstances right and to develop a do it anyway fortitude because sometimes we are waiting for a perfect set of circumstances to come into play before we move anybody ever been there god tell you to do something and you're like i am i'mma do it i promise i'm gonna do it when everything i i'm just waiting as we we i'm waiting on the lord you're not really waiting on the lord what you're waiting on is your idea of a perfect set of circumstances can i talk to two or three real people right now i'm almost done yeah yeah we have judged we have judged the circumstance we've judged the situation we've we've judged the environment oh god i feel the lord and we're like god i'm waiting on you but you're not you're not waiting on god you're waiting on your imperfect circumstances to miraculously become perfect and when everything becomes perfect then you're going to move no you got to have a do it anyway fortitude you gotta learn how to do it when you're scared you gotta learn how to do it watch this when you're broke do it when nobody's around do it when you're flawed do it sick do it without the connections do it without the experience do it without the education why because god says my strength is made perfect in your weakness i need it to be broken oh i feel the lord you want all of it laid out for you and god is saying in order for this thing to work and for me to get the glory i need you to not have any money i need you to look crazy i need you to not have a relationship i need people to be talking about you i need all of it to look bad what if you are right on the cusp of the power of god being demonstrated in your circumstances because we just saw it god says i need your weakness my power needs your weakness i i can't god is saying i i can't move until you're in a situation i feel the spirit of god i can't move until your back is against the wall i can't move until you are out of options i can't move until you trying to figure out how it's going to happen i cannot move my strength is released in your weakness if that's your word say i'm weak [Music] my power my power needs weakness to manifest itself let me show you something one last thing i want to show you it's in ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 through 10. it says for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves watch this it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should boast for we are his workmanship watch this we are god's workmanship created in christ jesus for good works which god prepared beforehand that we should walk in them now there's a whole lot there but ultimately what he is saying is watch this before the imperfection even showed up christ had been prepared on our behalf the only purpose for christ is to be our strength it's by design your weakness your flaw your deficiency your s your setback your dilemma your sense of lack your confusion your blindness trying to figure it out is all by design and god would not design something that he did not have a remedy and an answer for so you and i are gonna start having to learn to get comfortable in weakness to think well to think well to think well to doubt is to not think well to be anxious is to not think well to be worried is to not think well to look down on yourself because you're still trying to figure something out is to not think well you and i are going to have to learn to be like paul if we are going to be the evidence that makes god evident we need his perfect power and jesus taught us that his perfect power is not manifest in our strength his perfect power his strength his dunamis is made complete in our weakness what weakness what deficiency what lack what dilemma has been haunting you he has been has been trying to talk you out of the joy that you need to get going i feel the holy spirit you got to have a do it anyway fortitude i'm weak watch this therefore i'm going i don't have the answers therefore i'm moving i'm no longer going to make up this excuse about god i want to show you a sign you know what the sign is lack you know what the sign is weakness you know what the sign is all of the steps have not been made plain that's your sign that's your sign god wants to make you evidence he wants to make you evidence your life will be evidence you know why because people are going to be able to trace your beginnings and find brokenness and find despair i i like stories i don't like success stories where the person didn't have any hardship and it was handed to them no i like success stories when people failed 75 times but somehow we're still in the midst of that able to think well to take pleasure in their infirmities [Music] god wants to make you evidence he wants to make you evidence but you have to change the way that you see weakness oh i feel the holy spirit [Music] christ says we were created we are his workmanship god almighty's workmanship created in christ before the world for good works for good works before the world began god says before i formed you in your mother's womb i knew you and i sanctified you and i i set you apart now i'll dange you hallelujah your stepsi ha your steps have been ordered the bible says that the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and he delights in his way though he fall he shall not utterly be cast down because the lord upholds him by his hand did you say that how can wait man if my steps are ordered how could i fall how could i have failure how can i have weakness if god is ordering my steps we just learned how though i fall god orders us he orders our steps and none of us were created perfect in fact we were created imperfect by design i want to pray for you because i want to break a mentality off of you because i sense this so strongly i just hear these words you're closer than you think do me a favor if that's resonating in your heart put it right there in the feed i'm closer than i think i'm closer than i think i'm saying it out loud in the room i'm closer than i think i'm closer than i think i'm closer than i think the enemy was trying to trick me and make me think that that because i seemed so far away from it because of my weakness i was further from it than i thought but i hear god saying you're closer than you think you're closer than you think you're closer than you think you're closer than you think you're closer than you think you're closer you're closer you're closer than you think because you feel weak you feel flawed watch this because the plan is because the plan [Music] is not clear because some of the pieces seem to be missing not in spite of because of you're closer than you think just receive that right now hallelujah i want to pray for you you receive that say pt i receive that word that was your word just say i receive that word i receive that word i receive that word i receive the gift of imperfection god needs my imperfection just as much as i need his strength [Music] and when the two come together evidence happens hallelujah hallelujah i don't have to have it figured out i feel the lord i just feel like this is a moment to worship we're about to wrap this thing up but i just i feel like this is a time to worship see weakness worships worship is an acknowledgement of our weakness that's why we open up like this and surrender god i surrender to you i am weak but thou art mighty [Music] yeah i'm weak god but you are strong hallelujah i'll rejoice in my weakness i boast in my weakness i i'll take pleasure in my infirmities because when i am weak it is then that i become strong hallelujah father just move in the midst of your people right now move in the midst of their hearts and their minds right now move upon them move upon them god lord i want you to just begin to cure them cure their fears cure their doubts god cure watch this their longing heart some the word says that hope deferred makes the heart sick some have heart sickness because they've been waiting to see something and they thought that the hope was in seeing but the hope is not in seeing the hope isn't acknowledging i wake paul says i rejoice now that the lord has taught me how power works now i rejoice in my weakness i no longer look down on myself because i don't have all the answers or because i don't have everything figured out i no longer look down on myself about that anymore i recognize that it makes me close to power it makes room for power i'm closer than i think god minister minister to your sons and daughters right now i thank you god that somebody's getting healed right now right now right now right now physically healed right now right now release it thank you jesus thank you jesus you're a wonderful savior lord we wouldn't trade you for anybody what other god sits high but yet looks low and makes provision for our brokenness who does that i wouldn't trade you for anybody jesus [Music] your whole purpose for being is to make us strong thank you lord i love you god [Music] i want to give you an invitation you're watching this you're listening to this right now you're listening to the podcast you're watching us live you stumbled onto this you're not even even supposed to be on on this this this channel this page but but somehow you you got here and and you haven't as of yet come into a relationship with jesus beautiful jesus not jesus notice jesus didn't when he said take this away from he said now you know you take it from yourself no he says i got you this is my grace you can't do it by yourself it's my grace i'm going to introduce you to my grace and my grace is going to elevate you and then not in spite of your weakness but because of your weakness i'm gonna make you strong if you're watching right now you never open up your heart to the lord he's here i don't even have to tell you that you feel something and all you have to do all you have to do is just surrender to what you feel you feel love you feel seen you feel understood that's the lord he knows you you were created in him for good works before the foundation of the world [Music] this is a setup and if that's you and you say i feel god i feel god and i want to i want to receive god i feel the lord and i want to receive him in all of my imperfections so that his strength can show up in my life if that's you just say i receive god just put it right i receive god i receive god you can put i receive christ you can put i receive jesus i receive i receive let's let's not let it happen all of us had that first time where god touched our hearts and we said you know what yes yes i i sense that it's love it's not manipulation or control or god trying to take anything from you it's god saying that before you were formed in your mother's womb i knew you i was into you i'm still into you and i know the plans that i have for you their plans to prosper you and not to harm you to give you a future and a hope if that's you just say i receive i receive i receive put it there i receive i receive i receive hallelujah something is happening something is happening in this place something is happening in your home something is happening in your car right now something is happening something is breaking something is breaking we feel it we know it we feel it we know it [Music] your flaw is not your hindrance your flaw is the doorway to the power of god showing up in your life in such a way that you'll become evidence that makes god evident i love you i love you this message is designed to change everything it's designed to accelerate things an enemy would take that thing that god will use to bless you and and use it as a weapon of disqualification not anymore you're not going to disqualify yourself you're not gonna disqualify others and you're not gonna disqualify a circumstance that is prime for the power of god that's your word put it right there in the feed man that's for me pt that's for me and you go forth and you do it anyway do it broke do it scared do it nervous do it without the team do it without the education do it his grace and his strength has qualified you go forth hallelujah

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

Views: 2,389

Rating: 4.9647579 out of 5

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Id: RUks32kMI50

Length: 54min 54sec (3294 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021