The Healing of Insecurity | Pastor Grace Dickow

morning life changers church would you all please stand to your feet you know our god has made a way for us he has paid the path and we can just live and embrace it so let's sing i search the world but it couldn't fill me man's empty praise and treasures of faith are never enough [Music] desire is now satisfied hearing in love let's lift it [Music] than up there's nothing better than you lord there's nothing nothing is you guys better there's nothing better it's true let's sing this out i'm not afraid to show you my [Music] [Music] oh there's not a place [Music] [Music] [Music] there's nothing better [Music] come on church our god has made a way he turns morning into dancing let's sing it tuesday [Music] you're the only one who cares [Music] you're the only one who cares [Music] better than you there's nothing better nothing is better [Music] is [Music] you're the only one is [Music] you're me only one [Music] [Music] come on he's the only one who can and he is he's turning things around today come on do you believe that so come on let's lean in god we thank you for your presence today we come boldly right now and we know that when we trust in you you will never let us down so we thank you we love you we worship you today come on can we sing this together [Music] broken by the days gone by spirit [Music] i try my best i try my best [Music] i'm a child of god [Music] your mercy [Music] stronger [Music] to the heart of god your heart [Music] it's impossible [Music] [Music] she is [Music] for your kindness [Music] [Applause] is [Music] come on right now can we declare this all to jesus [Music] oh come on [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] to the heart of god [Music] oh [Music] we surrender all to you jesus this is a house of miracles signs and wonders and we will be intentional about our worship today whatever it is you need you can have [Music] today [Music] this is [Music] [Music] this is a house of healing our hearts are full of faith [Music] let's declare this at the church together come on come on [Music] in the name of jesus this is a house of miracles come on we bring everything to the feet of jesus everything in the name of jesus this is a house a miracle do you believe that today you can have whatever it is you need you belong to the most high god so we receive all you have for us jesus thank you lord let's declare this there's resurrection your blood runs through our place [Music] [Music] in the name of jesus come alive in the name of jesus this is [Music] everything in the name of jesus this is the house of [Music] come miracles in the name of jesus this is a house of miracles [Music] i still believe you're speaking [Music] god i believe you're working all things were good come on in the name of jesus come alive in the name of jesus this is the house we bring everything we let us [Music] in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] let them [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is [Music] this is [Music] come on can we give jesus a shout of praise today come on jesus we believe in your miracle working power hey what i love so much about the church what i love about what we're doing right now in our moment of worship is that this isn't tradition because tradition is when you do something based on the past something that you've always done because you always do it but church there's something active in this place something that's happening right here he's still moving he's still active his power is still working today yesterday today and forever so i just wonder if we could just rally our faith for a minute just to believe for the active presence and power of god and what i want to do we're singing about the house of miracles i want to believe for some miracles today and i've got some prayer requests that that people have brought in you yourself may have sent in we get prayer requests from our church family every single week i want to just take a minute and lift these up as we're singing about the miracle-working power of god is that okay come on some people are believing god for healing healing from stomach issues and anxiety someone's believing god for financial provision for medical expenses someone's believing god for their husband who's in need of a lung transplant someone's believing for healing for their daughter for their son who's overcoming covet someone's believing for a favor in the workplace they're having a difficult time someone's believing god for their son who's waiting for test results so we're going to bring these these requests to god and maybe you have something that you need prayer for you need something you need god to move in we're gonna believe right now so father come on across this place let's pray lord we thank you for your miracle working power we thank you for your miracle working power that's active that is here it's present you are a god who heals you're a god who provides so god we lift up these requests to you right now and we say have your way god do what only you can do we thank you that you're healing for those who need it you are bringing provision for those who need it you are bringing restoration for those who need it you're a god who heals you're a god who multiplies your god who delivers so god we stand in faith today that you are moving and that you're working come on [Applause] god [Music] god [Applause] let's give jesus a shout out praise one more time this place yes amen amen amen hey thank you for worshiping today it's good just to take some time and just release our faith and and we're really believing for miracles or believing that god's going to do something only he can do and so i hope you just receive that if you've got something you're believing god for this is a place of faith this is an atmosphere of faith i can feel it i know you can as well so hey thank you once again for for being here being at life changers church and thanks worship team for leading us today hey why don't you just take a minute maybe say hi to someone and you guys can go ahead and grab your seat this morning maybe say hello and to all of our church family watching online i want to say welcome and i especially want to say welcome to our downtown chicago city campus who has joined us it's good to have you all with us we're going to have some fun today and listen right now we're going to do something special we're going to continue in our worship through our giving so would you uh just put your hands together and welcome our friend abe who's gonna come and encourage us today come on abe how we doing church come on it's good to be in the house isn't it come on can we get some excitement in here i love being with you guys i love sharing this moment chicago i love you i'm down here i'm coming back love you too welcome everyone is watching online everyone is in the house if you come for the first time my name is abe and as a part of our host team i'd just like you to feel welcome and echo that welcome you're loved you're in the right spot if you're here for the first time come on out to the cafe after service you can get a gift we love that you're here we love you took some time out of your day your week your labor day weekend and uh let's get it we're gonna get into uh the next part of our worship as rob mentioned we're gonna get into the portion of giving and then we got some fire word from a from a speaker that's gonna bring it and i'm excited about that look so lean on in but you know i was at a a beach volleyball tournament yesterday downtown and you know how they they throw things into the crowd like they throw the balls and the gifts and stuff and here i am in like dad mode with a little two-year-old and i got my diaper bag and the and i'm the tallest guy there right so and and just the disclaimer i wasn't playing in the volleyball tournament just to make that clear i just i was actually just just there watching and i'm reaching over to grab this ball that's coming at me and i got the diaper bag and it rubs through my fingers and i get that disgruntled look from my wife you know like you let me down and this guy sitting right behind us just grabs him he's just sitting there it just falls into his lap and i just kind of want to talk a little bit about that where we're positioned right sometimes it matters where our location is where we're planted where our seed is where our roots are where we're at and the participatory action that we do in the kingdom of god in the family of god is just being there rooted putting all of ourselves and what we're about and our sustenance in there and god is the one who sir flourishes us and he gives us the sustenance and he gives us the nutrients from the soil his soil this soil is good can we look in the scripture in psalm 92 this really really broke me down when i when i saw how the amplified version puts this scripture it says the uncompromisingly righteous okay i got a i got a different a little bit of it they're planted in the house of the lord it says they shall flourish i just want to read my my translation of the amp flight it said it like this the righteous will flourish like the date palm what's a date palm will the amplified him with the one i looked at said long lived upright and useful they will grow like a cedar in lebanon my version said majestic and stable that's what a cedar of lebanon means and then it said plant it in the house of the lord they will flourish in the courts of god they will growing in grace don't you like how we're planted in the house but we flourish outside there's a multiplication there's an extension there's an influence that happens not just in the house you're made to glorify god to people that are out there and then it goes on to say they will flourish and be vital and fresh and they will thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age rich in trust is what it says to be vital and first rich in trust and love and contentment dang i need some rich contentment rich in love and i need some of that i hope you need some of that too it says there are living memorials to declare that the lord is upright and faithful to his promise he is my rock and there is no unrighteousness what's our part in all this hey get planted get planted can i can i run through those again long-lived upright useful majestic stable growing in grace thrive bearing fruit prospering flourishing vital and fresh rich in trust and love and contentment living memorials to declare the lord is upright to his promise the lord is upright my life is a testimony of how upright and how good he is and how responsive he is to our our planting our part our participation is just being planted family this time we have an opportunity to plant our seed you know that honors god we can honor god and then it says it says in turn there's another scripture i just wanted to point to it was in second corinthians it says in chapter nine he gives you something so you can give then away which grows into full formed lives robust in god wealthy in every way so that you can be generous in every way producing with us a great praise to god you know that we're producing with our giving robust lives all around us and as we give today i want us to believe for the person next to us i want us to believe in unity for the people that are in our house together so there's there's an envelope that's been put in your seat there's an opportunity to give you can give online you can give by text you'll see some methods to give up on the screen you can call in and give a gift if you want to do the envelope you there's some giving booths in the back you can drop off as you leave service but guys i don't know man i just want to be planted i just want to draw from the right soil this is good soil my life is so blessed my life has been multiplied my life is growing and and honestly the participants all we got to do is stay planted put some roots in the ground put your seed in the ground come on now how easy is that and i want long life i want to flourish i want i want i want to have people around me who are just growing in grace i want to be in a family like that that's what picture of what i see here in this church in this house i love your family let's pray on that can we pray on that all right all right dear god i just pray for the person out there that needs some long life that needs some uprightness and be useful to be majestic to be stable i preach that i call that on their lives growing in grace thriving and bearing fruit and prospering and flourishing and vital and fresh i declare all these things over my brothers and sisters that are here today i declare that they are rich in trust and love and contentment living memorials to declare the lord is upright i pray that they are have full-formed lives robust in god and wealthy in every way i declare as they give giving is easy when you think about thank you family for participating in this way amen are you leaning in are you excited about what's next come on now that's what church is all about church is about that kind of life that's what we're here for right it's not just the drill so this time with no further ado i would love to welcome the lovely the wise the creative the compassionate one and only the gift for our house pastor grace take out come on now thank you for that hey everybody happy sunday it's great to see you it's great to be together one of the keys to having good health is having community with people you love so important and uh can't underestimate that so today you're doing something good for you by just coming and if you're joining us online hey you know what you are in god's house with us there's no distance in the spirit and so we're going to just have fun together i just want to welcome all of our global family that's watching with us once again i know we've been kind of reaching out to you guys but like go ahead and engage with us like send in the chat send an emoji send what you hear that feels good to you and i really really really especially want to send all the love love love and more love to our chicago family out there in the city you guys are awesome it's been so great that to be opened up and to be together and we are having this live moment together right now this is like our live moment together and so our faith is let's just agree together right now i know abe just prayed but i wanna just today the title of this message or the moment that we're gonna have um i've already put it in god's hand god's already spoken to me about some of you and what you need because guess what your father knows you he knows exactly what you need i'm here to serve i'm here to be a blessing to you to pray for you and i pray father right now for each person hearing my voice right now father i thank you for your presence i thank you for your presence that can never be compared there's nothing it's matchless there's nothing that we can compare it to father you love us you know us you created us you designed us for such a time as this and for every person here right now listening to my voice i declare the spirit of god quickening life to you right now quickening life to the eyes of your heart to be opened to be flooded with light for your ears to be open your spiritual ears to hear the father's voice this morning thank you father for healing us where we need it lord in our bodies and our minds and our souls in our families and our relationships i thank you for it in jesus name and everybody said amen all right you know today i want to talk to you about healing healing the healing of insecurity the healing of insecurity you know i've been doing a lot of research lately um on well i've just been studying i'm very intrigued with the thought of overcoming procrastination i don't know if anyone here don't raise your hand if you ever deal with procrastination i'm terrible i'm you know that's just probably one of my biggest weaknesses and so um i've done like just been reading about and learning about you know how to overcome it and everything and um it's interesting to note that the the scientists say that the number one cause of procrastination it's not that a person's lazy that's good to know it's not that a person is not smart it's not that this person just doesn't know how to motivate themselves because i feel motivated in certain ways you know but the number one reason behind procrastination is self-criticism self-doubt and i was shocked to hear that i guess because it just it just surprised me so this this really prompted me to think about wow because then i i went out and listened to more podcasts about it but everyone just goes on to like the strategies the cool ways and the steps you could take to overcome and you know trick yourself or get yourself moving and get yourself motivated you know but i i'm listening to all this i'm listening to different podcasts and i'm learning and i'm but i kept going back to that one thing i'm like the number one reason for procrastination is insecurity i'm sorry yeah insecurity self-criticism just feeling that insecurity and i thought about seeing a lot of times in the world you can look i'm a big researcher i love learning that's why i'm a teacher i teach in our school i've always been a teacher it's my degree i love teaching and you can gain a lot of knowledge about things but there's nothing like having a pastor having the spirit of god speaking through your pastor and so you being in the church today i mean i just feel like one thing about your pastor by the way he's ministering right now in in italy so thank god he our church friends there have invited him and we're having a planting seed in europe for right now and and um you know so that's why i'm here by the way in case you're wondering well he'll be back with us for moments wednesday and for um sunday next week but uh so i'm gonna take everything i can this morning to be with you because i haven't been with you guys in a while and i'm really really excited about it and so i really want us to heal the insecurity the self-doubt the self-criticism those voices that now i want you to again don't just tune me out and think oh yeah that's not me that's for someone else and maybe there is somebody here that really i think we all need it um because the world's insecure and especially after 2020 we went through so much and everything changed everything got up turned upside down and so again i i'm thankful that we're in a church where like we have a pastor who deals with the roots of our lives because you can get a lot of knowledge and add a lot of behavioral changes and things you can do to change your life but we got to go to the root my family we got to go to the root um those voices that that say you know the reason we put off things we put off starting a business we put off meeting a new friend we put off um just the things paying our bills you know we we put these things off we put off getting our things organized you know just because we feel like we're not smart enough we feel like you know why should i bother i'm not good enough i'm not capable this isn't going to work out for me i'm probably going to look stupid why should i even try and so we we second guess ourselves we deal with this you know feeling of unworthiness the self-conscious feeling i i don't know i'll let someone else do it i'll deal with that another time you know um and maybe i you want to take a new class or interview for a new job or do something new you know but we we put it off um because we just feel like or or change you know change is not comfortable that's why we're life changers you know uh it's all about changing and we got to keep growing like a tree a tree keeps growing gets better every year so it's hard i i just want you to know like this this feeling of self-criticism this self-doubt this insecurity is really what it is and what is insecurity insecurity is a is to be what it actually means is to be without a root to be without a cure lacking the confidence to stand firm lacking the confidence um or grounds sufficient grounds for confidence and without confidence you know we without confidence we can't really pray we can't effectively pray we won't go to god when we don't have confidence and we all we understand we've all been in situations where we had confidence in the other time where we didn't feel confident or we thought we were confident and then we look back and like what was i thinking and i didn't do it right i'll never do that again and and so forth but confidence is is very very important and that's why i want to talk about this today insecurity comes from several things and maybe you might identify with one of these things okay everyone's come from different backgrounds but it comes from possibly being raised in a broken home in a in a home where maybe you suffered some abuse some neglect look none of us were perfect none of us parents are perfect and none of us growing up we didn't have perfect so there were things in your life possibly that caused you to feel insecure continually maybe a failure um something you failed at sense of loss like maybe you lost a mother at an early age or lost a friend or lost a loved one or lost a relationship maybe you went through like a bad breakup a divorce scars from relationships can sometimes be you know there but it's like you try to just kind of ignore them again the procrastination let's just ignore it it hurts i had a fall recently like two weeks ago i fell and um i injured my elbow and so it's healing though it's doing really well but there's like now it's down to just this one little scab and and i keep bumping it and it keeps like ah it keeps hurting again i'm like oh and i keep putting all the ointment on and band-aids and everything but it's like i try and i realize how much i use my elbows without thinking you know like to open the door i'm like ah i just did it again what and it's like so what happens is when you have these hurts inside deep in your soul it's like certain triggers will prompt them and you think you're better because you go for like six months and hey i'm fine but then something happens and that person comes in the room that hurt you and it's like trigger something you know this is what can we just be honest today um these are deep things deep calls into deep insecurity can come from a poor body image feeling shame because your body is not where you want it to be um but listen even athletes supermodels they deal with this insecurity i mean it's you think it's because of how you look in the mirror and what i want to do is i want us to go deep to the root because that there's really an insecurity there because guess what you you get you know haven't you thought well if i just could just lose five pounds if i just lose 20 pounds if i could just uh if i could just change this about my my nose my face my legs the way i walk the way you know i hate this about myself you know we we don't realize this voice is in our head that put us down that criticizes we are our own worst critic and so i want that that recording to stop i'm here today to help you so that you can stop listening to those voices and to those and but we're gonna heal them we're gonna heal those things are you ready for this i don't know if you're ready are you really ready i mean i don't have a lot of time so you gotta pull it out of me because there's there's an anointing there's an anointing in the church like abe said like rob said like joe said this last week on instagram like we have the church when we're planted in the church i can't say it enough just doing that is a win for you even if you don't doesn't take faith it just takes getting up getting yourself in or getting turning on and listening on a regular basis and connecting so insecurity we're gonna heal it today it comes from um you know feeling not good enough feeling um you know but listen by the way about body image if god god liked you enough to come and live in you so you're good enough for him so so what you're not good enough for that guy he broke up with you he turned you down didn't pay attention to so what you know what your body is good enough that girl doesn't she doesn't like the way you look or she or maybe your parents you know berated you as you're growing up because you just couldn't i don't know you know just with certain things you didn't fix or didn't do right and you feel that all the time there's people in their 40s and 50s still trying to get their parents to affirm them get people to affirm them and you don't even realize it it's it's subconscious so we're going to go sub today we're going to take the subway we're going to go under we're going to get the root okay feeling overshadowed by others others who seem to always be better than you no matter what you do they're always better they always look better they always perform better maybe at your job and it's okay to celebrate other people's success you know without feeling that it's a threat to your own success god has enough blessing and promotion he has a portion set aside for you but often we're too insecure we can't just trust god we have to see it out here and we keep striving and striving and then we end up having on problems we compare ourselves with others we developed a sense of shame and self-consciousness inside because we just again we don't like who we are um we don't even feel like we have confidence to talk to people and we allow ourselves to be vulnerable in a way we have to constantly have you know i'm good i'm good look good i'm like crying my eyes out or i'm really dealing with anger then i go on facebook oh no everything's fine look at me look at this best picture of me that took 100 photos to get the best one and look at my instagram post look at how happy i am look how good how you know it's like we work really hard at making sure everybody knows that we're okay because who we're really trying to convince ourselves and we're really putting off facing what it is that's causing the pain and i think you know it's it's we need to be able to face it as christians we're the light of the world if we we have if we can't face it who can um so we feel uh can't love ourselves in a healthy way we have apprehension towards drawing close to to people we feel overshadowed like i said um and we don't go to god that's the worst part about it but it damages us and can i just share a few more things with you about this because i know i'm kind of hitting some nerves here and i want you to they might hear something that really connects with you and that's what we're listening for you're listening to the holy spirit's voice through my voice right now okay so listen to what he says on the inside and don't push it down it's tempting to just push it down but um what happens is when we feel this insecurity this it's really a gap it's a gap between who god says we are and who we feel we are anybody felt they've been in the gap where you want to be and what reality is saying right now where you would like to be but what others say you are see there's a gap but we want to focus on what what god says okay but when we don't do that here's how it damages us we withdraw from healthy people we withdraw and isolate ourselves people that would help us grow um we we become passive aggressive um we act like everything's okay but deep down is not okay and so it seeps out in little ways of in our communication um it leads to letting wrong people the wrong people influence you it makes us defensive and prideful really hard for anyone to correct us now again i i'm i'm raising my hand to all of these and i've been here and all of these things that's why i'm the biggest procrastinator um making us angry so we lash out uh leads to jealousy comparing ourselves to others leads to negative emotions where we feel powerless to change change our lives change anything like we just feel like we can't we're stuck no matter how hard we try it nothing works but um it reduces us basically to first corinthians three verse three it says paul says you are still fleshly why are you still walking around like mere men i'm not listen don't be mad and don't blame yourself if you're dealing with insecurity be honest about it but paul's saying why are you so especially for since there's jealousy and strife among you are you not fleshly are you not walking like me or men see this is the problem first of all it's not your fault i want you to know this right now some things you might have contributed to but i just want you know basically when you were born there was enemies sent against you to stop you from having faith in god from knowing god and that's what all these things if you were abused seriously if you have been violated in some way if someone has deeply hurt you i want you to know that those people those things those situations those things that trigger that feeling of self makes you hate yourself those things are not the enemy the enemy is the enemy satan the devil he tries to stop us from having faith in god so what he might do is keep reminding us reminding us of all these things and then we keep trying to fix it out here in this realm instead of looking at our heavenly father so could we talk about the father for a moment because i believe that we have to face this pain face these things that are keeping us let's not go into the fall let's not go into this fall season and this year let's deal with those things that are deep and i'm not saying we're gonna do it all right here it is a process but let's not be cerebral in our relationship with jesus can we can we not just all be about knowledge and i know this and i know that so i know that but i know that some of you are already thinking i know that i already dealt with that i already prayed already pastor prayed for me i already got okay all right but see this is this is one thing that's really kind of cool picture um it kind of ties in with procrastination that um there's a cool like metaphor that we can learn if you i've never been to colorado but apparently in colorado the rocky mountains kind of split the state and to east of the rockies there's a unique um distinct in the animal kingdom i guess they have buffalo there and they have cows in the same in the plains there and there's something you can learn from the cows and the buffalo in this situation because what happens is the cows when they see a storm those storms do come from the west so when they see that storm coming over the mountains they sense it and so what do the cows do they do what's really natural they turn and go east to get away from the storm and so they walk but the problem is cows are very slow and so what eventually happens is the storm comes towards them and actually catches up with them so they're actually in the storm like the whole time and they they can't run from it they're trying they're trying and it's very natural for us all to it's kind of like how we are as people don't feel bad because your brain is wired to survive and so it when it when it knows pain is coming it tries to get you away so that's why that's why we do that okay but we're supernatural aren't we life changers right we don't just live by the natural realm we're not just mere men mere women that's what i'm trying to say so listen to all the pockets listen to get this much knowledge on but let's go deep you know that's the church the church we are the light of the world and god wants to deal with us deep calls unto deep so the buffalo with the buffalo do that's interesting is they sense that the storm's coming over the mountains and they turn towards the storm and they charge into the storm they run right towards the storm and what happens is they face the pain right away they don't run away from the pain because guess what you end up in the pain longer it stays with you the right they face the pain and they get through it faster and they're on the other side of it doesn't that makes is that cool we can learn from god's kingdom we can learn from nature and so i want to help you face the pain because if you don't you'll it'll stay with you like the storm it'll keep speaking to you it'll keep shaping you and our failures and our hurts and even the things that were done to you the mistreatment the abuse i'm talking to somebody right now you've been abused terribly violated terribly but that was that is not even the enemy because you're still breathing right now you have a calling you have a destiny you have a a relationship with god the father who can heal all of that and the enemy's just trying to use all those things to keep you from believing in yourself and believing in god because you can't really have faith in yourself a lot of people talk about you believe in yourself god bless you do but i could never believe in myself until i was born again until i got saved until i became part of god's family you can think it through and be positive and i love all that but until you get that connection within the spirit it'll it'll constantly like your concept keep feeding it like water keep drinking water keep drinking water but he who drinks on the well right of jesus you never thirst again so you can again try to keep running hiding you can build walls you can blame you can keep i mean how many really want to keep doing that keep accusing that person keep running from that person keep avoiding that person keep diminishing them um talk maybe even gossiping about them i keep defriending them um avoiding them or those situations and i'm not saying if someone's abused you i'm not saying you should go run and have coffee with them i mean there are some people that are dangerous that you need to protect yourself from and that's okay and that's a hundred percent okay and even but but sometimes we're not we're ignoring and ignoring and putting up walls but we're not dealing with the deep so god wants to heal you and he wants to heal the memories he wants to heal the hurt he wants to heal the pain all right how are we going to do that let's look at one verse i'm going to give you one verse matthew 17. matthew 17. if you look in your bibles or put up on the screen for you matthew 17 it says in verse 1 jesus took with him peter james and john his brother and they he led them up a high mountain by themselves and he was transfigured before them his face shone like the sun and his garments became as white as light and behold moses and elijah's appeared elijah appeared to them talking with him so talking with jesus jesus becomes like a what is it called lightsaber you know how they light up he like lights up in front of them illuminated beautiful and he's talking with moses and elijah and peter says to jesus lord it's good for us to be here uh if you wish we can make he's like all nervous he's all insecure ah we can make three tabernacles here what about that one for you one for moses one for elijah and he just kind of doesn't know he's kind of in shock and then jesus says in verse five or actually jesus didn't say a thing while peter was still speaking a bright cloud overshadowed them a bright cloud overshadowed them and behold a voice out of the cloud said by the way where are clouds where are the clouds people up up in the sky gotta look up we've been looking too much down we've been looking around clouds are in the beautiful bright cloud overshadowed them you've been overshadowed by others you've been overshadowed by the insecurity you've been overshadowed by the pain listen there's a bright cloud god the father that will overshadow all of it and behold the voice out of the cloud said this is my beloved son with whom i'm well pleased listen to him and when the disciples heard this they fell down face down to the ground and they were terrified so this is our keep this is our key family right here in this verse there's three things that god is telling us number one you are my dearly loved child you are my son this is my beloved son what he's saying about jesus we can apply to our lives how we identify in our life it doesn't need to be with how we were raised our family our natural family i love my family but that's not my identity my identity is in god's family in him i'm a new person i'm a new creature old things are passed away the bible says so it can't be in our our gender our race it can't be in our color it can't be in our generation what gen no matter what generation you've come from it can't be in our skill set how we look how we talk what our past is like what people have said to us done to us it can't be based on what's hurt us it can't be based on what was even though bad things have happened to us see if we find our identity there that's where we're going to stay but if we look up the father's saying you are my dearly loved child and he loves you see we've got to go to the father with our insecurities we got to run to him run to him and let him love you it's not us look we're walking by faith right because we don't see this father they don't even see him they just hear a voice but this is how god designed us by our spirit to hear i don't have to see it there's so many people that i love i listen to their teachings and so forth you know like as far as like i listen to a lot of doctors on podcasts and health i don't need to meet them i don't need to have lunch with them i've got all their stuff i can listen to their material anytime like it's awesome and even this message and all the messages we have you can hear on youtube again and again and again it's so available to us we can hear these things that will change us and produce a root inside of us it's so so important the love of the father is the cure of this insecurity because he accepts us just the way we are he doesn't leave us there but he changes us he makes us like him you know the bible says can you put up that scripture first john 3 3 i believe it is because the more we look at our identity as a son daughter of god everyone who has this hope fixed on him meaning jesus purifies himself just as he is pure they say what you look at is what you become if you keep looking wherever your eye whatever fills the eye the body said or the bible says fills the whole body so whatever you focus on is what fills your whole life so if you're focusing on the insecurity if you're focusing on the gap or focusing on the hurt and the we got to look at this pain for what it is now we lift our eyes up and we say okay father you are my father and we acknowledge we're in this family and we lean in does anyone remember pastor talking about leaning into the love of the father you know sometimes we don't know how do i know if i'm hearing god's voice maybe it's just me well that's god's part that's his plan is that you become so one with him you are one with him you're born again that you hear his voice it he it's like it doesn't matter if it says what you're if it's lined up with love and lined up with everything god says about jesus that's you you're hearing you're hearing from god if you're hearing well you didn't do it right or you didn't do good enough or those people don't like don't worry about all that that's not that's not the word that's not coming from heaven that's coming from your natural and we have to discern between those things otherwise we'll be just mere men how many want to stay like mere men i don't so we pray here in this church father father me father me let's be father let's be re-parented by god our parents did the best they could we as parents do the best we can but we all need to be fathered by the heavenly father and i just love romans 8 verse 15. can i just share a few more things with you real quickly romans 8 15 it says for you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again but you have received a spirit of adoption say adoption say i've been adopted as sons and daughters by which we cry out abba father pastor's been teaching us about sons and daughters of freedom right we're sons and daughters we're not just a carpenter we're not just a teacher we're not just uh you know whatever your occupation is we're not human doings we're human beings we are sons and daughters of god and i like the message translation of this verse because it says incred abba father i can't always relate to sorry sorry about the greek abba it always reminds me of the band and that's i just can't like it just gets me thrown off but i like the message because it says um that the resurrection life you receive from god is not a timid grave tending life it's adventurously expectant greeting god with a child like what's next papa god's spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are we know who he is and we know that we who we are see the father our spirit testifies what's next papa don't you love that i pray that now i'm just like what's next papa like lord leave me i don't know what the heck i'm doing i think i know but a lot of times i don't and don't let me ever get where i just can rely on myself my confidence is not in me right we've been adopted we've been adopted you're not your father's daughter you're not your mother's son you're not that you are in some ways but that's not the real you because guess what we're all going to go to heaven one day and this whole body is going to go away who we are in the spirit are we focusing on that that's what's going to that's what we got to face it's easier sometimes to prop yourself and do all these things in the natural feel good and get around people like hang around people really build you up but sometimes those people are the ones feeding into the victim mentality that have been has been hurting you we got to get with those people that are going to tell us the truth and face the pain and be like the buffalo we're charging in and we don't care i don't care how ugly i'm going to look i don't care how stupid i'm going to look i'm going to humble myself i'm going to say i need help i'm falling apart on the inside i think i should get but i don't and i just need your help and boy i need my church i need my church family thank you children's ministry teachers for teaching my kids like you you know you just break it down and stop trying to be so perfect and just love yourself let god love you as his child you know god is in love with you listen to this proverbs 133 it says that he who listens to me when we listen to the wisdom of god and this is the amplified version um if you can do the amplified version it says oh this is fine he who listens to me shall live securely and be free or be at ease from the dread of evil see we just aren't listening to him what's next papa what are you saying i feel jealous i feel hurt that person didn't call me that person didn't invite me to the party my boss is having a he's promoting that guy i'm the one who's sweating i'm the one working you know you know what what's next papa because i know all this is working for me and for my good you know that's our perspective so what are we good what's the second thing he says in him i'm well pleased he said you're my son my dearly loved child secondly says you i am well pleased with you can we just receive god's affirmation right here this is his affirmation and whatever he says about jesus he's saying about you look you are a joint heir with jesus he's your twin brother so he's saying you're well pleased you get up you yell at your kids you uh didn't get to work on time you uh the house is a mess you've been behind on the bills and you look at your life you're like oh but guess what the father's pleased because if you believe he's just pleased that you believe in him he's pleased that you say the name of jesus when you don't know what to pray you just say jesus when tears are rolling down and you just say thank you father what's next and then you just that's it you leave it with him you trust him that's what the father wants he wants you to believe he wants you to come to him he wants you to give it all to him he already knows what you're going through so we can give it to him and just say thank you that i'm well pleasing oh my gosh i don't deserve it you're right you don't deserve it i don't deserve it that's when you know it's the grace of god it's only the father's approval it will heal it's only the father's approval jesus didn't try to defend himself notice this he was satisfied and it was enough for him that the father approved of him that's how he was able to face the terrible things he faced you've got some terrible things in your life that you've had to face and guess what it might come again there might be more pain in the future i'm not going to promise a better roses but guess what we have the rose of sharon we have the man who died on the cross that took it for us so we can go into this brave and we can be brave right with him and go into this scary season of uncertainty and when we feel uncertain and we feel insecure it doesn't feel good but guess what you know i'm really glad sometimes i think about now i think about i'm glad for uh the moments in my life where i had to just dig deep and go to god and i felt lonely and i i i think covid you know that year i think i became an introvert i used to be an extrovert all the time then i got used to being alone more because we weren't able to be with people you know but it was good for me and i'll never forget um psalm 118 really in the passion of translation you know i write things down in my journals the things that the lord speaks to me and i think every person here i really recommend that you get a journal a little book that you can record the things you hear you might have heard me say one thing today that struck a chord write it down in your book um when you hear a teaching you hear a pastor teach or you're reading the bible write it out there's something about the finger by the way those of you all you electronic people the next generation i mean i have my phone i love technology i don't love it but i have to love it but there's something about this finger connected or whatever your writing hand connected to the brain so when you're writing with a pen it is very good that's just the teacher in me i'm telling you it does something when you write it out in pen and and remember paper equals purpose don't forget that but i've got these journals that this one is my oldest one it's all falling apart but this one is all about overcoming fear i've had this for 20 years over 20 years i've had i just recorded every scripture i could find that helps me face my fear and um you know it's it's funny because this this one verse it says fear not isaiah 41 10 fear not there's nothing to fear for i'm with you do not look around in terror this is for somebody here do not be dismayed for i am your god i will strengthen and harden you to difficulties i will help you i will hold you up i'll retain you with my victorious right hand of rightness and justice um this one there's a verse in here that i just love it says the lord himself will fight for you exodus 14 14 the lord himself listen just stay calm the lord himself will fight for you just stay calm amen this and there's other versions the lord will fight for you while you keep silent another version the lord will fight for you all you have to do is keep still there's the um good news and then the living bible the lord will fight for you and you won't need to lift a finger and then the english provide you will not have to do anything but stay calm the lord will do the fighting for you do you see how we've wasted so much time getting mad at people having strife and jealousy because we're going we're not looking up and lastly what does he say he says this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased i didn't get to read this verse to you i'll read it at the end but i just want to say this last point really quickly he says listen to him listen to him listen and you notice what god is saying to everybody right in this moment he's saying this is my son everybody in whom i'm well pleased listen to him so all of you circumstances listen to him all of you mountains out there that need to be moved listen to him all of the demons out there that are messing with my people you are gonna listen to him and when we're in christ we speak the word of god demons have to bow their knee mountains have to move fig trees have to be uprooted we have authority as sons and daughters come on we are the ones that are the dreamers we are the creators we're the ones who god is needing in this earth to be the salt and to be the light and to bring change and we're acting like the world and we're all sad and crying in our own world god saying get out there be the who i've called you to be and they're going to listen to you people are going to listen to you they're going to follow you you might think i'm just a person you know i don't have a lot of power yes you do you have power you have the word of god inside of you you have the word in your heart in your mouth you are his child he loves you your confidence doesn't come from anywhere else your confidence comes from the lord and this will become your prayer when you will identify as his child and know that you're pleased david said this his constant tender love lasts forever now just let the lord heal you right now i'm going to pray them out for those of you who maybe you're not born again but right now for those those of us here you know this is hit accord well let's not leave this house let's not just cover it up let's just not pay attention to anybody right now but what the holy spirit's doing in you let's just take 60 seconds his steadfast love endures forever his constant tender love lasts forever out of my deep anguish and pain i prayed and god you helped me as a father you came to my rescue you broke open the way into a beautiful and broad place there's the root there's the grounds for confidence he's given you a broad place to stand now i know lord you are for me and i will never fear what man can do to me for you stand beside me as my hero who rescues me i've seen with my own eyes the defeat of my enemies i've triumphed over them all lord it is so much better to trust you to save me than to put my confidence in someone else once i was surrounded and hemmed in by those who don't love you but by god's power i overcame them all yes they surrounded me like a swarm of killer bees swirling around me i was trapped like one trapped by raging fire i was surrounded with no way out and at the point of collapse but by god's power by my father's power i overcame them all they pushed me right up to the edge lord and i was ready to fall but you helped me to triumph and together we overcame them all father you are my true strength my song my champion my savior for god's right hand conquers valiantly swing wide you open gates of righteousness and let me pass through i will enter into god's present presence to worship him only i have found the gateway to god the pathway to his presence the righteous shall enter through it now just lift your hands right now and close your eyes lord i thank you just this moment is yours father father father father us father us in this moment cover us overshadow us right now with your presence overshadow us right now you might feel like a warm blanket just coming around you just receive it right now don't be in a hurry just let the father father you right now you are his dearly loved child if you don't know jesus personally you've never asked him in your life just pray this with me heavenly father i ask you to come into my heart right now thank you for forgiving me thank you for saying just say this thank you for forgiving me thank you for sending jesus to die on the cross for me his blood heals me his blood forgives me his blood washes me right now i receive it i believe in my heart you raise him from the dead therefore i am saved in jesus name now you could just receive the father's love you are one with the father you are one with the father now let's let's just keep this moment for a moment another another minute lord i thank you that in you we are i we identify we find our calling lord we just let go right now of all the hurt we let go i know it's a process but just let it go if you can think of that hurt like a balloon think of that um like a helium balloon hold it in your hand right now that person that abused you that hurt you that failure that you had that loss that you haven't been able to get over see that like a balloon maybe you have a whole like bunch of balloons in your hand right now and i want you to hold them and see yourself holding them and i want us to just say in jesus name father father me i let go of the self-criticism and the self-doubt and the pain that i feel on the inside i let go of what was done to me that was not right i forgive i'm not gonna be a mere man a mere woman i'm gonna be your son and daughter i'm going to walk as a child of god you set me free i'm adopted into your family so in jesus name i let go of these balloons i let go of this trouble right now just let it go just let it go let it go and lift your hands and just begin to thank him just begin to thank him that you're free maybe you just had one balloon that's okay that's okay just let it go let it go i didn't know i was gonna say all that it just hit me right now the father he's overshadowing us right now he's overshadowing us with his love just feel it right now in chicago wherever you are wherever you're watching i want you to feel that right now the presence of god is touching you right now it's healing you it's healing you deep because the inflammation the problems with your brain with diabetes with cancer with arthritis all those things are leaving right now because it was this pain that you didn't want to face it's caused all those problems now you just let go of all the sickness you can stand up you can be healed right now just be receive your healing receive it all receive a new mind receive a sound mind he is pleased with you receive the affirmation let go of what your parents did let go of what they said let go let go receive the father's attention is on you right now he's looking at you he's loving you he's watching you affectionately carefully he is grooming you he's ready for the future that he's planned for you and now you and him are going to do it together and we just say together what's next papa we receive all lord we listen to you and to your word and we walk in authority just say i have authority what i speak out of my mouth is changing my world i don't need anyone to do it for me god's got me god's got this i'm facing my pain i'm facing my future with joy because i'm well pleasing to my father and that's enough amen i want to send love again to my chicago family and to all of you watching globally stay connected to us get connected there's life groups life groups happening all around the world um we have life completers everywhere you can connect to a local group if you want or online everything's online anyway we're going to be back for moments on wednesday in the meantime you just have a great time today with your heavenly father i love you so much thank you for all just partnering with us thank you for all the generosity that you've shown to help us get this gospel message out all over the world you and i we're partnering together you and me you me and pastor you me and this beautiful church family we're all one let's go for it all right don't hold back no more you you've got this god's got you i love you we'll see you wednesday god bless you love you guys thank you again for joining us for church today and before you head out before you go and continue the rest of your day i just wanted to let you know a couple things first there's so many ways to be connected so many ways to plant yourself like we were talking earlier and so there's links that show up on your screen that will help you get connected help you get planted help you join a team or join a life group there's so many things that you can be a part of and so i want to encourage you to do that if you're interested and the second thing i want to throw in there really quick is that next sunday we're going to be having a champion youth event it's called our revive event and it's going to be streamed on youtube at champion youth just a great way for us to gather our teens and to worship together and to to help spur on that spirit of revival as we continue to go into this generation with school kicking in and all kinds of things we want to send our our kids out with confidence knowing who they are and knowing that they have a voice to speak out and to spread the love of god so that's what we're doing i just want to let you know next week september 12th it's gonna be great other than that i hope you have a great rest of your day i love you guys and we'll see you next sunday [Music] 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