The Heart of the Matter

coming up on The Potter's touch it is the most frequently asked questions other than about personal relationships it is the most frequently asked question that I get from people I don't know my purpose I'm not sure I'm walking in my purpose how do I know when purpose is so important how do I know that I'm doing what I was created to do most of us are just getting back we're just doing what we have to do we're not doing what we're led to do we're not doing what we feel to do when I'm doing what we love to do we are bidding to death going what we have to do but but I think that we could be less busy and more fulfilled if we were doing what we were created to do this is the posture [Music] greetings in the precious name of Jesus Christ our gee I'm so excited to have this opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you and particularly this series instinct unleashed I'm excited about it because I believe it is so relevant I've written about it I've been teaching about it and I wanted to get in your heart and in your spirit so they can determine and charter the course for the future this particular message is instinct the heart of the matter and I want to get right to the heart of the matter what is influencing and moving you and developing you as a person not not just as a Christian now but as a person your career your future your goals what's directing that course I know you pray I know you pray I know you talk to the Lord I know you had coffee with the Holy Spirit this morning but I want to I want to take you down into the crux of the human experience and show you how God by his design had a purpose for you before the foundations of the world take a look at this you'll be blessed what I have learned over the past 36 years of working with volunteer people and paid staff and and managing and budgets and all that people do far better when you don't push them into what you need them to do and and direct them into what they are gifted and created to do and sometimes you get that right and sometimes you get that wrong and quite frankly it takes two or three years sometimes to figure out where people fit and sometimes it's just doesn't fit it's just not a good fit for you but finding out what works is very very important and no matter what's on the resume no matter what they said in the interview after while you watch what people gravitate to you watch what they gravitate to you can give them what you you can assign them what you need them to do but but as a leader you have to watch what they gravitate to because what they gravitate to is if harmonious with their instincts and their best gifting than their highest values that doesn't mean that they can't evolve into other things that doesn't mean that you don't change as you grow and to have the flexibility to change because some of you have morphed into a different person you are not the person you were 20 years ago you don't think like you taught 20 years ago you you've got new interests sometimes you can exhaust yourself in one area of life and you're ready to go to the other and that's okay sometimes you spent the first 10 or 20 years doing what you have to do sometimes you spend the first 10 or 20 years just doing what life did to you responding to life responding to bad choices and bad situations and you get halfway up to here and you say before I get out of this planet let me leave this galaxy I would like to know who I am and flow in the area that I was created to flow and when you do that you function much better are you following what I'm saying to you today and so so I've been teaching transformation since the 1st of the year and today and today and last Sunday I've been talking about instinct I will continue that next Sunday and perhaps even one more Sunday because I really want to really build down into this and make sure you get it and today I'm going to be talking about the heart of the matter they're they're very heart of the matter and I'm going to give you the sometimes when you have a five-course six or seven course meal they give you just a little small sampling them a whole lot of things that have been mixed together I'm going to give you samples of several things that are really at the heart of our instincts and finding out who we are and I'm going to spend a moment setting up some things from a biblical perspective but I have to be honest if you're if you're thinking about getting the book that I have to confess the book is not really saturated with Scripture and the reason I've spent more time focusing on real-life evaluations and using animals as metaphors because animals are better at being instinctive than we are and I did it like that because sometimes sometimes church people we do Church better than we do life I'm gonna let that soak in and marinade we do Church better than we do life and sometimes we owed e on spirituality to cover for the fact that we're not naturally fulfilled but God doesn't want to be a supplement in your life he doesn't want to be a cover or a mass for all the things that are not happening in your life and I want to drill down into some things that I think are very very important there there is uh as we brought you something today I'm going to start from a hard place but I thought it was a good point to use and I want to get into it I want you to look a moment at this interesting conversation it is in the heart of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of st. John it's right in the heart of it and it's almost do you know where Jesus is having the conversation with the woman at the well and they're having this big experience and I won't get lost into that but a life-changing experience goes on with her and it went on with her while he had sent his staff away his disciples to go get food and and when they come back with the food Jesus has been sitting by the well talking to this woman evidently it must have been some time to go by because they said to him you need to eat you know the funny thing about people that that serve you and that work in your ministry working it starts how you give it them orders after a while they're giving you orders and so they're having a conversation with Jesus saying you need to eat and it goes like this in John 4 verse 30 through 34 then they went out of the city and came unto Him in the meantime while his disciples prayed him saying master eat see I was right but he said unto them check this out I have meat to eat that ye know not of they say you need to eat he said I'm eating in a dimension that you don't even understand what does eating mean you need to be fulfilled you need to be full filled and he says I'm fulfilled in an area that you know not of therefore the disciple said I'm in him somebody must have brought him suddenly while we were gone to the store listen listen I've been struggling to have communication and jesus said unto Him my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work now what I want you to understand some not to get so engrossed in the theology of the text that you miss that there's a huge communication problem going on here he is being fed in a dimension that they don't understand they are bringing him food in a dimension that he doesn't need they are coexisting together they are working together and they are having a 2-dimensional conversation a two-dimensional conversation they're talking natural he's talking spiritual they're on one plane he's on another plane and yet they have to figure out how to work together in spite of the fact that they communicate much differently and they don't fully understand where the disciples wrong to bring him food absolutely not he sent them away to get food they were obeying his word but when they came back they found that he was being fed that he was being sustained that he was receiving substance on a level that they knew nothing about and I pointed out to you for several reasons some of you have made it the goal of your life to make everybody agree with you to make everybody see everything the way you see it to to make everybody get out of something what you get out of it but it is possible to operate and function with people who are in one dimension while you're in another dimension and Jesus was masterful at going back and forth between dimensions I mean what one one moment he is human enough to weep at the tomb of Lazarus and then God enough to raise him up from the dead he is human enough to tell Thomas trust your hand into my side and be not faithless but believe such me I'm real dude check me out and then he appears through the door God enough to appear through the door he's human enough to fall asleep the boat and then he's and then when the storm breaks out he's got enough to say peace be still look at him able to be multi-dimensional if you're going to be successful today you you have to be able to function in various dimensions you have to be able to function I want to go down this trail a little bit further take a look at this and they also if they are bad not still in unbelief shall be graffed in for God is able to graft them in again this is outta Romans 4 if thou were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and we're graft contrary to nature into a good olive tree how much more shall these which are be the natural branches be graffed into their own olive tree now this is the Texas dealing with how how Israel was the natural branches and how the church being largely Gentile ultimately are grafted in and and having the function in an environment that wasn't organic to where they started you understand what I'm saying if you take a branch from another plant and you graft it into another plant altogether it now has to flow in an arena that is not organic to where it started and that is the illustration that is being used in Romans by the Apostle Paul to indicate the fact that we were grafted in and a lot of you not only have you been grafted in spiritually into the Commonwealth of Israel into the body of Christ a lot of you are being grafted in the situations that are not natural to you let me break it where you can see it some of you have married into situations that are not natural to you some of you have the skillset to work in a job environment that puts you around a whole new group of people that are not natural to you your gift brought you in and your gift brought you in but all of a sudden you're an immigrant you're an immigrant and and in my book I'm talking about whenever you are an in Grint you have to deal with people who are indigenous immigrants and indigenous people often fight read American history and if you understand that about history and you understand that about countries do you understand that about jobs do you understand that when you're an outsider and you come in that they're the culture in that corporation and when you first come in as an immigrant and if you can't adapt to the culture of that organization then all the tribe leaders of that job or that company or that school or that church or whatever it is will come out and Tommy Hawk you I know you can't save him but you know what I'm talking about still to come on the party's touch this is not your year to lose opportunities I'm telling you that a lot of things that you pray for and ask God to do your your personality may be canceling out your prayer life you're praying positive prayers but your personality exhibits negative things and the negativity is cancelling out the positivity and you're losing opportunity let me tell you all something you losing money baby let me try you up you are losing money being hateful is expensive being narrow-minded will cost you everything you're gonna have to be a man of faith and a woman of faith or you'll never be able put all frustration comes when you were built to do 40 but you were stuck in a 5 mile an hour zone rise to your god-given greatness with your instinct Unleashed with your gift of any size you'll receive the message the lion's lair on CD and with your gift of $70 or more you'll receive the entire 5 part series instinct unleashed on DVD as well as your very own instinct magnetic bookmark set just because you were born in the circumstance doesn't mean you have to stay in the circumstance with your gift of 145 dollars or more you'll receive the instinct Unleashed gift set that includes the DVD series the instinct magnetic bookmark the instinct book as well as the instinct workbook offering a back and forth experience between you and Bishop on every page unleash the power of your instinct today women who are called to go it's a externship this is the life-changing event of the year you are coming into the next dimension anyway Maxim register today the woman Thou Art Loosed 2014 call the more adaptable you are the more flexible you are being able to fit into things that aren't organic to you the larger your life becomes people who are inflexible and immovable and and stubborn and set in their ways I'm not saying that they're curse but they lose a lot of opportunities that they could have had had they learned how to adapt and morph into new settings so you might be praying Lord use me and fasting and spinning around and throwing $27 $27.99 on the altar and running back and falling out and hitting your nose on the carpet all of that and not seeing God transform your life into what it needs to be he cannot transform you because you're not flexible he can't graph you in because you think you you think that this is that you think that where he's taking you is basically just like where you've been and you're not willing to adapt it to a new environment and you won't let the graph take in your life where you can become organic where you can become tied to something that wasn't organic to you if you're not flexible in that way you lose the opportunity if you can only work with people who look like you and vote like you and dress like you and think like you you are morphing down the opportunities that God will give you in your life to evolve and to go forward one of the greatest problems in our country right now is that we we have resorted into tribalism everybody's gone back to their own group to their own culture to their own kind if you want it from the right wing watch Fox if you want it from the left watch MSNBC everybody's going into tribes and and when you write the books you read your truth become skewed because you are oversaturated with one perspective to the degree that you lose opportunity to be a broader person how many of you want to be a broader person I want to be a broader person I'm able to function in different dimensions able to engage different kinds of people when it just go through your phone and see how how broad your the list of people you go through your father I guess if I get your phone for me now I know everything I need to know about you what what feeds you who feeds you who are you listening at who are you talking to because you are you are no better than you eat you you are no better than you do not know when people talk to you they feed you they feed you they feed you they talk to you girl you write I'm telling you that's the true I wouldn't take it I would leave her you need to straight your mother out your mother goes too far when you're gonna stand up to your mom addition why we need to stand up tell your mom whatever feeds you affects you and when you surround yourself with all types of people you find yourself in a situation where you have to deal with all kinds of issues and and if you can't deal with them effectively you lose opportunities that you could have had this is not your year to lose opportunities this is not your year this is not your year to lose I'm gonna say that again this is not your year let me try these people over here could I talk to you all for a minute this is not your year to lose opportunities I'm telling you that a lot of things that you prayed for and asked God to do your your personality may be canceling out your prayer life you're praying positive prayers but your personality exhibits negative things and the negativity is cancelling out the positivity and you're losing opportunity let me tell you awesome you're losing money they didn't even let me try you up you are losing money being hateful is expensive being narrow-minded will cost you everything you sing well enough but you don't act well enough to be able to function on the next dimension and if you don't learn how to function on the next dimension your life will will move back down to the level of your maturity and as it goes back down to two to accommodate your inability to be flexible your pity your pay goes down your opportunities go down your influences go down it all comes down to the level of your adaptability there are several indicators that will show you how well you're doing on this but because because how you're compensated will show something about how broad you are the diversity of people who are drawn to you will say something about how broad you are you can look back over your life's history and your background and the opportunities you have and have lost it is a suggestion that you're not flexible in some areas and you're praying for see we got to stop and deal with this stuff because I am tired of the church giving simple solutions to complicated problems I'm just sick to death of it you know just hollow Jesus seven times at hump on one foot and everything will be yours and you haul it Jesus till your throat hurt hopped on one foot to your head a bunion and you didn't see anything happening in your life because we tend to oversimplify things that are far deeper than that I don't care how good you are don't care how intellectual you are don't care how educated you are if you are mean or stubborn or narrow-minded narrow-minded you will lose opportunities that you prayed for and decide that God is not real and I got a newsflash for you it's not God that's not real it's you touching them and say the question is not whether God is real the question is are you real are you real are you real broad are you real flexible are you real teachable are you real humble are you really ready to be a student in life are you really ready to grow are you really ready to challenge yourself are you really ready to evolve are you really ready to open up your heart to the possibilities that you haven't even touched yet do you not know you some of you have been here half a century and never left your community you have been here a half a century and in your whole life your life has been limited to a certain scope of people who think look at dress feel like you do and you think you have lived this world you haven't touched this world you just touch your corner just your corner just your corner and it's time to get out of your corner it's time to get out of your corner oh god help me say this it's time to get out of your corner and when God gives you opportunities he gives you chances to step into new dimension it's you that cancels out those chances by how you handle those opportunities my god I'm preaching better than you responded so you can blame your ex-husband and you can blame your mother and you can talk about on TV you can talk about cousin George you can name all the people who didn't do your right but none of those people are causing your problem it is what you are doing to you that is stopping you from getting to the next level and we got to keep it real this morning because 2014 is your year to go forward and not go backward to be the head and not the tail to be above and not beneath and frankly my dear you got a change I hate to stop there this is a huge subject any time I've been studying it for the last couple of years I've written about it I've got materials on it I I can't give it a hall to you in 30 minutes I can't give it to you on TV you may have to work with this a little bit to really ingest it and appropriate it and have it bring forth value in your life but it is it is important is it's it's coaching in a bag it's an opportunity for you to really be vested with what am I going to do in the second half of my life oh I'm so excited about this I hope you will take advantage of the opportunity get the material share them with somebody and be blessed in every aspect of your life take care now you gonna have to be a man of faith and a woman of faith or you'll never be a buffoon all frustration comes when you were built to do 40 but you were stuck in a five mile an hour zone rise to your god-given greatness with your instinct Unleashed with your gift of any size you'll receive the message the lion's lair on CD and with your gift of $70 or more you'll receive the entire five part series instinct unleashed on DVD as well as your very own instinct magnetic bookmark set just because you were born in the circumstance doesn't mean you have to stay in the circumstance with your gift of one hundred and forty-five dollars or more you'll receive the instinct and leashed gift set that includes the DVD series the instinct magnetic bookmark the instinct book as well as the instinct workbook offering a back and forth experience between you and Bishop on every page unleash the power of your instinct today I wanna talk to women who are all to go it's the next dimension this is the life-changing event of the year you are coming into the next dimension anyway Maxim register today the woman Thou Art Loosed 2014 call [Music] 1-800-289-8879 for [Music] God built him with a long neck and gave him long legs the body is not that be the body's not in B but was really big if the neck the neck and and the legs gives him the ability to see on another level he's able to see on another level his feet are on the ground his feets on the same ground as rabid and the turtle and everything else is crawling around his feets right down with the rest of it but his head is so far up in the air that he can see things that other people don't see if he needs the affirmation of the things on the ground he's gonna be frustrated looking in the air because the stuff on the ground cannot see are you hearing what I'm saying to you so so while his feet are in one dimension his head is in another dimension and he hit he's eating his vision and vittles he's eating on the level that he see he's eating on the level that he see he's eating on the level that he see this is your year to eat on the level that you're seeing to maximize your opportunity to step into your divine purpose I don't care I don't care how much you make I don't care where you went to school I don't care what your mother's name is some of you have got a long neck your feet might be down here your feet might have started over here but you got a long neck to see into the next dimension and if had time for you to eat on the level that you're seeing am I talking to anybody today am i talking to anybody today yes is the bomb [Music]

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Published: Sat Sep 13 2014