"The Journey to Peace" Guest Preacher: Pastor Keith Battle

welcome to first baptist church of clint art where we're developing dynamic disciples yeah that's good come on is come on how about this one when is come on foreign here we go god foreign oh come on me oh foreign victory we have a victory in the name of jesus that tell me oh again hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord everyone we have the victory in christ jesus how many know this is the day that the lord has made and we have determined we have decided to rejoice and be glad and if somebody ought to give our god a great praise hallelujah what a mighty god we serve hallelujah i want to welcome you to the first baptist church of glenaren's online experience my name is reverend letty car it's my pleasure to be here with you today i'm so glad you've decided to join us in worship we are excited about what god is doing how many know god is doing a new thing even now can you not perceive it praise his holy name and while we're at it i want to encourage you to go ahead and share that link share that link with your loved one for this service share it on your facebook post or wherever you may be viewing for send them a text send them an email tell them you need to hear this word you need to join us in worship because god is moving in our mix and we are so excited praise be to god we want to encourage you to even uh go ahead and type in that chat where you're joining us from today we're going to look at our scripture in philippians chapter number four we're reading from verses 6 through 7. if i had a favorite verse certainly this would be amongst the ones i would pick from philippians 4 6 says be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through christ jesus hallelujah what a wonderful word from the lord let us pray father god we bless your name today we thank you god that indeed we can rejoice because we know that you have us in the palm of your hand god we thank you for your presence in this place we ask you to bless o god and move in our midst touch hearts father draw those who are backslidden back to you and draw those who are lost god to your very throne that they might receive you this day as their savior we ask you to move oh god and encourage your people who may feel discouraged build us up even lord god through your word we ask all of this as we consecrate this time to you in the blessed and holy name of jesus amen and amen and amen praise his holy name hallelujah at this time we're going to hear our announcements hi i'm wisdom martin news anchor for wttg fox 5 in washington dc and a proud member of the first baptist church of glen art here's some of the events coming up in our church checkpoint is back tomorrow monday february 8th at 7 pm join the id young adult ministry for this bible study geared towards young adults head over to fbcg website or facebook.com backslash id young adult but we all have a front stage it is our public world that everyone sees and where we do our work however what happens in our backstage matters even more it is our truest selves it's where our story emerges and we need to grant access to people who earn the right to be backstage in the first huddle of 2021 we'll be talking about backstage with pastor jeans his joys his challenges his regrets his hopes so tune in to the huddle on saturday february 13th 10 a.m on the church website couples if you're looking for a socially distant date idea this valentine's day then tune in for our virtual couples valentine's day fellowship join us as we ignite the love on february 13th at 7 pm with special guest artist raheem devon you don't want to miss this watch on the church website or facebook at real talk real marriage online registration for the institute's virtual spring semester is open now until wednesday march 3rd classes start on sunday march 7. don't delay take advantage of the many classes available to help you become a true disciple in all areas of life like introduction to christian education the ephesians woman and spiritual gifts visit fbc glennardon.org backslashing institutes to register to purchase the required books for your classes online or make an in-store reservation for curbside pickup visit www.fbcgbookstore.org as we celebrate black history month today we honor amanda gorman amanda gorman was born and raised in los angeles california she graduated from harvard university in 2020. she is the author of the poetry collection the hill we climb and the one for whom food is not enough in 2017 gorman was named the first ever national youth poet laureate of the united states she previously served as a youth poet laureates of los angeles and she is the founder and executive director of one pin one page an organization providing free creative writing programs for underserved youth gorman was selected by president biden to read an original poem for his inauguration on january 20 2021 making her the youngest poet to have served in this role she will also be reciting at today's super bowl pre-show before the kansas city chiefs play the tampa bay buccaneers let's give a round of applause for amanda gorman that's the news for this week you can find more details about these events and others on our church website at fbc glennardon.org praise the lord as you can see we still have a lot going on here at first baptist church of glendon god is doing great things in our midst and through us and it's all possible because of you you are such phenomenal and great givers that you allow us to continue to serve our community and we're so grateful for all of your generosity we want you to know that we are good stewards over what god blesses us with through you over a hundred and twenty ministries continue to serve even during a pandemic i'll feed the hungry ministry for example fed over served over 8160 lunches in 2020 alone and they continue to do so today that's all because of your great giving our hope ministry goes and and and checks in on our seniors and in some instances they deliver groceries and even help purchase groceries in some situations because of your generosity you ought to give yourself a hand and praise god that he allows you to be a part of what he's doing through first baptist church of glendon and we are so grateful know that you can hit that give button at any point doing a service you can do it now or throughout we want you to continue to sow into this good soil because we believe god is blessing us through it let us pray hallelujah father lord we bless you we thank you we thank you for these great givers we ask you to bless them father bless this offering o god continue to use it for your glory to continue to advance your kingdom in jesus name we thank you amen and amen and amen hallelujah so at this time we will have one more selection and then we will hear from our guests preaching amen there's nothing worth more that could ever come close nothing can compare you're our living hole your presence i have tasted and seen of the sweetest of love when my heart becomes free and my shame and my shame is undone your presence this to be overcome by your is by your presence this place presence is let us become more aware of your presence let us experience the glory of your goodness let us become more aware of your presence let us experience let us let us we want your glory we want your blood we want your glory we want your love we need your glory we need your glory we made your glory we need your love we want your glory we want your glory we want your glory be watched your glory we want your glory oh we need your oh pastor keith battle is the founder and senior pastor of zion church a church he started in the summer of 2000 and now has three locations in the washington dc metropolitan area and has grown to over 14 000 regular attendees in addition to his role as senior pastor he serves as the chaplain for the washington wizards and the president of saga city llc the company through which he provides executive coaching for business owners entrepreneurs and church leaders pastor battle has a popular radio broadcast called weekly wisdom that airs on wpgc 95.5 as well as magic 102.3 every sunday morning he's also the author of two books side shakeology why men and women cheat and a second chance grace for the broken pastor battle is very passionate about keeping families together and seeing marriages thrive his insight and humor as a communicator makes him a favorite of people from all walks of life pastor keith battle wow good morning good morning good morning it is great to be here at the first baptist church of glenn harden glenn arden amen amen i love this church i love uh this family of god and i'm so honored and what a day it is uh aren't you glad you're able to stay at home in this in this weathery this terrible weather condition and only the faithful are here praise the lord uh but but that's a blessing it's a blessing to be able to stay at home where you are and some of you just woke up and you didn't even brush your teeth yet amen amen you ain't brushing you still got your pajamas on and i'm telling you guys all you did was found your way to a laptop or ipad or whatever device you got and you uh voila you in church huh no traffic huh no parking situations no overflow no arguing in the car about who made who late and none of that you hear praise the lord and yeah and i know you wouldn't have came even if it wasn't a pandemic you ain't coming out in this stuff you ain't you ain't that spiritual amen speaking of the pandemic as difficult as it's been it is a blessing to be able to have church at home and not have to put your makeup on i had to do your hair and do all that stuff and tie tie and all that so all that stuff is a blessing from the lord amen now before i get into the message i want to just give honor to the leadership of this church uh wow what can you say about john kenneth jenkins senior and trina e jenkins hasn't already been said just put some hearts and hand claps in the chat if you're in the chat room today and show your love for two incredible leaders um what they've meant to all of us in some way or another you know they haven't just been role models and leaders and examples for many of them they saved our lives saved our families saved our businesses saved our ministries saved our children and they've been used extraordinarily by god and wherever they are right now we just want them to feel our love and appreciation you can never say thank you enough for the people that god uses in that kind of way and i want to say on behalf of my wife vicky and i and our family thank you pastor john first lady trina for the amazing way you have shepherded us with compassion and confidentiality and all that stuff i appreciate you all so much amen amen let's get to the word of god i want to before i get into this message i want to start this morning with a question i want to start today with a question and the question i want to start with is something i don't want you to answer real fast i want you to think about it i want to ask you this question what is it right now in your life that has you worried what what are you worried about yeah what what is it that what is it that has you what's disturbing your sleep what's got you waking up in the middle of the night sweating let's be real honestly you don't have to put it in the chat you if you want to you can but but i want i want you i want to i want to focus and pinpoint what it is that's troubling us now first of all let's put all this stuff aside about you're fearless and you don't fear nothing and you just you're so full of faith you don't have no worries i ain't listen every single human being gets scared every single one of us has worries and fears if you got kids you got some worries i was talking to a doctor recently in an exam i was taking he says he says the truth is of us parents we're only as happy as our saddest child you you can't have a child and not have trouble you we carry our children in our souls and then when we get grandchildren we carry them in our souls if any one of them is not doing well if they're in trouble if they're not on if they're not on the right path that troubles you so i want to i want to pinpoint what what is it that's that's disturbing your peace that's that's making your neck tight that's got your back inflamed and got you biting your nails and got you got you doing difficult habits and for in full transparency one of the reasons why these chairs right here even to even today for me to speak from is because i carry stress in my lower back i'm preaching to myself tonight today and in my in in in in because of because of where i carry it let me say all of us have places where we carry emotional pain in our body some of us in our shoulders some of us just get headaches and the headache won't go away but we all carry it because pain must go somewhere so we usually carry it somewhere in our bodies so i want you to know right up front i'm not talking down on anybody this is a conversation around what has us scared what has us worried maybe for you is something pending a medical diagnosis the doctors are concerned about something they saw in your labs something they saw on a test and it's got you worried because it's a trip they don't know nothing they just we're just running tests we're just running tests that don't give me no peace you run into how many more tests you're going to run running tests we're running tests right now we don't know we don't know we don't they ain't saying nothing and the silence is is is more troubling than than if they just said something we think it is gotta i'm talking when you had something you got to google you don't even know what you only know what this is it ain't it ain't in my family history no nobody ever had to deal with this that's got you troubled maybe for some of you you're troubled about an upcoming decision you got to make you're at a crossroads and and there's an opportunity but you don't know if you should take it in or you're coming to an end of a situation an end of a season and you're going into a new season and and even though there's excitement about it there's a lot of trepidation because i don't know i don't really want to do this anymore but this is taking care of me and if i go into this i don't know if we gonna make it doing that that's that that could have you worried maybe somebody else maybe somebody else is not your health it's the health of somebody you love that's right somebody you care about is it's got a health problem and somebody that you're concerned about and that and that concerns you how about this so we a lot of us be honest we're concerned about that vaccine man we we were concerned about the daggone coven now we're concerned about the vaccine for the covey hey we can't get a break and so and so there's so many things that could be troubling us it could be a financial matter will i have enough money to make it through well it could be a presentation i got to make for school am i am i ready for this exam that i'm about to take am i ready to make this presentation for the company to get this contract there's so much so many things that could happen where i want to know what you're worried about because the passage that i want to turn to today the bottom line is no matter what's on your worry list and i got several on mine i got several things that i'm carrying it doesn't matter what it is on it whether it's medical or professional or financial or relational it could be marital it could be mental it can be psychological whatever it is god says the same thing about it no matter what it is and it's in philippians chapter 4 the verses that were read earlier to you and i want to read them again i just want to change the translation i want to read out of the new living translation philippians chapter 4 verses 6 and 7. i think they're going to come on the screen for you while i'm reading it but in verse 6 it says here's what god's word says don't worry about anything don't worry about what anything yeah instead pray about everything tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done then verse 7 says then you will experience god's peace which exceeds anything we can understand his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in christ jesus yeah father please bless us in your word may we see things in it that might be applicable to our lives help us we pray in jesus name amen i want to use this passage and throw it a topic on it and my topic tonight is called the journey to peace the journey to peace the journey to peace i believe family first baptist gnard i believe peace is the prize in this text i believe peace is the is the destination in this passage it is peace that's where god's trying to get us to he's trying to get us to a place called peace it's a journey and along that journey in this passage may we go through it slow enough so that we see it all i see four landmarks along the journey uh in 1987 i met my wife vicki and and when i met her i was also uh introduced to a place called hempstead new york it's in long island i'd never been there never heard of the place but she was from there and that's where her family lived and so in the course of her sophomore junior senior year of college and throughout our dating and courtship and marriage and for decades we would go back from maryland where she was a student and where we lived and and go back up to new york and and and and when you travel to new york if anybody's made that trip and you're going in that direction there are certain landmarks along the way that were staples they were immutable they let me know that we're going in the right direction and the first one was always the maryland house we'd always hit the merlin house and then i see that on the left and then the next one was the delaware memorial bridge and and i knew i was going the right direction y'all talked to me yeah and then and then it was the and then it was the new jersey turnpike i knew when we got on the turnpike we were going in the right direction every time we saw these landmarks for us we didn't go all the way to exit 13 which was verrazano bridge we went to exit 10 which was perth and boy and went to the outer crossings and and then you go to outer crossings you pass this funky landfill on your on your left y'all it's it's memorable but it when i smelt it i knew we were in the right place you know because not everything along the journey will be pleasant if the destination was worth the process and because we were going to her house and we're going to see her family and then and then the next thing was this outer crossing bridge which is very narrow bridge hard to navigate and then we would go across the verrazano bridge in another direction and then we hit something called the belt parkway which if you've ever been introduced to new york driving i don't care ready or not they are out of control on the belt parkway and then we hit the southern state parkway as we head over to long island and to her to the exit tour home and every landmark was an indication that we're heading in the right direction i'm gonna come back to that later but in this passage there are four landmarks to a place called peace peace is the prize and it is very interesting every time i've read this i've been looking at this passage for years this is the first time i've seen something a landmark i've never seen before notice what it says in verse six it says first of all don't worry about anything be anxious for nothing and i always went past that to say okay the solution for worry is prayer so so don't be anxious for anything but all things by praying supplication don't worry about anything pray about everything and i would always say okay obviously the solution to worry is prayer but when i slowed it down god showed me no you missed the whole landmark that statement don't worry about anything is a complete sentence and statement all by itself it is a command be anxious for nothing is a command all by itself before god says pray he says don't worry that's a command so the first command is don't worry about anything okay what are you saying preacher uh matthew chapter six jesus is giving a story he's given sir in matthew chapter six he's preaching about the sermon on the mount and he says don't worry about anything there in fact he says take no thought for your whole life what you gonna wear what you gonna eat what you gonna put on where you gonna live he says he says don't worry about your whole life why because the father knows that you need that stuff now y'all with me so seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all this stuff you're worried about will be added unto you that's when i made the connection right there see see this the first solution for worry is not prayer is trust let me slow down let me slow down the first thing we got to do to overcome worry is to trust god god i trust you i trust you that you're a father who's trustworthy i trust you that you're a father who has power who has care who has love who knows everything that i need even before i say it who knows when the deadline is who knows when the money is due who knows the doctor's report who knows the illness who i've been fearfully and wonderfully made by him and since he made my body if something's wrong with it he knows exactly what's wrong with it so before you work before you even pray trust yes oh i got it i got it i gotta slow down right there you got he says the first thing the first thing you got to do is trust okay hold up how does this work right there in the passage he doesn't just say don't worry about anything out of nowhere at the end of verse 5 when he's saying rejoice in the lord and again i say rejoice there's a little clause at the end of verse 5 that says the lord is at hand some translators say the lord is near what he's saying is you ain't got to worry because i'm here i'm on the way and i'm near it is the presence of god that should eliminate the worry that when i know who god is and that he's present and that he's powerful and that he knows everything and that he's capable and that he loves me and that he cares about me then i can then i can then i can relax i ain't even got to pray i just know it's all good i'm going to tell you there's some things in life you ain't got to pray about he said god got that oh god i got that god's got that god's got that god's got that god's got that somebody even if you get it just put that in the chat right now god's got that god's got that you got that guy you got that guy you got that nothing's too hard for you that's smaller than you when i throw that up against who you are i'm betting on you every time i'm putting my money on you every time you're bigger than that you created that let me tell you how here here's a question let me ask you a couple questions here's a question is god here's the question i want you to ask is god trustworthy yes yes now before you answer that before you answer that don't just give me a reflex i want you to think about these questions is god reliable is is god dependable does does god have what it really takes for you to rely on him yeah yeah now now watch this watch this let me give you some examples the first question is is he powerful enough yes because whatever your situation is that has you up at night you need somebody with some power to deal with it if you need favor you need somebody to do something on your behalf you need somebody with some power with some does he have power let me describe god's power real quick for you god is so powerful that everything we see in the world right now that he created the mountains the universe the stars the galaxies the planets the mountains the seas the trees everything that god created he didn't make him with his hands he made them with his mouth yes in hebrew it was called a fiat god spoke everything into existence the only thing he made with his hands was us that's because we were that precious he went into the ground and made man he went into the man and made woman everything else he just spoke it into existence and if god is powerful enough to speak the world into existence all he's got to do is speak a fiat over your situation god could just say something and your whole situation could change god can say something and block what they're trying to do to you god can say something and open a door to can no man clothe god can say something and your haters have to start respecting you just cause he said it that's the powerful god we serve and we listen he said don't worry cause you can trust me you ain't got to tell me what's going on i already know that's phase two that's landmark too we're gonna get to praying yeah he does say you can pray but not before you trust me trust me the lord is at hand so don't be afraid but let me ask you another question god you know you can have somebody in your life that's powerful but don't care about you just because he's powerful don't mean that he's going to be on he's going to move on my behalf so the next question is do you think god loves you yes absolutely i know it i know he knows me do you think god really cares about you yes yes let me give you a quick a few quick examples about how how loving god is there's a passage in john 11 i think it's 11 35 it's the smallest verse in the bible and it says jesus wept right and so so everybody had to say that when they when sunday school seizure said do you know a scripture everybody said jesus you know that's just the one but but but the brevity of the verse might make you miss the magnimity i probably said that word wrong but i'm trying to be cute the the awesomeness of the context of the statement is when he's it's when he wept that's so important because jesus started crying in an environment that he was about to turn around jesus is weeping over a situation that he's about to reverse he's about to turn this funeral into a resurrection party and he's crying before because the people are crying over what they lost that's some love right there that he loves us so much that he cries over what makes us cry okay let me give you another example first peter chapter five verse seven g the bible says cast all your cares upon him because he cares for you watch this now he says i don't care give me the stuff you're concerned about because i'm certain about you he's i ain't concerned about the stuff you're concerned about i'm certain about you you're worried about those things that doesn't bother me because i already know what i'm gonna do about that stuff i'm concerned about you so give me everything you're carrying because i'm career i care about you that's some love right there how about this luke 22 luke 22 he comes up to simon peter he says simon simon satan has asked for you and his desire to sift you like wheat and then jesus said but i pray for you that your faith failed now and if i was peter like you pray for me you mean you're praying you're gonna let satan just come in my life and wreak havoc you ain't gonna stop him and she's like no i'm gonna stop him i'm gonna use him satan sifting you like wheat is got you gonna turn out for your good and my glory because you're gonna fail you're gonna deny that you know me and when you repent you're gonna be able to strengthen your brothers you're gonna be of greater use for me after you fail so i'm actually going to use satan and his attack of you to bring about greater glory to me and greater good in your life that's how much i love you and what i'm praying for is that in the midst of it all your faith doesn't crumble that's some love right there so here's what so what are you saying pastor i'm saying i'm saying the first baptist church of glennardon i'm saying that we can trust god because he's powerful and he loves us he cares about us and wants our best and we can just say you know what sometimes you can just say that you just rehearse in your mind whatever's wearing you whatever's right you can be a child god's got that god know that child god's got that financial situation god's got that medical situation god knows what's going on hey it's now watch this now here's he that's landmark number one let me let me i don't want to i want to belabor the point but i want to shift to landmark number two because because because just in case your trust waivers there is a second tool you can use to throw against your worry and it's prayer okay in other words if your worry is failing then what you can do is you can pray and tell god what you want okay look at the next phrase he says don't worry about anything instead pray about everything tell god what you need and thank of all he's done so so here it is here it is see landmark 1 says i trust god i ain't worried about that i trust god it's like a testimony i ain't worried about that i ain't losing no sleep over that trust god watch this landmark number two it says let me let god know what's going on here because she may i this this february 7th i need that money by the 10th it's got to be in the bank so let me go ahead let me go ahead and tell god because he said let you know bring all your requests in in fact let me get my prayer warriors and my let me we need some touching and agreeing on this how many y'all know what i'm talking about y'all see the difference see there that ain't that ain't no trust it's just a lower trust now now the god who knows everything let me let me let god know god is the seventh it's very very sad we gotta have the money in the in the bank on the 10th if that check got a clear you know we're trying to go to settlement on this house we try to go you know we going through all this stuff and i'm saying god says that's cool what i love about god is is that he doesn't give us one thing to throw at worry he gives us two trust me and if you can't trust me tell me what you want oh that's good if you don't trust what i'm doing tell me what you want get it off your chest go ahead and tell me what to do jesus on the main line tell him what you want talk to me about it that's your gift that's one of my blessings to you watch this now trust is about the future do you trust me in the future prayer is about now and the future so here's my question regarding this thing whatever that thing is i actually the beginning that you're worried about but anything that has you concerned and up at night whoever whatever it is let me ask you a question are you carrying it or you casting it are you bearing it or are you bringing it to god because i'm telling you oh our life and thank you lord for the song what a friend we have in jesus name all our sins and grieves to bear what a privilege to carry everything to god in prayer oh with peace we often forfeit oh with needless pains we bear all because we do not carry he says everything pray about everything pray about everything so the question is because we don't do that enough some of us almost feel like i ain't even gonna bother god with this i made the mess let me fix it some of us are very controlling and we're trying to use all of our networks our cause making our contacts and all that and i'm not saying you don't make the contacts you don't make the calls but you better be talking to the lord if you're gonna get that worry up off you because worry has actual actual clinical impact on us i believe it's shortening some of our lives if not impacting the quality of our life and the beauty of prayer is is that there's a place we can go and find safety michael jordan said that when he was playing basketball he said on the basketball court was one place i could go and i never and the pressures of this life disappeared when i got on that court see all the problems all the pain all the diff difficulties once i got on that quick surgery court was like his sanctuary he says once i got between those lines none of those things could bother me and i said that because i think that's what god wants prayer to do for us when i get before god and i get into his presence all that noise all that all that pressure all that anxiety should fall away proverbs 18 10 says the name of the lord is a strong tower and the righteous run into it and they are safe safe prayer prayer it is a privilege to be able to pray to be able to bring our petitions before god and say god this is what i need and what i love about the passages he says he says watch watch this watch how it flows he says don't worry about anything then he says pray about and i would have thought he said pray about whatever you're worrying about he said pray about everything okay that's these i would think okay i know what i'm worried about so i would think he said we'll pray about that he said now pray about everything pray about the dog pray about the cats pray about the goldfish pray for your neighbors pray about the weather pray about who's gonna shovel this snow pray about whether the heat gonna work pray about the money pray about the super bowl you pray about anything pray about everything just become a prayer a prayer like just just get into a rhythm of prayer so that watch this and he says he says there are two ways you do he gives us two ways to pray in the verse watch the verse verse to the end of verse 6 he says this is how you pray first of all tell god what you need and then thank him for everything he's done let your requests be made known to god with thanksgiving y'all got that so there's two ways we're going to pray we're going to tell them what we need and then we're thankful for what he's done so tell them what you need god that's what i need i need this i need that i need i need this i need this proposal to go through i need i i need you to move on behalf of this legal situation i need you to move on behalf of this personal situation i need you to move on behalf of this private situation whatever tell them everything you need that is a gift of prayer but the reason but the reason why i want to go to this third landmark is the third landmark says but make sure you thank him for what he's already done landmark so watch this landmark one is trust landmark two is pray i'm sorry i didn't give you that this is on your journey to peace landmark three is thanks it's thanks he says thank him watch this watch this so now trust is about the future prayer is about now and the future thanks is about my past it's about my history ooh that's good right there when i thank him i'm looking back over my watch this i got history with god i got a testimony i got things he's already done for me in my life i already know him to do let me ask you a question is there anything in your life that you survived that you know good and well that it was god that brought you out of that thing you understand what i'm saying you know don't you even acute on me you know it was the lord who did it for you is there something you know that you do i'm thinking about think of the most painful thing in your history it could be it could be something you don't even talk about but you know that it was god in fact let me do something right now i want you to do me a favor right now this is going to be your time to preach i want you to go in the chat if you're into chatting kind of person and i don't even want you only have to put what it is that he brought you out of because it might be too deep to share with people because you know a lot of people can't handle knowing what you've been delivered from that's all that preach right there a lot of people you know they can't handle knowing what you've been delivered from because they figure if you ever did it you might do it again that's all right but what i want you to put in the chat right now is not what he did for you but when he did it that's what i want you to put put some dates in there worship him with your calendar just put a year and a month or or year if you got the whole thing just put the year to month in the day it was this day that that watch this it's this day i got caught because it was a blessing to get caught and this is the day that i got free and this is the day i got delivered and this is the day i came back to the lord this is the day he opened the door for me that even my haters couldn't close this is the door he gave me the deal this is doing over this to just testify about what he's already done and just give a date to it just begin to put it in the chat about i believe there are dates scrolling all through the chat right now about what he did for you and when he did it for you that's a faithful god down through the years he's been faithful and i'm saying if he did it before he will do it again okay okay check this out if god brought you through that what is the importance of thanks glad to let this watch this thank him for what he's done the reason why landmark as you're on your way to the journey of peace the reason why landmark three is so important is because the goal of landmark three is to bring us back to landmark number one it really should feed our trust because i got amnesia god because when i ran into this situation i started biting my nails and started shaking and couldn't sleep at night had to take sleep i can't sleep i'm so disturbed but when i started looking back over the worst stuff you brought me through and it may not have been this but you're the same god who brought me out of that and you're the same god i'm talking to now so now i'm talking to somebody who has the capacity to do anything in my life so it's building rebuilding my trust again that's a that's a very important thing trust is very important on the journey to peace so thanking him reminds me of what he's done in the past so i can trust him for what i'm facing right now do y'all understand what i'm saying now let me give you one more here's the last landmark his last landmark when you get to verse seven y'all it's really a twist it's really a turn and the turn is listen see there's a prerequisite to the promise in verse seven if i do what i'm supposed to do in verse six he has a promise in verse seven watch this if i don't worry in fact in the greek language it doesn't say don't worry it says stop worrying stop it you're already worried stop doing that trust god pray tell him what you need and thank him for what he's already done here's what god said he's gonna do he says i'm gonna give you a peace that will pass your understanding and i'm going to guard your heart and minds as you live in christ jesus and watch this now this is this is deep right here because if you don't see see you gotta look at verse six and verse seven is like grades like this is the sixth grade and this is seventh grade and if you flunk out the sixth grade you can't just walk into junior high in the seventh grade and think you're gonna understand what's going on you can only appreciate verse 7 if you really graduated out of verse 6. you got to stop worrying you got to start trusting and you got to start praying and you got to start thanking god for what he's already done because you're going to walk into verse 7 and say i ain't asked for no dagger on peace i asked for some money i ain't asking no pete i asked you to i asked you to change the lawyer's opinion i asked you to touch the judge's heart i ain't asking that i asked you to heal my mother i ain't asking no peace i asked you for a miracle y'all ain't ready for this yeah see if you come out of verse six wrong you're gonna come out your mouth wrong because verse seven ain't gonna say what you want cause cause trust me when i said what's bothering you i guarantee you that's your prayer list i guarantee you peace wasn't on your prayer list it was pain it was payments it was it was per it was it was it was problems on your prayer list and god said he ain't saying nothing about the problem in verse seven he said i'm just gonna eat some peace see peace is the prize peace is the prize and i say oh god i got a problem right here i got a problem with this whole situation because this ain't what i ordered this is this this is not what i asked for think about this have you ever if you ever you ever went to a restaurant it could have been a sit-down restaurant can't do that now drive through whatever have you ever ordered something told the people what you wanted and they brought you back something that you didn't order yes yeah and i bet with your safe self i bet you didn't eat it i bet i bet you told him uh excuse me excuse me you know how we do from prince george county excuse me uh excuse me uh you you must have gave us somebody else's order because i didn't order this and so if you see what you're saying you because we calling the managers can i get a manager here go on yelp give them a bad report all that we go oh we ain't taking i ain't taking just not what i ordered that's right now without order i ain't ordered this don't give me nothing order obviously when kovac since covet uh uh got bad last year i've been getting my groceries delivered to the house i was hurt you know when i heard that was the safest way of doing it so we got these apps that we use and we order our groceries and and you know i'm kind of i do it all the time now but what bothers me is is when the shopper starts texting me and the shopper starts texting me requesting uh exchanges or replacements like i got a list of stuff in there in the shopper and i could be doing something else i don't order the stuff and now i'm doing something else and they texting me like they might be texting me right now saying we would like to replace something they don't have what you want and it gets on my nerves so sometimes i just say no don't replace nothing if they ain't got what i want don't get it don't be giving me no replacements they come home bring me something to my house that i ain't gonna eat cause i didn't order that i know what i want and i know what brand i like you don't say you ever know the judgments you want but you know the brand so so i don't like that and the reason why i brought it up is because look at the passage y'all god said right here in this text he says tell me what's the order what is your order tell me what you need and thank me don't worry about anything pray about everything and put your order in and then god has a nerd to come back to us where the texan says i decided to replace what you asked me for with some peace i got a problem with that i ain't asking for no peace i ain't asking i asked you for a job asking for a husband i ask you to get out of this situation that's what i asked you for you talking about peace and you done you didn't did a replacement and i you know because if you don't graduate out of verse six you're gonna have an attitude about verse seven do y'all understand what i'm saying you're gonna have attitude so so i started talking to god said god this don't seem like it's really going in the right direction and god told me when i was preparing this message he says keith the reason why i'm giving you peace instead of what you asked me for is because i'm getting to the root of what you really need the root problem you have is worry the root problem you have is stress the root problem you have is anxiety the root problem you have is fear and if i give you what you're asking for you're gonna have you're gonna be afraid about something else i'm gonna give you something to deal with the root problem cause you're scared about this today you'll be scared about that next week but i'm gonna give you something that'll help you deal with your worry and your anxiety and your fear i'm gonna give you what you really need so that while you're waiting until the date that you get the answer while you're waiting on your court date while you're waiting on whatever you're waiting on you can have peace along the journey because the peace is the prize as a matter of fact as a matter of fact he says not only will i give you a piece he said i'm not going to give you any kind of peace i'm going to give you what is called the arena the arena de teo which is the peace of god i'm gonna give you a piece i'm giving you my peace it ain't even just some regular piece i'm i'm watching i'm gonna give you i'm gonna break you off some of my peace so that you feel about what you so you feel about it how i feel about it i'ma let you know how i feel about what you feel about what you feel about i'ma give you some of my peace and the peace that i have is inexplicable it passes all understanding it's a piece that when somebody asks you who knows about what you're going through how you're doing you you you tell them you know what i don't know i'm i think i'm okay and it's such an inexplicable piece that when people look at your circumstance they're gonna think you're not being honest because it doesn't make sense that you're not falling to pieces but you have something that's holding you in the midst of it i'm gonna give you that so that while you're okay that's the prize right there that's the prize right there that's what i'm gonna give you i'm not even i'm not even concerned about what i'm gonna do about your situation but because you know i love you and because you trust me and because you know i do all things well i'm gonna give you some peace while you're waiting on time to reveal what's gonna happen now watch this i'm done i'm going to do i'm closed right here he says this piece depends on understanding will guard your heart and mind it's going to guard your heart and mind it's going to guard your heart your emotional realm your mind your mental realm but we really need peace in the time that we're in i'ma guard you i'ma guard you y'all remember when those terrorists marched into the capitol building and wreaked havoc on that building that was clearly a breach of security they crossed a threshold and wreaked havoc and and and that's what worry wants to do he wants to walk right off the threshold of our hearts and our minds and wreak havoc in our soul and god says i ain't going to let it happen they can i'm going to be a garrison around your heart i'm gonna be a garrison around your mind and i'll protect your heart and mind but watch this i'm gonna give you that kind of peace but watch this it's through christ jesus it's as you stay connected to christ jesus is as you see see we don't want to do our here's the fourth landmark the fourth landmark y'all is abiding the first landmark is trust second landmark is prayer third landmark is thanks the fourth landmark is abiding see you can't you can't just have a 60 minute a week relationship with god because you know one thing about first baptise y'all don't play 60 minutes is over and some of y'all been living off a 60 minute experience of 60-minute fixes 60-minute injections you can't have peace that way you got to stay in christ jesus you got to abide in christ jesus he says he says oh thank you lord isaiah 26 3. i'll keep him in perfect peace i'll keep in perfect peace those who trust me whose mind is stayed on me abiding abiding and since there is a correlation between the level of peace we have and the level of connection we have with the lord there's a correlation between the level of peace we have and the level of our connection with the lord let me ask you a question if you were to measure how close you walk with and live with the lord based on how much peace you have in your life how close are you to the lord let me say that again if there's a correlation between how much peace i have and how much closeness intimacy i had with the lord then if you were to measure how close you are to the lord based on how much peace you have in your life how close are you to the lord because we measure how close people are to the lord by how gifted they are but i'm a witness you can come up here and preach a great message and then leave church and have a panic attack it's not based on how anointed you are you can be anointed enough to sing great songs and do great music and then leave church and do something to medicate your own fears if the measurement of our intimacy with god is connected to how much peace we have how close are you to the lord how tight are you really with jesus let me close with this i told y'all that about those landmarks going to new york maryland house delaware memorial bridge new jersey turnpike perth amboy outer bridge crossing verrazano bridge belt parkway southern state parkway and one thing that i always knew i've always noticed that i don't know if y'all have ever noticed this have you ever noticed that when you go back home even if you go home the same way it's always faster going back from where you came from all things equal all things you can go anywhere in your car and it seems like wherever you had to go it took you longer to get there than it took you to get back home the way you was going i don't even know why that is but all things equal there's no traffic no situation it always you always get back faster now check this out this is what i learned when it comes to worry you can always go back to worry a lot faster than you can get the piece it's really fast back to worrying that's why you got to use worry as a reminder i have peace resources i have landmarks i can trust god i can pray i can thank him for what he's done i can abide in him that's your peace where it's like it's like it's cold here in the dmv i know it ain't it ain't midwest cold i know it ain't canada cold but it's cold for us and if you walk outside without your jacket and you feel that cold it'll remind you let me go back in the house and put my coat on you go back in the house and put your coat on you come back outside and watch this now you're not cold anymore not because the weather change but because you put something on to change the way you feel about the same condition that's good right there here's what god says i can put something on you without the circumstance changing called trust and prayer and thanksgiving and abiding so that even when without the circumstance changing the way you feel about the circumstance changes let's pray father thank you so much for your word thank you that peace is your gift to us and we thank you for your landmarks in this passage today and i pray that we won't just hear them we'll heed them we'll respond to them and that you i thank you that as i gave what you gave me that you're going to bear fruit the way you see fit in jesus name and everybody who agrees said amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen praise our god let's give the lord a hand for the word of god for the man of god for the message that is for all of us to ask the real questions about how much we really trust god how much in this journey toward peace we know beyond a shadow of a doubt we have to ask the question how much do we pray we have to ask the question how much do we thank our god for the things that he has done for us and reflect on just how good he is and in our relationship continually abiding in him amen let the church say amen again god bless you i'll give the lord one more hand would you praise and thanks for the man of god pastor battle we honor the lord and today we know that word was for all of us challenged all of us it challenged all of us and our trust in the true and living god and today for those who are streaming and watching us online if you are not in relationship with god today today would be a great day to get to know him and to know him for yourself and to note that his word is true because we all need peace we all need peace and enjoy being in peace and so there is a number right at the screen where you can call and you can get this piece and have the blessed assurance that jesus is yours and that you belong to christ today is a great day we praise god once again for his word and one more time let's give the lord a hand amen bless you bless you and now it's at this time where we're going to bless the man of god who has blessed us and given us his time and has come out that we may be hearing the word in the absence of our pastor we praise god for our pastor pastor jenkins who's on assignment ministering the word of god and we pray once again continuing for his safety and safety returning back amen and so we want to be a blessing to the man of god today for those of you who want to give you know he has a cash app that has a dollar sign and it says keith battle three if you want to directly give to him into his cash app now this is not tax deductible but if you want to give directly to the church we will make sure that he receives every penny every nickel every dime every dollar and be a blessing to the man of god because he certainly has been a blessing to us amen all right so it's at this time we want to pray and we're going to believe god as we trust him today and how we can minister also to this man of god through this honorary let everybody pray with me father we thank you so much for your mercy and your grace we thank you for your word lord that never comes back void we thank you lord for the man of god who has served us so faithfully in his studying to show himself a proven that we may be a better people and trusting you and praying and abiding in you lord we just thank you so much so always say lord is have your way in jesus name we pray let everybody say amen for i know all things working for my good for i know all things working for my good for i know all things working for my good for i know all things are working i don't worry about a thing because i know he watches me through the fire about a thing because i know he watches me the fire surrounds me foreign foreign he watches me i don't have to worry i don't have to worry is foreign is foreign um

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Length: 78min 57sec (4737 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021