The Right Fit | Word Impact | Bishop David G. Evans

somebody shout glory hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty touch somebody tell them you can do some stuff there is Liberty you can do some stuff god prime for movement can do some stuff [Music] as we continue in this series called a safe place turn with me to John chapter 15 jan 15 go down to verse eight John 15 verse eight you have that same man Jesus is speaking herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit so shall you be my disciples watch this now as the father have loved me so I have loved you continue you in my love if you keep my Commandments you shall abide shall dwell down you shall stay in my love even as I have kept my father's Commandments and abide in him these things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full verse 10 if you keep my Commandments you shall abide in my love even as I have kept my father's Commandments and abide in his won't talk to you about the right fit the right fit as we continue this conversation centered around relationships it intrigues all of us that the Bible has so much to say not only about the relationships that we have on whatever level we have them but the Bible is also specific about what to look for before you allow your affections to rope you into something he doesn't want you roped into it has become so critical in life now that you can't even afford to have friends that God doesn't approve anytime you allow your affection to be stewarded by someone else you are risking vulnerability but also and more importantly you may be in or out of the will of God all of us have heard the scripture be not unevenly yield it simply speaks of us and the influencers in our lives who do you allow watch this to influence your thinking who do you allow to influence your direction and watch this and who do you share your strength with because if I'm in the yoke our our heads are headed in the same direction our natures must have come into agreement and I have to share my strength with you even if I don't intend to have to have an agreement on direction that we're headed in the same direction I have to have an understanding you and I have to face problems the same way do you keep pulling or do you give up when things get tough can I depend on you being there even I even though I have that Ash to to help me do you readily lend your strength to me when you see me struggling can I depend on you when it gets real hard for me to drop to your knees and call on God before I asked you to pray that yoke that yoke speaks of so many relational things in the spirit I can be yoked up with someone whose head is going in another direction the problem with them trying to go another way is they dragged me with them oh I have to struggle to stay on course using strength not to go forward as much as it does just to stay on the right choke is very very important so this tells me something that is absolutely amazingly terrifying every relationship you've ever been in was a revelation because relationships according to the Bible or design to reveal stuff you can't hide for long from your friend you cannot hide for long from your loved ones that what ain't right about us is going to come out in what I call the winepress of a relationship wine presses not only reveal the meat of the grape the juice in degree but the bitter seed that's in the middle of the green because sometimes sweetness can obscure bitterness I'm trying I'm trying to help you sometime sometime you can think somebody's sweet until they're squeezed by their circumstances you can keep them I'm trying to help you as much as you try you can't ignore the see so so relationships are designed to uncover you know when you first meet someone you're on your best behavior takes a little relational time for the real person to get exposed relationships will embarrass you because most people don't live up to their press my facebook image may not be just like I am the touched up photograph doesn't show my pimples and my black is it such a photo doesn't then reveal everything you need to know about an individual y'all stay with me so so so it's no it's no it's no secret why our our parents could know stuff about us because when you're in a relationship with somebody you inadvertently reveal yourself you you they start telling you about yourself you don't think you revealed anything but knowing you starts telling me stuff what happens is what I don't want you to know comes out in time and circumstance we need not rush into any kind of friendship any kind of love relationship because if time and circumstance don't have their chance to work you'll never know the real person you'll be one of those people that are guilty of saying so-and-so changed after I fell in love with it relationship is designed to reveal it reward you an amen so it's imperative that you allow time and circumstance to reveal a friend to reveal a significant other to reveal a business partner to reveal but we're so in a hurry because we don't know how to identify loneliness i'ma talk to you in a minute about that so so relate tell your neighbor relationships are revealing Leeson ships are revealed they revealed so we come into this relationship with Jesus one of the first things Jesus reveals to you and I is the kind of love we possess we come to him looking for something we don't love him initially just for him we love him for what he can give us and then we learn to love him into an identity that he's greater than I give up I don't really appreciate him as Savior until I get a little little longer with him then I then I start understanding Grayson and mercy but when I get Saint I'm just glad to be saved and and I love the promises of God getting this relationship with Jesus stuff starts happening you thought you was secure and you find out you insecure you thought you were strong find out you're weak and he Jesus gets on my nerves thought I had strength till he came along thought I was a good person till he showed up he's the one that says all my righteousness is like filthy rest wait hold up you saved me and I still my righteousness still ain't right because his relationship with me our relationship with him reveals some stuff there's about 12 of you in here that are having a very unusually bad emotional day and I need you to come see me right here right there I need you come see me right here right face I need you to hurry up stand up in here normally you all right but today's a little worse than ever okay okay I need to rest of y'all to stretch your hands towards them stretch your hands towards me because they need our strength today y'all touch each other on the shoulders and stuff they need our strength [Music] Lord you said you would be of every present help in the time of trouble some days we wake up and were in control because we've given you control in other days we spend the entire day trying to get control back because we've not allowed you to take over once again so Lord I'm asking you right now to give my daughters and my sons strength to take their hands off the issue not just their physical hands but their emotional hands take it off the issue you said cast your care upon me so in the name of Jesus we release our strength to you right now in the name of Jesus we speak blessing over you right now in the name of Jesus we speak defeat to the enemy right now in the name of Jesus straight to your head strength to your heart strength to your mind in the name of Jesus [Applause] loose those chains look syn light into the dark flakes in the name of Jesus [Music] break that yolk right now it was attached to a present destroy that yoke right now something happened to him destroy that yoke right now send your fire melt that worry like ice melt it right now Lord in the name of Jesus it's been long enough Lord it's been long enough we speak to that mountain [Applause] we have faith in God greater than any problem we speak to that mountain be thou removed be cast into the sea [Music] [Music] change the tears from sorrow to tears that cleanse tears that wash away leave the memory clean God and I thank [Music] no children need deliverance right now straight to their bodies straight to their minds unusual breakthrough in their spirit in the name of Jesus and we receive it for them by faith hallelujah [Applause] come on celebrate their breakthrough celebrate their breakthrough [Music] [Applause] [Music] celebrate the breakthrough [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody say Amen so this relationship with God it's one that not only reveals him to you but it reveals you to him I like in Jesus to a mirror who you can lie to but it doesn't lie to you I try to tell myself stuff when I'm looking in the mirror and the mirror is saying uh you need to put your now glasses off [Music] [Laughter] you're looking through a historic lens [Applause] it's how this relationship with the Lord is you can only deny what he sees for so long turn with me to first Corinthians chapter 13 let me show you something catch my flow again are you there alright look at verse 10 first cruise at 1310 are you there I says but when that which is perfect is come and that which is in part shall be done away when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away now as a side there has been a debate for as long as I've been saved as to whether all of the gifts of the Spirit are relevant in the time that we are in and that's the age of a church it is it is an argument that has not much merit but people have postured it so therefore the people of God have become confused as to whether certain gifts of the Spirit are relevant for today or whether they have passed so it is some people would say the tongues is no longer for today and some people would say prophecy is no longer for today but I would I would dare to disagree because if we are alive and we are all here alive and we are not all with Jesus then that which is perfect has not come when I am looking him in the face then I'm looking at perfect when I'm with him in heaven I won't need tongue I will need prophecy because the tongue of God and the prophecy of God will be standing in front of me so I don't have to I won't need tongues there but I'm not there yet that which is perfect has not come someone argue that which is perfect is the Word of God in the Word of God is perfect but the verse reveals what perfect is already that says no all right now it's real simple when I was a child watch this shift in the understanding when I was a child I speak as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child so so the Spirit of God connects speaking understanding and thinking to maturity or immaturity why says now watch how it works I speak like a child because I understand like a child because I think like a child you'll see it children don't think before they speak anytime you're in a relationship with an adult who says whatever they want to say and thinks they should have a license to say whatever they want to say you're dealing with a the problem with immature people is they think if you contradict him you're messing with their freedom of speech but your freedom of speech does not take away my right to respond [Applause] you can say what you want to say mate but I have the right also to the same freedom of speech but children want to say what they want to say and want you to respond in a way that's inappropriate for what's come out of their mouth I crush you out but I want you to speak sweetly to me so I say children children tell you what they did and then ask you to understand i'ma show it to you children do a thing and then hope you'll forgive them I'm trying to help you dealing with the child when they're not responsible for anything why because children expect parents to forgive them so if you're dealing with someone who's always causing trouble but expects you to forgive them for anything you do then they see you as their parent and that they loved one so when I speak like a child I want to be treated like an adult children don't think of consequences children are impulse driven they do stuff and worry about the consequences later but a child expects no punishment for a D so children don't expect a consequence so if someone does something to you you know what's bad the devil knows is bad God knows it's bad the enemy knows is bad your friend knows is bad but they want you to act like it's not you're dealing with her now the problem with this behavior is we think a teen is a line of demarcation but I know 60 year olds to say stupid stuff so you can look round but think childlike and trying to love a child who looks like an adult is a difficult situation [Applause] thereby not in the what's this now what's this but when I became a man when I became grown watch the words in the Bible I put away childish Finnish watch what the Bible implies that if I'm 35 45 55 65 and I'm still lacking like a kid I've chosen not to put those things away I'm holding on not my youth I'm holding on to my childish mind children are the only ones I know cancer destroy a room and you're walking and say who did this they'd only one been in there and and they say Oh alright I'm not trying to hurt your feeling people that have no control of their money have a child like mine when they become adults they become dishonest about their money so no discipline as a child makes an undisciplined adult so if I keep spinning like a child I gotta have it got sneak bags in the house [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] babies don't see a need to save anything babies don't invest babies consume a child so I think like a child I understand like a child I remember I'll tell you all this story I'm embarrassed by it so I'm home one day 30 years ago and God knocks on the door and says I'm from Jones cable and we're looking for investors what's how childish my head was for us as far as taking a risk because children have no vision so I had all this other stuff going on but this opportunity presented itself and he said he's watch this it wasn't that he asked for something I didn't have he said we don't look for a hundred hundred fifty dollars from everybody so I said I started thinking of what I could do with onion 50 I had never heard of Jones Cate so I passed I'm Shane to tell y'all what happened Comcast bought Jones I could be watching my own channel but I couldn't see because I couldn't think because in that area of my life I was still immature we'll spend $300 on shoes but not $25.00 for a book [Applause] ignorance is a strategy of the immature I don't know god but I won't read what it says so I remain ignorant on purpose for now verse 11 12 we see through a glass darkly but then what's it say all right now watch out connects now look at verse 10 but when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away watch this for now verse 12 we see through a glass darkly we see a blurred image in the mirror but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as I am known so when I get to see Jesus face to face the Bible says I'll be just like in so the image won't be blurred anymore it'll be one glorified body to another glorified body so he is that which is perfect and I'll see everything as it is when I'm looking him in the face I will need a spiritual gift because the gift will be in front of him they are here what I'm telling you so this relationship with Jesus clears my image of the more or the closer I am to him the more I know him the more I see him in me and he sees a picture of me that he is pleased with as I mature with him so with him I don't know all of me yet I just know part of me y'all didn't hit what I said I'm learning a new lead in this relationship with him and some of the stuff he's showing me I don't lie so God wants to mature us in this relationship and he says you can come unto me because I'm a safe place watch this you can trust me with you you say I'm not selfish you can you can trust me I need you to have my love I need you to become a safe place for others to love and I need any I need folk to feel safe committing their emotions to you I need I need to know you can be a good steward if somebody else's heart someone else is mine I need to know that when they commit their love to you that you're gonna take care of them so the question for us is are we safe places first for Jesus and then for people am I taking a risk loving you is it risky to be your friend do you hurt more than you help I don't find out your relational weight you're really relational wait until I care about you then I find out if you're underweight or if you're carrying everything I need stay with me so so these relationship these friendships that you have have been designed not for you only to discover you the person your friend with but also that you would be discovered also and and a lot of times we we say we're a safe place but sometimes it is hard to be safe when you don't know your own value it's difficult to be safe when your esteem is low is it's a mature thing when you can admit you're not ready for what you're praying for okay III are you here my it's a mature thing and because because what happens is we find ourselves purporting to be a safe place for someone's love but then the relationship comes on board and there's a problem in him is peace but I know you know some people that confusion is the word of the day I know you know some thought that about as reliable as a dead roach because in Jesus there is protection and there's provision your dreams are safe with the right people do you know you have to love someone sincerely to be happy for them when they receive something you've been praying for do you know then a whole lot of people don't have that kind of love some of us can't even give God glory when somebody is singing not because we don't feel the spirit because we're too envious of a gift [Applause] I've got room to be jealous if I can sing a little bit but if I can't sing at all they don't need to be jealous [Applause] they'll pray for your bishop I know the thing I love about Jesus he's a safe place and his love is not seasonal I'm still trying to figure out how somebody can love your money and don't love you on Tuesday I don't know what it is you thought you were in a relationship but you were really in a transaction [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you had a relationship with a professional football coach the only good as your last game it's down like a book already don't that's not why I wrote it amen so so so a safe individual is not a seasonal or a fickle person someone that tells you too many times but you know I love you that's an excuse for bad behavior the problem is the good thing is first at our faith and our love and our hope our safe in Jesus um I say men now the problem with every relationship is every relationship requires a season of vulnerability the get to know phase can make you feel vulnerable just make it sense it seems right but you're not sure because in order to establish friendship or relationship you've got to present yourself and be vulnerable for a moment some people don't know how to care for your vulnerability here's my motto he go all upside your head she's shooting at you already y'all ain't even engaged he acting like he don't want to be bothered she act like she doesn't wanna be bothered doing even that far down the road people have sense enough to be on their best behavior before you Miriam so what you may be getting that's the best they can do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's gonna sell like nobody's business the problem I have with being vulnerable and vulnerability is in friendships when you go to a new job when you get a business partner any relationship you get in love relationship the beginning of it always has Boehner ability sewn into it the problem with being vulnerable is that vulnerability feels weak so a lot of times when I feel weak I'm careful about what I say because when I'm weak I don't want to expose too much of myself but while I'm not exposing myself my friend doesn't get to know me so they think you change after you become serious nobody talking to me the problem is we're fantastic communicators but were not good conversationalist I know how to communicate but I don't know how to have a conversation [Music] communication is for knowledge conversation is for understanding someone that does not want to have a conversation doesn't really want you to know them and if I claim I love you and I don't want you to know me I got some stuff I don't think you'll love most people are good talkers but they're not good conversationalist we're good at telling folk off but not good at coming to an understanding we argue well but we don't resolve well so when I'm vulnerable I feel weak I feel unprotected I feel uncertain now this is funny but not fun if you're not in the first relationship you ever had [Applause] if that's just now what's this you know I'm getting ready make sense don't you if you're not in the first relationship you ever had then your relationship experience is based on failures so we bring the failures of our history into a new friendship new relationship and if we haven't changed we wonder why it fails because all I know how to do is mess one up I'm good at picking the wrong person he's making sense here so so so if I don't change me change the way I think change the way I understand change the way I speak I'm using the same bait to attract the same fish well how do I get in so many relationships you might change the bait but you're using the same hook anybody talking to him that they got quiet on me over here come over here and talk to y'all we tend to use the same hook change the bait so the new bait forgots my age that you'll never see me do is wearing clothes look like they belong to my little brother that's the new baby no [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] sixty-eight years old what I look like dressing like a 17 year old my plants don't need to be down around my behind I'm walking like this Moses wasn't known for his robe Moses was known for his miracles you did you miss what I said let the Jesus in you start attracting the right people to you that the Holy Ghost in you draw somebody to the Jesus in you let the glory of the Lord is on you [Applause] I got good news I got bad news this is really working but I'm out of time [Applause]

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Published: Wed Mar 04 2020