This Is Not My Final Destination | Appetite | (Part 5 ) Jerry Flowers

so I want to get straight to work because there's so much I want to share with you guys on tonight root chapter 2 verse 2 if you're there would you shout at your boy as loud as you can I got it it says so roof the Moabite is said to Naomi please let me go to the field and glean heads of grain after him and whose sight I may find favor somebody say favor and she said to her go of my daughter then she left and went and gleaned in the field after the Reapers and she happened to come to the part of the field bellowing - belonging to Boaz I want you to notice she wasn't trying to get discovered she wasn't trying to be get found she just so happened to be in a place where she got discovered okay who was of the family of a little egg now let's go to First Samuel chapter 18 first time gets chapter 18 verse 6 if you dare what you shout as loud as you can I got it says now it had happened as they were coming home when David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistines that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King saw with tambourines with joy and with musical instruments so the woman's sing and they danced Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands then Saul was very angry somebody say uh-oh and this saying displeased him and he said they have ascribed to David tens thousands and to me they have ascribed only thousands now what more can he have but the kingdom so Saul I David from that day forward and it happened on the next day that the distressing spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the house so David playing music with his hand as at other times but there was a spear in Saul's hand and solved cast the spear for he said I will pin David to the wall but David escaped his presence twice father got a thinking that your lord my lips to be the PA system of heaven allow us to race this word of god we already laid forth worship we're just saying God come in this house and get glory and we are praying father God that this word will be a life-changing word so that when we look back on the files of our life we could say that tonight was the night that changed happened in Jesus name if you agree with that prayer would you shout amen so ladies and gentlemen we are finally at the finale this is the end of this apatite series that we launched five weeks ago and I would like to speak from this thought around this subject for tonight this is not my final destination I just feel like this power on that statement so let that be the declaration that we say on tonight every week we have a declaration how about tonight can I get everybody say this is not y'all don't sound like y'all believe it I need you to sound like you're convinced that you're trying to get somebody to get something out the refrigerator that's yours and they didn't have permission to grab it I need you to project what your volume and say this is not my final destination one more time this is not my final destination if you're ready would you give God some praise in the house ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters we have been plowing through this topic for the last few weeks and I firmly believe that the assignment the purpose of this series the mandate was to the best of my capability and of course to the empowering of the Holy Spirit to perform a surgical operation on the perspective of those of us who are trying to change no we need to change feel stuck stagnant are in the middle and we discussed week after week that this middle season is likened unto the wilderness somebody say wilderness the wilderness is this place where you're no longer in Egypt but you have yet come to this promised land and so things aren't as bad as they used to be but they're not as good as they're gonna be you're no longer that rich you're no longer that broke but you have yet to become that rich you're no longer that petty but you still have a little clap back and it's at this place is that this place where God must rewire detox and address our appetite and so last week we talked about how the wilderness is not just a place of purging it's also a place of training can I guess somebody's a training and so we discussed that there are four types of people that you could be in the wilderness there are the perfectionist exit strategist demonologist and the Evangelist the perfectionist is the individual who feels as though if they do this Lord this will happen they're so caught up we're trying to be perfect that they fail to realize that God is perfecting them they're so caught up over what they don't have that they don't even recognize some things no longer have them and the reason they're so caught up with this season is because they think they can control outcomes somebody say perfectionist the next type of individual that we discussed is the exit strategist this is the individual who just wants to get out this season I just want to get out give me a spoon some tea I just want to get out of this season whatever I gotta do I'm thinking if I got to pray more if I got a fast harder I'm tired of this place some type of dis marriage I'm tired of this job on China's career I'm tired of this place and I'm trying to get out the only problem with that is if this is a place where God wants you to be I get not one a man I like I was a moon if this is the place where God wants you to be there's nothing that you could do to get out this season and I would like to ascribe to you if you stopped looking for an exit God will soon present an entrance exit strategist and then we talked about the demonologist this is the individual or everything is the devil this storms the devil that layoff is the devil my teenage is the devil my spouse is the devil they get so caught up blaming God for where they are that they don't recognize that God put them where they are because there's something he has to get out of them to lead them to where they want to be nobody's talking to me so it's like God get me out of this but there's something that God wants you to get out of this and you have been given the power to rebuke a devil and a demon but you cannot rebuke that which God is using a surgery what if this is not the devil what if this is not a consequence due to a choice this is God somebody say demonologist and lastly we talked about the Evangelist the Evangelist is the same God type of personality this is the individual who is like you know what the same God who got us out of Egypt it's the same guy who's gonna get us through this red sea it's the same God who's gonna provide some type of food in the wilderness is the same God who's gonna provide water for us to drink is the same God who's gonna see these giants and give us the power to overcome them the evangelists personality has this type of outlook we be well able so I feel as though one of the most profound parts of this teaching series was when we talked about patterns because patterns create rhythms and rhythms create systems and so we stated that many times the reason we are struggling to change is because we're trying to change it at the system level versus the pattern level so if I have a pattern of overthinking that becomes a rhythm of worry which creates a system of anxiety so we'll try to change being possessed with anxiety and we learned that's not where you start start at the pattern whatever is good whatever is just whatever is pure whatever is of good report whatever is worthy of praise think on these things anxiety is not the issue it's the over thinking that's the issue so I would like to ascribe to anybody who possibly had this outlook that this series is not for me this doesn't apply to me in this season please be careful it'll be who for everybody to be attentive because God has a methodology of giving you words outside of seasons you don't know where storms coming your way you don't know what trial is coming your way and God loves us so much to where when something happens in your life you need to pay attention because if this is the test it's because God has given you the study guide so in other words I'll test you now and I'll give you the information now so when you hit this place you can have an open book test somebody say wilderness this is not my final destination and I recognize that sometimes we get so caught up with being better that we don't strive to be hold see it all the time your life gets a little bit better second row then just a little bit better than better third row you get a promotion you out to church because we come to God for treatment instead of wholeness and I feel like many times when we're in this place when we don't understand what's going on we begin to ask God what's next and I just felt that God led us to this text to see that Ruth is asking Naomi to go glean in the field and Naomi tells her to go please don't miss this Ruth is asking Naomi to go glean in the field Naomi tells her to go one more time Ruth is asking Naomi to go glean in the field and Naomi tells her to go I think one of the problems with my generation is if everybody wants to be Ruth who's gonna be Naomi could you imagine the state of women today if they had a four word voice versus familiar chaos could you imagine min today if we had a four word voice versus familiar chaos versus culture trying to tell us how to live and society trying to tell us how to live and confusing us on what real manhood looks like and what real women hood looks like but Ruth had a Naomi she has somebody in her life that told her where to go and I'm seeing that this is the power of having a god voice in your life sometimes we're so caught up with cutting people off our cutoff game is so strong so that when anybody tells you the truth when anybody gets in your business when anybody tells you something that you don't like when anybody tells you that your breath stinks you want to cut them all but they might have been the god boys to hook you up [Music] Ruth thank you for the few golf claps Ruth asked Naomi to go glean in the field but really she was begging in the field that was hers please don't miss this I'm trying to get to my deduction Ruth was really begging in the field that was hers and David was really dodge the spears from a man who was wearing his crown see Ruth was going to marry Boaz which means by default this is her field and David was already anointed to be the next king over Israel while another King still had to throw see this is why you never need to clap back you never need to respond to certain people you don't have to go there if they're coming at you 90 you don't have to come at them at 100 because you got the oil you got the oil please hear me never reduce yourself to argue with oil this people I've never been hated on by another oil carrier did you hear what I just said I never been hated on by another oil carrier it's not that they don't like you it's that they don't like themselves and they take it out on you it's not that they don't like you is that they don't like themselves and they take it out on you and this is why it comes from family and it comes from people who are the most familiar with you and the people who know you the most is because when they see where you are and when they look at where they are and the fact that y'all both came from the same place they begin to get agitated with you because your growth reveals how stagnant they have been and sometimes you got to get this posture in your spirit it's not my thought that God anointed me like this it's not my fault that I'm an anointed worshipper it's not my fault that I preached the way I preached I'm not after what's yours I'm after what's mine the oil can we flow in the area of my anointing and if you would live a life of obedience you were walking through the area where your oil is I'm just in my introduction David was anointed king over Israel while Israel still had a king and Ruth was begging in the field that was hers because watch this sometimes God will show you what's yours before is yours God will show you what's yours before it's yours because he knows you're gonna need motivation when you hit the middle he knows they're gonna need some motivation when they hit the middle so we talked about this they're their methods that God has it's Egypt that's the place where we were slaves the wilderness that's the place where God is preparing us and then we have the promise that's where God has cosmically created for us to be we don't have enough sermons that talked about that that God has a preferred route he has a preferred route meaning there's a place that he wants us to be but due to our choices and due to the things that we participate in we prolong the process but there is a preferred route that God would like for us to go on so it's Egypt wilderness promise like everybody say that Egypt wilderness promise Egypt wilderness promise if I had a beats Egypt wilderness promise and our sense to make it more modern its departure layover arrival departure layover and arrival so what God will do is why you're here in Egypt he'll give you a snapshot it's care of your promise put it in your belly when you're in Egypt because he knows you're gonna need the motivation when you're in the middle did you hear what I just said cuz in the middle people are not gonna like you when you get here you're gonna lose some friends when you hit here there's gonna be some breakups when you hit here some people not gonna understand you when you hit here and there's gonna be a temptation to go back to the place that you used to be and the devil's gonna try to convince you that are you missing out and it was so good back then but God has put something in your belly he's put something in your bosom so every single time you want to quit you can say the devil is the liar I'm not where I want to be but I'm not where I used to be and all the dream is is a snapshot of your coming harvest if you don't think the dreams that you have is because God said that's what's coming if you faint not and I need you to remember that when it gets difficult and you find yourself in the middle can I get somebody say middle so my wife and I we've been traveling quite a bit right and I noticed it doesn't matter if it's the large airport of Chicago O'Hara or if a small airport in Columbia South Carolina there's these two words that I keep seeing in each and every Airport departure and arrival I hope you about to talk departure and arrival everybody wants to arrive but few people want to depart please hear me if I was a low tech I write this down everybody wants to arrive but few people want to depart because the departure process is an extensive process can we talk let's be practical you have to pack your bags accordingly get to the airport two hours early then you have to find a parking spot then you have to go up to the kiosk they have to give you a boarding pass if you have it on your phone some airlines you can have it on your phone but you still got to go up to the kiosk and then you've got to go to TSA and sometimes TSA opens your bag and say you know what you have this and it's too big you can only have something that's 3.4 ounces or larger if you don't have something that size you're gonna have to recheck your bag for a small fee of $25 and if you don't like that sometimes people begin to argue with TSA and I've noticed this as you're arguing with them about something in your carry-on that can't go with you people are going around you have you ever felt like people keep passing you by they got this and they got that and why am I stuck here I wonder could it be because there's something and they carry all of your soul that you argue with the Holy Spirit about that you want to keep preached flowers there's something that God is saying you can't fly with that you can't bore with that I know that you're used to that I know that you have history with that I know that you like them I know that you love them but they're not conducive for the next level and so while you're sitting here at TSA arguing and wondering why can't I do this and what's wrong with my attitude and what's wrong with my mindset and what's wrong with my personality people are passing you by because God is not running out of time we are the desire to arrive must become greater than a discomfort of departure say it again the desire to arrive must be greater than a discomfort of departure peradventure this is why God told us to write the vision down and make it plain he says write the vision down and make it plain though a tarry weight on it for surely does not tarry that sounds like a lot of contradiction and a lot of Tyrian it says write the vision down though it tarry wait on it for it's not tearing it surely will come to pass how in the world is it terian but not tyrion l ever thought about that I'm sorry I read the Bible I want to understand certain things what do you mean though a Terry wait on it for in surely will not tarry see God has no boundaries of time and so what he's saying is you waiting on it but I see it's coming and so do you it may seem like hysteria but to me it's right on time I have the tracking information you don't because if you knew the track and information you would probably get anxious I don't want you to get anxious just trust that it's on the way and see this is why we should be able to celebrate when other people get their blessing package cuz this must mean alright this must mean that mine must be on the same street now listen some of us expect a he's down my street is coming my way but is there a principle you haven't followed I lose my whole a man section right so I believe what what the enemy would do is when we're in this middle place when we're in this wilderness he knows prolong we talked about this prolonged exposure till the wilderness heightens relapse so if I can get them to stay here longer than they have to they'll probably try to go back to the gods of Egypt because they don't really know the God of heaven yet and the wilderness is where you truly experience God and he doesn't want you to know God to that degree so there's four things I think the enemy messes with and I haven't projected for you on the screen the first one is anxiety can I get everybody's anxiety anxiety insecurity obscurity and community anxiety and security obscurity and community okay anxiety is saying I don't trust God in this area that's when you're anxious could you hand me that other mic anxiety is saying I don't trust God in this area insecurity is saying God made a mistake in this area cuz y'all hear what I just said so I just made a mistake in this area so I want to talk about anxiety for a second but I want to know is there anybody that has ever struggled with anxiety struggle with it alright so I believe many times anxiety causes for us to entertain counterfeits y'all just clap I'm switching this mic out many times anxiety causes for us to entertain counterfeits because we mislabeled the season that we're in so if we're in the wilderness and we label it as a prison any opportunity or any person that takes interest in you we view as a bail bond because we just want to get out of this season and anybody that offers you more money any career that offers you more money we won't pray about it we won't see God about it we won't fast about it we will begin to get church and say this must be God because God knew I couldn't wait to get out of this season which means it heightens the probability for us to entertain counterfeits because we're viewing this season as a prison this is why I believe the Bible tells us in Philippians chapter 4 be anxious for nothing but in some things but in some things talk to me but in some things but in everything with prayer and supplication and Thanksgiving make your requests known to God now look at this I don't ever want us to be people who just quote scripture and don't understand it we'll say stuff like yeah we're prayer and supplication what a supplication so let's let's break this down prayer in this simplest form is communication and communion with God nothing deep prayer in its simplest form is a communication line with God is having a connection with God it gives you your power therefore a person who lives a prayerless life is walking around as a powerless life because prayer gives you your power just like this okay Carl I'm just putting you on the spot just start putting different images on the screen it doesn't matter all the stuff that you have downloaded from Dan just put us some different images I want you guys to see this this TV behind me has the capability to change images not because of just what the TV can do but it could change images because this nected to a power source and so you are able to see all the things that this TV can do not because the TV is that great but it's connected to a great lose of power and so the power amplifies all the stuff that the TV has a lot of us don't even know all your features you don't know all the cool stuff that you have because we aren't fully connected to the king but when you live a life for prayer in one season you know how to be a soldier and the next season you know how to be a servant in one season you know when to shut your mouth and the next season you know how to be bold as a lion you're connected to a power source but you'll never know how much power you have if you're not connected prayer prayer connects us to God now supplication is they earn this big plea or request to the one that could change outcomes I'm gonna say that again supplication is a big plea or request to the one that could change outcomes in the word supplication there's this root word we see supply okay so when you have a prayer of supplication what you I'm doing is making a request to the one who can he's the only one who can support my need in this area alcohol can't do it cheap sex can't do it we can't do it notoriety can't do it I'm going to pray a prayer of supplication because he's the only one that could supply me in this area so when you say I'm making a prayer of supplication this means I'm begging and I'm requesting for God to supply me with peace in this area to supply an answer in this area to supply clarity in this area so now we could understand how prayer is so dangerous because there there are power lines that you get to access when you live a life of prayer right okay I want us understand this so when anxiety goes up is because our trust has went down lower priests flowers let's make it a little more poetic the more things the more anxious I am is due to how little I trust I am somebody got it but the more I trust I am the less anxious I am so I can always understand how my relationship with God is due to how high the anxiety is in my heart it must be because of how low the trust is in my life does that make sense okay a lot of times instead of us trusting the master we have master survival you know what some what mastering survival looks like oh you a hustler you were grinder why because you think you can control outcomes let me tell you what has given me so much peace and it's not deep it's so basic but it has given me the most peace and has made me the happiest man I've ever been in my life and that is I control nothing listen I control nothing how does that give me peace because it means it's not up to me no matter how hard I grind if it's not God's will it's never gonna pop off and no matter how little I grind if this is something that God wants me to do is gonna pop off not saying that you don't have to be intentional but I'm saying present God but show to fish and five loaves and stop discrediting your to fish and five loaves you give your not enough to he who is more than enough you give your not enough to he who is more than enough and watch him give you the abundance but here it is we get anxious when we want the abundance instead of trusting the one we gave the two fish and five loaves - did you hear what I just said I control no outcomes everybody say anxiety now insecurity God made a mistake in this area God made a mistake I'm not supposed to look like this I'm supposed to have height like this I'm opposed to be curvy like this there are certain things that you could do about your body and the other things you need to just thank God that you have a body now look this is how I believe in security is heightened please listen every word is intentional insecurity is heightened when we hang with people who wear masks fake people why because when we hang with people who wear masks we end up being trapped in the Mardi Gras we end up being trapped in their Mardi Gras and we exchange our authenticity for the beads of their acceptance did you hear what I just said so we're exchanging who we really are to try to become who they want us to be and the worst thing you could ever do is become what somebody else needs see this is what I've discovered insecurity is it's insecure people telling other insecure people how to impress other insecure people this is what you do to impress them I'm projecting my insecurities on you and making fun of you because you're not looking like us but I don't really like how I look I'm just looking how they think I should look and so I'm insecure trying to impress insecure people it's almost like you trying to impress people who are broke and you broke yourself who cares we're trying to get acceptance from people who aren't even valid why are you seeking validation from people who aren't even valid security and insecurity can always be exposed by how we pick but you're so caught up with picking pawns that we don't recognize that we ourselves are an ocean and security God made a mistake in this area can I get everybody saying insecurity last one this is kind of funny we're gonna talk for a second obscurity obscurity this is the season where God covers you you're hidden you're hidden don't nobody know your name your followings following is not growing your platform is not growing no man is coming no woman is coming opportunity has come and so now if you don't recognize the season correctly that this is a season where God has you covered you'll be anxious and so now I'm anxious to get this to pop off and since nobody has taken interest in my pursuit now I'm insecure now see how this connects now look everything two reasons why God hides us everything that has value God has covered we could just think of nature diamonds take pressure and they're covered moistures have a shale that is covering the pearl gold isn't a gold mine and it's covered anything that has value God has covered so maybe in this season you are covered because you're so valuable that God doesn't want you to get infected by your surroundings and I have to cover you before I could send you because there's some things I'm trying to get out of you I'm trying to get this out of you and I'm trying to get this sinew but I have to have you covered because they're not gonna be able to understand you still have a little shake-up in you they're not gonna see all of your Israel they're just gonna judge your Jacob and God knows people can't hand that handle that side of you they can't handle that side of you you're gonna preach and witness to people like that one day but right now I have to cover you until you no longer feel as though I need their approval I need their acceptance I need their validation I need their support I need their endorsement what if I told you that support is a trap I don't need nobody to support as long as I'm walking in obedience because what I'm looking for support in an area more than I'm looking to be in obedience in the area I start to feel insecure about what I'm doing because of how you're responding but if I begin to operate in obedience to my gift to my anointing to my calling because God told me to it doesn't matter if they support or not it doesn't matter if they endorse or not he doesn't matter if they share or not he doesn't matter if they like or not because I'm in my assignments don't you be trapped up don't nobody support me are you walking in your giftedness if you're walking in your giftedness just keep killing it where you are you have to understand some people follow you because they support you and other people are following because they're monitoring you somebody's saying obscurity the second reason I believe God hides us we talked about this last week he's trying to train your ear look the songbird inside the shell has the capability to learn his song and he or she is not even born yet they're just in a place where there's no light they're not seen nobody knows them but they hear something on the other side and what they hear causes for them to Peck what if I told you that true breakthroughs are tied to your level of hearing God's voice please listen don't let these churches lie to you your breakthrough is if you get in this $500 line and if you go back to your seat and shout like you lost your mind your breakthrough is in this thousand dollar line no your breakthrough is in a life of obedience your lay through and breakthrough is in the area where now I like what I see and I didn't use to like what I see your breakthrough is when I no longer have to go get high when I'm lacking my peace but I can follow my knees and pray your breakthrough is when I'm not questioning Who I am because of who they say I am but I know who I am because of Who I am said I am that's a breakthrough he's trying to train your ear I want them to know my voice so much that it doesn't matter how many dollars on this check it doesn't matter how fine he or she is they're always gonna seek me first because I have trained them to get my endorsement last one community is this good so far and I everybody say community now I have a scripture I want us to see here in John chapter 11 verse 43 I don't have time to unpack everything but I just want us to see this in John chapter 11 verse 43 here's a little backdrop okay so Jesus has took has taken his time to come to Lazarus to him so he gets - Lazarus told and the King of glory has to be intentional he goes in any cemetery talking about come out because if the King of glory goes in any grave you are still to this day talking about come out everything getting up so he goes up to Lazarus tomb and we're at verse 43 it says now when he had said these things he crowd cried with a loud voice Lazarus come forth and he who had died came out what's that word what's that word bound this lets me know you could be called but still bound he came out bound look at this hand in foot with grave clothes on and his face was wrapped with the cloth and Jesus said to them please notice that Jesus said to them loose him and let him go gosh there's so much some pack I just want you to see a few things okay so Jesus kind of does like the total miracle but then the rest of it is left up to this do surroundings so there's some things I want us to see number one this dude is cut out probably hopping because he's bound right and he says he's bound by feet and hand and his face is covered so he can't see which makes sense to me why Jesus says how can the blind lead the blind so I have to have community of friends who can see I need to have a community of friends let me use my generations terminology we woke I understand some things you not walk to their manipulation you don't really see what they're doing but we actually could see we have eyes to see I need friends who can see when I can do you have friends like that where they can see girl I know you look you've just been on married for so long this dude is really not all that girl he's just different no I could see you still blindfolded like Lazarus I could see I need friends who could see but look at this number two Jesus said y'all lose him I need a community who can hear Jesus sorry I'm not going through it I need a roll with people who can hear god it's dangerous if you the only one who can hear Jesus you're the only one who's praying to your circle you the only one who has a prayer life that's dangerous I need to have friends in my life where they could hear I need to be loosed now here's the quintessential question on the floor on tonight's do I hang and do I have a community of people who loosely or who bind me I need to have friends who take great clothes off of me versus who put great clothes on me so let's break this down where we can understand it I need friends who tell me no what we're not shipping that we gonna drink h2o I need friends like that I need friends who don't take me to the club but I need friends to take me to the altar I need friends like that I need friends who don't tell me how to perform sexually but tell me we don't perform nothing sexually until we say I do until I have I do clink clink I need friends like that in my life I need friends when I say I'm not coming to church tonight they say we're going to church tonight because this is our spiritual gym and we need to grow each and every week and I'm gonna hold you accountable which means I'm account you and imma be on you every single time you don't want to do it who can you call when you going through and if you don't have a circle of people in your life that helps unwrap you you are heightening the probability to stay long in the wilderness than you have to I need kingdom friends I need kingdom friends I need Kingdom friends some of this stuff that we're calling our friends they're not our friends they're not your friends they aren't helping you grow they aren't helping you mature they're not helping you evolve they're not helping you know God's voice this is not a friend this is somebody who is conducive to my flesh and the reason I'm staying with him is because we just have shared dysfunction I'm coming for your edges on tonight's and your scalp and your eyebrows I'm coming for all of it this is not your friend and the very people we are calling besties other people who are keeping us in a struggle I want to go to the next level I want to grow but the problem is your community the person you calling your girl the person you calling your boy they not helping you evolve and it's dangerous you hang around people who like you but they don't grow you you've been touching on this sorry that it hurt I said I said that hard I'm sorry we've been touching on this week after week about what God wants okay so God has to remove this guess all of that because he's trying to change this he wants us to be like this he wants to be us to be powerful like this we've been talking all about what God wants but we have yet to address why and I thought it would just be fit to end this series discussing why God wants us to change our appetite number one is so simple he wants us to change our appetite because you can't hunger for two things at the same time you can't love God and Mammon at the same time God wants us to hunger after him so in our terminology if we crave resis but God wants us to crave kale he has to put us in a season where we can understand all of the calories that comes with Reese's Pieces until you no longer are just tempted by the Reese's but you understand the rhesus is not conducive for where I'm trying to go it produces how blood pressure it produces diabetes and this stuff is not good for me even though I like it so God wants us now if you ever been here you just started asking for a salad and you don't even know why because I want you to crave health do you hear what I'm saying I want you to crave health I want you to crave growth and really the word that the translators translated hunger to really be if you break it down to its original intent especially in Hebrew hunger is meant famished it means desperate so Jesus was really saying blessed are those who are desperate this changes everything blessed are those who are desperate for they will be full filled did you catch that blessed are those who are desperate for righteousness for they will be full filled I will fill them with my peace and they'll be full with my presence this makes sense because there are levels to hunger sometimes you are at a place where I could eat I've just been there I could eat other times you're eating just because it's there never happy just eating cuz it's there you're not hungry it's just available right and then there are times when you like hungry and then the times are you like hungry hungry right and then there times when you famished and then there times when you're starving Jesus says I want you to be at the famished part I want you to desperately desire me what if I told you that having hunger is not a bad thing it's not truthfully we get concerned when a person loses their appetite because the loss of an appetite means that there is something mental physical or emotional going on that they no longer want to eat so actually having the desire to eat is a good thing God has laid hunger to be a trigger in our body that motivates us to get some phew now the question is what type of fuel do you put in your system can we talk are we like most car owners we go to the gas station and just select regular because it's cheaper and I believe sometimes that bleeds over to the spirit we just automatically we want God to give us a supreme blessing but we keep on League of it living a regular life and then we wonder why we're in a shell y'all missed it well wonder why we're in a shell of confusion I just feel like I'm in this place where I'm stuck it's because you are not meant to be regular nothing about your life was ever meant to be order there common typical mundane or average you omit to be a standard-bearer you omit to be an example you omit to be a king you omit to be a priest and the reason why you are uncomfortable in this season is because you keep filling your tank with regular things but what if I told you that God has a supreme blessing God has a diesel blessing that he wants to put in your tank because there's some places that he wants you to go I know that you came here or tonight just thinking that this is a regular Thursday service this is not a Thursday service this is the delivery units there's some stuff on the inside of you that God needs you to birth outs a vision he needs you to personal a purpose that he needs you the birth out a ministry he needs you to birth out somebody say I'm gonna give birth let's go ahead and make hell man or tonight can I get everybody say I got power that you couldn't take away I got power then you couldn't take away I still got it I still got it I still got it as long as you got breath in your lungs you got power as long as you got a post you got power as long as God still has given you life you got power the devil sent it to derail you but it's actually gonna propel you I still got it what type of fuel did you put in your tank stuck in the shell could it be because we're not following God's principles stay with me please stay with me if we don't follow the principles of God we'll never get over principalities we don't follow the principles we'll never get over principalities and this is how strongholds are strengthened please hear me everything I'm about to sound what you'd hear this this is how strongholds are strengthened what is a stronghold it's anything in your life that has a strong hold okay it's not a devil it's not a demon but it is a place where devils and demons can work from a military term for a stronghold is called a fort a fortress its where soldiers gather to defend please stay with me is where soldiers gather it is a defensive place a fortress is where soldiers gather to defend the kingdom so anytime there is a stronghold in our life it's a place where the enemy defends to maintain his grip did you hear what I just said that's the stronghold and a lot of us don't even recognize this is why we are defensive and we can't receive correction or wisdom because the devil knows that love conquers all and when somebody really loves you they tell you the truth and what does the truth do it sets you free so the devil will agitate that demonically influenced stronghold because he's helping you defend his grip does that make sense he's making you defend the area in your life if you ever accept the love that they given you I know that love conquers all and if you ever receive the truth that they're sharing to you you will become free now freedom is not what you're trying not to do it freedom is when you don't want to do it anymore freedom is what you only have the taste buds to do it anymore and he recognizes I never want them to be free so I'm gonna take that stronghold so every time somebody comes in the name of love to tell them the truth they get defensive I don't even know what I just said y'all just gotta listen to it again on YouTube listen God wants us to cultivate a spiritual appetite this is why car could you put this on the screen for me Matthew 22 he wants us to develop a spiritual appetite how do we get this Jesus tells us this at Matthew 27 verse 37 but in Matthew 22 excuse me verse 37 jesus said to him you shall love the Lord your God with all your would with all your what and with all your soul and with all you would mine this is the first and the great commandment so I want us to think about this how do we change our appetite you have to love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind that sounds good but a lot of us don't understand it okay so you have to view the mind as soil okay perfect illustration outside this church right now there is soil the soil does not care what seed I plant in it the soil does not care I can plant an apple seed a watermelon seed and peach seed the job of the soil is to provide room and board for the seed and push the identity of that seed out that's it if I show you a bunch of seeds you're not gonna know what type of seed this is until this planted watered and then it starts to push through the soil okay so your mind is the same way your mind is neutral and whatever see that you allowed to be planted in your mind the job of your mind is to provide room and board for that seed and push the identity of that seed out so if there's craziness out here it's because there are a lot of craziness in here and everybody's craziness in here is being pushed out out there does that make sense so this means you have to watch who your gardener is so that's a matter throw this mic you have to watch who's planting seeds in your mind pouring seeds 90-79 seeds I'm coming there power seeds scandal seeds empire seeds your faith 50 shades of grey sees that toxic boyfriend seeds your momma's negativity sees cuz it can come from your bloodline to your sister seeds unfortunately today sometime pasture seeds sometimes the government seeds the school system sees we have to be careful with what sees we're allowing in our mind because the job of your mind is to per I rule on board for that seed and push the identity out now talk about soul soul could be interchanged with mine it's a compilation of your will your desires so now it's almost like Jesus said love the Lord your God with all your mind and all your mind I'll put this image on the screen the heart wants to see this it's a heart mine and a mine look at this love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your memory with all your imagination because your mind really has a memory and has an imagination this is so good it has a memory and it has imagination I want you to love all the things I've done think about my faithfulness think about how sovereign I am think about how holy I am I want you to reflect on that facet of me because they're really two compartments of your brain the left and the right side I want you to focus and I want you to remember how good I've been and this is why I kept saying all throughout the text especially in Exodus remember the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt tell it to your children so that when you get into the Promised Land they will not forget the God that brought you out of the land of Egypt later on he begins to say I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob what is it saying remember what I did with Abraham remember what I did when Isaac really what I did with Jacob I'm that God has anybody ever got to the place I want God to do something so big we're shining about God's name but we wanted God to do something so big where he brands his name in yo name I'm the god of Jaqueline flowers I'm the god of cherry flowers I'm the jock Goddard janeshia flowers I'm the god of river flow I'm the God of them the same thing I saw do for them I'm gonna do for you too your imagination your imagination your imagination thinking of the goodness of the Lord call sure that show this horse unfortunately a lot of us look at this look at this this thing is a stallion massive and power can run faster than Usain Bolt and everybody in here but his mind has been conditioned every single time I see this leash tired to something I'm stuck so the owner doesn't even have the time to a tree he doesn't even have the time to a poll as long as this horse sees you tied up as long as he sees that you tied up and you see this rope they'll never fight to be free when Jesus was about to enter into Jerusalem he told his disciples a go tell them there's this cult that's tied up go tell him to loose him the Lord has need of him right and he'll like oh I don't know we're just gonna untie somebody's Colt he says if they ask you why you have untied this colt you tell him the Lord has need of him so they went to go get this Colt and as they untied the Colts the guy came out and said hey why are you untying this coat and the coat and the owner and the disciple said it's because the Lord says have it their product the Lord said the Lord has need of this coat and he let him go and this was the one that Jesus rode on all tonight this whole series has been to come and untie you from some stuff and some people are not gonna be able to understand why you're not tripping anymore and I want you to be able to tell them the Lord has need of me the Lord has need of my marriage the Lord has lead in my mind the Lord has needed my peace I know you don't understand it but I got somebody on top of my life who's worth the praise who's worth their glory who's worth adoration whose life I'm trying to model and don't trip with me I'm just living with him and if you got a problem with me take it up with my supervisor go back to the images I'm done I'm done the heart the imagination the heart the memory in the imagination I think sometimes we're living longer in our memory in our imagination we don't dream no great exploits we want to do and our hearts have been so affected by what we've gone through that if we had a toxic father we'll start to view him as maybe a toxic father too so I have a whole generation singing a song you're a good good father that's who you are that's who you are but how does that really resonate to the person that's never seen a good good father and so sometimes we base our life experiences off on our spiritual experiences and so I don't really know if God is gonna come through because I've lived a life where everybody kept dropping me I have kept falling for people who have had no intentions of catching me God said listen I'm not I'm not then we have to deal with that that's your appetite and the reason we've been talking about this week after week is because God is putting you in this place to deal with the pain to deal with the molestation to deal with the rape to deal with the abortion that you haven't told any about anybody about but you remember every birthday the secrets that nobody knows about but you and God I'm a park you the wilderness not because I'm punishing you but because I'm developing him and the person that you're gonna be once you come out of this wilderness it's gonna blow people's mind but how do I get to this place love me with all your heart lovely with all your soul and love me with all your mind

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Length: 55min 52sec (3352 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 08 2020