You Already Know: Fear Of Running Out | Flip The Flow | Pastor Steven Furtick

I believe the Lord has spoken to me and I want to share message with you as another installment on our series flip the flow and I look at each of these like they build on each other the last time that I was speaking with you I spoke about joy and the fullness of joy in the presence of the Lord and now we're going to see not a description of that but a demonstration of it from the scriptures I just want to give you one verse and then you can be seated and we'll speak together today but as you stand in reverence and respect for God's Word welcome to all the locations thank God for all of you who are joining eGroups today tell the person next to you you can't go to heaven unless you join an eGroup these are really great people I can vouch for 80% of them there's always a 20% weirdness factor in anything you do with large groups but we try to screen them vet them they're not gonna sell you pampered chef essential oils or anything like that once they get you in the home so it's not a timeshare presentation just want to help you grow in your relationship with the Lord not selling keto drinks just trying to help you build a foundation John chapter 2 verse 11 make sure you take advantage of that it's there for you it's there for you to grow in your faith John chapter 2 verse 11 what Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him one more time turn to your neighbor give him my sermon title tell him you already know please be seated shout out to my brother Matt who is stationed in New Jersey he serves in the United States Air Force shout out to him because he put me on this documentary that I really enjoyed this week it's called Fyre the greatest party that never happened it's a documentary about one of the great scandals of our day in regards to entertainment and social media the Fyre Festival was created by Billy McFarland and the legend Ja Rule it was to be the ultimate luxury music experience on the private island of Exuma in the Bahamas it was to take place over the course of two weekends one in April and the other in May of 2017 some of the world's top models and social media influencers promoted the event simultaneously using the hashtag Fyre Festival fyre with a Y in case you go home and watch it I'm not recommending movies from this pulpit because I know how legalistic some of you are and you'll be Instagram messaging me about the bad words and this and that I'm not saying you should watch it I'm just saying it was awesome and they put these orange tiles on Instagram all at the same time and because it was people that have such clout the festival sold out the music festival sold out in 48 hours in 48 hours they sold tickets and day passes ranged from $500 to $1500 and then the luxury experience went up to $12,000 and some of the packages were reported to be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the luxury villas and stuff and they put these beautiful pictures online of the festival marketed toward millennials and they showed the island they said that the island formerly belonged to Pablo Escobar and that you could come party like Pablo Escobar with Instagram models in bikinis white sand clear waters at the Fyre Festival and then you could get a luxury room villa and they sketched that but when the millennials arrived and descended upon the Bahamas things were a little different than had been advertised turns out that our boy Billy and Ja a first-name basis sold something that didn't necessarily exist in the same form that they advertised it when the customers arrived to the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas they found disaster relief tents where the villas were supposed to be in gravel parking lots in the parking lot of a sandals resort not to mention that instead of gourmet meals cooked by five-star world-class chefs they found apparently cheese sandwiches in styrofoam boxes and the festival never happened the festival never happened many were stranded according to the documentary in the airport overnight without water 23 year old kids who paid $12,000 to see Blink 182 serves them right found themselves stranded in the Bahamas with no Fyre Festival and one case study that I read that said you know now Billy McFarland is in jail for wire fraud but it was suggesting that this was the ultimate cultural case study in FOMO that never have we seen because people were so afraid that this would happen without them the fear of missing out which I don't struggle with as much I don't struggle with the fear of missing out more like for me the fear of running out that's more what I deal with I'm a pretty lazy person a pretty boring I'm not lazy about the things that matter but somebody's like you know there's a lunar eclipse tonight and I'm like eh somebody will take a picture you know what time is it at 10:45 eh I'll check it out tomorrow you know it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing it'll be on YouTube you know that's kind of my thing I'm fine to miss out but fear of running out FORO FOMO not so much FORO fear of running out I think about all the time and that's why the documentary was visceral to me because even though the guy was a scam artist I I guess because I guess because my fear in life is not having what I'm supposed to have and people show up expecting something that I can't give even in church I'm always so nervous that I won't be able to get my energy up to the level that I need to get it to to connect with you because sometimes you come in with very low energy I'm just being honest but I know you need a gourmet meal from the Word of God and I don't want to hand you a cheese sandwich in a styrofoam box you know I don't want you to show up with a FEMA tent when you're expecting a villa and and so but I'm scared of this I'm scared of running out all the time I'm constantly scared like my creativity is gonna run out because I need creativity to do what I do and even in writing sermons you're kind of saying the same things over and over again sometimes and even though the Bible has a lot of interesting stories and letters I'm scared like one time maybe I'ma open my Bible and I won't be able to find a sermon you know and sometimes it gets late in the week and I'm so scared of running out when we write worship songs I'm always like how many different ways can we say God you're good I trust you you know there's different ways I'm not saying that God is simple I'm just saying sometimes I'm like ah can we write another song I'm scared of running out of time I always feel like I don't have enough time always feel like I'm gonna run out of time raising my kids I'm scared to death that I won't get everything instilled in them in the time they're in my house and then they will end up on a therapist couch $250 an hour because something I didn't teach them or Abbey is gonna marry some jerk because maybe I didn't teach her what a man should be like because I don't know how to fix cars and since she never saw me fix cars she's gonna end up you know on the corner I'm scared about this stuff I'm scared like that they're gonna leave I know it's dark right and 'm scared that I'm gonna send my kids out and they're not gonna have what they need for the world because I ran out of time to give it to them I'm scared that I'm gonna run out of money I'm more scared now that I'm gonna run out of money then I was when I was 22 and we didn't have any money I can't figure out how the more we got of it the more I started to depend on it and now it consumes more of your time you think you'll get to an amount of money where you'll no longer be scared of running out all money is going to do is create more obligations all more money is going to do is create a bigger lifestyle and now you will need more money to create the lifestyle so you really won't lose the fear of running out it will just be on a larger scale and you'll have more to lose I'm so scared of running out FOMO not so much froyo never liked the stuff FORO so when they got there and they didn't have it I was like John chapter two that's how my mind works the fear of running out what if I don't have what they need what if I can't be who they need any new parents any new parents yeah you don't have what those kids need it's gonna have to come from God please believe me did you figure this out yet have you already got the baby or you're expecting or what yeah over there in eKidz you just came here to get a break is this your date this is a good way to do a date by the way yeah free childcare um no you you got to understand this was the first sign Jesus did way more signs than then John puts in his gospel and he uses the word sign not miracle because he believes it's pointing to something deeper that's what a sign does that's why that says exit because of the door the sign is worthless if that's just the wall it's pointing to something and when you see things in scripture a lot of times you're gonna see it on a natural level but then it's going to point to something beneath the surface like life does like there are things going on in your life right now that are trying to point you to something deeper there are things you're experiencing in your life right now but the surface is not the story there is a deeper meaning for it and so John says in his gospel that if he were to write down everything that Jesus did he said the world would not have room for the books that would be written this was before Wikipedia now you could put it all out there but at the time he said if I wrote it all down I'd run out of room so he chose the number 7 it's a number that represents completion in the Bible and it's the days of the week the world was created in 7 days it's a symbolic number in the Bible 7 it's all over the Bible he uses the number 7 and he puts in the Bible 7 signs that Jesus performed to point to who he was everything that God does for you is to point to who he wants to be to you and if you only live at the level of what he does for you but miss what he is trying to point to that he wants to be to you you can receive resource from the Lord without revelation of the Lord who gave the resource and if your attachment is to the resource then you will always run out at some point if your attachment is to the revelation you will always know who he is and so whatever you need he can be because he is the great I am shout about it for five seconds so I can move on seven signs he says um he says I'm gonna give you seven i'ma give you seven the second sign that Jesus did in John's Gospel is when he in John chapter four he healed a royal officials son in John chapter five he healed a man at the pool of bethesda who had been lame for thirty-eight years and was waiting for the angel to stir up the water but Jesus came on the scene and said you don't have to wait for somebody to stir up the water the living water has come to you and since you can't move and you're sitting by this pool I'm gonna bring to you what you could not get for yourself he flipped the flow he flipped the flow I could preach this series for another year and not exhaust all the times that Jesus flipped the flow in fact in John chapter 6 this was the fourth sign that Jesus recorded in John's Gospel Jesus was looking at some hungry people and a little boy had a styrofoam box with a cheese sandwich and fish and loaves but I modernized it Jesus took it and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them and they went from hungry to full they went from hungry to I can't eat another bite they went from hungry to would you like to see the dessert menu no I'm full that was the sign in John chapter 6 in John chapter 6 Jesus also walked out on water to his disciples he had sent them to the other side but they encountered a storm and what was really most important wasn't what was on the other side but what they went through to get there because when they went through the storm it gave him an opportunity to reveal who he was in a way that they couldn't have seen if they didn't go through the storm so he's trying to get us to see you see the sign he's trying to get you to see that the storm points to something that is deeper than what you can see on the surface to show you that the power of God on the inside of you is greater than the wind that blows against you he gives them a sign in John chapter 9 he heals a man born blind the man didn't do anything to be blind his parents didn't do anything to make him blind Jesus said this was to reveal the glory of God he is using something that the man can't see to show the man something that physical eyes cannot detect it's a sign he's trying to show something deeper until John chapter 11 when he shows the ultimate sign that foreshadows the very work that he came to do when he shows up at Lazarus house late after Lazarus has died misses his healing appointment and tells him come out of the tomb because he had to show them you've seen me as a healer but now it's time for a deeper expression of your understanding of me because even when I don't show up when you want me to show up in your life I already have in mind what I'm going to do and even if they've wrapped you in grave clothes and buried you if you have the faith to come forth I can still speak a word that will bring you out of any situation because I am the resurrection and the life somebody shout God give me a sign I just wanted a sign so Jesus gave him a sign so what was the first one those were the six but the first one was and I know some of you already know some of you really really really really really know your Bible and when I said John chapter 2 you were like water into wine you know and you're right but if you would have shouted it I would have ruined my setup because you already know but you know sometimes we have the curse of knowledge and we think we know something and we do do know it at the surface but why did Jesus turn water into wine and I'm gonna show you and this is so powerful God I'm excited I hadn't had this much fun preaching in a long time as I'm having today I think it's the denim Holly said I don't wear enough color up here so I like black it's slimming dark colors dark colors now go back to John chapter 2 verse 1 somebody shout flip it Jesus shows up on the 3rd day at a wedding which took place in Cana in Galilee this is a small place not necessarily an important place but nevertheless Jesus's mother was there at a wedding and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding when the wine was gone the miracle started you missed it when they ran out of what they brought when they ran out of what they planned for which to us would not be the biggest deal you know you run out of wine at a wedding and it's probably a good thing because you got crazy family members and when they drink too much they start fighting anyway and one of them ends up in jail but in this culture it was the epitome of dishonor to invite a guest and to not be able to provide and this wedding was not a you know how we do a wedding and it's like 40 minutes and then a reception this was more like the Fyre Festival it was supposed to last a week the wedding would last a week and everybody showed up expecting that at whatever point they showed up at the wedding there would still be something to drink that there would still you know to show up at a wedding and there to be no wine it was actually recorded that if the groom who was responsible to make sure that the wedding went off right if he did not provide everything that necessity required he could be sued by his mother-in-law you thought you had family drama right but Jesus shows up at the wedding and they run out of wine now I don't want to skip over this what have you run out of what are you running out of right now what are you constantly afraid of running out of is it wisdom is it peace is it ideas are you out of ideas for how to fix a relationship are you out of ideas for how to reach a level of success that you thought you would have been at four years ago what are you running out of what have you run out of the worst thing is to run out of gas when you're the one driving the worst thing is for people to show up to your kitchen and all you have is cheese and bread the worst thing is when you know that people expect something of you because some of you you're the life of the party some of you you're the strong one some of you you were the one that people come to with their problems and they don't know you are sick of being the place where they dump their crap you got your own sewage and they keep backing up and dumping more on you and they don't even know how close you are to quitting and you're running out and that's why I like this because you don't have to say it out loud I'll say it for you everybody in here is running out of something not wine how about joy how about how about how you haven't been happy in a long time how about that the last time I was up here I preached on joy did you hear that sermon it sounds like it meant a lot to you praise the Lord why do I do this were you here when I preached on joy well since wine represents joy I thought it'd be good to stay in this flow but Jesus comes to the wedding and he's a guest but he's about to provide what the host could not provide why he did not come to demand righteousness he came to provide righteousness he flipped the flow the first thing Jesus did was to take away the shame of a couple who had run out of what they were unable to provide that's the first thing he does when he comes in your life he doesn't just expose your shame he doesn't just come to condemn you he doesn't just come to point out everything that's wrong with you he says I didn't come just to show you your shame I came to take it away look the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world I'm happy about it I need the Lord in my life cuz I'm so scared I'm gonna run out and yet the Bible says that Jesus didn't do anything about it he let it run out he let it run out he let it happen like he often will do until watch this when the wine was gone Jesus' mother said to him you gotta imagine the wines really important at the wedding this is not the first person who has discovered that it's gone they probably had many discussions and there's probably been a lot of finger-pointing that's one thing on that documentary i watched everybody was saying it was everybody's fault everybody was pointing everybody was pointing at somebody else well we didn't know we didn't know well we didn't know how did you not know that's what we wanted to know is how did you not know but Jesus's mother knew something rather she knew someone and she did something interesting she didn't go to the wedding planner she didn't go to the couple Jesus's mother when the wine was gone Jesus's mother Mary did you know yeah she knew she didn't know what to do but she knew who to go to i'ma preach this message today I'm coming for it today cuz you don't know what to do right now right but if you know who to go to and see a lot of the reason you've been running out is because you've been running around to people who don't have what you need they don't have it they can't give it they got their own stuff they're running dry too but if you go to the man from Galilee if you go to the one whose name is life she came to Jesus and said they have no more wine she didn't tell him about the solution she just told him the need she just told him what he already knew I promise you he already knew how do I know he already knew because he was the word from the beginning if he spoke the grapes onto the vine he certainly knew that they didn't bring enough he knew I know he knew because in John chapter 6 when he turned the little boys value-pack chick-fil-a value pack when he turned it into a buffet all-you-can-eat buffet he asked Philip what are we gonna do about this and Philip was an accountant so Philip was like um if we did...and carry the one, can't do it but the Bible says give me John 6:6 I know I didn't use it in the last one but I want to use it cuz these people want it they really really wanted these people are hungry these people want the Word of God he asked this only to test him for he already knew he already knew what he was gonna do how cool is that you mean I'm coming before God praying a lot of times and I'm like like I'm God's administrative assistant you know like Lord just reminding you about that appointment you missed last week when I asked you to help me with the thing and I told you to fix them and you didn't fix them so just putting it back on your calendar if you get around to it Lord you know and then this other thing over here and lately I've been praying like this you already know I know you know I know you know that's why Mary went to Jesus even though it wasn't his job he was just a guest at the wedding but she knew what was in him because he had been in her and when Christ is in you and you are in Christ you already know how many of you you already know that God will do it you just don't know how okay that's all Mary knew Mary did you know Mary be like yeah I knew he would but I didn't know how he would I didn't know how but see every need in your life is pointing you to a deeper source every sign that John recorded was pointing to something deeper every need that you experience in your life is pointing you to a deeper place in God that you can access a deeper place of strength a deeper place of confidence a deeper place of health a deeper place of relationship a deeper place of dependence everything is pointing to something deeper so when she said they have no more wine Jesus responded and I don't recommend this as like something to say to your mom or your wife verse 4 woman why do you involve me that's not like a great marriage seminar love languages verse but see she didn't tell Jesus the need to inform him like we do she didn't pray like a ritual and God bless me today as I go to the thing and after the thing and God just let me go through my list and worry about it and say that I'm praying but really all I'm doing is worrying out loud with my eyes closed she wasn't doing it to inform him she was doing it to involve him cuz she knew if he gets involved I don't know what he'll do but I know who he is now I'm gonna need you to shout right now if you know who he is come on Blakeney don't be quiet I know you love the Lord I need you to shout right now if you know who he is I know who to go to I lift my eyes to the hills and his mother watch this his mother goes to him he says to his mother woman Ima start talking to Holly woman you know help them with their homework woman why do you involve me that's my favorite verse this year I'm gonna use that a lot this year woman why do you involve me Jesus replied my hour has not yet come he's talking about the cross but she needs him to do something right now some of us have things that we need God to do now we really do we need him now yeah I'm going to heaven when I die and yeah there's a white horse that I read about in the book of Revelation the book of Revelations people put an 's' on it Book of Revelations Walmart's Revelations yeah it's great but how about now and so watch what she does she doesn't argue she doesn't convince she doesn't beg in fact she doesn't talk to Jesus anymore she turns away from Jesus points to the people who are working at the wedding and verse 5 she said to the servants do whatever he tells you cuz if you start moving in faith he's gonna do something I don't know what he didn't tell me I don't know the details I don't know the plan I wasn't the wedding planner this isn't even my party but if you start moving if you'll start obeying if you'll take the step you're gonna see something its a sign and she said do whatever he tells you now I know what you're thinking I already know I already know I already know what you're thinking I would if I knew what he wanted me to do I would you know do whatever he tells you to do that's such a great thing to say on Sunday morning how about this uh this apartment that I'm living in right now and I don't know whether I should move out of this apartment and you know we get really weird sometimes too right like people do all kind of stuff and say that God told them to do it okay a couple of you are new to church there's probably one of these weird people within like three rows of you that God has to tell them what color to wear in the morning it's paralyzing you know and they'll make stuff up it's like a cognitive bias thing as well it's like um well I was praying about you know whether I should date him and then I went to Elevation and Pastor Steve he was preaching on um he's preaching on John and his name the guy's name is James and it's close they both start with J so um I'ma date him right it's a sign and but sometimes the way God speaks it's like the Lord was saying to me the other day because I was praying about you know I don't know whether to do this or that and I know you have situations that are nuanced and I really don't like preaching that doesn't respect nuance I I really think it's in some ways it's misleading for people to say you know it's just simple do whatever he tells you to do cuz sometimes I don't know what that is and sometimes I don't know if I should take the job and make a little more money but it's gonna take me away from my family more but I need to be here for my kids but I also need to be able to send them to college in four years and I need to be able to provide for them so I'm kind of caught between I don't really know what he wants me to do because I can't find a Bible verse about whether I should live in Atlanta or Charlotte you know but let me just say something there's traffic in both cities and there's problems in both cities and there's ups and downs to both cities you know where am I gonna go to college I see a Wingate shirt over there where am I gonna go to college you know you can live for the Lord at Wingate or at Wofford you can live for the Lord either place it's not as important I mean go where the scholarship money is or if there's no scholarship money you know go but it's more important what kind of friends you make the first week of college than it is whether it's Wingate or Wofford can I preach a little bit so the Lord was speaking to me I was like if I knew what to do I would do it and God said if you would do what you knew see the flip you see the flip because I'm waiting for new information from God and God is like all right what do you already know I'm speaking to somebody today who has run out and you don't know what to do and you don't have the wisdom you don't have the experiencing you don't have it I don't know you know it's really hard to do something you don't have a context for but if you would do what you knew what do you already know I mean I know for one that gratitude is the gateway to joy so much so that I bought a journal and put it by my bed it's a gratitude journal it's orange like everything else in this church and like God's favorite team the Clemson Tigers who he has anointed with the fresh oil of yet another national championship for the glory of his name his kingdom come some of y'all look like you hate me right now but I found out the gratitude journal doesn't bless me if I don't open it and write in it and I already know that but I hadn't touched it in 7 months and it's got dust on it and then I'm gonna go to God at some point praying that he'll help me to feel joy but I already knew what to do I didn't do it I got 17 books on my Kindle that I bought last year that I read one chapter of I probably don't need to buy another book this year and you might not either I'm serious I'ma preach till it's so quiet that you think this is an Elevation Presbyterian Episcopalian cemetery service look at me you know enough right now I promise you do I promise you do you know enough right now to be physically fit I'm just saying you might not need men's fitness with Hugh Jackman's workout to do some push-ups and to take less calories but we're addicted to knowledge we're addicted to you know if I knew what to do if I knew if i could do this diet over here and I heard about this and the celebrity diet and I got to do this thing I heard about this kombucha if I drink that then my gut will be healthy you already know touch somebody and say you already know you know push-ups you know sit ups you already know get a trainer if you want but the trainer will not transform you if you know what to do and you do what you know you will know what to do come on God I don't need you to clarify I need you to give me courage to do what I knew that I didn't do last time I knew I needed to humble myself I knew I need some of us know exactly what we need to do but we don't want to do it so we want to pile more knowledge on top of the last thing we didn't do that he gave us to do I'm preaching mom they might not come back next week but I'm preaching cuz there's three things that Jesus points to and I want to give this to you because I believe that God already knows somebody say he already knows I know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you not to harm you but there's something that you don't know that you can't know it is not in the knowing but in the doing that the miracle happens praise God do you feel this word man it might be just for you God might have gave me this message just for you I don't doubt it he's that good do you believe that that he would put this in me just for you I do so I was noticing the details because his mother said do whatever he tells you to do and don't do what everybody else tells you to do because you spend all your energy doing what everybody else tells you to do and then not have the strength to do the thing God called you to do saying yes to everything else but what God gave you to do do whatever he tells you to do and so listen so Jesus he wasn't reluctant to get involved he just needed their involvement and he tells them to do something look at it in verse 6 it says nearby stood six stone water jars what kind of jars stone water jars the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing they were common they were there for a common purpose each holding from 20 to 30 gallons they were big that's a big gallon in fact by the time they did what he said in verse 7 Jesus said to the servants fill the jars with water so they filled them to the brim which would have made 1000 bottles of wine more than they needed because he's a God of more than enough he is a God of more than enough it's not that he doesn't have it it's that we're so busy pointing to what's not there that we miss what is and that's why we got to flip the flow and the Bible says that not even knowing what would happen when they did it because they needed wine but he points to water he doesn't point to what they need he points to what they have and then he told them now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet they did so they did it they just did it they had a nike mentality they just did it swoosh I'm looking for a sponsorship I'm just trying to work this in trying to get us some money for the expansion program they did so and the master of the banquet tasted the wine that had been turned the water that had been turned into wine now he tasted the product but he did not understand the process he didn't know he did not realize where it had come from though the servants knew touch somebody say you already know you know who knows what God is doing on the earth today those who serve Him not just those who come and sip but those who serve those who involve I want to thank God for every volunteer in this church for everybody who served something today for every eGroup leader in this church I thank God for you because you already know that it's more blessed to give than receive not those who sit but those who serve that's who God blesses the most amen he did not realize where it had come from though the servants who had drawn the water knew then he called the bridegroom aside and said you flipped the flow because everybody brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink that's the way the world works it's good for a little while and then it runs out he said you did it different it got better and better and sweeter and sweeter I've come to tell you your best days are not behind you God is not like that he didn't let you run out because he left you he let it run out so he could give you something better than what you brought to the party to begin with yeah you flip the flow you have saved verse 10 the best till now but how did he do it how did he do it because everything you're running out of in your life today is in Jesus it's in him but there's three things I want to show you and we'll go quickly quickly quickly number one it's not gonna be in the places you expect it's gonna be number one nearby it's not gonna be by you moving to a new situation or thinking that your solution is out there somewhere it's not going to be distant it's gonna be nearby verse 6 where were the stone water jars pay attention to the details nearby where is the help that God has given you for the shortage in your life it's nearby it's nearby the reason we don't see what's nearby is because when something is close we see it as common these were stone jars made of earth they were leak proof so that they wouldn't be ceremonially unclean but there was nothing gold-plated about them these were not iced out jars that's not what made them special what was special was what was inside but they didn't have to go you know Jesus right here could have been like the disciples go to town you got to get some wine but the thing about Cana is it's in the middle of nowhere so they can't go get anything so they have to use something nearby I wonder what's nearby that if you pour yourself into it God can flow again through your life it's nearby it's so close like remember they all came in the party and washed their hands so the miracle was in something that they had already walked by to get to the party the miracle is in something that you're walking by every day it's in a Bible reading plan that you already started but you just quit it and you could pick it back up the wisdom that you need might be in the wife that you chose to do life with six years ago but you don't want to listen to her because she's nearby so I will see men go to conferences to learn how to be a better man but they won't even listen to their own wife because they don't want to be humble I'm telling you it's nearby it's not out there that's not where the provision is it's not somewhere out there it's nearby it's gonna be so close you'll miss it if you're not careful it's gonna be so close you're walking I'll telling you it's something that you're walking by right now you've been praying for it it's an orange gratitude journal that's right there on your bed it's an exercise plan that you already know to do it it's gonna be nearby and it's gonna be normal that's the second thing it's gonna be normal it's not gonna feel so supernatural it's gonna feel natural and then it's gonna be super but you can't wait for something special you've got to embrace something normal we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power might be from God and not from us it's coming through something normal it's gonna be normal it's gonna be habits it's gonna be discipline it's gonna be normal God use me go home and have dinner with your family it's gonna be normal it's not gonna be exciting it's not gonna be sexy it's not gonna be Instagram models in bikinis on the beach it's gonna be normal it's gonna be normal tell somebody's gonna be normal tell them it's gonna be natural but it's gonna be super when God gets done with normal what happens on the inside of what looks normal on the outside God is doing something in me and I wonder what you've been walking by because it looks normal you don't even notice it because it's nearby and it's normal and it's now Jesus said now verse 8 now everybody say now not after I've explained it to you now he didn't tell him now when you draw it out it's gonna start to turn purple like when you stir the kool-aid there's going to be a fermentation process and the molecular structure is going to let me draw it up for you guys this is okay everybody come on in come on in guys now I know you don't know what I'm gonna do but I already know I know you don't know why I'm telling you to do this but I know I know you don't know why I'm telling you to forgive but I know what I want to do that I can't do in your life if you have a clogged heart so do it now now now faith is the substance of things hoped for and Jesus never points to what's next without dealing with what's now now draw it out now I could imagine he could he could have gone around the whole party you should have planned better and you should have known better but he didn't do any of that because he didn't point to what they should have done it doesn't do any good he points to what is now now even though you've run even though even though you could have done better I'm gonna tell you you could have done a better job you need to fire your wedding planner I hope you didn't give her too much of a deposit because she really screwed this up but now that's actually what Mary and Martha said to Jesus when he showed up for Lazarus if you would have been here our brother would not have died but even now I feel the power of now on this word today now now now now now now because the truth is you might be running out of time and Jesus only had three years on earth isn't it crazy think about this I'm almost done y'all got like five more minutes or am i out of time I don't know how to receive that type of encouragement I guess go if you need to go i'ma talk to who wants to hear this last part I just study too much to get up here and let a clock tell me when to quit cuz I know what it feels like to be empty I've been there in my own life you know just dry and empty if another person asks me I don't even want to do it but there's something significant not only about what Jesus did water into wine the law into the spirit we could preach about that we will one day that he did it in a ceremonial jar and it was a idea the fact that the ceremonial washings of Moses were now being replaced by the blood that would be shed that's all in there it's a sign it's pointing to a lot but why did he do it in Cana why did he show his glory in Cana and to understand this we need to meet Nathanael because Nathanael was a disciple who came to Jesus guess who brought him by the way Philip the one who Jesus said where are we gonna get the bread from but he already knew I promise you he already knows but he's just trying to make sure that you know where it comes from and Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus pick it up in 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him yeah you could start playing it'll hurry me along he found Nathanael and told him we have found the one Moses wrote about in the law and about whom the prophets also wrote Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph there were 456 different expectations of the Jewish Messiah and Philip was doing the math you know carry the one it's like it was and he said I think this is him think so I'm not sure but I think come see and Nathaniel starts trying to figure it out based on what he can understand he's like did you say Nazareth that hick town he's like Nazareth Monks Corner see I'm used to being from a place that people don't respect when you say the name of it Nazareth can anything good come from there and Nathaniel asked the question and Philip said I can't answer that but you can come see now watch this this is where it gets good when Jesus saw Nathanael I always preached John chapter 2 thinking that verse 1 is where it started on the third day Jesus went to Cana but it started before that when Jesus saw Nathanael approaching he said of him here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit now Nathaniel was kind of creeped out verse 48 he said how do you know me we hadn't met how do you know he said I know what's in you he said but you don't know me he said but I know what's in you one time when Elijah was little he would walk around the house how old was he two three he'd walk around house going how do you know my name how do you know my name how do you know my name I think he heard it on a TV show and I thought that was so bizarre you know he'd walk up to me and Holly how do you know my name how do you know my name I said cuz I made you because I gave you your name I know who you are I know what's in you Jesus looks at Nathanael and he knows what's in him because Nathanael came from him now watch this this is so important for everybody who spends a lot of time feeling like that what's against you is greater than what's in you I want you to know that God already knows what's against you and he already knows what's in you I said he already knows what's against you and he already knows what's in you he said I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you and Nathanael said you saw me rabbi you are the son of God you are the king of Israel you didn't even met me yet and you saw me before I was called you mean you saw me in this situation before I was even in it you saw me in this dry place before it even stopped raining you saw me in this dumb decision you saw me in this divorce you saw me in this low place he said yeah I saw you I wouldn't have put you in it if I didn't put it in you you've got it in you and you will not run out and it will not run out and it will not run out you will accomplish your purpose you will fulfill you will complete your assignment it is in you I love Jesus he said you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree you will see greater things than that and then they went to Cana so Jesus could show Nathanael what he just told him I am the one who flips the flow I am the one come on get happy who gives grace for shame I am the one who turns rejection into blessing I am the resurrection I am the life your struggle is a sign your setback is a sign your secrets are a sign God is with you it is in you come on release a shout of praise in the place and you will not run out you will not run out you might not have any wine but if you have the one who can stir the water you will never lack you will make it and you will achieve it in Jesus name thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube channel don't stop here join the eFam our online extended family and join us live every Sunday subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream and share this with a friend you can also support the ministry by clicking the Give Now button 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Length: 52min 36sec (3156 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 28 2019