Morning Inspirational 30- minute Uplift

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[00:01:01] Good morning, good morning, good morning.

[00:01:04] I hope everybody's feeling blessed on this beautiful, beautiful Monday morning

[00:01:10] that God has decided to bless us in.

[00:01:13] Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining the show today.

[00:01:18] I hope and pray that God shows up today and does what he do best.

[00:01:26] And we all know what God does best.

[00:01:28] He keeps us, he never leaves us.

[00:01:32] He's always sitting there right on the throne, on the throne of grace.

[00:01:38] So let's go ahead and give him some praise right where you're sitting,

[00:01:43] right where you're standing, right where you might still even be laying if you like your girl.

[00:01:49] So Heavenly Father, we come humbly but boldly to the throne of grace this morning,

[00:01:56] cast in all our cares upon you this very day.

[00:02:01] Heavenly Father, we are thankful and we want to say we're grateful, Father God,

[00:02:06] for your grace and your mercy because we know that it's new every single day of our lives,

[00:02:13] O Heavenly Father.

[00:02:14] And as we walk boldly today, God and direct us, Father God,

[00:02:19] make our cricket path straight on this very day, Father God,

[00:02:24] minute by minute, second by second, moment by moment hour by hour, O Heavenly Father,

[00:02:31] because we know that you are able to do all things in our life, Father God.

[00:02:36] Heavenly Father, as we sit and meditate on your word today, Father God,

[00:02:41] may we be humbled, may be be rooted and grounded,

[00:02:46] may seeds be planted, Father God,

[00:02:49] not for our glory but for your glory, Father God,

[00:02:52] because everything we do in our life, O Heavenly Father,

[00:02:56] we want you to get the glory out of it, Father God.

[00:02:59] So use us as your vessels today.

[00:03:02] Those that have ears, let them hear, Father God.

[00:03:05] Those that have a heart for you, Father God,

[00:03:08] and a made up mind, O Heavenly Father,

[00:03:11] let it be seen and shown today in our works, Father God.

[00:03:15] In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray, amen and amen.

[00:03:21] I hope everybody's feeling great on this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Monday morning

[00:03:28] that God has blessed us in.

[00:03:30] I have to tell you guys, I woke up a little bit,

[00:03:34] discombobulated this morning, just meditating on God's word,

[00:03:41] seeing what He has for me, you know,

[00:03:44] sometimes He'll come by and give you a word

[00:03:47] and I know that we all went to church yesterday, right?

[00:03:51] So we all got filled up by something, right?

[00:03:56] But what the most important thing that we have to remember is

[00:04:00] that when God fills you up with His word, when you buy yourself,

[00:04:05] when you buy yourself.

[00:04:07] I know growing up in the church, people would always say,

[00:04:10] you know, going to church on Sunday,

[00:04:13] that gives you that little extra,

[00:04:15] going to Bible study on Wednesday,

[00:04:17] that gives you the little extra.

[00:04:19] But you know what I found out for myself?

[00:04:21] I get my little extra.

[00:04:24] I get my all when I'm in this word for myself

[00:04:29] and just spending that time with Jesus,

[00:04:31] telling the Holy Spirit to come on in His room,

[00:04:34] in this room and have His way in my life,

[00:04:38] show me something, guide me, lead me, direct me.

[00:04:42] And He always has something for us.

[00:04:45] All you got to do is ask Him.

[00:04:48] So today we're going to jump into John chapter 12.

[00:04:53] And we're going to do a little recap of,

[00:04:58] we're going to do a little recap of Jesus coming onto the scene

[00:05:03] and lifting Lazarus out of the grave.

[00:05:09] And we talked about this on Wednesday of last week.

[00:05:14] And for some reason I kept meditating on it all week.

[00:05:20] And I say, God, you know, it was plain as it could be.

[00:05:24] It was plain as it could possibly be.

[00:05:27] So what is it that you want me to see?

[00:05:31] What is it that He wants us to see on a daily basis sometimes

[00:05:35] for our life?

[00:05:37] So I went back and I jot down a few notes

[00:05:41] and I scrap those notes.

[00:05:44] And I said, God, I don't know.

[00:05:48] But what He wanted me to see was at all times

[00:05:54] He's always there in the mist,

[00:05:58] even with His disciples following Him,

[00:06:03] even with them following and seeing the works that He had,

[00:06:09] that He had done right in front of them.

[00:06:13] They still had some doubt.

[00:06:17] They still had that fear.

[00:06:20] And as we much do today, we still have fear.

[00:06:25] Sometimes in the things that God whispers into our ears to do,

[00:06:29] sometimes we doubt if we're doing the right thing.

[00:06:32] Sometimes we keep asking God and asking God

[00:06:36] to show Hisself mighty on our behalf.

[00:06:40] And we don't realize when He's already showing Hisself

[00:06:45] mighty on our behalf.

[00:06:48] He also showed me as I continued to meditate on it

[00:06:53] throughout the rest of the week and even over the weekend

[00:06:57] that the body is just the vessel that He gave us on this earth.

[00:07:05] But the glory is getting our souls right.

[00:07:09] And we can say it on a daily basis.

[00:07:13] Oh, I'm striving to get to the Kingdom of Glory.

[00:07:17] I'm doing everything in my will for God to use me.

[00:07:22] But do we really know that this old mortal body

[00:07:30] is just for the works of the Lord while we're here on earth,

[00:07:34] that our soul, our soul, that's that direct connection,

[00:07:41] obedient to God.

[00:07:44] And as I began to meditate on that,

[00:07:48] the fact that He raised Lazarus from the dead,

[00:07:52] He didn't do it to prove a point, not to Himself,

[00:07:57] but He did it for the glory of the Father

[00:08:03] working through Him for the people to see yet once again

[00:08:10] another miracle, another miracle.

[00:08:14] So as I decided to go on over to chapter 12,

[00:08:19] I felt like it was something that God really wanted me to see.

[00:08:26] And as I was studying that word, sometimes we study

[00:08:31] to tell everybody else something, but sometimes

[00:08:36] God wants us to see it for ourselves.

[00:08:40] He took me directly to John chapter 11 to verse 10 in

[00:08:47] Pacific. We all want to see God work miracles.

[00:08:55] But what He showed me verse 10 says,

[00:08:59] but if one walks in the night, He stumbles

[00:09:04] because the light is not in Him.

[00:09:07] And then He took me on down to verse 11.

[00:09:10] These things He said, and after that He said to them,

[00:09:15] our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him.

[00:09:21] But I pay particular attention to a man,

[00:09:27] a person, me walking and stumbling.

[00:09:36] God's light has to shine forth through us.

[00:09:40] And everything that He does in our life, He is the light.

[00:09:48] He wants His light to shine through us.

[00:09:53] He said that men may stumble at night,

[00:10:02] and that made me think about taking our eyes off of God.

[00:10:08] Taking our eyes off of the things that He wants to do in our lives.

[00:10:14] Everything, He said there is 12 hours in a day.

[00:10:21] So everything that we do in the day,

[00:10:27] we can see the world for what it is.

[00:10:31] We can see what people are doing, what Suzy Q is doing,

[00:10:35] what Victoria's doing.

[00:10:38] But when we start taking our eyes off of what God is doing on the inside of us.

[00:10:45] When we turn our life over to Christ, He's creating a new thing in us.

[00:10:50] He's not doing anything new.

[00:10:52] He's already come done what He was going to do.

[00:10:56] But when you have that direct relationship with our Heavenly Father,

[00:11:01] He's doing a new thing inside of you.

[00:11:04] He's developing you.

[00:11:05] And He showed me that over the weekend as I began to meditate on His Word.

[00:11:10] Everything that I see in this world,

[00:11:15] as long as I keep my eyes on Him, He is the light.

[00:11:19] But if I start walking around in the darkness,

[00:11:23] then I follow my own heart.

[00:11:28] When I don't consult Him, I follow my own heart.

[00:11:33] And that's what He gave me this weekend.

[00:11:37] So let's move on over to chapter 12.

[00:11:42] And let's see what the Holy Spirit is going to do in our lives today.

[00:11:49] John chapter 12, verse 1.

[00:11:53] Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was who had been dead,

[00:12:01] whom He had risen from the dead.

[00:12:05] There they made Him a supper and mother served.

[00:12:09] But Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.

[00:12:15] Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil,

[00:12:19] a spike guard anointed His feet, the feet of Jesus,

[00:12:24] and wiped His feet with her hair.

[00:12:27] And the house was filled with the fragrance of oil.

[00:12:32] But one of the disciples, Judas Israkat,

[00:12:37] Simon's son who would betray Him said,

[00:12:41] why was this fragrance oil not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?

[00:12:49] This, he said, not that he cared for the poor,

[00:12:53] but because he was a thief and had the money box.

[00:12:58] And he used it to take what was put in it.

[00:13:02] But Jesus said, let her alone.

[00:13:06] She has kept this for the day of my burial.

[00:13:10] For the poor you have with you always, but me you do not have always.

[00:13:16] Now a great many of Jews knew that he was there

[00:13:21] and that they came not for Jesus' sake only,

[00:13:25] but that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had risen from the dead.

[00:13:32] But the chief priest plotted to put Lazarus to death also

[00:13:38] because on the account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

[00:13:45] The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast

[00:13:50] when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem

[00:13:53] took branches from a palm tree

[00:13:57] and went out to meet Him and cried out,

[00:14:00] Oh, Zana, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,

[00:14:05] the king of Israel.

[00:14:08] Then Jesus when he had found a young donkey sat on it as it is written,

[00:14:15] fear not daughter of Zion, behold your king is coming sitting on a donkey's cult.

[00:14:23] His disciples did not understand these things at first,

[00:14:28] but when Jesus was glorified, then they remember that these things were written about him,

[00:14:35] that they had done these things to him.

[00:14:38] Therefore the people who were with him called,

[00:14:41] when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead,

[00:14:46] bore witness.

[00:14:48] For this reason the people also met him because they heard that he had done this sign.

[00:14:55] The Pharisees therefore said among themselves,

[00:14:58] You see that you are accomplishing nothing.

[00:15:03] Look the world has gone after him.

[00:15:07] Now there was certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.

[00:15:14] Then they came to Philip who was from Bethasda of Galilee

[00:15:20] and asked him saying sir we wish to see Jesus.

[00:15:25] Philip came and told Andrew and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

[00:15:30] But Jesus answered them saying the hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified.

[00:15:38] Most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone.

[00:15:45] But if it dies it produces much grain.

[00:15:50] He who loves his life will lose it and who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

[00:15:59] If anyone serves me let him follow me and where I am there my servant will be also.

[00:16:08] If anyone serves me him my father will honor.

[00:16:14] My soul is troubled and what shall I say father saved me from this hour.

[00:16:22] But for this purpose I came to this hour.

[00:16:27] Father glorify your name then a voice came from heaven saying I both glorified it and will glorify it again.

[00:16:36] Therefore the people who stood by heard it and said that it was thunder.

[00:16:43] Mother said an angel has spoken to him.

[00:16:47] Jesus answered and said this voice did not come because of me but for your sake.

[00:16:55] Now is the judgment of this world now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

[00:17:03] And I if I lifted up from the earth will draw all peoples to myself.

[00:17:11] This he said signifying by what death would be he would die.

[00:17:18] The people answered him he heard from the law that the Christ remains forever and how can you say the son of man must be lifted.

[00:17:29] Who is the son of man?

[00:17:32] Then Jesus said to them a little while longer the light is with you.

[00:17:37] Walk while you have the light let darkness overtake you.

[00:17:42] He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

[00:17:47] While you have the light believe in the light that you may become sons of light.

[00:17:53] These things Jesus spoke and departed and was hidden from them.

[00:18:00] Although he had done so many signs before them they did not believe him.

[00:18:06] That the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spoke.

[00:18:13] Lord who has believed I report and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed.

[00:18:24] Therefore they could not believe because Isaiah said again.

[00:18:30] He has blinded their eyes and heart in their hearts.

[00:18:34] Thus they shall see with their eyes.

[00:18:37] Thus they should understand with their hearts and turn so that I shall heal them.

[00:18:45] These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke on him.

[00:18:50] Nevertheless even among the rulers many believe in him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him.

[00:18:59] Thus they should be put out of the synagogue.

[00:19:03] For they love the praise of men more than the praise of God.

[00:19:07] Then Jesus cried out and said he who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me.

[00:19:17] And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

[00:19:22] I have come as a light into the world that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness.

[00:19:31] And if anyone hears my words and does not believe I do not judge him for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

[00:19:44] He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him.

[00:19:53] The word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day for I have not spoken on my own authority.

[00:20:04] But the Father who sent me gave me a command what should I say what I should speak.

[00:20:13] And I know that his command is everlasting life.

[00:20:18] Therefore whatever I speak just as the Father has told me so I speak.

[00:20:29] That was John chapter 12 verse 1 through 50 and as I meditate today on this word as I was getting into my word last night.

[00:20:45] I thought about Martha and Mary.

[00:20:53] I thought about how Mary was still in the house with the Jews consulting her, consoling her when Martha was out speaking with Jesus.

[00:21:08] Then I thought about the six days before the Passover when they would have this dinner for Jesus and Lazarus was there.

[00:21:20] I also thought about how Mary took the oil and swept God's feet.

[00:21:31] We've all heard this preached time and time again.

[00:21:36] I know that I have. We've all heard the story told.

[00:21:42] But we also know that if any of us have heard this talked before that this was taught in preparation for Jesus burial.

[00:22:00] How many of us do things in preparation for God to use us not for a fashion, not for a show.

[00:22:13] How many of us can say that everything that we do in our life.

[00:22:21] We may not know the outcome of how it's going to be.

[00:22:27] How it's going to take shape or form in our life. I know I certainly don't.

[00:22:32] I never thought I would be sitting here doing this, but I realized a long time ago that when I started this walk, obedience is better than sacrifice being obedient.

[00:22:45] And I haven't quite gotten it all right.

[00:22:48] But I strive every single day.

[00:22:51] Something was placed in Mary. Something was placed in Mary to save that oil.

[00:23:01] Just like God places things inside of us.

[00:23:05] He uses it at the right time and we as people, we may never understand that.

[00:23:13] We may never understand why he's gifted us with so many gifts that sometimes just don't seem to come out our way or be used our way.

[00:23:24] I sometimes think about that.

[00:23:26] But I also thought about, they said Lazarus was there at the dinner.

[00:23:34] They said he was there. The man raised from the dead. Some people came to see the man that was raised from the dead.

[00:23:44] And it made me think about how we all sit at the King's table.

[00:23:52] And although some of us may have special gifts, we all have special gifts.

[00:24:00] Sometimes we don't know how to use them. Sometimes we don't know how to apply them.

[00:24:04] I'm going through that in my season right now where I'm just standing still.

[00:24:09] Because I'm a little bit confused on what God is using me for.

[00:24:14] But I am determined that I am going to be obedient to this assignment.

[00:24:22] I'm determined. Mary was determined.

[00:24:27] I can imagine in my own little thoughts that she was going to save that oil just for this moment.

[00:24:36] She was determined. Mary and Martha, they believed on the miracles of Jesus Christ, both of them.

[00:24:45] Even though they said, if you would have been here.

[00:24:50] That right there, if you would have been here, showed me that they believed in what they saw Jesus do.

[00:25:00] What their heart knew that Jesus could do.

[00:25:03] It also told me from my commentary as I was reading it this weekend.

[00:25:08] That he conversated with Mary, Martha and Lazarus.

[00:25:14] They were his friends.

[00:25:17] So they knew him well.

[00:25:19] I can imagine in my mind, I thought, you know, even though the disciples traveled with him, he had that friendship.

[00:25:30] He had that friendship with Lazarus, Martha and Mary.

[00:25:34] They didn't travel with them.

[00:25:36] They didn't travel with them, but they were his friends.

[00:25:40] So as I began to read on, I thought about how they just made mention of Lazarus being at the dinner.

[00:25:55] He never spoke.

[00:25:57] People came to see him from afar.

[00:26:01] It's sad.

[00:26:03] But he never had a conversation.

[00:26:06] But the most significant part was Mary pulling out that pound of very costly ore, and then they threw in there Judas.

[00:26:18] The greed.

[00:26:20] Sometimes.

[00:26:23] God to take us off our feet and he'll put us in situations and circumstances that we don't, we don't know how to get out of.

[00:26:32] But we have to stop saying, I can I get out of it?

[00:26:39] And that was the whole purpose of chapter 11 and 12 for a God to show himself mighty on the people's behalf.

[00:26:50] On our behalf.

[00:26:52] They still didn't believe standing around.

[00:26:56] But then he reminded them it was about his father, the works that he was doing.

[00:27:02] It wasn't about him.

[00:27:04] It was about his father so he can get the glory.

[00:27:07] So as I meditate on this, this weekend, and I read a little bit further.

[00:27:14] I realized that I have to stay planet.

[00:27:19] And we all have to stay planet like that tree.

[00:27:23] I steal waters.

[00:27:30] We can't get rotten at the root.

[00:27:32] We can lose a couple leaves, a couple branches, but we got to stay planet no matter what the circumstances look like.

[00:27:43] And we got to do it for the glory of God.

[00:27:50] You didn't see Jesus showing off when the people took the palm trees went out to meet him.

[00:27:57] But they said blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

[00:28:05] Jesus didn't get discombobulated.

[00:28:08] He already knew what his works was.

[00:28:12] He already knew what his father had told him.

[00:28:17] He didn't get sidetracked because they were laying palm trees down.

[00:28:23] He didn't get sidetracked.

[00:28:25] I'm the man know he ain't do all that.

[00:28:27] He stayed focused.

[00:28:32] He stayed focused everything that he did.

[00:28:35] He did for the people because his father told him to we read a couple weeks ago.

[00:28:43] He said everything that I do.

[00:28:46] I do it for my father.

[00:28:48] My father knows this.

[00:28:50] He said I laid down my life.

[00:28:52] I take it back up again.

[00:28:54] Nobody has the power to lay down my life and take it back up but me because his father, he said my father knows what I do.

[00:29:04] How many of us consult with our father before we do things?

[00:29:10] Because I believe and this is my belief that if we consult with our father, if we consult with him before we do anything,

[00:29:24] find a word meditate on it.

[00:29:27] Talk to your heavenly father like you're talking to your girlfriend.

[00:29:31] We'll find the answers that we're looking for.

[00:29:33] They are not hidden.

[00:29:35] They're not hidden.

[00:29:37] They right there in front of your face.

[00:29:39] Sometimes all we can do is stand still.

[00:29:41] I'm in my standing still season.

[00:29:43] I've been standing still for a couple of years.

[00:29:48] And I do grow weary but I faint not because I know in due season everything that he has whispered to me every plan that he has for my life is going to come to pass.

[00:30:04] He gave me a word this weekend.

[00:30:07] He gave me a word this weekend.

[00:30:10] A powerful word because I was in my season of doubt.

[00:30:19] You do grow weary.

[00:30:21] You do.

[00:30:22] You do.

[00:30:23] People don't like to tell you that they grow weary.

[00:30:26] We were raised in a generation where everybody holds everything close to the best what goes in the house stays on in the house but sometimes people need to see and hear your testimony.

[00:30:38] They need to see you while you're going through it.

[00:30:41] So when you come out on the other side, they know what you look like.

[00:30:50] They know what God has done for you in your life.

[00:30:57] I need not be ashamed of anything I've done in my life and I know many of people some people I did dirt with some people I didn't.

[00:31:06] Some people just know what they think they know those same people have watched me blossom into the person that God has come to.

[00:31:18] He called me to be today.

[00:31:22] And I used to wonder why we weren't friends.

[00:31:26] And someone told me they said, Victoria it's not that they don't like you anymore.

[00:31:34] They can see the God in you and they kind of fearful to say that hello.

[00:31:39] So you be the first one to say hello.

[00:31:42] Don't make them feel ashamed because they still walk in a path that you decided to walk out of.

[00:31:50] But you continue to let God use you because he's showing himself mighty on your behalf.

[00:31:59] And I took that and I held onto it.

[00:32:05] Here we see Jesus standing fast to what he was set to do.

[00:32:12] But also showing the people.

[00:32:15] He said it back in chapter 11.

[00:32:20] For the people he said it to his disciples when he told them we gonna wait two more days.

[00:32:28] Two more days he waited before.

[00:32:32] He want to see about Lazarus his friend.

[00:32:35] I don't know about you guys.

[00:32:40] But I'm in my standing still season.

[00:32:43] I don't know how things are gonna come about in my life.

[00:32:47] But I do know one thing I trust in my Heavenly Father that he is able to do all things that he is

[00:32:54] sovereignly in control of every aspect of my life.

[00:33:00] I just got a whole fast.

[00:33:02] I gotta stand still.

[00:33:04] Some of us don't know how to stand still in the season where God don't want us to move.

[00:33:11] And Satan he know every move.

[00:33:15] He know every move we make.

[00:33:18] He has studied us.

[00:33:20] He don't want us to stand still.

[00:33:25] So he'll put objects and opportunities and things in our way to make it look good,

[00:33:33] to make it look like it came from my Father.

[00:33:37] But if you have a rapport with your Heavenly Father, you won't be moved.

[00:33:45] Because he's already whispered to you this is your stand still season.

[00:33:50] And when you come out of it, you gonna come out of it with so much insight.

[00:33:57] So much insight.

[00:33:59] And that's the word.

[00:34:01] That's the word today, insight.

[00:34:04] Because you're gonna be able to take what you went through and deposit it into somebody else.

[00:34:11] Because all of us may not go through the same things in life.

[00:34:16] That's your journey.

[00:34:18] That's your relationship with your Heavenly Father.

[00:34:21] And sometimes those things look bleak.

[00:34:26] But for the glory of God, Jesus answered them saying the hour has come

[00:34:36] and the Son of Man should be glorified.

[00:34:40] How many of you guys know it's your hour?

[00:34:46] It's your hour.

[00:34:48] How many of you guys know that as long as you dwell in your secret,

[00:34:55] dwell in place with him, that he'll keep you.

[00:35:03] How many of you guys know that he's developing you even when

[00:35:09] you're going through a rough, horrific time?

[00:35:13] Even when you're not sure.

[00:35:18] Even when you lost that job, that loved one, that house, that career, that opportunity.

[00:35:26] How many of you praise him in advance and why you're going through it?

[00:35:31] That's the key, being obedient.

[00:35:33] Because he'll move.

[00:35:35] He'll move.

[00:35:37] He'll move those mountains.

[00:35:41] He'll move those mountains real quick.

[00:35:47] My aunt said to me a couple months ago, and I hold fast to things that seasoned people tell me to do.

[00:35:54] We live in a time where everybody want to put our seasoned people on the back burner.

[00:35:59] But my Bible tells me that those people had a good rapport.

[00:36:10] He said that elders had a good rapport.

[00:36:13] And I think that instead of putting them on the back burner and not taking their advice in times such as these,

[00:36:21] we should be absorbing everything that we can absorb from them because we need something to hold on to.

[00:36:30] We live in a world right now where we ain't got nothing to hold on to.

[00:36:35] We live in a world right now where people don't have anything to hold on to because they're saying in our culture,

[00:36:46] the older people, it's a new way.

[00:36:49] Yes, it's a new way.

[00:36:52] But why are your seasoned people still here?

[00:36:55] They had something to hold on to.

[00:36:58] They trusted God with everything in their lives.

[00:37:04] And they're here so that they can deposit it in us so that we have something to hold on to, as well as God's Word.

[00:37:15] They are examples just like God said in chapter 11, just like when he said,

[00:37:26] so the people can see.

[00:37:28] He waited a couple more days before he went to see about Lazarus.

[00:37:35] He waited a couple more days.

[00:37:38] He didn't do it for himself.

[00:37:40] He said, so the people can see.

[00:37:44] Our seasoned people are still here so that we can see what God has deposited in them so that we can have something to hold on to.

[00:37:57] I want you to meditate on that today as well as meditating on his Word.

[00:38:03] He is pouring into us through our seasoned people.

[00:38:09] And sometimes some of them might get it wrong, but that discern in spirit,

[00:38:16] the God place on the inside of you, that gift, that relationship that you can have with him if you want it.

[00:38:29] It'll help you judge the right from the wrong.

[00:38:34] But as we move on into chapter 13, there was one thing that I penciled out on yesterday and we'll read it tomorrow.

[00:38:50] But chapter 13 verse 15 he said, for I have given you an example that you should not do as I have done to you.

[00:39:05] We are examples of what God wants to do for others.

[00:39:14] We can't be first.

[00:39:16] He told us in his Word sometimes first comes last, sometimes the last comes first.

[00:39:21] You just never know.

[00:39:23] But we are the examples and we are the key to somebody else's future.

[00:39:27] That's a fact.

[00:39:30] We are the key to someone else's future.

[00:39:33] Let him use you as a vessel.

[00:39:36] Let him use you as a vessel.

[00:39:42] Because he will.

[00:39:45] Sometimes we have to be the ones to break that generational curse that we all hear people saying mental health, emotional health, generational curses.

[00:39:57] Won't you be that person?

[00:39:59] Won't you be that light?

[00:40:01] Don't walk and stumble in the darkness but walk in the light.

[00:40:07] Don't fashion yourself after other people.

[00:40:14] Don't do things of your own heart's desire but make sure that you're doing for the glory of God and I promise you.

[00:40:23] I promise you a lot of people have heard my story.

[00:40:27] A lot of people that know me know my story and they're not quite sure about what to think about me today.

[00:40:33] But I don't really care what they think about me today and I'm not saying that to be condescending.

[00:40:40] I'm not saying that to brag or be boastful.

[00:40:44] I'm saying that because I know that I know that I know that I know what God has done for me.

[00:40:53] I know he didn't move mountains in my life.

[00:40:56] I know he didn't move me.

[00:40:58] He then took me from over here and put me over here.

[00:41:02] And I didn't even know what was happening.

[00:41:05] I don't know quite what's happening right now but I know he's trying to use me in a mighty, mighty way.

[00:41:11] He said to me about two Saturdays ago, two Saturdays ago I was in prayer.

[00:41:16] Came up out of that prayer.

[00:41:17] I was in worship because I believe we need to worship.

[00:41:22] Call out to him.

[00:41:25] And when I sat in this seat, he said study to show thyself, approve unto God that they work but need not be ashamed but rightly divide the word of truth.

[00:41:37] And that thing hit me like a ton of bricks.

[00:41:41] And I said to myself, that means you just got to get in your word a little bit more because there's something that God wants you to do.

[00:41:48] Because I was watching.

[00:41:52] I'm watching all the different platforms.

[00:41:55] I'm watching social media.

[00:41:56] I'm watching Tik Tok.

[00:41:59] Everybody got a prophetic word.

[00:42:01] Everybody in the comments wants somebody to pray for them.

[00:42:08] But God has given us the ability to pray over ourselves.

[00:42:11] He's given us that relationship.

[00:42:14] I don't know what quite to make of everything that I see and I'm not downing anybody, anybody's others platforms.

[00:42:21] I'm not, but in my spirit, I'm watching people cry out to people.

[00:42:27] When you can cry out to God and he'll deposit that thing on the inside of you.

[00:42:33] He'll show you which way you need to go.

[00:42:36] Peace and blessings to you guys on this day.

[00:42:40] I thank you for coming on into the room with me and just letting God have his way in your lives today.

[00:42:52] Sometimes it's hard because we don't know what God is doing in our lives.

[00:42:58] Thank you.

[00:43:00] Let me give some shout outs.

[00:43:01] Shout out to my girl, Shakita from Chronicles of Virgo for always coming to the live.

[00:43:08] Shout out to Rip in the Band-Aid.

[00:43:10] Shouts out to you.

[00:43:11] Shouts out to the ones that I can't see your name on this end, but it shows me that I got a few people there.

[00:43:19] Thank you for joining this Bible study on this morning.

[00:43:23] I hope God used me today to give you something to meditate on and give you something to think about.

[00:43:29] Start your journey without Heavenly Father.

[00:43:34] And you'll be amazed at the things that He would do for you.

[00:43:39] He has healed my heart in so many ways that I truly can say if He has not done anything else for me,

[00:43:51] if He does not do anything else for me, healing me and saving me from myself

[00:44:00] was the best thing that He could have ever did for me.

[00:44:06] Now I'm going to let Him work through me for whatever He wants me to do.

[00:44:15] I'm going to let Him use me because this is His season.

[00:44:21] This is His season. Peace and blessings to you all.

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