we don't want to live a life of am I allowed to come down here I don't know the rules we have an octagon at a bid and I just run the whole octagon it's wild we we don't want to suppress desires we want to redirect them in the right way right when you live a life of suppressing desire you get caught in religion and when a life becomes a series of dos and don'ts you end up actually giving more of your attention to the don't than the do and so God life in a series of NOS right like I've given I've given my yes to my wife let me just let me just give you an example my yes to my wife is a decision that I have made now the way that that expression that decision is expressed is not by walking up to every woman and saying no because that's not how we express love love is expressed with ultimate devot otion towards a person and my yes for her has eliminated there is an invitation I say it again I wanted this to be imprinted in you so when you feel that like ah what is that God it's it's God's gift to you to make you dissatisfied with anything less than all that he has for you so again Isaiah 43 remember not the former things nor consider the things of old for behold say behold let's try it again behold behold I'm Hispanic and I'm words of affirmation those two things right there you're going to have to talk to me behold I am doing a new thing and now say now now now it Springs forth do you not perceive it so so he's asking us are you not aware to perceive is to be aware can you not see that which I'm doing among you I want to ask you a question and I want to ask you in vulnerability like what do you actually desire in your life right now like ultimately when you get down to what makes you you what makes your family tick what is that desire that is driving you what's the ambition what's what's going on in the inner heart that maybe even today God is asking us to lay down for something better that he's see like we say things like that but sometimes we really don't believe that God has better for us times God's path to help us to help us receive that which He is wanting to give us is not the way we thought we thought it was going to play out how many of you know that when you say yes to Jesus your plan of action and his plan of action are not the same lots of amens you're like yes I feel journey of journeying with God and be what is God saying in this season learn to be not tolerate not put up with it be grudging like I friend his leadership we we pruning in seasons of into the image of Christ people on church I'm like I don't through seven I don't know like but I'm called to the Nations not if you don't invol no you're really not but I what Jesus Paid for is doing great things for God own because we live in a society that it only matters look like with a people who were eternally God's affirmation God's Delight God's smile here that does it's not worth a crap there on the most Brilliant Minds are spending Bill temporary things to get you broad path that every is going in the same direction and there's never opposition maybe maybe you're not on the narrow path that Jesus talked about I love I love all the talk about prayer we just did 16 announcements on prayer around the presence we gather around the pulpit before the Lord you've got 10 people in a room I started this part of what he's shifting is he's putting the presence at the center again and it's exposing every bit of idolatry that's even happening within the church well we would rather hear from man than hear from God we can ride on the emotional high of everybody else around us who's carrying oil but we can remain Barren and God in the place of prayer he exposes all of those things I I love even tonight we were talking about David right what what makes David so significant right the Bible would say to us that God saw him before he ever did anything amazing and he says to the prophet I have found a man who is after my own heart that's a that's a powerful statement that God would look upon the Earth and say that guy right there he's a man after me his his life and purpose is defined and David made a lot of mistakes but but for me the Pinnacle meaning the high point of David's life is found in 1 Chronicles 13 right because David spent a series of events making his way to step into promise how many of you know there was a good like 15 years between when David got anointed and him stepping into kingship so it's okay you've had to wait three weeks you're going to make it it's going to be all right breathe and finally he steps into that moment it's like you got to imagine 15 years he was anointed by the prophet of the nation there was immense opposition he served under a terrible leader who was trying to kill him half the time it's like bro I'm the guy who sues your demons you're trying to kill me finally he steps into the leadership role and this because ultimately right you don't really find tested by the praise that that the internal motives of a man is really not tested through difficulty it's tested through praise that's in Proverbs praise tests you moments Mountain Highs real what's really on the inside comes out 1 Chronicles 13 all of the eyes of the nation of Israel are praise God are on David and David makes this statement everybody's like what what are we going to do like what how are you going to lead us and David goes this is what we're going to do we're going to go we're going to get the Ark of the Covenant for in the days of Saul we forsook it and you got to understand this is radical because everybody's wondering the prospering of the nation and David is making a declaration the of it they gather all of the people I know whatever your standard of that is because crap but David stands up and then they go and they get a procession and they go get the ark and they find the ark and they're on their way back from to to bring the ark back to Jerusalem to place it at the center and something happens in 1 Chronicles 13 as they're journeying back as David had created this big Festival praise and they're making their way back which ultimately was a good decision can we agree bringing the ark back to the place where it belonged is a good decision can we agree I'm trying to make a point sometimes you can be doing the right thing things and the wrong things happen like this really matters that you don't lose heart when you're doing the right thing and the wrong thing happens because David is making his way back and it says that the cart hit the threshing floor and what happens The Arc destabilized somebody goes to grab it right o and AIO they they go to stabilize it and when he touches it he dies now we just read past that but you got to understand right if I don't I was going to say plumber Bob I don't know if there's a bob who's a plumber come on God sees you God sees you right now Bob Joe Mr Nobody next to the ark if I'm if I'm in charge of that moment I'm putting my most trusted responsible godly people that close to that those are the people I trust most those are the people that I know they're not going to screw the job up and David while he's doing the right thing goes to the guy goes to stabilize it and it kills him and the Bible's very clear David was mad at God he left the ark it goes into Obed edom's house but here's here's the ultimate point that I'm trying to make within this story is sometimes as you're journeying with with God because there were some in the room you've just there's there's disappointment rooted in your heart and the inner dialogue is this I'm doing all the right things but this sucks and the more I try it's like man I remember praying for my brother and it's like the harder I prayed the further into drugs he went I'm like I don't know if this is working but how many of you know Isaiah 60 like the Lord makes everything beautiful in his time there's an appointed time for everything and God like God's playing 10 dimensional chest we just don't understand it but I want to say to you if you're in this process of making God the center of your life centering your life around the presence of God difficult moments are promised disappointment discouragement betrayal promised and in these moments see how quiet it gets it's like bro let's get back to the shouting and laughing no like like God wants to put his finger on this because ultimately what God wants for you for your family is to live a yielded life where every pres of God not a Sunday morning you guys don't even do Sundays you're Tuesday nights not a Tuesday night 7 to 10 flow but that every decision that you make and we would begin to see through the biblical narrative that God was establishing an order and what we would learn through the Old Testament is that every time the people of God put the presence of God at the center the nation prospered every time I mean this has got to get into your life you've got to realize oh when my life goes into disarray something has to be out of alignment it doesn't have to be big how many of you know the smallest misalignment can be very painful I used to be like 350 pounds believe it or not and I lived my life with a habitual back pain that I just thought was normal and then and when I went to the chiropractor I was always I was amazed they would do one setting it's like one click and all the pain I was like that that I could not walk it hurt to breathe but like as this is your spiritual life one misalignment can cause severe pain one one difficult moment if not processed the right way can create distorted realities that we live out of that feel very very real but are actually really really demonic can you hear that now all of you in the room right now you're like yeah man he's talking to sister Sue no this is the deception and this is the game we play but all all of us do you feel that it's awkward because when God starts to put his finger on little things the little idolatry and the little things and he starts to say like I don't know like if I was to pull out your calendar and your checkbook could you really say God's the center like no here he goes brother pastor's talking about I don't I don't get anything from this church this isn't a money thing if you were to pull out your checkbook your calendar and if you talk to God your journal what would your life say about you right there's a there's an invitation like man if you're it's really for anybody but if you're a young person in the room I want to tell you at 18 years old I gave my life to Jesus and for like three years this guy's been with me since I was 18 he met me the drug out a kid for 3 years everybody spent their it felt like it was their assignment to tell me that I'm burning for Jesus too much calm down brother and they would give me this analogy about marriage which was actually freaking disgusting brother when you get married and you're like 30 years you just don't burn the same you make a decision you're committed I'm like what kind of crap is that I don't want that I'm going to tell you man I just spent a weekend in North Carolina and my wife I'm more in love with my wife today than I've ever been ever but I was in the mountains you know what happen we're going to be really vulnerable there was a guy who was with us and he was having this conversation about a season past where he was burning for Jesus he's like I just remember when I used to be in a room and Jesus was in the room and I remember the way he would meet me and he would speak to me and in this season I just feel dry and I just can't sense God how many of you ever felt that I just how you know like that's hard and so one of the other guys says hey man can you just talk to him just tell them man you've got kids you've got a wife it's a different season so I started to encourage him then I'm I'm like oh my God I'm the old guy now and I started to talk to him and when I and actually we got disrupted and I'm so glad because I started to feel sick and two days later I'm sitting in a circle and I'm crying and I said hey man I have to repent I said is that was telling you and making excuses for you actually that ache inside of you is god-given and I pray you never lose it don't ever let anybody tell you that you have to have some mundane boring spiritual life I I just recently went to a v renewal and I was I was moved by the renewal right have you ever been to like a a 20-year V renewal these two people are standing in front of each other and they were married obviously 20 years before it's a 20 year vow know we're on the same p page and they're expressing they're expressing their Love and Desire what moves you about that moment well let's have a thing it's not just because they spend a bunch of money and they're a little bit more wrinkled moment where people who have weathered Mountain highs and Valley lows they have lived their vows till death do us part they've lost they've gained and at this moment they're saying you know what I still say yes and I say it more now than I did then I want you to understand tonight this like God has that for you and I'm sorry if you've heard the longer you go with Jesus the more like you're going to be driven by commitment we are meant to be a lovesick people the way that we operate right and the way we impact the world is not through mental Ascent how many of you ever try to talk somebody into Jesus that was your last evangelism trip but you ever been around somebody who just like they have Jesus in their eyes somebody felt that the baby was like yes no really like you you you you you you were around them and you were provoked and then you went from Pro being provoked to like I wish I had that and then you start to make all the excuses but like I have a job and I work 40 hours and they're young and they don't get it and they don't have kids and it's like are you going to live your life making excuses forever God God has given us an invitation and again like you know when I share things like this people just feel shame I just say shame off of you this is actually the work of the spirit God can touch you in 20 minutes on a car ride my wife went through the hardest year I think last time I was here I shared all of these diagnosises and betrayals and everything and I remember praying God break in and God do a work and I went on I went on a hunger strike he whatever I can do I'm fasting 172 days you know it's like that's how I got this skinny I'm kidding but I never forget like one day she turns on like a YouTube clip in a car with Rita Springer and her heart breaks open and I'm like that was it that was didn't cost anything I'm not against like we we we did there we did there we did all of it but I'm just saying like God in one moment like you know what I've learned we walked into this room tonight and let's be honest it just felt very ordinary it's not a conference right when we're in a conference you feel that electricity in the here but I've learned that actually God does really extraordinary things in ordinary moments we often are like oh my gosh so and so is coming to town you didn't even know I was going to be here half you were disappointed like dang thought Dom Dom's got that he's got that voice it's just a good voice I've got to shout yell scream sweat I'm like but there's a fundamental issue that you see in the Bible and it's always the same in the book of Jeremiah when there's great idolatry what was the problem what's the problem in Jeremiah's time right we're talking about Seasons the problem is everybody stopped asking where is the Lord read it Jeremiah 2 the father stopped asking where's the Lord the priest stopped asking where's the Lord and I wonder even in our environments here so often like look around we can gauge this room and we can say this room is successful it's full we need space but like if God's not here we've done nothing better than AMC right what makes us a unique people is we got to ask the question Where's God where's his lordship where's his leadership and we've got to be provoked and actually desire that and God he he's inviting us into a space and place what time do I got to land I could preach the Everlasting gospel bro I have a few more thoughts can you hang with me a little bit longer a few more thoughts that that that I want to share I want to I want to make it I I Tred to lay context and then I want to give some of the remedy because you're like man just that sucks I just feel terrible but like what I've learned is we have to be moved from that desire like we can have a good Revival talk here and we could talk about Revival and shout but like let's just be honest we've called Revival a lot of things that are not Revival a good meeting with people that are shouting is not Revival it's just a loud meeting it's just loud and I like loud we're loud abide can get loud but a lot of times people come and like this is Revival I'm like no it's not re and and I'm thankful for what God is doing but Revival is actually a region being transformed by God's power and presence it's it's so much more than a good meeting like we want to we want to host God's presence in this room but until what's happening in this room goes out there we've we've just had a good meeting and if good meetings don't provoke us to action then we've lost it and so I I want to I want to Envision us for a life rooted in grounded in the love of God and in an assignment that is bigger than just your life how many of you know there's a storyline that's playing out and your part in that story matters okay this side didn't believe it I'm going to give you a shot you know what's coming there's a story line that God is authoring and you have an important part in that story okay more agreement I'm going to give you another shot because I don't want to leave you in that I don't want to leave in that condemnation I'm going to say it again there's a there's a really great story that's happening and you have a part to play in that story like you you have to believe that your life is going to matter more than just existing and going through the motions you can't live your spirituality you can't live it through a good leadership actually God is authoring a story in and through you and that story actually really matters and while that reality is real and God is wanting to move in you there's also another real reality that there is an enemy who has come to steal kill and destroy and you have to know that you know that you know that you know that evil is hunting you it's hunting you you don't have to find it it will find you and so it's very important why I wanted to take us to Colossians 3 is I want to root Us in some scriptures that I think are actually really really important in in rooting us and grounding us are you with me because it talks about us beholding God and setting our sights on things above how many of you know that what we we what we set our gaze upon will begin to disciple us whether we wanted to or not like you could only watch so much news and that thing now start to form and shape you it starts to shape how you think you're like no I need to be informed for what they're lying anyways you know me it's just it's wild the the things that we say well I just need to know what's going on no you know what like heaven really knows what's going on and if you tune in to that channel you can be delivered from all the noise it's going to be very disappointing when Trump maybe becomes president and the the nation of America is still in D disar like it's going to be really hard as a pastor I just feel responsible to say that now like let's say you get everything you want you think if we could just get them in there God's going to turn the nation I don't know cuz the nation's not turned by a political figure it's God's people and so like actually that I said I wasn't going to fall for it that that thing is actually leaven it's small and it's subtle and it feels right because we have to protect our freedom no you're loyal to one Kingdom vote vote your conscience go be go be as red as you want to be but never and that goes for both sides like if we can't operate in love we we we become disengaged why I want to say this is we come become disengaged from setting our mind on things above if I don't get here we're never going to stop coloss S 2 and and now say now not tomorrow when good you're with me just as you accepted Jesus Christ as what as your friend no Jesus is friend but he's not your bro he's Lord you don't get to follow Jesus when you want he's not your homeboy let say it again just as you accepted how many of you have accepted Jesus guess what that came with lordship that means that at times you're going to have to do things you don't want to do I'm losing the crowd just as you accepted him as Lord you must what continue to follow him right like picture yourself tucked behind him like I must continue to follow him but then the admonition goes beyond that how do we follow him good I'm glad you asked verse 7 let your roots grow down deep into him and let your lives be built upon him right to be rooted and grounded Ephesians say to be rooted and grounded in what in the love of God let your roots grow deep inside of him and this process of being rooted is going to take time you can't microwave this it can't be imparted into you building history with God will never come in a conference okay I just want to like push up against some some paradigms real quick being rooted and grounded in God is a process in in a like fast food microwave Amazon Prime environment right my son wanted a a sword we went to Disney I said I'll buy you one on Amazon bro let's not spend $1,000 on a sword here and I'm looking on Amazon and actually there were some like really great great swords but he didn't want to wait until Saturday and so he actually chose a a less like a a crappier version of a sword so it could be here tomorrow I'm like if this isn't preaching like many I I'm I'm this way let me keep it 100 if I'm GNA buy something on Amazon and it's not on two-day God doesn't want me to have it there are certain realities in my life that just exist if I go to Chick-fil-A and they get my order wrong I just assume they know what's better for me those are realities that I live in they just it's okay they know best but but like these these things when we apply them to our spiritual lives become detrimental because you can come to the altar tonight and we're going to make an invitation to be wholly captivated by God and and I I be honest like three people can come and I'll be happy because three people burning for Jesus can change this whole room amen but God will speak some things to you and you're going to walk away and you're going to you're going to journal them get them tattooed whatever and then like two weeks from now you're going to have a hard time you're going to be like I don't even know if I hear God God you said and God's like yeah I said and when you made Covenant with me that night I actually I set things in motion and this difficult C situation you're walking in right now is a part of that process of answering that prayer of you being wholly captivated by me you see that's just a different perspective you're like oh I went up to the Altar and The Jezebel spirit's after me no no no God is discipling you in his ways right can we agree that sometimes like God like he works all things together for good sometimes the working together for good feels not good and this the way that God weaves a story together is not our way it's just it's just an entirely different way so we're being admonished let your lives be built on him then say then then your faith will grow strong in the truth as you were taught and you will be overflowing with thankfulness this gift of thank how many of you like ever been around a thankful person you're like man there's a there's a gift and a Grace right it's just like the Cup's not half empty it's half full it's that gift of like no matter what God gives me I'm going to learn in every season like Paul says to be content in all things right but it comes from having your life rooted and grounded in God I was meeting with my spiritual father and I was talking to him about life and he's like Gio you need a hobby and Building a Church isn't one I'm like that's that's good so he has a garden like a two two every time I go to his house I'm like I'm gonna freaking sweat in his garden for 30 minutes he shows me every flower he puts his nose to it and then he's like smelling I'm like it's a little weird bro your nose was just in that flower it just feels weird every time he's like sometimes you just got to slow down and smell the roses I'm like all right Mr Miyagi it's good so finally like a year later I'm like I'm desie my wife I'm getting a garden he's like you should get into gardening he planted his garden I'm like I'm going to do gardening but I'm going to hire someone to plant my garden that's my version of it it's the Amazon thing so I pay this guy money and he puts this like blueprint he's like it's going to cost x amount of and I was like this a lot of money but okay I'm going to do it and and then I walk out and I'm like that does not look like that amount worth of money that was my immediate thought I'm like I paid x amount of money and that does not look like it's worth he's like Hey listen I know what you're thinking it's like he was a prophet I probably was on my face I'm like oh I just got got he's like listen no wait what this looks like now is not what it's going to look like a year from now but you've got to give it time because like I know all that you see right now is was over the mulch but like what's happening under the mulch is actually much more important than what you can see over it man I just want to say to some of you that have been going through a difficult time maybe maybe quite possibly I would say probably is that thing that God's doing on the inside will eventually be seen on the outside but it has to fully happen on the inside said you you have to give it time how many of you know one of the fruit of the spirit is patience you ever prayed for patience I prayed for patience God gave me three kids I love my kids but they they stretch me I've never been stretched so much in my life and and you know what my kids have taught me more about Jesus Jesus and anybody there ain't been no preacher that's taught me about Jesus like my kids but it's through a process so we're being encourage her listen let your roots grow deep I want to ask you a question I asked you 20 minutes ago man what is your life rooted in like young person I want to say to you Jesus is worth wasting your life for I just like if there's anything I'm saying like man let all the people say you're wasting your life all the negativity from those that have grown cold and dull it's quiet but we've done a lot of oh man there are things that people look us like you're stupid for doing that we sold everything we empty our bang account to zero I put things on credit cards I was so convince it was God and I left to go be in the Red Dirt of Africa with no money and a one-year-old and to the Natural mind that's stupidity but those little 12 weeks and not having any anything to come back to changed my entire life so I'm telling you having your life rooted in something more than Security in the American dream is worth it I've never and at this stage I've sat with a lot of people dying in Death Beds right we're the ones that are like God can raise the dead so we see a lot of people that are about to die you know what I've never sat next to someone on a deathbed and then be like I wish I would have worked more I've never sat next to a man or a woman and then say man I wish I would have just made a little bit more money they never talk about how many church services they attended it's wild all of the things that we would gauge as successful they never talk about man I wish I would have been a little bit more important in this circle it's always the same things I wish I would have taken more risks I wish I would have loved more I wish I would have I wish I would have taken that step that leap man I just feel like there's even people in the room it's like you're waiting to take a a step in leap with God like what are you waiting for you only need God's permission that's disruptive to everybody in the room that has a controlling Spirit when our lives are rooted and grounded in God he becomes our source of nutrition right a plant only grows when it's rooted and grounded in something that's lifegiving maybe the reason you feel dry is you are rooted in something that's empty and Barren Jeremiah would say crack sistern you've you've am mounted yourself crack it's like they were going to everything that was unnatural and you know what the remedy was in Jeremiah 3 he says I see your idolatry and I see you're going all of your own way but I'm going to give you Shepherds after my own heart what's the remedy a people who are captivated and and in pursuit of a real God who is burning with desire Colossians 3 he would say this since verse three let's go there chapter 3 verse one I'm going to land This Plane some of you are like amen Colossians 3 since you have been raised to New Life with Christ set your sights on the realities of what where Christ is what we're going to try this again because that was weak sauce since you have been raised how many of you have been raised good if you've been raised with Christ he's encouraging you through the scriptures set your sights on things above realities in heaven where Christ is seated in the place of honor so we've got to see that God is giving us a picture via the scriptures that there is a God who is seated not fretting he's not worried about November he's not worried about the next War he's seated he's completely Sovereign and in control and he knows how this whole thing is going to play out and he says set your mind on things above and think about the things of Heaven not the things of what man be delivered from every vain imagination that is robbing you from intimacy with God surrender it just give it to him God I've been obsessing it's been compulsive and I feel scared and fearful God can handle all of that but you can't be fully captivated by him and fully captivated by your job set your sights on things above for you have died to this life ah this life has no hold on us we have died to this life in your real life say my real life where is it it's hidden with Christ in God and when Christ who is your I love that who is your life when Christ who is your life is revealed to the whole world you will share in all of his glory how many of you want to share in the glory of God some of you don't even know what that means but it's good we become partakers of his glory and so then we we become encouraged we set our eyes get rid of some stuff this is powerful man if you read this this will change you the book of Colossians is pregnant he says put to death the sinful Earthly things that are lurking within you now think about this I'm not going to ask you to raise your hands cuz then you won't come up but like I wonder if we were to be honest right now only you know man are there any things that are lurking within you that are dividing your heart from wholehearted affection with Jesus I just spent four days up in the mountains four days with just me and my wife in a retreat there were some things in my heart I could be honest with you about that because the nature of life is things just happen pain happens difficulties happen and those things amount and we think we could just push through and sometimes you just hit a wall and we come to scriptures like this and he's like put to death these things he says have nothing to do with sexual immorality impurity lust evil desires it should say Netflix and Hulu and HBO it should just go on you're like no no no I just fast forward it I don't want a bunch of bouncing eyes h H like we we can't it's not religion right it's not religion it's love like well it's only sometimes I don't know what it would go like but if you ever my met my wife she's redheaded she's big I wonder if I went up to say Hey listen it's not going to be all the time but every once in a while I'm just going to do my own thing but I'm going to mostly be committed to you but every once in a while it'll be quick just what she's semi Hispanic right that there's just no room for that and like in this season I'm just like Lord I'm sell maybe you're not go all in with Jesus I don't want to play games I don't want to make excuses I don't got time for like the half side boob on a Netflix show I don't got time for it I just like I don't no it doesn't affect me whatever bro doesn't affect you now like let's just stop making excuses and go all in with him have nothing to do with it don't be greedy for a greedy person is an idolatry he's coming worship and worshiping the things of this world because of this thing the anger I'm going to land it here because of these things the anger of God is coming you what do you see it I know there's no Sky Bible don't disengage you used to do these things when you're which Paul's assuming that if you're still doing these things you're and you're not saved unto a prayer you're saved unto a person his lordship does that's why the power of the confession is I confess that he is Lord but that has to be exp you used to do these things when your life was still a part of the world but now is the time to get rid of anger rage malicious behavior sland ER dirty language do not lie to each other for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all of its Wicked Deeds but then he says put on the new nature us tonight put on the new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him in this life it doesn't matter if you're Jew Gentile what's the point everybody can come play verse 12 since you chose since God chose you I'm going to pause there say over you God has chosen you can you hear that at 8:49 we're about to stop he's chosen you and he's chosen you to be a holy people you must clothe yourself with tenderhearted Mercy kindness humility gentleness patience and make allowance for each other's fault forgiving those who deserve to be oh praise God one person forgiving anyone who offends you you've never been offended but Gio's been offended somebody like amen remember the Lord forgave you so you must also forgive others but of above all say above all above above all this together in Perfect Harmony and let the peace that comes from Christ rule I love that I don't know what your translation says but let that peace rule in your hearts for as members of God's party here's your calling what do you call of you want peace man oh I want peace I want peace in my home I want peace in my region I want the peace and the lordship of Jesus to Reign but he's but he's looking for a people that would give themselves I'm going to I'm going to give myself to Mercy and patience and tenderhearted loving kindness and I'm going to continue to wrestle with God until some of us man we disengage if I don't stop we disengage with God and it's like well until you give me what I want I'm not going to give you what you want that's a I want to tell you that's a long hard Road and the path of humility right like anymore I just see there's two Pathways in life there's the way of Pride and the way of humility and the way of pride is hard it's difficult it's painful and many choose it pride doesn't just look like you thinking you're better than anyone else it's self-indulgence its independence its self-image what do people think about me Pride it's death render and few choose it when Jesus gives us two distinctions anymore broad path and narrow path the way and God lets everybody choose that's the sovereignty of God everybody gets to choose which way they want to go but friend in all love all love always lead to destruction it feels good at first because the Applause of man and being seen the way of humility feels hard leads to everlasting life it leads to in detention for longer than 30 minutes they're on their phone already wondering how many people like their post it's that I stand at the door and I knock and I wonder if there's anybody who I want to be intimate with them and that's really where I would like to land tonight no hype half the band left I was like whoa the band's gone you're but honestly it's perfect because it's like it's not a hype thing it's like man with like man am I walking the path of humility in my in my parenting in my Ministry I'm like Lord I just want to go lower like I just want they would choose to just lay down the and they would just say you know what like I'm just going to come humble myself before the Lord because the ways of the kingdom are like this if you want to go high got to die it's just the way it's wor it's just the way he's wired and made it happen so I'm going to Simply ask us to stand I'm going to pray over us and then we're going to we're going to we're going to invite you to come and be before the Lord and I just felt to pray and anoint those that would just come there should be some that are going to come pray also but I'm actually going to pray and anoint those that that feel like man I just want to make a fresh surrender and after doing this for 15 years I'm not going to like leave here insecure about how many people come up I'm just like whoever really is like man I I feel like I'm asking asking God for that Holy dissatisfaction I'm not promising you that you're going to come up here and that you're going to feel fire and goosebumps in the tiggly wigglies but I promise you God sees it God sees it so Father Here we are we come before you tonight we ask you for great grace I'm asking you Holy Spirit even now to begin to speak to to us about areas of Pride arrogance any place God where we have made an idol gift of surrender I ask you tonight for those in the room that they feel like yeah God I'm asking you to give me a holy hunger a holy dissatisfaction feel for your house has consumed me this one to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold his Beauty and inquire in his Temple where he says God I will not sleep or Slumber until you find a resting place God I'm asking tonight that you would awaken [Music] desire that you would shift priority that you would break off the accusation and the Witchcraft that you would uproot discouragement that you would break off fear that you would we bind every Spirit now that has been operating has been sewing lies discouragement and deceit and God we ask for the voice of God to be loud to th we give you access this what I feel man we open our hearts wide tonight Paul said this I've given you my whole heart but you have been limited by your affections I'm asking you tonight God to touch our affections to rewire our desires that there would be a spirit of sincerity tonight so simply if you feel drawn by God I'm just going to ask you to come we're going to lay hands and if it's just a few we're just going to take our time pray and anoint and I'm just going to ask you to be still this isn't prophetic word time this is you making Covenant with God so honestly I just I would weigh it cuz it's like a Line in the Sand moment God I just come before you and I Surrender I'm asking you to speak into my heart I would just begin to have a dialogue with God we yield we yield God I'm asking you tonight to bring Zeal encouragement and desire every place that is felt Barren we're asking you to love back to [Music] life we ask you for a fresh baptism [Music] we ask you even tonight for a we Reawakening of dreams for those that have lost heart in dreaming with you God I'm asking you tonight to blow on those desires let there be fresh tears tonight for those that have felt hard I'm asking you to break the fellow ground let there be fresh tears [Music] I just feel the Lord tenderizing we thank you God that you are the God who makes a Heart of Stone into a heart of Flesh [Music]