john chapter 5:es 2-4 i want to read from the NASB version i want to warn you i don't know where I'm going but I feel something on it they've been asking me for 12 minutes Pastor Mike what's the topic of today's message i still don't know yet i just know when I was studying something touched my spirit and I couldn't come out of John 5:2-4 look at what it says now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda having five porches in these lay pay attention to verse three in these lay a multitude of those who were sick blind lame and withered michael waiting for the moving of the waters for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water whoever then first after the stirring up of the water stepped in was made well for whatever disease from which he was afflicted look at verse three again in these lay a multitude of those who were sick blind lame and withered if you're not too mean look at your neighbor and say "Neighbor neighbor I got a whole lot of issues i got a whole lot of issues but I think it's time to get up it's time to get up." You may be seated i I think I want to preach today it's time it It's time it It's It's time it's time and everybody said it amen it's It's time i want to begin today's lesson with a question and on the surface it may sound simplistic maybe even insulting but I need you to fight the urge to answer too quickly and here's the question do you want it not do you know what God said not do you pray about it not do you post about it not do you talk about it but deep down in the parts of you that nobody sees do you want it i know you say you want it i know you talk like you want it but if you had to make a decision today that I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get it the question is do you want it and I would like to argue that the average person listening to me is wrestling between the principle of inactive agreement the principle of inactive agreement the principle of inactive agreement suggests that saying yes with your mouth but no with your behavior creates spiritual and emotional dissonance that saying yes with your mouth but no with your behavior creates spiritual and emotional dissonance pastor Mike I want to shout but I don't know what dissonance mean dissonance is when two things that should agree don't agree dissonance is when two things that should agree don't agree dissonance is the conflict between what you believe and how you behave michael dissonance is the conflict or the tension between what you believe and how you behave or between what you desire and what you're doing dissonance is the internal tension that happens when your thoughts actions and values don't match and my problem with the people listening to me today is not that you say you want it my issue is you may have spiritual dissonance that your words ain't matching your actions that you say God is a provider but you stressing like you got to do it you say you want healing but you keep talking about what hurts you believe you got purpose but you keep talking about the stuff that drains you you say you're disciplined but you keep living in distractions your hands was lifted in praise and worship but you in mess on Monday and Tuesday and the issue I got not just with you but with me is that when are we going to get to a point where what we say match what I do that's why when you see me shouting in church I'm not putting on a performance and playing with y'all cuz that's what I'm supposed to do if Brad would have never told me to lift my hands my hands go up because my life came up and I wonder if I got anybody who brought your praise with you today who can say "Not only do I want it but my actions prove that I want it." See spiritual dissonance means not only am I waiting on it but how I behave while I'm waiting let you know that I'm serious about what I'm waiting on who waiting on a breakthrough who waiting on overflow who waiting on a miracle who waiting on promotion not with your worship that cute i can tell what you waiting on by how you praise them while it's on the way and what if I told you cute praise mean you waiting on something little medium praise mean you're waiting on something but when you got crazy undignified it don't make sense praise that means I'm waiting on something that I can't even describe that's why your neighbor looking at you up and down like "Why you shouting?" Cuz your praise look like you ain't got bills problems enemies haters sickness stress or distractions but I'm not praising God because I think i'm praising God cuz I know [Applause] you don't want it you don't want it three of y'all ought to look down your row and say "No you don't want it." Now look at somebody else tell them "No you don't want it." See when you really want something if somebody start whispering about it some in your spirit go to another level mary knocked on the door to see her sister Elizabeth and when she saw her cousin before Mary ever said anything out her mouth the baby on the inside started leaping i can tell who really want it cuz when you get around other people who got it something in you [Applause] i don't know who I'm preaching to but I dare you to reach over that neighbor and high five another neighbor and tell them "My praise proves I want it." Tell them "But you done messed around and sat next to the right person." Tell them "I'mma praise God for what you say you want cuz you acting like you really don't want it and I'mma let you watch what I want to really." Praise God do you want it you ain't acting like it do you want it you ain't acting like it do you want it you ain't acting like it do you want it you ain't acting like it can I preach the three parents who done ever told your child "I'm taking you somewhere this weekend." And you almost don't even take them because the whole week what they keep asking you "Is it Saturday yet is it Saturday yet?" I said "I'm going to take you Saturday mama it's Saturday i'mma take you at 2 is it 2?" No it's 11:00 mama is it 2 it's 11:15 mama is it 2 it's 12 but mama Mama if you ask me one more gift they don't even ask you no more do it what they do their actions show you you told me you was going to do something and I'm not sitting still till you do what you said god I love you but you told me my family would be blessed you told me I would walk in overflow you told me my children's children wouldn't struggle the way I struggle i need seven folk who want it to give God a I want it pray [Applause] it's the principle of inactive agreement suggests that saying yes with your mouth but no with your behavior so the question I got to ask three of y'all is do you want it do you want it well if you want it act like it Michael if you want it act like it i'm telling you my problem ain't the fact that you want stuff my problem is you walk around antithetical to what you declaring no I'm going to get married act like a wife i'mma find me a good woman act like a good man i'm going to be a millionaire act like one i'm going to own my own house act like it in your apartment i'mma have me a nice car one day act like it by how you watch what you drive that's what six of y'all who tired of people telling you you fake i'm not fake i'm acting like what I'm expecting who am I preaching to in here who understands that it's time for my behavior to match my confession it's critical you want it act like it and as we slide into John chapter 5 Jesus walks up on a man who's been stuck for 38 years as we tiptoe into the corridors of today's text we find ourselves situated and acculturated in a very much pregnant Johannan text it is in John chapter 5 jesus slides into the scene and meets a brother who's been at a pool who's been sick Michael for 38 years you missed your shout he's been sick for 38 years Pastor Mike mike I want to shout i just don't see it yet he's been sick Michael for 38 years pastor Mike what does that mean PMJ jesus is only 33 he been sick longer than his healer been born that's for six of y'all who think just because you older than somebody they can't free you from some stuff michael I came to preach to 20 young millennials who gifted saved anointed and creative and if people would stop looking at your age they'll realize God put something in you that'll shift somebody's i wish I had a mama who been struggling long enough to say "Lord if you going to send a healer let it be one of my children that I may not do it with my hands but my baby's going to birth everything." He's He's been sick for 38 years jesus is just 33 years old we have his diagnosis and Jesus rose up on him and ask him a question he does not ask him what he's been diagnosed with he does not ask him who hurt him he does not ask him who left him he asks him "Do you want to Michael be made whole?" I'm going to have church by myself today do you want Michael to be made well this is critical because sometimes the most spiritual thing that God can do is make you confront what you say you want michael sometimes the most spiritual thing that God can do is make you confront what you say you want see this is why you got to be careful what you pray about cuz some of y'all keep telling God what you want and God is like "Okay if you really want it let's see God I want to be a king okay cool fight Goliath i want to be a leader cool handle betrayal." See everybody want it till they got to fight to get what they saying they want jesus when we tiptoe into this text in John chapter 5 we see people the scripture says right here in verse three in these lay a multitude of those here it is who were sick blind lame and withered you missed it there lays a multitude I love how the message version say it the message version says there were hundreds of people all right let me paint the picture you have two pools right you have a upper pool and a lower pool okay around those pools are five porches okay all five porches had hundreds of people who were sick blind lame and withered okay what does that mean PMJ they believed a superstition that to this day we don't know to be true that the angel would come down stir the water and the first person in got healed look at how crude this is they are at the pool called Bethesda put this in your nose bethesda means house of mercy how are you acting merciless at a house of mercy how you don't have no grace for who finished second at the house of grace that's why you got to be careful that you ain't just shouting we are rock city but acting antithetical to who God called us to be that's why sometimes you got to remove certain people from your life is not that they are a sin to be around but how they act without you makes it look like you ain't what God called you he said faster but faster is the house of grace but look at this superstition whoever jumps in the water first gets healed look at this spirit of competition look at this spirit of jealousy nowhere in the Bible do we see where it actually worked it is a superstition it is a superstition okay I want to give you a fact that I learned yesterday okay did you know that if you sleep for 4 hours three times a day if you take a 2-hour nap another 2-hour nap then after you get off work take a 4hour nap get up be productive and then right in the middle of night take another 4hour nap it optimizes your brain cells so you can operate at high levels who knew that i just made it up that's how silly the church is now just because somebody say something with conviction now you sitting there like "Oh my God." And some of y'all going to go to hell believing superstition over scripture michael that's why you got to get to a place in your life where you don't know what mama told you you got a relationship with God for yourself this is critical they were living on a superstition think about this five porches everybody sick and they watching the water certain people watching the wateroo certain people watching the sky they believe the angel came down so we see two different systems that are trying to be built to fix issues in our lives certain people watching the water when this water stir I'mma jump in certain people watching the sky when I see the angel I'mma time it which one would you have done are you waiting on the movement or you waiting on the sign that That's critical but look at me look at the scripture all these people sick i'm going to run i'mma shout with this section i don't think they going to give me me us two going to shout right here okay you You ready this just me it's us two okay yeah us you okay here it is i told you hundreds of people sick blind lame withered jesus walks up to a man who's been sick for 38 years okay I thought you was going to catch a shout i think you missed it i'm I'm going to do it again okay hundreds of people are sick blind lame withered but Jesus walks up to this man who's been there for third okay you slow but you worth waiting on everybody there wanted a miracle but out of everybody in attendance Jesus said you this is why folk don't know what to do with you cuz all y'all waiting on the same thing i can't explain why God keeps saying i just need you to look at your neighbor and tell them stick close to me i got a you anointing that out of everybody in my family you going to be the one out of everybody on my job you going to be the one i ain't trying to be messy but out of everybody on my rope you going to be the one who get a breakthrough and you don't have to hate on me to be around me cuz when God do it for me I'mma turn around and do it [Applause] look at your neighbor tell them "Stick close." Cuz my you going to turn into your you i don't think you heard me in the balcony or overflow my you going to turn into your you what you talking about who done got blessed this year and when you got blessed the first thing you thought about was I'mma take care of so and so and they over there with an attitude not even realizing when I become a you I'mma make you my you i just need you to touch the person next to you and say you it you in you it tell them when God give me overflow you going to get some of that when God open a door you going to get a open door when God heal my family your family going to be blessed i need you to jump up and touch five people and say "You you you." Put a little organ in the monitor i may have church yeah pastor Mike off in this thing watch me preach watch me sing come out all my trials and Superman that thing watch me i'm I'm sorry i don't know why that hit me right there i'm praying for you but six people looking at you like "Why you shouting the way you shout?" Tell them "I ain't never had the money I needed never had the resources I needed never had the support I needed but for some reason I got this type of favor that God looks beyond my fault and says "You [Music] [Applause] Mhm yeah yeah yeah yeah you Yeah so hear me so so we could go we could go to church right here i I could tell the hoe we could be shouting right here but but I got to free you because he didn't just pick him cuz he liked him okay look at verse six why did Jesus pick him is it right there on the screen put verse six on the screen it says "When Jesus saw Michael him lying there michael come on now he knew he had been there a long time i'mma preach to this section and they sleep over here i'mma preach to y'all jesus picked him cuz he saw he had been in that predicament for a long time have you ever stopped to consider that you complaining cuz of how long you've been struggling and don't realize your length is actually your strength michael have you ever stopped to consider that sometime God makes you wait the longest cuz he's about to do something for you that can't nobody else reproduce oh I felt that in the spirit d I got to pause and parathetically digress because my long time ain't your long time see you sitting there like I've been struggling for 12 years god bless you but some of us 12 months been a long time for some of us 12 weeks is a long time for some of y'all 12 days is a long time for some of us 12 minutes is a long time i'm not going to hate on how long you've been in it you better not hate on how long I've been jesus saw he had been there for a long time coach this crazy i'mma read verse six and see if they see it when Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been there a long time you missed it nowhere in the scripture do they talk the first thing that Jesus says to him is "Do you want to be well?" How does Jesus know he been there a long time without a conversation maybe because he was comfortable that word new is ganosco we talked about it at Bible study remember to know through experience jesus looked at his posture and said "Oh he been in this a long time." Yeah yeah i'm going to say this only three of y'all going to catch it but some of y'all going it's going to hit home and you going to bust out laughing like "He talking to me." All right you ever had somebody talk to you about their problems and you can realize they new broke okay don't nobody want to say amen to me if it's a such thing as new money it's a such thing as new broke they sitting over here telling you stuff like "I just need God to come through cuz I don't want to be late." [Music] You don't want to be late baby i'm 3 months late right now all you got to do is call the car dealership and put that payment on the back end and then go park your car at your cousin house get their car now you drive their car they drive the cousin car when they show up they I just need me six weeks to cuz See you've been in it so long being late don't scare you stuff being cut off don't scare you okay I'm going to mess you up see new broke won't even go to the store new broke won't even go out to eat long time broke go out to eat and just be watching them like here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go overdraft came through in Jesus name I still got to eat I ain't going to go hungry cuz I ain't got no money it's because you become comfortable [Applause] Yep yep yep yep yep yep it was a multitude of people sick blind lame withered waiting for the moving of the water spiritually this is not just a healing site please put this in your notes it is a hospital of halted hopes oh this is good today it is a hospital of halted hope did you put that in your notes Pastor Mike what is halted hopes halted hopes is a phrase that captures the emotional and spiritual reality of having expectation without manifestation that's crazy that's crazy halted hope is a phrase that captures the emotional and spiritual reality of having expectation Michael with no manifestation make that real simple pmj halted hopes are dreams prayers and desires that were once moving forward but now feel paused delayed or dead pastor Mike you still too deep make it real simple for me i got you it's expectation without manifestation pastor Mike that's still too spiritual it's hope with no results it's belief without breakout it's belief without breakthrough it's waiting without seeing it simply put it's when you're believing for something but ain't nothing happened yet they have halted hopes it's when you still believe but you tired of believing it's when you still show up but your faith isn't moving like it used to it's when you know what God said but you don't see what God said halted hope is when you want it but at this point you just tired of wanting it cuz the weight has broke your wanting i don't know who I'm preaching to in here today but I came to preach to three people who will stop fronting and faking church and be honest with your pastor and say "Pastor I love God but when he going to do it?" Also don't nobody want to say "Amen." Ain't nobody going to stand up with me Carrie pastor Mike I play music i'm a musician every Sunday i serve faithfully i've been in church when is it my time i shouted with them when they got a breakthrough but when are you going to do something for me and see church got a whole lot of y'all stressed cuz you were taught that if you ever question God you are blasphemy but it is David who said in the book of Psalms "Why are you hiding from me?" Everybody want to talk about baby bro everybody want to talk about when you get it but don't nobody want to talk about when it ain't happen yet yeah see I'm preaching the three of y'all but you don't want to say amen cuz tradition has taught you that you can't question God yes you can he is my father i can have conversations with my father if I tell my son I'mma do something for him and he comes to me and says "Dad remember you told me?" And I look at him and say "I'm your daddy don't ever ask me none." That is abusive god is not abusive david shows us that you can talk to God you can bring him your concerns y'all don't like me today halted hope halted hope is when you want it but the weight has drained your wanting you might want to write what I'm going to say halted hope is what psychologists call learned helplessness michael learned helplessness learned helplessness when repeated disappointment listen to this sentence trains you to stop expecting change michael learned helplessness when repeated look at what trains you disappointment trains you to stop expecting change okay I got a dog at home right this my guy this my dog i bought this dog fell in love with him all right looked in the newspaper saw some puppies for sale and boom bought the dog brought him home thought he was going to be in my head we was going to be a TV family okay I was going to bring the dog home we were going to have pictures he was going to wear clothes everybody was going to love him i bring him home whole house allergic to him i'm cuddling with him i'm kissing baby i look up my arms broke out face broke out miles coughing mike can't be around him mace got allergies i'm like "What's going on?" I go to the doctor they said "Did you bring any pets in the house to see you're allergic to his dander." I was like "Oh god." So so what I've been having to do for years is when I play with him put gloves on i wouldn't want to get rid of him he's my guy so so I just I just put I just put gloves on or put a long sleeve shirt on and kind of play with them then instantly go hand sanitizer take me some Algra or whatever I got to take okay all right so then I knew he had to spend time outside so then we got this fence electrical fence and we got him a collar that way he don't go outside of his home okay here it is okay it's only one problem i as of today as of two seconds ago at my house he is outside with the collar on the collar is on it's only one problem the battery in his collar is like the battery in your smoke detector i'm preaching to three of y'all that battery been dead for 3 years they never told me when I got the collar the game is you got to get the subscription so every other month they send you a battery my dog could leave right now but pain has trained him to live in this box and some of y'all don't realize you've been free for 3 years disappointment got you thinking this is as good as it gets disappointment got you thinking that cussing each other out is normal disappointment got you thinking since ain't nobody ever had no money you ain't going to have no money either the devil is a liar am I preaching to anybody it's called learned helplessness i don't know who I'm preaching to but something just shifted in here right there it's called learn helplessness people going to say you switched up over the next summer cuz they don't realize I just realized I got learned helplessness in my relationships i'm so used to betrayal i'm so used to people not giving me what I give them that I've recepted the fact that that's how things are supposed to be it's when you create these narratives that aren't true [Music] but in the spirit halted hope is not the end i'm going to run cuz whenever you experience halted hope it's a setup preach Mike for divine interruption oh I'm going to have church by myself today Michael divine interruption preach boy divine interruption is when God oo breaks into your routine rhythm or reality not to harm you but to heal redirect and accelerate pastor Mike I want to shout but you got to make that make sense divine interruption is when God disrupts your schedule your comfort or your expectation to fulfill his will Michael not yours pastor Mike I want to shout but you got to put scripture on it okay so divine interrup interruption is when Moses is in the fielding sheep then out of nowhere a bush catch fire god put this in your notes interrupted his comfort so he could walk in his calling okay that didn't make sense it is the picture this is critical this is the picture of Mary planning her wedding thinking she getting married on Thursday only for God to interrupt her wedding plans to tell her "You pregnant?" Divine interruption is Paul on his way to persecute people and Jesus interrupting his lesson to knock him off his high horse and blind him for three days why PMJ cuz he was headed the wrong way with the right passion oh my god my God divine interruption is you being crazy in love and God making y'all fall out cuz he realized the passion you were giving them wasn't being reciprocated so it hurt you but you don't realize in the future divine interruption is you being on a job saying you want more but your actions won't go apply for nothing more so God making them fire you so you can get in purpose see everybody want to break through don't nobody want to break up and sometimes God got to break some stuff up so you can finally walk in your break michael you thought I'm going to run it was rejection but it was redirection please listen to what I'm about to say and God is not just changing your path he's correcting your pace michael God is not just changing your path he is correcting your pace pastor Mike I want to shout but you got to make that make sense god is not just changing your path he's correcting your pace path is where you're going michael pace is how fast you going to get there god customizes your path to your purpose but he also sets your pace for your development sometime God speeds you up then sometimes God slows you down see the problem ain't where you going sometimes God slowed your pace down because had you got there too quick you wouldn't have been ready for Goliath i I need a better church i'm going to find me another church i'm going to find me another church david David is anointed king but he don't get a crown it's because his path was to the crown but God had to slow his pace down cuz if I put you on the throne and you don't know how to fight they not going to be able to testify nothing if his pace wasn't slow they never would have said Saul killed his thousands but David okay look at this some delays aren't denials you You're going to put this in your notes are you going to type some delays aren't denials you're going to tweet this one you're going to put this one on your page some delays aren't denials they're divine speed limits some delays aren't denials they are divine Michael speed limits god said "If I keep letting you move at the pace you moving you going to crash out." Can I say something to y'all that I ain't said out loud that I think I need to say i am so grateful God didn't do none of this when I wanted it derek Julian I'm I'm so glad God didn't let me get music till I was dang near 40 i'm so glad God didn't give me all these members till I was dang near 40 cuz had God gave this quality of people to a 36 33 year old kid I would have wasted my blessing some of you don't even realize that the reason God has slowed you down is because he can always speed you up i I I I got to I got to go did you hear what I just said the reason God slows you down okay it's the equivalent i I got Mike I got Mandanda a car at his 16th birthday party okay got Mike a car the Christmas leading up to his 16th birthday okay told Mason yesterday you're not getting a car at 16 may said "Dad I don't even want a car i'm focused on football i'm trying to grind i want offers i'm trying to get to college that's where I want to go." He said "Dad I got two big brothers listen to me i got two big brothers who going everywhere I'm going they can drive." He said "You can get me a car after the football season." I'm locked in right now okay so look at this the path is his car the date is December or January but if I see maturity come here or if I see a deal that I can't pass up I'll get the car cuz I can either slow him down but because I'm in control I can also speed it up okay I'm going to mess you up okay I'm going to mess you up your problem is that you're here and you're trying to get there and God is making you move slow and God is making you move slow and you're paying attention to how fast everybody else going you don't realize that the car that zoomed past you crashed in the turn [Applause] and God is looking at you like "You so ready to get here fast." But you don't realize you ain't got to get here fast i can just bring this [Applause] Am I preaching to anybody i ain't got to rush and get there well I got to hurry up and do it before they do it they can do it first that don't mean they going to do it better i wish I had a thousand people who will just jump up and shout "My pace is right." God your will nothing more nothing less nothing else i'm moving at the pace i want to be a millionaire by now okay cool that might not be the pace see I want to help you are you depressed over the path are you frustrated with the pace path michael pace path where you going pace how you going to get there so hear me when I say this i need you to catch this now look at this exodus chapter 13:17-8 god didn't take Israel the shortest way okay all my Bible scholars all my Bible scholars how long should it have taken for them to get to the promised land seven days how long did it take 40 years pastor Mike how does a sevenday walk turn into a 40-year journey it's because God knew the path he had to slow down the pace pastor Mike I'm going to be real with you i get everything you're saying and I want to shout with you but you going to have to tell me why he slowed the pace down he didn't slow the pace down because they weren't ready for the promised land he led them around by a desert road because they weren't ready for war see they had to move slow cuz they weren't ready to fight you don't get it if after 40 years they were still scared of giants they would have been even more soon as they got there so the question ain't why God taking so long the question may be what is he trying to develop in me michael you're not late you learning [Applause] you're not late you learning you not behind and you being built don't let cultural clock rush you into what God is refining for you that's why Habac 2 and 3 said "For the vision is yet Michael for an appointed time it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail." Look at this line though it terries don't nobody like this type of preaching right here though it takes forever wait for it okay you don't like that young people message version look what the message hood version says and then God answered "Write this write what you see write it out on big block letters so that they can read it or run and run." The vision message is a witness pointing to what's coming look at the next line it aches for the coming it can hardly wait and it doesn't lie michael if it seems like it's happening slow wait there's certain phrases you can't say at every church i'm almost scared to say this next line cuz whether you've been in church 50 years or you're a teenager been in church 20 minutes it's just search stuff you can't say if you want it because it's on the way it's going to happen at the right time i don't know who your ne what your neighbors going through but I just need you to squeeze their hand at home in this room and in overflow and shout "Wait on it it's getting ready to happen." And it's going to happen at the right time i need you to touch somebody else and shout "It's getting ready to happen." Tell them "Doors are getting ready to open yolkes are about to be destroyed chains are getting ready to break sickness is being healed [Music] path pace see the wrong pace on the right path still leads to burnout in leadership we call this put this in your notes disruptive movement disruptive movement means whereas what's comfortable is shaken to real reveal what's critical i got to stop i done ran out of time disruptive movement is a move of God that breaks norms interrupts routines challenges systems to release revival reform and revelation it's called disruptive movement jesus flipping tables is disruptive movement david dancing out of his robe is disruptive movement david broke royal protocol cuz they told him to be dignified but David broke the box on formality to show raw worship the early church is disruptive movement they didn't grow through marketing they grew through miraculous disruption tongues Holy Spirit healing boldness gideon winning with 300 it's disruptive movement god disrupted traditional battle strategy and used fewer men to gain greater victory proving this a word for seven of y'all i can do less with more i'm going say this only three of y'all going to catch this god ain't raising up another wave of copycats god ain't raising up another wave of copycats i used to say that it's all right to be a copycat if you got the right cat to copy that season is dead that season is dead we are stepping into a season of unadulterated authenticity god ain't raising up another wave of copycats he's raising up disruptors i'm fa to run by myself people who flip tables break ceilings shake systems with truth love and fire i don't know who I'm preaching to but the reason you don't fit in still and people don't even realize they intimidated by the dumbed down version of you i'm preaching i I I got to go i I'm got to go people don't like you and you ain't even fully being you yet see I am I need somebody to just shout "I'm a disruptor." [Music] I don't just move crowds i mobilize callings i don't just go viral I go vertical y'all don't heard what I just said i don't just go viral I go vertical i don't just get attention I awaken authority the text shows us that God is looking for some people who don't mind being disruptors that's why secret sabotage has always been your lot in life that's why you got confetti and conspiracy you can't even celebrate for having to fight in the same same seasons that you have to celebrate but God said "I'm giving you the tenacity to praise me in pain to shout while you struggling to give me glory while people gossiping that's why if your neighbor don't high five you you don't need them to high five you you ought to high five yourself and shout "God didn't bring me this fuck." Yeah yeah so when we see these people bro sick blind lame withered the conditions that calling delay destiny here's another word I want to give you and confused capacity confused capacity pastor Mike what does that mean okay confused capacity is when you don't know how much you really carry so you mishandle what you were meant to multiply yeah yeah confused capacity is when you don't know how much you really carry so you mishandle what you were meant to multiply do I need to say that again confused capacity is when you don't know how much you really carry so you mishandle what you were meant to multiply pastor Mike make that make sense confused capacity is the internal conflict that arises when your calling is greater than your confidence for some of you you don't have a calling issue you got a confidence issue your gift is bigger than your grasp your potential outweighs your preparation you got the oil but you ain't got the understanding you got the ability but you don't have the awareness you underestimate what's in you you overextend in what's not for you you mislabel what God gave you because it doesn't look like what they have it's called confused capacity it's a picture of a 25-year-old pastor started a church and people are telling me I look younger now than I did then that Pastor Mike you was walking around three-piece suits fake glasses because church culture taught us that that church wouldn't take you serious unless you looked older it was confused capacity yeah i may never be what they are but I will be who I am i'm preaching to somebody i'm preaching to somebody so the problem is that you It's not that you don't have capacity listen to me you don't have clarity your issue isn't capacity it's clarity your problem isn't power it's perception i'm going to make a statement you don't know who you are yet and so in John chapter 5 he says there's four types of people that I think are eupheanism or metaphors for what we see every day people who are sick blind lame withered i got to go fast number one sick that translation mean weak powerless frail this represents people lacking strength emotionally mentally and spiritually drained jesus make that make sense Pastor Mike they've been hit so hard by life they don't believe like they used to some of y'all ain't lazy you just spiritually low you're not just tired you're empty you have what we call traumatized faith traumatized faith captures a soul that's still functioning outwardly but fractured inwardly your faith still exists it's just wounded it is not the absence of belief it's the presence of unresolved pain it's not the lack of theology it's a heart trying to protect itself from further disappointment see traumatized faith is the spiritual version of emotional scar tissue i told my ACL my left ACL and so where I tore my left ACL it's healed watch this but I will forever have what that scar who else done had that surgery so now your knee got that little line in it i forever have that line in and the inside i had to work through all my scar tissue so traumatized faith is spiritual scar tissue your belief been beat and damaged so long your natural daddy ain't been present so long it's hard to trust a spiritual father so even when you get to a point where you start trusting your pastor that scar tissue reminds you i need I need somebody who's ever had surgery all my athletes who don't had surgery who know every now and then you make a move and be like "Gh what was that?" You can feel it or I'm going to take you way back you can look in the room and say "It's going to rain where my old folk at in Jesus name who be sitting there like yeah it's been the pain number two I got to go blind what does that mean go to the next slide it it means spiritual good job upstairs spiritually shortsighted and keep bumping into patterns repeating cycles missing signs trusting what looks familiar over what's faithful How do I know I'm blind PMJ cuz I'm spiritually shortsighted i keep bumping into patterns and repeating cycles missing signs and trusting what looks familiar over what's faithful i've never in my life been I've never in my life been more ready for the unfamiliar i'm ready to get hurt by new people i'm ready to be lost who vacation at the same place every year you know you already know you going I'm going to Tennessee i'm going to Florida i'm going and you already know where you going to eat right see I'm ready to go somewhere new and be like "Okay what where we turn at where we turn i don't want to be a slave to the familiar." So with that said watch this i'm ready to trust God a new Are you hearing me number one sick number two blind number three lame that's limping maimed halted that's what this brother was the the Bible don't tell us what we don't know how he got there we just know he's like that 38 years last but not least withered michael that means dried up shrunken paralyzed and a member apart spiritually this speaks to areas that once were fruitful but are now forgotten jesus came you already know this man going to get healed right you already know jesus tell him to take up his mat and he leave the focus in this sermon ain't the man it's everybody watch this who was left sick withered see I want you to open your eyes this brother got a breakthrough everybody else didn't so what needs to happen Pastor Mike if it ain't my season for Jesus to say you here it is it's time to wake up you may be waiting on a superstition versus the supernatural father I pray [Music] against the spirit of halted hope i pray that eyes are open yolks are destroyed chains are broken god I speak by faith years of hurt compounded confusion things that happened in their childhood things that happened in their past things that happened this year that they're functioning with but still not fully over is being reversed right now god I pray for a healthy church god we don't need numbers we need wholeness yeah so God in this moment don't let them just come to church or watch church and say "That was good." Let them be good god I speak by faith that they understand their faith ain't in a flawless man it's in a perfect God and so God in this moment we surrender to those of us who are dealing with faith fatigue dealing with halted hope dealing with spiritual exhaustion dealing with different inadequacies we feel empty mentally financially emotionally i ask that you restore them God replenish every area of their life that's experiencing lack god I speak by faith god weeks ago I stood before this church and told them something's coming i don't know what only to wake up and realize we may be at World War II so God I prophetically declare that you said in the book of Revelation we will hear of wars and rumors of wars that this is the season to come back to the heart of worship this is the season to forsake fame and forsake fortune and fall on our face before God and say "God if we ever needed you we need you right now." For God oil prices will rise price of gas will skyrocket grocery prices may go through the roof but I stand on the word that says "I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed beg for bread." God I prophesy by faith that as stores close put us in a position to buy them so people can get groceries whenever they need it put us in connection with farmers markets so we can have what we need for the people you called us to have put a hedge of protection around us that no weapon formed against us shall be able to prosper i speak by faith that God we are your children and on that solid rock we will forever stand it's in the mighty matchless name of Jesus the Christ we pray and the church said jump on your feet clap your hands right there that was God today wow before you log off before you leave I want to pray with you today uh if you can take somebody by the hand [Music] yes God yes God i pray that the hand you're holding understands the difference between path and pace that he understand that you're not being held back you're being developed you're not losing you're learning you're not being punished you're being built i pray right now that the hand you're holding walks in obedience i pray that the hand you're holding has the strength to stand on what God told him i pray that the hand you're holding stands on Psalms 91 that he who dwells under the shadow of the Almighty i speak by faith Psalms 23 over their life that yay though they walk through the valley of the shadow of death so Lord as we prepare to leave today today we just want to say thank you for just being God man you do so much that we never even thank you for some of us got up and rushed to church which was good but we never stopped to say "Thank you for waking us up this morning thank you for not letting a car hit us on the way here thank you for not letting our brakes go out." So God let this week be a week of thank yous for every high place and every low place every win and every loss god we're forever grateful there will never be another season of our life where we don't put you first in our time we don't put you first in our giving we don't put you first in our relationships god if you don't bless it I don't want it so God keep your hand on our lives it's in Jesus name we pray everybody say it i love you so much were you blessed today church