i love you i love you [Music] oh yeah oh oh I love you [Music] oh yeah you want to [Music] Good morning good morning good morning hey welcome to DVO Energy hey it's the last day of the month man rod tell them what you got tell them what you got dvo Energy let's go yes sir i'm convinced he only on the team so he could he could do that every Monday i'm convinced oh man go ahead and drop it you know the routine drop it let us know where you rocking from this morning uh what part of the world are you in we are here in Birmingham Alabama so we got the World Police and Fire Games going on so we got people literally from all over the country right here in Birmingham so glad you got up this morning though decided to rock with us let us know where you rocking from go ahead let us know where you rocking from in the chat right now all right shout them out shout them out shout out montgomery Atlanta we got London in the building london on the London on the track child we need to grow up because everybody went to the same place i'm out of there we got Nevada Florida Fort Wayne Indiana Paris Texas Ohio come on Nins i was just um Seattle Washington Indianapolis Indiana Tampa listen Kansas City Missouri oh man orlando Fairfield shout out to Fairfield all the way inect Alabama we got everybody Clinton the north south west everybody's up everybody's here even internationally we got everybody in the building and we're glad y'all in we coming off a amazing weekend pastor Darius reached deep down into his bag he pul he pulled out a word for you on yesterday so really came from uh Genesis 32 uh verse 24 uh talking about uh really a sermon entitled I need a break i need a break like he really he really I think brought out some some very relevant topics I think that everybody really needs to consider um in their daily lives but let's go ahead and dive in right now what really jumped out to you like what did you see in this text like did anything just just hit you upside the head first thing in uh Sunday morning oh yeah absolutely so I'll start off by saying I feel like the message really challenged our perspective about taking breaks and things breaking up in our lives that's good basic things breaking up in our lives because if we're honest we live in a culture where productivity is tied to busyiness everybody doing if I ain't doing nothing I'm not being productive you know like the busier you are the more things you got shaken the more productive you are which is not true you got people glorifying working 17 hours a day you know hustlers wear that as a bad you got people saying stuff like "I sleep when I die." But listen the devil is a lie i'm taking a nap i'm taking my take my rest the devil is a lie i'm gonna take me a nap but I mean but honestly and I'm laughing but people that know me they know Tam is gonna get her nap in i'm go I can't fight sleep like I'm going to get Listen I'm gonna get my nap in but you know so I think it really challenged the perspective um of not looking at rest as us not being productive in the moments that we're being still but that there is some productivity in rest and you know as I as I was thinking I thought about like how many times have we like made tired decisions you know just this week um I was telling one of my home girls so I'm in grad school and I missed something so small because by the time I started doing my work I was tired like so I missed like a part of the assignment because I was tired and then there have been times where you know you start doing you start trying to um do something work on something it's at the end of the night you're tired and you like okay let me lay down and I look at it in the morning with a fresh set of eyes and you see once you get you some rest like ideas start flowing and so I think he really did just really push us to challenge our perspective about rest and the idea of busyness and how busyness doesn't always mean that we're being productive that we can find productivity and rest that's good man that's good y'all better take a nap productivity is not directly tied just cuz you busy don't mean you getting anything done listen we'll come back to that we'll come back to that come on it don't mean you stir the pot listen it's it's you know I mean God forbid have y'all talked to somebody and like "Well I'm just chilling you know like well you ain't gonna do nothing." Well sometimes doing nothing is doing something hey so like don't don't tell me how long you been here like tell me what you got done right oh I've been here since 8 no no no what have you got done what did you What did you do yes yes well I got here at 7:30 i mean listen it's it's true so Tam said it not me guys tam said it not me listen I'm telling y'all go take a nap take a nap hey hey hey don't like that stretch out at your job that's on you that's between you and stretch out tell them I'm resting in the Lord the appropriate time and place jo jump in man what you What you get what you get that's so good you stir that part with that one it's the part of when you It's the rest part for me and the breaking part as well because when you think of rest you're and it's so it's so crazy and let me put it this way first i've read this story so many times i've heard it preached so many times but the way Pastor D pre preached it yesterday was brand new to me it was so so insightful and revelational to me because it helped transform me to the point that he said his rest you know rest isn't weakness it's wisdom i said "Wow." And then then it made me lead to the point where it says when he was talking about rest it's it's he was talking about rest rest from fear rest from doubt rest from being business as as Tam said but rest from trying to perform performance see rest is rest and people somebody going to get me in this in in uh in in comments rest is ceasing from doing your performance but doing God's purpose so we have back the block we have to split spin the block on that so when we do things in our performance we're trying to get God's approval and love based off what we think it is based off our strength based off what of busyness instead of productivity but when we do it based off his purpose when we do it when we we get his attention or his love based off his purpose we're trusting God we're no longer becoming a trickster but we're becoming a trust so in that part where we where we're trying to get God bars it said hold on now age on you with that trickster he thought he was young he thought he thought he was a teenager trickster pastor Darius said this and it said it in the me in the scripture but I love the demonstration that he did he said that the that the uh the man of God the man hit Jacob he poked Jacob in the hip and I loved it when he said that the hip represents stability the hip what do we do when sometimes and my little girl my my my baby she do it she do it now and she did when she growing up she would lean on her hip you know just to prove a point or something she'll lean on her hip and so many times we lean on our own understanding but the Bible tells us to trust on the Lord with all our hearts and lean not on our understanding that hip represent the fact that we're leaning on our own understanding but when the when the man of God came and he poked Jacob's hip he said "Stop leaning and start resting rest on me rest on me." But stop stop trying to perform and get in per purpose stop trying to be a deceiver and be a deliverer so it's it's so it's so that that part hit me so much because there are so many times in my life where I've leaned on my own understanding where I've leaned on my strength when I leaned on my knowledge based off what I can do instead of leaning on God instead of resting on God when God tell us to rest come to me who are heavy laden and I will give you rest it it was it was the breakin for me of that that's good rod in here dropping bars man y shout out Rod man he got his battle rap starter kit ready in July so he coming out the bag a whole hot 16 on y'all all right so we Let's keep rolling man i think uh Pastor Darius said something yesterday I thought that was really key uh he talked about not being able to hear God because your life is too loud and so running running running always being busy like seeking out and that's where you got to be careful if you're just going to do stuff without a real reason and so when we talk about being intentional like why are you doing like everything you're doing you should have a reason for why you're doing it come on come on you know if you cuz that you you could fall into a trap of busyness and not recognize it but the one the key that's always going to tell the truth is why are you doing this like what reason are you doing this what goal do you have what purpose that God gave you are you moving closer to by doing whatever you're doing and so make that assessment but he he talked about just the idea of not being able to hear God because you won't be still long enough to listen and so that's something where you got to be intentional about building that time in and I think that's a that's a struggle for everybody because everything is telling you go go go um you know people that really literally push as hard as they can to the point of like burnout to the point of everything you know we we lift that up like we lift up uh that behavior more so than we lift up and I think it's key and I think he he kind of kicked off a very important conversation is it is like you were intended to to rest recharge and go like operating at your at your highest possible capacity and one thing in kind of doing some studies of like the most successful people in the world one thing that a lot of them have in common is they get up really early but then they they go to bed like they go to they all go to sleep like they they don't stay up all night they don't they don't not sleep they go to bed early they get up early they have a pretty consistent routine and I think that kind of flies in the face of this whole idea of I don't get tired like you know so that I get tired i was tired you know so it's uh it's kind of that balance between um you know what we see as working hard and what we see as actually resting and giving time to hear from God because he said one thing that really stuck he said um uh rest is the greatest form of faith cuz you believe like you believe God can do more while you do less and that like that's so true cuz like a lot of things we like I got to get this done you talked about grass school man i got to I got to boom boom boom i got to then I got to go here i got kids this i got to work this and so you got all these things going on how can I take a break like how can if I take a break all this stuff going to stop or slow down so taking a break actually say "Hey God." And here's the here's what's so key is and you've probably experienc experienced this but to do a task when you're rested and fresh could take like half the time that's going to take you to struggle through it uh half focused and so I think that's I think we we scratching the surface of something very important and so we got to go and and look at the text so it came out of uh Genesis 32:4 so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until daybreak and so you know Rod talked about hearing this text from a lot of perspectives but I kind of want to talk about you know what you see in the text but uh one thing that that really stood out uh Pastor Darius was kind of breaking down that he sent everybody ahead of him and so he sent all these people ahead of him and so that kind of created and set the table for him to to just be by himself and so with everything that he had going on like how often was he just alone yes how often was he just alone and so let's jump into just looking at the text and and seeing what what stands out to you in the text genesis 32:4 NIV version try to get the King James on you got to tell I'mma get the King James out hey listen the original one huh but I going back to what you talked about about um us needing rest and um you know just being caught up in that busyness one of the things that I also took away was the fact that rest is a strategy oh you know like when you talked about you know you hit on again about how we look at stuff with fresh eyes look Clint she said it's a strategy i had a strategy make sure I see what I heard i'm screaming but rest is a strategy and it'll help you perform well in life you know when we talk about looking at stuff with fresh eyes and you know making you know decision not making decisions while we're tired you know I mean think about the tired decisions that you made that ended up you know ending bad just because we weren't soberminded and we thinking the Bible speaks about spo soberminded and we think of sobriety we think of drunkenness but sometimes we could just be so caught up in drunkenness is just you know overuse of anything that can kind of get your mind mental foggess right and so you know so for me you know when I thought about rest and the idea that it's a strategy because the the reality is that a lot of us we're wearing a lot of hats you know it's not just our job you know I know I've been talking about the employers and go take you a nap but it's not just our job but you know if you have a family you're a leader in your family you're a parent you know you a friend you a daughter a sister you know whatever you have so many different things going on pulling you in so many different directions and you need to have a moment where you're for yourself finding a way to um steal away and you know um what you mentioned Clint about how he sent everybody ahead of him it made me think about the times where Jesus would go off to himself his disciples but he would separate himself and it was one time where he told them to stay watch and pray you know and then he still went away like you know cover me but he still needed to go away and so I think that you know um what Pastor Darius brought up about solitude and us prioritizing those moments you know that's something that we need to factor in into our schedule for me at one point and I I got convicted with this message because at one season of my life I was real consistent about going to the gym but I would go at 5 in the morning because nobody was looking for me at 5:00 a.m everybody was sleep you know but and I'mma shout out our brother Jimmy he's on the Tuesday crew he gonna post every day where he went to the gym and his hashtag says hear God hours and he be there like 3:00 am 4:00 am ain't nobody looking for him at 3 or 4 to sleep and so I challenge us to find whatever time that looks like to get away where you not think about nothing you your mind is clear where he's able to just download and get to you whatever it whatever strategy he has for your life because again rest is a strategy get you some time to sit down we ain't just talking about sleep yes you need to sleep but rest you know get in your mind all right no so that's a good point that's a very good point i think that needs to be clarified because we about to have the most uh sleep sleeping church if you don't be careful and so everybody taking a nap like talk about like the difference in sleep and rest like and pastor Darius kind of got into this but the the difference in actual uh rest and and drawing closer to God and versus just sleep both important but I think that's a good that's a good delineation there go ahead and jump in Rod go ahead jump okay yeah i'm I'mma jump in right there when you said that um you said about rest rest leads to a connection with God's presence it leads to a connection with God's power and it leads to a connection with God's purpose so what I mean about that rest is we got the opportunity to be intimate with God when his presence we have the opportunity to be have a personal relationship with him rest in his power resting with being in connection in his power is g empowering us uh giving us clarity giving us um I'm sorry uh his provision is giving us clarity giving us discernment giving us that that time where we can just meditate and commune with God and with his and with his power it empowers us to love it empowers us to live by faith it empowers us to to be just like Jacob to wrestle until until God bless my soul it empowers us to be intentional there's a point there's I love Marvel movies i grew up superhero movies all together but it's one thing that Captain America said he said "I can do this all day because he's intentional about trying to get things done he's intentional trying to make things change." Rest brings transformation rest brings not only information but it brings that transformation on it so I love it that the fact that rest is different from sleep sleep is when you just out it's when you it's when you you you can call the cows home you and you just you just tired but when you rest you gain connection with God i think it brings about a peace too like um you know the Bible talks about perfect peace and so because you have you ever went to sleep and you woke up you still tired like so that's why I'm saying we're not just talking about sleep you know keep talking about taking a nap you know but but we're talking about having that peace where on the boat and he ain't his mind ain't wondering Is this boat going to sink is this go like he's he's at peace like to where you know he's able to turn some stuff off and release pastor Darius talked about releasing some things releasing what we releasing what we were never meant to carry you know some of you you may struggle with you know trying to go to sleep but your mind is just racing like you thinking about you know what I got to do tomorrow but I didn't finish today and who got to do this and who got to do that and all of that is natural but you know I would just suggest that we all pray Lord give me the peace that Jesus had on the boat where he was able to sleep in the midst of the chaos in the midst of the storm so that you can find rest like again not just sleep I don't want just sleep I want rest and look I'mma say this last came I saw this um it was going around on social media it was some girl this chef out in Nashville i don't know if y'all saw it but she passed away and they said that the last thing she said was um she said needs rest or something now you know I don't know not breaking news here don't you know but I'm just saying like I saw it and people were saying in the comments they was like "Y'all that's why we got to make sure we taking care of ourselves." Like cuz they said she worked hard she was very successful but she went to sleep and never woke up and so you know y'all we have to you know make sure that we're prioritizing rest because you know not only is it just beneficial to us mentally and you know spiritually but it's also healthy you know so I wanted to lift that up too no that's good i think uh I think that that that moves us to a good place of talking about you know because I think it's important to kind of make it real world practical and so just for everyone like what does rest look like for you like in the season you're currently in like when we talk about uh rest like what does that actually mean how does that translate to like daytoday life i know uh for me I reading a book called uh who not how and so for me it is all about cuz I can fall into doing everything by like doing everything myself like I can that's a trap that's easy for me to fall into and so now I've been in a season of like everybody around if you're responsible for something uh you responsible for it and if if you don't do it it might not get done so like I'm not jumping in and fixing everything for everybody yeah and so really committing to that um you know and finding more people like who can help like like actually seeking out folks that like now when I've come across folks that got a skill set that uh that that helps me that I can work with that offsets something I might not be good at like I'm all over that and so what I've seen is you know I can get more done a lot more done while also having some time to like rest and so like building that in because I have uh like I've always been the one to kind of flirt with burnout and so like my whole thing would be like go go go like climb climb and then I would just be kind of half burnt but coast coast on down a little bit then I'll cl you know so you know now I've been able to kind of go just a slow continual growth cuz it's like you know you're not doing everything yourself you're building that time in the rest and so you don't burn out and so you're not having to just coast for but I would like I would just go hard for months at a time and might just coast like nobody could tell I was coasting but like I knew I was coasting um but you know being intentional around like finding rest and so identifying for me that's been finding people who can help uh me do more you know help me uh achieve what I'm working on while also not having to do everything myself and so that allows me to build in time for rest uh while not sacrificing any projects or any achievements so I think that's important so let's just talk about like what what does rest look like how does that actually apply you know as we apply that to our lives what does that look like yeah uh I love it when uh when we we apply rest to our lives it it gives us like Sam said we're not waking up tired or we're not waking up trying to be busy we're waking up want to be in a productive mode our minds are transformed it's at a point where we we we God given us so much revelations during our rest time that he it it just renews us see the the we have to realize that the root word of restoration is rest so rest means restoration so God is repairing us in our rest he is renewing us restoring us in our rest so the boy acting different he acting different and see I love what Tam said i'm I know we running pressing for time but I love when Tam said that rest is a connection with God's peace and she brought up when Jesus was on the boat resting and they was all acting a fool or acting a Duncan talking about hey how can't he sleep at a time like this but you too were too busy worried about the storm and not worried about the fact that the Savior is right there with you m listen so they was they were they was trying to get some sleep but Jesus was trying to get some rest good that's good but that speaks to like leadership and so like a willingness to follow leadership because I've been in them moments like I've been like I've been the leader and then I've been following a leader and so when the leader be panicking like it's like oh man like you know everybody gonna freak out but like you know when the leader is calm like you should be able to take pull some some confidence from that and so the fact that Jesus was in there resting like I'm gonna be with you like you know ain't nothing going to happen to Jesus i'm like he's sleep well let me lay down against the rest over Jesus on his pillow with you come on man oh man but nah that boy said rest is the root word in restoration i came to talk to someone this morning who needs a fresh gift you need your soul restored i like that man so we we we we enjoy ourselves on Monday morning man i think this like I said the last day of June getting ready to kick off a fresh month tomorrow man uh halfway through the year like halfway through the year so make sure you're you're pushing that you're applying these things like really identify and look at yourself and see you know do you need some rest like how do you build that in how how what are you doing to get closer to God intentionally and so let's keep pressing man rock City is a place where uh you can continue to grow continue to learn wherever you are we want to make sure that we get you to that next step get you to where God wants you to be and so if you're looking for a church home text home to 28950 uh team would love to connect with you uh you know if you want a church home if you if you want to get baptized like get connected with uh what we're doing here at Rock City man we are all in on building people you know and so make sure you get connected if you want to sew into what we're doing here if you want to uh tithe give an offering you can text I rock and the dollar amount to 28950 just an incredible season man uh like I said we we are literally watching um you know our leadership Pastor Mike Jr Lady Jay uh really just grow and and be able to achieve at such high levels we're seeing the the impact that can be made we're seeing just the the creativity uh the the gifts that God has blessed him with be able to kind of uh be be seen around the world and make impact around the world and it it gives us just you know the ability to to know that uh you know what we're doing has a ripple has an impact and uh what we're doing through Rock City Church man is just so significant that um we don't want to drop anybody and so that might mean you need to get involved to ensure um that that we can reach everybody because one thing about PMJ he's not trying to do it all by himself you know he's trying to he's trying to train and develop uh more people to help you know be the the hands of feet of Jesus and so uh let's continue to go man i think um like I said hopefully you had a good June make sure you are intent on finishing this month strong and kicking off the next uh month full speed full force you know uh but make sure you get your rest too make sure you get your rest too don't be like Tam said man when you're getting out to bed uh in the morning and you're already thinking about getting back in it that evening you ain't even left yet and so uh no we're excited man um let the bishop pray us out this morning we out of out of time not out of message we out of time our hearts and minds composed heavenly Father Lord we just thank you for another daily digital disciplehip God we thank you for the word that came forth God we thank you for the man of God who brought the word forth yesterday god we thank you for every toe that he stepped on God every hit that he hit us with Lord to get our attention to get rest to and not only just get rest Lord to be intentional in getting our rest Father right now we pray Lord that somebody that was something that was said today would prick somebody's heart Lord would encourage somebody Lord to just stop fighting and start wrestling with intentionality God yes we pray Lord that we we'll start trusting in you Lord we pray Lord that we have no fear no doubt that we lean on you with our with all our heart God we pray Lord that we would not continue to be busy but to be productive God father right now we thank you for our man of God who has given us the opportunity to come on here each morning Lord to teach his people to teach our people God yes Lord and and to giving us the grace Lord to just be able to to express what God you have given us God we thank you for his life we thank you for his family thank you for his message his music God it's in Jesus name we pray amen amen amen amen amen y'all be blessed man have an incredible week make sure you get some rest [Laughter]