Empty is a sign that you're not doing nothing enough. Once the car hits E, the car is incapable of going anywhere. And it's almost like it's God's way of saying, Right.
Right. I don't need the car to go anywhere right now. You could have stayed with more in your tank if you just would have pulled over to the side of the road the three times I've tried to tell you over the last three weeks. Stop and sit with me.
It doesn't matter when we arrive. Yep. What matters is that we arrive. That's good.
What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Leader's Cut, as you can already see. We're back.
We're back. We are back. We're back like we never left.
Like we never left. Yep, absolutely. You had a lot of things going on this last, I mean, my guy. It's been a year.
You've climbed some hills this last nine months. Yep. But if you're new to The Leader's Cut and you don't already know, this is my twin, Mr. Tim Ross, the beloved Tim Ross, which those words, that name mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But it means something to me different than.
almost everybody else on the earth. It's true. This is literally my twin, my best friend on planet earth.
I love when we get to sit down because it seems like the Holy Spirit, well, we get to pull up a seat at his table when we sit down. And so that's our goal. That's our heart. Let's pray because we're going to jump into this thing. I guarantee you, me, we're all going to get cut on just a little bit during this episode.
All right. So let's invite the spirit of God into this conversation. Holy Spirit, have your way.
Yes, Lord. Whatever you want, wherever you want to go, whatever you want to say, whatever you want to ask for, we just want you to get what you want. Starting with us, Holy Spirit, have your way.
Yes, Lord. Cut on my flesh and every part of my flesh that is getting in your way. And Lord, for those who are battling exhaustion right now, I just pray at the front end of this episode that your spirit, oh God, would be so tangibly present wherever they are right now that it would take their breath away. Yes, Lord.
Holy Spirit, invade the place and space where they are right now, especially those. We're one to tap out. Holy Spirit, do whatever you want. We're here for you. We are not here for us.
We give this time to you. We yield ourselves to you. In Jesus'name, amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen. You were praying somebody. Hey.
That's how you get down. Hey. This, this, uh. obviously we've been talking the last nine months so we haven't taken a nine month break right they just haven't gotten to see us that's true have our time that's very true uh we've navigated over our decade and a half plus together we've navigated some exhausting seasons uh some simultaneously yep and others where you're going through it or i was going through it yeah there wasn't let's talk let's spend a little time today talking about exhaustion And let's start with, because I feel like we have to normalize it a little bit. Sometimes when we get exhausted, we feel it's because we're weak.
Right. And we forget. So let me ask you, let me pose you this first question.
Yeah. How do we get exhausted? And why?
How do we get there? Why have I gotten to an exhausted place? Let's walk through some of the different paths to exhaustion. All right. So the first thing that comes to mind is being at the gym.
And when I was with a personal trainer, there were certain days where she wanted me to do a certain exercise to the point of exhaustion, which meant I can't do another rep. And whether that's a leg curl, a bicep curl, tricep, you know, whatever we're working on. Here's the thing. That's crazy.
I didn't even think about this until I'm talking about it right now. she would give me the lightest weight and tell me to do it until exhaustion. So we're not even talking about heavy weight.
So she would put the rack on like 10 pounds and like just keep doing it to exhaustion. I literally step into it like this is cake. I have to give you 60. Right. But that same repeated motion over and over again, around 30, 35. I my legs are telling me, I bet you don't get to 60. Right. Right.
My mind's trying to go, oh, no, we're going to get there around. between 48 and 52 fire yeah so so when we think about exhaustion we we are usually thinking you got something heavy going on but you could have something light but it's so repetitive you're still as tired so great as if it was something heavy yeah that to me the picture like i think about the you parent who is in a difficult season with a child and maybe the needs of this child are a little bit different than other children and so it's just a daily weight to carry in it and it's not the heaviest weight in the history of humanity but it's a consistent weight to carry yeah and the enemy coming in and being like you're just not strong enough to carry this weight yeah that that isn't the point yep for sure the consistency of this weight that you've carried it this consistently. It's actually a good sign that you're exhausted.
Because if you hadn't been carrying it this whole time, you wouldn't be so exhausted. That's really good. So my mind goes to there. I'll give you another thought about how I think we get to exhaustion.
I think there are certain things God intentionally wants us to experience exhaustion in the midst of. Here's why. When we're on a hot streak, so to speak, sometimes i think we get a little too convinced that it's because of us oh for sure i've been guilty of that for sure you've been guilty of that where i mean you're just absolutely you're on a heater yeah absolutely it's going longer than you ever thought it would yeah absolutely and without realizing it it's like oh yeah and without exhaustion i would begin to think i was superman yeah i'm doing this and i think i've had to intentionally hit a wall where the lord was like ah Oh, you're being reminded of what you're capable of without me.
Exhaustion is not a bad thing. It's a reminder of some really good things. First, Lord, I need you. Second, this weight isn't going anywhere. I've got to keep carrying this weight.
Third, I would say, it makes me think about what weights I shouldn't be carrying. Yeah, for sure. Timmy, when you're exhausted, you're not thinking about when you burned out your legs, your body wasn't saying, okay, it's chest day now. Right, right, right, right, right.
Exactly. And yet in the church world with believers, it's like, nope, I got to keep carrying more weight. You're exhausted, dog. That's exactly right.
You need to pull back. Yeah, yeah. Not put more weight on.
Yeah, absolutely. It is not more godly to put on more weight when you have less energy. Sometimes we just need to sit. Yeah, for sure. And maybe even sit a lap out.
Yeah, absolutely. What do you feel like it is for believers, especially when they get to a place of exhaustion? Why do you think so many of us just try and push through it? Because everything in our Western society has supported us to do that.
So we are actually commended for going the extra mile. right? And so that's on your job. That's on your, you know, you can work a job and then it's like, I'm gonna pick up another shift or we got mandatory overtime, depending on what field you kind of work in, right?
If you're an entrepreneur, I have to, I'm the first one in, I'm the last one out. This business is on me, right? And I got employees, but I still gotta show it.
So, and this part of the world commends that. I'm learning Spanish right now. And my teacher lives in Spain and there's a siesta every day.
They ain't working like us. Right. We have vacations that will never be forced to take. And we make excuses not to take.
Yeah. They have holidays that they are looking forward to. Right. On January 1st.
Yeah. And they're going to be going for like. Two and a half months because it's a proper holiday. It ain't going to be none of this two week garbage that we got on this side of the world.
Right. So this side of the world has to fight against that corporate. grind culture hustle culture right i'm working it's working and it's like okay that that's that might be uh western culture it definitely isn't kingdom culture yeah kingdom culture is to cash your cares kingdom culture is to walk not run right kingdom culture is to dip depend on the Holy Spirit to do stuff that you think you got to do for 15, 16, 17 hours.
Yeah. So it's, it's, um, it's a mindset that we all have, but we all have to acknowledge it and then break it or it won't change. What do you feel when we talk about, uh, this mindset of I'm better if I carry more weight, how do we. burst a hole in that and get back to, you know, you know, what's actually the most godly thing to carry the weights he's asked you to carry. Right.
And nothing more. Nothing more. He will not grace me. Right. He will not anoint me.
Right. To carry weights he hasn't asked me to carry. That's right.
When I, when I talk to guys who are men or women who have hit the wall, so to speak, one of the first things I ask is what are you carrying that he didn't ask you to carry? I don't ask him, what do you like to carry? What are you carrying that he did not ask you to carry? And is it possible that a percentage of your exhaustion actually came from disobedience?
Now, it's not what someone typically wants to hear when they've hit a wall. But it's like, hey, if you're having to do an audit, a personal weight audit, man, I start with what am I carrying? Well, there's this one thing I really wanted to do. Yeah. Did God ask?
No. But I mean. At some point he's going to ask me, yeah, but not right now.
Right. And you're dying on the vine. Right. Because you're taking fuel for this. Right.
And moving it over here where God is not just not only not blessing it, he might be opposing it. Yeah, absolutely. All right.
So I didn't think this was going to happen like this, but this is like, I've been thinking about something for probably two or three weeks. because I'm a very sequential person. I like the order of things.
And I find this very interesting. This is Hebrews chapter number 12, verse number one. And I went back to New King James.
So NLT still ride or die in my heart, but I had to go back to it. New King James. I didn't go all the way back to King James.
I didn't want to. It comes out every once in a while. Yeah. I didn't want a rough ride. You know what I mean?
I didn't want the the the Honda Civic on a, you know, on a desert road, but the order of it. Right. Therefore, we also since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin. which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Weight came before sin, but it's very, very clear weight is not sin. So a lot of our exhaustion is because we are carrying weights longer and farther than we were ever supposed to carry them. And he's saying you need to lay that aside.
Oh, and sin too. Don't let either one of these be the obstacle that doesn't allow you to run with endurance. Like there's nobody that was at the Olympics that had on a backpack. That's a different, there is no specialty for that. There's length, but there's not weight.
100, 200, 400, 800, 5,000 meter, 10,000. There's length. There's not weight.
And where there's weight, there's not length. Absolutely correct. The weightlifters, their feet don't move. That's absolutely correct.
They lift that weight. They put it back down. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
So there is something about this weight. That was important enough for the writer of Hebrews to be like, I need to bring attention to this. I'm going to put it before sin. And we're a very sin conscious society.
Shocking. Right. That way we come before sin.
Like it's so disruptive to me. Yeah. Because.
We've been preaching to be, we're good at preaching against sin. Maybe we need to be preaching against some weight. You need to get that weight off you. It might be literal weight that you need to lay aside. It's hindering you from the purpose and plan that God has for your life.
It may be financial weight that you need to lay aside. This debt is crippling you. And this, and for some of us, Okay, maybe we were in a tight scenario situation, but for others of us, you just don't have discipline in this area. And now it's become a weight and it's affected your faith. It's affected the way you need to believe God.
You have worry, you have doubt, you have fear under the weight you put yourself in financially. You may have relational weight because you're still holding a secret that you haven't shared with your spouse. Because you think if you share it, the relationship's going to be over. Well, now you're acting out a version of your relationship that is not authentic because this other person hasn't been given the gift of making a decision to stay with you based on who you truly are than the person you're acting like you are.
So that's what this is for me right now. It's the weights. We got to identify what is our weight.
Yeah. In every season, what's the weight that could creep in that could make me cramp out? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Welcome back, twin. It happens. Okay.
So, I mean, I already know where half of your brain is. This episode is going to end up turning right at my face. I can already tell. And I know you're already thinking it because of what we're talking about before we record. So I'm just going to, I'm going to, I'm going to own it.
Yep. So, so talk to me for a minute because what I hear you saying when you say, okay, essentially we got to go through this audit. What weight am I carrying?
What weights have I created for myself? Yep. I love the way you said it. It's not just what weights am I carrying that God didn't ask me to.
What weight have I created for myself? Absolutely correct. Some of our own habits create unnecessary weights. Facts. Yeah, absolutely.
And if you knew things were going to get harder, for instance, when the people of Israel were leaving Egypt, if God would have given them a four-year heads up, how might they have prepared differently for a 40-year journey if you had four years to prepare? Right. But because we're ignorant and we don't know the end from the beginning, we don't know what's coming tomorrow. Sometimes we put off today's growth thinking tomorrow isn't going to bring any new length or weight.
And so we just go, ah, it's okay. And by doing so, we create more weight for ourselves. But what do we do with the weight?
When you feel you're buckling under the weight, you actually feel God's called you to carry. So we're talking about the stuff we got to get rid of over here. Yeah.
Let's pivot to what? Then there are the weights I can't get out of. All right. So I got, okay. This happens between us.
This is, we're at the Cheesecake Factory right now. I'm just telling you that right now. We've not even ordered yet.
The Lord knew I needed to be at Cheesecake Factory today. Buddy! We are at Cheesecake Factory right now. Because I can't even get to your question.
Until I deal with this picture in my head of the children of Israel, because they came out of Egypt with weight on them. It was gold. They wound up staying in the wilderness with the weight of disobedience.
That gold was meant for the tabernacle. But because of their disobedience, that gold wound up being. For a calf.
So the weight that he put on you that you're supposed to carry, God given weight. If you're not obedient, you will turn it into something he has not asked for before you've even heard what he's requesting. We don't even get to Ark of the Covenant, the outer court, the inner court, the Holy of Holies. And they have made something for themselves. With weight that was God given.
They came out with the GDP of Egypt on their back. That's that. That's why in Exodus, I think it's 33 when he started saying, hey, I want you. I want the people of Israel to give an offering for this tabernacle. He had to tell him to stop.
Why did he keep who has riches in a wilderness? Oh, the people that emptied the banks in Egypt. They got money.
Right. So he he weighted them down with something that was supposed to be used for his glory and his purpose. But because of their disobedience, they turned it into something else. So I think when God gives us an assignment and a responsibility, if we're disobedient, we will turn it into something else. Gold that was meant for an ark now turns into gold for a calf.
And it's what we can design. Remember, Moses had to hear. Right.
They didn't have to hear for the calf. They built something they knew. They built something they were familiar with.
They built something that was comfortable to them. But if you're going to build this tabernacle, though, make sure you build it according to my pattern, which means that it already exists. I'm asking you to take very crude elements compared to heaven, and I want you to make something here that already exists. I want you to make something there. I'll say it that way.
I want you to make something there that exists here, but you got to follow my instructions. And it will be acacia wood and shittum wood and gold and goat skins. And it's not going to look exactly like it looks up here, but if you build it according to my pattern, I will come dwell there.
I will move in. I will move in. to goatskin.
I will move in to wood. Now my streets are paved with gold. It's the best you got down here. It's asphalt up here, right? But so, so when you, when you ask this question, the thought I'm having is how many of us have a word from God or, or an assignment from God.
And we weigh ourselves down with what we think it should look like. Because a lot of it comes out of insecurity. I don't think nobody gets into ministry to like mess it up.
I don't think nobody's like getting into this, trying to fumble the will of God for their lives, but we will, we will overthink it. We will project, we will talk ourselves out of. We will talk ourselves into. Right. We will just, he said what he said, and then we'll just be like, but I think what he means.
I almost married the wrong woman off of that. The Holy Spirit told me, that's your wife. Exact words to a woman that was 13 years older than me.
I pursue her because I got a word. We actually date. She thinks she's a little bit crazy. I'm thinking I'm a little bit crazy, but I'm like, if this is the Lord, I don't care.
We have a breakup. This is in 98. I'll never forget as long as I live. We have a breakup in December of 1998. And I'm brokenhearted.
Then the new year comes in. I'm like, Lord, why'd you let me go through this? And you said, and the Lord goes, I never told you that was your wife.
I said, nah, fam, you ain't about to do this to me. Yes, you did. You did say that was going to be my wife. He said, I never told you that was your wife. I said, you told me that was my wife.
He said, exactly. You heard what I said, but you didn't know what I meant. I told you that was your wife.
In the same way, somebody would say, doesn't this person remind you of, hey, that's Preston right there. Oh, he acts just like. Preston.
That's not Preston. He told me that in January. I laid eyes on Juliet February.
I said hello to her in April. The rest is history. The woman he pointed out was the same height, same shape, and same disposition and mannerisms, everything.
Except this one was three years younger than me. Yeah. This one was 13 years older than me.
So sometimes when we hear what God is telling us, That doesn't mean we know what he means. We heard what he said. We don't know what he means. Thank you, Holy Spirit. I'm imagining this.
I'm not saying that, I'm not trying to insert anything. Adam and Eve have sinned in Genesis 3. The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent and he shall bruise his heel. Do you not, can we safely assume that they thought Cain was him?
Anybody thinking 4,000 years down the line, they don't know that. Right. Can we safely assume after Abel, it's either Cain or Abel? But then Cain kills Abel, so it ain't Abel.
And then Cain's on the run. And then they have Seth. Can we safely assume it must be Seth?
Our limited finite mind, we don't know. Right. We heard you.
I don't know what you mean. And if we're not patient. We make up our own narrative. That's how we get Ishmael.
This whole time I've been thinking about Ishmael. You covered disobedience, that one of the unnecessary weights that we carry is disobedience. Ishmael, that is a weight we carry that is unnecessary.
Absolutely unnecessary. And Ishmael is a misinterpretation of a word God gives. Absolutely correct. It isn't just, we think about manipulation.
Oh, it's taking matters into our own hands. It's a mis... misinterpretation and a gross misapplication. A hundred percent. When God says, this is what I'm going to do.
And then their thought is, okay, that was your part. Now we have to go do our part. And according to our limited thinking, we're going to put the best plan together that we can.
Yep. I can't get pregnant. Yep. The second best thing. Yep.
Come over here. Yeah, absolutely. Come here. Yeah. Yeah.
How many times we create these misinterpretation, misapplication, and then we got to live with it. Yes. There's a lot of Ishmael's out here, homeboy. I would rather go the slow route. Yep.
With no Ishmael's. Yep. And I have to wait. Yep. For my Isaac.
Yep. Then have to, I don't even want to get too specific because it may hit too close to home. Yeah, I get it.
But pay spiritual child support. which ishmael is still being paid buddy don't do that hey don't do that dog don't do that let it be a reminder in perpetuity in perpetuity it's going to cost me you ain't got a calculator big enough nah fam to calculate no the cost of nope and ishmael yeah absolutely But then it's almost like we act like it's godly. But it's another child.
No, no, no. It's not the child God was wanting to give. Absolutely.
And it's not apples to apples. No, it's not. That's not like adopting a child.
No, no, no. Not at all. I am creating.
It's a golden calf. That's exactly right. It's another calf. Absolutely correct. Just a human form.
Absolutely correct. And it became a weight. Right.
Yeah, bro. And rather than learn how to get strong enough to carry that weight, she ran them off. And I think that's what we see a lot with people who have hit the wall and are experiencing exhaustion.
There's just a lot of tapping out. I mean, what are the stats on how many people leave ministry every single year? Right.
I mean, it's it's it's because of the. OK. All right.
Let's go slow. Some of the people tapping out. should have never tapped in.
So let's deal with that first, right? A lot of these people that start out in ministry and then tap out of ministry is because they should have never been in ministry. Like that pressure is already a unique pressure that weight God-given, if it's a God-given assignment, there's already a weight.
That has to be managed. And you got to figure out how long can I stand up under it? And then when do I got to put this weight back on the rack? You know what I mean?
I'm talking about that dead squat now. You know what I mean? I've gotten up under some weight and lifted it up and taken two steps back and thought to my leg said, hey, I don't know what.
Take three of these wheels off. I don't know who you thought you were. That ain't you. That ain't me. If we go down, we ain't coming up.
These bird legs are snapping. underneath that weight they're about to they're about to rip right so and that's with a call from god right if you just volunteered it's about to be seven sons of siva yeah you're out of here so so even even under here's my question for you what does it look like because we've addressed the disobedient weight and the sinful weight and whatever okay what do you do with the weight that is god given that you're trying to manage because that gets you tired too right the assumption is well if i don't sin and if i'm not being disobedient right then i should be able to exactly how could i ever get if i just do it the right way i'll never get exhausted doing it oh you're gonna get exhausted anyway you're gonna get twice as exhausted because you won't even realize you've been exhausted this whole time that's exactly right It's exactly right. It's so true. Yeah.
I think we have to look at, here's what I think. As believers, many of us don't do a great job preparing. We just think God will carry me through.
I get that. There's a divine enablement and a grace from heaven. I get it.
But I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man. facts this is the theological tension i hold it's not just well god well if he calls me to it he'll carry me no that how many times did we hear that growing up yeah that is actually setting people up for failure for failure absolute failure it takes away your humanity that's right that's exactly right oh god i love you it's all focused on god if you call me to it'll carry me through it well i yes i i get it but not if you don't do what you need to do not at the expense of pace yeah Not at the expense of planning. Yeah. Here's how I say it to the younger ones. When no matter what their calling is, business, ministry, home, no matter what it is, when they say, I feel like God's given me just a huge calling.
Great. And I love that. But I've actually learned a litmus test for what you actually believe the size of your calling is. Your preparation. And it.
If you're not prepared, you can't finish the race well. Right. I think everyone's so quick, Timmy, to want to start the race that there's so many false starts right now. And now I pivot to David. Timmy, he was anointed to be king.
That's right. As a boy. Yeah, bro.
He knew it was on him. And what? Most of the guys we know. Once they're anointed to be king, what would their very next step be?
To drive down to the palace and to let Saul know. Hey, dog. I mean, you had a decent run, but I mean, touch my head.
That's so wild. Run your fingers through my hair. It's sticky, isn't it? Oily, ain't it? that's what many would do in the flesh but what was what was god's process yeah for god's man it was first i'll anoint you yeah now i take you back out to prepare you back to reality absolutely so that when you're under the weight yep of what i've created you yeah to carry yeah in this life yeah you won't buckle that's right but timmy false starts don't ever lead to you positive pregnancy tests.
Everybody's, I just got to get in the race. I got to get in the race and God's going to put it, birth it through me. And this dog false start Ishmael. Yes, baby, not the son of the promise. And now you kick him out of your own house.
This is my thing. I've gotten more excited out in the middle of nowhere. God preparing me for weight.
I told you when COVID hit, the first thing I learned about myself, and I didn't like admitting it, God created me for storms. And it's part of why my process, he took me to the middle of nowhere and prepared me, all those things. My personal perspective about any weight God asked you to carry, it's heavy. It is.
It's heavy. Thanks. And it demands a measure of biblical preparation.
It's good. I've got a trainer right now who trains the top bodybuilder on the planet. Okay.
I'm never going to put up that kind of weight. That's not my call. That's not my path. But you know what he's teaching me to do to me?
He's torn my body apart back to the basics and he is having me work on hidden weaknesses because his goal is to get me carrying heavier weights. Right. Because the better my body can handle heavier weights as I get older. the less injured I will be. Correct.
Absolutely. That's good. But he's actually starting with tiny little weights and muscle groups. It's annoying.
It's frustrating. He put up, he actually put up a video on his Instagram training with the number one bodybuilder on the planet right now. The guy's holding like five pound weights. To me, he's huge.
And he's laying on a bench going like this. And my trainer has one finger. in the small of his back, pushing on like a thread of muscle going, I'm going to help you.
This guy has the tiniest weights on planet earth and he's one of the biggest humans alive right now. Timmy, he has nine more weeks till the big show. This is how the best bodybuilder in the world is preparing while no one's watching.
Absolutely correct. Little weights, turning little muscles into bigger muscles. that can hold more weight. I think we don't do a good enough job preparing for the weight that's coming.
I agree. We just think faithfulness is go now, go. And I'll show you where and you'll figure, it's not how it always works.
It's loaded, bro. Like everything you're saying is rich in imagery, but it's loaded. The first thing I thought about is I actually knew a woman.
who had convinced herself she was pregnant and her body physiologically started to manifest a pregnancy to the point that her belly was starting to, but there was no baby in her belly. It was in her mind. So when you talked about that, I just started to think about how many people have heard a word from the Lord and thought themselves into giving birth to something that's not even in there yet.
Right. So that's sobering. And then this big bodybuilder with five pound weights just screams humility. I think arrogance would say, nobody going to do no five pound weights. I got this.
And that I got this mentality is how you hurt yourself. That's exactly right. That I got this mentality is how you actually wind up having to. Step down from the actual event you've been preparing for because you tore something right right before the big show Because you had too much pride to go.
Let me go less with proper form right then to be out here grunting And then tear a muscle that I can't flex later. That's just so pretty that both that that That's just very humbling. It's a cautionary tale. Yeah.
Yeah. I want to talk for a sec about, so one of the pictures I think a lot of people use when they talk about exhaustion or hitting the wall is an empty tank. Okay.
Yep. So let's spend some time talking about, all right, let's paint a picture. Here's somebody who's been going hard.
They're not in disobedience. They've just been going hard for a prolonged season. And they don't feel they have much left. the tank feels empty they made it much longer than they thought they could with an empty tank yep two aspects i really want to address first when you have an empty tank how do you not just put a little in it how do you restack the deck to fill it up enough where we can get going again and number two how do i keep fuel in the tank so that i don't get back down to e okay so let's address the first one yeah Let's go right at the person who's hit the wall.
They're exhausted. The cloud is over their head. The cloud of confusion and darkness.
Exhaustion has taken over. They have zero energy to do anything. How do we help them fill their tank to a way where the car starts moving without even them touching the gas? All right.
So let's go to 2019. I'm the lead pastor of Embassy City. You are one of the elders at the time. 2019. I have eight people that I love that die, five that are very close, three that I have to eulogize.
One is a 15-year-old girl named Sydney who gets a brain tumor and she dies and her parents ask me to eulogize. Another is Kim Yates, who is my admin for seven years, literally got me around the world and back. She's so much a part of the family.
My wife just calls her and says, where's my husband going to be? Right. She's diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer in November, December.
She's dead May 3rd, 2019. Sydney's death was, I think, in February. Our attendance that year doubled. Right. And I'm feeling the weight of being out of alignment organizationally.
I'm a visionary leader. I am not the day-to-day guy. And I actually need to fire myself from the position I'm in. I need to free myself from this weight I'm under. I don't know how to do it.
So my low point comes in, I think July. I think it was July. I'm on E.
And when you... I want to take my time on this press because it's not enough to just say, hey, when you're on E, how do you refill? You got to be honest about what happens when you're on E. Right.
Right. And so I have been asking for words on the walls for two years. Just visionary stuff. Right.
Like when people walk in outside of Embassy City, what is this place about? And I've been asking my staff, hey, let's get some words on the walls. just some culture stuff, DNA stuff.
It didn't happen. And I've never been an explosive person. I implode.
The way I used to take it out on myself was through porn and masturbation, right? Which is one of the ways you just take something out on you. I'm not going to take it out on anybody else. And then you just feel the shame of that.
And you're, oh God, I need to repent. And then I need to confess it. And then remember, So I was healthy enough not to be in that space, but I still imploded.
And my this implosion manifested itself in a dynamic, a dynamically passive aggressive way. I went to Home Depot and I got six cans of spray paint. And on a Saturday evening, I opened up.
all the doors for ventilation and i spray painted all the words that i wanted signage i got my signage i got my signage and i felt good about myself this how you know you're on e it's great you feel good about stuff you shouldn't it's there's so much wisdom that statement right there you just feel good about stuff you shouldn't right and so um you Uh, the next, I did it on Saturday evening. Right. So services in the morning, services in the morning.
I'm not preaching. I'm off that weekend. I have a guest speaker. I forgot that I have a guest speaker and I'm not even there. So half the people come in, the staff of course gets there first.
They think someone's vandalized the building. How could they not think this? Right.
By the time the, the, the, the congregation starts coming in, half of them think is cool. The other half is like, what what's going on here? And I can't imagine what a visitor is thinking. Right. Right.
I tell Juliet, I tell some of the elders hadn't told you yet, but I'm like, yeah, I did that. Their reaction is obviously what what are you doing? What made you do that?
That's wrong. And I'm like, no, it's not. This is amazing. You're on E when you think.
So good. Something's good. That's actually bad.
Monday morning, I have my devotion time. I happen to be going through Exodus because we just read through the Bible every year. How in the Bible reading, how am I in Exodus? Imagine that. And I happen to be reading through the tabernacle and I happen to be reading through the reminders all the time of God saying, make sure you build this according to my pattern.
Make sure you build this according to my pattern. And the Holy Spirit says in the sweetest way, hey, Tim, that spray paint is not according to my pattern. This isn't your church. It's mine. And you need to repent, which means to change.
I needed to change my mind. I thought it was dope. So my mind needed to change.
That's repentance, right? It ain't apologizing. It's changing your mind about the way you thought.
And it just so happens, you can't make this up, that the next Sunday was the first Sunday, which is when we take communion. And he was like, you must repent to your wife, the elders, the staff and the entire congregation. Oh, and since it's communion, you need to lead it this weekend.
And before you take it, you need to apologize. We were having three services at the time, so I had to do this three times. So now I know I'm on E, kind of. You, Corey, Galen are like, hey, are you all right? I'm like, yeah, I'm good.
You know, like, I just don't feel like I'm in the right spot. And another reason, another way you know you're on E. is that you cannot pinpoint and locate where it hurts.
So you talk in generalities. This is Genesis 3. Adam, where are you? I was scared because I heard you, so I hid. So I hid.
What? I'm naked. Who told you that?
The woman you gave me gave me the fruit. You haven't even, you don't even know where you are. You still haven't told me where you are. You've responded, but you haven't told me. You don't know where you are.
So I couldn't locate me as you guys were asking me these questions. So a couple of months later, Corey comes to the house and he goes, I think you need a break. You need.
some time to rest. What do you think you need? I say, man, a weekend at the Four Seasons would be great and a massage.
And he goes, I think you need more than that. I think you need more than that. I was offended.
Another reason, another way you know you're on E is how offended you are by fuel. You are. By someone trying to save your life, right? Trying to help you out. So I go to Juliet with my offense.
These guys think I need like six weeks. She goes, you need at least that, but you need more. So then I'm like, okay, well, this is now me outside of me talking back to me about me.
We are one flesh. I am now telling myself I need to. When it wound up.
Here's how I had to give you this whole story to tell you what I needed at that E to get back to F. And y'all gave it to me and it was extravagant. Three months off at a time where it was ill. It was not wise in my mind to take three months off based on where the church was at that time.
But I got up in October. And I said, I got to go. And I let everybody think whatever they were thinking. Did he sin?
Has he fallen? Oh my God. This is so abrupt.
What do you think happened? And this is the greatest three months I had ever experienced. I did nothing.
I didn't go nowhere. I didn't escape to Fiji or go to Turks and Caicos. I just sat at home and did not have to do one thing. One, two, three, four, five, six, preach.
One, two, three, four, five, six, preach. One, two, three, meet. Four, five, six, preach.
One, two, funeral. Four, five, counseling. Six, preach. One, emergency, emergency, emergency.
Emergency. Five, six, preach. The weight had piled on so much. I needed.
a whole 90 days to get it off me. I didn't even know if there'd be a church when I got back. There was, because it's his.
But when I came back, I was on F and I could see how much weight I had been carrying. And now that it was off, there was a determination to never. put myself in that position again.
And from 2020 to the time I transitioned, I never had that pressure again. Yeah. Yeah.
I know that was long, but I had to. No, no, no. The context of, hey, you don't just get there in an hour. You don't. It's something that builds up over a sustained period of time.
Yeah. And when it gets to the place where it comes on us, unrealized, we don't even realize where we are. And that happens to all of us.
That's right. It's simply because it went too far. That's right. That's exactly right.
It just went too long. It went too long. It was too much. Way too long. For too long.
And then I got to figure out, okay. Yep. I need to reset. Right. And we stepped in for you and said, hey, this is a season for a personal reset.
That's right. To reestablish rhythms. Yep. To rebuild some things that may have broken down.
Yep. To remove some things. That's right. Absolutely.
That were for the past season that are for the next season. Yep. We all need that in various ways.
One of the things that I try and tell people, so every weight God gives is spiritual. All right. So when, when, for instance, if someone's called the business, I think one of the mistakes we can make is to approach that work as though it were secular, not sacred.
Oh, facts. It's all facts, spiritual, all spiritual. So there's a measure of preparing for secular work that can be done.
with quote-unquote secular preparation learning building skills all those things yeah but if it's spiritual work it takes spiritual preparation so one of the things that people are shocked when i advise them they're like i'm exhausted and i'm i don't know what to do and i i just need a reset here's one things i tell them and they never see it coming it seems first takes seven days and i said what i'm about to tell you is maybe one of the bigger challenges anyone's ever issued you, but you need a full on reset and you may not have 90 days. So I say the next 21 days, the first seven days, a liquid only fast and set the goal. You're going to privately commune with the Lord in prayer for at least 10 hours over the next seven days of your life.
You need a full on reset. And I tell them, even if you in prayer sit in silence. in a dedicated space unto the lord and you only hear him talk for three minutes it's okay yes it is you need a reset and this feels sometimes when you sit with jew sometimes when i sit with holly yep we can spend an hour not say a word and our feet are just touching on the couch that's right she gets up feeling closer than when we sat down that's right i think we we bypass filling our tanks spiritually way too much And because we're carrying spiritual weights, if we don't strengthen ourselves in the Lord the way David did, we're not going to be able to carry these spiritual weights.
So I tell them, seven days liquid only, then transition after seven days. That will be not just a spiritual reset, a physical reset. For sure. An emotional reset. To me, if somebody's gotten too dependent on caffeine or sugar, a seven-day reset.
can be life-altering. Oh, absolutely. For sure.
They're no longer dependent on that sugar. They'll go through some withdrawals for the first couple of days. That's right.
But then the last four days, their body will start to go, thank you. I kind of like this. Appreciate you.
Right. Absolutely. Then transition to 14 days of a Daniel fast. Yep.
Still no sweets. Yep. No meats. Yeah. You're getting nuts.
Yeah. Oils and nuts are good for your brain. Yeah. It all connects together. That's right.
And you go, can you reset for 21 days? If you really hit the wall to the point you want to tap out, what are you willing to do to stop your normal? Yep.
That's good. And to strengthen yourself in the Lord. But when you say the word fast, most believers think of more weight.
And I actually approach it the opposite way. To me, when I hit E, one of the things I've needed to do, I need to fast. I need to consecrate myself before the Lord. I've gotten a little bit off.
I need to make sure I am back on center. And a fast, going without things I think I can't live without, always makes more room for him to refill my life in new ways. E is the perfect place. For a fast. Yeah, it's good.
And a dedicated season of intimate pursuit. Yeah. Sometimes do you feel like as believers, we wait for it all too well? Like we just wait for it to come rather than saying, you know what? Like Jonathan is armor bearer.
I'm going to go up the hill. Right. I'm not going to sit here and wait.
You got proactive in that 90 days. I did. And made some dramatic shifts.
I did. You didn't just say, you know what? I'm just going to quote unquote, do nothing for 90 days.
No, you reset, rebuilt, removed. Yep, I did. You went to work, but it was a different kind of work.
Absolutely correct. Absolutely. Yeah.
It was working on you. And it's, but it could only happen. The things that I changed could only come to me rested.
That's great. Right? It wasn't like, I'm going to read four books. And I'm going to write 100 percent.
I've seen some people literally gear up to do a Sabbath the wrong way. I had a friend that like posted something on Instagram taking my first Sabbath and I'm so excited about it or whatever. I thought I was being presumptuous, but I just, you know, I'll take my shot.
So I sent her a text and I said, hey, before you take that Sabbath, call me because I want to make sure you do it right now. That could be presumptuous. you know what I mean how you gonna tell me how to do my Sabbath so I called her and I said I'm so excited for you about to go do your Sabbath I said what do you got planned uh she goes I got four books that I've been wanting to read and I got this that I'm gonna do and we're gonna go here then we're gonna go there it's like a whole itinerary I said man that just made me tired I said you're about to stop working for this church to start working on your Sabbath I said, and you're going to be tired when you get back. Yeah.
Because you got too many things to check off. She goes, you're right. She scraps the itinerary, takes the book out of her backpack, all four books. She comes back and she goes, this is the greatest thing.
I've never done nothing before. And more came to her. In her rest.
Right. than would have come to her if she was like, I'm going to work on this. And I'm going to go, I'm going to, I've been wanting to catch up on this audio book and this masterclass and this. I'm going to stop working on the job, on ministry so I can work on me. That's still work.
You're not resting. You didn't take weight off. You switched weight.
You went from arms to legs. And just because you're working on a different part of the body doesn't mean you're resting. Right.
You're just not working this to start working that. So a day of rest. One of LeBron's cheat codes is how long he sleeps. This man gets 10 hours.
Billionaire Bron still balling on the court. Still find a way to produce films and do all his other stuff. Nike and blah, blah, blah, blah. That man sleeps 10 hours.
He's going to bed because he knows he couldn't be in this league for 20 years. Naturally, if it compromised his rest. And all rest isn't deep.
sleep yeah sometimes it's just being a position of doing nothing My therapist told me one day when I went to go talk to her, she goes, the way your brain is wired, you need to ensure that when you're relaxing, if you're listening to music, that it's not worship. And I was like, oh, there's no way you could be telling me that I'm a worshiper. She's like, but it activates everything in you. And you've already done all this, all the emotional stuff. And you do a podcast and you're always stewarding and containing people for the gift of their vulnerability.
And then you go worship and you're crying again. So you come out of that and your body's still going. When are we going to do nothing?
Yeah. I just had an intense worship service where I was in the presence of the Lord. It was just one on one. And she's like, yeah, you need jazz and you need instrumental jazz that has no words. And.
no pattern and that's the only time your brain actually disconnects and she's absolutely right it's the only way my brain can relax i need music that has no lyrics to it and really no pattern i can follow and then my body's like oh i guess we're doing nothing now so it's it's just important and i know it's counterintuitive to people that are grinders and that are like really they're a type And you know what I mean? They're wired to to go out and hunt and kill and conquer and all that kind of stuff. But Jesus got away.
Jesus slipped off. I mean, five thousand people fed men without women and children counted. And the next day they had to find him.
And he wasn't like in the distance. He was across on the other side of the lake. They don't even know when he got there. So that retreating and that removal of oneself from all the stuff that stimulates you, that calls for you, that beckons you, your nervous system needs that disconnection or else it can't regulate.
Right. Yeah. The way I'm thinking about it right now is empty is a sign that you're not doing nothing enough. Once the car hits E. the car's incapable of going anywhere.
And it's almost like it's God's way of saying, right. Right. I don't need the car to go anywhere right now. You could have stayed with more in your tank if you just would have pulled over to the side of the road the three times I've tried to tell you over the last three weeks. Stop and look at the ocean.
Stop and sit with me. It's good. Empty as a reminder, I'm not doing nothing.
Enough. All right. So, so let's, let's go with this car for a minute. Um, park is nothing.
R is something neutral is something because if weight is applied, it's going to be moved. drive is something well i haven't even put my foot on the gas in drive you're gonna move even if you don't put your foot on the gas and then that l2 and that l who who whoever used those gears i'm going this is like going back to people who drive trucks with trailers behind them that's just so you know it's you it's you i do use the gears my you Tesla doesn't have these options. But that's what it, like, park is the only thing that says I'm doing nothing.
Every other gear is, you can be moved. You're either being pulled or you can be pushed. And any other gear except park.
And we have to start celebrating park. Yeah. We celebrate all the movements.
Right. Look at. at the moves Prez is making look at the moves look at the move oh do you see the moves he got moves like Jagger he's moving and these moves cost you something every movement costs you something the five pounds on the buffest dude is costing him something it's burning calories it's it's straining the muscle oh that dude could do five times that ten times that It's still costing him something. So even if it's a little or a lot, it's costing you something. And if you don't put it in park.
You might inadvertently cash in on your chips. And when you go reach for more, there's none there. Honestly, what I hear you saying is even before the spiritual reset is the nothingness reset.
That's good, bro. Like you got to stop it. You have to stop. Before you start anything. You have to stop.
Because you know me, the way I. I'll just spiritually reset. But sometimes, even with, I'm hearing you when you talk about worship, my nervous system, that's actually part of carrying the weight, the way I carry weight. It's the way I've always rolled.
And that can appear godly. Right, right. This is the danger. And nothing by comparison seems ungodly. Right.
But this is what the Lord says. He says, but obedience is better than sacrifice. Right. president even if you keep sacrificing spiritually more that's right if i tell you to put it in park son right and you keep going thinking that's the way to get around us you're just gonna crash yeah that that's what makes that's what makes the um sabbath so profound to me he's not tired yeah he's not exhausted this is Never sleep or slumber. This is omniscient, omnipresent.
Created with a word. It's, it's, and he's like, I'm, I've done good for the last six days. I'm gonna stop.
And he's inexhaustible. Right. He's indefatigable.
Yeah. And he stops. So to me, it is hubris knowing that we are in his image, but not most certainly not. We are not.
We are not him. Him. And the fact that we think we can go seven days straight, eight days straight, nine days straight, 10 days straight, no break.
And again, ministry is the. only vocation where you're commended for sacrifice but that's also hubris because now we're comparing ourself to jesus he did it so we will too and he's like i did it so you didn't have to though like i wasn't asking you to i don't need that for not your blood that i need i don't need your blood fam mine was enough you efficacious is a word for a reason that's one of the reasons why i had to come back over here over here because efficacious i needed that word back in my life like like like you we have to we have to humble ourselves it takes humility to say i can't do that yeah man we would love if you could be a part i'm not gonna be able to do right that okay thank you holy spirit let me give you another wait uh that i cast off because when you're when you the the more you're at and we can get to the second half of your question now the more you can keep stay at f right right there's some people that do not ever fill up their gas tank until it's laying on e they got four miles until empty i know my car i can still make it there's a reserve tank that isn't being calculated i've heard that one you I actually got 22 miles left. I don't just have four left. I got 22, right?
So there's some people that they don't want to fill their tank up until it's laying on E and it's fumes. And then they go to the gas tank and they top it off to where the gas is spilling over. And they're like, that's the way I like to do it. And then there's other people that the aforementioned people think are psychos. And these are the people that right around half a tank or right below half a tank.
They go fill it up again. They're like, I ain't trying to get caught lacking. Right. These I think those drivers of petroleum vehicles, fossil fuel vehicles, I think those are the people that are akin to the maids with the lampstands. They keep their wicks trim.
They're just not going to get caught lacking. Right. So. The way to be that person.
is around half the tank. You're not waiting to get on E and wait to emergency. Because what if you're in that type of situation, but then there's a car wreck and while parking or while parked or in neutral or in drive with your foot on the brake, you're burning fuel.
Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. I didn't even see that. You're burning fuel sitting still. So you can still wind up on E.
Right. Thinking, well, I wasn't doing nothing. No, you were. You were just idle and it burned you out because there was no purpose with it. You just were sitting there.
So I'm interested in, oh, I forgot my point that I was going to say before the, it'll come back. Oh, I hate when that happens. It'll come back.
Anyway. Oh, such a good point, too. When I think about the half tank philosophy and so where my mind was going while you were talking is when I'm on a road trip with my truck pulling a trailer and I see a gas station.
Maybe let's just say I'm in Gallup, New Mexico. All right. Some random spot. And there's gas.
It's a little more expensive than I want to pay. But. I'm kind of aware. I don't really need gas right now, and it's a little more expensive than I want to pay.
But the next gas station is a ways away. You don't want to deal with that. Better to stop ahead of time and fill your tank. Yes, sir. Then to power through.
That's right. And say. That's right.
Well, no, if I just get there faster. No, actually hitting the gas more burns fuel faster. you're actually going to run out of fuel even sooner. That's right.
Better to pull over. That's good. And fill up.
That's right. But I think sometimes we just, yeah, but I can make it a little bit further rather than nothing needs to be a consistent habit in all of our lives. Show me your nothing. Just for me. I mean, that's for me.
Show me your nothing. Friday is my nothing. Yeah, it's good. It is me and Holly.
Yep. starts with my coffee yep kids are all off to school yeah we sit for a bit then we go work out together then we have lunch like that is the most nothing yeah not it's the most amazing yeah absolutely for sure everything's turned off except being present that's right and being poured into it's good i've learned what fills my tank that's right but i've also learned i can't go very far and even when i'm on a heater i still need to pull over for gas on on friday it's good it's good but i got three quarters of a tank man i i can stay in sleigh yeah nothing yeah that's good bro never yep try not yeah absolutely just keep absolutely that's right here that's right that's right and try and stay away that's right from here that's right catch yourself on the way down and go hey you know what i actually might need to take the weekend off yeah for sure i may need to take two you two days, a Thursday, a Wednesday and a Thursday and Friday to make up. So I have three straight Fridays.
Just keep it here. Crashes are less likely to happen with consistent health. So thank you so much, Twin, because now I remember what I was going to say.
So I signed up for, Noah doesn't know this. He knows it, but he doesn't know the cost. I signed up to be a part of this modern day night, five day excruciating Navy SEAL Marine torture chamber thing.
Cause I have a dog in me, right? He got to come out, right? So I need to do hard things. I just always challenged myself to do hard things. So it was supposed to happen in March and daddy died.
So that wasn't going to happen. And the book tour happened. So I called and said, can I have another class?
And they were like, we're going to put you in the fall class. Cool. The fall class is the week of Noah's birthday. I've never missed his birthday. But I paid thousands of dollars to do this five-day event.
So I wasn't going to bring it up to him at first. But after I prayed, I felt like the Lord was like, have the conversation with him. Obviously don't tell him. how much it costs you, because that's manipulative. And he doesn't deserve that.
But you shouldn't make the choice for him. He should make the choice. So we went walking one day and I said, hey Noah, remember that thing I signed up for in the spring? He was like, yeah.
I said, it's now in the fall because Daddy's Death and the book tour. I said, but it lands on the week of your birthday. I said, I've never missed your birthday and never planned to.
But I didn't want to assume what you would think. So I wanted to have a conversation with you. He's 13 and a half. I said, there is no right or wrong answer. You get to choose and your decision's final.
I just wanted to give you the scenario and then the options. The options are, I can celebrate with you prior to, I can celebrate with you after, but during that week, I won't have any communication. Your cell phones are taken away and you got to survive the five days. unless you ring that bell. And so would you be opposed to us celebrating earlier or me celebrating later?
Or is it important that I'm there on the actual day? It's your choice. You don't have to tell me now.
Think about it. Let me know. He was like, all right, dad, I'll think about it.
I was like, that was already impressive. Two days later, two days later, he comes up to me and he goes, hey dad. I said, what's up, buddy? He said, remember the thing you told me about two days ago about you going to the modern day night thing and blah, blah, blah.
I was like, yeah. He was like, yeah, you ain't going. When I tell you it was a weight off of me just to know where I was going to stand. Sometimes I thought about this, Prez. When I fly to Australia, there's a direct flight from DFW to Sydney and it is direct unless there's headwinds.
If there's headwinds, that burns more fuel and we have to drop into Hawaii to refuel. Sometimes headwind is the weight. Sometimes we don't even notice how we've had to lean into a season and how much it's taken from us, how much energy has been exerted for us to lean into that season.
And what is usually, oh, yeah, I got enough to get all the way to the other side. It's like I got halfway through and I'm already exhausted. I usually get all the way through.
There's headwinds. So great. If you're in a building campaign, this ain't a regular year. If you got eight funerals with people that you love and you got to do all the eulogies, this is not a headwind you could avoid.
When there is a tragedy that's happened at work, at home, with the family, with your parents, whatever the case is, those are headwinds that have to be accounted for. And when it's a different year, you just have to call it a different year. You do not try to do the same thing when you only got half a tank.
That's great. We're not going to get all the way to LA on half a tank of gas. You will crash in the ocean. I don't care how much faith you have. Yeah, that's great.
It's not happening. And so I don't want to be swimming in the middle of the ocean. I don't want to know what that emergency slide is like. I don't want to see that slide. I don't want to know none of that.
Drop this plane in Hawaii. We can wait. it's such a great picture to wrap on because it uh think about the pilot but everybody wants to get to australia they're in a hurry they're a businessman on this plane they got to get to australia if i don't land this plane in hawaii that billionaire businessman that's sitting in first class isn't going to make it to australia no he ain't gonna be in australia so wow he's getting pissy with the flight attendants One of us is going to make the wise decision. I'm landing this plane.
It's good, bro. And I think it's important for all of us to make room for ourselves to say, I know you want to get to Australia because we all have people who count on us in this life. Yes.
You have tons of people who count on you and all of them want to get where they are going. But the right thing to say sometimes is. I got to land this plane. Yeah, that's good.
We'll get to Australia. Yeah, but I'd rather get there a little late. Yeah.
then not get there at all. Facts, bro. Let's land.
Let's refuel. And we'll be okay. It doesn't matter when we arrive. What matters is that we arrive. It's good.
It's so good, bro. I hope that for all of you, first, it's just good to be back. We're about to film another episode that will air in a couple of weeks. But I hope that... part of what you're hearing is if you're exhausted hey we've all we've all been there and we will all get there again facts don't let the enemy pull the you're so weak card all right that that that trash makes me so mad yeah when he plays that card and it's like well he convinces you you're weak because he wants you to quit no you've been carrying a lot yeah maybe some of what you've been carrying you weren't supposed to be carrying i've been there too you Maybe you were underestimating.
Maybe you were really underestimating the headwind. It's okay. Land the plane for a little while.
Land the plane. The most foolish thing you can do is fight through exhaustion with more of what exhausted you. You're not quitting.
You're parking. Relax. You don't always have to be on the move.
You just need to be wherever he is. And I'm telling you from experience, it appears to me that the one who loves us so much, the way he does that no one else ever will, it appears to me that one of his favorite things to do is put it in park. That's why the one who will never slumber nor sleep on the seventh day said. You know what I feel like?
Parking. I'm not quitting. I'm parking. I'm showing you what I want with you, not just from you.
I want this with you. We're parking. If you made it all the way to the end of this episode and you're exhausted.
First, let me tell you, wait a fight to the end. Second, let me say, put it in park. Learn to enjoy park.
Because the plane travels much further distances the more it lands to refuel. It's not on you to produce the fuel. It's on you to pull over and into the gas station. I love you so much. Timmy loves you so much.
I want... Timmy just to pray over us because I just want to listen to my best friend pray for a minute because it's been so long since I've gotten to sit with him on a set like this. So we just pray for us. Absolutely. So Jesus, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to rest.
Thank you for creating us with. the ability to park. I pray, God, that we would not be so enamored and in love with the road that we don't desire the parking lot.
And whether that's in our garage or on the way to our destination, you've designed us to work. and to rest. And may we never idolize work at the expense of resting. I pray, Lord God, that as everyone has listened to this conversation between Perez and I, I pray that If we didn't get them back up to F, I pray that this conversation has at least got them a quarter of the take that will get them to the destination where they could refill back to F so that they would be full on faith.
In Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
Amen. So much fun. i pray this was an enjoyable but not just enjoyable a beneficial conversation So as I send you on your way, let me say to those who are most exhausted among us, go do nothing.
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