Momentum 4
What were you going to our momentum series and this is the conclusion of it. Is the conclusion of how we keep momentum gained momentum and we keep moving forward and God. If you guys do remember momenta number one, we talked about set the setback me setups that we must worship God come to him for who he is your secret with you guys. The Bible says for those without faith. It's impossible to please God for those that come to him must come to him for who he is. You got to come to him for who he is and those who seek Him diligently he will reward you. I can remember going to school and I had to study things and I remember being to being a kindergarten and first second grade and every child was after that sticker or that star you guys know what I'm talking about just to get a shiny start and then the kids who got the Stars on their paper. They would take it off and stick it on their hand and they would say look what I have.
It was a reward because of their due diligence. Do you know that God's waiting to reward you?
It sounds crazy saying that what God wants to reward you.
What if I told you and haven't got his all these wonderful things in stored for you for me holding up there and he's like I want to release it, but come closer.
Momenta number to we talked about ambition because we can begin to say God. I want to come close to you. I desire you but sometimes our ambition is really good. And this is not a bad thing, but it's when it gets selfish if he comes back. That's when you don't care about anyone else. Listen, when you have a selfish ambition, it's a clear sign. You're not walking in love. Because you were you will overrun people.
Thank you, Frank.
The only way to get over that selfish ambition is to bring it under submission to God. You have to allow yourself to say God. I'm selfish here. I know I like things my way. I'm going to bring this to you. The Bible says that if you humble yourself and the sight of God, he will lift you up raise you up. You know what that said. He says if you walk humbly before me if you humble yourself I will create room for you if you scream room for me. I'll create room for you.
That's what it means to humble yourself under his head the mission and goddesses give room for God in your life. Don't get so caught up in the busyness of day-to-day grind and work that you don't spend time with Papa. Do some people think we'll have to carve out this space. I say yes do that, but also take him with you. Where you go. Imagine if your whole day becomes his space. I wonder if his whole day would be yours.
Momentum 3 we talked about the word of God you remember it was the word of God the now moment we have to rely on God's ability which is graced and expect his loyalty and we talked about the Snowball Effect in the now moment. The thing that we needed to receive is the word of God. That looks good on here the steps, but how old are you actually do that because so many times we missed the first step and we try to go to number 2. Are we trying to go to number 3 we're relying on God's ability without knowing what his word says. How do you know God wants to do something?
I remember I was talking to the fever when I was going around praying for people for healing tones. Like how do you know. We'll see who that person how do you not know God wanted them to have this.
The teach them a lesson in life and I looked at him and I said won't my Bible says that Jesus. She went around destroying the works of the devil. And if that's a demonic work it needs to be destroyed. Versus me arguing the same while you're right. Because Jesus came to destroy the devil's works. He knew we got commissioned him to do other people around him. What has God commissioned you to do in your life?
That's going to be where you need to start in the now moment, but I realized the problem that we have is people. Is that a heart. Sometimes we're not ready to receive. There is someone tell you something that was true and you just didn't want to receive it.
I have called the scale.
Maybe it's broken, honey.
Unto our hearts are position to receive it moving true momentum with his Spirit. We can't create a movement with God. Do you know that we were never meant to stay in the fourth wall build. We were supposed to always create a movement. Do you know people want to be a part of something big?
Think about this with me for a moment. In our world, we have chaos. Yes. We have we have People jumping onto antifa, and and then you have vln and then you have Trump supporters and that you have other groups because people want to be part of a movement.
Why not the church have the biggest movement? Why not the church had the biggest ants how come their rallies can be more dangerous than ours. we have.
Because sometimes we're not ready to receive his word. And so if you have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Matthew the 13th chapter and we're going to look at this Parable that Jesus gave and I'm coming from the message today. And it starts and says at about the same time Jesus left the house and sat on the beach. And no time at all the crowd gathered along the shoreline forcing him to get into the boat house right there. Do you know people wanted to be around Jesus?
I did more the religious because he made them look bad, but people wanted to be around Jesus.
Using the boat as a pool fit the addresses congregation telling stories. What do you make of this a farmer plants seed as he scattered the seed something fell on the road and the sun fell in in the gravel its sprouted quickly, but didn't put down Roots. So when the sun came up it where they're just as quickly fell in the weeds as it came up. It was strangled by the weeds some fell on the earth and produced a harvest Beyond his wildest dreams. Are you listening to this really listening?
The word does the first of all the person showing the seat is always the farmer and the farmer is God.
The farmer will always be God. Do you know when we get to show is when we actually partnered with God God wants you to partner with him to sow his seed. What is it? See what he says or other words kiss word. God's word is his seed I like to say what he says. It's what God says because it's the word that he has spoken and it's what the spirit of God is speaking to me in the moment.
Finally the ground is your heart condition. the Harvest What was if you have the the King James version or or AI the Amplified it says in some produced a harvest of 160 and 34 scratch my head at the how come some produced 160 than 30?
Why is that in there like that? Why did you just say it like that? Because it will Souls people coming to the kingdom, but it also equals your heart condition of growth.
in his kingdom to the Harvest represents souls coming in the kingdom and your heart condition and the kingdom.
Jesus gives us the answer here later on in the same scripture. He says this disciple study the story of the farmer planting seed when anyone hears news of the kingdom. It doesn't take it in it remains on the surface. And so the evil one comes along and plucked it right out of the person's heart. This is the farmer scattered on the road. The Sea Chest in the gravel. This is the person who hears and instantly respond with enthusiasm, but there is no soil or of character. And so when the emotions wear off as some difficulty arise there is nothing to show for it. The seed cast in the weeds is the person who hears the Kingdom news, but the weeds of worry and illusion and getting more and watching everything under the sun strangle. What was her and nothing comes of it. The seed cast on Good Earth is a person who hears takes in the news and produces a harvest Beyond his wildest dreams.
I want to talk to you guys today about your heart condition.
The final part of momentum is making sure your hearts right and make sure you start on the word because guess what you will regardless of if you're right or wrong. You will build momentum.
I think I need to say that again regardless if you're right or wrong. You will build momentum. My question is where do you want to go with it?
The first one was called the wayside. It was called the road and the Wayside. Let me tell share something with you about all these types of ground. They all receive the word.
Each type of soil received the word with the weights. I was right there on the ground and it received it but birds it's his Birds came and ate the seed that was sown like this there was demonic influence in activity and possession around that person. So when you spoke truth immediately came and Pooh Know if it works that way for the negative. I wonder if it works the same way and the positive. Find it funny that you said that God used the term Birds, right? How did the Holy Spirit descend on Jesus like a w?
I wonder if there's a coincidence here. I wonder if Jesus is trying to get you to understand that that his Spirit represented of it represents birds that fly and they run gently on things.
So the person's life becomes too chaotic even hear truth. It seems unfamiliar. There heart condition is already dark and Stony so it so it's not really a big issue for the enemy to say that's not true stuck in a place of chaos inside.
Sometimes we look at we think that all it's just the birds to look this soil was stuck in chaos. Sometimes your heart is stuck in so much chaos, and even receive anything God is saying I bet you wonder why you get put into adverse situation. Could you tell someone if it's the Way You Are?
I was watching them doing the road outside. I thought they were doing the road the construction team. They had to do something to what was laid there already. They had to do something to it. They had to literally grind and rip up the road that was there. No, I'm just telling you if I was the road outside that's uncomfortable that hurts you're ripping up years and years of work. Are you guys following me? You're messing up everything, you know, when that first did it and they started doing it was a mess. It wasn't the nice payroll that's out there right now. It was a mess and I want to tell you sometimes. I have to unravel your life to get you to his life.
I don't know why it's because there's so much chaos inside that he has to start ripping things up that were laid years and years ago. Some of these things are generational curses. Mine says that you learned in your culture. Some of these things are things that you learn to cope with people. You learn how to survive. I told you the truth the devil loves when people get wounded and then you can give them something dysfunctional to live from
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We got it. Yeah, we got to fix it now.
It is so something was laid wrong that needed to be laid, right? That's why the Bible says the foundation will be none other than Jesus Christ. Who is the Chief Cornerstone? Listen the foundation in your life must always be Jesus Christ. Who is the Chief Cornerstone when you move off of Christ you answering to what is man-made and what is it God made? You move into religion you move into coping mechanisms. You move it to all these things instead of being centered on him. You must go to him to find the answer cuz he heals things. Do you know that's what save mean Sozo saved in the Greek is so so so so means made whole.
We will get people even our spouses we look at them saying honey. You complete me. You're the best time I've heard that line. It was in The Dark Knight Joker looks at Batman and he says you completely outside all that's messed up man.
Look for people to complete us instead of being complete in him.
And the only thing to do was that road out there to do anything to do with the waste site that type of heart is that it must go through shaking. What's going on in our world today? What can be shaken is shock?
Because God is trying to get us out of all the chaos and get us to put our foundation on him. That's heart condition. Number one. Our condition number twos called the rocky ground. No, it's not Rocky Road ice cream.
Do the Rocky Ward Road it receives with excitement the heart receives it it's excited about it. But there's a problem understanding.
You have a person you get my ID, and then they ran with it and they didn't know how I know how to do it. Let me tell you you are. Not what I was learning how to cook cuz you asked my family will tell you I burnt water. It's true. Because I was looking at the Box directions and then I start cooking.
So a lot of the chicken wasn't cooked all the way they already knows about that. Yeah, he does he eat once. I like to cook.
Listen, I would like my steak like that. Any other meat, that's not good with Sue. She's okay.
To it receives what it lacks understanding and because of the lack of understanding there's a lack of commitment. There's no commitment. Listen in a marriage. There's a sense of we on do we have an understanding and agreement? And there's a commitment between the two and go with God. There's an understanding like if there's no commitment. It's a heart condition. It is produced because of lack of understanding. Also this type of Hearts is comparison driven, it loves to compare and love to stay in the place of competition and loves to do this. I don't but they do are they do and I don't Just don't hurt their perceived excitedly, but their comparison always looking for the next type.
You guys ever go to amusement park right and you get on roller coasters, you know what I mean? And there's always like different types of roller coasters and ride. And the first thing we do is get on this one and if someone comes along and said, that one's nothing did you try this roller coaster over here is all over the floor.
Butcher in a comparison place and we're so used to doing that that this ride isn't the best this fries the best and you're chasing after high. So even in God, what we do is well God, this is good enough or are we chase after hype are we chasing after him?
The rocky hard is focused on people pleasing and it's afraid of rejection.
If you look at that scripture that says and when persecution arised what it what happened? People that plays with them anymore and can only come when you're done people-pleasing.
As long as you're trying to keep the peace.
You're going to be people pleasing.
Do you want to call the store or you don't want to say something that might have someone kind of freaked out a little bit. So you're trying to keep the peace instead of being honest and you really the real reason why you're afraid of that person people rejecting you because deep inside of you you reject yourself.
This is the rocky ground. Rocky grounds always excited about something new. You're always looking for something else to fulfill them. They're always looking and let me tell you this. I always look to other people to live from that person's experience.
The rocky heart wants to build their reputation in the shadow of another person. The rocky heart wants to do these things.
Never seems the word, but it's always tried to please people and it's rooted in fear.
The next heart called The Throne e the thorny ground.
Thorny ground it receives what God says, but it worries.
It worries you're in if it's in a place of worry a lot. It stays in place of worried. It's always distracted. I just can't keep my focus anywhere. I look there and I look there. It's always like it's the combination of the rocks and the thorns.
They're very sensual. They're looking for what can fulfill them on the outside now that they're trying to impress people.
20 hearts are looking to impress you with their focus on what the cares of the world are and they're always have anxiety because I'm trying to impress people because really they're rooted into a place of fear of rejection. Also, I want everyone to like me.
So I'm going to look the part just the part talked about the parts but really inside that's not who you are.
You're living a lie.
And the truth is you receive God's word. But every time you receive something that's true, you're excited. It starts to grow and next minute, you know, it gets strangled and it dies because This kind of press people God I love when you know, the funny thing is God will make you look stupid before people.
God will make you he will allow you to look foolish in front of men. Don't believe it. Let me tell you what scripture in the Bible says it's the foolish things of God that confound the wise The Prudent the well learned in study. Let me see him this way. God will make you look foolish to bring him so much Glory. It is better to be a fool for God than a fool for man.
Whose fool are you? I got a full it all with your problem.
It is always a high anxiety with with the thorny ground. It's always anxious. It doesn't know how not to be anxious in the Bible say be anxious for nothing, but in all things with Thanksgiving let your requests be known to God and the God who sees and hears you will begin to give you peace that passes all understanding.
I thought scriptures guys version.
What is high anxiety? I love you to whatever feels good for the moment.
They don't want to go and build character. And what's hard do you know? Do you know what this type of ground? The funny thing is with this type of ground that these this they receive it with excitement. They receive to they get excited it grows, but then there's also thorns and they need to be dealt with.
This remind me of you ever make a New Year's resolution. You know how many others get filled out?
I'm going to be more organized 4 years later. I need to be more organized.
There's nothing that builds in and it doesn't last it's only for a moment.
Do you like understanding also? And he don't know how to let go. and begin to trust God these people will build walls in their life with other people. Because they don't trust they build walls and keep people back you get too close. They'll see every rose has its thorn.
This is the thorny ground.
They use it to protect themselves their self preservation. And even then when they're trying to preserve themselves, they still die and the word of God inside of them still dies. The final grounds called the good ground. It receives the word and if you look at other emergency, it says it receives understands and grass. So they understand and they make it their own. Do you understand?
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Behavior has to be this place where you hear the word and you have to make it your own. You have to hear What God Says. Listen. I'm so glad to hear that God came through for you, but I need to know. So you can come through for me.
I'm glad that you experience God in that way. I need the experience got for me in that way the recipe that says God's waiting for us to take ownership. Oh boy. I love his word.
You ever read a promise of God and you replaced it with your name?
Never do that find a promise where he says he is the Lord that healeth you right? He's The God Who heals tap? I'm getting you because your God my healer. I guess what I'm getting bus cuz your God who loves a blessing. You're my Jehovah Rapha you are my Jehovah Jireh. You are my you are my You Are My All sufficient one God I no longer believe in it on the page. I'm taking it personal. Are you ready to make this personal?
Good ground will make the gospel in the Kingdom Message personal.
There is always a sense of it's personal to me.
You ever have something that meant a lot of value to you had like a set of in a while you write to you but someone else it didn't matter. So imagine you had this family vase that is passed down from four generations, right? Your great-great-great-grandmother had this face. This person comes in your home. It looks like another day too. Then it doesn't matter and what do they do outside pumped it it falls on the floor and that person broke in pieces just like their vase. This is not happen to me in real life guys.
Do you know what a person is broken over the vase? Because that has value to them. It had a sense of cinnamon. It was passed out generational Lee and that person says this is valuable. It's personal to me to the person who broke it. It's not personal. It's just a base to come on quit crying. I'll get you another one scene it down at the as is store. Have a little tag on it too. And I think this one was made in China.
Go to you you may feel like that's not a big deal a lot of times until we make God's word that personal we can't be broken for what God's broken for. We can't move into what God calls us to move in. But I want to tell you something about good ground always produces always reproduces.
It reproduces at 30% 60% and 100% What would a share some truth with you guys every person who is born again is good ground? If you receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, you are good ground. You are very fertile ground. He said well, sometimes I care too much about this is a percentage there. What is the number sets 30% or 50% or it's based on none of it's based on the hearts? Those are very good ground, but we got some stones that we don't want to talk about yet. And when you don't talk about the issues and when you don't come when you don't allow yourself to get healing then guess what you'll be excited for a moment, but nothing will last and you'll be looking for having to come you'll be looking and crying for the rapture. Please send the Raptor instead of looking on Earth word has got one to make his Mark at with his kingdom through my life.
numbers the 60%
it's a blend. He's like I'm becoming better Crown. This isn't overnight guys. There's a process to this thing.
That's why there's 3016 100% Also, how come the percentage is go up. How come the rate goes up from 3060 to 100? Why is here and Matthew 13 11 and 12 keeps saying you've been giving its administrative insight into the hidden truth and Mysteries of the realm of Heavens Kingdom, but they have not talked about the people around you and understand the parable. What juice goes on tells disciples this for everyone who listens with an open heart will receive progressively more Revelation until he has more than enough. But those who don't listen with an open teachable hard, even the understanding that they think they have will be taken from them.
How do you move from 3060 to 100? You must constantly have a teachable heart. You must have a teachable heart. When your heart is unteachable?
when your hands no longer Reach Out even what you have will be taken.
You ever think back say men? You're right. I do have a hobby that you really enjoy doing when you were a certain age and you enjoyed it and then years went by and you haven't done your hobby anymore. And so now when you go to try to do it, you're thinking to yourself and I or even remember how this is done. When's the last time you rode a bike?
I'm just like it's been awhile. Do you remember how?
You think you have your same balance that you had back then?
See what happens is we we stop doing things and when we stop we kind of get rusty they call it you need to get the rust off, you know, because what you had the mobility the flexibility all these things seems not to be there or we can take this to his God and says the intimate relationship is fellowship that you once felt with God is Not There.
What happened? I like to tell the hurt this who moved you were gone.
It's about your heart's condition.
What heart do you have?
Sometimes you may feel like you know, what tap sometimes. I'm very I'm very like not okay, and I don't really want to talk about it. I don't want to deal with it. I'm going to live in denial about everything and I'm just going to let my heart be Stoney. Someone can tell me something but I'm not really going to take it in too much. I'll hear it, but I'm really not going to receive it.
or maybe you might receive something very exciting Leah and we are in front of people you you know it yeah, you know But then when no one's around you like I really that's too hard part too much commitment. I don't know if I want to be that all in.
I want to leave you guys with this. No matter what kind of heart you have God is faithful and he can get you to good ground. Doesn't matter how many times you preach the message of Christ to someone don't give up because every time you're sowing a seed something is happening in their life whether they like it or not. Do you know what you preach the gospel to him? And you know that bird that comes is like a demon right? So do you mind if we impress that finally like I have enough? Tell me about this Jesus and what can you do for me, right?
Sometimes God allows that so their hearts can have enough. Sometimes we get so strangled in our lives cuz we're dealing with wants and desires that are averse to him and he's like, I'm going to let this choke out for a while. So you choose to tap out. That means call me.
But that's what it looks like.
I'm going to end with this story.
So yesterday. Funtime Victory to I'm telling you this thing has been called the monster burrito like that big. I'm not lying about that. I'm telling you. It's a big burrito. Oh my gosh, this is so good. So our waitress right she comes over and she's like she's all these tattoos.
And I looked at us if you ever had someone read your tattoos. She said what's have you ever saw him read your tattoos know I never okay. So when you come back or whatever, I'll reach your tattoos. She looked at me. She was like that sounds cool. like yeah
So why do you got done eating and tells me about someone through their tattoos? I'll ask him and he'll begin to reveal you. to you and I don't even know you cuz he looks at me to go for it. So The Story Goes started reading the tattoo. I said this tattoo here. This means that she's like Did I send another one? That's right I said is that you? Yeah, and then it did it all by the way, you're guaranteed like stuff. She's like because you're seeking something spiritual. So when you start moving with God you get what I'm saying? So if the Revelation that I did have Was that God wants to love people and introduce himself to mankind. That's a revelation I had did I know what I was going to say? Absolutely not.
Do you know last time ever did something like that? That was like a long time ago? Give it a shot. And then I start talk to her more about Jesus. She is a chance of leaving cuz another customer came she comes back and I told the person I was with. I said dude. I feel like it's her mom. She has issues with her mom. She goes back to sit down front front of us, and I'm continuing to talk to her about Jesus. She's asking questions about God now.
It's always a hard question let you know that I get a iPhone that I wished to ask easy questions, you know.
This thing to give you these questions in your in your like, okay, I'm going to be honest with you. Someone shoot straight with you told her the truth. She received it very well. She was like well. That's anyone except Jesus Goes to Hell. I said I've been there and I started sharing my story a little bit. What we got down to it her tattoos that she had here in here was one of her friend and one of her sister and so I'm like, I'm still going to go with you. So you have issues your mom and you have some dysfunctional issues and data. She's I really want you as a sister friend. I'm just going to go for it.
Haven't met this woman. I'm going to tell you this I didn't know her. Starts crying she did my mom. Yes, it's big issues. There's tried to commit suicide and she has tears you like and is very abusive relationship. Right there and the little burrito place that we were at I don't even know his cry still called The Wild burrito. I took your hands. I said what Jesus wants to kill those things and this is what's going to happen. I'm going to pray for you. Spirits going to come up on you cuz you're going to feel this sensation of his love upon you is going to move down your back as you're going to insult. I start praying the funnest thing when you pray for people pray with your eyes open. You will miss so much of the good reactions if you pray with your eyes closed. Are you know that looked of a deer in the headlight like this? What she did I start praying Jesus come. I'm just tapped. I'm going to ask him to make more of it. Come be. So, you know, it's not me asking more came.
Just getting overwhelmed by God. I'm like, yeah Jesus and I'm praying and break it. I tore that prices that you feel around you he wants to bring it into your heart. He wants to make you new he desires that for you. sleep race more I end up saying okay. We got it was time to go I gave her a card. I said if you need to talk use my card to the church and stuff you want to bless you were just here to be friends with you. Love you and encourage you and we left.
What kind of ground was that?
Sometimes were worried about people not receiving we have to say instead of giving them who we have.
She got encounter with God.
I don't care what kind of ground it was. I know something shifted.
And your life people are waiting for encounters like that.
You must start with the word of God in this in the moment. Yeah, I have to get past the fears anxiety the rocks that try to trip you up. You have to let go of your worries which are thorns what happens if I'm wrong. And you have to step into a place of I'm going to rely on God's ability.
And after you've done that trust that he's going to be loyal to his word cuz God is not a liar.
