January 9, 2022 - How to THRIVE and not just merely Survive

That's not the sermon. Don't worry about it. Then I will talk to you about the sermon. And then we're going to hear from Holy Spirit what he's saying to us specifically about this whole topic.

I put the Almost all the notes on this little sheet of paper. So you don't have to worry about taking screenshots or writing fast. There's a bunch on the way in if you want to grab it. There is one that's missing. I'll tell you now, there one is missing because it came after I did those up and it was like, oh, And even sitting there today, as I do, I'm going to change that and use that differently. But anyway, this this all works out good so I want to read from Isaiah 44 and this is God comforting, his people through the prophet, Isaiah.

I, And Isaiah was prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem. And 439 chapters. That's what he does. In chapter 40. Says Comfort Comfort. My people and from chapter 40 on, for the most part. He's comforting his people. I want you to hear these words in chapter 44. If you got time this week, read the whole chapter. I'm going to skip around, not skip around. I'm going to skip the hunk in the middle, just for Times Sake, but it's still really good and you might got to speak to you through it. Razia 44 says but now listen to me. Jacob my servant Israel, My Chosen One, the Lord who made you helps. You says, don't be afraid of Jacob, my servant of your Israel, My Chosen One. For, I will pour out water to quench your thirst, to irrigate, Your Parts fields. And I will pour out my spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your children, and they will Thrive like water grass. Like Willows on the River Bank, some will proudly Proclaim. I belong to the Lord and others will say, I am a descendant of Jacob, some will write the lord's name on their hands and we'll take the name of Israel's azzarone. This is what the Lord says is real kingsridge. Israel's King and Redeemer. The Lord of Heaven's armies. I am the first and the last there's no other God who is like me. Let him step forward to prove it to you his power. Let him do what I have done since ancient times. When I establish the people in explained its future do not tremble. Do not be afraid. I did not Proclaim. Did I not Proclaim my purpose for you? Long ago? You are witnesses. Is there any other God know? There is no other Rock. Not one, pay attention or Jacob for you are my servant always Real by the Lord made you. And I will not forget you. I have swept away your sins, like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the Morning Mist or return to me for I have paid the price to set you free. Single heavens for the Lord has done this wonders thing jump for joy, adepts of the earth break in the song on mountains and Forest and every tree for the Lord has redeemed. Jacob. And his glorified in Israel. This is what the Lord says your Redeemer and Creator. I am the Lord, who is made all things. I alone have stretched out the heavens. Who was with me when I made the earth, I expose false prophets is liars and make fools to fortune. Tellers. I tell the wise to give bad advice that's proving them to be fools, but I carry out the predictions of my profits by them. I say that. Israel, people will live here again. And to the towns of Judah, you will be rebuilt. I will restore your ruins.

The people of Israel were in for a long haul. Jerusalem would be destroyed, they would be taken away for captivity, like God wanted to encourage them. His plan was to prosper them and not to harm them. His plan was to give them a hope and a future and Isaiah was encouraging them, so they could trust their maker through the top stop.

It's been a long haul for us. We've all had the coop. We've had to deal with the reality that we've been faced with.

You know how to hoe, but do you know how to thrive?

Last time I spoke, I reminded you of how we can hope at all times. And in every situation the acronym is hope. I want you to hold on to testimony operate in reality. Pour out your heart to God and engage your whole heart with. Oh, and if you missed that message, it's Ken my weary Soul Rejoice. Again. It's on our website. You can check it out. But inside, I really feel God to give me a word for 2022. And surprisingly, that word isn't hope. The word is thrive.

And I don't believe. Then it's all going to be sunshines and rainbows. I don't believe it's I do believe the challenge for me. Is to thrive. So in spite of anything, I can have joy, I can have peace, I can have hope at all times and in every situation.

What does it mean to thrive? I believe to thrive means that I have peace and hope and joy at all times. And whatever happens. I figure that's a good definition for thriving. It's part of the Kingdom. The kingdom is part of bringing the kingdom, the Earth. The kingdom is righteousness. Peace, and joy. In the Holy Spirit. All starts of Romans and Peterson. Translates chapter 1, verse 16 to 17 this way. He says, it's news that I'm most proud to Proclaim this extraordinary message of God's powerful plan to rescue everyone who trust in him. Starting with the Jews and then right onto everyone else. God's way of putting people, right? Shows up in the acts of faith confirming. What scripture is settle all along, the person who is in right standing before God by trusting him really lives. Are you ready to really live? Has it been awhile, since you felt like you really live.

Guess what? You're standing with. God has never changed. It's not him. That is moved away. You might feel like it's been awhile. Since you really lived in today. I want you to help, I want to help you. So your feelings line up with the truth, that God has never left you or forsaken. You God desire for you is to have a hope and a future he wants you to thrive, no matter what happens, no matter what situation you're going through no matter what you face. As we face or what you face individually.

How does that do, you know, we're making for so much more than just to survive. We were made to thrive. How does that song goes by Casting? Crowns? It's joy. Unspeakable Faith. Unsinkable. God Unstoppable. Everything is possible.

You were created to walk with God in the garden of the cool of the day. And sin came into the world and you bore the consequences. Jesus came and took your place and offered. You is York. That is easy, and his burden that is light. Your child of God creation longs to be revealed. You're a living light.

Don't Trent don't conform, but be transformed. So you can have peace and joy and hope at all times and in every situation.

Today, I'm going to show you share with you the how to thrive tool.

When God gave me this word, I had to know how it how can I thrive? How can I fry? And as I study the word, this is what he gave me in. Order to thrive. I need to tune in to Holy Spirit. I need to be I have an honest. It be honest in my reflection. I need to rest and be renewed. I need to ignite my spiritual forever. I need to victoriously live and ID to embrace who God says I am. We just saying all this stuff, right?

Let's start with tuning in the Holy Spirit. Tune in to Holy Spirit. Galatians. 5:25 said, since we're living in the spirit, let's follow the spirit leading in every part of our lives. How do you do that? The rest of the chapter. Paul is explaining how we follow the spirit in every part of our lives. He tells us that the acronym, I've come up with it for this is humble. Okay. It's all out of Galatians, 5th, stands for, we need to Hope in his promise. At first, five tells us we need to wait patiently to receive his promises. You mean we need to understand that Faith expresses itself in love over 6. Is the only thing that matters is Faith's, expressing itself in love. We need to maintain. Am maintaining the Freedom by serving others in love.

I forget what verse Racine says, but it is served the band. What is in the sinful nature, what the sinful nature? Craves verse 16, actually tells us to crucify the passions and desires that war against our spiritual nature. Elvis. Don't let the fruit of the spirit grow verse 22. We really can't stop the fruit growing, but we can get in the way, right? We can choose not to have love and joy, and peace, and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness. We can't stop it. If we're in the spirit, that's what grows in us. It's not work for us. It's work for us to not go that way.

And anyway, the e in Humble is you enjoy peace with others. Verse 26. That you follow the spirit leading, you are at peace with everyone as long as it depends on you. Actually, that's not what it says, but look it up. You got the notes. That's what Paul tells the Galatians. It means to keep in step with the spirit.

How have you been doing that? How have you been doing doing that? Do you hoping his promise? You understand that it's Faith? Expressing itself in love. Do you mean team Freedom by serving others in love? Do you ban what the sinful nature? Craves? Do you let the spirit grow in you? Do you enjoy peace with others? Is that your experience that? What would Holy Spirit? Say if you took the time to ask him, am I keeping in step with you?

So the fry we need to remember to be humble, so we can tune in the Holy Spirit. We also I also need to be honest in my reflection, Proverbs 28, 18 says the closest walk is blameless is kept safe, but those whose ways are perverse fall into the pit. Basically, what in the context in Proverbs. It's talking about being honest. And Dad, when you're honest, you're kept safe in order to thrive. We need to be honest. In three ways. Why do we need to be honest with ourselves? Basically, we need to admit when we're struggling, we need to be honest with those around us. Basically means we need to be more honorable when we need help.

and we have to be okay if they're not in a place to offer, help to Right? Part of vulnerability is allowing them. Not not prescribing how they have to carry your burden for you. Like I'm supposed to carry your burdens. You're not to tell me how I'm supposed to carry your burden. That's not part of the plan. I am the third. We need to be honest with God, and I talked about this last time. It's Lament. We have to be confident enough to pour out her heart to God. We have to know what like read the Psalms. They are full of prayers of God. Why have you forgotten me? God's. Okay, with us, accusing him of forgot for getting us even those. He says, I will never forget you.

He's okay, with us having those emotions and having those feelings cuz he wants to heal those emotions and heal those feelings.

For you, to be honest, with God, and practice too often. Too often as Christians. I find we we aren't honest with ourselves because it's like, how can God ever offend us? You know, where that he's the Potter, where the clay, how can we say anything about? And yet we withdraw from him? And yet, we we pull away from from his presence and yet, we start judging his word by how we think it should be.

We can be offended at God and never be honest enough to actually admit it. But if we're going to thrive, we have to be able to say God, I really offended at you, then comes confession and repentance. That's how you fix feeling offended. A guy. I don't want to feel offended that you got. Show me how I can not feel these things.

We need to praise him in the storm. Yes. We need to praise him before the Battle of one. Yes. We need to praise him for before the answer comes and when we do it with gratitude, it's a great game changer. It does change your attitude. When we do with gratitude. Psalm 103 says let all that. I am praise the Lord. May I never forget the good things he does for me. But we can't put on a plastic face mask. We can't pretend everything's alright, when it's not. Alright. We need to be able to go to God and go to others and say, listen. I need help.

If others can't help you with a lot of times weekend. but God can and will.

Are you honest in your reflection? Do you turn from his gaze?

What would Holy Spirit? Tell you if you would take the time to ask him?

So the Thrive I need to tune in to Holy Spirit. I need to be honest, in my reflection. I need to and then third, I need to rest and be renewed. You got to see this song. So I'm 126. It's useless to work so hard from morning until late at night. Anxiously working for food to eat for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Ouch.

What is rest or you got to see what Isaiah says about rest? Isaiah 30.

He's starting a speed 15. He says this is what the Sovereign Lord. The Holy One of Israel says, only in returning to me and resting in me. Will you be saved in quiet? Confidence? Is your strength? But you would have none of it. You said no, we will get our help from Egypt. They will give us Swift horses for riding in the battle. But you're only sweating it with swiftness. You're going to see is a swiftness of your enemies chasing you. What?

Have you been trusting in the horses and trusting in chariots? Where Have You Been trusting in the name of the Lord? Your God?

What does rest mean? This one is not in your notes. Take a screenshot or write quickly. Rest is. Relying on God, to finish what he started.

It is engaging in his rhythm of praying and obeying. What did Jesus do? He often went to lonely places to pray. He only did what he saw. The father. Do he only said what he heard the father? Say you get that. It's it's he had this Rhythm and that needs to be our Rhythm. If we want to thrive we need to be with God and we need to be doing what God tells us to do. We need to be with God and we got to be saying what God tells us to say. It's not work. It is rest to spend time with God and only do what he says. It's work to do what everyone else thinks you should be doing and everything you think other people think you should be doing. I got that right. You women listen to me because you guys are really good at that. Doing what you think, other people think you should be doing.

I do think us guys have it easy that way cuz we could care less anyway.

So you and gauges, and his rhythm a pregnyl big ass is you Steward, what he's entrusted to you? When you rest, you still got to take care of what God has entrusted to you. If that's your kids. You got to make sure you take care of your kids. That's rest. If it's your spouse. If it's your loved one, if it's your parents, if it's your neighbor, it's it's rest to take care of all who God has entrusted to you. What God has entrusted to you. A lot of times rest is, is developing your gifts, in your ability and your talent. If it's writing, learn to write, write a million words before you publish like, get it out there, if it's doing videos up, do those videos up? Keep on doing them and then you get better and better. Rest is is stewarding. What is entrusted to you and rest is T. Thanking him for what he's done in his doing and not worry about what's left. Undone. I posted a picture where we're getting ready to move, and I posted a picture of my office in boxes, and I had a friend whose son is teaching me to do the Rubik's Cube. Say. I noticed your Rubik's Cube is on done, and I texted her, I put her back and I commented back now. It's like I've learned to look at what's done and not what's left undone because her son is trying to teach me, but I am I just like to fidget with those things. I don't care if they get done. But anyway. Rest is not sitting on your hands. Rest is not waiting for God to do what he's already told you to do.

Please hold you to do it. If he's told you in the book to do it, if he's told you impressed upon you and your spirit to do it, do it. Don't wait for him to be doing it.

Are you resting?

Rest is ultimately Trust. Rest is Trust.

The one that I'm working on, I will preach on this later sometime but trust I really I'm learning what trust is. How do you grow trust between people? And how do you grow trust with God? And it's turning up in my study at the same thing. How We Roll trust with people is how we draw. Trust with God, I'm not guessing, I'd still got to flush it out, but it one of the hands is I grow in, trust by the test my testimony and the and the prophecies over my life. If I can remember what God has done before for myself or other people. If I can remember the prophetic words, those words that have given me encouragement and life if I can remember those and Steward those, well when you get a prophetic word over your life, it's not put it on the shelf and wait to see if it happens. That's Old Testament. In the New Testament, you test everything and Holt of the good. So if you have a prophetic word over your life, that that's there you do what you can to make sure that comes about it. Got to got to work it out. However, he wants to work it out. That's his part. Your part is to Steward the gifts that you have to make sure that that works out.

So if he, if he's prophesied over you, that you're going to see the dead raised start praying for sick people. Start chasing ambulances and see if anyone needs it. I don't know whatever God leads you into but wait till it's warmer in wait till you know. Might be a little awkward during covid. But anyway.

Matthew 11:28 says, come to me all who are weary and burdened. All and all who are weary and carry heavy burden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle of heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

I do believe that rest is our responsibility, but I acknowledge that rest comes from Jesus. My responsibility is to.

Take up his yoke and learn from him. I learn his rhythms. I learn his leading. I learned by obeying him. What he tells me to do. Rest rest is our part restoration. Renewal is God's part. God's the one who renews our she renews Us in five ways. If case you're counting, I might be more. I found five ways. God renews my strength. You lose my soul. You were use my willing Spirit. It renews my mind and he renews my knowledge of God, and we got time for me to read those verses. So my strength, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings of Eagle like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint my soul. So I'm 20, 33. He leads me by Still Waters. He restores my soul. I willing Spirit Psalm, 51, 10, 2012 create in me a pure heart. Oh God, and renew. A steadfast Spirit within me within me. Don't cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy yourself, Joy of your salvation and grant me a willing Spirit to sustain me. My mind Romans 12:2 don't conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, then you'll be able to test and approve. What God's will is his good pleasing and perfect will. I know what your God Colossians 3:10. I haven't put in and have put on the new self which is being renewed in the knowledge of the image of its creator.

Your job is to rest.

Or learn from Jesus so you can rest. So he'll give you rest is job is to renew.

Are you giving yourself space to rest and be renewed?

Are you pushing through and keep on going? If? Can I tell you that? What I see in the world around me right now? when people feel out of control, So what I see in the world around me is people do all, they can to control, whatever they can, do the parole. That means customer service is out the window cuz I'm going to control this. That means it, it it's it blows me away. I see it. And I've learned just to give people space and not get offended that they're acting. So

anyway.

The answer is not to try to control when you feel out of control. The answer is to rest.

Learn from Jesus, how to rest and let God renew you.

Are you resting in him? Are you inviting him to renew you? What would Holy Spirit? Say if you took the time to ask?

So does thrive I need to tune in to Holy Spirit. I need to be honest, in my reflection. I need to rest and be renewed and I I need to ignite my spiritual fervor. This is from the NIV Romans 12 9 to 17. Love must be sincere. Hate. What is evil cling to what is good, be devoted to one another and brotherly love honor. One. Another above yourselves, never be lacking in Zeal. But keep your spiritual fervor serving, the lord be joyful in. Hope patient in Affliction. Faithful in prayer. The Lord's people who are in need practice, Hospitality bless those who persecute you bless and do not curse Rejoice with those who Rejoice mourn with those who mourn live in harmony with one another. Don't be proud be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay. Evil for evil. You careful to do. What is in the right? In the eyes of everyone. How do you ignite your spiritual fervor? How do you naturally do these things? These things don't work. If I make them a check list and I try to live them out. They don't work as a measuring stick to say. Oh, I don't have enough of God in Me because I can't do this. I can't do that. I'm not doing that. That they don't work that way. They work, is we respond to what God is doing in our life. How do you renew ignite your spiritual fervor? Oh, let me show you this story. Revelation 2.

This is a, we need to hear this story loud and clear Revelation to this is Jesus speaking to the church. In Ephesus says, write this letter to the angel of the Church of Ephesus. This is a message from him who holds the Seven Stars in his right hand to the one who walks among the seven, golden Lance elapsed. And I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil people and examine the claims of those who say they are Apostles, but or not, you have discovered, they are liars and you have patiently suffer for me without quitting. But I have this complaint against you. You don't love me or each other the way you did it first. Look how far you've Fallen turn back to me and do the work you did at first. If you don't repent you or I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.

Church in Ephesus. Did everything right?

They had the right theology. They were able to examine those that were not right.

But in their struggle and in there. Part of what they went through in their trouble. I forgot their first love.

They're the only one of the churches that Jesus threatened to remove the lampstand. Basically, he was telling them, I will snuff you out because you are not doing what I want you to do.

We hear of churches closing over covid. I yeah, I'm sad for some but I know there's a lot of churches and need to close.

Because they're not doing what God tells him to do.

And honestly, that's a warning for us to church if we're not doing what God tells us to do. We should close the doors.

Because we are his light. And if we're not shining his brightness. If we're just doing what we want to do, or how we want to do it.

Honestly, it's better for you to meet in your homes. With people of like Minds that you can encourage him Beauty and golden by. And it is to come and join together and keep the lights on in this place.

And if that's what we've been doing, the answer is right here.

The answer is repentance. And do the things. We did it first.

How do you ignite your spiritual fervor?

Your spiritual fervor is doing those things. You did at first. What? How was your faith? Most thriving, when your faith was most thriving? What were the things you were doing? Sometimes that's when you're first a brand new Christian for some of us who became a Christian when we were really young. It's when we first encountered Holy Spirit, or maybe it's a secondary time when we encountered Holy Spirit, or maybe it was another time, but there was a time in your life when you were thriving more than your driving today. What were you doing?

Were you in the, in the word? Were you spending a lot of time in prayer? Were you overwhelmed with love for others? Were you praying in the spirit? Were you, were you seeing the spirit? Move through you and signs, and wonders, and healing?

Whatever you were doing, that you knew was God's will for you to do and you stop doing it. Guess what? You were pants.

And you do the things you did at first.

Now the good news is Holy Spirit empowers you to accomplish every Cooper pump to buy face. So it's Holy Spirit at work in you. It's not you whipping yourself into form. It's not you sell flagellating so that God will see you in some way. I know it is repenting and asking Holy Spirit to empower you to do what he's told you to do. God this is the wonderful thing about this Bible is is it's the more you're in it, the more you want to be in it. But the reverse is true, the last year and hit the less you want to be in it. So if it's dusty on your shelf, pick it up, repents it in the book.

If your prayer life isn't what, you know, it should be repentance and get your prayer life back to where it should be.

Now, I'm not saying there aren't seasons in life.

What am I saying with that? But our kids were small. It was harder to do something.

I don't have any kids in the hole. Now. I can basically do whatever I want to do if parent doesn't want me to do something else. I don't have any excuses. Now, you might have excuses.

But find a way to work around those things. It needs to get done those things that God has entrusted to you. Those people that God has entrusted to you.

Never be lacking in Zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor serving the lord.

James 4:7 & 8, says, so, humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you come close to God and you will come close to you, wash your hands, you Sinners. And purify. Your hearts for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.

Is your loyalty divided between God and the world. Isaiah 55 6 and 7 says seek the Lord. While he may be found call upon him while he is near.

Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he will meet have mercy on them. Yes, to our God, for he will forgive.

The Thrive. You need to have that first love for God. And that his love for others.

Can you look at in the eye?

Can you spend time alone with him in silence?

You need to ask Holy Spirit if you're living offended at him.

What would Holy Spirit? Say if you took the time to ask?

We go through the motions and our goal is simply to cope, we can easily pull away from God.

When when it, when are are we just want to survive? We just we just want to get through this.

Really living really thriving, really being able to call others to life. It just it's not there anymore.

The good news is. When you confess. And repentance.

He will draw near to you. You will bring it back.

I want to thrive I need to tune in to Holy Spirit. I need an honest reflection and honest in my reflection. I need to rest and be renewed. I need to ignite my spiritual fervor and V. I need to victoriously live.

But we're in survival mode. We often forget that there's power in the blood of Jesus.

We we Face trials and difficulties. We may think that they'll last forever and sometimes like this whole situation, it goes on way too long.

Listen to what it says in Romans chapter 8.

What should I say about such wonderful things as these, if God is for us? Who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all won't? He also give us everything else. Who dares to accuse us for whom God has chosen for his own. No one forgot himself has given us, right? Standing with himself, who will then condemn has no one for Christ. Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand feeding for us than anything, separate us from Christ. Love, doesn't mean that we know you don't no longer loves us. If we have trouble or Calamity or persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or endanger, or threatened with that, as scriptures for your sake. We are killed every day. We are being slaughtered, like sheep. Know despite all of these things, overwhelming Victory Is Ours through Christ Jesus who loves us. And I am convinced that nothing can separate us from God's love neither death, nor life. Neither, angels nor demons. Neither our fears for today, or our worries for tomorrow. Not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above, or in the earth below. No indeed. Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God. That is revealed in Christ. Jesus our lord. How do you stand Victorious? How do you live Victorious for me? It's the word stand. I got to stand. What does that mean? It means I stop giving God credit for the works of the one who comes to steal kill and destroy. It means I treat all hardship as discipline knowing that he will work all things together for good. It means I agree to cast all my cares, upon him because he cares for me. It means I will never be lacking in Zeal, but keep my spiritual fervor serving the Lord shall be. Joyful in Hope. Patient in Affliction and faithful in Prayer. By the way, when I'm faithful in prayer, it's easier. Easier to be joyful in. Hope and patient in affliction. I can I can do the first thing with holy spirit's help. And the D is I don't worry about anything. I pray about everything. I thank Him in all things knowing that that's his will for me. Are you living victoriously? Are you ready to thrive and not merely survive? What would Holy Spirit impress upon you? If you took the time to ask?

So the Thrive I know I need to tune in to Holy Spirit. I need an honest roof on it. Be honest in my reflection. I need to rest and be renewed. I need to ignite my spiritual form. I need to victoriously live and I need to embrace that says I am. 1st Corinthians, 6:16, 19 and 20. Don't you realize that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God. You did not belong to yourself for God. Bought you with a high-priced. So you must honor God with your body.

The only opinion that really matters to me about me is God's opinion. Has to be the same way for you.

I know I need to take thoughts captive. I need to tear down strongholds. I can't let any thought that disagrees with what God says about me in this book.

Take precedence over what God says about me in this book.

I need to erase shame and I did need to embrace Grace.

How do I erase shame? I need to believe. When the book says, if I confess with my mouth. That one hit it. When a book says, if I confessed my sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us. Give me my sins. I need to believe that.

If if I eat, it doesn't feel like I've been forgiven.

I don't need to forgive myself. That's not in the book. But I do need to do is repent of the sin of unbelief. The Bible talks about unbelief and it talks about it being a sin. I don't believe what God says about himself in forgiving me.

If I confess my sin, he is faithful. And just to forgive me my sin. He doesn't hold it against me anymore. I can't hold it against myself.

If I don't feel like I've been forgiven, it is the Cinnabon believe confess and repent of that.

If I send, I should feel guilt. If I confess that's in, I should not feel shame. I should never feel shame for sin that I've confessed and repented up. You are washed. You are cleansed. You are made right before. God.

There's no shame in your game.

I also, I need to.

It reached Sheen. I also need to embrace Grace. What is Grace? Praise is God's Supernatural enabling to do what he tells me to do. Empowers me to accomplish every good work. Prompted by faith.

So they Thrive, I need to erase shame and I need to embrace Grace.

Do you Embrace who God says, you are? We sing about it. And it feels good when we sing about it.

What happens? The next time? Someone sets that thing the triggers us? Trigger. She meant us.

I want to give you some time to hear what holy spirit says about you. Maybe that's a question you want to ask? God.

Do I need to erase Shane? Do I need to embrace Grace?

I don't believe that the year to come will be all sunshine and rainbows, but I do know God's will for me personally is that he wants me to thrive. And have peace and joy, and hope at all times. And in every situation.

What the word. Proverbs 29 says, it says, when the righteous Thrive the people rejoice. When the wicked are and how are they grown, will leave that one out. But when the righteous Thrive, the people rejoice, you're the righteous. Are you ready to thrive?

Will you tune in the holy spirit? Will you be honest in your reflection? Will you rest and be renewed? Will you in the ignite your spiritual fervor? Will you victoriously live and will you Embrace who God says you are?

I don't want to leave here and hear people say, boy, you put a lot into that sermon. It's going to take me a while to him back. Yeah, I did. I gave you notes. 38 is good for you.

I want to hear people say, I want you to say that you heard from God.

And we got time here. So we're going to take time. We're not going to take a long time, but we're going to make a moment. Every create space for you to hear from God.

Now, if you got a pen and paper, you might want to ask got a question then, write down how you think he's responding? If you got a phone, I don't have my phone got a phone. Maybe you make a note, and ask got a question and write down how you think he's responding? Maybe you just want to sit there and just sit in his presence and ask God and just wait for him to respond. and, and you might I don't think the whole life. I've heard the audible voice of God once every other time. It's been an impression. So don't expect God to speak audibly, but if he does pay attention, but if it's interested, it's just a deeper knowing it's something that he impresses on you. It could be anything that we talked about today that God want you. He either wants to really encourage you in it. Or he tells you he wants you to confess and repent and then he'll encourage you in it because this is not a time. You will not feel shame. You will feel freedom. You. When you hear from God, it brings you to life. It ignites something in you when you hear his voice.

So I'm going to ask them to put on the the the video it's going to play. I'm going to pray and just give us a time to have a moment. And I don't know how long it won't be too long, but it will be a moment. And then I'll close in prayer and we'll have some announcements. So what I'm saying is, please don't run out of here. Is that we know where can I pray for you?

What takes the time to hear from God?

Let's free getting a place ready to receive. However, you're ready to receive from God. Holy Spirit. I thank you that you're here. I thank you that you've been speaking through the songs through the through the prophetic acts that have taken place and Lord. Hopefully through my words to you've been speaking to Hearts, but now Lord, we invite you to speak because your servants are listening.

Speak to us now, Lord, and give us your life. We put on the next light with the music, please.

Don't want to chat.

You don't want to chill.

Lose.

Let's go home.

Work so hard.

Running shoes. Songs.

Brody Jenner.

Play Adele.

Trouble hearing. Sensing God, I I do pray that you sense his presence. That's here right now.

He's always with us. He never leaves us. But we make space for him. You can send some.

and it's my prayer that he would give you his peace. He would give you his rest.

If you feel like you want to hear God's voice, don't leave here without asking someone to pray for. You can come up front here and someone will pray for you.

And you will hear God more clearly.

And God will continue to speak to you and through you. Cuz you make space for him so you can hear him.

Lord, I want to thank you for what you're doing in people's hearts. Hiiraan online. I Want to Thank You. Lord God, that even leader people are watching. They can have that moment with you.

Lord. We recognize it's not the moment. We've been created for. We've been created to always be in your presence to abide in you and have your word abide in US.

Oh, Lord. I pray that if we need to repent of anything that is hindering us.

We would repent confess and repent confess and agree with you that it's Sam. And repent of that Lord. If there's anything. It's so easily entangles us. It might not be sin, but it's just things that block us from making space to connect with you and be part of your Vine and be connected to you.

I pray that we be able to cast those off as well or God put them in their proper place. And realized that we have been created to be in your presence. And Lord. We can be in your presence everyday as long as we want.

I pray for impossible situations. In health and in relationship, and in finances. And I speak life to those situations.

Lord, I Thank you that you are going to prove yourself, good. once again, it always

Lord, I Help us to trust. And a growing Trust.

Your precious name? Hey, man.

Thank you for going there today. I know it's not a typical service, but we need more of us.

I'll ask. You need to come up. You got the announcement servania on the screen.