Better Together LIVE | Episode 136
November 2, 2020
25:45
Has 2020 left you feeling drained? Let’s talk about how to experience God’s supernatural peace in any situation. | TBN Prayer Line: 714-731-1000
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Better Together LIVE | Episode 136
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- - God has a gift thatthe world cannot give us.
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- If we accept it, He will calmall of our worries and fears.
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- God's supernatural peace
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- can be our guidinglight in any situation.
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- Today we're learninghow to walk in it.
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- Come on, join us.
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- ♪ ooh ooh ooh ooh oohooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh oohooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
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- ♪ ooh ooh ooh ooh oohooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
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- ♪ Ooh ooh ooh oohooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
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- ♪ ooh ooh ooh ooh oohooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
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- - Listen 2020 isa whole sentence.
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- It's just a whole sentence .
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- You can say 2020, andeverybody knows what you mean.
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- You know what I mean?
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- And I tell you it has beena year full of surprises
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- and unexpected things andseasons that have lasted
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- a lot longer than wethought they would.
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- For many of us, it is a yearthat has held hard decisions.
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- It is a year thathas held hard times.
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- And I know my mother passedaway at the very end of 2019
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- and it's become a little
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- maybe joke isn't the right word,
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- but a little levity toour situation to say
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- that my mother looked at 2020,
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- God told her 2020 is a yearyou don't wanna be here for
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- and she got up out of here.
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- 'Cause 2020 is just a mess
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- and I have to tell you that
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- we have of course not onlydealt with the COVID-19 impact
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- like everybody else has,
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- but this year my husbandhad COVID, we moved.
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- I mean, there has beenjust a series of things
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- and not all ofthem have been bad.
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- Of course we've beendealing continually
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- with the grief ofthe loss of our mom,
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- but it's exhausting
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- and I don't think sometimes
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- that when we keep going,because we have to
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- we keep working, we keeptaking care of kids,
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- We keep serving in our church
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- even if it's in anonline capacity,
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- we try to stayconnected with friends.
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- We gotta keep puttingdinner on the table
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- or whatever it isthat we do every day
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- that we give thecredit to the fact
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- that a hard year can bring onan exhaustion, all of its own.
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- And sometimes I know thatI have not fully taken note
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- of the level of heaviness thatdifficult times can bring.
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- And so even if 2020 hasbeen a good year for me,
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- it's been heavy becauseof a lot of things
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- and all of us have been dealing
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- with the impacts tosome degree of COVID-19,
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- even if it's justnot seeing our people
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- and I've have been challengedto take stock of...
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- You know pay attention.
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- Pay attention to your soul,pay attention to your heart
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- pay attention to your body,
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- because there may bea level of exhaustion
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- that you're not thinking ishappening, but that really is
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- simply because it'sa terrible year.
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- - I love that.
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- I love that so muchChrystal, how you're talking
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- about focusing and lookingat what's in front of you
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- and taking inventory aboutwhat you're going through
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- to pay attention.
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- I think, when I hear thewords of Jesus in John 14:27,
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- about how, I'mleaving you a peace
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- that the world can not provide
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- I'm leaving you apeace that's better
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- than what theworld can give you.
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- I'm leaving you a peace
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- that's better than any peaceanyone ever can give you.
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- I think about how
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- are we accessing thepeace that Jesus provides?
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- Who are we goingto for our peace.
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- Because certainlyif we want the peace
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- that only comes from Jesus.
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- If we want the peacethat only Jesus provides
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- and we can't go to allthese things in the world,
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- looking for that peace,they don't have it.
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- We cannot go tosocial media and think
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- it's gonna give me this piece.
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- We can't go to whatthe world is saying
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- or what our friends are saying
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- or our peers are saying
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- thinking they're gonnagive us that kind of peace.
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- If we want the kind ofpeace that Jesus provides
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- we can only go to Him for it
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- in his word in timealone with Him.
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- And I just love how muchyou said that crystal
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- about how important it is toreally look at your situation
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- and see it for what it is.
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- And Jesus can be with ustruly in the middle of it
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- bringing His peacethat only He provides
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- if we go to Him only for it.
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- And that's powerful, that'sa powerful work of Jesus.
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- - Well, I also think too,
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- that in the midst of this 2020
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- mess that we find ourselves in
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- that we have tocreate our atmosphere
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- because theatmosphere around us,
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- isn't always conduciveto a spirit of peace,
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- but we can controlour own atmosphere.
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- I have learned, I amnot gonna be controlled
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- by the things I can't control.
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- See, we can't control everything
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- but we can create an atmospherearound us in our homes
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- and in our mind,
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- we have to create anatmosphere in our mind.
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- I think, especiallyduring the season,
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- our mind we findourselves stressed
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- and emotionally drainedand all of those things
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- but if we find a wayto create atmosphere...
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- I know I was talking withone of the girls in the room
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- prior to coming here on set
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- and she talked about howshe'll turn on the radio
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- and she'll dance just to createa good lively atmosphere.
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- And I think there arethings that we can do.
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- We maintain peace byprayer and by meditation
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- and keeping our mindseton the things of the Lord.
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- But at the same time howdo we create an atmosphere
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- that others even wannacome into and be a part
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- to step away from thestress and the strain
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- that they're feeling.
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- And I believe that we have aduty to create an atmosphere
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- that's good andlively and peaceful
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- and full of joy and laughter.
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- I think 2020 hasgiven us a chance
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- to actually resetsome of the way
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- that we've done life before
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- and so I thinkthat's a great thing.
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- We can maintain peace by theatmosphere that we create.
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- - Yeah, I totally agree.
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- My husband has adegree in accounting.
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- And he's a pastor now
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- but that was kind of hisrunning from the Lord.
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- And we joke, I havea degree in spending
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- and so we're like totallyopposites in this world,
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- but I feel like God has used Him
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- to teach me things with money
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- but it's also taught methings with my heart.
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- And like what y'allare talking about
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- taking inventory 2020did a huge charge on us.
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- If we could think of it inmoney, you only have so much
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- and when you take so much out,
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- you have to somehow put more in
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- before you go into the negative.
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- And so for me, thiswas a huge thing
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- where I had to realize2020 took a charge on me
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- and either I wasgonna be withdrawn
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- and I was gonna be overdrawn,
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- I was going to bein the negative
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- or I needed to fill myself up
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- and I needed to dowhat Hosanna was saying
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- and I needed to go tothe Word of the Lord
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- for the peace of God thatsurpasses all understanding.
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- I needed to go tothe house of God
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- whether online or in person,
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- however it is I needed to go
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- and I needed toencounter worship
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- and linger in his presence
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- because there aresome uncontrollables
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- that I have no control over.
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- But like Jeannie said,
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- there are somecontrollables in my life.
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- And in 2020 with our finances,
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- we all might've said
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- well, we're gonna cut the things
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- that are pleasure to us
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- the things that we don'treally need anymore.
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- Well, some of us need todo that with our hearts
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- when this was metoo of saying like,
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- what do I need to cut rightnow, that's pulling from me?
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- And I don't even enoughfor you to pull from me
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- because my uncontrollablesare pulling
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- and I have to allowsome room to add in.
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- And so this has been ajourney in my heart to say,
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- if I'm going to maintain peace
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- I have to have a wellrecord of my heart.
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- I need to have a ledgerof my heart to say,
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- where am I?
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- Because there aresome uncontrollables
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- that are really taking somebig charges on my heart
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- with COVID-19 and with allthat's happening in 2020,
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- we could list a million things
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- of things that havehappened in 2020
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- that have pulled from us.
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- And so how are weleaning in and adding to
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- and those things I found,
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- it's just like Hosanna said
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- I'm going to the person who has
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- the unlimited supplyof peace to say,
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- I need more, I need some more
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- of what you have and Ican't live without it.
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- - I love that.
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- You know, there's a thingcalled garbage in garbage out.
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- And I think I was sittingwith Miranda yesterday
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- my sweet littleassistant my right arm.
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- And we were just talking
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- about how this year hastaken every everybody.
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- I think it's been a verypersonal introspective year
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- where we have had to really look
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- on the inside of our hearts,
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- the inside of our homes, theinside of our communities
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- and do some real deep cleaning
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- some weeding out of things.
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- I think God has madeus lean in this year.
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- I believe that a lotof us have been taken
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- to the end of our rope.
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- And I've heard itsaid that God's office
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- is at the end of your rope.
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- And just to where wethrow up our hands
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- and just say, "I'mdone, I'm finished.
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- "I can't do anymore."
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- And I think that God loves that.
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- I think He loves whenwe come to the point
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- where we just go
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- "God, I justsurrender all to you.
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- "I surrender my life.
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- "I surrender myfinances, my family
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- "my job, my security, myeverything, I just surrender."
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- It was funny because it'salmost feeling defeat
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- because you know what?
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- Without God, weare fully defeated,
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- but with God, we haveeverything that pertains to life
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- and to godliness.
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- And that is sucha freeing point.
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- Chrystal I think that whenwe finally do just give up
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- and surrender toGod, that that's veryfreeing to all of us.
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- - Absolutely.
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- And I think, Psalm 91...
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- Read that a lot this year
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- because it was mymom's favorite Psalm
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- but that has certainlybeen the thing that for me
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- has been very tellingfor my own peace,
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- "That He who dwells in theshelter of the most high
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- "will abide under theshadow of the Almighty."
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- There is something that happens
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- when you start running aroundin circles trying to fix 2020
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- and say despite 2020,
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- which is its own whole sentence
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- I'm gonna choose to allowthe difficult things
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- the unexpected things,the hard things
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- and all of the things toonly send me to seek refuge
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- in his shadow under HisAlmighty hand, in His wing.
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- And to realizethat ultimate peace
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- doesn't come fromhaving a good year
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- that ultimate peace doesn'tcome from having a good day
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- or having a good marriageor having a great job
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- or any of the thingsthat we would expect
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- in any year to bring us peace.
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- Really ultimate peace,unwavering peace,
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- peace that passesall understanding
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- comes when we decide tooperate under the auspices
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- of God's will His directiveHis care, His love
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- and His word, Hisword towards us.
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- - I love that so much.
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- Ultimate peace, ultimatepeace comes from Jesus
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- because certainly we canfind moments of peace,
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- with a good conversation orsome good essential oils.
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- Like we can find a moment ofpeace through earthly things
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- but an everlasting peace thatthe world can not provide
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- that the worldcan not compare to
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- that's from the insideout only comes from Jesus.
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- And I love how, whenwe're all speaking
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- about losses this year,
- 00:11:45.884 --> 00:11:47.585
- we've all talked about losses
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- we've had before this year too.
- 00:11:48.887 --> 00:11:50.889
- We've had some losses this year
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- but this isn't the first year
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- we've all experienced trials.
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- This isn't the first year,we've all experienced pain.
- 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.364
- And so I just lovethis echoing theme
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- that we're all talking about.
- 00:12:01.866 --> 00:12:03.301
- I trust God becausethis isn't the first time
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- I've needed Him to show upand He's shown up for me.
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- For our ministry, wecertainly went through
- 00:12:09.207 --> 00:12:11.709
- a lot of loss in our family
- 00:12:11.709 --> 00:12:13.511
- and a lot of lossin our ministry.
- 00:12:13.511 --> 00:12:15.413
- And more recently the warehouse
- 00:12:15.413 --> 00:12:19.717
- that stored all of ourbooks and resources
- 00:12:19.717 --> 00:12:23.721
- burned to the ground completely
- 00:12:23.721 --> 00:12:26.591
- and we were like,"What are we gonna do?"
- 00:12:26.591 --> 00:12:29.194
- I'm self-published, weself-funded all these resources
- 00:12:29.194 --> 00:12:31.696
- build a ministryfrom the ground up
- 00:12:31.696 --> 00:12:33.298
- and we're like, "Whatare we gonna do?"
- 00:12:33.298 --> 00:12:34.199
- But you know what?
- 00:12:34.199 --> 00:12:34.999
- And here's the truth.
- 00:12:34.999 --> 00:12:36.100
- And I hear thisechoing with all of us.
- 00:12:36.100 --> 00:12:38.102
- The luxury I had in this season
- 00:12:38.102 --> 00:12:40.305
- was that this wasn'tthe first trial
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- we went through,
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- this wasn't the firstfire that we went through.
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- This wasn't the firsttime we had to say,
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- you know what?
- 00:12:49.113 --> 00:12:50.315
- Our identity isnot in our stuff.
- 00:12:50.315 --> 00:12:51.516
- Our identity isnot in our career.
- 00:12:51.516 --> 00:12:52.817
- Our identity is not in our job.
- 00:12:52.817 --> 00:12:54.118
- Our identity isnot in our plans.
- 00:12:54.118 --> 00:12:55.920
- When I lost my daddyat 18 years old
- 00:12:55.920 --> 00:12:57.989
- that was probably thefirst time I had to say
- 00:12:57.989 --> 00:12:59.691
- my identity is not in my dad,
- 00:12:59.691 --> 00:13:02.594
- my identity is not in the legacy
- 00:13:02.594 --> 00:13:04.095
- that I thought I wasgoing to follow after.
- 00:13:04.095 --> 00:13:06.397
- And then years laterwith other losses
- 00:13:06.397 --> 00:13:08.099
- in our ministryand in our churches
- 00:13:08.099 --> 00:13:09.500
- in our families overand over is this theme.
- 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:11.903
- You know what?
- 00:13:11.903 --> 00:13:13.104
- My identity is notin my relationships.
- 00:13:13.104 --> 00:13:14.105
- My identity is not in my title.
- 00:13:14.105 --> 00:13:15.306
- My identity is not whatpeople say about me.
- 00:13:15.306 --> 00:13:16.708
- Thank you Lord.
- 00:13:16.708 --> 00:13:18.309
- So Lord here is another trialand here's another fire,
- 00:13:18.309 --> 00:13:22.313
- but we have a luxuryas Jesus followers
- 00:13:22.313 --> 00:13:25.617
- that the same God thathas saved us in the past,
- 00:13:25.617 --> 00:13:28.920
- who has been faithful to us in.
- 00:13:28.920 --> 00:13:30.221
- - In the past is the same God
- 00:13:30.989 --> 00:13:31.990
- who is available to us right now
- 00:13:31.990 --> 00:13:33.992
- in the middle of trials,in the middle of fires.
- 00:13:33.992 --> 00:13:36.694
- And He is, like He's proven,
- 00:13:36.694 --> 00:13:39.197
- His resume shows the only peace
- 00:13:39.197 --> 00:13:42.500
- that surpasses all understanding
- 00:13:42.500 --> 00:13:44.802
- that's beyond anythingthe world can give,
- 00:13:44.802 --> 00:13:46.704
- and He is the piece I'mgonna go to, in this trial,
- 00:13:46.704 --> 00:13:50.108
- and in the next one.
- 00:13:50.108 --> 00:13:51.409
- - Yeah, beautiful.
- 00:13:51.409 --> 00:13:52.710
- - Hosanna, I lovewhat you're saying.
- 00:13:52.710 --> 00:13:55.413
- You talk about,
- 00:13:55.413 --> 00:13:57.115
- basically, this isn't thefirst road you've been to.
- 00:13:57.115 --> 00:14:02.120
- We all go through differenttimes in different seasons.
- 00:14:03.721 --> 00:14:05.590
- And it's in thosetimes and seasons
- 00:14:05.590 --> 00:14:08.393
- that we can learn that,"Hey, I can trust God,
- 00:14:08.393 --> 00:14:12.697
- because He's carried me through
- 00:14:12.697 --> 00:14:15.700
- all of the different seasonsthat have come to me before,
- 00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:18.703
- and I always come outsmelling like a rose.
- 00:14:18.703 --> 00:14:21.606
- And I think it goes backto really trusting God,
- 00:14:21.606 --> 00:14:24.709
- and having akingdom perspective.
- 00:14:24.709 --> 00:14:27.211
- See, 2020 is just a blimp,
- 00:14:27.211 --> 00:14:30.114
- on the perspective ofGod's view of everything.
- 00:14:30.114 --> 00:14:32.817
- And when we come tothe end of this year,
- 00:14:32.817 --> 00:14:35.420
- we'll have looked andsaid, "Did I walk in peace?
- 00:14:35.420 --> 00:14:35.753
- we'll have looked andsaid, "Did I walk in peace?
- 00:14:36.521 --> 00:14:38.323
- Did I walk in a place
- 00:14:38.323 --> 00:14:39.824
- where I really felt likeI could trust the Lord?
- 00:14:39.824 --> 00:14:42.327
- Did I keep my mind renewed
- 00:14:42.327 --> 00:14:44.128
- according to thethings of the world?"
- 00:14:44.128 --> 00:14:45.630
- Because the renewing of themind will keep you going,
- 00:14:45.630 --> 00:14:48.933
- when everything elseis coming at you.
- 00:14:48.933 --> 00:14:50.835
- The circumstances are difficult,
- 00:14:50.835 --> 00:14:52.637
- and you don't know howyou're gonna get through
- 00:14:52.637 --> 00:14:54.238
- the next season.
- 00:14:54.238 --> 00:14:55.840
- But if your mind staysrenewed according to the Word,
- 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.743
- you'll come through itsmelling like a rose.
- 00:14:58.743 --> 00:15:01.346
- And you'll come throughit with a song of victory,
- 00:15:01.346 --> 00:15:03.848
- that you will sing,
- 00:15:03.848 --> 00:15:04.849
- it's like the children of Israel
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- when they camethrough the waters
- 00:15:06.451 --> 00:15:08.953
- and they got to the other side,
- 00:15:08.953 --> 00:15:10.321
- they sang a song of victory.
- 00:15:10.321 --> 00:15:11.622
- And for us, I thinkas Christians,
- 00:15:11.622 --> 00:15:14.726
- it behooves us to sing a songon this side of the river,
- 00:15:14.726 --> 00:15:19.330
- before we get to the other side,
- 00:15:19.330 --> 00:15:20.732
- because we can be confident
- 00:15:20.732 --> 00:15:22.734
- that God has got thisall worked out for us.
- 00:15:22.734 --> 00:15:25.036
- And there isn't anythingthat we can't face
- 00:15:25.036 --> 00:15:28.439
- that God won't be there,
- 00:15:28.439 --> 00:15:29.841
- strengthening us,giving us wisdom,
- 00:15:29.841 --> 00:15:32.443
- helping us to walk withgreat victory through it.
- 00:15:32.443 --> 00:15:35.146
- And not only theway that we walk,
- 00:15:35.146 --> 00:15:37.648
- but how others see us walk,
- 00:15:37.648 --> 00:15:39.450
- and that we can walkwith strength and wisdom.
- 00:15:39.450 --> 00:15:42.653
- And then that makesthem a believer
- 00:15:42.653 --> 00:15:45.423
- in what we're all about,
- 00:15:45.423 --> 00:15:46.924
- and God gets glorified inthe process of all of it.
- 00:15:46.924 --> 00:15:49.227
- - It's so good.
- 00:15:49.227 --> 00:15:51.229
- We're talking aboutrenewing our mind
- 00:15:51.229 --> 00:15:52.830
- and focusing on howGod has been faithful,
- 00:15:52.830 --> 00:15:55.033
- the same yesterday,today and forever.
- 00:15:55.033 --> 00:15:57.035
- But I don't know if thishas ever been your struggle,
- 00:15:57.035 --> 00:15:59.137
- but sometimes it feelslike we get in a season,
- 00:15:59.137 --> 00:16:01.139
- and we can't even rememberthe last time He was faithful.
- 00:16:01.139 --> 00:16:03.741
- And I know we've seen itlike with the Israelites,
- 00:16:03.741 --> 00:16:05.543
- you've seen itthroughout the Bible.
- 00:16:05.543 --> 00:16:06.844
- And you're like, "I knowthat that's who He is,
- 00:16:06.844 --> 00:16:09.347
- but like, for some reason,
- 00:16:09.347 --> 00:16:10.848
- this feels too heavy forme to remember who He is."
- 00:16:10.848 --> 00:16:13.751
- And I've been inthat season at times,
- 00:16:13.751 --> 00:16:16.821
- and what I realized
- 00:16:16.821 --> 00:16:18.122
- is oftentimes I cango back to my journal,
- 00:16:18.122 --> 00:16:19.824
- and I can see, man, thisis where God was faithful.
- 00:16:19.824 --> 00:16:22.326
- But there have been times
- 00:16:22.326 --> 00:16:23.628
- where the journalsweren't available.
- 00:16:23.628 --> 00:16:25.029
- And where do I turnto remind myself
- 00:16:25.029 --> 00:16:27.131
- that He is the sameGod and this trial
- 00:16:27.131 --> 00:16:29.233
- that seems four timesbigger than the last trial?
- 00:16:29.233 --> 00:16:31.836
- And I always know I cango to the Word of God.
- 00:16:31.836 --> 00:16:34.739
- And so I think about this,
- 00:16:34.739 --> 00:16:36.240
- because I realized thatthere's some young Christians,
- 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.044
- there's some people that 2020is their first rock bottom.
- 00:16:40.044 --> 00:16:43.548
- And this is their firsttime where they're saying,
- 00:16:43.548 --> 00:16:45.850
- "This has too hard.
- 00:16:45.850 --> 00:16:47.452
- Is there a God thatactually would walk me
- 00:16:47.452 --> 00:16:49.654
- through this season?
- 00:16:49.654 --> 00:16:50.822
- Like, is He actually aGod that loves me enough
- 00:16:50.822 --> 00:16:53.124
- to know that thisseason is hard?"
- 00:16:53.124 --> 00:16:55.126
- Like, and you sitthere and you cry out,
- 00:16:55.126 --> 00:16:57.228
- "I don't understand God why?"
- 00:16:57.228 --> 00:16:59.030
- Like, people have losttheir baby during COVID,
- 00:16:59.030 --> 00:17:01.933
- people have been in hospitalsalone during the season,
- 00:17:01.933 --> 00:17:05.536
- there been a very hard season,
- 00:17:05.536 --> 00:17:06.938
- we've all been ina very hard season.
- 00:17:06.938 --> 00:17:08.339
- And I think sometimes weforget to remember who God is,
- 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:11.943
- because we're so focused.
- 00:17:11.943 --> 00:17:13.744
- In Philippians 4 ittalks about worry,
- 00:17:13.744 --> 00:17:15.646
- and it says, "Fix yourmind on these things."
- 00:17:15.646 --> 00:17:18.349
- And I think whatit's done for me
- 00:17:18.349 --> 00:17:19.951
- is to remind myself,
- 00:17:19.951 --> 00:17:21.953
- "Hey, I need to changewhere I'm looking.
- 00:17:21.953 --> 00:17:24.021
- Who have I given this worry to?
- 00:17:25.223 --> 00:17:27.125
- Have I given it to my husband,
- 00:17:27.125 --> 00:17:28.526
- because I've onlybeen to him about it?
- 00:17:28.526 --> 00:17:30.228
- Have I given it to my friend?
- 00:17:30.228 --> 00:17:31.629
- Have I given itto my co-workers?
- 00:17:31.629 --> 00:17:33.331
- Have I given it to my kids?
- 00:17:33.331 --> 00:17:34.832
- Who have I given this to?"
- 00:17:34.832 --> 00:17:36.534
- Because the only personthat can carry it is God.
- 00:17:36.534 --> 00:17:39.337
- And so I need tofix my eyes on Him,
- 00:17:39.337 --> 00:17:41.439
- which means I needto lay this to God,
- 00:17:41.439 --> 00:17:44.041
- I need to give this to God,
- 00:17:44.041 --> 00:17:46.043
- because He is the finisher.
- 00:17:46.043 --> 00:17:47.945
- He's the author and the finisherof our faith of the story.
- 00:17:47.945 --> 00:17:51.048
- Just like you'retalking about, Hosanna,
- 00:17:51.048 --> 00:17:52.450
- He's going to come through.
- 00:17:52.450 --> 00:17:54.552
- He's going to comethrough in your warehouse,
- 00:17:54.552 --> 00:17:56.821
- He's gonna come throughin the next person's life,
- 00:17:56.821 --> 00:17:58.823
- He's gonna come throughbecause that's who He is.
- 00:17:58.823 --> 00:18:01.726
- But how do I remind myself that?
- 00:18:01.726 --> 00:18:03.528
- I go back to the Word of God,
- 00:18:03.528 --> 00:18:04.829
- I get back into thehouse of the Lord,
- 00:18:04.829 --> 00:18:06.430
- and it says we overcomeby blood of the lamb
- 00:18:06.430 --> 00:18:09.534
- and the word of our testimony.
- 00:18:09.534 --> 00:18:11.235
- I need some words oftestimonies from friends.
- 00:18:11.235 --> 00:18:13.638
- I'm gonna ask God, "What'sGod doing in your life?"
- 00:18:13.638 --> 00:18:15.940
- I'm gonna ask my friends,
- 00:18:15.940 --> 00:18:17.141
- I'm gonna ask my co-workers,
- 00:18:17.141 --> 00:18:18.643
- and then I'm gonna tellthem what God's doing in me,
- 00:18:18.643 --> 00:18:20.444
- so that we can be upliftedto remind ourselves
- 00:18:20.444 --> 00:18:23.047
- that in these hard seasons,
- 00:18:23.047 --> 00:18:24.649
- God is still faithful andHe's still on the move,
- 00:18:24.649 --> 00:18:27.652
- 'cause there's a lotof good still happening
- 00:18:27.652 --> 00:18:29.453
- in the midst ofsome of this bad,
- 00:18:29.453 --> 00:18:31.022
- and that's what weneed to focus on
- 00:18:31.022 --> 00:18:32.623
- and fix our thoughtson in this season.
- 00:18:32.623 --> 00:18:35.226
- - I love that, Elaine,
- 00:18:35.226 --> 00:18:36.527
- because so many of theyoung people today,
- 00:18:36.527 --> 00:18:39.330
- will look back on 2020 as theyear that changed their life,
- 00:18:39.330 --> 00:18:43.935
- that changed theirperspective about God,
- 00:18:43.935 --> 00:18:46.537
- and they will see Himfaithful in this year.
- 00:18:46.537 --> 00:18:50.141
- And they will lookback on 2020 and say,
- 00:18:50.141 --> 00:18:52.843
- "If God did it for me then,in the worst of the worst,
- 00:18:52.843 --> 00:18:56.547
- God will do it for me now."
- 00:18:56.547 --> 00:18:58.249
- And I love that you said,
- 00:18:58.249 --> 00:18:59.250
- "Fix your heart and your mind."
- 00:18:59.250 --> 00:19:01.352
- That means set your focuson God and who He is.
- 00:19:01.352 --> 00:19:04.822
- So everybody needsto just reset,
- 00:19:04.822 --> 00:19:07.225
- stick that littlearrow right on God,
- 00:19:07.225 --> 00:19:11.028
- and who He says He is.
- 00:19:11.028 --> 00:19:12.430
- He says, "I'm your joy, I'myour peace, I'm your provision,
- 00:19:12.430 --> 00:19:15.433
- I'm your hope, I'm your life,
- 00:19:15.433 --> 00:19:17.935
- I'm your salvation,I'm everything,
- 00:19:17.935 --> 00:19:20.738
- everything that youneed, is found in me."
- 00:19:20.738 --> 00:19:24.542
- So we fix our focus.
- 00:19:24.542 --> 00:19:26.844
- And I think that theyoung people watching,
- 00:19:26.844 --> 00:19:29.547
- if they will focus on God,
- 00:19:29.547 --> 00:19:32.350
- and the Scripturethat we're leading off
- 00:19:32.350 --> 00:19:34.552
- with this wholeweek is John 14:27.
- 00:19:34.552 --> 00:19:38.022
- It says, "I'mleaving you a gift,"
- 00:19:38.022 --> 00:19:39.624
- this is Jesus, thisis what Jesus told us,
- 00:19:39.624 --> 00:19:42.026
- "Peace of mind and heart.
- 00:19:42.026 --> 00:19:44.829
- And the peace that I give isa gift the world cannot give.
- 00:19:44.829 --> 00:19:49.834
- So don't be troubled or afraid."
- 00:19:50.735 --> 00:19:52.637
- That means that we don't haveto be troubled or afraid,
- 00:19:52.637 --> 00:19:56.941
- because His peace,
- 00:19:56.941 --> 00:19:58.843
- and it's somethingthat we have to accept,
- 00:19:58.843 --> 00:20:01.345
- something that we lean into,
- 00:20:01.345 --> 00:20:03.247
- it's always there,it's always available.
- 00:20:03.247 --> 00:20:06.350
- You might be pulled to the left,
- 00:20:06.350 --> 00:20:08.252
- you might be pulledto the right,
- 00:20:08.252 --> 00:20:10.521
- but in the center isGod and His peace.
- 00:20:10.521 --> 00:20:13.524
- And Crystal, I thinkif we just focus
- 00:20:13.524 --> 00:20:16.527
- on what God has done for us,
- 00:20:16.527 --> 00:20:18.029
- this beautiful giftthat He has given us,
- 00:20:18.029 --> 00:20:21.432
- that everything isgonna be alright,
- 00:20:21.432 --> 00:20:23.334
- and that we don'thave to be troubled.
- 00:20:23.334 --> 00:20:25.336
- We don't have to haveour spirits troubled,
- 00:20:25.336 --> 00:20:27.238
- and we don't have to be afraid.
- 00:20:27.238 --> 00:20:28.739
- - Well, and I think thata part of the fixing,
- 00:20:28.739 --> 00:20:31.842
- sometimes it's looking backat what God has already done.
- 00:20:31.842 --> 00:20:35.146
- Sometimes, if you,like Elaine said,
- 00:20:35.146 --> 00:20:37.948
- you can't find your journals,
- 00:20:37.948 --> 00:20:39.750
- or maybe you can't think ofa thought, or a reflection,
- 00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:43.521
- one of the beauties of being apart of a community of faith,
- 00:20:43.521 --> 00:20:47.325
- is that you can borrowsomebody else's.
- 00:20:47.325 --> 00:20:49.627
- One of the reasons why Godencourages us in the Word
- 00:20:49.627 --> 00:20:52.430
- to share our testimony,
- 00:20:52.430 --> 00:20:53.831
- the Bible says, "Thatwe have overcome
- 00:20:55.232 --> 00:20:57.735
- by the blood of the Lamb, andthe word of our testimony."
- 00:20:57.735 --> 00:21:02.740
- And I think it's interesting
- 00:21:03.641 --> 00:21:04.842
- that connected by thatlittle conjunction and,
- 00:21:04.842 --> 00:21:07.445
- is God's, the blood of HisSon Jesus, and our word.
- 00:21:07.445 --> 00:21:12.450
- What we believe, what we'veseen, what we've experienced,
- 00:21:13.951 --> 00:21:17.321
- connected to, our trust in God.
- 00:21:17.321 --> 00:21:19.724
- And so if I can look at an aunt
- 00:21:19.724 --> 00:21:22.526
- or an older woman inmy church, or a mentor,
- 00:21:22.526 --> 00:21:26.430
- or a grandmother, ormy mother's friend,
- 00:21:26.430 --> 00:21:29.333
- or other people that havewalked with God a long time,
- 00:21:29.333 --> 00:21:32.236
- and they have years on me,
- 00:21:32.236 --> 00:21:34.338
- it then becomes easy to see,
- 00:21:34.338 --> 00:21:36.340
- even if He hasn'tdone it for me,
- 00:21:36.340 --> 00:21:38.542
- and I believe He'll do itagain, He did it for you,
- 00:21:38.542 --> 00:21:41.645
- and I believe Hecould do it again.
- 00:21:41.645 --> 00:21:44.048
- And often that's theencouragement that we need
- 00:21:44.048 --> 00:21:46.450
- to know that, whilewe haven't been
- 00:21:46.450 --> 00:21:48.052
- to a certain place before,
- 00:21:48.052 --> 00:21:50.154
- that someone else has, andthat they've gotten to know God
- 00:21:50.154 --> 00:21:53.624
- and we can build our testimony
- 00:21:53.624 --> 00:21:56.327
- on the rocks from their altar.
- 00:21:56.327 --> 00:21:59.330
- And that's okay.
- 00:21:59.330 --> 00:22:01.031
- One of the things that woulddrive me crazy in my 20s
- 00:22:01.031 --> 00:22:05.636
- is when I would be freaking out,
- 00:22:05.636 --> 00:22:07.138
- maybe I'm freaking outbecause I hate my job,
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- I'm freaking out as asingle parent, what do I do?
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- I'm freaking out, because ofthis argument in my marriage,
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- or I'm freaking outbecause, just whatever.
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- And then there would beolder women in my life,
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- sometimes family, sometimes not.
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- And I would be freakingout and telling them,
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- "I don't know how thisis gonna work out,
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- and I'm waiting tohear about tomorrow."
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- And their responseto me would be,
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- "You know, baby,it's gonna be okay."
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- And I'm thinking, "No,it's not, no, it's not."
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- What I mean?
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- Their experience in life,
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- allowed them to be calmin the face of chaos,
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- because they know theyhave their perspective
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- that things will work out,
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- that God is workingon your behalf,
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- that it can look horrible today,
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- and you can see Himcome through tomorrow.
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- So I don't have to operatein frustration or anxiety.
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- I don't have to operate withouta mind filled with peace.
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- I don't have tooperate in disbelief.
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- I can take myconcerns to the cross,
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- over and over again, ifthat's what's needed.
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- I can leave them there and havepeace and operate in peace.
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- And that's, I think,what's telling
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- of many believers right now,
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- that even though I keepsaying it 'cause it's true.
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- 2020 is a whole sentence,
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- and that means somethingdifferent for each one of us.
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- We have the opportunityto be witnesses
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- about the Lord JesusChrist in our lives,
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- because of how we operate.
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- Because if you arewilling to say,
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- "I don't know what God is doing,
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- I don't know how He's gonnawork this out in my family,"
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- being together infamilies has been hard,
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- if you're not used tobeing around your family,
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- and now you are forcedto occupy the same space
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- all the time, it's beenhard for many people.
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- Or maybe you'vebeen working more
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- than what you ever have before,
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- your in health care and someother kind or job function.
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- And so, but to say,"Despite the difficulty,
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- I'm gonna choose tooperate in peace."
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- That's a choice that weas believers get to make.
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- And I'd love tojust pause and pray,
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- for those who arewatching right now
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- who may not have been,
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- or who need encouragement tocontinue operating in peace,
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- if that's okay.
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- Oh Jesus, we are so grateful
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- for the opportunitythat you gave us
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- to not only know you,
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- but to rest our beliefs,our actions, our emotions,
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- on your Word, andon your character.
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- And while we have neverbefore been in the year 2020,
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- you have been in everyother year throughout time,
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- and that means that thereis nothing that's happening
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- that surprising you,
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- there's also nothingthat's happening,
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- that is beyond or outside ofyour control or your power.
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- So would you helpus to rest in you,
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- that whatever has gonewrong or right in 2020,
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- that we would take ourconcerns about this year
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- or the future year to you,and to leave them there,
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- and bringing them to you,
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- bringing our concerns toyou over and over again,
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- if that's what yourworking out faith requires.
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- And we choose to believe you,
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- that you are who you say you are
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- and that you can dowhat you say you can do.
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- In Jesus name we pray, amen.
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- - Amen.
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- I think one of the Scriptures
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- that I've kind offorgotten about this year,
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- is that this is still theday that the Lord has made,
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- and we are going torejoice and be glad in it.
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- We wanna know what'son your heart.
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- Is there someone or something
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- you would like forus to pray for?
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- Let us know how wecan stand with you
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- by connecting withus on social media.
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- You don't wanna misstomorrow's conversation
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- about healthy conflict.
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- We'll be talking aboutwhy we need God's grace
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- now more than ever.
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- Thanks for joining us today,
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- we're gonna seetomorrow, love you.
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- Bye bye.
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- (bright music)
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