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| Mike Signorelli - Why You're Still Anxious Even Though You Trust God | December 3, 2025
- How many people claim
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- To get saved, but their cravings never change.
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- You can scroll on your phone
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- For four hours, but you can't spend four minutes in prayer.
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- Something's gotta change because you say.
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- If it was about me, i would keep scrolling.
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- But it's about this density, so let me destroy.
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- Oh, come on, somebody.
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- Oh, oh.
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- But you know, here's the reality.
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- We're obsessed with the next thing.
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- We're obsessed with the next promotion, the next relationship, the next campus.
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- The christians love saying the next chapter.
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- But here's the truth.
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- If we can't embrace today, we will not be ready for tomorrow.
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- If we don't embrace today, we're not ready for tomorrow.
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- So we gotta learn how to embrace the rat infested venue
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- Until we get the next venue.
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- We gotta hack the venue on long island that smells a little different
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- Than we're used to, and bring in the aroma of the holy spirit.
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- But here's what happens.
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- Anxiety is living in a future that has not happened yet.
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- Peace
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- Is worshiping god in the present moment.
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- So anxiety is living in a future that has not happened yet.
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- But peace is what happens when we worship god in our present moment.
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- So we need to exchange. we need to exchange.
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- I am the most guilty of what i'm talking about right now.
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- I am preaching to myself because my team right now is probably thinking about them.
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- All you talk about is the future, and so i want this word to work on me for real.
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- Like this whole week, i've been deeply convicted under this word.
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- So let's look at the text.
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- Matthew chapter six, verse 34.
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- We don't have time to go through the entire section
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- Because jesus is teaching.
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- And but i do believe that the 34th verse summarizes
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- Essentially the whole point of his message in this text.
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- And it says this therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow,
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- For tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
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- Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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- Now i want to do a little bit of a greek word study.
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- So if you are inclined to write in your bible,
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- You can underline the word anxiety or anxious.
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- So don't be anxious about tomorrow
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- Because i want to help you understand that greek word for anxious.
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- And i actually was like,
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- Wow, i've never seen this before, so hopefully this helps you.
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- It has a couple different meanings based on context.
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- So it's the same word that shows up a couple different times in scripture,
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- And each time it shows up in new testament scripture based on the context
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- Of how it's used.
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- It gets a wildly different interpretation.
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- Does this make sense? are you with me?
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- Okay, so right now, the way that the word's using the,
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- The root verb in greek essentially means to be drawn in different directions
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- To fracture your focus.
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- So let me read it again.
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- Therefore do not be drawn in
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- Many different directions,
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- For tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
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- Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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- So another, another word of way of saying this word in the greek.
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- If you give the whole word is concern.
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- So like let me read it again. that way.
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- Therefore do not be concerned about tomorrow,
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- For tomorrow will be concerned for itself.
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- Okay. are you all with me?
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- So now if you hold your bible there, you may not be able to do this, but.
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- Well, if you go to philippians chapter two, verse 20, so,
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- So from philippians chapter two verse 20, and i'll summarize for the sake of time.
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- If for whatever reason
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- You can't find it fast enough, philippians chapter two, verse 20,
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- This is i was mind blown.
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- Okay.
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- If you go to philippians chapter two, verse 20,
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- It says this.
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- It says, for i have no one like him
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- Who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
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- So it's the same word in greek,
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- The same word that's interpreted as anxious.
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- In the first verse we read is actually interpreted as concern.
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- In the next verse we just read.
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- Are you with me? so.
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- Oh come on.
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- Concern.
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- Genuine concern will cause you to prepare.
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- But too much concern will cause you to panic.
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- So whenever everybody thinks that of the verse in matthew when it says,
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- Don't be, don't be anxious for tomorrow, that it was like a bob marley quote,
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- You know, that we're supposed it's like we're supposed to be anxiety free.
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- Like, hey, how are you feeling?
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- Like, i know you're a christian.
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- We have the inauguration coming, and you know,
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- We've got a quad demick on the way, and we have a snowstorm coming.
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- Like, how are you sure? life is like, bro.
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- Cuckoo.
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- Cuckoo, dude.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, that's how they think that
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- That the interpretation of that scripture is that we don't care.
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- In other words, as if to be a christian means to not be concerned at all.
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- The true interpretation of matthew chapter
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- Six, verse 34 is it says, do not be anxious.
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- In other words, concern has a spectrum.
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- So you should be concerned for tomorrow, because if it's an appropriate
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- Level of concern, it's going to produce preparation.
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- But if you're too concerned, it's going to produce anxiety.
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- So if you're not worried about your health at all,
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- You're going to start eating like that.
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- But if you're too worried about your health,
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- You could actually die of an eating disorder.
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- You get what i'm saying?
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- So i'm trying to help unlock.
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- And we go back to the original greek, because the apostle was basically saying
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- In philippians chapter two verse 20, i have no one else
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- Like him, but he'll show genuine concern for your welfare.
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- So he was basically saying, hey, this person that i'm talking about
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- Will show genuine concern about your welfare.
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- In other words, this person is not going to let you go unaccounted for.
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- And so i think the the, the thing we're trying to balance
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- In this second week is the word concern.
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- When did your concern become anxiety
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- And when did it start becoming preparation?
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- If you're worried about your health,
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- Then do the things that will produce better health and stop worrying about it.
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- Because doing the workouts with the meal plan, with the supplements,
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- With worry will still break down your body
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- Because you know the mind is connected to the body.
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- So it's like there's a spectrum of concern.
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- Lord help me, i'm trying to be nice with this sermon.
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- Lord, please make me be nice.
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- The end.
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- Matter of fact, i had this beautiful white shirt on that i.
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- I was like, i was going to come out looking like young benny hinn today.
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- I mean, beautiful. i said, i'm just.
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- And i was drinking my coffee and the lid popped off and it just
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- I got baptized in coffee before i come up on stage.
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- So i said, i said, lord,
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- Don't be anxious about anything.
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- The enemy doesn't have to ruin your future
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- If he can just get you to despise your present.
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- Come on for the sins tiktok shut down.
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- Let me give this to the instagram.
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- Yeah, i post on facebook. i'm triggering it.
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- I got the whole hornet's nest against me.
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- I said, now you're going to have to get your dopamine from the holy spirit
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- In the whole comment section.
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- But i used to do a bible study there.
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- I don't how did paul do a bible study before tik tok?
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- Okay. anyways,
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- So here here's here. let me roll it back.
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- The enemy doesn't have to ruin your future if he can just get you
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- To despise your present.
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- The enemy.
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- He doesn't have to ruin your future if he can just get you to despise right now.
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- Don't despise
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- The days of small beginnings for the lord.
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- Rejoice when it began.
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- See the word despise in this context.
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- It's like don't have a hatred towards it.
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- In other words, learn how to love it.
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- Learn how to clean your kitchen
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- Like it's in a mansion and you might get an upgrade
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- Because those who are faithful with little become ruler over much.
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- And some of us want to give faithfulness to fruitfulness,
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- But we have not been faithful to what he has given us right now.
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- Clean your car like it's a nice car.
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- Learn how to take care of something and you'll provoke through the god
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- Trusting you.
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- The ability to steward more blessings.
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- And so the question is not how much can you have?
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- It's how much can you hold?
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- Because god doesn't give you more than you can hold.
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- So work on strengthening yourself so you have the ability to contain
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- That which he desires to remain.
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- So like god, this is like the tension that we're living in.
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- Like i said last week, this is i'm rewinding last week.
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- I said, i don't ask god to grow our church.
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- I ask god to grow me, grow my leaders, grow our team because
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- Big people end up having big houses, just like a big person has a big bed.
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- Can you imagine shaq's bed?
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- The bigger the body, the bigger the bed.
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- The bigger the leaders, the bigger the church. why?
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- Because we can handle it.
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- It's like you can cast a vision for a stadium.
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- But to be honest with you,
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- There were years where we were not ready for a stadium.
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- I love vh1 worship, but vh1 worship crash landed
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- More times than we safely landed worship sets, am i right?
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- I remember those early days when nothing worked
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- And then i would be in the corner going, praise jesus, bless him, lord, bless him.
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- You know,
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- But see, what people see is a stadium full of people.
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- But isn't it funny
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- That they always see the debut, but they never see the development?
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- But the development happened when we said, i don't despise today.
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- I'm embracing this environment.
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- The in-ears, the technology that's failing all the problems.
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- And my willingness to embrace today becomes the preparation for tomorrow.
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- And it's a graduation.
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- Remember i said, let's stop using the word season and let's start
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- Using the word semester, because season puts it on god.
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- But semester puts it on you.
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- Season is like god, why are you doing this to me?
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- But semester is did you pass your test?
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- And that's why christians are like, my season changed.
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- No. you flunked your semester.
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- Go back to that coffee team.
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- Come on.
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- You want to hand out a prophetic word, but you don't want a handout copy.
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- That's why.
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- That's why the lord hasn't promoted you.
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- That's why lord hasn't promoted you.
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- Come on.
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- The coffee. tea is like shanda, but
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- The coffee. tea.
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- This is the most shared message amongst the coffee team on the whole.
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- Or does this a dream team sermon before getting delivered up here
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- In brooklyn?
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- Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow.
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- You do understand this is a revolutionary sermon to preach
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- Before trump gets inaugurated.
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- Don't be anxious about tomorrow.
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- Like this.
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- And okay, we talked about. batten down the hatches.
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- There's a storm coming.
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- I believe if jesus was incarnate in the flesh,
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- He would be re preaching this sermon.
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- He would say, y'all are always thinking about tomorrow.
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- And so and that's why we have an obsession with prophets.
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- And no offense to josh.
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- Whenever we go, minister,
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- Joshua's line is four times longer than mine
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- Because the apostle gives the rebuke and the prophet gives the word.
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- And you know, nobody lines up for rebukes anymore.
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- But therefore,
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- Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow
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- Will be anxious, for it's self sufficient, for the day is its own trouble.
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- The main thing i wanted you to get out of that is if you have in your notes.
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- That is matthew chapter six, verse 34.
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- But there's philippians chapter two, verse 20.
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- And the word for concern and the word for anxious
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- Is literally the same greek word.
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- It's the context that changes the translation.
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- And so i think that for many of you, the reason
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- Why you still struggle with anxiety over the future
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- Is because you think christians are telling you don't be concerned.
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- Yeah. has anyone ever told you like today?
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- I was trying to find my toothbrush this morning.
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- Now my wife claims she didn't move it.
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- But it's interesting
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- Because every time my wife goes on trips, none of my stuff gets lost.
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- So when julie's gone, i don't lose anything.
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- It's amazing.
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- It's. so here's this phenomenon.
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- So she claims she's not doing it.
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- I don't have any other evidence.
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- I don't think demons have access to my house, as probably i don't.
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- It could be star. it could be my dog.
- 00:13:58.727 --> 00:14:00.262
- So this morning, i'm like, where is my toothbrush, julie?
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- I put it in the same spot every time.
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- And then she.
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- She starts to get a little intense.
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- That's all i'll say.
- 00:14:07.903 --> 00:14:10.906
- And i said the famous line.
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- I said, calm down.
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- Yeah.
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- And it didn't work.
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- I don't understand
- 00:14:22.951 --> 00:14:25.287
- When i tell demons to calm down, it works.
- 00:14:25.287 --> 00:14:29.524
- I said, calm down!
- 00:14:29.958 --> 00:14:31.960
- And she said, what? i'm over here.
- 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.830
- I gotta get this picture heading.
- 00:14:34.830 --> 00:14:38.667
- So here i am in that green room, drinking my coffee.
- 00:14:39.701 --> 00:14:45.173
- I gotta preach about anxiety.
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- I can't find my toothbrush.
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- I gotta tidy.
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- Okay.
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- If you're near one of our campuses,
- 00:14:54.149 --> 00:14:56.318
- I want to give you a personal invitation to check out v1 church.
- 00:14:56.318 --> 00:15:01.256
- There's no way i can describe the atmosphere of revival in the experience.
- 00:15:02.724 --> 00:15:05.861
- If you've never driven up or driven in, you know,
- 00:15:06.862 --> 00:15:09.431
- Let me just tell you, it's a powerful atmosphere
- 00:15:10.432 --> 00:15:12.267
- And a bunch of people who really love the lord and want to get to know you.
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- So let us know when you're coming and i'll see you at v1
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- Church. the.
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- Reason why i say
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- It is because we have to be concerned,
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- But we don't let our concern go into this realm.
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- It's. it's like the reasonability.
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- How many of you know,
- 00:15:38.427 --> 00:15:40.529
- If you've ever been in an argument with your spouse and things begin to escalate?
- 00:15:40.529 --> 00:15:43.498
- It's not about what you think it's about.
- 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:45.934
- There's other things, right?
- 00:15:46.535 --> 00:15:48.637
- And so many of us are fighting on the wrong front,
- 00:15:48.637 --> 00:15:51.540
- And we need to go back and recalibrate concern for anxiety.
- 00:15:51.540 --> 00:15:55.510
- There's wisdom. is this helping you?
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- Okay.
- 00:15:57.846 --> 00:15:59.214
- So now i want to break down a little bit more.
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- And this to me.
- 00:16:01.883 --> 00:16:03.618
- Let's go now because i'm trying to teach you guys a whole bible approach.
- 00:16:03.618 --> 00:16:06.154
- So we were just in the new testament, two different places.
- 00:16:07.289 --> 00:16:09.124
- Now we're going to go to the old testament.
- 00:16:09.124 --> 00:16:10.659
- We're going to go to the book of exodus.
- 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:12.627
- And i want to show you the connection.
- 00:16:12.627 --> 00:16:14.463
- How many of you know jesus was the bread of life?
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- Okay.
- 00:16:17.933 --> 00:16:19.501
- So we just we're going we're going to talk about something.
- 00:16:19.501 --> 00:16:21.069
- Exodus chapter 16, verse four is where we're going to go now.
- 00:16:21.069 --> 00:16:25.374
- So again, oh, you know what?
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- I want to shout out one of my new favorite people.
- 00:16:29.745 --> 00:16:30.912
- I broke a tooth last week.
- 00:16:30.912 --> 00:16:34.016
- The devil is a liar in it.
- 00:16:34.583 --> 00:16:36.785
- And i was like, i don't know what warlock sent that
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- That curse.
- 00:16:39.221 --> 00:16:42.524
- But i ended up in, like, this emergency surgery
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- For my tooth and at the dentist's office that i go to.
- 00:16:45.193 --> 00:16:49.131
- There's one young woman that found me on youtube, started
- 00:16:49.131 --> 00:16:53.068
- Attending our church, and then she's now inviting the whole office and that.
- 00:16:53.068 --> 00:16:57.806
- Amazing. i was so encouraged.
- 00:16:57.806 --> 00:17:00.809
- And she said, i came walking, and this is how i knew something changed.
- 00:17:00.809 --> 00:17:04.279
- I walk in and they said, hey, pastor mike and i was like,
- 00:17:05.347 --> 00:17:07.749
- Because i have different identities, you know?
- 00:17:08.683 --> 00:17:12.087
- So the dentist office, i'm michael, you know, that's my legal name,
- 00:17:13.455 --> 00:17:15.524
- Michael, you know, so i call michael, come back, and i'm like, yes, thank you.
- 00:17:15.524 --> 00:17:19.094
- You know, because i ain't trying to pastor all of new york city.
- 00:17:20.328 --> 00:17:21.329
- It's exhausting.
- 00:17:21.329 --> 00:17:22.931
- And there is that.
- 00:17:22.931 --> 00:17:24.166
- Hey, pastor mike, i was like, youtube.
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- Me again.
- 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:29.738
- And so.
- 00:17:29.738 --> 00:17:31.740
- But anyway, she was she was talking to me about how she's been reading her daily
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- Growth journal and the confirmations that god's been giving her
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- Through the daily growth journal.
- 00:17:37.679 --> 00:17:39.448
- And, and she was sharing some of those things.
- 00:17:39.448 --> 00:17:41.416
- And while she was sharing one of the revelations that she got
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- From the daily growth journal, the woman that work next to her, she starts crying.
- 00:17:45.087 --> 00:17:49.691
- And she was like, see, this happens every time she starts talking about god.
- 00:17:51.193 --> 00:17:54.262
- Every time she starts talking about god.
- 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:56.898
- You see, pastor mike, you know what? i need to go to your church, too.
- 00:17:56.898 --> 00:17:59.434
- We're at.
- 00:17:59.434 --> 00:18:01.203
- But, you know, and i was like, this woman is about to get saved.
- 00:18:01.203 --> 00:18:03.905
- And she doesn't realize those tears.
- 00:18:04.706 --> 00:18:06.208
- Is the holy ghost peeling back the layers of her heart
- 00:18:06.208 --> 00:18:09.911
- And beginning to soften her and open her up to the gospel.
- 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.648
- But but my point in saying that is, the person sitting
- 00:18:14.683 --> 00:18:17.219
- Next to her at work is just a just one of her coworkers.
- 00:18:17.219 --> 00:18:20.422
- But she's light and salt in that environment.
- 00:18:20.422 --> 00:18:23.925
- And so there's something about daily bread.
- 00:18:24.793 --> 00:18:27.329
- That's what this is.
- 00:18:27.796 --> 00:18:29.698
- And some of you, like some of you, you
- 00:18:29.698 --> 00:18:32.300
- You crave protein, but you need daily bread.
- 00:18:32.300 --> 00:18:36.238
- And so some of you were only eating one time a week,
- 00:18:37.305 --> 00:18:39.307
- And it was a big steak and you were starving the other days.
- 00:18:39.307 --> 00:18:42.477
- And now you're on a diet of daily bread.
- 00:18:42.477 --> 00:18:45.180
- Does that make sense?
- 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:46.448
- Like i got oh, geez, in the faith you were like,
- 00:18:46.448 --> 00:18:48.884
- This is the first time i've ever read my bible every day.
- 00:18:48.884 --> 00:18:52.220
- So i want to encourage you to to dive into that.
- 00:18:53.221 --> 00:18:55.257
- Now let's look at this text in exodus chapter 16, verse four.
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- It says, then the
- 00:19:00.061 --> 00:19:01.429
- Lord said to moses, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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- Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah.
- 00:19:04.666 --> 00:19:06.635
- Then the lord said to moses, behold, i am about to rain bread from heaven
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- For you and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day.
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- Okay, here's the key.
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- If you if you're inclined to write in your bible, underline this,
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- That i may cast them.
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- It doesn't say that.
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- I may bless them.
- 00:19:25.954 --> 00:19:28.356
- It says that i may pass them.
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- Oh, you're about to get a revelation on this.
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- You're about to get a revelation.
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- The manna, who is daily everybody say daily.
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- There was no hoarding.
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- There was no planning ahead.
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- There was no preparation.
- 00:19:42.571 --> 00:19:44.439
- Oh, the dough is going to be stored here and we'll bake it for tomorrow.
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- It rained from heaven and it came every single day.
- 00:19:48.610 --> 00:19:51.413
- And this is the key. i want you to focus.
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- It said this. look at the text.
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- What does it say?
- 00:19:55.684 --> 00:19:56.952
- That i may test them whether they will walk.
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- Everybody say walk.
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- Walk in my law or not.
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- Daily bread is not to bless, it's to test.
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- That's.
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- Oh, okay.
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- Do you want to know? okay.
- 00:20:13.401 --> 00:20:14.970
- I've been waiting for this part of this sermon because this.
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- Do you know that what the hebrew word for manna literally means
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- The hebrew word for manna?
- 00:20:22.978 --> 00:20:24.846
- I need to go on tour with whoever's on this side of the.
- 00:20:24.846 --> 00:20:28.116
- Because they're helping me.
- 00:20:28.717 --> 00:20:30.585
- I feel like they're going to think i paid them to interact in this sermon
- 00:20:30.585 --> 00:20:33.455
- Because, like, they're they're it's the put the crowd, mike, turn the crowd
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- Mikes up right over here.
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- The hebrew word for manna
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- Literally means, what is that?
- 00:20:43.598 --> 00:20:46.868
- I'm not kidding. look at us.
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- Fact check me.
- 00:20:49.237 --> 00:20:50.605
- When the people of israel saw bread raining down,
- 00:20:50.605 --> 00:20:54.709
- They were saying essentially in hebrew, what is that?
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- And what is that is translated manna,
- 00:20:59.281 --> 00:21:01.850
- Like the word literally means what is that?
- 00:21:02.784 --> 00:21:05.053
- How crazy is this?
- 00:21:05.487 --> 00:21:07.322
- God is sending daily blessing,
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- But their mind can't even conceive what it is.
- 00:21:11.626 --> 00:21:14.162
- How many of you are looking at your paycheck going, what is that?
- 00:21:15.463 --> 00:21:19.801
- Ha ha ha ha ha ha
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- Oh, this is good.
- 00:21:24.172 --> 00:21:27.809
- You're like, what is that?
- 00:21:28.376 --> 00:21:31.546
- Yeah, there's something
- 00:21:32.047 --> 00:21:33.882
- About the people of god not having the ability
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- To understand provision when it's right in front of them.
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- We are naming god's provision manna.
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- We are naming it. what is that?
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- We look at our car, we go to open our car.
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- What is that?
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- We go into our job.
- 00:21:53.401 --> 00:21:54.669
- What is that?
- 00:21:54.669 --> 00:21:56.671
- We are naming the very thing that god has provided for us to take care of us.
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- Because watch this.
- 00:22:02.510 --> 00:22:03.912
- It didn't come in the form that we wanted it to.
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- It didn't.
- 00:22:08.149 --> 00:22:09.117
- It's it's not the job i want.
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- It's not the amount i want on my check.
- 00:22:11.152 --> 00:22:13.621
- It's not the it's not the car i want.
- 00:22:13.621 --> 00:22:16.257
- And because it's not what you would have cooked,
- 00:22:16.257 --> 00:22:19.260
- Because it's not what you would have prepared, you name it.
- 00:22:20.428 --> 00:22:22.897
- What is that?
- 00:22:22.897 --> 00:22:25.033
- I was mind blown going through this.
- 00:22:25.033 --> 00:22:28.303
- So here's the thing about
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- What is this,
- 00:22:30.705 --> 00:22:33.174
- This over here?
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- Yeah, i guess i will tithe.
- 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:35.276
- All it is, is a time.
- 00:22:35.276 --> 00:22:38.580
- Might as well, if it can't be me.
- 00:22:39.314 --> 00:22:41.416
- We used to say back in the day, if it can't meet your need, it.
- 00:22:41.416 --> 00:22:44.018
- It must be your seed.
- 00:22:44.018 --> 00:22:47.422
- That's how the old school pentecostals would talk about it.
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- Amen. this is it.
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- Can't meet my need.
- 00:22:51.893 --> 00:22:52.861
- It must be my seed.
- 00:22:52.861 --> 00:22:55.730
- Some of you young people are getting a revelation.
- 00:22:55.730 --> 00:22:59.000
- So the thing about daily bread
- 00:22:59.634 --> 00:23:02.404
- Is god wants to shift us into an awareness.
- 00:23:03.338 --> 00:23:06.975
- And we need to call it by something else.
- 00:23:07.876 --> 00:23:09.778
- You know, one of my favorite questions, because i fooled many of you,
- 00:23:09.778 --> 00:23:13.415
- You thought that this was going to be this deep exegetical daily study
- 00:23:14.816 --> 00:23:17.552
- With greek, hebrew, aramaic, historic context.
- 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:20.755
- And you actually think that i failed when i put step two, three, four, and five?
- 00:23:22.357 --> 00:23:25.760
- And i said, who can you encourage today?
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- What are you grateful for?
- 00:23:28.196 --> 00:23:29.431
- You think i gave you a kiddy book?
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- And you looked at this and
- 00:23:36.070 --> 00:23:37.138
- You said, what is that?
- 00:23:37.138 --> 00:23:42.243
- But you don't realize that
- 00:23:42.811 --> 00:23:44.712
- Your negative mind was never going to get promoted to the purposes god has.
- 00:23:44.712 --> 00:23:48.349
- And i had to rewire it for gratitude because gratitude opens up the door
- 00:23:49.784 --> 00:23:52.854
- For promotion, and only those who are grateful end up becoming great.
- 00:23:52.854 --> 00:23:57.859
- If you can't be grateful, you can't be great.
- 00:23:58.827 --> 00:24:00.361
- And the door of greatness swings on the hinge of gratitude.
- 00:24:00.361 --> 00:24:04.232
- And if you'll start to rewire your mind for gratitude and then, by the way,
- 00:24:05.733 --> 00:24:07.869
- Who can i encourage today?
- 00:24:08.436 --> 00:24:10.305
- Do you know that if you actually read the new testament scriptures on prophecy,
- 00:24:10.305 --> 00:24:13.641
- The lowest form of prophecy is encouragement?
- 00:24:14.609 --> 00:24:17.011
- So who can you encourage?
- 00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:19.113
- Today? is training wheels for prophecy.
- 00:24:19.113 --> 00:24:22.450
- Matter of fact, if god put you before a king of a nation,
- 00:24:23.585 --> 00:24:26.654
- What like, would you be equipped to encourage them if the lord said so?
- 00:24:28.089 --> 00:24:30.692
- Practice on your children.
- 00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:32.927
- Practice on your coworkers
- 00:24:33.495 --> 00:24:35.330
- Before you ask god to take you before princess.
- 00:24:35.330 --> 00:24:38.666
- You're looking at the people in your life and you're saying, what is that?
- 00:24:40.168 --> 00:24:43.538
- And the lord's saying, that's your next level disguised as a situation.
- 00:24:44.906 --> 00:24:47.709
- You wouldn't choose.
- 00:24:47.709 --> 00:24:50.111
- Oh come on,
- 00:24:50.111 --> 00:24:52.380
- We got people that want to get on a stage and preach to other people's families
- 00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:57.719
- That can't preach to their own, speak it.
- 00:24:58.586 --> 00:25:02.390
- Like, why would god trust you with their family
- 00:25:03.391 --> 00:25:07.095
- If god doesn't trust you with yours?
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- She is.
- 00:25:10.965 --> 00:25:12.033
- What is that?
- 00:25:12.033 --> 00:25:13.768
- It is your next level in disguise as a situation you wouldn't choose.
- 00:25:13.768 --> 00:25:18.640
- Okay, i promise, i only had ten minutes left.
- 00:25:19.541 --> 00:25:22.010
- Now it says 27.
- 00:25:22.010 --> 00:25:25.280
- Y'all, you.
- 00:25:25.613 --> 00:25:27.482
- I'm telling you guys, if i have ever preached long, it was their fault.
- 00:25:27.482 --> 00:25:30.285
- You go back there and you talk to them
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- All end soon.
- 00:25:33.588 --> 00:25:34.923
- Because i think that's not right. i'm scared.
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- No way.
- 00:25:37.158 --> 00:25:38.159
- I got 27 minutes left, i promise.
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- I've been up here for two hours.
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- Okay.
- 00:25:42.931 --> 00:25:43.731
- Can i keep can i close?
- 00:25:43.731 --> 00:25:48.736
- I'm not being funny on purpose, but i promise you,
- 00:25:49.737 --> 00:25:53.608
- We are living in one of the hardest times to be alive.
- 00:25:53.608 --> 00:25:57.812
- And it's with great empathy and compassion that i preach this message.
- 00:25:59.247 --> 00:26:02.984
- Medical anxiety is real.
- 00:26:03.484 --> 00:26:06.321
- I am now in the age where everybody
- 00:26:06.321 --> 00:26:08.256
- In my family on my father's side died.
- 00:26:08.256 --> 00:26:11.492
- Medical anxieties real.
- 00:26:11.993 --> 00:26:13.761
- Don't think for a second that i'm preaching up here as if i don't have
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- Concerns.
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- It's just don't let my concerns become anxiety, you know what i'm saying?
- 00:26:19.734 --> 00:26:23.304
- And when it's a concern, you'll take care of your body.
- 00:26:24.372 --> 00:26:26.641
- When it's anxiety, you'll destroy it.
- 00:26:27.442 --> 00:26:30.445
- See, when it's
- 00:26:30.812 --> 00:26:32.080
- Concern, it'll turn into hyperbaric oxygen.
- 00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:34.716
- When it's worry, it'll turn into a vape.
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- When it.
- 00:26:38.453 --> 00:26:40.855
- See, concern actually will help you care for yourself,
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- But anxiety will expedite you destroying yourself.
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- Am i speaking to somebody
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- So and so? there's.
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- There's a calibration of concern.
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- If i were to preach this, another title would be the calibration of concern.
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- It's dialing it in. god what you.
- 00:27:01.576 --> 00:27:03.745
- Here's the way you should pray. god. oh,
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- How much should i be concerned
- 00:27:07.649 --> 00:27:10.351
- Of a parent who's overly concerned gets into witchcraft?
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- Because too much concern can turn into control.
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- Hey, mike cigna rally here in the studio.
- 00:27:23.531 --> 00:27:25.967
- We're getting ready to jump back into the sermon.
- 00:27:25.967 --> 00:27:28.403
- But just very briefly, i wanted to let you know
- 00:27:28.403 --> 00:27:31.372
- That i have a resource called the breakers mobile app.
- 00:27:31.372 --> 00:27:35.376
- And i have so many courses there that teach you supernatural ministry
- 00:27:36.778 --> 00:27:40.415
- And how you can unlock the gifts that god has given you.
- 00:27:41.516 --> 00:27:43.484
- I want you to download the mobile app and join a global community of people
- 00:27:43.484 --> 00:27:47.955
- Learning the narrow way, people learning how to operate
- 00:27:47.955 --> 00:27:51.726
- In the fullness of what god has for them, and the gifts of the spirit.
- 00:27:51.726 --> 00:27:56.197
- It's called the breakers of mobile app.
- 00:27:56.998 --> 00:27:58.900
- It's actually entirely free and you can download it now on your device.
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- I will see you there.
- 00:28:02.837 --> 00:28:09.010
- It's a test.
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- The daily bread was a test.
- 00:28:10.778 --> 00:28:14.015
- It said, i'm doing this to test that they would walk with me and so did.
- 00:28:15.450 --> 00:28:19.387
- Too much concern turns into control and the bible says that witchcraft
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- Is as controlled control is as witchcraft.
- 00:28:24.926 --> 00:28:27.295
- So it's like when you're in a church and you're
- 00:28:28.229 --> 00:28:30.164
- Super concerned that the leadership's not doing it right,
- 00:28:30.164 --> 00:28:33.334
- But you spend more time talking about them than you do praying for them.
- 00:28:34.769 --> 00:28:37.238
- Your concern just turned into control.
- 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:39.540
- And now you're working for the wrong team.
- 00:28:39.540 --> 00:28:41.909
- When when you're in a marriage, you're like, i'm concerned with my husband.
- 00:28:41.909 --> 00:28:45.413
- You'll end up becoming his mom instead of being his wife.
- 00:28:46.547 --> 00:28:50.184
- Well, i'm just concerned with my husband.
- 00:28:50.985 --> 00:28:53.087
- What am i getting to jumped right now
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- In so.
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- From the series.
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- You better watch yourself,
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- I was concerned,
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- See what i did.
- 00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:06.667
- You see what i did?
- 00:29:06.667 --> 00:29:08.102
- You see what i did. okay?
- 00:29:08.102 --> 00:29:11.372
- I was too concerned.
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- There you go.
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- When he walked up on the stage,
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- My exaggerated concern turned into humor.
- 00:29:18.646 --> 00:29:22.950
- But some of you are living in a ptsd trauma,
- 00:29:23.851 --> 00:29:26.521
- And the person that's coming up on you is there to support you,
- 00:29:27.722 --> 00:29:30.391
- But you're treating them like they're coming to attack you.
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- The person
- 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:40.168
- That god sent to support you, you're saying, what is that?
- 00:29:40.168 --> 00:29:43.204
- When god's like, that's your blessing.
- 00:29:44.038 --> 00:29:45.406
- I brought that into your life.
- 00:29:45.406 --> 00:29:46.774
- Stop acting like they're there to attack you.
- 00:29:46.774 --> 00:29:49.443
- They're there to help you.
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- I didn't want to tell them i was going to use them as my illustration.
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- You got a fake at the next services, okay,
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- James, chapter four, verse 13.
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- James chapter four, verse 18.
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- I'm in a flow state today.
- 00:30:07.895 --> 00:30:10.298
- James chapter four, verse 13.
- 00:30:10.298 --> 00:30:13.267
- My wife said, when my tooth broke, she said, man,
- 00:30:13.267 --> 00:30:15.469
- Your sermon is going to be so good on sunday.
- 00:30:15.469 --> 00:30:17.738
- I said, why?
- 00:30:17.738 --> 00:30:19.707
- She's like, you have this michael jordan thing where the harder it gets,
- 00:30:19.707 --> 00:30:21.609
- The better you preach it.
- 00:30:21.609 --> 00:30:24.879
- And then when they when when mayor eric adams got on
- 00:30:25.947 --> 00:30:28.049
- Instagram and said, we're declaring emergency and blah, blah blah,
- 00:30:29.417 --> 00:30:31.352
- We're telling people not to drive, i said, we'll probably
- 00:30:32.520 --> 00:30:33.921
- Breaking attendance record and it'll be amazing.
- 00:30:33.921 --> 00:30:37.291
- James chapter four, verse 13 come now,
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- You who say today or tomorrow we will go into such and such town
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- And spend a year there and trade and make a profit.
- 00:30:47.501 --> 00:30:50.671
- Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.
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- What is your life?
- 00:30:54.609 --> 00:30:56.978
- See, the question of the
- 00:30:57.478 --> 00:30:59.780
- Israelites when they saw manna is what is this?
- 00:30:59.780 --> 00:31:03.484
- The question of the new covenant apostles was,
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- Hey, you need to change that question.
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- And what is your life?
- 00:31:08.556 --> 00:31:10.892
- In other words, stop, stop, ask,
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- Stop looking at your check and saying, what is this?
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- And start looking at yourself and saying, what am i?
- 00:31:17.732 --> 00:31:20.434
- Because this check doesn't make you generous.
- 00:31:21.369 --> 00:31:24.639
- A generous person with this check will be generous.
- 00:31:25.673 --> 00:31:28.075
- It's the same circumstance,
- 00:31:28.676 --> 00:31:30.878
- But it's you that changes and then everything changes.
- 00:31:30.878 --> 00:31:34.715
- One person will come in and they'll curse the soil of a city,
- 00:31:35.983 --> 00:31:38.686
- And another person will come in and start a revival and make a movement out of it.
- 00:31:38.686 --> 00:31:42.924
- One listen, you might not want to be with your spouse,
- 00:31:43.991 --> 00:31:46.460
- But i've seen people get divorced and remarried and their second marriage
- 00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:51.465
- Ends up being a lifetime marriage.
- 00:31:52.233 --> 00:31:54.835
- Same person, but a different perception.
- 00:31:54.835 --> 00:31:58.940
- I've been thinking a lot about my marriage lately
- 00:31:59.874 --> 00:32:02.643
- Because i'm constantly assessing myself,
- 00:32:02.643 --> 00:32:06.013
- And i thought, and i heard this quote, i'm still cooking this sermon
- 00:32:07.415 --> 00:32:10.151
- For next month, but it's like there is this famous man of god.
- 00:32:10.151 --> 00:32:14.989
- I probably should even say his name, but a very prolific preacher man of god.
- 00:32:16.490 --> 00:32:19.727
- And after he died, his wife got remarried.
- 00:32:20.628 --> 00:32:23.164
- And she just seems so happy in this marriage.
- 00:32:24.131 --> 00:32:26.834
- And they were like, hey,
- 00:32:26.834 --> 00:32:28.703
- You know, what was it like being married to this great man of god?
- 00:32:28.703 --> 00:32:31.138
- And now you have another marriage?
- 00:32:31.138 --> 00:32:32.640
- And she said very plainly, my last husband love jesus,
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- But my new husband loves me.
- 00:32:37.478 --> 00:32:43.818
- My last husband
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- Love jesus, but my new husband loves me.
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- She. we
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- Could be so concerned about what tomorrow holds
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- That we don't actually hold our loved ones today.
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- Like we.
- 00:33:02.670 --> 00:33:04.538
- We could just be so obsessed with a future that's not here yet that we missed.
- 00:33:04.538 --> 00:33:08.709
- And taste the manna.
- 00:33:09.176 --> 00:33:10.711
- The provision, the bread that god has us for us today.
- 00:33:10.711 --> 00:33:14.248
- And i will tell you this i'll never forget.
- 00:33:14.248 --> 00:33:16.117
- I was doing construction in my early 20s, and i used to flip houses.
- 00:33:16.117 --> 00:33:19.987
- So i would come in and we would do demolition,
- 00:33:20.955 --> 00:33:22.857
- And i would basically come through and just make the whole house knew
- 00:33:22.857 --> 00:33:25.292
- That was my job.
- 00:33:25.292 --> 00:33:27.094
- And i worked for this old guy, and he was probably in his late 70s
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- And bellow was, you know, young child and went, and julie
- 00:33:32.233 --> 00:33:35.436
- Would come and bring me lunch, and bello would be running around the house.
- 00:33:35.436 --> 00:33:38.539
- And i remember the last day that we worked on this one house.
- 00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:41.809
- The guy took me aside.
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- He was like, son.
- 00:33:43.077 --> 00:33:44.478
- He's like, i know you didn't ask my permission,
- 00:33:44.478 --> 00:33:46.680
- He said, but i noticed something.
- 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.083
- When your family's around, you're not paying attention to them.
- 00:33:49.083 --> 00:33:53.054
- And he
- 00:33:53.287 --> 00:33:55.056
- Was like, i'm telling you, i'm an old man now, and i would do anything
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- To go back to the days you're in right now.
- 00:33:59.527 --> 00:34:02.063
- And i remember not really understanding it.
- 00:34:02.963 --> 00:34:04.632
- I thought, i wonder, oh, yeah, i get it, i get it.
- 00:34:04.632 --> 00:34:06.801
- When i'll pause, i'll stop doing the construction, i get it, i get it.
- 00:34:06.801 --> 00:34:10.671
- But now.
- 00:34:10.938 --> 00:34:12.940
- And i've just got, you know, 20 years distance, 18 years distance on that story,
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- Whatever it was, i look back and i'm like, god, it goes so fast.
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- Yeah,
- 00:34:21.315 --> 00:34:22.716
- It goes so fast.
- 00:34:22.716 --> 00:34:25.986
- And it funny how.
- 00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:29.190
- So many of us can't even understand
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- Or acknowledge that we're in the good old days. now,
- 00:34:33.127 --> 00:34:36.597
- Like, these are the good old days
- 00:34:37.331 --> 00:34:40.768
- And we it's it's something about god wanting to recalibrate and shift us.
- 00:34:42.203 --> 00:34:45.172
- So i want to end on this.
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- I want to end on this because it says, what is your life? for?
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- You are a mist that appears for a little while and then it vanishes away
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- And. we're talking about our daily dose.
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- D stands for discern.
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- This season you're in.
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- If you're in a season with young children,
- 00:35:05.126 --> 00:35:08.462
- Discern this season you're into dad.
- 00:35:09.230 --> 00:35:11.132
- Don't be so upset that they're always crying and whining, because one day
- 00:35:11.132 --> 00:35:15.202
- You're going to wake up to a silent house and you might miss it, right?
- 00:35:15.202 --> 00:35:19.807
- Just just remind yourself, i know it's hard.
- 00:35:20.708 --> 00:35:23.077
- I know it's hard.
- 00:35:23.511 --> 00:35:24.612
- But discern the season you're in.
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- Listen, the burden that's on me is very heavy.
- 00:35:27.281 --> 00:35:31.685
- I used to think that ministry was so hard till i got to this juncture.
- 00:35:33.087 --> 00:35:35.823
- But i look back and i realize, man, those other times were not that bad.
- 00:35:37.291 --> 00:35:40.461
- So discern the season you're in.
- 00:35:41.095 --> 00:35:42.696
- Like if you're on the coffee team, revel in that.
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- Because i can tell you,
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- If you're faithful on the coffee team, you won't be on the coffee team always.
- 00:35:48.636 --> 00:35:51.138
- Not that there's nothing wrong with being in eternal coffee distributor,
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- But there's
- 00:35:56.377 --> 00:35:57.545
- Something about where god starts. you.
- 00:35:57.545 --> 00:36:00.147
- It looks wildly different than where you'll arrive.
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- But don't despise, don't despise.
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- Always observe and fully embrace.
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- Today i want to emphasize the word observe as we close,
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- Because this is the second of three that we're going to do next.
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- Next week is going to be stay faithful in the small things and execute
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- With consistency.
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- That's part three of this series. and then we're going to wrap it.
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- But today is observe.
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- Everybody say observe.
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- Okay.
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- What does it mean to observe.
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- Observe means stop.
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- Look around.
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- Breathe.
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- Fully take it in.
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- Appreciate it for what it is.
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- Have gratitude in your heart.
- 00:36:49.697 --> 00:36:53.634
- And god will.
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- What if i told you that god loves every version of you?
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- You don't love every version of you?
- 00:37:02.109 --> 00:37:04.912
- What if i told you that because you have this perfect version of yourself
- 00:37:04.912 --> 00:37:09.183
- That you're working towards, you've never loved yourself.
- 00:37:09.183 --> 00:37:12.786
- But god loves every version of you.
- 00:37:13.587 --> 00:37:16.357
- The bible says while you were yet sinners, he put his love out on the line
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- And he was treating you like your future
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- Before you became your future.
- 00:37:23.597 --> 00:37:26.934
- And i believe that in moments like this, across all
- 00:37:28.002 --> 00:37:29.603
- All of our locations, you need to have an encounter with him.
- 00:37:29.603 --> 00:37:32.339
- And just like israel, yeah, you're going to get to canaan
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- Where you demand is going to cease and you're going to begin to plant,
- 00:37:37.278 --> 00:37:39.246
- And i'm going to give you ownership over the land.
- 00:37:39.246 --> 00:37:42.583
- But before there's ownership over the land, there has to be ownership
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- Over the season, ownership over the semester.
- 00:37:46.253 --> 00:37:49.823
- Like you have to own the daily bread before you can own the field,
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- Like you got to own the moment.
- 00:37:53.994 --> 00:37:54.928
- You got to make it yours.
- 00:37:54.928 --> 00:37:56.463
- You have to say, i'm going to do this with all my might.
- 00:37:56.463 --> 00:37:58.432
- I'm going to do this with all that's within me.
- 00:37:58.432 --> 00:38:01.435
- So right now, could you just close your eyes across every location?
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- This is my daily bread.
- 00:38:07.975 --> 00:38:13.881
- This is my daily bread.
- 00:38:14.381 --> 00:38:20.521
- You know what's funny?
- 00:38:21.021 --> 00:38:22.156
- Well, while you have your eyes closed
- 00:38:22.156 --> 00:38:24.792
- In studying for this sermon, i found a story of a man that
- 00:38:24.792 --> 00:38:29.330
- Just obsessively talked about retirement, retirement, retirement, retirement.
- 00:38:30.831 --> 00:38:33.400
- All he wanted to do was retire.
- 00:38:34.034 --> 00:38:36.036
- They did a big party, a big celebration.
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- The day after he retired, he died
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- The day after he retired, he died.
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- He lived his entire adult life
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- Chasing a moment that never came.
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- See you.
- 00:38:52.453 --> 00:38:54.254
- Some of you, right now, this is how we're going to end this.
- 00:38:54.254 --> 00:38:56.357
- But i want you to just remove some of you need to exchange
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- Chasing for embracing.
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- Chasing for embracing.
- 00:39:04.998 --> 00:39:07.000
- Worship slows you down.
- 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.603
- Worship causes you to sit in the moment.
- 00:39:09.603 --> 00:39:12.539
- Worship causes you to just begin to focus on what god's doing right now.
- 00:39:12.539 --> 00:39:17.311
- Matter of fact, this is where the prophetic begins to come alive.
- 00:39:18.645 --> 00:39:21.315
- It's like that moment, it's like that
- 00:39:22.116 --> 00:39:24.518
- Moment where, sam, a young samuel,
- 00:39:24.518 --> 00:39:27.855
- Says to eli, i think i heard my name,
- 00:39:27.855 --> 00:39:31.658
- And eli says, go back and listen again.
- 00:39:32.526 --> 00:39:35.095
- I in other words, go back and stop
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- Chasing the prophetic and start embracing this thing that's happening.
- 00:39:38.966 --> 00:39:43.637
- You like, go back in your room, lay down in your bed and wait till you hear again.
- 00:39:43.637 --> 00:39:48.642
- And i feel like for many of you right now, it's like god's trying
- 00:39:49.977 --> 00:39:52.079
- To help you exchange chasing for embracing.
- 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.382
- Like, lord, i'm going to embrace this moment.
- 00:39:56.316 --> 00:39:58.352
- Like right here.
- 00:39:58.352 --> 00:40:00.154
- I see a vision in 2025 for the women of our church having hallway
- 00:40:00.154 --> 00:40:04.158
- Revivals, and i see them saying, god, i'm not waiting for the next house.
- 00:40:04.158 --> 00:40:08.929
- I'm building an altar in this house.
- 00:40:08.929 --> 00:40:10.964
- I'm having a hallway revival.
- 00:40:10.964 --> 00:40:12.900
- I'm not chasing, i'm embracing.
- 00:40:12.900 --> 00:40:15.135
- If it's going to be this house, there's going to be revival in this house.
- 00:40:15.135 --> 00:40:18.605
- I may not like this house. i may not like where i live.
- 00:40:19.706 --> 00:40:21.208
- But, god, your presence will reign in in here i see.
- 00:40:21.208 --> 00:40:25.012
- I see it just like the woman
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- At the dentist office saying, i'm not trying to get out of this office.
- 00:40:26.914 --> 00:40:30.217
- I'm trying to bring god into this office and people are getting saved.
- 00:40:30.217 --> 00:40:34.021
- I'm not chasing.
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- I'm embracing your kingdom.
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- Come right here in this dentist office as it is in heaven.
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- Your kingdom come in this hallway as it is in heaven.
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- Your kingdom come in this lutheran church in huntington, long island,
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- As it is in heaven.
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- Your kingdom come in this nightclub called the monarch as it is in heaven.
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- Lord, we are not chasing. we are embracing.
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- And so right now,
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- If you want to enter this time of worship with me just for the next 30s,
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- And i'm asking you to stay in your seats, because i believe that god's encountering
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- You right now.
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- But just lift your hands.
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- Lift your hands. if.
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- The reason
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- Why had you lift your hands is because
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- Lifting your hands is a sign that you've recalibrated concern.
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- Lifting your hands says i surrender, i surrender.
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- Lifting your hands is saying, i'm going to reach out and grab the manna.
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- As it's raining down from the sky.
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- That when you lifted your hands, that's literally what you did.
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- You said, god, i'm surrendering and you're going to bring me into canaan
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- One day.
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- But while i'm in the wilderness, i got my hands lifted.
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- And when the manna comes down, i'm going to embrace what you have for me today.
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- Today.
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- Somebody shout today.
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- Somebody shout right now i thank you, father.
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- Come on, say it with me.
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- I thank you, father, for daily bread.
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- Jesus christ, you are the daily bread.
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- You are my substance.
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- I will feast on your words.
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- I will feed off of your presence
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- In my situation, in my life, in my workplace.
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- In jesus name.
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- Somebody shout amen!
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- Come on, somebody shout amen.
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- Let's celebrate.
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- Come on y'all, let's give it up for jesus.
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- Well,
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- I really want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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- Pray about what god would have you do.
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- We don't tell people what to give.
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- What we do love to talk about is the amazing life saving projects
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- That we do around the united states and around the world,
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- Whether it's distributing the gospel in non-christian nations,
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- Even underground church networks, or providing disaster relief to areas
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- Most affected around the united states, many lives are being changed
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- Because of your generosity.
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