T D JAKES SERMON.
This morning I am going to speak about "Living with Uncertainty"
we are going to the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans.
24.For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25.But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26.Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27.And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28.And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
You don't see that often. this is the only place i can think of where this notion is projected as we are saved by hope....normally when we hear we are saved...it is by grace, through faith...it is a gift of God. but hope that is seen is not hope.
look at 26th verse...4 words... for we know not..that's all i really needed....
. huh at the things I don't know.
thats bad to say right before u preach. beginning of wisdom is learning what u dont know. you always know u r in the presence of fool when they try to annul too much.
The beginning of wisdom is understanding your limitations...and being comfortable with the fact that... we know not.
prayer....
when the bible says we are saved by hope, it does not contradict the fact that we are saved by Grace. it is talking about two different aspects of salvation. when it says we are saved by grace, it is talking about being saved in yur spirit, eternal life being made alive. when it says about saved by hope, it is talking about the redemption of your body. see, my spirit is saved....my soul is being saved...transformed by the renewing of my mind...my soul is being saved...my body shall be saved... the redemption of my body is my blessed hope.
living with uncertainties.. how many of you, that is before the time of GPS.. you are going to some place new and how stressful it has been. Even if you are on the right road, it is stressful because you can be on the right road and not be sure and the uncertainty creates its own pressure and it seems so hard to get to the place and it seems so long to get to the place. the more you drive to the same place, the less stressful. so at the frst time even when you were on the right road, what was stressful was your uncertainty.
Same trip same car same people same situation. the pressure is not coming form car, people tire, road not coming from being lost. it is coming from the feeling of driving with uncertainty. the problem with life is we all are going the way we have never gone before. you are raising children you've never raised before. you are in a role in life you've never been before. you are in a job you've never been before. at a stage in live you've never been before. you have never been your age before. and every age brings a new challenge. you know how to be a teenager but the moment you know how to do it, you're not there anymore. you know how to be a young adult but the time you figured it out, youre not there anymore. you know how to be a senior citizen but the time you figure it out, youre not there any more. Everything is your first time and you don't get to do over. you cant send your kids back to the womb and say now i will raise you again. you raise them uncertain....on the phone...you ask, my baby looks sick temperature is 104... you start drawing from people who have done it before....that is if you've got sense... if you've got sense rather than allowing your ego to say i got this. you pull it from people who have done it before and start to implement what they have taught you coz u r dealing with the pressure of uncertainty.
look at your life and look at the things you are facing for the first time. you get used to not having kids, then u have them... then u get used to having them, then they leave... you get used to being a young married couple, then u r not. you get used to being a middle aged couple, and then one of u dies. then u r single again, then u r married again, then u r divorced, now u go through a surgery, first time going through a surgery, doctors when you r going through recovery will say, you will always have a minor pain.... "Minor Pain" you have to go through it before you understand it. once you go through it you become more professional dealing with it except life does not allow u to go through it and then do it over again. so u have to live with uncertainty.
the only people who know what they re doing are real young people. real young people know everything. even if they've not done it before. have you ever been advised by somebody who has never done it before? but they will give u all kinds of advice of how to do it. they will always be younger than you. because the younger you are, the more u think u know by looking... but u don't learn by looking, u learn by doing! so it is easy to sit on the couch and tell the football player "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND...." the only professionals are the people who haven't done it because when u do it, u understand everything is not that certain as you thought it would be. it is not black and white as you thought it would be and the only people who rush head on to anything without fear is youth because you have not learnt to respect the back draft of life.
so u r here telling me how to be a mother, how to be a father, how to run a business, telling me how to buy a house, telling me everything but you've never done it. the more u do things, the more u recognize that things can change in a flash. how u can lose it in a moment...how one thing can come along and destroy everything you've been working over 20 years.
i used to drive harsh. my brother and i would drive bad and when a curve comes he will slow down saying i know u are too crazy to slow down and we would kill each other..but i ve never had a bone broken, never had an accident, never had a surgery..when you've never been, u can underestimate what can happen. he would never have to slow down now coz I've been through enough, buried enough people, been to hospitals, visited enough people who had accidents in car, uncertainty alone will make me take caution. experience teaches you to respect what you are up against.
young people get married in a flash. I dont care if you dont like him, I dont care if mamma dont like him, I dont care ...Iiam a grown person and Iam tired of u controlling my life. nine months later they say, for we know not..
Uncertainty!!!creates its own pressure. we've been talking about praise, w'eve been talking about worship, we've been talking about going before God and those of you know... as u enter into worship, stress goes down. in fact i will make a guarantee, you cannot truly worship and worry at the same time. because when u truly start worshiping, the bigger he becomes in your situation. The Bible says magnify the lord with me it doesn't say that when we praise him, God gets bigger but our vision of him gets bigger because he starts filling in all the voids and filling in all the blanks and when God gets bigger, your problem gets smaller and it becomes difficult to worry about whatever you were worrying about when u get in the presence of the Lord. the only reason your problem is because your are facing your problem in your presence instead of his presence. when u bring ur problem into his presence, all of a sudden the stress goes down because now u can look up to him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think and all of a sudden u say I got this coz u recognize how big God is and how little ur situation is and u get confident. and the reason why church dont work for lot of u is you come to church like u go to the movies... u come to watch us perform...but church only benefits you when u participate in the presence of God . we cant have a worship service while u watch. u r stressed up because u don't worship u r moody because u dont worship u r out of control because u don't worship the reason u r such a hard head is because u r living with uncertainty everyday and why u r having a temper tantrum is because u cant handle it on ur own. what i do not understand for the life of me is how u can drag ur pretty self out to church every sunday and sit here all wonderful and never get what u came here for. you must enter into his presence. the truth of the matter is we have a pornographic view of the church today. we dont participate but we get joy from watching. the joy of watching will never replace the participating. uve got to enter into his presence. when u enter into his presence and start participating, u will have an experience like u never had before. touch people and say stop watching.
You can come to church but you'll never get anything until u raise ur hands, until u calp ur hands until u lose yourself in the presence of the lord.... until u say, lord i thank you, lord i praise you, lord, I trust u even though i dont understand u, lord, i turn it all over to u because i know u r able to handle my life. there is something bigger than me, taller than me, stronger than me, bigger than all of my circumstances. God is waiting on u. U r not waiting on God, I am sick of people saying that they are waiting on God. you are not waiting on God, God has done everything that he is going to do. god is so finished that he sat down. u r not waiting on God, God is waiting on you.
god is through thinking god is through acting on it...God is through releasing his power. the truth of the matter is u already healed,,,u already blessed..u already delivered u already set free... you are not waiting on God.... God is waiting on you. God is waiting on u to stop acting like u got it together. god is waiting for u to give up and say, I know not. I dont know what i am doing . i don't know how to be a husband, I dont know how to be a wife, I dont know how to be a mamma, I dont know how to get our of debt, I dont know how to be healed, I odnt know how to be happy, .... FOR WE KNOW NOT...
The chapter starts out "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." the love of God that release me from condemnation ... it is the rawest complete form, no condemnation. you have passed from death unto life. right now u have no condemnation, no judgement, its over, its finished, its settled. ur case is out of court because Christ has already paid ur debt for ur freedom and ur justification and therefore now no condemnation. look at ur neighbour and say, No condemnation. its so hard of u to get ur mind around it coz u r so aware of ur guilt. u r so aware of ur guilt that u r unaware of ur freedom. the writer says, there is no condemnation for who are in Christ, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. I believe "who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit" is not a condition, but a description. that wen u recognize u r not in condemnation, u automatically walk after the spirit and not after the flesh. let me go a little bit deeper into that. u r not living in a state of resistance. you are not wrestling against what u cant do because u r so enthralled in what u can do that u r not preoccupied with a provision of resistance. " help me to get through the day lord, you know i have a cursing problem"....if you would just use ur mouth to praise the lord, u wouldn't have time to curse. when u start speaking blessings, u cant speak blessing and cursing with the same tongue. ur whole perspective is negative.
Romans 8:1 starts with the love of God and when it comes to the 35th verse, ill let nothing separate me from the love of God. shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?and the chapter ends with....Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
so it starts talking about love and ends talking about love. its what happens in the middle that i want to pay attention to. so the text is sandwiched between 2 love pieces of bread. the meat is in the middle. its like life, the hardest part is to get to the middle. its like marriage, u start out with love, u end with love, and all the differences is in the middle. u see old folks in the mall, holding hands- they are not arguing about anything. helping one another on the steps... they started out on love...they ended on love, its what happens in the middle. the text starts out in love, ends in love...its what happens in the middle. it all starts out good, ends good, groaning in the middle. the baby starts out good.. o coochie coochie baby, u have ur mothers eyes, u sleep like ur dad....how cute.... and then in the end they hold ur hand like u held their hand, they potty train u like u potty trained them.... but in the middle...LORD HAVE MERCY!!! and u start asking God, should I kill what u helped me create? the joys of being a grandparent is having ur kids come back and tell u...u know what, u were right. this is not as easy as i thought it was. if you can just survive the middle.
Romans 8:22 "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."and in Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. so in 22 we know...in 28 we know...but in the middle 26, we know not.
this is what I am talking about. when u r in the middle, u have the most uncertainty- cant do it. do i have what it takes. can i pull this husband thing off. can i do this...it is tough, because u r right in the middle and the uncertainty is at its height. its not that u r not doing it, its not that ur not on the right road, its just that u r not sure. its not that u r not getting the victory, its not that u r not winning hte battle, its that u r not sure how it will turn out
gods glory shows up when we humbly say, we know not. you know u cannot teach somebody who knows. God wants us to say "we know not" and its the hardest thing to make people say "we know not" when u see someone really arrogant, it means they are insecure...the more insecure they are, the more uncertain they are. the personality types who cover it up by saying "i know what iam doing" which generally means, I am scared to death. you cannot teach an arrogant person to worship because u cannot get them long off the throne to put Christ on the throne. worship means you trade places with Christ. He comes off the cross and gets on the throne so that u can get off the throne and get on the cross.
But if u r afraid, u wont worship because u have insatiable need to always appear as if u r in control. u must be the end all and see ye all of the universe coz u have branded yourself like that..so now u have to hide the panging of uncertainty so u sleep with it, u go to bed with that coz u cant handle uncertainty. then u have to hide the gross painful reality that u dont know it all.
so you act like you know what a marriage ought to be. and u get in an argument with everybody because they r not doing it right. never mind the fact that u have not done it before. u r angry with people for not helping u build this play u have created. of what it ought to be while the truth of the matter is u have no clue. how could u know how a husband ought to be, when u haven't figured out how a wife should be. how happy our life would be if we walked around like we didn't know and willing to learn, changing our philosophies..by the time u learn to humble down to "we know not" generally shes gone. there is something about failure that makes u humble down to say what u should have said in the first place... I know not.
This morning I am going to speak about "Living with Uncertainty"
we are going to the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans.
24.For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25.But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26.Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27.And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28.And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
You don't see that often. this is the only place i can think of where this notion is projected as we are saved by hope....normally when we hear we are saved...it is by grace, through faith...it is a gift of God. but hope that is seen is not hope.
look at 26th verse...4 words... for we know not..that's all i really needed....
. huh at the things I don't know.
thats bad to say right before u preach. beginning of wisdom is learning what u dont know. you always know u r in the presence of fool when they try to annul too much.
The beginning of wisdom is understanding your limitations...and being comfortable with the fact that... we know not.
prayer....
when the bible says we are saved by hope, it does not contradict the fact that we are saved by Grace. it is talking about two different aspects of salvation. when it says we are saved by grace, it is talking about being saved in yur spirit, eternal life being made alive. when it says about saved by hope, it is talking about the redemption of your body. see, my spirit is saved....my soul is being saved...transformed by the renewing of my mind...my soul is being saved...my body shall be saved... the redemption of my body is my blessed hope.
living with uncertainties.. how many of you, that is before the time of GPS.. you are going to some place new and how stressful it has been. Even if you are on the right road, it is stressful because you can be on the right road and not be sure and the uncertainty creates its own pressure and it seems so hard to get to the place and it seems so long to get to the place. the more you drive to the same place, the less stressful. so at the frst time even when you were on the right road, what was stressful was your uncertainty.
Same trip same car same people same situation. the pressure is not coming form car, people tire, road not coming from being lost. it is coming from the feeling of driving with uncertainty. the problem with life is we all are going the way we have never gone before. you are raising children you've never raised before. you are in a role in life you've never been before. you are in a job you've never been before. at a stage in live you've never been before. you have never been your age before. and every age brings a new challenge. you know how to be a teenager but the moment you know how to do it, you're not there anymore. you know how to be a young adult but the time you figured it out, youre not there anymore. you know how to be a senior citizen but the time you figure it out, youre not there any more. Everything is your first time and you don't get to do over. you cant send your kids back to the womb and say now i will raise you again. you raise them uncertain....on the phone...you ask, my baby looks sick temperature is 104... you start drawing from people who have done it before....that is if you've got sense... if you've got sense rather than allowing your ego to say i got this. you pull it from people who have done it before and start to implement what they have taught you coz u r dealing with the pressure of uncertainty.
look at your life and look at the things you are facing for the first time. you get used to not having kids, then u have them... then u get used to having them, then they leave... you get used to being a young married couple, then u r not. you get used to being a middle aged couple, and then one of u dies. then u r single again, then u r married again, then u r divorced, now u go through a surgery, first time going through a surgery, doctors when you r going through recovery will say, you will always have a minor pain.... "Minor Pain" you have to go through it before you understand it. once you go through it you become more professional dealing with it except life does not allow u to go through it and then do it over again. so u have to live with uncertainty.
the only people who know what they re doing are real young people. real young people know everything. even if they've not done it before. have you ever been advised by somebody who has never done it before? but they will give u all kinds of advice of how to do it. they will always be younger than you. because the younger you are, the more u think u know by looking... but u don't learn by looking, u learn by doing! so it is easy to sit on the couch and tell the football player "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND...." the only professionals are the people who haven't done it because when u do it, u understand everything is not that certain as you thought it would be. it is not black and white as you thought it would be and the only people who rush head on to anything without fear is youth because you have not learnt to respect the back draft of life.
so u r here telling me how to be a mother, how to be a father, how to run a business, telling me how to buy a house, telling me everything but you've never done it. the more u do things, the more u recognize that things can change in a flash. how u can lose it in a moment...how one thing can come along and destroy everything you've been working over 20 years.
i used to drive harsh. my brother and i would drive bad and when a curve comes he will slow down saying i know u are too crazy to slow down and we would kill each other..but i ve never had a bone broken, never had an accident, never had a surgery..when you've never been, u can underestimate what can happen. he would never have to slow down now coz I've been through enough, buried enough people, been to hospitals, visited enough people who had accidents in car, uncertainty alone will make me take caution. experience teaches you to respect what you are up against.
young people get married in a flash. I dont care if you dont like him, I dont care if mamma dont like him, I dont care ...Iiam a grown person and Iam tired of u controlling my life. nine months later they say, for we know not..
Uncertainty!!!creates its own pressure. we've been talking about praise, w'eve been talking about worship, we've been talking about going before God and those of you know... as u enter into worship, stress goes down. in fact i will make a guarantee, you cannot truly worship and worry at the same time. because when u truly start worshiping, the bigger he becomes in your situation. The Bible says magnify the lord with me it doesn't say that when we praise him, God gets bigger but our vision of him gets bigger because he starts filling in all the voids and filling in all the blanks and when God gets bigger, your problem gets smaller and it becomes difficult to worry about whatever you were worrying about when u get in the presence of the Lord. the only reason your problem is because your are facing your problem in your presence instead of his presence. when u bring ur problem into his presence, all of a sudden the stress goes down because now u can look up to him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think and all of a sudden u say I got this coz u recognize how big God is and how little ur situation is and u get confident. and the reason why church dont work for lot of u is you come to church like u go to the movies... u come to watch us perform...but church only benefits you when u participate in the presence of God . we cant have a worship service while u watch. u r stressed up because u don't worship u r moody because u dont worship u r out of control because u don't worship the reason u r such a hard head is because u r living with uncertainty everyday and why u r having a temper tantrum is because u cant handle it on ur own. what i do not understand for the life of me is how u can drag ur pretty self out to church every sunday and sit here all wonderful and never get what u came here for. you must enter into his presence. the truth of the matter is we have a pornographic view of the church today. we dont participate but we get joy from watching. the joy of watching will never replace the participating. uve got to enter into his presence. when u enter into his presence and start participating, u will have an experience like u never had before. touch people and say stop watching.
You can come to church but you'll never get anything until u raise ur hands, until u calp ur hands until u lose yourself in the presence of the lord.... until u say, lord i thank you, lord i praise you, lord, I trust u even though i dont understand u, lord, i turn it all over to u because i know u r able to handle my life. there is something bigger than me, taller than me, stronger than me, bigger than all of my circumstances. God is waiting on u. U r not waiting on God, I am sick of people saying that they are waiting on God. you are not waiting on God, God has done everything that he is going to do. god is so finished that he sat down. u r not waiting on God, God is waiting on you.
god is through thinking god is through acting on it...God is through releasing his power. the truth of the matter is u already healed,,,u already blessed..u already delivered u already set free... you are not waiting on God.... God is waiting on you. God is waiting on u to stop acting like u got it together. god is waiting for u to give up and say, I know not. I dont know what i am doing . i don't know how to be a husband, I dont know how to be a wife, I dont know how to be a mamma, I dont know how to get our of debt, I dont know how to be healed, I odnt know how to be happy, .... FOR WE KNOW NOT...
The chapter starts out "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." the love of God that release me from condemnation ... it is the rawest complete form, no condemnation. you have passed from death unto life. right now u have no condemnation, no judgement, its over, its finished, its settled. ur case is out of court because Christ has already paid ur debt for ur freedom and ur justification and therefore now no condemnation. look at ur neighbour and say, No condemnation. its so hard of u to get ur mind around it coz u r so aware of ur guilt. u r so aware of ur guilt that u r unaware of ur freedom. the writer says, there is no condemnation for who are in Christ, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. I believe "who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit" is not a condition, but a description. that wen u recognize u r not in condemnation, u automatically walk after the spirit and not after the flesh. let me go a little bit deeper into that. u r not living in a state of resistance. you are not wrestling against what u cant do because u r so enthralled in what u can do that u r not preoccupied with a provision of resistance. " help me to get through the day lord, you know i have a cursing problem"....if you would just use ur mouth to praise the lord, u wouldn't have time to curse. when u start speaking blessings, u cant speak blessing and cursing with the same tongue. ur whole perspective is negative.
Romans 8:1 starts with the love of God and when it comes to the 35th verse, ill let nothing separate me from the love of God. shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?and the chapter ends with....Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:22 "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."and in Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. so in 22 we know...in 28 we know...but in the middle 26, we know not.
this is what I am talking about. when u r in the middle, u have the most uncertainty- cant do it. do i have what it takes. can i pull this husband thing off. can i do this...it is tough, because u r right in the middle and the uncertainty is at its height. its not that u r not doing it, its not that ur not on the right road, its just that u r not sure. its not that u r not getting the victory, its not that u r not winning hte battle, its that u r not sure how it will turn out
gods glory shows up when we humbly say, we know not. you know u cannot teach somebody who knows. God wants us to say "we know not" and its the hardest thing to make people say "we know not" when u see someone really arrogant, it means they are insecure...the more insecure they are, the more uncertain they are. the personality types who cover it up by saying "i know what iam doing" which generally means, I am scared to death. you cannot teach an arrogant person to worship because u cannot get them long off the throne to put Christ on the throne. worship means you trade places with Christ. He comes off the cross and gets on the throne so that u can get off the throne and get on the cross.
But if u r afraid, u wont worship because u have insatiable need to always appear as if u r in control. u must be the end all and see ye all of the universe coz u have branded yourself like that..so now u have to hide the panging of uncertainty so u sleep with it, u go to bed with that coz u cant handle uncertainty. then u have to hide the gross painful reality that u dont know it all.
so you act like you know what a marriage ought to be. and u get in an argument with everybody because they r not doing it right. never mind the fact that u have not done it before. u r angry with people for not helping u build this play u have created. of what it ought to be while the truth of the matter is u have no clue. how could u know how a husband ought to be, when u haven't figured out how a wife should be. how happy our life would be if we walked around like we didn't know and willing to learn, changing our philosophies..by the time u learn to humble down to "we know not" generally shes gone. there is something about failure that makes u humble down to say what u should have said in the first place... I know not.
Whatever u think of marrige is not based on one person...its about 2... I am not what u saw and u r not what i had in mindt.....o there we go.... idolatry...we r worshiping at the shrine of what we had in mind. of what we envisioned kids to be. I am just fairly disappointed in u. what does that really mean? you are upset coz iam not what u had in mind. we have so much trouble for we know not. we are so afraid of I dont know because I know is our idol and it makes me look good in front of you. and I am worshiping at the shrine of my own opinion even if i have to kill everybody up under me for not lining up with what i had in mind and by the time i realize what i had in mind was not how he is look at how many dead bodies u left behind u coz u wouldn't say I know not.
Experience brings u humility and humility brings u to we know not. there is no room for god in a man full of self. if you are so full of self u cant worship Him. people who worship better are broken people. people who have messed up, people who have been to hell and back, people who are ready to humble themselves, They are not worried about what u think, they have made enough mistakes and they turn it to God saying, For we know not.
These maybe the most powerful words in the entire text. do u know when God gave the ten commandments, didn't he know that he would already break them? while he was writing them, we were breaking them. we were dancing around the calf naked, while he was writing, we should worship no other God. we were already doing it while He was writing it. we broke it even before we saw it. but when Moses comes down off the mountain with the ten commandments, the first mistake made was they said...this we will do. we've got this. when god gave the commandments, he also gave the plan for the tabernacle. the ten commandments are the standard, and the tabernacle is his blood, his atonement, his grace..the lamb that dies in ur place. he gave the plan for the tabernacle coz he already knew we know not. the law was weak through the flesh. your relationship may not be weak, it has to come through your flesh, it has to come through your ego, its gotta come through ur childhood, its gotta come through your insecurities, its gotta come through your image, its gotta come through your need to control everything and everybody who comes in ur life.
You cannot worship when u r in control, you cannot win when u r in control because a plan cannot be given to somebody who has something else in mind. so what u keep doing is trying different versions of your tactics. you really have not humbled yourself to say " we know not"we know that all creation grows and e know all things work for good but weve never got to the middle part where we know not and that where the glory is. the glory is always in the middle. you remember when god designed the tabernacle ..he had a mercy seat, with a cherubim on this side and that side and the glory filled. its in the middle tat the glory falls. its ot in what u know that the glory falls...its in what u dont know- thats where the glory fallss. its when u say, we know not,thats where the mercy sits. the mercy sits right down where u admit u don't know. god cant take control as long as you are in control. the moment you step out of the way, you have given God a seat to take control in your life. but because u r running everything u have not come to to the 26th verse, u r stuck at 22 or 28 bragging about what knwwhen u humble urself and say you know not then gods strength is made perfect... Iam going to teach this till somebody life explodes with the blessing what God has in store for u. god wants to give you glory right in the middle...right in your uncertainty, right in your chaos, right in your confusion, right in your tears, right when you are quiet, right when u r vulnerable, right when u r scared to death,right when u come to God and say lord, Iam through all to have this baby. thats when u get pregnant. right when you come to God and say, Lord Iam in a drought, that is when he says, dig in your valley, right when u say, lord i cannot heal myself thats when he says, touch the helm of my garment. right in the middle of your life....LORD....
Touch somebody and say, i need God to get into the middle of this.... before i wreck this stage, before I mess this stage, before I destroy this stage... I NEED GOD IN THE MIDDLE.
The beginning is good, He saved me by His Blood and by His power and the ending is good, Ive got a seat in glory with my name on it but where I need God is in the middle. I dont need him for what I know, I need Him for what I dont know. I need Him for my insecurities and my doubts. I dont I dont I dont know how this story will end, I dont know I dont know but I do know all things work for the good for them who love the Lord.
I need him. I dont know how to be a young man, I need Him... I dont know how to be a middle of my life, I need him. I need Him in my mid life crisis. I need Him in my transition from a young man to an old man. I dont know how to do the midlife when everythings changing and everythings moving. I knew how to be a good wife as a young woman, but I dont know how to be a good wife at menopause. Co by the time mamma was menopausal, Daddy was gone. So how do I keep my man in the middle. The middle is killing me because we know not. I see all people dying around me. I dont know when my turn is..I know not. And everyday I have to drive under pressure. I got to work under pressure, I have to raise kids under pressure, i hve to buy a house under pressure. I would have done better, if I had known better. and if u can open ur heart to the possibility that u r not as smart as u pretend to be and that u dont know everything like how u act like u know and if u can stop fussing at people coz they r not playing the role u told them to play ... how can u tell me what to play when u r not happy playing what u ought to play?
the question is Has God made provison for my confusion. Is God prepared for a woman who didnt know, for a doctor who didnt know, for a lawyer who didnt now, for a police officer wh didnt know. you give tikets to people for stuff u do urself, u sent me to jail for getting a high when u get drunk.
Every now and then we break the rules we make. if ur standards are that high that they are to be flawless to love them then you will die alone, because everybody is a little confused. Has God made provision for our confusion, he absolutely has. thats what the text is all about. The writer of Romans is trying to make us understand that when we know not how to pray, then the provision steps in. the Holy spirit cannot step in to a guy who will not say, I know not. intercession of the Holy spirit will not work against the arrogance of Humanity. if you dont get to we know not, u r never going to get to where the Holy spirit makes intercession because there is no vacancy in your court room. U sitting on the bench....order...order in the court. how can the Holy spirit intercede where you are in control. If you are always the teacher, you will run out of things to teach. if u cant keep learning, u cant keep teaching.
Iam uncertain even with GPS. she is quiet when there is a turning. And Iam worried coz she is quiet. Iam going at 160 and she says nothing and I get worried and push the button for her to say something. Uncertainty is painful. Do u love me? Am I doing this right?.. Do I have it to get it? I have to trust you to even ask u a question. because Iam afraid u will take advantage of my uncertainty. God knows about u. He knows about ur childhood, I know how u were raised, he knows ur vulnerability, i know about your incompetence, i know about areas of your life which u have hidden from everyone where and he says Ive made provision for u. My Holy spirit comes fully equipped and loaded to get you through this process. to get u from Alpha to Omega. from beginning to end and everything in between, God says Ive got you. God says My name is Jehovah Jireh. I am your perfect provision. I have provided not only to get u t the destination, i have also provided for moments of discomfort in the middle. already knew u would get to 30 and scared to death, already knew u would mess up your credit. already knew u would have that abortion. already knew u r going to blow ur first marriage, already knew what u r hiding. There's nothing you can hide from me. I knew u when u were born. you can hide from ur mamma, u can hide from ur wife, u can hide from ur husband, God says I ve searched u. I know ur thoughts.
You come to church but u haven't made room for me to sit down. you havent given me a seat. I cant have a mercy seat in your life because u would never say, we know not. coz if u say we knew not then holy spirit would come and make intercession. in order to be an intercessor, u gotta be able to speak. the people who say that holy spirit is just energy, not intellect, power but not language, its like taking me to a court putting me up on trial and I've got one witness and witness cant talk. if the holy spirit cant speak anymore, Iam going to hell. my one witness that can get my charges dropped has got to be able to speak for me. while I was pastoring the church, my mom passed away. my grief was too much. I was prepared for it but when I think of how she went cold in my arms, I couldn't take it. then Joel Osteen came to the church and he preached about praying in the spirit. When ur pain is real deep u need something real deep going in there and picking it up. you have a language but you don't use it because you are sitting on a throne. when holy spirit started talking, grief started coming out of my spirit. ll I can say is the more He spoke, the more healing came. God has made provision for your confusion. lift ur hands and open ur mouth... Get off ur throne. Humble yourself. He is waiting for u...The glory of God will come and anchor you. Your God He knows what you've been through, He knows where u came from, he knows ur hurt, he knows how you are broken, he knows how u cry, he knows how youre lonely.
What do i say soj. Thanks thanks thanks. Touched you took this effort.
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