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00:06 #S067 - You're Enough (Part 1)
00:19 Exodus chapter two and verse 23. 00:22 When you get there, let me hear you say Amen. 00:26 Exodus Chapter two in verse 23. 00:28 Again, we're going to continue tomorrow morning online 00:32 all throughout the week, and then we'll be here in person 00:34 Wednesday night 00:35 as we continue this series, even on Wednesdays as well. 00:38 Exodus chapter two and verse 23. 00:40 When you get there, say, Pastor, I'm there, 00:43 and my goal is not to be too long 00:45 today. 00:51 I say it too long. 00:53 I won't be long. 00:55 Amen. 00:57 The Bible says now what happened 01:00 in the process of time that the King of Egypt died? 01:05 Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage. 01:08 And they cried out. 01:10 And the Bible says. 01:11 And their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 01:15 So God heard their groaning 01:18 and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 01:23 And God look upon the children of Israel and acknowledged him. 01:28 Now, Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, 01:31 his father in law, the priest of Midian, 01:34 and he led the flock to the back of the desert 01:37 and came to Horeb. 01:38 The mountain of God 01:40 and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him 01:44 in a flame of fire from the mist of the bush. 01:47 So He looked and behold the bush was burning with fire. 01:53 But the bush was not what 01:57 the bush was not consume. 01:59 Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great site. 02:04 Why the Bush does not burn. 02:07 So when the Lord saw that He had turned aside to look, 02:11 God called to him from the bush and said, Moses, Moses. 02:16 And He said, Here I am. 02:18 Then he said, Do not draw near this place. 02:21 Take off your take off your sandals, off your feet 02:24 for the place where you stand is holy ground. 02:28 Moreover, he said, I am the God of your father, 02:32 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 02:37 And Moses hid his face. 02:39 For He was afraid to look upon God. 02:42 And the Lord said, I have surely seen 02:44 the oppression of my people who are in Egypt 02:48 and have heard their cry because of their test 02:50 masters for I know their sorrows. 02:53 So I have come down 02:54 to deliver them out of the land of the Egyptians 02:58 and to bring them up from that land to a good and largely 03:02 to a land flowing with milk and honey 03:04 to the place of the Caden Knights and the Hittites 03:07 and the Emirates 03:08 and the parasites and the HIV-AIDS and the genocides. 03:12 Now, therefore, behold the cry of the children 03:15 of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen 03:19 the oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them 03:23 come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh 03:27 that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, 03:30 out of Egypt. 03:32 But Moses said to God, Who am I? 03:38 That I should go to Pharaoh 03:41 and that I should 03:43 bring the children of Israel out of Egypt 03:47 today, saints for just a little while, with God's help. 03:50 I want to talk to you under the subject. 03:53 Your enough, your enough. 03:58 Let's free father. 04:01 Would you, sir, manically perform 04:04 the miracle of the fishes and the loaves? 04:08 Lord, would you take the little that I have 04:11 and the little that I am? 04:13 And would you multiply it that it might be sufficient 04:17 for all of those who hear my prayer today, Lord, 04:21 is that faith would be multiplied 04:23 exponentially in the hearing of the Word. 04:26 And Father. 04:27 My prayer at the end of the day 04:28 is that you would hide me in the shadows of the cross, 04:32 that Jesus alone might be seen, 04:34 that Christ alone would be heard, 04:36 and that Jesus alone would be praise. 04:39 Let your Spirit settle upon this service. 04:43 We pray in the wonderful name of Jesus. 04:47 Let those who believes out together. 04:48 Amen and amen. 04:51 You may be seated in the House of the Lord today. 04:58 Again, talking on the subject. 05:01 You are 05:03 enough. 05:07 You know, as a child, as a small child 05:11 of the eighties, my favorite 05:15 superhero character was the Superman, 05:19 played by Christopher Reeve. 05:24 Superman was faster than a speeding bullet. 05:29 He was more powerful than a steaming locomotive. 05:34 He was able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. 05:38 And if you remember, Superman could not be hurt 05:41 by bullets, knives, explosions or fires. 05:47 Essentially, no weapon formed against him could prosper. 05:51 The only thing that could hurt Superman is 05:54 if his enemy, Lex Luthor, was able 05:58 to get his hands on some kryptonite. 06:01 And you remember kryptonite was a metal 06:03 from Superman's home country that traveled with him to Earth. 06:09 And when he was exposed to kryptonite 06:11 in Earth's atmosphere, it would weaken him 06:14 and take away all of his superpowers. 06:19 Now, the strange thing is that Superman 06:22 was the carrier of kryptonite. 06:26 He transported the only thing that was able to weaken him. 06:30 And the truth is, friends, that each of us has a kryptonite 06:35 that is tailored to our falling nature. 06:38 And what somebody needs to know is that your kryptonite is not 06:41 circum stance. 06:42 So it is not financial, it is not relational 06:48 because no weapon formed against you can prosper. 06:51 In fact, your kryptonite is 06:53 not the things that went well or went bad. 06:57 It is not about the breaks that did not go your way. 07:00 For all things work together, for good. 07:04 To them who love God and are called according to His purpose. 07:08 I need you to know the only kryptonite that can weaken 07:11 you are the excuses that you make 07:14 for not growing and progressing and prospering in the Lord. 07:20 In fact, church, the only thing that can defeat 07:23 you are the lies that you tell yourself. 07:27 Like Superman, we are the carriers of our Kryptonite. 07:32 We are the transporters of that which can weaken us. 07:36 In other words, Church, your kryptonite sounds like this. 07:39 I don't have time. 07:42 Your kryptonite sounds like this. 07:44 If I had more money. 07:46 Your kryptonite sounds like this. 07:48 If I only met them. 07:51 Your kryptonite is when you look more 07:53 at your circumstances and more at your situations. 07:57 Then you look at the God that is able to do all things well. 08:03 And friends, what I'm inviting you to do over 08:05 these next few weeks is take a journey with me as we cancel 08:11 all of the excuses that are smothering our soul wellness 08:16 and keeping us from becoming who God has ordained us to be. 08:20 But the thing I remember about Superman, 08:24 if you recall, whenever he was weakened by Kryptonite, 08:28 if he could just get away from the Kryptonite 08:31 and fly up beyond the atmosphere 08:34 and get in the presence of the son, 08:37 you realize that he would be rejuvenated by the son. 08:40 He would be revived by the son. 08:44 He would be made strong again by the MCU in son. 08:48 And how many of us know that when you're touched 08:50 by the kryptonite of your own making, 08:53 if you can just get in the presence of the soul 08:56 and that you can be revived by the son, Jesus Christ, 09:02 you can be revived in the Son, you can be restored in the Son, 09:06 that you can be strengthened by the power of the Son of God. 09:09 Can you see, man? 09:12 And so, 09:13 friends, as we go quickly back to the word, 09:15 I need you to know 09:17 that the story of Moses is very instructive for us 09:22 as we begin this journey one with another, 09:25 because what you're going to notice 09:28 is that Moses does not jump at the opportunity 09:32 to be used by God. 09:33 In fact, he offers a variety of excuses 09:38 as to why God should choose someone else. 09:42 And over the course of the next few weeks, 09:45 we will see how God helps him to manage His excuse choices. 09:49 But today, 09:51 as we look at this text, the first thing it teaches us 09:55 is that your circumstance won't destroy you. 09:58 It's going to develop you. 10:01 Now, let me say it again for somebody hearing that 10:03 whatever you're going through is not going to destroy you. 10:08 What you're in is going to develop you. 10:12 Moses If you recall, church 10:15 is a fugitive from the land of Egypt. 10:19 The last 40 years of his life have been spent adjusting 10:23 to the rural climate in the land of Midian. 10:27 He has developed a whole new life 10:30 that has no remnants of his former life, 10:33 and he spends his days leading large flocks of sheep 10:38 through Rocky and desert terrain. 10:40 And this day, as Moses leads the flock 10:44 behind the backside of the desert, 10:47 God uses a partic killer spectacle 10:51 to capture the attention of Moses. 10:54 The Bible says that Moses sees a burning bush 10:58 now understand that at first glance this is 11:01 no big deal because in an air it desert client climate, 11:07 it's very common to see bushes that are on fire. 11:11 So initially, Moses doesn't pay it any mind. 11:15 He doesn't give it any intellectual recognition. 11:19 He assumes that in about 30 seconds 11:22 that Bush will be completely consumed. 11:26 But man, maybe Moses has this spatial awareness. 11:30 Maybe he can sense it in his peripheral vision 11:34 that after a minute, the bush is still burning. 11:38 After 3 minutes, the bush is still burning. 11:42 After 7 minutes, the bush is still burning. 11:46 After 20 minutes, the bush is still burning. 11:51 After 30 minutes, the bush is still burning. 11:54 And after all this time, he feels heat 11:58 or from the flames, he can hear the crackling 12:00 sound of the brush. 12:01 And eventually, Moses has to turn around 12:05 and see why this bush is burning. 12:09 But it is not consumed. 12:11 And no, this church 12:13 that God draws his attention to, this spectacle. 12:17 You see, before he speaks from the bush, 12:21 he allows Moses to observe the bush before he teaches. 12:26 From the bush. 12:27 He allows him to analyze the bush 12:30 before he gives a call from the bush. 12:33 He begins to captivate the attention of Moses from the bush 12:38 because understand that there is something powerful 12:41 in the bush, because the bush is surviving 12:45 and atmosphere that should destroy it. 12:49 Okay. 12:51 The bush is thriving in a space that ought to overwhelm it 12:57 and understand, friends, that the bush does not die 13:00 in the fire. 13:02 The Bush thrives in the fire of chaos to get it. 13:06 The bush is not feeding the fire. 13:10 The bush is being fed by the fire. 13:13 The bush is not being weakened by the fire. 13:17 The bush is being strengthened by the fire and understand that 13:20 before Moses is a powerful role play of character development 13:27 because the fire does not destroy the bush. 13:31 The fire is simply developing. 13:33 The bush. 13:35 And before God gives voice from the bush, 13:39 he is forecasting to Moses and all that walk by faith. 13:44 The experience of how he grows up. 13:48 You see, God is not trying to sow Moses a bush in the fire. 13:53 He's trying to show Moses himself in the fire. 13:57 And the same way God would keep the bush from being consumed 14:02 is the same way he would sustain us 14:05 whenever life's got hot around us. 14:09 And see, this is the truth today, Church. 14:12 How many of us recognize that God makes great 14:15 men and women in the fire? 14:19 Oh, God told Matt today he didn't grow up 14:23 in air conditioning. 14:24 He didn't grow men and women on the beach. 14:28 The word say is that he grows great people in the fire. 14:32 And see, this is epic because at times 14:35 our purposes are at odds with God because we want, 14:39 with all power to get away from the discomfort of the fire 14:45 when God wants to use your discomfort 14:48 to develop your character. 14:51 And the reason there are times we nullify our call with excuses 14:57 is because we see the fire as a place of destruction. 15:02 But how many of us know that fire is a place of development? 15:06 And it's crazy because at the beginning Moses essentially 15:09 steps back from this assignment because he can anticipate 15:15 how hot and uncomfortable this assignment will be. 15:18 But God does not give voice to any of His excuses 15:23 because God is trying to say to Moses, the same way I keep 15:27 the bush in the fire is the same way I'll keep you 15:31 when you go through seasons of testing saying Now, not now. 15:35 CHURCH This parable would have made sense 15:40 if God showed him some clay and the fire. 15:44 It would have made sense if he saw some metal in the fire. 15:49 It would have made sense if he saw some iron in the fire 15:53 because those things have properties 15:55 that are able to withstand the presence of some heat. 15:59 But God adds the tension on purpose when he allows him 16:02 to see a living object surviving the fire. 16:08 In other words, it is a foreshadowing 16:11 of a larger truth that the same way that plants 16:17 survived a 16:18 space that should have killed it is the same way 16:22 God keeps us in conditions that are to take us out. 16:29 Can I pause to say to somebody, Don't let your circumstance 16:33 dictate your belief about your survival. 16:37 You are not hear me today. See? 16:39 Has anybody ever been in that place? 16:41 We're on the front end of the trial. 16:44 You didn't think you were 16:46 going to make it through when that trial first started, 16:50 all you could see is your collapse. 16:52 All you could see is your demise. 16:55 All you could see is yourself going under. 16:58 But you didn't realize that you were a burning bush 17:02 that was under tailored heat by God that was not there. 17:05 Overwhelm you. 17:07 It was simply going to develop you. 17:11 Do I have any burning bushes that can testify? 17:14 You didn't think 17:15 you would make it through your trials crisis. 17:19 You didn't think you would make it through that divorce. 17:22 You didn't think you would survive the loss of that love 17:25 when you thought that that financial season 17:28 was going to take you out. 17:29 But the same way that that Bush continue to thrive in the fire, 17:35 you realized that before God spoke from the Bush, 17:38 the bush was already talking to Moses 17:41 another, whereas the Bush is saying 17:43 to Moses, It's hot in here, but I'm still here. 17:47 It's burning, but I'm still here. 17:50 Moses is uncomfortable, but I'm still here 17:54 and I need some burning bushes to give God a steal here. 17:58 Kind of praise, because after all 18:03 you've been through, you can say I'm still here 18:08 by the grace and power of the Almighty God. 18:11 Y'all not hear me today. 18:13 In other words, after the surgery, you are still here. 18:17 After the chemo, you're still here after the grief. 18:21 You are still here after the divorce. 18:24 You are still here after the miscarriage. 18:27 You're still here after they talked about you. 18:31 You're still here. 18:32 And some of us are complaining because we are not there. 18:37 But you can't get there if you are not still here. 18:40 And you are to just give God a praise 18:43 that you're still here 18:47 by the grace and power of God. 18:50 You are here me today, Prince. 18:53 And so the words this was here in Exodus 18:55 chapter three and verse number seven, 18:57 the Bible says, and the Lord said, 18:59 I have surely seen the oppression of my people 19:02 who are in Egypt 19:04 and I have heard their cry because of their taskmaster. 19:08 I know their sorrows, 19:09 so I have come down to deliver them 19:12 out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up 19:15 from that land to a good and large land 19:19 to a land flowing with milk and honey. 19:23 You see the second thing this story teaches us Church, 19:26 is that God already has a plan in place. 19:31 Okay? 19:33 You see, the children of Israel have been in bondage 19:38 for about 400 years and God says, I have seen enough. 19:45 But there is something in the timeline 19:49 that is noteworthy for the development of our faith. 19:52 Y'all remember reading there in chapter two and verse 23 19:56 that when Moses first left to go to Midian, 20:00 that the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, 20:03 and the Bible says that 20:04 the Lord heard them and He acknowledged them. 20:09 Did y'all catch that? 20:11 Now the Bible says that he heard them 20:14 the time where Moses left, but there was 40 years 20:19 between the time he heard the prayer 20:23 and the time he answered the prayer. 20:26 How many of us know that sometimes the same day God hears 20:31 is not the same day that God acts? 20:35 No, no, no. 20:37 The same day he hears it is not the same day he acts on it. 20:41 And the reason that's important 20:42 is because 20:43 some of us are frustrated and we have a diminishing faith 20:47 because we're operating under the assumption 20:51 that if God heard us, then things would be better by now. 20:55 If God heard me, 20:56 things would already have changed by this season. 21:01 But how many of us know that God can hear in one season 21:05 but not move until the next season 21:09 and see this is important. 21:10 Church Because sometimes 21:12 we put too much confidence in a particular outcome. 21:17 But the Bible in first John chapter five and verse 14 21:19 says this is the confidence that we have that whatsoever 21:24 we ask in his name, we know that he hears us 21:30 see how much of us know. 21:31 You got to get to a place 21:32 where your confidence is not an outcome. 21:36 You have confidence to know that whenever you pray 21:39 there is no prayer that escapes the ear of God 21:43 and see if God hears me. 21:46 I just need to have trust to know that God will deliver me 21:50 in his time and I love somebody. 21:53 Put it online this week. 21:54 Lewis Jones says he sometimes will miss the win. 21:58 Worried about the win. 22:02 Okay, we'll miss the W out in the victory 22:06 because we're so distracted about 22:08 when it's going to come to pass. 22:11 But how many of us know that you've got to get to a place 22:14 where you have the type of faith that leaves the win 22:17 and the timing up to God? 22:22 See, we get frustrated about the win, 22:24 and that's why we pray 22:25 with a with a desperation that is not always necessary, 22:30 just not Jesus saying Matthew, chapter six 22:33 that your father knows what things you need 22:38 even before you ask them to. 22:41 I need somebody to get this larger truth. 22:43 I need, you know, God knows what you need. 22:47 It's already on His schedule. 22:50 And I need you to know that even when you pray, 22:52 you're not informing God of what you need. 22:55 You're just giving him permission to act on your behalf 22:59 and see there's a larger truth, 23:01 because some of us have got to get to the place 23:04 where we just stop praying on the level of survival. 23:09 No, no. 23:10 You got to start 23:11 praying on the level of abundance and supernatural. 23:15 Why am I saying stop praying on the level of survival? 23:19 How many of us know that 80% of the things we pray for 23:22 are things that God was going to do? 23:24 Even if you never pray? Oh, God 23:28 did not Jesus say, don't worry about your life 23:32 and what you're going to eat 23:33 and where you're going to live and about your body. 23:37 He says, Man, your father knows what things you have need up. 23:40 In other words, even if you didn't pray 23:42 about basic necessities, God will still go. 23:45 Come through simply because He is your father in heaven. 23:51 Oh, see somebody else. You don't believe that? 23:52 See how many parents are in the house today 23:54 and your parents in the room? 23:55 Like how many of us can tell the truth 23:57 that if your kids never said, 23:59 I'm hungry, you still go feed them 24:02 yo Brando. 24:04 If they never ask for school 24:05 clothes, you still going to buy them? 24:07 If they never said, and then you still don't pay tuition. 24:11 Even if they never ask, 24:12 you still don't get them some for Christmas. 24:14 Even when they act like baby kids. 24:15 I'm not telling the truth today. 24:17 I mean, you still go get them some for Christmas. Why? 24:21 Because it's not based upon their asking. 24:23 It's because of how much you love them 24:25 and whether they ask or not. 24:27 You don't provide all of their needs 24:30 and we serve a God that's so great 24:34 that says, even if you don't ask, I'm going. 24:37 Bless you. 24:38 Thank you so much for joining us for The Breath of Life, 24:42 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor 24:44 Debleaire Snell Now, 24:45 we hope and pray that you have been blessed 24:48 by this first message 24:49 in the new sermon series titled ExcuseLess. 24:54 Join us next week for part two of the message you are in, 24:58 though you don't want to miss what's good family. 25:02 Did you think the revolution is over now? 25:05 We're just getting started. 25:06 Earlier this year, 25:08 we made the decision that we're not going to make any excuses 25:11 for poor, 25:12 spiritual or physical health at this leg of the journey. 25:16 We're not going to make any excuses 25:18 for not paying attention to our mental and emotional wealth. 25:22 I want to invite you to join me on a two week 25:25 mental health revival from July the seventh to the 19th. 25:31 We're going to be pouring into God's people 25:33 so that they will be able to prosper 25:35 in their mental wellness. 25:36 I'm going to be joined 25:38 by a number of mental health professionals 25:40 like coaches and pastors 25:42 that are going to equip us with some very powerful tools. 25:47 From July the seventh through the 19th, each Sunday 25:49 at eight and Monday through Friday at six, 25:53 we're going to be learning how to deal with 25:54 things like guilt, 25:56 how to manage our stress, how to stay in balance, 26:00 and how to deal with difficult people. 26:02 Each morning 26:03 you're going to get a spiritual word 26:05 and then you're going to be led 26:07 in some miracle conversations that are going to leave 26:10 you better than when you first started. 26:13 So go ahead and mark the calendar. 26:14 Save the date, July 7th through the 19th. 26:18 Sundays at eight Mondays through Fridays 26:21 at 6am I need you to know that we're going to gather hope. 26:25 You're going to be equipped and encouraged 26:28 as we continue the journey of becoming ExcuseLess 26:41 what's good family. 26:42 Breath of life is going to be coming to the West Coast. 26:47 We're excited that from July the 14th to July the 27th, 26:52 we're going to be hosting our third annual hope 26:53 rally under the theme Almost Home. 26:57 We're going to be meeting for those two weeks 26:59 in Long Beach, California. 27:01 We're going to be meeting each night, 27:02 except for Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 PM. 27:07 It's an in-person meeting only, so you can't catch it online. 27:11 You've got to be in the house. 27:13 We're going to be joined in musical partnership 27:16 by gospel recording artist Smokey Norful. 27:20 Jonathan Nelson and Donnie McClurkin. 27:23 Each night, dinner is going to be served 27:27 and there's going to be special programing for your youth 27:29 and for your little ones. 27:30 It's going to be a high time in Zion, 27:33 where we're going to be preaching 27:34 the good news of Jesus Christ. 27:36 And we're going to be reminded that this world is not our home. 27:41 Again, I look forward to seeing you in Long Beach, 27:43 California, from July the 14th to the 27th. 27:48 Make sure that you're planning to be there 27:50 and you bring somebody with you. 27:51 If you want more information, go to our Web site 27:55 at www.breathoflife.tv God bless. 27:59 I'll be seeing you this summer. |
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