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00:04 #S067 - You're Enough (Part 2)
00:20 Welcome to the Breath of Life. 00:21 Television ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:25 In today's episode. 00:27 Pastor Snell will continue part 00:30 two of the powerful message titled “Your Enough”. 00:34 Now let's go deeper into the word of 00:39 not funny, because some of us are listening to this thing 00:41 and saying, we'll pass him. 00:43 I'm still upset that God here is in one season 00:48 but hit on the answer for 40 years later. 00:51 But Betsy, one of the things I'm learning church 00:55 is that sometimes God has to let the fruit 00:58 get ripe. 01:02 See, in this time of waiting, not only does God 01:07 prepare a deliverer, 01:10 he prepares the people to be delivered. 01:14 Okay. 01:16 See? 40 years earlier, 01:20 deliverance would have been convenient, but 01:22 God had to let it get to a place where it was critical. 01:28 In other words, the way God prepared the people is 01:31 He had to let the oppression run its course. 01:35 He had 01:36 to allow their disgust to mount. 01:40 He had to allow their frustration to swell. 01:43 He had to allow their discontent with Egypt 01:47 to run its full course before he showed up to deliver them. 01:51 Why, Pastor, did God have to let it 01:55 get that bad to deliver them? 01:58 Well, think about it with me, Church. 02:00 What was their solution in the wilderness? 02:03 Whenever it got hard. 02:07 If their solution after the 40 years 02:10 was to go back to Egypt, 02:14 if God had showed up a moment earlier, 02:17 they wouldn't have even walked out of the door. 02:20 And so God had to let it get so bad 02:24 and so desperate and so hard that they would finally walk 02:28 through the door that God opened 02:32 and see there are some of us that are praying for deliverance 02:35 from some things. 02:37 Some are praying for deliverance from a habit. 02:41 Some are praying for deliverance from some soul ties. 02:45 Some of us are praying for deliverance from a situation. 02:48 But see, some of us don't recognize 02:50 that, though we hate the consequences. 02:53 There's still a familiarity and a comfort there. 02:56 And sometimes God 02:57 has allowed that predicament to get so uncomfortable 03:02 and so unmanageable and so unlivable 03:06 that you actually walk out of the door when God opens it 03:11 seems crazy because God 03:13 says, I've come down to deliver them. 03:18 Now, now that word in the Hebrew, on the soul. 03:21 It's a very interesting word. 03:22 It is a word, too, which means to cats 03:26 or it means to rescue. 03:27 In other words, what God is literally painting 03:30 a picture of is him being like a midwife, 03:34 helping someone deliver a pregnant child 03:38 and see how many of us understand 03:39 that deliverance has to have a certain desperation to it. 03:44 What do you mean? 03:44 How many of us 03:45 ladies can testify that after a certain period of time 03:48 of being pregnant, at some point, 03:52 deliverance 03:55 is going to become involuntary. 03:58 I once you get to a certain level of pregnancy, 04:02 it's going to happen whether you want to or not. 04:05 But you got to be so full 04:07 and so ready and so determined 04:12 that you're willing to push away the ladies that today. 04:15 In other words, the doctor don't deliver the baby. 04:19 The doctor just catches the baby when he comes. 04:23 But it is because the woman is full 04:26 that there is an involuntary delivery. 04:29 And what I'm saying is that when you get full of frustration 04:33 and you get full of this content and you're full of your anger, 04:38 that's when there is a delivery and God says, I'm 04:42 just going to catch you and push your mission forward. 04:47 Y'all hear me today? CHURCH 04:49 But this is the point. 04:51 I want to notice something that that. 04:53 Wow, Moses is in the mountain and God is talking to him. 04:58 The children of Israel are still there in bondage. 05:01 The same day he's talking to Moses, 05:05 they're still weeping in Egypt. 05:08 But I want you to notice something is that even though 05:11 there is no evidence of a delivery, there is no momentum. 05:15 There is no groundswell. 05:17 There is no. 05:17 No nothing that is suggesting 05:19 that the days are going to change. 05:21 Today was just like the one before that. 05:24 But I need you to know that God gives Moses the plan. 05:28 Notice the detail He gives him. 05:30 He says when you bring them out, 05:34 oh, god, 05:36 he says, when you bring them out, 05:38 you're going to bring them to this mountain and worship me. 05:42 He says, This is what I'm going to do 05:44 when Pharaoh resists and hardens his heart. 05:47 He makes it clear 05:48 this are the signs that you give them 05:50 when they don't believe you. 05:51 He says, 05:52 I've already prepared a land 05:54 that is flowing with milk and honey, 05:57 and they're going to drive out the headlights and the lights 06:00 and the parasites. 06:01 In other words, while they are in Egypt 06:04 trying to figure it out, God is already on the outside 06:09 and he has worked that thing out. 06:12 And it's crazy because God has already determined 06:17 that there is an expiration date on their time in Egypt. 06:21 There is an expiration date for their bondage. 06:24 There is a time of completion for this cruelty 06:27 that God had already set up, a day 06:31 where their weeping was going to end. 06:36 Okay. 06:38 See how many of us know that God had already told Abraham 06:41 how long the bondage was going to be? 06:44 So God not only had a start time, 06:48 God also had a concluding date. 06:51 I need somebody in the trial to know 06:55 that your trial had a start date, but 06:57 it also has an expiration date 07:01 that God has freed, determined a season 07:05 where your weeping is going to end, 07:08 where your financial issues will be complete, 07:10 where those marital issues will turn around. 07:14 I need somebody to rejoice because this trial has 07:17 an expiration date. 07:19 This sickness has an expiration date. 07:22 This struggle has an expiration date. 07:25 And how many can rejoice 07:26 that this world has an expiration date? 07:30 Because he that cellcom will come and he will not carry? 07:37 Thank God that trouble will last always. 07:43 And see, this is the true friends. 07:44 Because God doesn't always tell us when it's going to happen. 07:49 I just have confidence that it's going to happen 07:54 as he brings this. 07:55 Why, if you don't take the journey of faith, 07:56 you got to leave the wind up to God. 08:00 You just got to occupy till he comes. 08:01 You have a witness out there today. Me It's 08:04 kind of like this. 08:05 Anybody ever order food on DoorDash? 08:08 Minister Very fantastic app, man. 08:12 Man Where you ain't got to go and get the food 08:13 they can you in order and they'll deliver it to you. 08:17 But man, one of the things that messes me up on DoorDash is 08:19 they have this function where you can see where the driver is 08:24 and you can see where they are 08:25 on their way to getting the food. 08:27 You can see where they are 08:28 when they're bringing the food to you. 08:29 If I'm ordering here church, they always get lost 08:33 somewhere, even as Boulevard man. 08:34 And I'm sitting there in my office pounding my desk 08:37 because I'm 08:38 mad about how long it's taking for you to get there. 08:43 But now what I do is I don't sit there and watch 08:46 how long it's gonna take. 08:47 I just hit, send or accept, and I just trust that 08:52 because the payment has been made that 08:55 it's gonna come and it's on the way. 08:58 And I just need some faithful believers 09:02 to trust that, because the payment has been made. 09:06 You just need to know the blessing is on the way. 09:10 I need you to know your healing is on the way. 09:13 I need you to know provision is on the way. 09:17 I need you to know protection is on the way. 09:20 And when life gets hard, remember that Jesus is 09:23 on the way to come and receive his children. 09:30 You are 09:31 here in the word today, friends, and in the words is here 09:34 in verse number 11. 09:36 But Moses said to God, 09:38 Who am I 09:41 that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should 09:45 bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. 09:48 Third thing this teaches us friends. 09:50 Simple message. 09:51 Just a bridge. 09:52 You can't need somebody to know that you are enough. 09:58 That's right. 10:00 See, what you're going to see in coming weeks 10:02 is that Moses offers a number of excuses 10:06 as to why he can't go. 10:09 I mean, he lays it all out before God. 10:10 He's like me, God, I can't speak Lord. 10:13 They not gonna believe me, man, Lord, man, 10:14 I don't have the resume, Lord, I don't have an army. 10:18 And guess what, man? 10:19 I completely get it and I understand it. 10:21 But I need to know that all of those excuses 10:24 are undergirded, are somewhat summarized in that 10:26 one question that Moses asked when he says, Who am I 10:31 that I should go? 10:33 And What undergirds that question, friends, 10:37 is this sense of unworthiness and a lack of value 10:42 that suggests that I am not enough 10:47 to do what God says and see friends. 10:50 I get it 10:51 because there is something about Moses that cannot believe 10:54 that little or insignificant me 10:59 can be called by God to do that big thing. 11:04 And friends, I get it, man. 11:05 I have been there more times than I care to imagine. 11:08 I understand what he means, man. I ain't got no army. 11:11 I don't have the pedigree. 11:12 I don't have the political clout. 11:14 I don't I don't have the resume. 11:17 I don't have the standing 11:20 in order to go and tell a pharaoh anything. 11:25 In other words, my my resumé is not commensurate 11:28 or concurrent with this particular assignment. 11:31 And no, this church. Help me. 11:32 Stay with me. 11:33 Notice that Moses disqualifies himself. 11:41 I need you to 11:41 notice something in this dialog. 11:44 Who is the one that brings accusation? 11:48 Who is the one that points out all the flaws? 11:52 Who is the one that points out all of the lack? 11:55 Who is the one that identifies what he is? Not. 11:58 Who is the one that says what he cannot do? 12:02 Notice that none of that rhetoric comes from the bush. 12:07 It all comes from inside of Moses. 12:11 As he friends. 12:13 It communicates one of the traits of the fallen nature. 12:17 See, I need you to get that. 12:18 One of the greatest traits 12:19 of the fallen nature is not just a bend towards sand. 12:24 It is a bend towards self-sabotage. 12:29 See, humanity. 12:29 No matter how much bravado we have, man, 12:32 no matter how strong our exterior, 12:35 no matter how much swag in our walk. 12:38 I need you to know all of us have this imposter syndrome 12:40 operating inside of us, that we have this inner critic 12:45 that somehow raises up and best in moments. 12:50 And it comes in the form of that same inquiry that says, 12:53 Lord, who am I 12:56 to do what you're calling? 12:59 And so I need you to get that sense of I'm 13:01 not what I can't do, who I'm not, what I'm lacking. 13:06 I need somebody to hear me on this. 13:07 It is not the work of the Holy Spirit. 13:11 This rhetoric or these refrains come from the flesh. 13:16 It's funny 13:16 because we will literally 13:18 proffer up excuses as to why I can't grow 13:20 and why I can't do this and why I can't do that. 13:25 And we will fill our lives with all these reasons as to why 13:29 we can't when the powerful promise of the Scriptures 13:32 is that I can do all things 13:36 through Christ, who gives me the strength. 13:39 And let me just be clear when I say this, 13:41 I want to say to somebody that humility. 13:44 It is not humility to insult your self, criticize 13:47 yourself, demean yourself, or degrade yourself. 13:51 How many of us know that 13:52 humility is not an awareness of just how flawed I am? 13:56 It's my awareness of how perfect he is. 13:59 Humility is not me just recognizing what I'm not. 14:04 Humility is the recognition that my help comes from God. 14:09 Y'all hear me today, friends? 14:11 So that. Guess what? 14:12 I should humble myself. 14:13 I should deny myself. 14:15 I should submit myself. 14:17 I should yield myself. 14:19 But I should never degrade myself. 14:22 I should never doubt myself. 14:23 I should never hate myself. 14:25 I should never sell myself short. 14:28 I need somebody to know that in Christ, 14:31 you are enough. 14:34 Are you out here in the Word today 14:37 and say, we love to preach 14:39 about the sin of self inflation, but it's also a sin 14:44 to self deflate? 14:49 See, the problem is we think our value 14:53 is earned through performance. 14:56 How many of us know that I have value that is inherent 15:02 simply because I am a child of the most high God? 15:06 Lord, I wish somebody would wake up 15:08 to the truth of this word today. 15:10 I need you to stop assessing your value 15:13 based upon the degrees behind your name. 15:15 What? 15:16 Behind the neighborhood where you live 15:17 or the type of car that you drive? 15:19 How many of us know that it is not 15:21 how much you get paid that brings you value. 15:24 You have value because of the price that was paid 15:27 in order to procure your salvation. 15:31 So y'all don't believe me? 15:32 Can I go to the word for just a moment? 15:33 I'm almost done. 15:34 Genesis Chapter one in verse 26, I need you to see some things 15:38 in the Scripture today Genesis, chapter one and verse 26. 15:41 When you get there, let me say Amen. 15:44 Genesis chapter one and verse 26, the Bible says. 15:48 Then God said, Let us make man in our image 15:52 according to our likeness 15:54 and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 15:58 of the birds of the air, and over the cattle 15:59 and over the earth 16:00 and every creeping thing that creeps up the earth. 16:03 So God created man in his image. 16:06 Dissolve cats, that church. 16:07 I need you to know friends and not see too many of us. 16:10 This is just a theological truth 16:11 that am created in the image of God. 16:13 I need you to understand that you have divine DNA 16:18 inside of you, that you've got the very imprint 16:23 of God that governs and guides all of the affairs of your life. 16:28 I need somebody to understand that you are okay 16:32 simply because you bear his resemblance. 16:36 Jeremiah Chapter one in verse five 16:39 Can we look a little further in the word? 16:40 Jeremiah Chapter one and verse five. 16:42 Just a few things I need you to see. 16:44 Jeremiah Chapter one and verse five. 16:46 When you get to let you say, man, 16:48 Jeremiah, chapter one and verse five. 16:51 When you get this, they pass from there. 16:53 So the word says this Before 16:57 I formed you in the womb, as I knew you 17:03 before you were born, I sanctified 17:05 you and I are danger a prophet to the nations. 17:09 Did you catch what the word says? 17:11 Now I need you to know that this does not just apply 17:14 to the Prophet Jeremiah. 17:15 There is a larger spiritual truth for us all. 17:19 The Bible lets us know that Jeremiah was formed 17:22 in the womb, that he was developed 17:27 by the hand of God, that he was shaped 17:30 for a particular purpose and that function. 17:33 Why is that critical? Brother Perry? 17:34 Because most of us think we are born. 17:38 When the truth is you are formed. 17:42 See if I'm just born. 17:44 That's just a result of biology taking its normal course. 17:49 But I need you to know that your life 17:50 is not just the result of sperm or fertilizing egg. 17:54 I need you to know that 17:55 within the science of it all, that God oversaw 18:00 the very formation of your lives, 18:02 and that God assigned purpose and God input gifts 18:06 and God developed a temperament. 18:08 And God gave you talents. 18:10 And God put something in you to impact the world 18:13 for His glory. 18:18 And see, I need you to know that because you are formed, 18:22 you are formed for a function. 18:26 And see, that's why you should never fear 18:29 when you are confronted with your function, 18:31 because you are formed for that very thing. 18:34 So you need not live a life of intimidation or fear 18:38 because you are formed to do 18:39 whatever it is that God is calling you to do 18:41 here in the world today. Friends. 18:43 You are born to carry the weight. 18:45 Whatever you're in is not too heavy. 18:47 You are formed for it. 18:50 It's funny, I remember a while back 18:52 my wife and I were in a furniture store. 18:53 I don't know if you've ever seen and like. 18:55 And in these stores it's this outside law and stuff. 18:58 It's like these these pods 19:01 that have like a metal back that come over the back 19:03 and they hang by this little string. 19:04 All of a sudden, these little pods. 19:06 And so we were in the store with it. 19:08 And and, you know, they were saying, man, 19:10 you can get these pods on sale. 19:13 And they were like, Mr. Snell, you can go ahead and sit down 19:14 and test the little pod. 19:16 And I was looking at that little string that was holding it. 19:19 And then 19:20 I was a 19:21 nervous about that string because I wasn't sure 19:22 that string can hold all this anointing. 19:25 You're not hearing the bass today. 19:26 And I was just like, Man, I ain't getting in that 19:29 because I ain't trying to pay for nothing in this store. 19:31 I don't want no situation. 19:32 And he was just like, No, go ahead and try it. 19:35 It is. 19:36 Well able to handle the weight. 19:38 And Malcolm, 19:39 he began to articulate that, ma'am, 19:40 the rod was made of titanium for strength. 19:44 And another element for elasticity. 19:48 And he says it's up, able to handle up to five or £600. 19:51 I was like, I'm straight. 19:52 It still looks too small in order to hold me. 19:56 And he says, Listen, 19:57 I need you to sit in it because it would be doing us a favor. 20:02 Because he's 20:03 saying that because of the elastic element, 20:05 they need heavy people to sit in it 20:09 because if it's never stretched, 20:11 it loses its capacity. 20:14 So that if it never holds anything heavy, 20:18 it loses its capacity 20:20 because it was formed to carry heavy things. 20:24 Can I just say to anybody that's carrying a heavy weight 20:28 that God saw before you were born, 20:32 the load you're gonna have to carry. 20:35 And he gave enough strength and enough elasticity 20:39 so that you can hold whatever he put in front of you. 20:43 It may cause you to bend, but you not gonna break 20:47 because the hand of God 20:50 is gonna hold you up 20:53 and it's gonna keep you from falling. 20:57 And see, this is it church. 20:59 Because, see, there are some of us that resonate with Moses 21:04 because Moses says, Who 21:05 am I to do this big thing? 21:09 And some of us are sitting with a bunch of excuses 21:13 as to 21:14 why we're not operating and calling it moving in faith 21:16 and stepping outside of our comfort zone. 21:17 Because you're asking yourself that same question, who am I 21:23 to go back to school? 21:26 Who am I to stand up in front of people? 21:29 Who am I to write something? 21:32 Who am I to record something? 21:35 Who am I to be on the Dean's list? 21:38 Who am I to be successfully married? 21:41 It's crazy 21:42 because the devil has actually used some of our past against us 21:46 with such skill 21:47 that some of us don't even think we deserve better. 21:53 But I need you to know that if you're a child 21:55 of the most high God, it doesn't matter where you've been. 21:59 It doesn't matter what you've done. 22:01 His grace is more than sufficient. 22:04 And where your sin abounds, grace does much more abound. 22:09 You need not be paralyzed by what was. 22:12 You need to stand in the strength of your divine calling 22:17 and see. 22:18 God sent me by here today to simply communicate 22:21 a simple truth to some ambivalent 22:26 and fearful and anxious soul that, God, 22:30 it has you on the precipice of something great. 22:33 He has you on the verge of something supernatural, 22:37 but you're sitting there like Moses and saying, 22:40 Who am I? 22:44 Who am I to lead a ministry? 22:47 Who am I to make a difference? 22:50 Who am I to spark a revival? 22:53 I don't have enough education. 22:54 I don't have enough knowledge. 22:56 And I came from the wrong part of town. 22:57 And my parents are divorced and my daddy wasn't around. 23:01 See, this is the beauty of it all. 23:02 And first Corinthians chapter one 23:04 makes it very clear 23:05 that that that not many mighty not many know, 23:07 but not many elite, according to the flesh was call. 23:10 But God says, man, I call the weak 23:11 things of this world 23:13 to confound the mighty, and I call the foolish things 23:15 to confound those things that are wise 23:16 so that no flesh may glory in my presence. 23:21 So I need somebody to understand this. 23:23 If you think you can't, 23:26 you're in the perfect posture 23:28 to be used by God. 23:32 I need you to know that what qualifies 23:35 you is actually your weakness. 23:38 Because God stripped 23:41 is me perfect in the area of our weakness. 23:46 Y'all hear me today? Church? 23:49 So that God identifies your like 23:54 what you're not. 23:56 And he says, I'm going to sit in my glory in your deficits 24:01 and the way I'm going move. 24:03 I'ma do it in such a way that your life is going. 24:07 Aim, glory in my direction 24:09 and that people will be made wise unto salvation 24:13 by the way God works in and through and inside of you. 24:16 How many of us believe the Word of God today 24:20 and listen, friends of mine, 24:21 God is just wanting somebody to come out of self-loathing 24:26 and self-hatred 24:29 and and just self insulting and self-sabotaging 24:34 and self limiting and low thinking behavior. 24:38 And I need you to realize that in Christ, 24:40 you are more than enough. 24:45 And see, somebody thinks, man, that their problem over there 24:49 is that they're too proud and they're too braggadocious. 24:51 See, I need you to know that sometimes, man pride and outward 24:53 bravado, that ain't nothing but insecurity turned inside out. 24:59 That's just how we mask it began to sing. 25:03 It didn't matter what part of town you came from. 25:05 It doesn't matter 25:06 what area of the world you grew up in. 25:07 It doesn't matter 25:08 what your parental situation might have been. 25:10 It doesn't matter what your last name is. 25:11 It doesn't matter if you're new to the church 25:13 or if you got generations in the church. 25:15 I need you to understand that in Christ you are more 25:18 than enough. 25:20 So God's call to somebody day is to stop being fearful. 25:24 It's to stop being afraid. 25:26 It is to stop proffering up excuses and to allow God 25:31 to feel your deficit and to allow God 25:36 to make up the difference of your life. 25:45 Once good family 25:47 breath of life is going to be coming to the West Coast. 25:51 We're excited that from July the 14th to July 25:54 the 27th, we're going to be hosting our third annual Hope 25:58 Rally under the theme Almost Home. 26:01 We're going to be meeting for those two weeks 26:03 in Long Beach, California. 26:05 We're going to be meeting each night, 26:07 except for Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 pm. 26:11 It's an in-person meeting only, so you can't catch it online. 26:15 You've got to be in the house. 26:17 We're going to be joined in musical partnership 26:20 by gospel recording artist Smokey Norful. 26:24 Jonathan Nelson and Donnie McClurkin. 26:28 Each night, dinner is going to be served 26:30 and there's going to be 26:32 special programing for you and for your little ones. 26:35 It's going to be a high time in Zion, 26:38 where we're going to be preaching 26:38 the good news of Jesus Christ. 26:40 And we're going to be reminded that this world is not our home 26:45 again. 26:46 I look forward to seeing you in Long Beach, California, 26:49 from July the 14th to the 27th. 26:52 Make sure that you're planning to be there 26:54 and you bring somebody with you. 26:56 If you want more information, go to our website 26:59 at www.breathoflife.tv God bless. 27:03 I'll be seeing you this summer. |
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