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00:04 #S070 - Stop Watching Other People Eat (Part 2)
00:19 Welcome to the Breath of Life Television 00:22 Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:26 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue part 00:29 two of the powerful message. 00:33 “Stop Watching Other People Eat.” Now let's go 00:36 deeper into the Word of God and see friends of mine. 00:41 I need some who've been around long enough to testify 00:44 that if your current self met your old self, your old self, 00:49 when even recognize who you are right now. 00:51 Oh, y'all actin boozy like you always been safe. 00:56 I know your Bible is big and your skirt is long, 01:00 but do I have any real folk that can testify that man 01:03 if who I was back then, Matt, who I am right now, 01:09 you would think you had multiple personality disorder. 01:13 I hear what I'm saying today, Church. 01:15 If you're addicted, self met your sober self. 01:21 He wouldn't even recognize you 01:23 if your greedy self met your content self. 01:27 He would know who you are. 01:29 If your demonic self met your deepening 01:32 self, you wouldn't even know who you were. 01:36 If your impatient self met your patient self. 01:40 You wouldn't even be able to know who it is 01:42 if your petty self met your praying self. 01:46 If your reckless self met your wise self. 01:50 If your ignorant self met your interceding self. 01:54 If your promise to a self. 01:56 Met your praising self, 02:02 you wouldn't even know who your going to become. 02:06 And that's why John says it does not yet 02:08 appear what we shall be. 02:12 But this is the promise that when he appears, 02:16 we'll be like him and see 02:19 him as he is. 02:24 Are you all here in the past 02:25 of today? 02:30 So I need you to notice 02:35 Gideon's response 02:38 to God's declaration. 02:41 He says, The Lord is with you, 02:45 mighty warrior. 02:48 And it's funny because Gideon 02:51 spends his days in a wine press 02:55 and there is something about this conversation 02:59 that is very triggering to get in 03:03 when God says, I'm with you. 03:07 It touches a nerve of faith that has been inactive 03:12 in Gideon's life for quite some time. 03:15 It's crazy because when God says that he is with Gideon, 03:20 you would think, David, that this would be good news, that 03:22 he would smile and have a sense of comfort 03:25 and assurance that God is with him. 03:27 But I need you to see this 03:28 in your mind's eye that when God says I am with you 03:33 for whatever reason, Gideon, his whole countenance begins 03:35 to change. 03:36 His entire energy begins to shift. 03:40 This very humble and docile man begins to act 03:43 in a way that is not consistent 03:46 with the rest of his life trends. 03:47 I can see your boy Gideon, when the Lord says I am with you. 03:52 All of a sudden His hands begin to tremble. 03:54 All of a sudden, his voice begins to elevate. 03:57 All of a sudden, 03:58 his wife, his voice begins to get a little loud. 04:01 And all of a sudden, 04:02 Gideon does not respond in a positive or pristine way. 04:07 He begins to really 04:08 give an eruption of soul, where he literally begins to 04:11 say, Well, if God is with us, where are all his miracles? 04:16 If God is with us, where are the miracles 04:20 that our forefathers told us about? 04:22 If God is with us, why isn't He doing for us? 04:26 What He did for them at the Red Sea? 04:28 If God is with us, where is our manna each day? 04:31 Where is our water? From the rock. 04:34 Where is our God? 04:35 That fights for our battles? 04:36 And it's crazy because if you were to 04:38 look at Gideon, all of a sudden his palms are sweaty, 04:43 his appearance is disheveled, his hair is matted, 04:47 his sandal straps are broken, and there is an anger 04:50 in his voice. 04:52 And notice what God says when he sees Gideon's frustration 04:58 as Gideon 04:58 is ranting and raving and mad. 05:02 God says that right there. 05:06 He says, You see that? 05:08 I want you to go in that night 05:12 right there, or you'll miss it. 05:14 In other words, he don't tell Gideon, calm down. 05:17 He don't say, get yourself together. 05:20 He don't say go and take a nap and come back. 05:23 He says while your on can and your big mad 05:28 I want to send you and that 05:30 strength right there. 05:33 Now, it's crazy 05:35 because all Gideon does is expressed frustration. 05:40 So I'm trying to figure out what might 05:41 is he talking about, what strength is he referencing? 05:46 And what I've come to know 05:47 is that Gideon Smite is not in his muscles. 05:51 It is not in his weapons, but his might is in his frustration 05:56 room. 05:58 Third point How many of us know that sometimes 06:00 your frustration is your fuel. 06:05 Okay. 06:08 You see, God can use a frustrated person. 06:12 He can't use an indifferent person. 06:16 He can use a frustrate and burdened person 06:20 more than he can. 06:21 A talented and degreed person. 06:25 Are here in the past today and see the problem 06:29 is that sometimes we don't know how to frame our frustration. 06:33 You see, I need somebody to know that your frustration is 06:37 actually the strength to change what's happening in you, 06:41 and it is the strength 06:44 to change what's happening around you. 06:48 See? See, this is where it is. 06:49 And I talked about this in the book, 06:50 so forgive me for being redundant. 06:52 See how many of us understand 06:54 that most of us don't change based on information. 07:00 Acting. 07:02 We don't change based upon data. 07:08 Yeah. 07:08 Looking at all I do, 07:12 we don't change based upon information. 07:15 Most of us don't change until there's some frustration 07:19 that is pushing us where information can get us. 07:23 All right. All right. Come on. Real true. 07:24 I mean, because we 07:25 have information about health, come on and say, man, we know 07:29 we shouldn't be eating sweets and staying up late. 07:33 And and we know the nutritional deficits 07:36 caused by drinking our smoking and our coffee. 07:40 But it is not until the doctor says high blood 07:43 pressure or diabetes or you can't buckle up your pants. 07:47 Come on and say, man, you accept that dress up. 07:50 Come on, you got to be frustrated. 07:56 I mean I mean, we know what we should be doing in marriage. 07:59 We read the book, and then at home you've 08:02 read the five love languages. 08:03 But it's not until there 08:04 is emotional frustration or marital frustration 08:08 or sexual frustration 08:09 that we decide that we better go ahead and deal 08:12 with some things we know, information 08:16 that we ought to be in the world, 08:17 that we ought to be on our face. 08:19 But sometimes it is not until the Lord allows circumstance 08:24 to touch our lives that we get real and stop playing 08:28 church and start calling on the name of the Lord. 08:35 So that information is the seed, 08:38 but frustration is the fertilizer. 08:42 See, some of us, as Tony Robbins says, we won't change 08:46 until the discomfort of change 08:51 is less than the discomfort of remaining the same seed. 08:54 Some of us won't change 08:55 until it hurts so bad to stay like we are. 08:59 That sometimes frustration is an 09:02 usher that directs us to the power of God. 09:05 I hear me today. Thanks. 09:08 Have you ever wondered why? 09:09 When you pray for things to change 09:13 before they get better, they get worse. 09:19 And what God was doing was assigning the frustration 09:23 that would be the catalyst to make the change permanent. 09:29 So you thought, man, you were praying for things 09:30 get easier and better and more calm. 09:32 But how many of us know that sometimes 09:34 frustration is the answer to your prayers? 09:39 So even when we look at certain people 09:40 that we think are so motivated and self-driven 09:43 and they got so much dry weight, you think they get that from, 09:47 you know, motivation is motivation is simply 09:50 when you give your frustration a task, 09:53 it is simply when you give your frustration an assignment. 09:57 See, some of us give our frustration a voice, 09:59 but we never give it anything to do. 10:08 So it's not 10:09 until you just get completely frustrated about your work 10:12 that you actually sign up to go back to school 10:15 or consider entrepreneurship. 10:17 It is not until you get really frustrated in your marriage 10:20 that you decide. 10:21 Let us go ahead and see somebody 10:23 before things continue to get worse. 10:25 It's not until you get really frustrated about your health 10:29 that you decide, let me go see the doctor 10:31 or the physical therapist. 10:32 Sometimes it's not until you get so frustrated 10:36 about what's happening at church. 10:37 That frustration aims you in the direction of ministry 10:39 participation and said, I need you to know that whenever 10:43 there is frustration combined with inactivity, 10:47 it just means you ain't frustrated enough. 10:50 It means God 10:51 is saying, I got to put some more wood on the fire. 10:55 I've got to turn up the heat. 10:56 I've got to create some more discomfort 11:00 because as long as you can manage it, 11:03 as long as you can handle it, as long as you can sit with it, 11:07 as long as you can endure it, you won't change it 11:10 because we don't change. 11:12 And conditions of comfort, 11:13 we don't change without some irritation. 11:17 And is there anybody that's at a place 11:20 where you're going to stop cursing the irritation 11:22 and say, Lord, I thank you for removing the excuses 11:26 and I thank you for taking away the comfort. 11:29 I thank you for assuring me 11:33 and to the place you have for me. 11:36 You know, 11:38 you know, one of the problems in Israel at this point toyou 11:43 one of the problems is that we look at Gideon like crazy, 11:45 like he ain't got no faith because he's questioning 11:47 whether or not God has with him. 11:50 But I need you to realize the problem 11:52 is, is not that Gideon is mad. 11:56 The problem is that he's the only one mad. 12:05 See, we've 12:06 wrongly framed Gideon as just a complete coward. 12:11 But that's not who Gideon is. 12:13 Do you realize the Bible says that the rest of Israel, 12:16 they were content to hang out in the caves 12:19 and in the catacombs and in the corners of the mountains. 12:21 And they 12:22 literally just stayed there until the media knights left. 12:26 And once Midian was gone, they would just go out and get 12:30 the scraps or the leftovers that Midian didn't eat. 12:34 But the Gideon has a bit more courage in that. 12:38 You see, the reason Gideon is hiding in the wine press 12:41 is because the knights are still around. 12:44 In other words, Gideon is saying, 12:45 I'm not content to just sit there and watch them eat. 12:50 So Gideon steps out and risk his life 12:53 going into the wine press, because Gideon says 12:57 even if the media knights are eating, I got it, too. 13:01 Are y'all catching this thing? 13:03 Church. And he's mad. 13:07 And so you want to know why getting this man. 13:08 The reason he goes on this rant about men. 13:11 Where are our miracles? 13:12 Why has God forsaken us? 13:14 Why have all these things happen? 13:16 Why has not God bless our people? 13:21 And the reason he's so upset is 13:23 because he had an expectation 13:28 that things would be different. 13:31 Yeah, see, he's seeing it one way, 13:36 but he expected it to happen a different way. 13:40 And see, we think Gideon had no faith. 13:44 No, his issue is not a lack of faith. 13:47 The issue is that he has bruised faith. 13:53 See? Bruised faith looks like this. 13:56 It's when you get your hopes and your beliefs up. 14:01 It is when you are trusting God for a particular 14:05 or certain outcome. 14:07 It is when you can see it with great detail 14:10 and vividness in your mind. 14:12 But when you open your physical eyes, 14:16 what you saw when your eyes were close 14:19 doesn't match what you see when your eyes are open. 14:23 Have you 14:24 ever had your faith bruised? 14:28 Oh, yo, yo, yo. I got mustard seed. 14:30 Mountain moving faith. 14:33 Have you ever just believed for it? 14:35 Where you prayed 14:37 and you trust it and you hope and you expect it. 14:41 And yet it did not come to pass 14:47 where you fasted 14:48 and you stood on the promise and you waited on the Lord. 14:53 And you won't say it because you're here in church 14:55 and somebody on the road may hear you, 14:58 but you're actually wondering, like Gideon, 15:01 if God is with me, where are my miracles? 15:05 Where's my open door? 15:06 When is my breakthrough? 15:08 When is it my turn? 15:10 Why am I always watching somebody else eat 15:16 before I take my seat? 15:17 Can I tell you quickly what to do when your faith gets bruised? 15:22 See, it's funny, too, because see something? 15:24 You know, I live in this face right now. 15:28 I'll say with the past 15:30 where I do something I know I shouldn't do, 15:33 and yet I do it anyway. Sometimes we're there. 15:35 Sometimes when the Lord is speaking to me. 15:38 Y'all still with me? Church. 15:40 See? See, the problem is not 15:42 when God speak because He will speak 15:44 and he'll show me what it's going to be in the end. 15:49 But what sometimes I mess up and do is I create a script 15:51 as to how it's going to come to pass. 15:55 And what happens is 15:56 I'll create this script about how God is going do it. 16:00 And the problem is when you create a script 16:03 about how God is going to do it, you can't unsee 16:06 the script of your own making. 16:07 And sometimes 16:08 the script is not God breathe, it's flesh in hell to 16:14 hear what I'm saying. 16:16 Church And see, there are some of us that get disappointed 16:20 because we think God is not going to do it, 16:23 because of the way life is unfolding at the moment. 16:27 And this is why. 16:28 Church You can't spend too much time in assessment 16:32 about where you are currently because how many of us know that 16:36 sometimes your path doesn't always 16:39 reflect your destination? 16:43 You know, God, 16:45 I need somebody to hear this vision. 16:46 They're extremists. 16:47 Are y'all in the house today? 16:49 Are y'all with the pastor today? 16:51 I need you to be clear that sometimes 16:54 the path you are on 16:57 does not reveal the destination where you will 17:00 land, as he sometimes will get off the path 17:07 because it does not mirror our perceived death destination. 17:11 Because what God will do sometimes 17:13 is He'll show you the end. 17:16 But He doesn't show you everything in the mirror. 17:19 Oh, come on. 17:20 Come on and talk back to the pastor today. 17:22 I mean I mean, let me give you some examples of this. 17:24 Think about Joseph. 17:25 God had given Joseph visions and dreams of rulership. 17:29 God literally had put in his mind 17:32 a vision of the sun, moon and stars bowing down to him. 17:35 He had a dream of rulership. 17:38 Rulership was the destination. 17:40 But how many of us know that his path 17:44 did not reflect his destination? 17:47 So God shows him the palace. 17:50 But He doesn't show him the pit. 17:51 He doesn't show him part of her. 17:53 He doesn't show him the prison. 17:55 He doesn't show him everything in between. 17:59 And so if he focuses on the path, guess what? 18:01 He misses the destination. 18:04 Well, think about my man, David. 18:07 David is anointed to be king when he's about 15 years old. 18:10 But how many of us know that after 18:11 he is anointed to be king, there is very little in the path 18:15 that looks like the destination. 18:18 So he is anointed to be king and it looks good for a minute. 18:21 As long as he is playing music for Saul. 18:22 But what? God does not show him. 18:24 He does not show him Saul's insecurity. 18:27 He does not show him Saul's jealousy. 18:30 He does not show him Saul's murderous race. 18:32 He does not show him 18:33 a 15 year journey as a refugee and a wanderer. 18:39 He does not show him the bloody war with the House 18:41 of Saul. 18:42 After Saul dies, he shows him the end. 18:46 He doesn't show him everything in between. 18:49 And what I'm saying to somebody, because your path is rough 18:54 and your path is hard and your path is painful 18:58 and your path is filled with tears. 19:00 I need you to know that the path is no indication 19:03 of the destination. 19:07 Are you out here in the path of the day? 19:10 I don't mean to cut off my online audience in this place. 19:13 Anybody here in Huntsville 19:14 you have a drove to Destin, Florida. 19:16 Anybody ever been there before? 19:19 Now, if you ever drove down to Destin from here, 19:22 you know that the journey 19:26 I'm not talking about it. 19:27 It don't look nothing like the destination. 19:31 So when you put the GPS in, it says how many miles? 19:34 And I think to myself, 19:34 I should be there in about 4 hours, 19:36 but the road is not straight. 19:38 And Palm Tree Lake Highway, when you drive to Destin, 19:43 am I telling the truth? 19:44 Is some back wood, country road, redneck Terry. 19:48 I'll come on to tell the truth. 19:49 In other words, 19:50 when the first time I went, 19:52 I thought I was going the wrong way. 19:55 Because guess what? I couldn't see the ocean. 19:56 I couldn't smell the ocean. 19:58 All I'm seeing this country stars, backwoods places. 20:01 But guess what? 20:01 When I finally wrote up, 20:03 I became clear that sometimes the journey doesn't 20:07 always look like the destination and the work to somebody is. 20:12 Don't you turn. 20:13 Don't go back the way you came. 20:15 Don't take a detour. 20:17 Just keep going forward 20:21 until you get there. 20:23 Are y'all hearing the church hearing hearing the word today? 20:25 Church The second thing I want to say, great preference 20:29 is to keep from getting your faith disappointed. 20:32 Never create a timeline 20:35 for God. 20:44 If you want to see God, laugh, start making predictions 20:52 about when you going to get married 20:55 and when you go to graduate and when you won't get the house. 21:00 Then when you going start. 21:02 If you want to see God crack up on his rocking 21:06 chair, I think God laughs at 18 year olds 21:14 because you know what 18 year old do? 21:15 They'll sit down and write down a little timeline. 21:17 Won't graduate by this time. 21:19 I'm going to be married. 21:20 By this time, 21:21 I'm going to be a Fortune 500 country about this time. 21:24 And I'm going to be done with med school by this time. 21:26 And I'm going to retire by the time I'm 35. 21:28 And God is laughing 21:37 because God 21:38 shows you what will be. 21:41 But He doesn't always tell you when it's going to be. 21:46 How many of us know that the season God shows it to you 21:50 and the season you possess it are not always the same. 21:53 Season. 21:56 And see, 21:57 sometimes we get heavily frustrated 21:58 because from this angle like this, that's my problem. 22:01 Because I feel like if I see it today, 22:04 I'm ready to walk in it today. 22:07 But that's why God said to the Prophet 22:09 that the vision is yet for an 22:13 appointed time, 22:15 but in the end is going to speak and it will not lie. 22:20 And so, friends of mine, 22:21 one of the things that you've got to do 22:23 is that if you're going to be a visionary and a dreamer, 22:26 if you're going to walk in the path that God has for you, 22:28 there is a discipline you've got to develop. 22:30 It is discipline to wait. 22:34 Ooh, I can't get no amen in church right now. 22:37 Oh, man, when I say prosperity, breakthrough in harvest shout, 22:40 shout me down. 22:40 But now that I say Wait, y'all 22:42 looking at the cell phone, stay with the pastor today. 22:47 See, I need you to understand that that that waiting 22:52 it does it has a dual blessing purpose 22:56 because not only is it preparing what God has in store, 22:59 God is preparing you 23:04 to receive what He has in store for you, too. 23:08 The truth is that if God did certain things now, 23:12 you would be too immature to even recognize it as God. 23:15 You wouldn't even be ready to walk in. 23:17 You wouldn't even be ready to receive it. 23:19 You would never be ready to embrace it. 23:22 So I need you to know that just because you saw it 23:25 doesn't mean that it's the 23:26 season to have it. 23:29 So one of the things that that faith does is that faith waits. 23:32 Well, it can wait 23:37 without becoming anxious. 23:40 It can wait without tinkering. 23:44 It can wait without going 23:46 or creating a plan B are 23:47 y'all are hearing the pastor today church 23:49 that that if you ever had your faith Bruce 23:51 one of the things you got to do is you got to get out of the 23:54 timeline business and say, God, I trust that you are sovereign. 23:59 I trust that you know what is best for me. 24:00 And I lead the time 24:02 and the seasons under your care and under your purview. 24:06 You are hearing the pastor today. 24:07 Last thing, go and play some song for me is this 24:11 is that when your faith is Bruce, notice what Gideon does. 24:15 He complains about where are miracles 24:17 and where the things that God promising, 24:18 where are the things that God set? 24:20 But you know what Gideon doesn't do? 24:22 He's so busy looking at 24:24 what God isn't doing 24:28 that he didn't even evaluate 24:29 what they were doing, what they didn't realize. 24:36 What Gideon didn't realize is they heard the stories 24:39 about the miracles 24:41 and the signs and the wonders and all those things. 24:43 But I guess what somebody left out of the equation 24:46 was how God, like a loving father, 24:49 applied chastening to them in the wilderness. 24:54 You see, 24:55 you can't take the miracles of the father 24:56 without the chastening of the father. 25:00 They didn't get they didn't get that word that they had got. 25:02 Jason Then he sometimes he allowed Affliction to come, 25:07 not because he wanted to destroy or annihilate them. 25:09 But guess what? 25:10 It was the chastening 25:11 that brought them close to the heart of God again. 25:15 And let me just say to somebody today, 25:17 when you're tempted to start complaining 25:20 about God's faithfulness, you ought to spend a little time 25:23 evaluating your own. 25:27 Are you hear me today? 25:28 Church 25:29 When you're tempted to 25:30 right after this, 25:31 about what God ain't doing and why God is coming through 25:32 and when it ain't coming to pass. 25:34 No, no. 25:35 Start looking at how much time you spend praying, looking at 25:39 how much time you actually spend in the world to 25:43 start looking at how much time I got. 25:46 Like, I'm going I'm going slow. 25:47 The next time a young couple comes to me for counseling 25:50 and they told my pastor, We've got to grow this empire. 25:53 And my first question is, 25:54 have you been called a growing empire grow? 25:56 Have you been called to advance a kingdom? 25:59 Look at how much time you've invested in his kingdom, 26:04 or is your entire life caught up in building 26:07 something that is only designed to support you? 26:12 Matthew six 33/61. 26:17 The Kingdom of God and Its Righteousness. 26:20 And guess what? 26:21 The promises, all the things will be added unto you. 26:25 You are here in the word today church 26:28 and that needs you to know 26:29 that, that when you begin to consider your ways 26:32 and you begin to take stock and do some inventory 26:35 about how you're living and how you're moving, 26:38 and look at your own faithfulness, 26:40 you realize that even though the blessings you have received 26:44 are the result of the mercy 26:45 and the grace and the faithfulness of our God. 26:51 And so today, church God is raising up, even in our time, 26:56 an army of visionaries, a group of dreamers. 26:59 They're going to impact the world for his glory. 27:02 But there are some things 27:03 that God need you to understand in its entirety. 27:06 God is helping 27:07 somebody understand that your frustration is your fuel. 27:11 Sometimes it is the catalyst for change. 27:12 It is what irritates you and pushes you. 27:15 It is what puts the chip on your shoulder. 27:17 It drives you into spaces 27:18 that you will never be able to enter into. 27:20 Seasons of comfort. 27:22 God to say to somebody, if you keep on making excuses 27:25 about why you can't do it and why you won't move forward 27:27 and why it can't come to pass, guess what? 27:29 God ain't going curse the dream. 27:32 He's going to make it bountiful. 27:33 He's going to make it fruitful. 27:34 And guess what? 27:35 He's going to give it to somebody else 27:36 and you have to watch them eat it. 27:41 God is saying to somebody in this space today 27:45 that I'm calling you from the future. 27:48 And he's saying that your future is so great 27:52 and who you will become in the spirit, 27:53 who you will become in Christ is so rich 27:57 and so powerful that if your current self met 27:59 your future self, you wouldn't even be able to recognize him. 28:03 How many of us believe God's word today? |
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