Run - Breaking the Drag

We have to apply counter force. It's more than just willpower. It's more than just willpower. It's more than just being disciplined. Come on now. Come on. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. It's more than just having your religious duties or your religious things that you do on a daily basis that check off a box. No. It's more than that. Yes. [00:58:29] (28 seconds)  #CounterForceNotWillpower

There was a time where I believe that man was supposed to make me whole and happy. And when he failed or when he didn't meet my expectations, what was I left with? It wasn't until I understood that there's nobody that can fill this place in my heart that I began to put him in his rightful place. Not an idol, not somebody that can can complete me. He doesn't have the ability, the power to complete me. Only Jesus can complete me. [01:21:40] (53 seconds)  #OnlyJesusCompletesMe

we have to understand that we don't ever get to stop. We have not been afforded the ability to stop pursuing after God. Yeah. No. We don't get breaks. We cannot forfeit the fighting forward. We cannot forfeit the abiding or dying. We cannot forfeit going to the cross daily. We cannot afford to. [00:57:02] (30 seconds)  #NeverStopPursuingGod

But it's daily throughout the day. It's calling on the name of Jesus. It's understanding who he is. It's knowing that at any moment that even when I pull up my hand and I'm in that ocean, that if there's nobody out there, I know the one that is. And he can pull me out of any situation. And he does. And he does. He is able. He is more than able. [00:59:26] (24 seconds)  #CallOnJesusDaily

And I'm not saying this that we just forget all of the things that we have in our lives and those things that we the people we love and all of that. No. But just putting them in their proper perspective, in their proper order. Because we are no good to anybody if we are sinking in that ocean, if we're drowning. We're no good to anybody. Just like when you're flying and they say put on your mask before you put on your child's mask. [01:09:05] (27 seconds)  #PrioritizeForOthers

Let that never be us, church. Let that never be us, that in our conduct would show that we are an enemy, that we do not believe in the power of the cross and his resurrection. I would go even further to to ask us a question to really dig into this and say, what are you saying? Is that me at times? What is an enemy of the cross? It's not recognizing the power. [01:18:29] (33 seconds)  #EnemyOfTheCross

I don't believe it's just talking about food here, but it's everything in which we are hungry for. Everything in which we lust after, everything in which we desire more than God. That appetite has become our God. [01:19:42] (27 seconds)  #AppetiteAsIdol

drag zaps your momentum. The moment that you stop actively pushing forward, bam, you're gone. Yep. Yes. Just like in the river, Just like in the ocean. Yeah. It's over. Just like if you're in a parachute and there's no more drag. Bam. You hit the ground. [00:56:33] (20 seconds)  #MomentumGetsZapped