LIVE: Enough of Being Tired | Freedom Church ATL

So, Jesus does not ask us to do something that we cannot do. Instead, he gives us an offer to come to him so that he can give us what we need. Hear this. So that we can handle what we need to handle. Yeah. Because Jesus is not giving us an invitation to come to him with our stuff and then the stuff will be wiped out. Right. And so often, we want god to step into our situation, take it all out so we don't have to deal with it. [00:55:59] (32 seconds)  #JesusGivesStrength

My yoke says, you are enough because you're mine. And no matter what you've done, you're still my child. And there's nothing you can ever do to separate yourself from my love. So that if you put my yoke on you, even when you fall, I can still pick you up. Amen. I need some saints to know that there have been some seasons in your life where you fell and thought it was the end of the world, but all praise be to God that no matter how low you went, he was right there to pick you back up, to dust you off, to say it's alright, my child. I didn't expect you to be perfect. I didn't create you to be perfect. I just created you to love me so that when you love me, you'd see that my grace was sufficient for you. [01:02:54] (48 seconds)  #GraceIsEnough

Jesus is speaking to them saying, no, y'all got it wrong. My god. You are burdened from trying to be righteous. But I've come to let you know it's time to take that yoke off. And stop looking for your righteousness in the law. And look for it in me. Don't look for your righteousness in just what you do. You find your righteousness in me because this is the reality. Because if your righteousness comes from the law, it's just a matter of time before you're deemed unrighteous. [00:52:18] (51 seconds)  #RighteousnessInChrist

so that you will be in the same situation and see it different. That's why sometimes when you really need the lord to work on you, don't say, lord, I need you to take this away. I need you to remove this. Say, lord, just give me some rest so that I can look at what I'm facing the same way and figure out how to get through it because this is the hard part because not all the time will god take it. [00:57:24] (25 seconds)  #RestToSeeClearly

whenever we feel as though we can't make it, whenever we feel as though the burdens are too heavy, that says I need to get back to Jesus. I need to fall on my face and say, Lord, I need you. I need to open up my Bible and read a little bit more because if I need some rest, I know where to find it. Now, Jesus says, come to me. Bring all your stuff. Bring all your mess. Bring all your drama. Come to me. I'm gonna give you rest. But after you get the rest, now I'm gonna help you so you don't leave it again. Amen. [01:00:01] (35 seconds)  #BringItToJesus

Say, lord, I don't want to deal with it. Just take it away and god said, no, I'm not going to take it away because if I take it away, you won't see how I'm going to deliver you. So, I'm gonna give you rest so that you can handle it from a rested state. Yeah. When you're in a rested state, you're not fighting as an exhausted person. You're fighting with all the tools that that the lord has given you and Jesus says, come to me with all your stuff and I'm gonna give you rest [00:56:47] (37 seconds)  #RestThenRise

Because no matter how good you are, we all sin, and we all fall short. But I'm so glad that God did not restrict us to get rest through our perfection, but he sent his son so that through him, we could get exactly what we need. Now I need to preach today to some folk who know you ain't always done things right. You ain't always been perfect. You ain't always crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's, but all praise be to god that you did not have to live to be perfect, but you can live to be righteous in the eyes of Jesus. [00:53:09] (37 seconds)  #RighteousNotPerfect

And burdens can weigh you down, can make you feel like you don't wanna go on anymore. But the role, I believe, the role of the preacher is to share this one critical point. Nutty and that's, it's always some good news. And to the tired, to the weary, to those who have burdens. Jesus has come with an invitation. Yes. And he's come to say, no matter how bad you are, I've got an offer for you that you can take it if you want it and that's to have some rest. [00:47:37] (37 seconds)  #RestIsAnOffer

And if he's by my side, it doesn't matter what I have to face. I'm gonna get through it. Yeah, I may be tired right now but I know where to get rest. See that that's that's the the cheat code for us. As believers, when life gets hard, other folks start looking where they gonna get rest. We say, I know where my rest comes from. I just have a little time with Jesus. I can tell him all about my problems. He'll hear my faintest cry, and he gonna answer by and by. So, yeah, I may be tired right now, but just let me get to Jesus. [01:06:05] (36 seconds)  #JesusIsMyRest

Many of us are living, however, though, where we look back over extended periods and say, I done been tired for a long time. Been trying to figure this out for a long time. Message for you today is Jesus is waiting for you to come to him. He has rest for you. Allow him to sit in the driver's seat of your life. Allow him to be the one leading you through. You don't have to put on a performance. You don't have to prove anything. You don't have to fix it. You just have to go to him. [01:11:32] (55 seconds)  #LetJesusLead

Stop sitting on the side of the bed all night, tossing and turning, strolling on Instagram and TikTok to 03:00 in the morning, going downstairs to eat ice cream at 4AM and say, god, I need rest. I don't need you to take me out the situation. I need rest in the situation. I'm not asking for you to do a total deliverance here because we could be honest. I've prayed that prayer. You already didn't answer it. Maybe the lesson is not for everybody else. Maybe it's for me to see that in the midst of a storm, I can get rest. [01:09:22] (57 seconds)  #RestInTheStorm

I've learned and I share this and I offer this to you. Your time is too valuable to waste it being burdened and worried about things that are not up to your control. God, one of the greatest gifts god gives us is time and we cannot waste it being stressed out about situations and about people that god did not tell us to carry the weight for. There's some people in your life you gotta carry the weight for. If your children are causing you stress, you gotta figure out how to navigate that. Don't be that parent who kicked their child out at 13. [01:12:51] (47 seconds)  #ProtectYourTime

You gotta figure out how to navigate that. But if there are people in your life, your friends, family members even, those in your circle of influence who are causing you to be burdened, God did not call you to carry that weight. You gotta learn how to say the gift of time means too much to me to allow it to rob me of the rest God has promised me. And if I've gotta walk away from that to get to Jesus, so long bye bye. But I'm getting the rest that god has for me. [01:13:38] (38 seconds)  #WalkAwayForRest

Lenten season, we're going to be preaching and teaching about it over these next couple of weeks but the Lenten season is really a time for us to strengthen our connection to god and one of the ways we strengthen that connection is by taking some things out of our lives by looking at in the mirror and seeing the things that are causing us to be separated from god and really putting in the effort to remove them. That's why many people fast. Some people don't eat food for forty days. [00:26:16] (29 seconds)  #PrepareForEaster

This season today, this is the first Sunday, this past Wednesday, we started the Lenten season, the forty day period leading up to Easter Sunday and when Jesus got out the grave because the great thing about of being a believer of Jesus is that we can celebrate that he did not stay dead on the cross. I feel like church in here today. I gotta say it one more time. He did not stay dead on the cross but a stone rolled away and over these next forty days, we prepare ourselves for what god's gonna do. [00:25:31] (37 seconds)  #BringYourConcerns

So, I want you to bring to the forefront of your mind the concerns you have because I believe by faith that before we leave this place today, before we log off of this worship service online, that god's gonna hear our prayer and god's gonna speak to us. Let's pray our oh holy father. We stand in your presence today first thanking you that you are god. God, we thank you that above you, there are no others that beside you, there are no peers, [00:09:27] (46 seconds)  #WeNeedGod

that you are all powerful, you are all knowing, You are all loving to us. And today, oh god, we come not for formal fashion. We don't come just to say we were here. But god, we come today because we need you. We need you in our lives. We need you in our community. We need you in our families. We need you in our nation. God, we need you in our world. [00:10:13] (34 seconds)  #WorshipFromHome

And we ask today, oh god, that you might meet us in worship. Let your spirit fill this place. I ask that you would turn the house that my brother, my sister, who's sharing on YouTube in to a holy sanctuary consecrated to your glory that a word may be said, a song may be sung, a smiling face may render emotion that helps us know that you are stored by our side. For god, we know you haven't left us. We know that you're still right there, [00:10:47] (37 seconds)  #BreakChainsInWorship

and we ask that you would show up and show off in this place. Break chains in this worship. Release bondage in this worship. Set somebody free in this place today. For god, we know that you can and we know that you will and so we offer you our praise. We offer you our worship. We give it all to you. In Jesus name, we all say it together, amen. Amen. [00:11:23] (32 seconds)  #GodsBeenGood

For god's been good to each and everyone of us and today, as we remain standing, we welcome all of those sharing with us in the virtual sanctuary. God's been good to us. Let me say that again. God's been good to us. God's been good to us. As the old folk would say, he's been better to us than we've been to ourselves and we come today to praise him, to lift him up, to magnify him, and to worship him for all that he's done in our lives. [00:06:01] (37 seconds)  #StandingInNeed