Finding Balance: The Power of Withdrawal and Renewal

"Your level of impact should match the level you detach. What does that mean? What does that mean, PD? What I'm saying is, if you, if you. if you are putting your level of output has to match the level you rest if not greater like it said like it said like it talked about the human heart if it if it works only one -third of the time and rests two -thirds of the time it's preparing for the next level of work in other words it's working from rest not resting from work." [00:06:40] (35 seconds)


"And Jesus withdrawing and going to the wilderness was him detaching. And we see this in the text. The greater the demand on him, the more he will withdraw. The more Jesus, in his humanity, because remember, he was 100 % God and 100 % man. But even in him being 100 % God, his humanity said, I need to go and withdraw and be filled by God the Father, which is why the text uses the word often, which means it's a repeated action, y 'all. It's a repeated action. And right before verse 16, Jesus healed a man with leprosy. And the immediate effect of this healing, y 'all, watch this, was increased popularity." [00:14:22] (46 seconds)


"And while everybody, excuse me, while you're everything to everybody else, you have not taken a moment to withdraw to the wilderness for prayer, for solitude, so you can, just like the human heart, rest and be filled. Why? So all of us can give back to the very thing that God has called us to do. Amen? Somebody say, God, help me to withdraw." [00:16:12] (26 seconds)


"This word determines the level of frequency which is crucial because it denotes regular, regularly disciplined time that Jesus spent with the Father. How many of y 'all would consider yourselves busy by a show of hands? Somebody said oh God. That is hysterical and y 'all let me tell you when I when I was studying chapter 5, now granted the only verse of scripture that we really focusing on is verse 16. When I read through the entire chapter 5, there are so many tasks that Jesus is doing in verse in chapter 5. He's teaching. He's healing. He's teaching how to fish. He's teaching more crowds. There are at least three instances in this chapter where he performs healing. Somebody say impact." [00:17:22] (50 seconds)


"The mission impossible miracle is Jesus was in a house and he was teaching engaging with the Pharisees. Now y 'all already know if you read your Bible what type of energy the Pharisees brought. They questioned everything Jesus said Deacon Chris and so while he's teaching it's one thing to teach and everybody be like yeah that's good that's good. It's another thing to teach if he was like oh but you said a few days ago you you. And so he's doing that with these Pharisees and religious teachers." [00:18:22] (31 seconds)


"And here's the thing that blows my mind, and I think this is parenthetical for many of us where we are. When the man got into the house and exchanged words with Jesus, Jesus said this, your sins are forgiven. I don't know about you, but if that's me, I'm like, oh, that's good, however and but. I'm trying to walk, bruh. And the reason why that's so crucial, is because oftentimes we're coming to God with a very specific request. But what God wants to meet is not the physical need. He wants to meet the spiritual." [00:19:19] (45 seconds)


"The mission impossible miracle is Jesus was in a house and he was teaching engaging with the Pharisees. Now y 'all already know if you read your Bible what type of energy the Pharisees brought. They questioned everything Jesus said Deacon Chris and so while he's teaching it's one thing to teach and everybody be like yeah that's good that's good. It's another thing to teach if he was like oh but you said a few days ago you you. And so he's doing that with these Pharisees and religious teachers." [00:20:02] (31 seconds)


"and here's the challenge actually let me clean that up if we don't spend time with God if we don't take to him our open wounds what you see here is water that's a little dirty that represents hurt that represents struggle anger, frustration and what can happen is if we don't take those things to God and we're taking that all of that stuff falls in to our people and so the people who God has entrusted us to lead and to guide we're not leading and guiding them we're actually bleeding onto them" [00:29:14] (49 seconds)


"The wounds, the hurt, the pain, the frustration, the anger, all of that stuff is being filtered. And so what we end up bringing to the people we're leading is purified, is clear. Instead of it being loathsome, it's now lessons. Instead of it being grief, it's now godly wisdom and godly insight. But this does not happen if we don't take time out to withdraw and pray often, leave, go get what you need to go and get back to your assignments." [00:30:44] (38 seconds)