Lord, I Need You!

``When God called Moses at the burning bush, Moses didn't feel qualified. He says, who am I? You calling me? There's somebody else out here. I don't want you to hear about a bunch of another bush. But he always said, who am I? He says, what if they don't believe me? I'm slow with speech. I can't talk. I can't there's all kinds of reasons why. But here's the thing, God didn't create Moses' weakness. He addressed his presence. And no, he he didn't say, oh, I'm gonna fix all of that. I I'm gonna fix who you are. I'm gonna fix and make sure people believe you every single word you say. I'm gonna make sure you have most eloquent of speech. Ain't that what he said? All he said is, hey, you be alright. I'll be with you. [00:21:49] (44 seconds)  #PresenceOverPerfection

The prodigal son didn't come home because he was noble. He came home because he was And because of all of that, he came to himself. He had a need. He brought clarity. I need my father. Hunger brought humility. It doesn't matter what I gotta do. I don't care I don't care how big of an idiot I'm gonna make of myself. I gotta get back to the father. Brokenness is what brought restoration. And when all those things happened and he realized that he needed his father, the father came running. Father came running. [00:31:25] (57 seconds)  #HungerBringsHome

Story of Adam and Eve, I believe, is is when we forget that we need God. See, was in the garden that Adam and Eve had everything. They had provision, they had peace, they had purpose, they had the presence of God. But the temptation was not about fruit. It was about independence. We think it's the low hanging fruit there, but it wasn't about the fruit. It wasn't about all the other stuff they're trying to teach about. It's about it's about independence. [00:02:52] (30 seconds)  #IndependenceIsTheTemptation

And so to walk with God in the cool of the day or to walk with anyone in the cool of the day, what the Middle Easterners would do is they would walk with their friends and they would fellowship. They would have communion together. They would be intimate, it would build intimacy between friends and relations, they would have that in the cold of the day. The Bible is telling us that even though all hell can be breaking loose around you, as long as you walk, the number one weapon you have against war is God's presence. [00:11:11] (39 seconds)  #PresenceIsYourWeapon

And we try to release and we try to do things and well this is what I want to do, I mean, I was I was always after him and I always had my eye on her or that's the job I think I want even though it's been hard trying to get and I don't know if it's God's will or not. And we then we worry wonder how in the world we got such a mess is because we're trying to function without our source. God is our source. He's our power source. In the same way we may look successful, we may look bigsy, we may look accomplished, but without God, we are spiritually drained. Self sufficiency is a lie. Dependency on God is the is is God's design for us. [00:20:31] (44 seconds)  #GodIsTheSource

If you wanna be exposed, you can fool some of the people some of the time and maybe all the people all the time, but you can never fool yourself. You know exactly what you're dealing with. But thanks be to God, it's your fellowship with him that he keeps it from being exposed. He says, I'll look after you, I'll protect you, I will be with you. We are you are a work in progress and you're gonna as long as you're walking with me, as long as you get up and you realize that you can't do nothing without me, I got you. I will not allow the enemy to expose you. That's what he's saying. [00:19:15] (36 seconds)  #FellowshipProtects

So many times in my life, so many times in our lives, we we we we battle. I I I think about this ministry. I think about our our our family. I I think about some of the things you've gone through. Even like what Jordan was saying with the lady he prayed with just a couple of days ago. Just one phone call and all of a sudden, war is all around. You realize you can have peace in the middle of the war? Yes. You're in a battle, but you can still have peace. I've been through some battles and I've realized what is wrong with me? Why why aren't I going completely losing my mind right now? I tell you why, because I'm walking with the Lord. And how are you gonna get through whatever you get through because you're dependent upon him and and you understand that the weapon you have for war is the presence of God. [00:12:29] (46 seconds)  #PeaceInTheWar

So, no matter what we have, no matter how how confident we are in ourselves, we need to make sure that we understand that we're we we can never live without God. One of the greatest dangers, I believe, in our spiritual lives is not rebellion, it's self reliance. We think it's rebellion and all that brings it to it but it's it's self reliance. The thing the danger of self reliance is the danger of thinking that we don't even need God. That we got it. We we we are alright. One of the greatest lies we ever believe is I got this. [00:01:08] (32 seconds)  #DitchSelfReliance