Get Your Own Oil: Stop Living on Borrowed Faith

Jesus is coming back. He's not coming back when it's convenient. He's coming back when it's time and the question isn't if he's returning, the question is, will I be ready when he does? Too many people are living like they've got time, like the borrowed faith of others, borrowed time of others, are living like they have the ability to do what they want and hope that it's time they get it together in time, time to pray, Time to get serious later. Time to surrender to the word later. Scripture makes it clear. His return will be like a thief in the night, unexpected, unannounced, and undeniable. You don't get ready when he comes. You have to be ready before he comes. There when that trumpet sounds, there's not time to borrow faith, fix your oil, clean up your life. What you have in that moment is what you have to stand on. [01:03:03] (59 seconds)  #ReadyForJesusReturn

We've gotta stop living off of other people's oil. Come on. There is a dangerous trend in church today. We have people that are trying to live off of borrowed oil, borrowed worship, borrowed prayer life, borrowed passion, borrowed fire. We come into church hoping the worship team will carry us into the presence of the lord. It's your job to get me into the presence of the lord. That's how we approach the worship team and if they sing a song that we don't like or a song that's not our jam or whatever we're listening to, I do or do they still say it, Jam? Well, I just did. Okay? [00:42:16] (40 seconds)  #BringYourOwnWorship

There are people in this room and watching online that you've been close to the fire, but you've never carried it. You've been around the presence of the lord. You've been around the move of the lord. You know what it looks like but you've never surrendered to the point where he moves through you like that and you don't pursue it. What if today is the day we stop saying, you know what? I'll get to it later. What if today is the day that we stop saying, I'm gonna rely on this person? What if today is the day we say, I'm gonna go get my own? What if today is the day that we say, I'm gonna go get my own? If it's only gonna be me and Jesus at my judgment, then I'm gonna pursue him alone. [01:08:35] (52 seconds)  #PursueHimPersonally

There are people that love church. They love this church and we're very blessed to have you. Love the people. Love coming here. Love everything you do but I needed to under need you to understand something. There is a distinct difference between having a relationship with the church and having a relationship with Christ. Amen. There's a distinct difference when having a relationship with your Bible study or your small group or your life group or your your retreat, all that. There's a distinct difference between having a relationship with them and a relationship with Jesus. That is not the same thing. [00:53:25] (31 seconds)  #JesusOverChurchRoutine

What would it look like if you had personal prayer time? What would it look like in your life if you had private worship? What would it look like if you spent time? What would it look like if you obeyed the word of the lord when nobody was watching? What would it look like if you're the hunger for god that we portray in our services and when the pastors and the Christians and granny and all these people are watching? What if that hunger of god that we portray then, we also have when we're out in our workplace and nobody's around or we're in the car or we're on our phone at night. What would it look like in our life? You know what it look like? That we had oil. [01:06:51] (47 seconds)  #PrivateWorshipMatters

Nobody knows about prepping for storms better than us. Right? We live at the beach. You don't get ready for the hurricane while the hurricane's hitting. When the hurricane hit, it it reveals how prepared you are. You get prepped before. I need you to understand that public fire is only sustained by private oil. What would happen if Jesus came back right now? Would you have lamp or would you have oil in your lamp? Would it still be lit? Or have you been coasting and borrowing depending on others? [01:07:37] (57 seconds)  #PublicFireNeedsPrivateOil

Scripture oil doesn't come without pressure. It comes with pressure. It comes with crushing. The olive isn't even useful until it's broken. It's not an it's not enough for it to grow. It has to be pressed and that's the same thing that's true in our lives. We want the anointing. We want the favor. We want the presence of the lord. All these things that we grew up in church and we learned in church to say because that means they're good things. We want all of that but I need you to understand it will only come by being pressed and stretched and the lord moving us and and shaking us and shaking away the things that aren't of him. [00:57:34] (39 seconds)  #AnointingFromPressure

What would happen if on Saturday night instead of scrolling and doom scrolling, you were praying and reading and seeking the lord. What would happen if you did this every day? Nobody's perfect but every day and then it never fails. I just had this conversation with somebody a few weeks ago when they were like, pastor, I just don't have I don't have time to do that. Fix your schedule. Right. Come on. You're grown up. What are you talking about? I don't have time. Fix it. It's wild. Like, you woke up and somebody had a gun to your head and said, we will be moving until you go to bed at 11:00 tonight or it's over. No. Fix the schedule. Make time. Make room. Get prepared. [01:05:51] (52 seconds)  #MakeTimeForPrayer