How To Stop the Voices

So what do you say when these voices come against you to tell you not to follow after God? When these voices tell you no, when these voices say that you're not doing it right, that you're not following God the right way, what do you do? Well, you don't defend what God didn't condemn. You don't defend what God didn't condemn. Did God call the Hebrew people lazy? No. Pharaoh did. [00:32:33] (23 seconds)  #DontDefendWhatsNotCondemned

If you're gonna do what God wants, if you wanna obey God, if you wanna receive the freedom God has for you, there will be people that want to stop you. And they will try by attacking your character, by attacking your credibility. They will say things about you that will hurt. They will say things about your motives that will frustrate you. Don't defend yourself. Let your integrity, let your character, let your consistency, let your life change, let your healed relationships, let your broken addictions, let your God do the talking for you. Just let the scoreboard do the talking. [00:36:38] (40 seconds)  #LetYourLifeSpeak

The voices closest to you can can question your calling when obedience starts to cost them something too. And they were all for Moses going and confronting the pharaoh and doing all the miracles when it was only Moses' life on the line. But whenever God's calling and God's freedom also was going to require a sacrifice in their obedience, they stopped supporting Moses and attacked him. They attacked the very thing they had just acknowledged was the will of God. [00:39:13] (39 seconds)  #CostOfObedience

Those people that have been in your corner before might not stand with you anymore. Those people who should understand, the people who should stand with you the most, the people that that you thought would get why you're making the choices you're making, they might not stand with you because they don't wanna pay the price to obey God. And rather than just letting you do things the way that you wanna do, rather than than just trusting that you know that God wants this from you, they're gonna attack it because they don't wanna feel the pressure to obey God themselves. [00:41:27] (32 seconds)  #NotEveryoneWillStay

You need to be so careful. The voices that you listen to, the relationships you put into your life, are these voices that are going to raise the ceiling of your commitment or drag you down to the floor of their comfort? Sometimes the voices that have walked with you don't understand where God is leading you, and they will say no. They will tell you that you can't. So how do you respond to the people that you thought would stand with you? Well, first, don't let others fear rewrite God's word. [00:41:59] (36 seconds)  #ChooseYourVoices

The voices of other people don't rewrite the commands of God. God had commanded Moses before Pharaoh threatened. God had commanded Moses before the Hebrew elders betrayed him. God's command didn't change, just the opinion of people. Don't let that opinion, that fear rewrite God's word. Secondly, discomfort is not disobedience. When things grow difficult, that doesn't mean you're doing the wrong thing. In fact, most of the time, obeying God is much more difficult than disobeying him. [00:42:35] (40 seconds)  #GodsWordOverVoices

But the most dangerous voice is the voice within you, That inner dialogue in your heart and your mind as you're facing something that seems overwhelming, as as you're facing the criticism and the critique of people that you thought would stand with you, as people as people lie about your character and try and harm you. Those voices start talking in your heart and your mind, and they're dangerous because it parades as logic. It pretends to be wisdom, but what it really is is your fear wearing your own voice. [00:43:51] (38 seconds)  #SilenceInnerCritic

Moses went from the top of the kingdom to the very bottom. This was his job every single day, shepherding. The clothes that he wore, the food that he ate, the animals that he took care of, the language that he spoke, the bed that he laid in, every single bit of it reminded him of how far he had fallen. Everything that he saw screamed that he was a failure. Every dusty step he took in the wilderness reminded him, you're not who you used to be. Every sheep that he herded whispered, you blew it. [00:47:56] (35 seconds)  #NotDefinedByFailure