From Survival to Revival: Facing Your Past, Finding Joy

I was scared out of my mind. I couldn't sleep for weeks. I couldn't sleep for weeks, and I remember one night early in the morning reading Psalm three, I'd never read it before, I got to this verse. He said, I lie down asleep and I woke for the word sustain me. I had a peace come over me because every time a car drove by, we didn't know who did the shoe. We were scared what was gonna be us. We didn't know if it was it was a a hit. We didn't know what was going on. [01:05:25] (35 seconds)  #PeaceInTheNight

Guys, all studies that I read show that we are one of the most sleepless generations ever because we are so weighed down with everything else. Technology takes our minds. We're so we just can't relax. And in the middle of this, I've been pursued by his own son. David slept. That night in our apartment in South Fort Worth for the first time in weeks I slept too. God will give you peace. No matter the fallout, rest firmly in his provision. Receive it. [01:06:41] (36 seconds)  #RestInHisProvision

He's telling us we need to cry out to God. If we want healing, need to be willing to repent from the depth of the sin that maybe brought us here or whatever happened in our life or whatever we're going through, whatever regrets we may have, we need to let those go. That that healing will only happen with repentance. Remember this, there must be personal repentance before there can be corporate repentance. [00:59:30] (24 seconds)  #PersonalRepentanceFirst

Maybe some of us the greatest burden we're carrying is because we've never received Jesus Christ our personal savior. Or if we are Christians, we're not spending time in the word. We're not spending time in prayer. We're trying to carry our burdens ourself as if we can fix our own problems. Guys, if we could have saved ourself, we wouldn't have needed Jesus. [01:17:05] (21 seconds)  #SurrenderToSavior

So here's David, face down before God. First and foremost, if we're gonna go to from survival to revival, we have to face our past. We have to look back. We don't live there because we've been forgiven. The bible says that our sin is tossed as far as from the east to the Right? That's what he tells us. Do you believe that? Yes or no? Then why are we still living there? But we gotta take an honest look at our past. [00:53:38] (32 seconds)  #FaceYourPast

How many of us are carrying things today that we should have let go a long time ago and things we're carrying in our life right now? Because we're afraid of the tens or the ones or the twos or we're so worried about what everybody else thinks. We want to people please people, but we need to please God. We have an audience of one. So I'll say it again, expect opposition and persecution. [01:08:44] (39 seconds)  #AudienceOfOne

Acknowledge God's presence. Once we acknowledge our past, once we we face our past, then we got to acknowledge God's healing presence. And he says, he is a shield for us. The way it's written here, it literally means he he is all around us. He covers every part of us. He protects us. He is our shield on our back, our front, our side, over us, everything. And he's the one who lifts up our head. [00:56:38] (26 seconds)  #GodIsOurShield

But in the middle of all that, think about this, David was facing think about it if your own child tried to take your kingdom away, steal everything you had after you'd done everything for them. That's where David was, but even in the middle of that, the Bible says, because that he was willing to give it all to God, he was willing to surrender that to him, that out of the presence of God he was able to lay down and sleep. [01:06:08] (31 seconds)  #SurrenderAndRest