What Comes First

``I know what he told me to do. I know he told me to marry that woman. I know he told me to live in this community. I know he told me to make this decision. I know he told me to go this way. Oh, I know he told me to forgive. I know he told me to love my neighbor as I love myself. I know he told me to love him with all my heart, soul, and mind. I know that when I know those things. You are putting yourself in a position to receive what God has for you because all you're doing is being obedient. [00:16:54] (39 seconds)  #ObeyAndReceive

But, end of this, we're gonna talk about Peter real quick, how Peter fixed his faith first. I'm a say that again. Peter fixed his faith first. And with him fixing his faith first, he was able to walk on the word. And you've if you've been around long enough and heard me speak long enough, I always say, Peter did not walk on water. He walked on the word. And the word was what? Come. The word has come. [00:48:38] (38 seconds)  #FixYourFaithFirst

So many times, we want we want Christ to get get rid of the storm. No. We just need Christ in the storm. That's what we need. Christ Jesus didn't calm the storm first. He showed up. Lot of times we just Lord, we just gotta you just gotta come in and do to the situation. No. He just needs to be in the situation. And then it doesn't matter about anything. That's why it's so important to seek the Lord. Seek him, and you're gonna find him. [00:15:58] (36 seconds)  #ChristInTheStorm

God is a God of peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding. God hasn't given you a spirit of what? Fear, but love, power, and a sound mind. So when God is first, peace will what? Govern your decisions. You'll have a peace in your decisions. Faith will always shape your direction, and provision always follows obedience. Provision always follows obedience. Not sacrifice, but obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice. It's about being obedient. [00:57:03] (46 seconds)  #ProvisionFollowsObedience

We look in our life and you're like, man, I just feel like my life's out of order. Where's what's your priorities? Are your priorities in order? God started with priority. Think about the creation. I would love to just take this whole time and just break apart Genesis chapter one. It would be so much fun because everything that God did, he did it in priority, which brought what? Order. When we get our life out of priority is when we get out of order. [00:43:42] (38 seconds)  #PrioritizeForOrder

Those things that are snaring you up, those things that are will bind you, grab you, get you, how do you get released from that? Not by your strength, not by anybody else, except for keeping your eyes on God. Keeping your eyes on God. And the only way you can truly keep your eyes on God is by faith. It's by faith. [00:55:33] (22 seconds)  #KeepEyesOnGod

But if I would've kept doing the way I was doing it, I would've missed that opportunity. I had to put the rod in my hand. I had to apply the knowledge and the wisdom that I knew from that. The same way we have to apply the knowledge and the wisdom that God has given us through the word of God. And you know what was funny? Me and my my cousin, we caught all the lane snapper. Brody, I think, caught two. And the only time he caught those two is when he put the rod in his hand. You gotta put that corresponding action. Whatever you put your hands to will prosper. [01:16:04] (53 seconds)  #ApplyWisdomTakeAction

your part of that is through the faith. By that faith, and for that faith to work, it comes by corresponding action because you have to walk by what? Faith and not by sight. The corresponding action to faith is walking. Walking in love, walking in peace, walking in joy, walking in love, power, and a sound mind. That's it. That's it. And you're gonna go, wow. Look at this way because he's the way maker. [00:18:45] (32 seconds)  #WalkByFaithNotSight