Wrapping your mind around it - Pastor James Hooper

``Here's a Facebook post I put up. I said, the Lord revealed to me as the pressure cooker is designed to shorten cooking time for food, so the pressures of this life are being used to shorten your maturation process. You are gaining wisdom and understanding at a faster pace. Lean into the pressure. So God can use these pressure times in our life to increase our maturity at a faster pace. I believe that's what the whole COVID thing did. [00:23:32] (34 seconds)  #PressureMatures

So we we've gotta have this we've gotta understand, listen, Jesus can do anything. He can make something out of nothing, he can make dead things alive, and he brings order to chaos. That should pretty much take the cap off of whatever can happen in our lives. This is how we've got to renew our thinking. There is no impossibilities. [00:42:38] (23 seconds)  #NothingIsImpossible

I've said this to you so many times, Jesus did not heal people the exact same way every time. He he he healed multiple blind people, but he it's not recorded where he ever did it exactly the same way every time. See, we are formulaic beings because once we have a formula, we don't have to think, we don't have to trust. And see, Jesus is wanting us to develop God's wanting us to develop a relationship with him, not a set of formulas and rules. [00:34:41] (29 seconds)  #RelationshipOverRitual

The word perfect does not mean the lack of imperfections, it means mature. Be complete, teleos. The word is teleos, complete or a full age. Mature. See, God looks at things with the big picture because God lives outside of time, so he sees he he is in the past, and he is in the future, and he is in the present all at the same time. So he sees the big picture. [00:25:48] (33 seconds)  #MaturityNotPerfection

So when we are having to when we want to understand something, we've got to understand God's nature. This is part of renewing our mind, okay? We are renewing the way we think. Remember we talked about perception, the way we see things, but now we're talking about how we understand things, Okay? Now as a child, you speak first, then you think, and some of us hadn't grown out of that. But as a mature person, you think first, then speak. [00:20:50] (32 seconds)  #ThinkThenSpeak

so we better understand that pressure will mature us quicker, so don't resist the pressure. Don't don't wish you weren't under that pressure. Let it mature you, let it do what it's doing in you, and then God can move on, okay? So now we have to understand what's what's happening by renewing our mind is we are becoming starting to think more like God when we're renewing our mind. Okay? [00:24:56] (29 seconds)  #LetPressureRefine

we could have a meeting and we because there was only one light, and so we stood under that light, and people from all over the shanties came around, and I could not hardly minister for weeping, and I just began to pour out my heart to them how much God loved them, and how much he cared for them, how much he saw them, and all this kind of stuff. And I told Jeremiah, I said, that's what I wanna do when I come. [00:38:56] (23 seconds)  #ServeTheMarginalized

We should never be in a case of hopelessness as believers because when we think like God, when we have our understanding renewed, when we have our perception renewed, we have our understanding renewed, we understand there are no impossibilities with God, so anything's, it's free free reign. Whatever he wants to do, he can do. Amen. So there's hope. [00:44:29] (29 seconds)  #NoHopelessness