Wild Ones for God: Living Bold, Surrendered Faith

In this episode of The Morning Charge, Joshua talks about what it means to be one of the “wild ones” for God.

This message focuses on surrender, bold obedience, spiritual fire, discernment, and the difference between being led by the Holy Spirit and being controlled by fear, comfort, or the approval of people. It also highlights how believers can stay rooted in God’s Word, walk in authority, and live in a way that clearly reflects time spent with Jesus.

This episode is a reminder that God is raising up people who are not driven by compromise or passivity. He is calling believers to be filled with His Spirit, refined by His fire, and ready to obey whatever He speaks. 

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The moment is really striking. This is your moment to me about this year being the year. It's your speed of the floor. But before the noise of the world takes over, I was really crazy actually matters. And I felt the things, and then what happens in everyday battles we all face. We've talked about a particular tip. You're getting learn what God is. When you're scrolling the mountain, this to get late to the city. And that's what we talked about yesterday because so many times when things are going well, we're like, ah, well, we'll see you the next time a tragedy hits or something. You know, the next time I really need you. You know, we just kind of pull on the Lord in the times when, well, I need you, or no, I don't need you. No, no, he's 24-7. He's always there. We should be giving thanks. We should be in the fear of the Lord. That's a rightful fear. That's not, that's not the typical fear. This is the fear of the Lord. That means I'm just awe and wonder of his goodness and his majesty and who he is in my life and keeping him in right perspective in my life. He's not just, well, I'll get you when I need you. He is there and he loves you all day, every day. And he loves you enough to correct you all day, every day, in the times when you need it. But you got to be still, you got to be listening, you got to know his voice, and you got to know his leading. And when you begin to tap into that, that relationship part of you and the Lord, things begin to shift and things begin to change in your life. But right now, the wild ones for God have been arising this year. And we're going to take a look at who the wild one is, what does that mean to be wild? It doesn't mean we're all running amuck and just doing what we want to do. No, no. Wild ones for God means we look different, we sound different, we walk different. Things are different. People should look at you and go, there is something so different about you. What in the world is so different about you? And so I want to talk about this. We've even had some prophetic words spoken over us about how we were called to be wild ones with God. So naturally, when the Lord begins to speak to me things and people begin to say things to me, I'm like, we got to go to the scripture and we've got to search this out. We've got to search this out. So the wild ones are here. The wild ones are here. Prophetically speaking, there is a people that God is awakening in this hour. He has already begun to awaken in this hour. Not ones that are reckless or chaotic, like I said. You're not like a bull in a china shop, kind of deal, but those that are fully surrendered, those that are fully obedient, and those that are on fire for Jesus. Those are the burning ones. Those are the wild ones for God. Amen. So let's look at what is what does wild really mean in the kingdom? What does it look like? In the world, wild means reckless and out of control. Ah, everything's going, it's it's it's wild out here. That means things are not, it's not in order. But in the kingdom, wild means that you're no longer controlled by fear. You're no longer controlled by pride. You're no longer controlled by man's approval, but you are one that is seeking the Lord and doing everything according to his word and what he is saying to you, despite all the odds and the pushback that you're getting from anybody anywhere. You have had enough of the complacency. You have had enough of the just going through the motions and idly getting by. You've had enough of the sitting here in your issues and nothing's changing, or your sickness and nothing is healing, or your pain and mentally or physically or whatever. You've had enough. So you're arising and you're not going to be controlled by any of these emotions or any of these people, and you've stopped looking for man's approval. That is what it looks like to be a wild one in the kingdom of God. So, Father, I thank you, Lord, for these words you spoke to me. Father, I thank you, Lord, for your word. Father, I pray that as we go through this this morning, Lord, that our eyes are open, our ears are open, our hearts are open to receive whatever it is you have for us today. And Lord, you're keeping us rooted and grounded in the mission for the season. God, you're keeping us rooted and grounded, Father, in what you have for us, Lord. And we trust you in all things today, because we know it all goes back to trust, God. We trust you. We trust you. Some people just need to say that out of their mouth today, Lord. I trust you in the midst of the process right now, in Jesus' name. Allison, thanks for your heart, me. Thanks for jumping in. All of you guys, thanks for jumping in this morning. All right, let's take a look. In Galatians, particularly one in ten, but I want to back up a little bit this morning. In my notes, I had one in ten, but I was reading and I was like, whoo, this is good. And we need to, we need to hit this at some point in time, Galatians. But in Galatians 1 and 6, Paul says, I am shocked over how quickly you've strayed away from the one who called you in the grace of Christ. He's like, I'm shocked at how quickly you have just you've strayed away. I'm frankly astounded. I'm in the I'm in the passion, y'all, where I'm reading this. I just I love the way that this is put because it really makes the message of the moment sink in from here. He said, I'm frankly astounded that you now embrace a distorted gospel. You've allowed all these false voices in. They've begun to speak to you. It looks like, it looks like Jesus kind of sounds a little bit like the message of Jesus, but it ain't. There's this fake gospel that's been going out that's not true. There is only one gospel, and that is the gospel of the Messiah. Yet you have allowed those who mingle law with grace to confuse you with lies. Anyone who comes to you with a different message than the grace gospel that you have received will have the curse of God come upon them. And we we had to, you guys asking about grace this morning. My gosh, I didn't even know that. Didn't even think about that when I uh when I when I felt led to go back. So there you go. Grace is freely given by God. It's not something you can work for. The grace that he gives you for your life, over your life, as you are walking things out with him. This is not a works thing. It's a grace thing. Amen. Amanda, you're on a field trip today. Well, amen. Well, you well, there you go. Well, go do what you got to do, my friend, and you guys have a good day. We pray safety and protection everywhere you've got to go, and we love you. Have fun, friend. Old field trips. Anyone who comes to you with a different message, and this is Galatians starting in chapter one, verse six. Right now I'm on verse eight. Anyone who comes to you with a different message than the grace gospel that you have received will have the curse of God come upon them. Zula, good morning, friend. For even if we or an angel appeared before you to give you a different gospel than what we have already proclaimed, God's curse would be upon them. Doesn't matter who comes to you or what comes to you with a different gospel other than the gospel of Jesus, uh, it says right here that God's curses would be upon them. Amen. Ashley, good morning, friend. Good to see you. I'll make it clear, this is verse 9. Anyone, no matter who they are, that brings you a different gospel than the grace gospel that you have received, let them be condemned and cursed. The gospel of Jesus, the grace gospel of Jesus is the only message. And now we finally reach verse 10 where I was going to. I'm obviously not trying to flatter you or water down my message to be popular with men, but my supreme passion is to please God. For if all I attempt to do is to please people, I would not be the true servant of the Messiah. I would not be a true servant of the Messiah. Out of the New King James, for do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ. I would not be connected to him. And to oh, okay. Yeah, well, we won't we won't do that, Wayne. Okay, very good. Glory to God. So the wild ones, we're we're you're not rebellious. Sorry. Go ahead and get that out. The wild ones are not rebellious. The wild ones are surrendered to Christ. You're surrendered to the Lord. Wild ones are no longer governed by comfort. They're not motivated by big platforms and large crowds and all of those things. No, no, no. They live to please God and God alone. They do not live to please people or to please men or walk on eggshells to make sure that, oh man, well, if I say, see, there's a lot of pastors in a lot of pulpits who are just walking on those eggshells still, and they're like, oh, I gotta keep myself over here because, you know, if I get too far over here, you know, the biggest tithers in the building, they don't like that. And if we lose them, then we can't pay the bills, and I don't have a salary. So we can only go so far. Boy, what a what an entrapment that is. What a prison that is. But God is coming and he has begun to even tear down the religious systems. I see it all the time. I see certain things coming out. I see how God is dealing with things and how things are going down. And I can tell you the church system that we thought was the church system is not the right system because it is crumbling to the ground. Anything that man has had his hands on, anything that man has begun to build himself, okay, is tumbling down to the ground. Tumble, tumble, tumble, tumble. Here we go. Seriously. You're only called wild when you stop fitting into compromised systems. You're only called wild when you don't fit into that box. Those guys are, those guys are strange. All right. They, they, they just, I mean, they believe the whole Bible. I mean, honestly, if you look at it, that's the whole, the whole thing of it. Yeah, I'm walking out the I'm walking out the whole thing. I've read the whole beginning from when it started, and man fell, and we went through and floods and you know, and judges, and we've gone through the things, and Isaiah's, whoo, goodness gracious. And then we go and can go in through, oh, and the Psalms. Wow, Psalms are beautiful. That's just great. Proverbs, well, that's good. We could read one of those a day. And then, and then, oh, and then look, Jesus is on the scene. Look what Jesus did. Oh, he came to fulfill some things. He came to do some things. Oh, God sent a savior to get us back on track. Oh, look, and then here's the apostle Paul. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. This is how we teach Jesus. This is how we walk in the ways of Jesus. This is how we hello, it's all in here. It's all in here. And yes, there's some books that may be a little harder than others, especially to read and get through. But it's all in here. It's all in here. We're the burning ones for Jesus. Let's take a look at what the wild ones look like in the early church. And like I said, this is some things we've been through. This is like a refresher for us this morning. I need a refresher from time to time because of what Habakkuk 2 and 2. Write the vision down and make it plain on tablets so those that read it can run with it. Well, we got to go back. If you have to write things down on a tablet, that means that you need something to go back and review. We can go through these teachings and through these things, but it's always good. We got to go back and review what we've studied to keep ourselves sharp. It's like when a sword or a knife comes from the knife store, the store, that thing is sharp, but as it gets used and as it gets, you know, used and used and used and used over and over and over, it gets dull. You have to take it back to the sharpening block and you got to bring it back to its original state so it can be sharp and ready to go again. We as Christians are the same way. We can learn things in the word and we feel great and we leave sharpened. Well, if we don't ever come back to the sharpening block, eventually things are going to get really dull, and you're going to need to come back and get sharp again so you can go out again and do what God has asked you to do. In Acts 4 and 13, see the standard for the church here, it was, it was, it was this was a culture. All right, in the book of Acts. This was not just, this was the standard for the church. Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. They're like, wow, these guys didn't go to school. They are not educated at all. But listen to them. These, these are ones that have been with Jesus. See, authority, the authority that the Lord has placed in your life does not come from education alone. It doesn't come from head knowledge of the word alone. It comes with intimacy with the Lord. It comes from being in the secret place. You want to look like one and sound like one that has been, you have been with Jesus. When people look at you, you'd be like, wow, you are one that really knows Jesus. I want to be known as that guy. I don't care if you remember my name or or anything else about me personally. All I care about is that you look and say, wow, tell me more about this Jesus that you hang out with. Tell me more about him. And then I'm able to open up and I'm able to tell them about him. Amen. Boldness is the fruit of being with Jesus when you can stand confidently and know who you are and whose you are. That is one that has you that you know you've been with Jesus. That is the fruit that is being displayed. That boldness only comes when you spend time with Jesus. Because if you stand in front of people and you're like, I don't know, I can't really. And I don't really want to say the wrong things, and I don't want to. You got to push past that fear, and you have to step into what God is calling you to step into. The wild ones do not rely on these credentials. You ain't got to go to theology school for four to seven years and then work your way into your doctorate in the Word and all of these things and be ordained and then licensed and then whatever. And no, no, no. The wild ones, you don't, the wild ones don't really rely on any of that. They are ones that just rely on the presence of the Lord and the Holy Spirit that leads them and guides them every single day in every single conversation and every aspect of their lives. There's a lot of people out there with a whole lot of credentials that have just been hearers of the word only. Somebody hear me this morning. And there's a lot of people out there who never stepped foot in theology school and they are walking around and they are able to speak because they have been with Jesus and they are the ones that are getting the work done. They're being doers of the word. Fear. Fear stands for false evidence appearing real. Fear, false evidence appearing real. It ain't real. You got to push past that fear when it comes to speaking to people. You got to push past that fear of man when it comes to maybe, maybe God has called you to sing or maybe to lead worship or to do something, but you, I don't want to get up in front of people. What if I miss a note? And what if I, well, what if you do? Jesus' love for you is not based upon our little mistakes and things that we make. Those mistakes come along and they help us learn. Never see those as failure. And if you're going to fall, fall forward. Get up. Keep going. Always hurt somebody. If failures come in your life, you're failing forward. Learn what you needed to learn from the moment. Gather your thoughts and move again. Don't let one little thing beat you down. Don't let the enemy make you feel like, well, you ain't got a powerful voice, and I can't, you know, I can't say this, or I can't do that, or I don't have the resources for this, or I you can, you have, you have two choices in life. You can either sit around feeling sorry for yourself, or you can stand up and be like, I'm going to use what I have and I'm going to begin to walk out what God has spoken to me. I'm not going to stand here another day and keep waiting. Because God's waiting on you. There's a specific word the Lord gave me. He said, You determine how long or short it takes to get this done. And what God was showing me in that moment is that I have spoken and I'm going to wait and see if you're going to begin to walk this out. He's like, see, because God does that. He speaks to you. And just because he speaks to you, sometimes we think, oh, well, he must be the one that's going to, you know, well, he spoke it, he's going to do it. No, no, he spoke it to you because he needs you to do it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said anything to you. God would not have said a word to you. He spoke it to you. Did he speak it audibly? I I know how to hear the voice of the Lord. But he speaks in many different ways. Sometimes we think, oh, he's got to just when you're in the secret place with the Lord, he can speak to you through his word. He's can he can speak to you out just in everyday life. And yes, that still small voice on the inside of you, he does speak to you. But he can speak to you how he knows he can get your attention. The thing is, he wants your attention. He's the one that made you. He knows how many hairs you have on your head. He wants your attention. But guess what? If you're never in the secret place, you're never hanging out with Jesus. I mean, that's what we're sitting here talking about. We're talking about one that that looks like they've they've been with Jesus, just like we saw in Acts 4 and 13. They realized, oh, they've been with Jesus. Somebody should look at your life and go, oh, they've been with Jesus. I mean, you don't want anyone looking at your life going, oh, they need to be with Jesus. Like, you know what I'm saying? Be one. Be what I said earlier. Be a KCA, a kingdom change agent. Be a kingdom change agent for somebody. Help somebody show them the way. Show them the way. I can't save you. I can't heal you. I can't do a thing for you other than speak the truth to you and lead you to the one who can do everything. His name is Jesus. And if you too want to look different, you gotta go be with him. You gotta go talk to him. That's where we're at, y'all. There's a lot of people who are not gonna understand you, but they should recognize the Jesus that's on the inside of you. They should recognize that Jesus is in there. They may not understand you real well, but they should see that Jesus is there. Amen. The wild ones are baptized in Holy Spirit and in fire. The move of God is not powered by our flesh and what we can do and what we can pull together. All right. The power and the move of God is powered by his fire. It's fueled by the fire of the Lord. In Acts 1 and 8, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me. And then in Matthew 3 and 11, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Fire comes and it purifies. If you allow the fire of the Lord to burn in your heart and to burn in your life, it will purify motives. It's going to come and check what you had set out to do versus what God is setting you out to do. And it will come and it will begin to burn. His ways, I mean, when it's that his thoughts need to become my thoughts. His ways should become my ways. And in order to do that, I got to spend time with him. I got to allow him to burn in me. Lord, come burn away everything that is not you. Come burn in me, Lord. So much that all that is left and remains is you and you alone, and the things that you have for me, that you have for my life, that you want me to walk out, that you're making it evidently clear on who you need me to speak to, what you need me to step out and do. Father, I and then, and then only shall I pick up those things. Because what happens is you get in there and you get super motivated and you say yes, yes, yes to everything. Yes, I love Jesus, we'll do this. Yes, I love Jesus, we'll do that. Yes, I love, oh man, let's do it all. And then you wonder why you get burnt out. Listen to the Lord. Do only what He speaks to you to do. Do only what he is leading you to do. Do not step into somebody else's role. Maintain your lane and stay with Jesus. And let the fire of the Lord fall upon you. Let him baptize you with his Holy Spirit and his fire. Fire also produces a bold obedience on the inside of you, where nothing shall get in your way between you and what God has set you out to do. That's a point I finally I finally started navigating myself in. And this is a process. I'm not saying you're we're going to talk about this and we're going to pray, and everything's changing today. Woo! No, this is a walking out process. If you haven't been in these places yet and allowed the Holy Spirit to speak to you in the secret place, and then you've allowed him to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, and you're moving in the ways of the Lord, this is an everyday thing. And every day brings a different level of trust if you'll trust him. Every day brings uh bring brings another level in your relationship with the Lord. His love for you is unconditional no matter where you're at in life right now. But beginning to truly hear his voice and walk things out, you got to do this daily and daily and daily. Deny myself today, take up my cross and follow you. I'll deny myself again tomorrow, and I'll pick up my cross and I'll follow you. And then I'll do it the next day, and then I'll do it the next day. You're not always gonna feel like doing it either. But life is, I don't base my life on my feelings. If I did, I'd be, I'd be all over the place, man. There ain't no telling where I'd be. Don't do that. We ain't doing that. But his fire comes to purify, his fire comes to produce a bold obedience on the inside. His fire comes and exposes every bit of compromise on the inside of your heart. Up here, where you've been compromising, what you've been doing. What do you need to say no to that you said yes to? And now you need to go back and eat that. Yes. And you need to say, I'm sorry, but we can't do this. What do you need to do? What are you compromising in every day? A little here, a little there. Let his fire come and burn that away. But the fire comes to expose that so you can deal with that. And fire also comes to empower you to witness the gospel to others in other, like you can't do that in your own strength. I know people that'll be like, it ain't like me to stand up, but the Lord was just really just pegging me about some things. And I just begin to speak. Yes, that's the fire of the Lord. That's the Holy Spirit that's leading you and guiding you. You cannot live the life that God has called you to live without being filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is your internal GPS. The Holy Spirit is your compass. Jesus said, I am leaving you, my Holy Spirit, to lead you and guide you. That was his promise. You got to allow the Holy Spirit to rise up on the inside of you and help lead you. The wild ones are ones that walk in bold obedience. They are ones that do not uh negotiate what God has spoken. Well, Lord, I know you want us to like travel and minister, but I mean, you know, uh we we have, you know, we're in that stage where we're raising kids, and you know, we we had the career thing going on, and you know, we've got so much that's you know that that that that we're in right now. Maybe we can do that when we're older. God is one that goes. Okay. He is not one that pushes you, he is not one that pressures you. But if you want to be a wild one, you've got to walk in bold obedience. God is looking for those that will step into what he's asking them to step into. Michelle, good morning to you. Be doers of the word, not hearers only. When you're hearers only, you deceive yourselves. James 1 and 22. I quote it many times, because we are a people that are not just hearers of the word only. We should be doers of it. Obedience to God is immediate. Well, Josh, there's there's timing and seasons for things under heaven. That is correct. Shay, good morning, friend. Good to see you. Michelle, thanks for your heart me this morning. But obedience is immediate. Take a step. God spoke it to you, He's confirmed it twice. What do you do now? Well, I know a couple right now. They have taken, they, they have a uh, they have a heart to foster children, and they have been stewarding that well. I mean, and these people, I mean, they're going to school and they're working and they're raising these kids and they're doing these things and all this, and and now they're answering the call that God has on their life. And so they ain't just like, they, they ain't just like, well, we're gonna put this ministry up here on the and we'll just see what God wants to do with it. They said, okay, God, what do you want us to do with this? So they they went and they filed their nonprofit paperwork and they're getting things rocking and rolling. They got a building to start doing some things on, and just what to two days ago, somebody said that they they're gonna donate them a house so they can be a host home for foster kids. Hello. They were ones that didn't just stick it up on the shelf and say, well, you know, maybe one day we'll kind of get to this when it fits my life. You know, I want to build a few things and make some money and raise the kids and get them out of the house, and then, you know, then we'll kind of see where we are, just like, no, God is not looking for our comfort. He's not looking for our comfort. He cares about you and he loves you, but he has a he has a greater life for you than the things you're trying to build yourself and pull together. And you're feeling all this weight and all this pressure, and you're wondering why you feel like the whole weight of the world is on you because everything you're doing is on you. Everything you're doing is on you. Now, not everyone's called to travel and do and go and move and whatever, but whatever God has spoken to you to step out and do, that could be serving in a role in your local church. And you're like, well, that doesn't fit my well, if he has spoken to you about that and you know it's the Lord, step into it and trust him with it. And then trust him with the rest of your schedule. Maybe you need to take some things before you and be like, God, we've said yes to a lot of things. What do I need to say no to now so I can do what you need me to do? This life is not my own. And just like the story I shared with you about the that wonderful couple we know, they stepped out, they did what needed to do, they did what they needed to do. Did you say two houses now? Two two houses. I said, I said the two. Okay. Things continue to develop with these with the folks. Hello? That comes only by those who are going to be obedient to step out and do what God has asked them to step out and do. Stop being stuck another moment and be a wild one for the Lord and take obedience seriously and be immediate in what he's asking you to do. Follow through with the steps you need to do. And then there you go. The provision always comes behind the initial steps that you take towards it. Always. I rarely do I see it all dumped in someone's lap and then they take it and run with it. No, God wants to see where you at. He's like, I mean, he created you, he knows you, but he's given you chance after chance after chance after chance. God, I'm just grateful for you. Yes, two. Two houses, y'all. God's spoken some things to some folks in here, and you haven't done anything yet, but I'm here to tell you that you need to rise and you need to step up and step into your place. Because when you do, God is going to meet you in that place. Delayed obedience becomes disobedience. There's somebody that's delaying something. That's disobedience. You think I'll do it later, and that'll be being obedient to the Lord. If God spoke it to you, He's ready for you to step in. And sometimes He'll bring things back around. Man, you know that thing God spoke to us? Oh, you know that thing that God you better step in. Step in, step in, step in. Partial obedience is disobedient. If you're kind of going to do what God asks you to do. And see, that's what happens in ministry a lot of times, is a lot of people will they'll they'll step in, God said to do this, and then they start doing a whole bunch of them. God's like, I didn't ask you to do a whole bunch of that. Partial obedience is disobedience. Delayed obedience is disobedience. If you want to be a wild one that moves based upon the leading of the Holy Spirit and stops when he says to stop and move when he says to move, and you're working with him and you're going with him, you are going to be a true, you're going to be a true wild one when you do that. Obedience. You've got to be one that's going to go when he says to go and stay when he says to stay. Only you know what God has spoken. Only you. He speaks to you first, and then it can be confirmed many different ways. The wild ones are not governed by the fear of man. You are free because guess what? You fear the Lord. It's the fear of the Lord. It's a different type of fear. Proverbs 29 and 25 says, the fear of man brings a snare. But whoever trust in the Lord shall be safe. Stop fearing man. Trust in the Lord. Safe. Baseball terms, safe. Acts 5 and 29. We ought to obey God rather than men. We see this many times throughout the word. We have got to obey God. Fear of man, fear of man compresses all those convictions and things you have in your heart to do when you're fearful of man. It begins to suppress and to silence that voice of the Lord. And it begins to push down the things that God really wants you to do. Fear of man will dilute the truth in your life. It dilutes the truth. You want to start walking the ways of God. You can't walk out this full book right here if you have the fear of man. Fear of man also produces compromise in your life. Well, I'm going to just stick over here because I don't want to ruffle any feathers. And Hello? Freedom begins when approval no longer controls your obedience. That's where freedom begins. So you're scared of hurting somebody's feelings. You're scared of listen, listen, my mama didn't love it not one bit when I uh when we when we first moved to the Gulf Coast. I mean, I'd lived around home my entire life. She didn't like it. She's like, why can't God, God, the same God can use you here like he can there? Isn't that right? And I'm like, yeah, but but this is what we have to do. Now over time, she's good. She's good with that. But you can't let any fear of man, no matter what you, what your mom and daddy think, no matter what you what you what your boss, you know, thinks, if you, if you feel like you need to move careers and you're like that they put a lot of pressure on you here, and you know the Lord is leading you, a lot of times people won't lead because they're fearful of what their boss is going to think or what their coworkers will think, or what this or what that or what come on. There's a lot of a lot of pastors who have been stuck in roles under organizations that are compromising and it's and things aren't going well, but they're so stuck in it because it's tied to their finances and it's tied to their life and who they are. And if I step out of this, and a lot of them, a lot of places are big platforms that man have built. And a lot of people know these platforms, and I can't leave what happens. You've put your identity in all the wrong things. Putting your identity in the wrong things also is also a form of the fear of man as well. What are you building? You building something for you or are you building something for him? Ask yourself those questions today. We cannot have the fear of man. And the wild ones are ones that carry discernment and authority as well. Okay, you got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Uh beyond an existing crochet. The Lord took you from a toxic job place to a wonderful company. Amen. And Paul, we have to allow God to lead. We got to pray. We got to seek his face. We got to press into all that he has for us. We got to have sharp discernment. We've got to recognize the authority that's on the inside of us. Wild ones are ones that don't just see. They are ones that see and they discern. They know what's going on. They know right from wrong. There is no compromise. There's no compromise. There's no gray area. It is black and white. There's no gray on the inside. I see it for what it is. True burning ones do that. 1 Corinthians 2 and 15. But he who is spiritual judges all things. He who is truly spiritual judges all things. Luke 10 and 19, behold, I give you the authority over all the power of the enemy. So you're one that can look and rightfully judge on the inside. You're looking from the inside, rightfully judging, and you understand and recognize the authority that's in your life over all the power of the enemy. Discernment is not suspicion. All right, that's different than somebody who's just suspicious of a bunch of, oh, that person, that person, this person, that person. Oh my goodness gracious. That's just somebody walking around with a whole lot of suspicion. But discernment brings spiritual clarity in your life. Discernment, when you discern things, you begin to recognize it and you see it as God sees it. See, if you're suspicious, you just see a whole bunch of bad in this person and that, but you're picking out all the bad. Discernment takes you much deeper. I see this on the surface level, but what's going on on the inside? And when you look at somebody's life, you begin to discern what's going on on the inside. And now you begin to pray because God will show you things to pray. He doesn't show you things to call this one and that one, this one said, that one said, and this one's doing, and I can't believe, and we don't, we got way too much of that going on. The Lord will show you things so that you begin to pray for somebody. And you can see and discern what's going on on the inside, and you begin to pray and pinpoint those things. Authority flows from being submitted to God. The authority that God has placed on the inside of you comes from being submitted to Him and spending time with Him and trusting Him. And the wild ones confront darkness with the truth and the boldness that God has placed on the inside of them. We got to allow those things to arise in our lives. If you're a true wild one for the Lord, you're going to be misunderstood. And this is not something new, by the way. It's not like you're the only person that's ever been misunderstood according to time. No. Acts 17 and 6. Those who have turned the world upside down have come here too. You need to be one that's turning the culture, the world, upside down because we don't live according to the world. We live according to the word. So we got to look like those. Oh, those are the ones that have turned the world upside down. They're here. What the world is calling disruptive in this moment, God is calling rightfully aligned to him and his word. Be one that's rightfully aligned. What religion calls out of order, you're out of order. Heaven is calling you being obedient. There's going to be a lot of people that don't understand your calling and what you're called to do. And there's going to be some places you go, they're going to be scared of what you're called to do, and they're going to see what God's doing, and they're going to view it as competition. I see this in the church. Praise God, we don't see any of that with HPM and where we're at right now. And we definitely don't see none of that in fire and water ministries. Let all that mess go. Hallelujah. I want to see people come in and see people raised up and in their giftings and callings and then see them go to where God sends them. There's a lot of ministries who will bring people up and put a cap on them and want to hold them in a position, but you can't go much, you can't go any further than this because you're going to be competing with my role. No, no, no. What? When did this become a whole like CEO company corporation thing for the church? See, the Western world did all that. And what a mess it has become. All right, but the world is calling things, I'm sorry, what religion calls out of order, heaven is calling being obedient. If God is calling you to leave where you have been, to go and plant, to go and do, to go and plow, to go and whatever, you need to be obedient to God and don't let that fear of man creep in. Because I know a lot of people who have been called to leave the ministry and they tell them, you're wrong. You're wrong. There's been a lot of, a lot of a lot of situations where people have said, I'm feeling led of the Lord to go. And instead of saying, Well, you know what? Well, let's just, let's, let's just let's grab hands and let's pray and press into this, you know, and uh and let's let's send you into what God is calling you to do. Why do so many people question, well, you can't do that? Uh-oh, that means a role is vacant here. We can't have that. We can we can't have no holes here because we've built this empire and this look and this and this culture. There's a lot of, well, the culture of the church here is, well, hopefully it's this. I mean, if the culture of the church ain't this, then I don't know if I want to be here. I don't know what extra culture you have placed on this thing. I've heard that before. Our culture here is Okie dokie. This is the only culture we should have in the church. But religion calls it completely out of order when you begin to follow the Lord. Send one and God will send, and God will send you two. God will send two in. God knows what you need, God knows what you need, and He is the one leading and guiding people. Don't feel like you got to get out here and recruit and pull together and this and that and the other. We've got to have a successful church launch, and we're doing this model that this church did, and it was successful, and it was. Well, I want to look at the model of what this church did, and then we're just gonna walk this thing out according to how God wants us to walk things out. When revival comes, it begins to disturb complacency because it requires some sacrifice. It requires some things in your own personal life. When revival comes to you, now it doesn't mean like you're giving up every night to go to meetings. That's not what's not what I mean, sacrifice. When I say sacrifice, when revival begins to burn in your heart, that means that God is coming to revive the man that he is on the inside of. So he's gonna burn away compromise. He's gonna burn away some different things. You're gonna have to adjust your schedule so you can spend time with him. You're gonna have to stop doing some things and stop hanging out with some people that you've been hanging out with for true revival to come to you. That's what revival looks like. It disturbs the complacency on the inside of you because it causes you to move, it causes you to change. All right. And if if if no one, if you're still comfortable, you need to ask yourself, has anything in me been transformed? Because he's not looking for comfort. You're gonna have to get a little uncomfortable for him to begin to transform some things in your life. You gotta get up out of the easy chair of life, and you got to stand up and you need to begin to walk again. Because a lot of people just sat down, a lot of people just given up. Amen. Couple more points for you this morning. Wild ones are not chasing chaos, you're carrying fire. Fire brings order. Once again, when you hear wild ones, you think bowl in a china shop. No, no, no. Fire brings order. First Corinthians 14 and 33. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. If your life is not peaceful, you got to go back and look at what is going on. He's not the author of confusion. So if there's a lot of confusion, a lot of chaos in your life, that's not the Lord. That's the enemy. You need to stand in your rightful place and you need to ask the Lord, Lord, bring peace to my life again. I bind off every attack of the enemy right now in the name of Jesus. I pull down every stronghold in my life right now. You need to stand up and be a voice for yourself again, and you need to start moving rightly with God. Fire will bring purity, fire will bring clarity, fire is what brings authority back into your life. If you want the fire of the Lord, then you have to get in his presence again and begin walking with him again. So, why does all of this matter to you and to me? Why does all of this, what we're going through, what I'm recapping, why did God bring this back around to me again to go back and review and search out again this morning? Why? Because this is an hour of separation. We are in an hour in the church where there's a great separating of the wheat and the tares, as we would like to call it. There's a great separation that's taking place here. And let me go to something real quick, just while we're on this. Let me go to Matthew. Matthew chapter 25. And then we're going to land this plane for the day. Matthew 25, starting in verse 1, it's the parable of the ten virgins. Alright, so Matthew 25, verse 1 from the Passion here. At the time my coming draws near, heaven's kingdom realm can be compared to ten maidens who took their oil lamps, and they went outside to meet the bridegroom and his bride. Five of them were foolish and ill prepared, for they took no extra oil for their lamps. Five of them were wise and sensible, for they took flask of olive oil with their lamps. When the bridegroom didn't come when they expected, they all grew drowsy and they fell asleep. And then suddenly, in the middle of the night, they were awakened by the shout of Get Up! The bridegroom is here. Come out and have an encounter with him. So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps, but the foolish ones were running out of oil, so they said to the five wise ones, Share your oil with us, because our lamps are going out. We can't, they replied. We don't have enough oil for all of us. You'll have to go and buy some for yourselves. While the five girls were out buying oil, the bridegroom appeared to them, and those not to them, but the bridegroom appeared while they were away. Those who were ready and waiting were escorted inside with him and the wedding party to enjoy the feast. And then the door was locked. Well, later the five foolish girls came running up to the door and they pleaded, Lord, Lord, let us come in. But he called back and said, Go away. Do I know you? I can assure you, I don't even know you. That is the reason you should always stay awake and be alert because you don't know the day or the hour when the bridegroom will appear. The hour of separation is at hand. The hour of being prepared and having the oil for the lamps to be able to go into the wedding feast with the bridegroom. Hello, the Lord Jesus is the bridegroom. We are the bride. He's coming to marry the bride. Your oil, the oil in your life matters. Do you have the sufficient amount of oil in your life to sustain you for this season? Intimacy with the Lord matters. Being prepared, being in his presence, listening to his voice, reading his word, taking notes in your journal. Hello? I am a digital dude. I enjoy speaking into the microphone in my, either my tablet or my phone if I have an idea. I just like to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, it'd be great. Back in the day, people had to have personal assistance for stuff like that. My brain goes 15 miles an hour. Bless Brandy's heart. Y'all pray for Brandy, please. But the Lord told me to buy this notebook a while back. For me to sit here and write, I have to take my time. I have to take my time. And the Lord began to show me things about my handwriting. He says, Go back and you can see the days when you felt rushed in my presence, and you can see the days when you wanted to tarry for a moment. The days that I wanted to hang out in his presence for a few extra minutes, I wrote slower and I listened intently to his voice. The days when we had a lot going on, I mean, it's like scribble, scribble, scrabble, scrabble, and it looks like a doctor's handwriting. You know, I'm surprised. If you're a pharmacist, bless your heart. I don't know how you read that, but but I can tell the days when I was hurried and the days when I when I was really in his presence, because my handwriting is neater when I when I sat in his presence a little longer. Intimacy with the Lord. He wants you to spend time with him. Write down what he speaks to you. And also an electronic in his presence is a distraction as well. So, you know, I tried that, and then you're on to something else and you're looking things up, and now, oops, well, I heard kind of what he wanted to say. He wants your attention. Get rid of all the distractions and enter into his presence so you can hear him. I take his word and I take my journal. Everything else is on charge and put up somewhere so I can stay focused in on what God is speaking to me. Whatever means you need to take. At one point, I got an old-fashioned alarm clock to wake me up every morning because all I had to do was hit the button on that. It didn't tell me the weather, it didn't tell me the news, it didn't get me lost in Facebook, I didn't get lost in anything other than his presence. It allowed me to get up and get in the secret place with him. Whatever you've got to do to get yourself grounded with him again, take those actions because preparation matters. These are these are this is preparation like what we just read. The five that went for the oil didn't get to get in. Don't be one who's out getting what you need late while everybody else is going in. You need to get what you need today. What do you need today? The wild ones are those who stay filled when others are growing, they're growing either comfortable and dis and complacent, or they're out here wondering why they're feeling so empty. If you're a wild one, you know how to stay filled. I can't fill you up. I can only, I think I said this yesterday or day before. I can only fill your glass so full every day. We can get on here and we can charge up together on the morning charge and we can go through the word and we can pray and we can praise and we can we can do all the things that that get us going for the day. But I can only do so much. There is one that I point you to who can do everything for you. See, now we're back around where we started earlier. He is the one who can do everything for you, and he will do everything for you. So ask yourself this today. Am I fully surrendered or am I just selectfully obedient? In other words, am I fully surrendered to everything God is speaking to me in my life, for me, my family, my career, my ministry, what he wants me to do in my community, whatever it is the Lord has you doing. Are you fully surrendered? Or are you just sort of just picking and choosing the things that you think feel good, the things that you want to do? You need to ask yourself, am I willing to be misunderstood for the sake of the truth? Are you willing to be misunderstood to stand up for what is truthful and what is right and what is holy and what is good and what is and and and what is noble? That is your character and your integrity on the line. Are you willing to be misunderstood by a handful of people, mind you? Just a handful. To stand up for the truth. Are you being spirit-led? Or are you being man-made approval led? What's leading you? What's driving your life? Is it the Lord or is it somebody? Gotta be careful. And ask yourself, am I carrying the fire of the Lord? Am I burning for the Lord? Am I am I on fire for the Lord? Or I or am I just like a just uh do I just have a bunch of information up here I've haven't done anything with? Don't be hearers of the word only. Be doers of the word. You need to send that signal down to your feet and to your hands and get out here and start walking and start getting busy again. The wild ones are not on the way. The wild ones are here. Those that are standing up for righteousness, those that are walking forth and carrying the gospel of Jesus everywhere they go. Lord, let us be refined. Let us be positioned, Lord, in the places you want us to be positioned in. And Father, Lord, don't we want to be positioned to build platforms and big ministries and all of these large things, Lord. We want to be positioned to be ones who will carry your fire. I want to be positioned, even if it's to carry it to just the one today. Even if it's to be positioned to carry it to just a handful of people on Sunday morning. Count those intimate times with people. Listen, pastors, those folks that continue to show up Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday, you may only have 12 in there. Do not be discouraged by that. Because you look at, man, I wish we could get more people to come. Man, I guess pour into those 12 like you have never poured into those 12 before and empower them to go out and make a difference. And if you empower them to go out and make a difference in their communities, in their homes, in their workplaces, I can promise you the fruit of that will come. What are you doing with the handful of people that God has entrusted you to? What are you doing? Are we discipling people? We don't want to be, we don't want to be out here and be loud and be seen. But we want to be those that are being obedient to what God has called us to do. Be one that is obedient. God teach us how to be obedient in you. Lord, we lay down every bit of fear of man, every bit of comforts, every bit of our own fleshly desires. We lay it all down this morning. I say, Holy Spirit, come and move in a new way, Father, in people that need that newness today. Holy Spirit, that you would come and wash over us with your word. Father, Lord, wash over us, God. I pray, Lord, as those begin to just pick up your word and they begin to read it and they begin to understand it, and then they begin to walk it out, God. Lord, that you would meet them in the process of their lives. Lord, that lives will be changed forever according to your word. Oh, Jesus. And your ways, how you moved. God, fill us with fresh fire this morning. Lord, come and fill our lamps with oil and come and fill our cans with oil today in your presence, Lord, so that fire shall always be burning and it shall never go out, because you are the one that sustains the fire on the inside of us. Lord, we choose to surrender to you today all of your plans and all of your ways and all of the things that you have for me and my life and my family and my children and our businesses and our ministries. You got to get personal when you start praying. Lord, let your fire fall, Lord. We choose to surrender it all to you today. I surrender everything I have to you because it's all yours. Every bit of finances, every bit of equipment, every your house, your car, your children, your spouse, everything you have. Everything God has entrusted you with. Say thank you, Lord, and I just surrender it all to you today. And let me arise and shine as the person that you have called me to be in the fullness of your glory, Jesus. If he can do it for me, he can do it for you. So stop living where you've always been living. Stop living way down here. He's calling you higher. He's calling you higher. He's calling you higher and higher and higher and higher because he has better for you. And that's good too, Paul. Don't let the enemy get your wick wet. And don't let your wood be wet. You want to be able to put fire upon fire upon fire upon fire, put more wood, more wood, more wood. And he's the one that supplies you with the wood to continue to throw on the fire to let it continue to burn. Trust him that he's going to bring everything that you need today and forever and for always.

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In the name of Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord. That's today's morning charge. Before you move on with your day, take a moment and let what you've heard settle into your heart. Faith isn't just something we talk about, it's something we live out in the ordinary moments of everyday life. Wherever today takes you, remember this. You don't walk into it alone. God is already ahead of you, working in ways you may not even see yet. Stand firm, walk in wisdom, lead with love, and don't forget who you belong to. Until next time, keep your heart anchored, keep your faith strong, and keep living out real talk, real Jesus, real life. We'll see you on the next morning charge.