SPEAKER_00: Welcome to this week's podcast by Celebration Church Latatoga.
SPEAKER_00: We believe this message will empower and equip you to live a life of breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER_01: Father, we just thank you for the preaching of the word this morning, Lord God, that you'd rearrange and shift things around our lives in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: And everybody says, Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, I want to talk about limitations this morning and breaking limitations.
SPEAKER_01: And um, I'll just jump straight into it.
SPEAKER_01: In 1 Timothy 4, 15, Paul is speaking to um I guess a spiritual son, Timothy, and he says, meditate on these things, give yourself entirely to them.
SPEAKER_01: That's our emphasis point.
SPEAKER_01: Give yourselves entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so what it is is this there are various uh imaginary limitations that sit around our thinking that God wants to break.
SPEAKER_01: And pretty much a limitation is like a restriction that restricts us from flourishing, from pushing ahead.
SPEAKER_01: It is the opposite from I can do, and uh restrictions because of self-doubt, because of insecurities perhaps, or because of perceived fears.
SPEAKER_01: But you'd be surprised if you were asked the Holy Spirit, who's the spirit of truth, Lord, show me if there's any restrictions around my thinking, limitations, any belief systems that I have that inhibit me from going to the next level.
SPEAKER_01: You might be quite surprised what the Holy Spirit might speak to you or convict you on, and that uh that maybe even we need to change our thinking.
SPEAKER_01: And in Romans 12, 2, it's a scripture that you'll know this if you've been around church circles for a bit, but it says, uh, be not fashioned according to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what is a good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
SPEAKER_01: And I would be to guess, I would guess this morning uh that there are some restrictions collectively.
SPEAKER_01: There can be restrictions on a congregation, there could be limitations on a business, there could be limitations and strict uh restrictions on our finances, stopping us from actually moving in to the next level.
SPEAKER_01: But here's the good news the Bible talks about the kingdom of God, and it says the kingdom of God advances, it's not stuck, it's not stationary, it's progressing and it's moving forward.
SPEAKER_01: The difference is that when we become stuck or contained, we begin to plateau and we begin to go around in a circle, it's actually quite frustrating.
SPEAKER_01: And on the inside, we actually age, we begin older and older and older.
SPEAKER_01: But you know what keeps the vitality and the youthfulness, even in people that are 80 years of age plus into their 90s, there's like a youthful, joyful spirit is the fact there's a like a progress, there's an innovation, there's ref there's like a freshness on the inside that wants to continue to break out and push out.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Say to the person next to you, I'm gonna break my limitations.
SPEAKER_01: Now that sounded awfully lame this morning.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna say that with a bit more zest, a bit more passion, a bit more conviction.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna break those limitations on the count of three.
SPEAKER_01: You ready?
SPEAKER_01: One, two, three.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna break those limitations.
SPEAKER_01: All right, we're gonna break limitations, and our families can have restrictions.
SPEAKER_01: Families can have limitations.
SPEAKER_01: There could be a whole family lineage that have a restriction around our life.
SPEAKER_01: It's not walking in freedom.
SPEAKER_01: That G, uh the Bible talks about freedom a lot.
SPEAKER_01: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
SPEAKER_01: I want to ask you, what is truth?
SPEAKER_01: Well, the word of God is true.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ said, I am the way, I am the truth.
SPEAKER_01: When you begin to know God intimately, there's something within you that lays hold of destiny.
SPEAKER_01: We're building a house right now, and I wasn't gonna, I didn't want to actually say that, but illustration say, building a house that away.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, and people say excited about building a house, and I kind of think you've got more excitement than what I've got, and we build houses before, but in my mind, we're on to the next thing.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01: I know there is the level of the realm of enjoying the roses, you know, smelling the roses as you go and sort of stuff.
SPEAKER_01: But I think for us, we've got to be thinking forward.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna enjoy what we're doing, master what we're doing, be faithful.
SPEAKER_01: Luke, I think it's 16, talks about uh you got to be faithful with another man's vision and faithful in the finances and faithful in the small.
SPEAKER_01: But you see, you gotta be faithful.
SPEAKER_01: That's a basic bottom line requirement for leadership is faithfulness that a man be that a man be found faithful, but we're faithful to what we're doing, and we're doing it with excellence.
SPEAKER_01: Some people want a great promotion in their job, but not even faithful in what they're doing right now.
SPEAKER_01: You'll find promotion comes out of our faithfulness, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so, but out of our faithfulness, so we've got our eyes on the now, we've got our eyes on the present time and what our hands are playing to, but we've got our eyes on tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01: We have to live like that because otherwise we've become consumed in with the now, and before we know it, some of us have never even quite surrendered our life to Jesus because we never thought about tomorrow eternity.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we think about today, we master today, we're faithful in the now, the present time, but we've got our eyes upon tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01: Financially, we must uh prepare for tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01: I think our health we should be preparing for tomorrow, okay?
SPEAKER_01: So we're not just living for the now, otherwise, we'd be in addictions and all sorts of stuff, most of us.
SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna live a little bit for tomorrow as well.
SPEAKER_01: But in all of this, God wants to break the restrictions.
SPEAKER_01: So you gotta start to dream a little and dream big, don't dream small.
SPEAKER_01: Now, here's the deal: it says uh in in the word of God that you might find it there normal for it, but it says uh, because it's in the notes there, um, with God all things are possible, and God will uh with God all things are possible, but I could do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so with our limitations, there are some natural limitations around our life.
SPEAKER_01: We can only jump so high, we can only run so fast, okay?
SPEAKER_01: We can only uh be awake for so many hours before we actually crash and that kind of laws and different things, but in your lane, discover what your lane is, the thing that God has for you, the pathway.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible talks about there's a there's a way that seems right unto man, but in the end it leads to death.
SPEAKER_01: So, in all, and Zachary brought this out in our men's meeting, it it's kind of like there's a pathway, hey, that we can think, oh, it's good, it sounds right.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, people have got a good opinion on it, there's a great appearance on it, uh, there's great forecast on it.
SPEAKER_01: But the Bible says that particular road actually leads to death.
SPEAKER_01: But everybody said it was a good road, and you thought it was a great road.
SPEAKER_01: The investment people, the experts thought it was an awesome road, but in your spirit, you needed to have listened to what the Lord was saying and hop into the right lane.
SPEAKER_01: So you have to find your lane in life, what God has called you to.
SPEAKER_01: Now, when it says this, that God will strengthen you, He's gonna strengthen you in your lane.
SPEAKER_01: Because you could be this morning a great violinist, whatever you put your hand to, it could be great.
SPEAKER_01: You could be a great construction worker, you could be a great designer, and maybe you've got multiplicity of talents around your life, but you need to be found in the right eternal lane doing the right thing for God.
SPEAKER_01: You understand that there has to be a witness in your life that's at the end of the day, at the end of the age, we were so consumed about doing stuff and maybe impressing people or maybe building our portfolio, whatever it is, and maybe it wasn't even that, but we didn't have our eyes on the prize, we didn't have our eyes on the tomorrow, and now we're here, and it's just like we look back in life, and it's like what Solomon said, it was kind of like it was vain, it was like I put my hand to so many things, but at the end of the day, it was like it was empty, and so I want to encourage us this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Somehow we've got to find our track in God, we've got to find our lane in God, we've got to find that thing because you might be flourishing in your lane, you might be breaking through like 85%, 90% in the lane, and doing exceedingly well in your lane.
SPEAKER_01: But find something else in your lane, your destiny, and excel on that.
SPEAKER_01: So maybe you're a good public speaker, that's part of your lane.
SPEAKER_01: But how about being a great writer?
SPEAKER_01: That's part of your lane.
SPEAKER_01: You see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're great at design in your lane, and God has that for you, and you could do that unto the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Great at design, but maybe you need to up the whole computer aspect and the IT aspect.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's 85, 90% awesome in your lane at that area, but the IT area sits about 15%.
SPEAKER_01: You need to find your lane in life and what you're great at and what God has called you to do, and make sure every single area in that you're excelling in there.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: God wants you to do exceedingly well.
SPEAKER_01: He wants to favor you, He wants to prosper you, and so forth.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know there's three areas?
SPEAKER_01: The first one is capacity.
SPEAKER_01: Capacity is the ability or the room or strength to carry and continue, uh, carry and continue on and handle great things day after day.
SPEAKER_01: That's capacity.
SPEAKER_01: So some people have capacity in sport.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe some of us don't have any capacity in sport, but that person does.
SPEAKER_01: And that person continues to train and train hard day after day.
SPEAKER_01: And if they're not training, they're only not training because they're having a rest period, because they've been prescribed a rest period, but so forth.
SPEAKER_01: But they're pretty dedicated to that whole area, okay?
SPEAKER_01: That's capacity.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you are dealing with a whole lot of uh stressful issues in your family line, and you're the go-to person, and you don't lose your call, you don't criticize, you don't malign people, you know, heart's not full of judgments, you're seen as the go-to person for reconciliation, and people say, How do you do it?
SPEAKER_01: How do you keep saying?
SPEAKER_01: How do you keep forgiving?
SPEAKER_01: You're like the capacity person of that family, okay?
SPEAKER_01: That's called capacity.
SPEAKER_01: I think our prime minister has a big capacity in his lane.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, in your lane, I'm sure God has a capacity for you too, and doing well at it.
SPEAKER_01: But a capacity is basically the strength on the inside to keep on preaching, keep on praying, to keep on forgiving, to keep on loving, to keep on pushing through, keep on uh embracing innovation, to keep on uh pioneering new fronts.
SPEAKER_01: That's called capacity.
SPEAKER_01: Very, very important that we have that, okay?
SPEAKER_01: The next area is this is competency.
SPEAKER_01: That's the skill sets, man.
SPEAKER_01: That's what you're great at.
SPEAKER_01: So you got this big ability to be able to do it, but now when we drill down, there's qualifications there, there's the skills there, there's a proven track record, there's a proven ability to do something effectively, and you can do it correctly.
SPEAKER_01: And people say, mate, she is so competent.
SPEAKER_01: We let her have this, we just put our hands off her.
SPEAKER_01: It was so well organized, it was so better than our expectations.
SPEAKER_01: She surpassed our expectation.
SPEAKER_01: That's called competency.
SPEAKER_01: Then the third area is called confidence.
SPEAKER_01: That's the confidence where we trust God, where we have a great confidence in the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: That where we can't trace him, we're still going to trust him.
SPEAKER_01: We're still gonna trust the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: No matter what happens, if all the chips are down, we're still going to trust him always.
SPEAKER_01: That's called confidence.
SPEAKER_01: But also confidence comes down to this area is you have confidence, you're able to do it, you're able to stand, you're able to uh accomplish this thing.
SPEAKER_01: And I believe the confidence you train for confidence and crash uh capacity begins to strengthen and get bigger over time.
SPEAKER_01: But confidence is the area I believe that the enemy knocks around.
SPEAKER_01: You can be doing exceedingly well, and people say, Man, you've got it, it's awesome, but there's something within you that's full of self-doubt, there's something within you that sometimes gets hit with a sense of insecurity.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to break that for this reason and this reason alone, because he's always calling you to break limitations.
SPEAKER_01: Ready for this?
SPEAKER_01: And he is always wanting you to do things greater than you think you could do.
SPEAKER_01: Because this is not about us, this is about what he wants to do in us.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: Seriously, because if we're all we're doing what we can do, we are going to actually live a normalized, naturalized life.
SPEAKER_01: You ready?
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty earthbound.
SPEAKER_01: It's lacking and void of the supernatural.
SPEAKER_01: But when we're out there on a limb, and I want to say God, you get to know God and suffering, you get to know God in risk.
SPEAKER_01: When you're out there in a limb, you're forced to trust God and you begin to understand, and God reveals Himself in a brand new, fresh way when you're out there.
SPEAKER_01: There's aspects to God you begin to think, my beginning to understand.
SPEAKER_01: You're now walking in a revelation of how big God was.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, when I when I feel I'll share this one time, but when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, the revelation that was a supernatural encounter, so it wasn't a natural encounter, it was a supernatural encounter where God actually revealed an aspect of his character to me, and it changed and transformed my life upon the spot.
SPEAKER_01: It really I shifted from that time.
SPEAKER_01: My whole mind began to expand.
SPEAKER_01: Limitations were broken out of my thinking, my inside capacity began to blow out, and I believe believed God for greatness.
SPEAKER_01: What God was showing was how great he was and how big he was flowing through a person.
SPEAKER_01: What God can do.
SPEAKER_01: So this is no longer what God can do through celebration.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, sorry, what we can do, our own efforts through celebration on the rock church.
SPEAKER_01: It's now what God can do through us.
SPEAKER_01: You see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01: It's no longer your business, which is awesome, but now it's what God could do through your business.
SPEAKER_01: Hey?
SPEAKER_01: It's no longer you tapping on doors and knocking on doors and telling people about Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: We're now talking about the risen Christ moving through your ministry.
SPEAKER_01: And what happens is sometimes we we we are naturalized or we live in the rationale, live in the natural realm all the time, and we are limited to what we can do.
SPEAKER_01: And we get discouraged because we have these dreams of aspirations, but we feel like we're so bound and we feel like it we get tempted and we want to tap out.
SPEAKER_01: But let me tell you this: God wants you to live an explosive life on the inside.
SPEAKER_01: That when everything is going against you, you're still able to get up and have all the joy in the world.
SPEAKER_01: You're able to have that, you're able to have an explosive joy and praise on the inside always simply because not what you can do, but it's what he can do through you.
SPEAKER_01: You know, you're looking at people like Isaiah, these people wrestled with themselves.
SPEAKER_01: Gideon wrestled with himself, Saul wrestled, uh, Jeremiah wrestled and so forth.
SPEAKER_01: These guys wrestled when God had called them, they were all afflicted with self-doubts because their eyes now were on their natural world or they're around their family, where they've come from, and God was asking them to step up.
SPEAKER_01: Had God not labored with them, these people would be at skewer.
SPEAKER_01: We wouldn't know about Isaiah, would we?
SPEAKER_01: You'd have never heard about Jeremiah.
SPEAKER_01: But God, in his, I guess, patience, uh began to begins to uh begins to labor with us, and it is quite exciting.
SPEAKER_01: And I I remember I know this up by heart a little bit, but with Jeremiah, Jeremiah was called to be a prophet to the nations, but he looked, he said, I'm only a youth.
SPEAKER_01: See, he was looking at what he could do, God was looking at what he could do.
SPEAKER_01: Isiah said, Look, I'm a man of unclean lips.
SPEAKER_01: God heard his honesty and came down with a tongue and put purity in his lips.
SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
SPEAKER_01: Saul, who thought, man, man, I'm a Benjamin, nothing good has come from my family.
SPEAKER_01: God was calling him to lead and to run probably the greatest power nation in the world at that time, military wise, because Yahweh was the God.
SPEAKER_01: He was calling them out of obscurity, out of insecurity, out into prominence.
SPEAKER_01: And God wrestled with them and gave him a word.
SPEAKER_01: How about Gideon?
SPEAKER_01: Again, a young guy.
SPEAKER_01: But what does God do?
SPEAKER_01: God begins to speak into his life, and he says to him, This, you are a man of valor.
SPEAKER_01: You see the difference?
SPEAKER_01: And so I think the enemy wants to naturalize things all the time, keep us living on that plane all the time, keep us living in the rationale, the sciences, the physics of what we can do.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm telling you, God is a supernatural God.
SPEAKER_01: God breaks the parameters, God can get you out of debt just like this.
SPEAKER_01: You can work day and night and crucify your family in the process.
SPEAKER_01: But I tell you what, you can hear from God.
SPEAKER_01: God asks you to put a seed into someone's life, a financial seed into a ministry, and God gives you explosive finances just like that.
SPEAKER_01: Because the Bible says that there is the way that God has.
SPEAKER_01: There's an absolute way, he says, your ways are not my ways, guys.
SPEAKER_01: But I have a way, and if you tap into my way, my kingdom thinking, you will prosper, you will break through, you'll break all the restrictions or the parameters or the status quo around your life.
SPEAKER_01: Now you're living in the blessings and the power of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And there has to be that thing, that hunger within us that says, Man, I want this.
SPEAKER_01: I totally want.
SPEAKER_01: I'm bored of my life.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm just a plain guy, Jonathan.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about, just a plain guy.
SPEAKER_01: I come from a plain town and uh, you know, have awesome parents.
SPEAKER_01: I'm I mean, I honor my parents, they were absolutely amazing.
SPEAKER_01: I was thinking to my father this morning.
SPEAKER_01: I thought, man, just some moments, just some moments.
SPEAKER_01: I'd love to be able to whoo talk to my dad, just I say hi, and I'm thinking, man, the race gets worth it just for this thing that in a few years' time and 30 years' time, I'll be seeing my papa, seeing my father in heaven, it'll be absolutely worth it, and and so forth.
SPEAKER_01: But we do that for a lot of other reasons, of course.
SPEAKER_01: But I thought, you know, it's like in our life right now, we are at a certain level, and what God wants to do is break that level, shatter our box, get us out of the box of middle.
SPEAKER_01: You say, but I'm comfortable, that's a problem, and it's been a problem for years because we've never done a lot, apparently.
SPEAKER_01: But when God breaks the bottom of that and breaks our world, and you see, I'm thinking to some people this morning, some of your lives might be messy all over the place.
SPEAKER_01: And God wants to bring some order to it, okay?
SPEAKER_01: So he's bringing pramity, he's bringing the right family members around, saying you need to shape this up and and pull this area, pull your emotions in and pull your life together and pull your finances together.
SPEAKER_01: That's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to that.
SPEAKER_01: That's a lifeline for us.
SPEAKER_01: But then there's others that want to, we're so rigid in control.
SPEAKER_01: We wake up in the morning and it's you know five o'clock in the morning and it's sergeant majors up, everything.
SPEAKER_01: They look at the refrigerator and it's just like, wow, no dust breathes.
SPEAKER_01: There's no room for everything's packed away perfectly.
SPEAKER_01: It's like everything's ordered, and your wife, uh your not your wife, but your life is so um so ordered and it's now pouring into the spirit of control.
SPEAKER_01: You know what you need to do?
SPEAKER_01: You need to come, somebody needs to come around your life and go fuzzy wuzzy, shh all around your life and mess it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: That'd be nice when someone, so somewhere in the middle is us, and God wants to break the parameters, break those limitations.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there are some people that have a they're a guitarist, and I've known people like this, and they'll learn nine or twelve chords, that's it, expecting to break through in ministry, learn 50 chords, man.
SPEAKER_01: What is it that we just try to get by?
SPEAKER_01: We just try that next level because you can't take the old person into the next level.
SPEAKER_01: You gotta break that old person, you gotta break that thing down and say, God, do something in me to go into that next level.
SPEAKER_01: So it might be for you, God is saying, humble.
SPEAKER_01: Satan was proud for God is saying to you, you just be humble there.
SPEAKER_01: You just walk in that humility.
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about being misunderstood, don't be worried about being misrepresented.
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter if people think this about you, because I've got I know how to make your name great.
SPEAKER_01: I know how to elevate you, I know how to lift you up for my cause.
SPEAKER_01: He did that to Abraham.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to break the limitations, wants to break the status quo.
SPEAKER_01: Have a great church.
SPEAKER_01: Not just when we first came to the island, it's like I was I never came here to run an average church.
SPEAKER_01: This is pastor's talk.
SPEAKER_01: I never wanted to be a normal church, I never came to be small, but I'm happy as we are, I'm not satisfied as we are, I'm happy, but I'm not satisfied.
SPEAKER_01: There's more, but I never came to have a powerless church.
SPEAKER_01: I never came, we never came to have a non-governmental church that would stop shy of dealing with demonic entities.
SPEAKER_01: We never came not to challenge sin and religion iniquity, we came to make a spiritual statement, not to people, but to the kingdom of darkness.
SPEAKER_01: We came to set people free.
SPEAKER_01: We came to break uh bloodlines and alcoholism and drug inactions and break the shackles of adultery and immorality and pornography.
SPEAKER_01: We came to do that.
SPEAKER_01: We came to have the healing power of God and restore lives.
SPEAKER_01: That's what we want to do.
SPEAKER_01: We we came.
SPEAKER_01: Not to give lip service to that, but we wanted to become a living reality.
SPEAKER_01: Want to actually get out of the box, break the parameters around our life, and be something in Christ, eh?
SPEAKER_01: And actually make a real difference.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Now, for you, God might have called you to write books.
SPEAKER_01: Well then write books.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah?
SPEAKER_01: I'm writing two books.
SPEAKER_01: I worked on the preface, worked on the index uh last about 12:30 at night, time the other night, writing two books.
SPEAKER_01: One's called Understanding the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Number two is called Kingdom Deliverance.
SPEAKER_01: It'll be out in 50 years' time.
SPEAKER_01: God might want you to write books.
SPEAKER_01: He might want you to spare a business.
SPEAKER_01: But I've never done a business, do the business.
SPEAKER_01: I've never done it.
SPEAKER_01: Dad doesn't even understand.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Do the business.
SPEAKER_01: Sit with Gus or Kevin or Kuder or somebody up the front there or someone at the back there, but sit with them and start your business.
SPEAKER_01: How long have you got that creative idea?
SPEAKER_01: Well, let's see if that created idea has something in it.
SPEAKER_01: Take it to the right people, not the downers, but the uppers.
SPEAKER_01: Take it to people that have a great belief system and say, yeah, we can make something good of this.
SPEAKER_01: But you've been sitting on that for five years.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what happens?
SPEAKER_01: Sit on it for five years, and then someone's driving along with the product in their car.
SPEAKER_01: You said, I designed that five years ago.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, you did, but you never did anything with it.
SPEAKER_01: Now they've designed it.
SPEAKER_01: You don't think that's happened?
SPEAKER_01: Do you want?
SPEAKER_01: In the ministry, it happens.
SPEAKER_01: If we don't fulfill the call and step up, God is patient, he's enduring, but the time will come he knows how to raise up somebody after fill our role.
SPEAKER_01: So if we don't step in as a church and fulfill the role that God has for us, he'll raise up another one to do it.
SPEAKER_01: Now I don't mind churches being raised up to do what they're supposed to do and what we're doing as an equal or whatever, and I'm not saying we're great at anybody else.
SPEAKER_01: Please read my heart and lips.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm saying we don't want to miss out for what God has for us.
SPEAKER_01: That's a shameful thing when we didn't quite do it because we had what the Bible refers to as a slack hand.
SPEAKER_01: Slothful at the gate.
SPEAKER_01: What parameter does God want to break around your life?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's an area I find it so hard and difficult talking to people.
SPEAKER_01: Well, then go talk to people.
SPEAKER_01: You say I haven't got a lot of friends.
SPEAKER_01: Proverbs says, he that wants to have friends must first show himself to be friendly.
SPEAKER_01: Break it.
SPEAKER_01: What's wrong with you?
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is wrong with you.
SPEAKER_01: You think, well, man, I I struggle.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing is wrong with you.
SPEAKER_01: Just get out there, make some friends.
SPEAKER_01: You say, see, what most men's philosophies are built on a rationalization of their failures.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I tried evangelism, mate.
SPEAKER_01: I got spat at.
SPEAKER_01: And they made fun of me.
SPEAKER_01: And man, I stumbled with the scriptures, so I conclude I'm not an evangelist.
SPEAKER_01: No, you just needed to go in the wisdom of God, train up somewhat and go with the power of God.
SPEAKER_01: But we have this conclusion around our love.
SPEAKER_01: I tried singing one time in the in the group and it was terrible, so I conclude I'm obviously not a singer.
SPEAKER_01: Who said because of the failure?
SPEAKER_01: Because something didn't work out?
SPEAKER_01: You had a conclusion, a belief system over your life that you can't do, that you're not anointed for it because it just didn't work out once.
SPEAKER_01: That's a limitation right there.
SPEAKER_01: I think we need to ask the law.
SPEAKER_01: We've had some of us have had spoken words.
SPEAKER_01: We had things by authorities and peers and influential figures around our life that said something, or maybe they didn't say something when they shouldn't have said something.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you bled your guts out on that rugby field and nobody said anything and they just walked away.
SPEAKER_01: And you think, well, obviously, I'm no good.
SPEAKER_01: No, you are good.
SPEAKER_01: And you don't need the praises of people to validate you.
SPEAKER_01: You're good as you are, but what I'm saying is you need to find your lane.
SPEAKER_01: What is your lane?
SPEAKER_01: If this is a coaching session right there, we go through, I'd ask you, what's your lane?
SPEAKER_01: What has God asked you to do?
SPEAKER_01: What has He anointed you to do?
SPEAKER_01: Are you walking in that lane?
SPEAKER_01: This is the way walking in it.
SPEAKER_01: Are you actually fulfilling the call of God on your life?
SPEAKER_01: Or we're in now just hanging out and doing our own thing.
SPEAKER_01: Mate, don't live like that.
SPEAKER_01: Not only is it boring, you're appeasing the kingdom of darkness.
SPEAKER_01: They want you not to be in that lane.
SPEAKER_01: They are clapping you for you not to get in that lane.
SPEAKER_01: They are distracting you, hoping that you get old in the saddle and haven't got any energy to even jump into that lane.
SPEAKER_01: And then you're at 95 years of age and now thinking, well, it's time to obey God now and get him on a it was too late.
SPEAKER_01: When were you in the 20s when you got saved when you were 17?
SPEAKER_01: When you were in the 40s, it's time to find the lane.
SPEAKER_01: What's your lane this morning?
SPEAKER_01: Have you considered it?
SPEAKER_01: Have you considered that thing that God has for you?
SPEAKER_01: Are you in it because you're ready for this?
SPEAKER_01: That's where the fruitfulness is.
SPEAKER_01: That's where the anointing is, that's where the blessing of the Lord is, is in the lane.
SPEAKER_01: That's where you can sell.
SPEAKER_01: We can excel.
SPEAKER_01: We can be good at a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_01: Seriously now, but make sure if you're gonna be good at a lot of stuff, you got great things in that lane that when you go towards the uh before the Lord at the at the um the judgment seat of Christ, it's called not the great right throne, the judgment seat of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: We've got our heads up, man.
SPEAKER_01: Our heads aren't down.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what?
SPEAKER_01: One of the things I find that knocks us out of the lane of life is we get offended with people.
SPEAKER_01: Seriously, I want to say this is that some of us we can carry a judgment about somebody, or we can carry a negative report in our because we heard something.
SPEAKER_01: So we've concluded about a family, or we've concluded about somebody just on something we heard.
SPEAKER_01: We didn't even have the facts.
SPEAKER_01: That's not a great way to live, man.
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
SPEAKER_01: If we live like that, that stops us even wanting to reach out and change someone or reach out and see the change of God.
SPEAKER_01: We've got to be bigger, even if they were right.
SPEAKER_01: Let that not be the thing.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says we should we shouldn't know one another after the flesh, we should know one another after the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So sometimes those are the things, the limitations is how we feel about someone, what we think about someone.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to say that sometimes we don't have the facts, we've got a conclusion without the facts.
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty unfair.
SPEAKER_01: On them, it is, and I think God wants to do some surgery in our hearts.
SPEAKER_01: We have limitations around how much we love people, we will only love them this far.
SPEAKER_01: And then further, no, I can't love them, man.
SPEAKER_01: They are horrible people, that's it.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: God wants to have us love, right?
SPEAKER_01: Increase, okay.
SPEAKER_01: I'll only go to uh Fiji for missions, safe there.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, God wanted you to go to Afghanistan in two years' time.
SPEAKER_01: You think, well, these guys, I think, might have been over to Afghanistan.
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying there?
SPEAKER_01: Stretch it out.
SPEAKER_01: Remember, I've said the miracle is in the stretch.
SPEAKER_01: Some of you dream about millionaires.
SPEAKER_01: Where are you stepping into it?
SPEAKER_01: What are you sowing?
SPEAKER_01: Some of you called to be providers for the kingdom, provision for the vision, and and pushing through and supporting.
SPEAKER_01: And there was a guy years ago who's a multi-millionaire, phenomenal business part of the uh a particular church that I know that church, and he was funding money there, doing missions and all stars.
SPEAKER_01: Then he had this uh crazy idea.
SPEAKER_01: I think I'd like to go to Bible school.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the the pastor said, Bible school, mate.
SPEAKER_01: You are you are supporting hundreds of missionaries on the mission field, and now you want to go to Bible school, quit your job, leave your business, clothing down to get a bit more education spiritually.
SPEAKER_01: It's like, mate, stick to your lane.
SPEAKER_01: You with me on this?
SPEAKER_01: Find it out.
SPEAKER_01: I should be able to come up to the service and be a terrible pastor and say, Tana, what is your lane this morning?
SPEAKER_01: What is it, sister?
SPEAKER_01: Tell me about that lane.
SPEAKER_01: Are you producing food?
SPEAKER_01: What's happening?
SPEAKER_01: Are you putting your uh your 80% into that lane?
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01: The end of the day, it's just like, hey, we got sorry, Tana.
SPEAKER_01: She's saying it's all right, so I'll go further.
SPEAKER_01: Um, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: But but you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01: It it's like, are you are you excelling in your lane?
SPEAKER_01: You say, Well, I got discouraged in my lane, I got hit in my lane, it's time to get up, it's time to write.
SPEAKER_01: There's a limitation right there.
SPEAKER_01: You say, I got hurt, I got burned in my lane.
SPEAKER_01: Life happens, stuff happens to all of us all the time.
SPEAKER_01: There's enough offending people to be offended every day on the block, but you make that decision.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna be offended by anybody, nobody's gonna move my position in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be full of mercy, grace, and forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna lay down all judgment, I don't care what anybody else says, I'm not gonna go down that way.
SPEAKER_01: I've I've become a master of shutting down some conversations, and uh, you need to be a master of shutting down some conversations.
SPEAKER_01: I was getting my hairdresser, there's there's about five hairdressers, so you don't know which one, so that's okay.
SPEAKER_01: And they begin to rant on somebody who's not a Christian, and I said, Why I said this, uh, can I ask you a question?
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Yeah, man, yeah, man.
SPEAKER_01: So now you know who it is now.
SPEAKER_01: Um, they're all like that, they're all the young guys are like that.
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, he said to me about somebody on the island.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I know of the person, and they said to me some stuff, and I said, Can I ask you a question?
SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, and I said, Do you know him personally or not really?
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Okay, so you've heard this stuff, and you're now telling me it's got nothing to do with me.
SPEAKER_01: I came to get my hair cut, not to get a download.
SPEAKER_01: But I said, You're telling me about the stuff and you don't even know the guy.
SPEAKER_01: Do you know?
SPEAKER_01: He said, This is what I've heard.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Look, I said, This is how the and I won't tell you because you'll give it away.
SPEAKER_01: But but I said, No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: What you would what you're doing, I said, you've heard stuff about somebody's character and you're dumping it on me.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, I don't want to know about it, and I don't even believe what you're saying to be true, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER_01: But I said, that's secondary, the fact that you've got a conclusion about this.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to this guy straight up, you've got a conclusion about this guy or about these people, just on what you've heard.
SPEAKER_01: I said, You can't live like that.
SPEAKER_01: He said, I said, I suggest you go talk to the person.
SPEAKER_01: He was silent, he said, or I will.
SPEAKER_01: I thought, you won't, because it's easier to behind someone's back.
SPEAKER_01: We want to be a different breed, don't we?
SPEAKER_01: One of the words the Lord gave me when we first came to the church here is uh uh is speak evil of nobody.
SPEAKER_01: That's one of the words the Lord gave me for our church.
SPEAKER_01: We don't want to be those people.
SPEAKER_01: We're we're we want to be tar with a different brush, we want to be filled with kingdom eyes, we want to believe in people.
SPEAKER_01: Sure we confront sin.
SPEAKER_01: Sure we call things out politically, sure we call things out on the Western Front.
SPEAKER_01: We call things out in here, but we do it with grace, we do it with power.
SPEAKER_01: Want to conclude this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Ask you one question: your lane.
SPEAKER_01: What does it look like?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're on another lane and you realize that you should be on another lane.
SPEAKER_01: How about hopping off that and making some attempt to close it up?
SPEAKER_01: It was good while you did it, but it wasn't anointed when you were doing it, and hop in to the very thing that God has for you.
SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I don't believe these are days, I believe these are days of efficiency, these are days of productivity, these are days of uh of really producing.
SPEAKER_01: And the reality of it is from a biblical truth, if I was to teach a message like this, one of these days all of us will stand before the Lord, we'll give an account to what we said, what we thought, and what we did.
SPEAKER_01: What we said, thought, and what we did.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's not our time.
SPEAKER_01: Seriously, you think about it, it's not our time, it's his time.
SPEAKER_01: I surrender all, it's his time.
SPEAKER_01: Money, it's not my money, his money, because I surrendered all.
SPEAKER_01: That's called lordship.
SPEAKER_01: That's actually called a thing called Christianity.
SPEAKER_01: Amazing, but let me tell you, the life that gets lived in that lane is a phenomenal, it surpasses any other lane.
SPEAKER_01: You hardly ever get depressed in that lane, you hardly ever squabble and argue in that lane, you're hard or you're hardly ever contending or full of self-doubts in that lane because you're graced, because you're empowered, because you're in there.
SPEAKER_01: The grace of the Lord, the power of Jesus is in that lane.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody will try and pop you off out of that lane and come into my lane.
SPEAKER_01: And that's okay if you're supposed to be in that lane helping them out, but find your lane.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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