Tyler Feller

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many people you have a problem fallen asleep like that?
Get rest? I do? I do? I do? I do
I have that? I definitely, I definitely have that problem.
In fact, this idea of rest is so important to God.
Let me share this verse with you. Psalm chapter four,
verse eight. It says, I fall asleep in peace the

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moment that I lie down because of You alone, Lord,
It says, enabled me to live securely. Isn't that crazy?
How many people want that verse for their life? Give
me that verse. Rest is so important to God. He
actually instituted a whole day called Sabbath that we're supposed

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to participate. And that's that's what we're talking about today.
This idea of sabbath. What is it? And it's so
important to him that he made it a law in
the Old Testament. He commands us to do it, and
we all, like I think, deep down, want that want
that principle in our life of rest. Want to live
with God in a way that we're fully empowered to
live out the destiny and purpose. That's honest. But a
lot of us go to bed later than we're supposed to,

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and we wake up too soon and we run off
the batteries of four hours or five hours of sleep,
and we call it good and we kind of just
live our lives trying to catch up, like if I
can just get to that next thing, I'll be oh, Okay.
That is not the way that God intended us to live,
or to be, or for us to fully express our

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devotion to him. Let's look at up mark chapter two.
If you have a bobbles, you can turn with me
real fast. It says this. Jesus said to them, the
Sabbath was made to meet the needs of the people,
not people meeting the needs of Sabbath, the requirements of Sabbath.
So the son of Man is Lord even over Sabbath.
I love what he's saying. Here. Let me read it

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to you in a couple other translations so we can
get it in our thick skulls. He says this and IV.
The Sabbath was made for man. The man wasn't made
for the Sabbath. Here's what it says in the net.
The Sabbath was made for people. The people were not
made for the Sabbath. Jesus finished by saying, this is
this ev people, We're not made for the good of
the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for the good of

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the people. What is the Bible trying to say. The
Bible's trying to say that this day of rest that
God instituted was actually a benefit to us as believers,
so that we can be fully recharged and focused to
live on purpose for Him. And if you're here today
and you're breathing and you have a pulse, you have
a purpose. You have something that God's calling you to do,
and you're never able to fully live out the extent

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of that unless you're doing it from a place of
rest in Him. And so, in context of what we're
reading in the scripture, one day, Jesus is walking around
with his disciples. Could you imagine walking with Jesus. Could
you imagine seeing him turn water into wine, or taking
a few breadcrumbs and fish from a little boy and

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feeding the multitude, And blind eyes are open and death
ears suddenly start to hear. People are raised by the way.
If it happened in the Bible, it can happen in
this room today, could you imagine. And so these disciples

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are on this crazy adventure with Jesus, and uh, they
get hungry and they're walking down the road and there's
some wheat. It's kind of like a sunflower seed. They
just pick it. And they ever walk down the road
and you see a BlackBerry, anybody ever walk down the

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road and you're like, oh, it's a flower, I won't
pick it. You just pick it. They just pick it,
and they're hungry, and they're just popping like a sunflower seed.
They're just doing what they're doing. And the Pharisees, who
are like the religious leaders at the time, get so mad,
so angry because to them this idea of Sabbath was holy.
Let me read to you from their vantage point, their law.

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Exodus chapter twenty says, remember to observe the Sabbath day
by keeping it holy. Sixth days each week for your
ordinary work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath day
of rest, dedicated to the Lord. And on that day,
know one in your household may do any work that
includes you, your sons, your daughters, your servants, your livestock, any foreigners.
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and
the earth, the sea, and everything in them. But on

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the seventh day he rested. And that is why the
Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and he sets it apart
as wholly. It's so important to this group of Pharisees
to honor the Sabbath that they started coming up with
all these rules on how to obey it, Like if
you want to eat on the Sabbath day, you have
to cook your food the day ahead of time. And

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if there's certain work or economic things that you need,
you're gonna have to wait till the day after or
do it the day before. And if you're gonna walk somewhere,
you can only walk certain amount of mileths. Even Jewish
people to this day that honor the Sabbath, they have
very strict rules, like, for example, they can't use certain
parts of technology. So like if you go to a
hotel that honors the Jewish crowd on the Sabbath, you'll
see signs that like the automatic doors don't work. Or

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I saw one video of a Jewish man who couldn't
use his hotel key on the Sabbath, so he had
to have the staff come into it form or give
him a manual key to open it. Still, to this day,
this group of people, they honored this rule, the law
that says do not work and Jesus hears them. Don't
you love how Jesus kind of just cuts through the
noise of stuff, like he takes chaos and turns it

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into order. And so there's all this chaos, there's all
this confusion, there's this fight that's brewing over the disciples.
You think they were You think people were mad because
because they were eating grain. Are you allowed to eat grain? No?
It wasn't that you think they're mad because wasn't cooked. No,

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it wasn't that you think they're mad because they took
it from somebody's field. And wasn't that they were mad
because people were doing work. And so Jesus cuts through
the noise and he said, you've made this thing called
the Sabbath the rule that you have to follow. But

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the Sabbath was made for people. People weren't made for
the Sabbath. And he flips it on its head, He
turns it upside down. He speaks through the prophet Isaiah,
and he says, this, keep the Sabbath day holy. Don't
pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath.
Speak with it in delight as the Lord's holy day.

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Honor the Sabbath, and everything you do, don't follow your
own desires. And then the Lord will be your delight.
I will give you great honor and satisfy you with
an inheritance I promised to your ancestor, Jacob. He says,
I the Lord have spoken three things. I'm going to
tell you about Sabbath if you're taking notes today. The
first is this Sabbath was made to give us rest.
The primary reason and purpose that we have Sabbath is

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so that we can rest. God and his infinite wisdom
knew that we needed rest, and he also knew me
included that we would work ourselves to the ground if
we didn't have that built in. And so he speaks
to them through the prophet Isaiah, and he says, keep
this day holy, Keep the Sabbath day holy. What does
that mean? It means as Christians, as believers were separate,

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we're different than the rest. It means we obey God
and we turn from sin. In other words, and I
hope you get this today in other words, in other words,
In other words, there is a distinct connection between rest
and holiness. There's a distinct connection between rest and you

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being the righteousness of God. In Christ, there's a distinct
holiness between rest and your ability to do the thing
that He's called and purposed for you to do. And
so he's trying to teach them through Isaiah about Sabbath,
and he says this. He says, don't pursue your own
interests on that day. Enjoy the Sabbath, speak of it
with delight, take joy in it, don't dread it, look

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forward to it, Honor the Sabbath and everything you do,
and don't follow your own desires. So the Sabbath is
not about doing anything you want, but it's about being
intentional with what you do. And I want to give
you a little tool and trick of the trade to
help you sort of like categorize your mind so that
you can be just totally refreshed and recharged. Because one

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of the things that I've realized is that a lot
of times, even when the Sabbath rolls around, people haven't
known how to take care of their body, their mind,
their heart, and their soul. That when the Sabbath rolls around,
there reactive instead of proactive. So I'm going to give
you a tool that helps you put things from the
Sabbath in it. But it's also beyond just the sabbath,

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and we call it a Pies chart, and it stands
for physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual. And for each of these
four things that exist on there, there's something that you
can do, a rhythm and a routine that you can
do to make yourself feel recharged. So the question would
be for your physical body, what do you need? And
it's not one it's not one size fit all. Each

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person is different. What do you need physically to feel recharged? Kindall,
who's ninety years old? You know what he does? He
sits down and stands up twenty one times a day
and a chair. And I said, why do you do
twenty one? He said, because I think I'll lose count
and I want to make sure I do twenty. So
he sits down and stands up twenty one times a
day and a chair. Well, ninety years old, that's pretty good.

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But for some of you, you might need to go
run a mile every day, you might need to go
to the gym four times a week. What is it
that you need to do? And maybe on that sabbath
you take a hike, and maybe on that sabbath you
don't do anything at all. I don't know what it is.
It's each person's different. Intellectually. We worship God with our
mind too. How are you sharpening your mind? For me?

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I like to watch a documentary. I like to read
a book. And so I'm reading a book or watching
a documentary. I'm going in a deep dive on some
kind of learning that has nothing to do with anything
other than just helping keep my mind sharp. What rhythm
do you need to do that? What about emotionally? Now,
some of you in this room, you just need to
go on a date night with your spouse. Some of
you maybe every single day with your family, you say

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what was the best part of your day, what was
the worst part of your day? What was your high?
And what was your low? At the dinner table, and
it allows you to express and connect emotionally and you
feel recharged in that way. Some of you, like, you
might need to just go once a month to the spa,
get your hair done or whatever. And you're like, I know,
it seems selfish to do that, but you actually feel

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replenished by doing that. And the S stands for spiritual?
What is the spiritual recharge that you need to have?
And now you guys, are good. It's a holiday weekend
and you're at church, so you have your church rhythm down.
I appreciate that, thank you for being here. But there's
rhythms beyond church. You need to be in church every week.
That's part of that rhythm. But what else is it?

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Is it reading the Bible every day? Is it doing
your favorite devotional? Is it worshiping? Is it spending time
in silence and solitude before the Lord? What are these
rhythms in your life to feel recharged? Now? When you
have this pised chart figured out, it puts you in
a really good position that when you get to the
Sabbath to make the most of the benefits that God
has for us. What I see a lot of times

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is people get to the Sabbath day and they're just
trying to catch up on all of this pies thing.
And we've got to have these rhythms in our life
to accomplish everything that God has for us. We're gonna
talk a little bit about that, because the second thing
is that the Sabbath actually is made to prepare us
for work. The Sabbath is actually made to prepare us

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for work. Go back to the Ten Commandments, Exodus twenty says,
in six days, the Lord made the heavens, the earth,
the sea, and everything. And then but on the seventh
day he rested. Think about this, On the seventh day
God rested from work. So he'd been building the earth.
He'd created man and pulled a rib out of them

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and created woman and called them Adam and Eve. And
then the very first day that Adam and Eve is alive,
the first humans in existence, the very first full day
that they're alive, what did they do? They arrested, But
they weren't resting from anything. They were resting for something.

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They were resting for the work. Adam was going to
go till the ground and name all the animals, and
Eve was going to decorde their tiki hut. I don't
know what. I don't know what she was doing cooking food.
Maybe I don't know what she was doing. But they
had never worked a day in their life. And the

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human existence starts the place of rest for the things
that God's called you to do. Do you understand that, like,
you can't accomplish everything that God has for you unless
you're proactive. Doesn't it feel good if you have like
a lot of gas in the tank and you're not
like coming in on empty and using your weekend to

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fill you up to half tank. Doesn't it feel good?
This is a metaphor obviously, but rolling into the weekend
with half a tank and then you go to full.
You get what I'm saying. And so we have to
get this fright because listen, God has amazing things the
store for your life, and we can't do it. We
can't do it. We can't do it unless we're coming
from a place of rest. This is what it says
in verse fourteen. Then when we do this, then the

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Lord will be your delight and I'll give you great honor,
and I will satisfy you with the inheritance that I
promised your ancestor, Jacob, And he says, is aye, the
Lord has spoken. Sabbath is God's design for us to
fulfill the destiny that he has for us as his children.
It's our key to an inheritance. It's the result of

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his promise, and it's a blueprint that we have for
delight and honor in the Kingdom of Heaven. Here's the
third thing. Sabbath is made to reset, replenish, and restore
our soul. You know, rest is the way that we
restore ourselves. And if we constantly go go, go, go go, we'll,

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you know, we'll we'll crash and burn. But when we
disconnect our series that we're on been talking about, we
disconnect from the world and plug into God and reconnect
with him, there's a restoration that can happen. Now, there's
a scene in the Bible. You've probably heard of it.
This guy comes and Jesus is there, and the Pharisees

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are there. The same nasty ones that got mad about
the wheat sunflower seed eating makes me mad, those same
ones are there. And this guy shows up and his
arms all shriveled up and he needs a heal, he
needs to be touched from God. But it's the Sabbath.

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Are you allowed to brave for somebody on the Sabbath?
Let's see what happens. It's in Mark chapter three. Jesus
went to the synagogue again and he noticed a man
with a deformed hand, And since it was the sabbath,
Jesus's enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man's hand,

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they planned to accuse him of working on the sabbath.
Jesus said to the man with a deformed hand, come
stand in front of everyone, and then he turned to
the critics and he asked, this, does the law permit
good deeds on the Sabbath? Or is it a day
for doing evil? Is this a day to save a
life or to destroy it? And they wouldn't answer him.

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So we looked at them, and he was angry too,
and he was saddened. And then he said to the man,
hold out your hand, and it was restored. It's almost
like the Pharisees created this law in a way that
feels like it brings death. And the history of what

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happened in the Jewish heritage was that it became an
obligation and Jesus was coming in and he was flipping
it on its head, said, is it okay to bring
life on this day? Is it okay to bring restoration
on this day? Some of you you showed up to

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church today and you're a workaholic and you're thinking about
your job, and you're thinking about things you have to do,
and you're five or six tasks deep, and every day
ends and you still haven't completed everything you want to complete.
And you need to repent today because you've missed out

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on the benefits that God has for you in Sabbath.
But others of you in this room today you're not
a workaholic, but you're still not honoring the Lord with
the Sabbath because your mind is filled with thoughts, anxious thoughts.
Some of you you're worried about the bills, You're worried
about your kids, You're worried about this issue about the vacation.

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You're worried word word, word worried, and you can't ever
just stop and rest in Him now. Honestly, I used
to be the world's worst at this principle, and I
would justify it. I'd be like, well, I'll do four
hours of Sabbath on Friday, I'll do another four on Saturday.

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I'll like kind of like cumulate my Sabbath. That doesn't
even make sense, that's dumb idea. And I worked word
word word word work worked, and I was leading a
church and I had to make big decisions. And then
and COVID happened, and I was living at the time
in a state that had really strict laws. I would
come visit Tennessee and they were like going wild on Broadway,

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and I'm like, we're not even allowed to go inside
of a restaurant where I'm at. You guys are crazy
in Tennessee at this time, and it was very oppressive,
and I was having to make big leadership decisions, and
there were families and people and everybody was impacted by it.
And I was work work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work,
And then I got sick with COVID. And the story

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is really long. I could talk about it for hours.
God taught me about rest in this season. I made
a little video just to show you a little of
the journey that I went through with COVID. Check it out.
Some hours, I would feel really good. An hour or two.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Later, I would literally think I'm about to die. This
is how I'm going out. I'm going out with a
little thing called COVID.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I just pulled up at the COVID place to
get tested and praise the Lord. They're allowing me to
self swab because I literally had a nightmare about them
some people swabbing my nose because I've heard the horror
stories and.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
It just freaked me out. Hey there, my name is Tyler.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I have a schedule for eleven o'clock so before COVID testing.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Okay, are you out there now?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, I'm in a red truck. I'm I wanted to
do the one that was rapid. In this particular week
in July, it seemed like everyone that I knew had COVID.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
We were having an event at our church. It was
the first time in a long time that we were
having a big event like that. We were doing vacation
Bible School. It was like almost every person at that
event came down with COVID. At that point, all the
hospitals were so limited in how they were able to
help anyways that a lot of the people that were

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going to the hospital were being turned away because they
just didn't have any more beds. As I started to
recover from COVID, this other really weird thing happened. I
started having a tremendous amount of symptoms.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
In fact, just.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Started tracking them and writing them down, symptoms that were
abnormal that I didn't used to have, And it told
it one hundred and seventy three individual symptoms that.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Were adnorable, And there was no doctor that seemed to
be able to make sense of the list of symptoms
that I had. Things like a walking heart rate average
of a one point fifty when it used to be seventy,
or my eyes itching, uncontrollable year, sensitivity to sound in light,
vivid dreams. My hair was falling out. I had a
hard time swallowing food. It felt like I was constantly
in a rocking boat. And the list goes on and

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on and on and on and on. It got so
bad that I left my job and moved to Nashville
just to try to get healthy. After going to many, many,
many different doctors in several different states, I ended up
becoming a part of some experimental long COVID studies at Vanderbilt.
I spent about six months going through pretty intense processes,

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but I was able to get down to the bottom
of what was wrong with me, and even to this day,
I'm not one hundred percent better. But I wouldn't change
that season because of what God was doing in me
and what he was teaching. The biggest lesson I learned
by far is how important breast is in our walk

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with God. I was forced to rest when you saw
those photos of me in the hospital bed. They actually
strapped me to the hospital bed because like they were
doing some procedures on my body, and if I moved

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it would mess it up. And so I was actually
strapped where I couldn't move a muscle. And uh, that's
that's a way to disconnect from the world when you
say there's nothing I could there's nothing, there's nothing I
could do. It was just it became a place of
total and utter dependency on God. You know, sometimes why

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we don't rest And I would have never said this
out loud. Sometimes we don't rest because we don't fully
trust God with the results of our life. And we don't.
It's like you ever done this. You go to the altar,
you leave something there, you trust God with it. I

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need this healing, I need the prodigal to return. I
need my finances to be worked out. You leave it
at the altar. But actually before you walk out of
the church, you picked it back up with you and
we try to we take it in our own hands. Now.
I love closing the computer. I love saying I'm not

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going to respond to that till Monday. I love it.
It's this process I had to go on with the Lord.
Would you would you mind standing with me all across
this room. There's a verse. Oh, it's one of my

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favorite verses in the Bible. Jesus is speaking to to
to crowds of people that an earshot of him were
overwhelmed and heavy burdened. And he looks at them, just
like I'm looking at you right now. He looks at
them and he says, are any of you Are you tired?

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Are any of you worn out? Are any of you
heavy burdened? The same invitations available today. If you're here today,
are you tired? Are you worn out? Are you heavy burden?
And then Jesus says, come, come to me, and I

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will give you rest. And he says, all of those
heavy things that you're carrying around, all the baggage, and
all the trauma, and the health issues, and the bills,
and the prodigal children, all of these heavy things that
you're carried, you were not designed to carry them.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
So he says, give them to me, and I'll give
you mine. And he says, my burden is easy and
my yoke is light.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Come on, some of you. I can even just see
it in your countenance. There's a slump in your posture
because you've been walking with the way of the world.
In today's your day to be set free. Because Jesus
is in the room and he's saying, come to me
if you're tired, coming to me, if you're heavy burden,

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come to me, if you need a touch, he says, and.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
I I will give you rest.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Who is that today? If that's you and you just
say I'm tired, I need rest? Which is raise your
hand right where you aren't anybody be brave enough. I
see those hands, I see the hand, keep it put
it way up, put it away up, put it away up,
put it away up, put away up. Who else is that?
Because I believe, listen, I believe there's something supernatural about
to happen. I believe there's something super natural that's about
to happen in this room. That God's gonna come and

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there's a peace that's gonna come to your soul, and
there's a rest that you're gonna feel, and there's a
weight that you've been carrying that you don't have to
walk out of this church today and carry anymore. If
you see somebody's hand up all cross thees room, we
just go put put your hand on their shoulder. Across
this room. Find somebody. We're gonna pray. Find somebody their
hands up. Come on, find somebody, put your hand, put
your hand on them. Leave no man behind, leave no

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man behind. God's gonna listen God, God's about to do
something in this room. God's gonna touch some people. There's
a freedom that's coming. There's an ease, there's a relaxation,
there's a wholeness, there's a fulfillment. And when you walk
out of here, there's gonna be a step into your
purpose like you've never had it. I'm gonna pray, and
some of you are going to begin to sense and

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feel the power of God and an overwhelming, supernatural way.
It's gonna overwhelm you, some of you. I can feel it.
I can feel it. I can feel I can feel
God beginning to move. I can feel the power of
God in this room. Holy Spirit, Come, Jesus, Come, We

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just Oh, we acknowledge you, Jesus, We love you. Jesus.
Thank you Lord for your word that says, if any
of us are heavy burdened, Oh, if any of us
are tired, or if any of us are worn out,
that we can come to you, then you will give

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us rest. Lord. I speak to every single tired heart
in this place, and I just declare in the name
of Jesus that there's a supernatural rest that's coming on
each of them. I speak to the heavy burdens in
the baggage and the trauma that they've been carried. And
in the mighty name of Jesus, I just declare that
every attack from the enemy must go now. Every feeling

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of anxiousness must go. Now. If any cell in any
person's body is filled with anything other than the supernatural
peace of God, break it off now and the name
of Jesus, and I just declare every cell be brought
to peace now in Jesus's name, every cell be broad

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to life. In Jesus's name. I speak to every obligation
that anybody feels like they've had to carry. We break
that off. Lord, that we would find great reward in you,
that we would find great rest and replenishment and your
beauty and what you did for us, Jesus, that you
would draw our hearts back to the prized possession of
the cross and the thing that we run after. God.

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I pray that you would cause people in this room
to and their hearts be stirred and their faith to
intentionally make decisions to say, I'm going to honor the Sabbath,
and I'm going to keep it holy, and I'm going
to look forward to it and it's going to be
a pep in my step for the mission that He's
called for me. That we're not coming to rest from something.
We're coming to rest for something that You've called us to.

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I bless I bless your people in this room today,
and the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Do you feel
the presence of the Lord? Anybody feel the presence of God?
There's lots of people I could see, there's tears, God's moving.
I just listen one more, there's one more thing. I

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feel like just praying. I just feel like the Lord
just pricked my heart this morning during the first service.
I just feel like some of you in here you
have a prodigal in your life. You have a prodigal child,
and part of the reason you're not able to get
the rest that you want is because you're so worried
all the time about this prodigal. And I just want

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to pray that the prodigals would come home. Is that
anybody you'd say, I see that hand? Who else is that?
See those many hands? I just feel like this is
from the Lord. I feel like this is a supernatural thing.
That God put on my heart. Raise your hand that
you I just want to pray lots of prodigal So,
Father and the name of Jesus, we thank you for
the story in Luke chapter fifteen, that you gave us

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the picture of a prodigal returning. And I just speak
to an ease of the mind now for every person
that carries that burden and loses sleep over that prodigal
and we pray for reconciliation and relationships that God you
would begin to restore them in a supernatural way. Thank
you Jesus for doing what only you can do. Lord,

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I pray prodigals would come home. We just declare that
now in the name of Jesus, that prodigal children are
coming home. They're coming home, and they're coming to the Lord.
We declare that in the name of Jesus. One more thing,
no one looking around, eyes closed in this place. One
day you're going to stand before God. You're going to
be faced with an eternity, either in heaven with Jesus

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forever or hell. Jesus is the only way to that.
And some of you today you're not even sure if
you took your last breath, if you would go to
Heaven to be with Jesus or not. And I want
you to be sure. So if that's you and you
say I want to go to heaven, I want to
make sure I'm there forever. If that she would just
raise your hand across this place, say I want to
make sure Heaven is my home. Lots of hands up
in this room, lots and lots and lots and lots

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of hands, lots and lots and lots of hands. Would
you just say this prayer with me, Say thank you Jesus.
Say it out loud. All Christians in the rooms say
out loud, who say thank you Jesus for your redemption,
for your power, and for your salvation. Help me, Jesus
to be like you and follow you every way I

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can in Jesus' name. Amen,