January 15, 2025 • 24 mins
Feeling stuck in life's endless loop? You’re not alone. Join me, Louis Jackson III, in the Living Room as we tackle the monotonies of daily routines and break free from life's ruts. In this episode, I open up about my own battles with stagnation and share actionable wisdom from the scriptures that helped me turn things around. I recount my financial struggles while running a nonprofit and stress the importance of taking responsibility for our actions and seeking divine guidance. By fostering a genuine connection with God, we can navigate challenges and embrace "Next Level Living."
If you're looking for concise, impactful, and practical insights to move forward with purpose, this conversation is crafted just for you. Stay engaged with our content for more inspiration, and visit www.louisjackson3.com for additional resources to elevate your life to the next level.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Living Room Podcast, a podcast that
helps individuals redefine theirlives by tackling hard-hitting
issues and providing a platformfor thought-provoking
conversations.
Each week, life coach andentrepreneur Lewis Jackson III,
who is the founder and CEO ofRedefined Life Inc.
Discusses relevant topics suchas spirituality, relationships,
(00:24):
social justice, entrepreneurshipand much more.
Are you ready to redefine yourlife?
Come into the Living Room.
What's?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
going down.
Fam, this is your boy, louisJackson, and I want to welcome
you to the Living Room.
Want to welcome you to theliving room.
See, the living room is a spacethat we can come and talk and
be safe.
As we're going to our nextlevel, I hope that our time
(00:58):
together will be a time thatwill be really just normal.
You know, when I say the livingroom, I don't want it to be
something that is just allformal.
I really want it to be just ainformal conversation, because
(01:20):
the reality is we live in asociety that we try to be
everything to everybody.
We try to make sure thateverybody sees us as this
polished version, but thereality is we're not polished.
We got some stuff going on inour lives.
(01:41):
So, when you listen to theLiving Room, I want you to be
able to feel comfortable incoming in here and we're going
to just talk about everyday life, whether it is going to be
business, entrepreneurship orjust straight life coaching from
a biblical perspective.
Whatever it is, we want you tobe able to come and feel normal
(02:04):
coming into the living room.
Before we jump into our topicfor today, I want you right now
if you have not liked orsubscribed to this podcast.
I want you to do it as we speak, because we want to make sure
that this gets into the hands ofas many people as possible, and
(02:29):
so, in order for us to move upto those ranks, we need people
to like and subscribe.
You know what I mean, so if youcould do that for me, I will,
please, please, I will greatlyappreciate it.
And also, if you want to knowmore about what we do as we are
progressing to help people reachtheir next level, I want you to
(02:52):
go to nextcoachingcom, such assome life coaching opportunities
where we can come in and coachyou in person or online, or you
(03:21):
may want to just go ahead andcheck out a blog that we've you
know that I've wrote so that youcan kind and workshops so that
we can continue to move usforward in the next level,
because we believe next meansthat we're going to go to a new
era of excellence training.
We don't want to stay where weare, we want to go forward,
(03:43):
right, so enough with thepreliminaries.
I'm ready to jump into ourtopic for today.
Today's topic is something thatI've had to deal with, and I
(04:04):
think that all of us at somepoint in our lives have had to
deal with this idea of being ina rut.
I don't know about you, man,but sometime life can be like,
really mundane.
It can actually become thistype of space where you they
(04:28):
call it you get trying to getout of the rat race, where
especially in if you'relistening to me in America it
feels like we're always tryingto get somewhere.
You never really becomecomplacent or you never really
become in a space where you'recontent.
We're always trying to dosomething, but because of that,
(04:55):
we find ourselves not doinganything.
I don't know about you, maybeit's just me, but sometimes I
can get so overwhelmed trying toget to the next level that me
being overwhelmed literallydebilitates me from moving at
all.
And before I know it, I'm now inthis space where I'm in this
(05:20):
rut.
Right, it feels like I get up.
I do the same thing, I'm goingto the same places, I'm talking
to the same people, I'm havingall of these different feelings
of being in this rut, and someof us I'm pretty sure that if
(05:41):
you're listening to me, you'reprobably older you know what I
mean and even in ourrelationships they get stuck.
We know what each other likes,so we do the same thing, we have
sex the same way, we go to thesame date night, we talk to the
(06:01):
same.
You know, it's just this rut,right.
We talk to the same.
You know, it's just this rut,right?
And so this particular topicI'm going to probably deal with
in probably like two or threesegments of how do I get out of
this.
According to the scriptures,what are some principles that I
can get out of this rut, that Ican apply to my life to get me
(06:26):
to the next level.
So this is not like I'm aboutto give you these deep, true,
sometimes the most profoundthings are the most simple
things, right?
We always trying to find thesedeep, meaningful things, right,
and I'm one of them because Ilike to think deep with
(06:48):
substance.
But the reality is, man, someof this stuff you already know.
We're not putting into practicewhat we already know.
So, as you listen to the LivingRoom, the Living Room is, I try
to stay within like 20 minutes,20, 25, no more than 27 minutes
(07:11):
for the whole episode.
So, because I want to make surethat, you get what you need to
get and then go about yourbusiness, because I'm if you're
like me, you have a lot going on, so I don't have a lot of time
to listen to three hour worth,three hours worth of podcasts.
(07:32):
I don't want to be that.
I want to be able to just getyou know, get in, give me some
principles, help me out.
Maybe you know like I like torun on a treadmill and most of
my time on the treadmill isabout 30 minutes.
So, like within my time ofrunning on the treadmill in 30
minutes, I want to run on atreadmill and most of my time on
the treadmill is about 30minutes.
So, like within my time ofrunning on a treadmill in 30
minutes, I want to be able toget what I got to get and be
done and then have some time tothink about what was said.
(07:55):
So right now I'm probably aboutlike seven minutes.
So I'm going to jump into thisreal quick, this particular
podcast of how to get out ofruts.
Out of these ruts, I'm going tobe taking some scriptures out
of Proverbs, out of Proverbs,man, and so we're going to deep
(08:17):
dive into this.
Because if you are at a placeright now that you're dealing
with stress, fatigue, lack ofmotivation, this particular
podcast is going to be for youso that you can get to some
places of growth and success,and I'm a believer.
That podcast is a book ofProverbs, I'm sorry, is a book
(08:41):
of wisdom and guidance, right,and so we want to jump into it.
So today's topic we're going totalk about how do I overcome
challenges when I'm in a rut?
How am I going to overcome somechallenges when I'm in a rut?
The first scripture that I wantto hip you to, even if you're
(09:04):
not a Christian, I'm telling youit's out of this wonderful book
of Proverbs, the third chapter,five and six, and it say if you
are a Christian you've heardthis before Trust in the Lord
(09:29):
with all of your heart andsubmit to him, and he will make
your path straight.
Oh man, I hope y'all reallyheard this.
This again is coming out ofProverbs 3, 5, and 6, right,
proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
And I'm going to read it nowfrom a different translation
(09:52):
called the Passion Translation.
Listen to this again inProverbs 3, 5, and 6.
Trust in the Lord completely.
Do not rely on your ownopinions.
With all of your heart, rely onhim to guide you and he will
(10:12):
lead you in every decision thatyou make.
That is Proverbs 3, 5 in thePassion Translation.
Sixth verse says this becomeintimate with him in whatever
you do and he will lead youwherever you go.
(10:34):
The first principle that I wantto share with you on how to get
out of your rut is this you haveto trust God with everything.
Yeah, I want you to reallythink about this.
You have to trust God witheverything.
(10:56):
See, in Proverbs, that fifthverse, that first clause, says
trust in the Lord completely.
Now I want you, as you'relistening to me, and some of you
may be Christian and some ofyou may not be, but for those
(11:21):
who are, I want you to reallythink about this.
If I am going to really get tothe next level of my life, I
have to trust the creator.
That brought me to this point,that brought me to this point.
I cannot continue to rely onmyself.
Well, here's why this is hardin our Western society Because,
(11:42):
at the end of the day, webelieve we pulled our own self
up by our own bootstraps, right?
We think it's all aboutself-help.
It's all about making sure thatwe can get ourselves into or
out of anything.
That's what we're all about.
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That's what we talk about.
That is what our culture says.
It actually begins to say to usyou don't need to trust nobody.
It's about you can handle it onyour own.
But here goes this wisdom of thescripture tells you here's the
(12:22):
deal.
Listen to this.
Trust in the Lord completelyand don't rely on your own
opinion.
That means in everything.
Your own opinion, that means ineverything.
In other words, I can't rely onmy own opinion.
If I got myself in this rutbecause the reality is my
opinions brought me here, so Igot to ask God to get me out of
(12:48):
it.
Help me.
I need your wisdom to get meout of it and with all your
heart.
It says, rely on him to guideyou and he will lead you in
every decision you make, becausewe don't actually want to lean
(13:12):
on someone else, especially leanon something that we feel like
we can't see.
How am I going to lean on God?
Some of us may be in the pointwhere we feel like well, you
know what, god, I feel like itwas you that got me in this
space.
It was you that took me out of,took that person out of my life
(13:34):
.
It is you that made me missthis job or mess up right, so
you want me to lean on you?
No, I can't do that, god.
I refuse to do it.
What I'm here to tell you iswhatever you're're dealing with,
god is there with you, but I'mgonna keep it all the way, a
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hundred.
You put yourself in thissituation.
You did it's hard, ain't it?
You got to assumeresponsibility for your own
actions, and that's hard.
It's hard.
I do counseling and fatherengagement with a lot of fathers
who are involved in DCS when Ifirst began working with them.
(14:23):
The first thing that I tellthem is you're going to have to
settle in your mind that I willnot get out of this space until
I take full responsibility ofbeing in this space.
Yeah, I'm telling you today,you won't get to your next level
until you take fullresponsibility of being where
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you are.
Then, when you take fullresponsibility, you're going to
have to trust God to get you outof it.
You're going to have to say youknow what?
Because my opinions, mydecisions brought me here.
I need to rely on the one whocreated me to get me out of this
.
I need to rely on his wisdomand I need to rely on him to
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give me what is going to, whatI'm going to need in order to
get to this next level.
And your next level can beanything, because you're going
to keep hearing me say we got toget to the next, we have to get
to next.
But getting to next does notnecessarily mean I'm trying to
get to the next level ofprosperity.
It can be I'm trying to get tothe next level in my
(15:34):
relationship, that in myrelationship right now, I don't
love the way I think I shouldand I need to get to next.
And in that case let's just saythat case of you not loving the
way you need to love here goesthe thing you can't keep
trusting in your own opinionMaybe the way that you've been
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loving is not what's going tohelp in that relationship.
So I got to rely on him toguide me to that next level.
Are you with me, man?
Now?
I know you may look like Louis,you kind of preachy and all of
that stuff.
I am, I am who I am, but I'mtelling you that what you need
(16:19):
to get out of this particularlevel, this particular podcast
right now, is that you know whatI can't get to my next place
until I assume responsibilityfor my own actions.
And if I assume responsibilityfor my own actions, I now have
to look outside of me to the onewho created me.
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Does that make sense?
And here's the deal.
I'm going to even go a littlestep further.
If you are a Christian and youhave put your faith in Jesus
Christ, you don't even have tolook fully outside of you,
because God no longer dwells ina temple made with hands.
He dwells on the inside of you.
(17:02):
Yeah, I said it.
He dwells on the inside of youin the person of the Holy Spirit
.
And so he's saying I'm alreadythere with you.
I need for you to look unto merather than looking unto
yourself.
Trust me and I will help youget out of this rut.
I will lead you to get you tothe place where you're no longer
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in this rut.
And here's verse six, because Ionly got like maybe five more
minutes in this one.
Verse six says this in thePassion Translation become
intimate with him in whateveryou do and he will lead you
wherever you go.
I love that translation.
In other words, just like youwant to get intimate with your
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wife or husband and you want tobe able to connect with them in
a deeper level.
It doesn't just happen on aphysical level.
Yo, nah, nah, nah, nah.
If you've been married or beenwith someone any length of time,
you can have sex with them andnot be connected to them.
So no, I am not talking aboutjust on a physical level.
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I'm talking about.
True intimacy is when I'mcertain that you've heard this
before when you have allowed theother person to see into you.
That's what true intimacy is.
Verse six says become intimatewith God in whatever you do.
What does that mean, lewis, Iwant you to expose your thoughts
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, your deepest passions, yourfears to him.
He says if you do that, he willlead you wherever you go.
See, here's the deal, man.
I've been in some ruts in mylife and most of the time those
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ruts came and they sparked fromsome deep, unresolved issues
that I've probably just nevereven talked about with anyone.
But I had to be able to get toa spot, to where, lord, I'm
struggling with this.
One of the ruts that I strugglewith is the rut of having
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enough financially, because youknow, I grew up in ministry and
the reality was I saw ministry,that we helped a lot of people.
My father and my mother startedpastoring when I was 14.
But we didn't always haveeverything we needed.
It felt like we were giving somuch of ourselves that we were
(19:42):
not receiving financially, andso we were struggling to just
get by while we were giving ourlives away to others and for me,
I ended up doing that.
So me and my wife ended upstarting a nonprofit, and I was
giving my life to this nonprofitand still am giving my life.
(20:04):
Let me give a shout out to theVillage.
You can go and learn more aboutwhat we do the village
andersonorg um.
But we gave our life in ourgiving in, in this, giving our
life to the youth and familiesthat we are mentoring and
wraparound uh services.
But here's the deal.
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It wasn't paying me a lot, andso I began to start struggling
again.
We were not having enough toget by right, and I felt like,
oh my God, I'm in this rut, howdo I get out of it?
Well, one of the things I hadto do was what the scripture
said trust in the Lordcompletely and become intimate
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with him.
I had to tell him this is whereI'm at.
I feel like you called me tothis Lord, but I'm struggling
with it.
How do I get out of this?
What do I do to get out of this?
And here's the deal.
You know what I had to find out?
Here's what I found out.
He started saying because youfinally came to me real, instead
(21:08):
of in this formal capacity.
You came to me real.
I will begin to lead you inevery decision that you make.
I can lead you in every uh, ineverything that you need to do.
I can do it, but, louis, Icouldn't do it because you kept
feeling like you knew what to do.
But you finally came to theplace, to where I'm no longer
(21:31):
trying to do that.
I want to be with you.
Here's my wonderful antidote foryou today, if you're going to
get out of your rut.
You got to trust him.
Do you feel me?
You got to trust God and yougot to begin to take advantage
of what he is wanting to giveyou.
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He wants to give you wisdom.
He wants to take you to yournext level.
He's the one that gave you thedreams that you have.
But when you find out that, youknow what?
Here's the great thing, here'sthe gospel.
He said I'll never leave younor forsake you, did he not say
that?
So that means, if I'm in a rut,if I'm in a ditch, he's in the
ditch with me.
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But he's saying I know how toget out of this.
Will you help me?
Will you look unto me to getout of it?
Family, I hope that you gotsomething out of today's message
as we begin the starting pointof our series of how to get out
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of this rut that some of us arein.
Don't shy away from the rut.
Don't beat yourself up becauseyou're in the rut.
Here's the deal.
Take responsibility for it, buttrust God to get you out of it.
Take responsibility andunderstand that, hey, I can't
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get myself out of this, so I gotto go seek wisdom and trust God
that he will bring me out ofthis.
If this, again, if this helpedyou, do me a favor, man, go
ahead and rate this like it,subscribe to it.
We're going to be here everyweek.
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encourage you and help youredefine your life.
We want to help you get to yournext level.
Peeps, if you want to get moreinformation, I want you to go to
mynextcoachingcom.
Mynextcoachingcom.
(23:39):
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We are constantly building upmore resources, more podcasts,
more blogs, more programs oflife coaching.
We're even looking at launchingsome workshops in some online
(24:00):
classes.
We want to do whatever it takesto get you to your next level.
Even if you go there, you knowwhat you can go buy a shirt
that's going to help you,because we want you to live in
the next level.
Your next level is in yourhands, peeps, and so until next
week, we'll holler at you laterPeace.
Welcome to the Living Room Podcast, a podcast that
helps individuals redefine theirlives by tackling hard-hitting
issues and providing a platformfor thought-provoking
conversations.
Each week, life coach andentrepreneur Lewis Jackson III,
who is the founder and CEO ofRedefined Life Inc.
Discusses relevant topics suchas spirituality, relationships,
(00:24):
social justice, entrepreneurshipand much more.
Are you ready to redefine yourlife?
Come into the Living Room.
What's?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
going down.
Fam, this is your boy, louisJackson, and I want to welcome
you to the Living Room.
Want to welcome you to theliving room.
See, the living room is a spacethat we can come and talk and
be safe.
As we're going to our nextlevel, I hope that our time
(00:58):
together will be a time thatwill be really just normal.
You know, when I say the livingroom, I don't want it to be
something that is just allformal.
I really want it to be just ainformal conversation, because
(01:20):
the reality is we live in asociety that we try to be
everything to everybody.
We try to make sure thateverybody sees us as this
polished version, but thereality is we're not polished.
We got some stuff going on inour lives.
(01:41):
So, when you listen to theLiving Room, I want you to be
able to feel comfortable incoming in here and we're going
to just talk about everyday life, whether it is going to be
business, entrepreneurship orjust straight life coaching from
a biblical perspective.
Whatever it is, we want you tobe able to come and feel normal
(02:04):
coming into the living room.
Before we jump into our topicfor today, I want you right now
if you have not liked orsubscribed to this podcast.
I want you to do it as we speak, because we want to make sure
that this gets into the hands ofas many people as possible, and
(02:29):
so, in order for us to move upto those ranks, we need people
to like and subscribe.
You know what I mean, so if youcould do that for me, I will,
please, please, I will greatlyappreciate it.
And also, if you want to knowmore about what we do as we are
progressing to help people reachtheir next level, I want you to
(02:52):
go to nextcoachingcom, such assome life coaching opportunities
where we can come in and coachyou in person or online, or you
(03:21):
may want to just go ahead andcheck out a blog that we've you
know that I've wrote so that youcan kind and workshops so that
we can continue to move usforward in the next level,
because we believe next meansthat we're going to go to a new
era of excellence training.
We don't want to stay where weare, we want to go forward,
(03:43):
right, so enough with thepreliminaries.
I'm ready to jump into ourtopic for today.
Today's topic is something thatI've had to deal with, and I
(04:04):
think that all of us at somepoint in our lives have had to
deal with this idea of being ina rut.
I don't know about you, man,but sometime life can be like,
really mundane.
It can actually become thistype of space where you they
(04:28):
call it you get trying to getout of the rat race, where
especially in if you'relistening to me in America it
feels like we're always tryingto get somewhere.
You never really becomecomplacent or you never really
become in a space where you'recontent.
We're always trying to dosomething, but because of that,
(04:55):
we find ourselves not doinganything.
I don't know about you, maybeit's just me, but sometimes I
can get so overwhelmed trying toget to the next level that me
being overwhelmed literallydebilitates me from moving at
all.
And before I know it, I'm now inthis space where I'm in this
(05:20):
rut.
Right, it feels like I get up.
I do the same thing, I'm goingto the same places, I'm talking
to the same people, I'm havingall of these different feelings
of being in this rut, and someof us I'm pretty sure that if
(05:41):
you're listening to me, you'reprobably older you know what I
mean and even in ourrelationships they get stuck.
We know what each other likes,so we do the same thing, we have
sex the same way, we go to thesame date night, we talk to the
(06:01):
same.
You know, it's just this rut,right.
We talk to the same.
You know, it's just this rut,right?
And so this particular topicI'm going to probably deal with
in probably like two or threesegments of how do I get out of
this.
According to the scriptures,what are some principles that I
can get out of this rut, that Ican apply to my life to get me
(06:26):
to the next level.
So this is not like I'm aboutto give you these deep, true,
sometimes the most profoundthings are the most simple
things, right?
We always trying to find thesedeep, meaningful things, right,
and I'm one of them because Ilike to think deep with
(06:48):
substance.
But the reality is, man, someof this stuff you already know.
We're not putting into practicewhat we already know.
So, as you listen to the LivingRoom, the Living Room is, I try
to stay within like 20 minutes,20, 25, no more than 27 minutes
(07:11):
for the whole episode.
So, because I want to make surethat, you get what you need to
get and then go about yourbusiness, because I'm if you're
like me, you have a lot going on, so I don't have a lot of time
to listen to three hour worth,three hours worth of podcasts.
(07:32):
I don't want to be that.
I want to be able to just getyou know, get in, give me some
principles, help me out.
Maybe you know like I like torun on a treadmill and most of
my time on the treadmill isabout 30 minutes.
So, like within my time ofrunning on the treadmill in 30
minutes, I want to run on atreadmill and most of my time on
the treadmill is about 30minutes.
So, like within my time ofrunning on a treadmill in 30
minutes, I want to be able toget what I got to get and be
done and then have some time tothink about what was said.
(07:55):
So right now I'm probably aboutlike seven minutes.
So I'm going to jump into thisreal quick, this particular
podcast of how to get out ofruts.
Out of these ruts, I'm going tobe taking some scriptures out
of Proverbs, out of Proverbs,man, and so we're going to deep
(08:17):
dive into this.
Because if you are at a placeright now that you're dealing
with stress, fatigue, lack ofmotivation, this particular
podcast is going to be for youso that you can get to some
places of growth and success,and I'm a believer.
That podcast is a book ofProverbs, I'm sorry, is a book
(08:41):
of wisdom and guidance, right,and so we want to jump into it.
So today's topic we're going totalk about how do I overcome
challenges when I'm in a rut?
How am I going to overcome somechallenges when I'm in a rut?
The first scripture that I wantto hip you to, even if you're
(09:04):
not a Christian, I'm telling youit's out of this wonderful book
of Proverbs, the third chapter,five and six, and it say if you
are a Christian you've heardthis before Trust in the Lord
(09:29):
with all of your heart andsubmit to him, and he will make
your path straight.
Oh man, I hope y'all reallyheard this.
This again is coming out ofProverbs 3, 5, and 6, right,
proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
And I'm going to read it nowfrom a different translation
(09:52):
called the Passion Translation.
Listen to this again inProverbs 3, 5, and 6.
Trust in the Lord completely.
Do not rely on your ownopinions.
With all of your heart, rely onhim to guide you and he will
(10:12):
lead you in every decision thatyou make.
That is Proverbs 3, 5 in thePassion Translation.
Sixth verse says this becomeintimate with him in whatever
you do and he will lead youwherever you go.
(10:34):
The first principle that I wantto share with you on how to get
out of your rut is this you haveto trust God with everything.
Yeah, I want you to reallythink about this.
You have to trust God witheverything.
(10:56):
See, in Proverbs, that fifthverse, that first clause, says
trust in the Lord completely.
Now I want you, as you'relistening to me, and some of you
may be Christian and some ofyou may not be, but for those
(11:21):
who are, I want you to reallythink about this.
If I am going to really get tothe next level of my life, I
have to trust the creator.
That brought me to this point,that brought me to this point.
I cannot continue to rely onmyself.
Well, here's why this is hardin our Western society Because,
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at the end of the day, webelieve we pulled our own self
up by our own bootstraps, right?
We think it's all aboutself-help.
It's all about making sure thatwe can get ourselves into or
out of anything.
That's what we're all about.
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That's what we talk about.
That is what our culture says.
It actually begins to say to usyou don't need to trust nobody.
It's about you can handle it onyour own.
But here goes this wisdom of thescripture tells you here's the
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deal.
Listen to this.
Trust in the Lord completelyand don't rely on your own
opinion.
That means in everything.
Your own opinion, that means ineverything.
In other words, I can't rely onmy own opinion.
If I got myself in this rutbecause the reality is my
opinions brought me here, so Igot to ask God to get me out of
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it.
Help me.
I need your wisdom to get meout of it and with all your
heart.
It says, rely on him to guideyou and he will lead you in
every decision you make, becausewe don't actually want to lean
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on someone else, especially leanon something that we feel like
we can't see.
How am I going to lean on God?
Some of us may be in the pointwhere we feel like well, you
know what, god, I feel like itwas you that got me in this
space.
It was you that took me out of,took that person out of my life
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.
It is you that made me missthis job or mess up right, so
you want me to lean on you?
No, I can't do that, god.
I refuse to do it.
What I'm here to tell you iswhatever you're're dealing with,
god is there with you, but I'mgonna keep it all the way, a
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hundred.
You put yourself in thissituation.
You did it's hard, ain't it?
You got to assumeresponsibility for your own
actions, and that's hard.
It's hard.
I do counseling and fatherengagement with a lot of fathers
who are involved in DCS when Ifirst began working with them.
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The first thing that I tellthem is you're going to have to
settle in your mind that I willnot get out of this space until
I take full responsibility ofbeing in this space.
Yeah, I'm telling you today,you won't get to your next level
until you take fullresponsibility of being where
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you are.
Then, when you take fullresponsibility, you're going to
have to trust God to get you outof it.
You're going to have to say youknow what?
Because my opinions, mydecisions brought me here.
I need to rely on the one whocreated me to get me out of this
.
I need to rely on his wisdomand I need to rely on him to
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give me what is going to, whatI'm going to need in order to
get to this next level.
And your next level can beanything, because you're going
to keep hearing me say we got toget to the next, we have to get
to next.
But getting to next does notnecessarily mean I'm trying to
get to the next level ofprosperity.
It can be I'm trying to get tothe next level in my
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relationship, that in myrelationship right now, I don't
love the way I think I shouldand I need to get to next.
And in that case let's just saythat case of you not loving the
way you need to love here goesthe thing you can't keep
trusting in your own opinionMaybe the way that you've been
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loving is not what's going tohelp in that relationship.
So I got to rely on him toguide me to that next level.
Are you with me, man?
Now?
I know you may look like Louis,you kind of preachy and all of
that stuff.
I am, I am who I am, but I'mtelling you that what you need
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to get out of this particularlevel, this particular podcast
right now, is that you know whatI can't get to my next place
until I assume responsibilityfor my own actions.
And if I assume responsibilityfor my own actions, I now have
to look outside of me to the onewho created me.
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Does that make sense?
And here's the deal.
I'm going to even go a littlestep further.
If you are a Christian and youhave put your faith in Jesus
Christ, you don't even have tolook fully outside of you,
because God no longer dwells ina temple made with hands.
He dwells on the inside of you.
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Yeah, I said it.
He dwells on the inside of youin the person of the Holy Spirit
.
And so he's saying I'm alreadythere with you.
I need for you to look unto merather than looking unto
yourself.
Trust me and I will help youget out of this rut.
I will lead you to get you tothe place where you're no longer
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in this rut.
And here's verse six, because Ionly got like maybe five more
minutes in this one.
Verse six says this in thePassion Translation become
intimate with him in whateveryou do and he will lead you
wherever you go.
I love that translation.
In other words, just like youwant to get intimate with your
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wife or husband and you want tobe able to connect with them in
a deeper level.
It doesn't just happen on aphysical level.
Yo, nah, nah, nah, nah.
If you've been married or beenwith someone any length of time,
you can have sex with them andnot be connected to them.
So no, I am not talking aboutjust on a physical level.
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I'm talking about.
True intimacy is when I'mcertain that you've heard this
before when you have allowed theother person to see into you.
That's what true intimacy is.
Verse six says become intimatewith God in whatever you do.
What does that mean, lewis, Iwant you to expose your thoughts
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, your deepest passions, yourfears to him.
He says if you do that, he willlead you wherever you go.
See, here's the deal, man.
I've been in some ruts in mylife and most of the time those
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ruts came and they sparked fromsome deep, unresolved issues
that I've probably just nevereven talked about with anyone.
But I had to be able to get toa spot, to where, lord, I'm
struggling with this.
One of the ruts that I strugglewith is the rut of having
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enough financially, because youknow, I grew up in ministry and
the reality was I saw ministry,that we helped a lot of people.
My father and my mother startedpastoring when I was 14.
But we didn't always haveeverything we needed.
It felt like we were giving somuch of ourselves that we were
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not receiving financially, andso we were struggling to just
get by while we were giving ourlives away to others and for me,
I ended up doing that.
So me and my wife ended upstarting a nonprofit, and I was
giving my life to this nonprofitand still am giving my life.
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Let me give a shout out to theVillage.
You can go and learn more aboutwhat we do the village
andersonorg um.
But we gave our life in ourgiving in, in this, giving our
life to the youth and familiesthat we are mentoring and
wraparound uh services.
But here's the deal.
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It wasn't paying me a lot, andso I began to start struggling
again.
We were not having enough toget by right, and I felt like,
oh my God, I'm in this rut, howdo I get out of it?
Well, one of the things I hadto do was what the scripture
said trust in the Lordcompletely and become intimate
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with him.
I had to tell him this is whereI'm at.
I feel like you called me tothis Lord, but I'm struggling
with it.
How do I get out of this?
What do I do to get out of this?
And here's the deal.
You know what I had to find out?
Here's what I found out.
He started saying because youfinally came to me real, instead
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of in this formal capacity.
You came to me real.
I will begin to lead you inevery decision that you make.
I can lead you in every uh, ineverything that you need to do.
I can do it, but, louis, Icouldn't do it because you kept
feeling like you knew what to do.
But you finally came to theplace, to where I'm no longer
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trying to do that.
I want to be with you.
Here's my wonderful antidote foryou today, if you're going to
get out of your rut.
You got to trust him.
Do you feel me?
You got to trust God and yougot to begin to take advantage
of what he is wanting to giveyou.
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He wants to give you wisdom.
He wants to take you to yournext level.
He's the one that gave you thedreams that you have.
But when you find out that, youknow what?
Here's the great thing, here'sthe gospel.
He said I'll never leave younor forsake you, did he not say
that?
So that means, if I'm in a rut,if I'm in a ditch, he's in the
ditch with me.
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But he's saying I know how toget out of this.
Will you help me?
Will you look unto me to getout of it?
Family, I hope that you gotsomething out of today's message
as we begin the starting pointof our series of how to get out
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of this rut that some of us arein.
Don't shy away from the rut.
Don't beat yourself up becauseyou're in the rut.
Here's the deal.
Take responsibility for it, buttrust God to get you out of it.
Take responsibility andunderstand that, hey, I can't
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get myself out of this, so I gotto go seek wisdom and trust God
that he will bring me out ofthis.
If this, again, if this helpedyou, do me a favor, man, go
ahead and rate this like it,subscribe to it.
We're going to be here everyweek.
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Every week, we're going to havesomething to inspire you,
encourage you and help youredefine your life.
We want to help you get to yournext level.
Peeps, if you want to get moreinformation, I want you to go to
mynextcoachingcom.
Mynextcoachingcom.
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There you will find some of theresources that we have.
We are constantly building upmore resources, more podcasts,
more blogs, more programs oflife coaching.
We're even looking at launchingsome workshops in some online
(24:00):
classes.
We want to do whatever it takesto get you to your next level.
Even if you go there, you knowwhat you can go buy a shirt
that's going to help you,because we want you to live in
the next level.
Your next level is in yourhands, peeps, and so until next
week, we'll holler at you laterPeace.
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