May 27, 2025 • 16 mins
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Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
Orthodox spirituality expands through mindful prayer, Orthodox communities find God in present-moment awareness, Orthodox theology embraces contemplative meditation, Ortho
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is no worse feeling than that of invisibility. You know,
when you are doing your very best and it goes unrecognized,
it makes it kind of harder to want to keep
doing it. And when you feel unseen, especially by the
people whose attention and approval you crave the most, it
(00:25):
can create a compulsion in your life to start doing
things that are not even really consistent with your character
in order to receive from people a confirmation that can.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Be taken away just as easily as it was given.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But we are not citizens of this kingdom, which celebrates
and compliments all the things that are seen. We are
citizens of the kingdom where Jesus has things like this.
When you do something in secret, your father sees it,
and he will reward you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
According to what he sees.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So my message is, if you have felt unappreciated, uncelebrated, unnoticed,
and insignificant in this kingdom, what is unseen is often
what is most significant.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Now not in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
In the world we we correlate scene with significant.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But I'll tell you what. You could take this pulpit
away and.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I could still preach my sermon because I really don't
need my notes. They're just like Linus's blanket is.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Just like a security thing for me.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I really have the message in my heart. So you
could take this away and I could still preach. But
if the signal that's causing this microphone to make a
sound were to drop out, you could no longer hear
the message. Why because what is invisible is often what
is most valuable.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And yet can I keep going. I'm gonna do it
whether you want me to or not.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I got you now, whether we will admit it or not,
we are so good at celebrating the wrong stuff. People
will always especially the crowd, give us Rabbus. The crowd
will always celebrate the wrong thing. People will always celebrate.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What they can see.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And another thing that people will always do is celebrate
a gift rather than celebrating character.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We celebrate the wrong stuff. Now, if you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Do it in secret, and this could refer to anything
in your life. If you do, if you do what
you do according to your values, not according to external validation,
then you understand the meaning of the Father saw the
sacrifices that you made that no one else really pointed out,
(03:08):
the stuff, nobody gave you a trophy for. What would
it be like this year for us to live with
God as our audience and not our dysfunctional friends and
family members who are secretly so caught up in their
own crap that they can't celebrate us because they're waiting
(03:29):
for us to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I struggle with this because it's hard for me to
live my life for an invisible audience. And they used
to sing a song in the children's church where I
grew up that said, be careful, little eyes, what you see.
Did y'all have this song in children's church? Be careful,
little ears what you hear? The creepiest children's Bible song
(03:53):
ever for the father up above is looking down with love.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's like, this doesn't feel very loving. The steals invasive. Okay,
so you remember the song.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Every move I made, every breath take, I'll be watching you.
It was like the beat was so good to the song.
I didn't realize it's a stalker. But he said, your father,
who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
(04:25):
Say this out loud, my reward. You can't mumble this part.
Y'all are so loud about the wrong stuff. Get loud
about this. Shout out, say my reward is from the
Lord touch somebody say, I don't need a trophy.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't need a trophy. I don't need a trophy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
For everybody who was not appreciated, for everybody who was
not celebrated, for everybody who was unwanted, even abandoned. I
want you to know your father saw who left you,
He saw who should have been there. And when my
father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take
me off.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My father saw when people.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Mistreated me, and I could have got even, but I
put it in his hands.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He saw it, and my reward is with the Lord.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ten seconds to celebrate the presence of God in your life.
Come on from the front to the back, Matthew Stogaston,
give him praise if you know he was watching. So
how good are you at celebrating the unseen? Do you
(05:37):
celebrate those moments in your life where God is making
you stronger but your biceps aren't getting bigger. People will
celebrate your biceps.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh man, you got tickets to give you the ticket
to the gun show.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
People have fifty thousand cliches to compliment your body because
people celebrate what they see. But nobody ever came up
to me and said, hey, man, your contentment is like
gains bro and we all know which is more valuable.
(06:15):
But we live in a world where what is visible
is celebrated more than what's valuable. So if you move
toward the clap of the crowd, they will lead you
right off the cliff. I'm gonna stop right here, but
you see the illustration If I keep following that clap,
(06:37):
where am I gonna end up?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
If you keep chasing clout right? Now, what's it going.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
To be like when the people that you live to
please are no longer even paying attention.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Your friend might move to Alabama.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now the person that was your whole soul source for
affirmation is on to another nation, I mean state. And
the Lord said to tell you that he saw it. Now,
we don't need to be afraid. This is not a
verse about retribution. You know your father who sees what
is done in secret. Some people hear that like a threat.
(07:17):
And when I said that your father sees what is
done in secret, you were like, oh God, oh no,
that's the worst news I heard all day. He's not
speaking about punishment, he's speaking about reward. He's trying to
get us to see that we're seeing whether people do
or not.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, I get it, pastor he sees me get it?
Do you really? Or are you still buying stuff? Are
you still giving away things? Are you still One thing
that I've learned is we don't graduate from our need
(08:00):
to be approved by people when we graduate high school.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We still live for approval. It just gets more expensive.
I can't preach it any harder than this. I dressed
like a highlighter and everything so y'all can see me today.
And when God gave me this message, he said, call
(08:26):
it the father saw the father saw because they thought
nobody saw, but I did. And since you can't see
the father visibly or hear the father audibly, I want
to deliver the message today that he saw. He saw
what you didn't get. He saw that integrity that you had.
(08:53):
He saw when you didn't go off. Now Wednesday you did,
but then Thursday you got it together and you didn't
do it again. So see, we got to celebrate the
times where we do get it right.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now, I'm bad at this.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Stand up if you're like me and you have a
hard time celebrating your successes. Stand up if you're like
me and you have a heart time celebrating your successes.
Stand up if you let me have a hard time
celebrating your successes.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, let's take a moment.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Since we're so hard on ourselves and we have a
hard time celebrating ourselves on every location, let's celebrate the
fact that we had the self awareness to stand.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Up and know that we're hard on ourselves. See how
weak that was, Like, I'm not clapping for that. Sit down.
I gotta work on y'all for a minute. We are
so bad at this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Me and Holly went on a height to Crowder's Mountain Friday,
and while I was busy beating the imaginary opponent to
the top of the hill, I was thirty steps ahead
of her and she was looking at the view. She said,
she said. I said, I said, you need to keep
(10:01):
She said, you need to slow down. The views getting good,
and I was like, I know it. But she was
talking about the the landscape, and I realized it was
an analogy for what she brings to my life that
is so irreplaceable. Holly is great at celebrating herself. She
(10:24):
really is. She does not need lessons in this. She
came downstairs the other day celebrating her workouts and that
she had, you know, made it to a certain point
in her workouts. And I'm the kind of person that
you know, I'll do the workout and then think about.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The fact that, you know, somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Else could have lifted more, and I'll just do this
all the time. Really, I struggled to celebrate myself, and
I used to think that was godly, because.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
After all, the Bible says, humble yourself in the sight
of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You notice people who quote that verse are never really
that humble, and they don't even know what verse it is.
The next time somebody quotes the Bible verse that you
to beat you over the head with it, ask them
what chapter and verse, ninety nine percent chance they'll shut up.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm not talking about pride.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm talking about process and progress and being able to say,
in certain moments of your life, nobody else saw it,
but the Father saw Otherwise, you're going to be waiting
for people to give you trophies.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That don't even exist.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh, by the way, if they gave the trophy real
quick example, they can take it back. They can change
their mind about you. So I have to get calibrated.
I feel annointed preach today is it just me? I
feel annointed to get us set free.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Watch this.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We talk about getting set and free from sin and shame.
We need to get set free from people. Not that
we don't care about them, but we can't be controlled
by them. I can't even let you control this message
(12:27):
because what if the best thing I say is the
thing you're not ready to hear. What if you don't
like the taste of the medicine, I gotta mash it
up in the apple sauce and give it to you anyway,
because I cannot be controlled by a crowd and deliver
God's word.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You cannot be controlled by a cultural ideal of success
and really receive the affirmation that comes from God alone.
And today is the day for somebody that you get
a different audience. Not the audience that is external, because
they will always clap for what is visible. But if
you know you have a God on the inside of
(13:06):
you that is the treasured possession of your life and
the strength of your soul, give in praise right now
and celebrate his presence in your life. That if you
don't have anything else, you've got him and he is Anne. Y'all,
do what you wanna do. I'm gonna take twenty seconds
and celebrate that word. Thank you Lord for loving me,
(13:30):
Thank you Lord for choosing me.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Thank you Lord for keeping me. Thank you Lord for
forgiving me.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you that you didn't just see my mistakes, but
you saw my potential. The father saw, The father saw,
He saw the tears you cried while you were waiting
because you wouldn't compromise just to fit in.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The father saw, the father saw.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So when we celebrate the unseen, write that down on
your page. Celebrate the unseen because what is most seen
is not always what's most significant. You know, the devil
can't defeat you, right, He's a defeated foe. Now, if
it were you against him, be like Connor McGregor, you know,
(14:20):
be over in forty seconds. But did y'all see that?
I need my money back. That was sixty dollars for
forty seconds of fighting. If I do the math on that,
and I can't do it off the top of my head,
that's a very expensive dose of violence that I purchased.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Last night on the UFC fight. If you'll know what
I'm talking about, don't worry. I was praying.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But when we say that the devil. You know the
devil is doing this and that in my life. There's
only two things he can do. He can't defeat you.
The Cross of Jesus Christ defeated the devil once and
for all. He is a defeated foe. You don't run
from him. He runs from you. You resist him, and
he flees. But and this is really important, because this
(15:03):
is where it happens before I take you over in
into this next section of the teaching, understand that since
he can't defeat you, he will always try to distract
you or discourage you. Because he can't defeat you, because
greater is he that is in you than he that
is in the world. Now, he can't defeat you, but
(15:27):
he can distract you. Distract you with what others are doing.
He could distract me as a pastor, with.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How other churches reach people.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
He could distract me as a man of how other
parents are raising their family.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And certainly I can learn from that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But if I get so distracted by how you're doing it,
I might miss the uniqueness of how God made me
to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And then I become.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Discouraged, just distracted and discouraged. He wants to distract you
so you crash, or discourage you so you quit. This
message finds many of us distracted and discouraged. And when
(16:14):
we come to this point, it is the revelation that
the Father saw that enables us to get our focus back.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
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miss a single video or live stream, and share this
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Speaker 2 (16:31):
Thanks again for watching.
There is no worse feeling than that of invisibility. You know,
when you are doing your very best and it goes unrecognized,
it makes it kind of harder to want to keep
doing it. And when you feel unseen, especially by the
people whose attention and approval you crave the most, it
(00:25):
can create a compulsion in your life to start doing
things that are not even really consistent with your character
in order to receive from people a confirmation that can.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Be taken away just as easily as it was given.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But we are not citizens of this kingdom, which celebrates
and compliments all the things that are seen. We are
citizens of the kingdom where Jesus has things like this.
When you do something in secret, your father sees it,
and he will reward you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
According to what he sees.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So my message is, if you have felt unappreciated, uncelebrated, unnoticed,
and insignificant in this kingdom, what is unseen is often
what is most significant.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Now not in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
In the world we we correlate scene with significant.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But I'll tell you what. You could take this pulpit
away and.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I could still preach my sermon because I really don't
need my notes. They're just like Linus's blanket is.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Just like a security thing for me.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I really have the message in my heart. So you
could take this away and I could still preach. But
if the signal that's causing this microphone to make a
sound were to drop out, you could no longer hear
the message. Why because what is invisible is often what
is most valuable.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And yet can I keep going. I'm gonna do it
whether you want me to or not.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I got you now, whether we will admit it or not,
we are so good at celebrating the wrong stuff. People
will always especially the crowd, give us Rabbus. The crowd
will always celebrate the wrong thing. People will always celebrate.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What they can see.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And another thing that people will always do is celebrate
a gift rather than celebrating character.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We celebrate the wrong stuff. Now, if you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Do it in secret, and this could refer to anything
in your life. If you do, if you do what
you do according to your values, not according to external validation,
then you understand the meaning of the Father saw the
sacrifices that you made that no one else really pointed out,
(03:08):
the stuff, nobody gave you a trophy for. What would
it be like this year for us to live with
God as our audience and not our dysfunctional friends and
family members who are secretly so caught up in their
own crap that they can't celebrate us because they're waiting
(03:29):
for us to celebrate them.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I struggle with this because it's hard for me to
live my life for an invisible audience. And they used
to sing a song in the children's church where I
grew up that said, be careful, little eyes, what you see.
Did y'all have this song in children's church? Be careful,
little ears what you hear? The creepiest children's Bible song
(03:53):
ever for the father up above is looking down with love.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's like, this doesn't feel very loving. The steals invasive. Okay,
so you remember the song.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Every move I made, every breath take, I'll be watching you.
It was like the beat was so good to the song.
I didn't realize it's a stalker. But he said, your father,
who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
(04:25):
Say this out loud, my reward. You can't mumble this part.
Y'all are so loud about the wrong stuff. Get loud
about this. Shout out, say my reward is from the
Lord touch somebody say, I don't need a trophy.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't need a trophy. I don't need a trophy.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
For everybody who was not appreciated, for everybody who was
not celebrated, for everybody who was unwanted, even abandoned. I
want you to know your father saw who left you,
He saw who should have been there. And when my
father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take
me off.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
My father saw when people.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Mistreated me, and I could have got even, but I
put it in his hands.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
He saw it, and my reward is with the Lord.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ten seconds to celebrate the presence of God in your life.
Come on from the front to the back, Matthew Stogaston,
give him praise if you know he was watching. So
how good are you at celebrating the unseen? Do you
(05:37):
celebrate those moments in your life where God is making
you stronger but your biceps aren't getting bigger. People will
celebrate your biceps.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh man, you got tickets to give you the ticket
to the gun show.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
People have fifty thousand cliches to compliment your body because
people celebrate what they see. But nobody ever came up
to me and said, hey, man, your contentment is like
gains bro and we all know which is more valuable.
(06:15):
But we live in a world where what is visible
is celebrated more than what's valuable. So if you move
toward the clap of the crowd, they will lead you
right off the cliff. I'm gonna stop right here, but
you see the illustration If I keep following that clap,
(06:37):
where am I gonna end up?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
If you keep chasing clout right? Now, what's it going.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
To be like when the people that you live to
please are no longer even paying attention.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Your friend might move to Alabama.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now the person that was your whole soul source for
affirmation is on to another nation, I mean state. And
the Lord said to tell you that he saw it. Now,
we don't need to be afraid. This is not a
verse about retribution. You know your father who sees what
is done in secret. Some people hear that like a threat.
(07:17):
And when I said that your father sees what is
done in secret, you were like, oh God, oh no,
that's the worst news I heard all day. He's not
speaking about punishment, he's speaking about reward. He's trying to
get us to see that we're seeing whether people do
or not.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, I get it, pastor he sees me get it?
Do you really? Or are you still buying stuff? Are
you still giving away things? Are you still One thing
that I've learned is we don't graduate from our need
(08:00):
to be approved by people when we graduate high school.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We still live for approval. It just gets more expensive.
I can't preach it any harder than this. I dressed
like a highlighter and everything so y'all can see me today.
And when God gave me this message, he said, call
(08:26):
it the father saw the father saw because they thought
nobody saw, but I did. And since you can't see
the father visibly or hear the father audibly, I want
to deliver the message today that he saw. He saw
what you didn't get. He saw that integrity that you had.
(08:53):
He saw when you didn't go off. Now Wednesday you did,
but then Thursday you got it together and you didn't
do it again. So see, we got to celebrate the
times where we do get it right.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now, I'm bad at this.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Stand up if you're like me and you have a
hard time celebrating your successes. Stand up if you're like
me and you have a heart time celebrating your successes.
Stand up if you let me have a hard time
celebrating your successes.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, let's take a moment.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Since we're so hard on ourselves and we have a
hard time celebrating ourselves on every location, let's celebrate the
fact that we had the self awareness to stand.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Up and know that we're hard on ourselves. See how
weak that was, Like, I'm not clapping for that. Sit down.
I gotta work on y'all for a minute. We are
so bad at this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Me and Holly went on a height to Crowder's Mountain Friday,
and while I was busy beating the imaginary opponent to
the top of the hill, I was thirty steps ahead
of her and she was looking at the view. She said,
she said. I said, I said, you need to keep
(10:01):
She said, you need to slow down. The views getting good,
and I was like, I know it. But she was
talking about the the landscape, and I realized it was
an analogy for what she brings to my life that
is so irreplaceable. Holly is great at celebrating herself. She
(10:24):
really is. She does not need lessons in this. She
came downstairs the other day celebrating her workouts and that
she had, you know, made it to a certain point
in her workouts. And I'm the kind of person that
you know, I'll do the workout and then think about.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The fact that, you know, somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Else could have lifted more, and I'll just do this
all the time. Really, I struggled to celebrate myself, and
I used to think that was godly, because.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
After all, the Bible says, humble yourself in the sight
of the Lord.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You notice people who quote that verse are never really
that humble, and they don't even know what verse it is.
The next time somebody quotes the Bible verse that you
to beat you over the head with it, ask them
what chapter and verse, ninety nine percent chance they'll shut up.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm not talking about pride.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm talking about process and progress and being able to say,
in certain moments of your life, nobody else saw it,
but the Father saw Otherwise, you're going to be waiting
for people to give you trophies.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That don't even exist.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh, by the way, if they gave the trophy real
quick example, they can take it back. They can change
their mind about you. So I have to get calibrated.
I feel annointed preach today is it just me? I
feel annointed to get us set free.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Watch this.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
We talk about getting set and free from sin and shame.
We need to get set free from people. Not that
we don't care about them, but we can't be controlled
by them. I can't even let you control this message
(12:27):
because what if the best thing I say is the
thing you're not ready to hear. What if you don't
like the taste of the medicine, I gotta mash it
up in the apple sauce and give it to you anyway,
because I cannot be controlled by a crowd and deliver
God's word.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You cannot be controlled by a cultural ideal of success
and really receive the affirmation that comes from God alone.
And today is the day for somebody that you get
a different audience. Not the audience that is external, because
they will always clap for what is visible. But if
you know you have a God on the inside of
(13:06):
you that is the treasured possession of your life and
the strength of your soul, give in praise right now
and celebrate his presence in your life. That if you
don't have anything else, you've got him and he is Anne. Y'all,
do what you wanna do. I'm gonna take twenty seconds
and celebrate that word. Thank you Lord for loving me,
(13:30):
Thank you Lord for choosing me.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Thank you Lord for keeping me. Thank you Lord for
forgiving me.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you that you didn't just see my mistakes, but
you saw my potential. The father saw, The father saw,
He saw the tears you cried while you were waiting
because you wouldn't compromise just to fit in.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The father saw, the father saw.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So when we celebrate the unseen, write that down on
your page. Celebrate the unseen because what is most seen
is not always what's most significant. You know, the devil
can't defeat you, right, He's a defeated foe. Now, if
it were you against him, be like Connor McGregor, you know,
(14:20):
be over in forty seconds. But did y'all see that?
I need my money back. That was sixty dollars for
forty seconds of fighting. If I do the math on that,
and I can't do it off the top of my head,
that's a very expensive dose of violence that I purchased.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Last night on the UFC fight. If you'll know what
I'm talking about, don't worry. I was praying.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But when we say that the devil. You know the
devil is doing this and that in my life. There's
only two things he can do. He can't defeat you.
The Cross of Jesus Christ defeated the devil once and
for all. He is a defeated foe. You don't run
from him. He runs from you. You resist him, and
he flees. But and this is really important, because this
(15:03):
is where it happens before I take you over in
into this next section of the teaching, understand that since
he can't defeat you, he will always try to distract
you or discourage you. Because he can't defeat you, because
greater is he that is in you than he that
is in the world. Now, he can't defeat you, but
(15:27):
he can distract you. Distract you with what others are doing.
He could distract me as a pastor, with.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
How other churches reach people.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
He could distract me as a man of how other
parents are raising their family.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And certainly I can learn from that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But if I get so distracted by how you're doing it,
I might miss the uniqueness of how God made me
to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And then I become.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Discouraged, just distracted and discouraged. He wants to distract you
so you crash, or discourage you so you quit. This
message finds many of us distracted and discouraged. And when
(16:14):
we come to this point, it is the revelation that
the Father saw that enables us to get our focus back.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
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