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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's now showing you the advantage that we who had
the first fruits of the spirit have is not that
we don't grown. It's that we've grown inwardly. While they've
grown outwardly. We grown inwardly. But he goes on to
tell us, in the same way, the Spirit helps us
in our weakness. Hear, the Spirit helps us in our uncertainty.
The Spirit helps us in our ambiguity. The Spirit helps
(00:23):
us in our crisis. The Spirit helps us in our pain.
The Spirit helps us in our trauma. The Spirit helps
us in our depression. The Spirit helps us in our fear.
The Spirit helps us in our anxiety. The Spirit helps
us in our frustration. And the Spirit helps us in
our worry. It's not that we don't have it, but
the Spirit helps us. Is there anybody out there that
(00:44):
the Spirit helped. If you're out there and you're listening
to me and the Spirit helped you, I want you
to type right now. The Spirit helped me. The Spirit
helped me. I would have lost my mind, but the
Spirit helped me. I would have thrown into tie, but
the Spirit helped me. I would have committed suicide, but
the Spirit helped me. It helped me in my weakness. Ah, oh,
(01:06):
blessed name, I'm about to get happy now, in the
same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We
do not know what we ought to pray for. We
do not know. Said that we do not know. We
do not know what we ought to pray for. We
do not know. We do not know what we ought
(01:29):
to pray for. We do not know. Everything is so
uncertain that we don't even know what to pray for.
We don't know whether to pray to keep the house
or whether it be better to let the house go.
We don't know whether to pray to keep the marriage
or it be better to let the marriage go. We
do not know. I can't tell you how many time
they're talking to people right now who don't even know
(01:49):
what to pray for. I don't know whether to pray
for my daughter to come back home, or pray for
or not to come back home. I don't know whether
to pray for my son to come out or you
might come out out here and get killed. I don't
know what to pray for. We do not know. We
do not know, We do not know, we do not know.
All of this is about information. We do not know.
(02:12):
We do not know. It's funny because in verse twenty
two the Bible says, clearly, we know that the whole
creation has been growing, as in Pains of Travail. So
in verse twenty two we're talking about what we know,
but now in verse twenty six, we're talking about what
(02:36):
we do not know. How do you balance what you know?
That's what you do not know? And every last one
of us has things that we know simultaneously with things
that we do not know. We know that the whole
creation is growing. We do not know what we are
(02:59):
to pray for, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us
through wordless growthings. The Spirit interceeds for us. It's not
just your prayer partner, it's not just your pastor, it's
(03:21):
not just the church mother. The Spirit of God itself
interceeds for us and our weakness as we deal with
what we do not know, as we deal with leaning
into uncertainty. We can lean into uncertainty because we have
higher intelligence. The Spirit itself interceeds for us. Why does
(03:45):
it intercede for us because we do not know, We
do not know, We do not know, but he knows
we do not know what we ought to pray for
but the Spirit himself, and it seeds for us through
wordless groanings. And he who searches our hearts knows the
(04:08):
mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's
people in accordance to the will of God. So the
perfect prayer comes from within my soul, not out of
my head. In my soul, not out of my head.
When the Spirit takes over, when the language of the
Spirit takes over, when the intelligence of the Holy Spirit
(04:30):
takes over. The perfect prayer comes from the Spirit, because
he knows what is the will of God for me,
whether this is to be endured or rebuked, whether this
is to be suffered, or whether it's to be stomped on.
The Spirit itself knows, and it makes intercessions for us
(04:53):
with groanings that cannot be uttered. Are you with me?
Verse twenty eight, and we know, Wait a minute, we know.
In verse twenty two, in verse twenty six, we do
(05:17):
not know. In verse twenty eight, we know, we know,
we do not know. We know, we know that the
whole earth grown up. We do not know what to
pray for as we are. And in verse twenty eight,
and we know that all things God works for the
(05:42):
good of those who love him. So we know that
the world is trevailing. Okay, we do not know what
to pray for as we are because we're in our weakness.
But we do know that all things work together for
the good of them that loved the Lord, that when
(06:06):
the shaking is over, there's something coming out of this.
There is a reason that Paul says that the whole
creation grown as travail on a woman. That's pain with purpose,
travail on a woman's pain with purpose. That's not just
pain because of brokenness. That's pain with purpose. We know
(06:33):
that the whole creation growneth in pain, and we ourselves,
also without ourselves grown, are waiting for their adoption of
our sonship. We know that they've grown outwardly, we grown inwardly,
but everybody's grown it. We do not know what to
pray for. We cannot use our prayer life as a manipulation.
(06:54):
We cannot use it like which grasp. We cannot do it,
use it like name it and claim it and labit
in grammy something, because we don't know now what to
ask God to do. We do not know. So the
spirit itself praying in the spirit lifting your hands. You
should do it right now, lift your hands and start
(07:15):
just praying in the spirit, because when we start praying
in the spirit, we bypass our intelligence and our opinion,
and our uncertainty and our ambiguity, and the Spirit, who
knows what is the will of God, prays for us.
(07:36):
If the devil a thought you were in this by yourself,
he's crazy. Because you have inside intelligence. You have classified
information available to you through the spirit, and the Spirit
is praying for the will of God in your life.
The Spirit is not praying for you to get a
car like your sister. The Spirit is not praying for
(07:58):
you to show all your haters how good you are
and how God is best. Know the Spirit is not
praying from your perspective and from where you are seated,
or as a result of your culture, as a result
of your background, or even as a result of how
you experience God based on your condition, whether you're the
janitor or the president. Know, the Spirit doesn't have to
(08:19):
deal with your circumstances. It prays according to your destiny
and your purpose because he knows what is the will
of God. We know, we do not know, but we
know that all things work together for the good of
(08:42):
them that love the Lord, who are the call according
to His purpose, one more knowing, and I'm done for
those God for new He also predestined. We know that
all things worked together because God fore knew us what
(09:03):
this foreknowed me. He knew me before the sufferings of
this present time. He knew me before I made the
mistake I made. He knew me before I got in trouble.
He knew me before I got here, he told Jeremiah.
Before I formed THEE in the belly, I knew thee.
(09:24):
I ordained me to be a prophet unto the nations.
I did not ordain you to sit in a state
of depression and give up and die. I foreknew you.
And here the Bible says, for those God foreknew, He
also pre destined, pre DestinE, pra before the fix prefix
before destined, end before end. God pre DestinE, He fixed
(09:49):
the end before because He foreknew you before we know
we no not twenty eight, for we know that all
things work together. Why do we know it because verse
twenty nine, because He foreknew us, and so we can
(10:15):
deal with the uncertainty of the process. Because we know
that he predestined the end from the beginning, and those
that he predestined, he did it without them even knowing it.
(10:35):
He did it before they ever even got here. And
eventually that he called them made them aware, and those
he called he also justified them, made them clean. See
this is Romans eight, where Paul is teaching. There's therefore
now a Roman's ain't one no condemnation to them that
(10:56):
are in Christ Jesus. He had to justify me because
I wasn't even good enough for what he called me to.
So those he called he then turned around and justified,
and those he justified he also glorified. For I consider
(11:18):
that our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared
with the glory, with the glory that shall be revealed
in us. We started with the hope of the glory,
and we ended with those he justified. He also glorified.
(11:40):
If you don't see glory yet, it ain't over. If
you haven't got to the glory, it's not over. If
you haven't seen the glory from the sufffering, it's not over.
So lean into the uncertainty, because you don't have to
(12:01):
make this happen. It's okay, it's okay not to be okay.
It's okay not to be sure. It's okay in your weakness,
because the Spirit itself make an intercession for us when
we're worried, when we're tired, when we're stressed, when we're fatigued,
(12:21):
when we're uncertain. He that is certain is praying for
me right now. Did you know that He that is certain,
the Holy Spirit is praying for you right now? And
you don't have to know about tomorrow. He already knows
about tomorrow. And you don't have to know about the
(12:42):
next job. He already knows about the next job. And
you don't have to know about this and that and
the other. I know you want to know. I want
to know too. I want to know everything he knows,
but nothing before it's time. He knows how to get
me through this uncertainty, so I won't back up from it.
I'm going to lean into it because he knows. Somebody
(13:10):
I'm talking to right now, You've got some decisions to make,
and you can't seem to make them to save your life,
and you're going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth. Get out of God's way and let the
Holy Spirit make the decision, because he knows what you
have been predestined to do, and stop making decisions out
of discomfort. I'm just uncomfortable. I can't put up. Shut up.
(13:39):
The sufferings of this present time are not were they
to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed
in us. If I would have given up all my
life in times of great suffering, I would have never
made it to any level of glory that I have
gotten to see up to this point. If I would
have believed and the sufferings of my present moment at
(14:02):
different stages in my life, I never would have made
it to the next glory. Whoos how close you are
to the next glory? If you faint right now, you're
gonna miss it. So tonight I talk to you about
(14:25):
leaning into uncertainty, and I know it goes against the
greater everything that you are to lean into not being
in control, and lean into not having a definite plan,
and lean into having to depend on the invisible power
of God. But isn't that what being a believer, a
(14:45):
Christian is all about? Is to lean into the cross,
believe it for the resurrection, lean in, lean into it,
comfortable with it, know that God knows and that's enough,
(15:06):
and those of us who have the spirit of Christ
will guide us into all truth. Got close eyes right now,
Close eyes right now, close them and just reach out
your fingers and say, Lord, guide me. I can't see.
I'm blind. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
(15:30):
But you start reaching out with your fingers and say
guide me, Guide me God, my finances, God, my business,
got my marriage, God in my life. I don't know.
I'm through talking, like I know, I'm through faking, like
I know, I'm through pretending, like I know, I'm through
trying to manipulate other people's lives. Like I know. I'm
an impostor, I'm a plony, I'm a fake. I admitted
(15:52):
I'm blind. I can't see. I don't know, but I
do know that all things work together for the good
of them that love the Lord. And I do know
that He that praised within me knows what I have
been predestined to do. And I do know that I
don't want to live my life doing what I wanted
(16:13):
to do or what other people assigned to me to do.
I want to live and then finally die knowing that
I have finished my course and I have kept the faith,
and I have done what you created me to do.
He's now showing you the advantage that we who had
the first fruits of the spirit have is not that
we don't grown. It's that we've grown inwardly. While they've
grown outwardly. We grown inwardly. But he goes on to
tell us, in the same way, the Spirit helps us
in our weakness. Hear, the Spirit helps us in our uncertainty.
The Spirit helps us in our ambiguity. The Spirit helps
(00:23):
us in our crisis. The Spirit helps us in our pain.
The Spirit helps us in our trauma. The Spirit helps
us in our depression. The Spirit helps us in our fear.
The Spirit helps us in our anxiety. The Spirit helps
us in our frustration. And the Spirit helps us in
our worry. It's not that we don't have it, but
the Spirit helps us. Is there anybody out there that
(00:44):
the Spirit helped. If you're out there and you're listening
to me and the Spirit helped you, I want you
to type right now. The Spirit helped me. The Spirit
helped me. I would have lost my mind, but the
Spirit helped me. I would have thrown into tie, but
the Spirit helped me. I would have committed suicide, but
the Spirit helped me. It helped me in my weakness. Ah, oh,
(01:06):
blessed name, I'm about to get happy now, in the
same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We
do not know what we ought to pray for. We
do not know. Said that we do not know. We
do not know what we ought to pray for. We
do not know. We do not know what we ought
(01:29):
to pray for. We do not know. Everything is so
uncertain that we don't even know what to pray for.
We don't know whether to pray to keep the house
or whether it be better to let the house go.
We don't know whether to pray to keep the marriage
or it be better to let the marriage go. We
do not know. I can't tell you how many time
they're talking to people right now who don't even know
(01:49):
what to pray for. I don't know whether to pray
for my daughter to come back home, or pray for
or not to come back home. I don't know whether
to pray for my son to come out or you
might come out out here and get killed. I don't
know what to pray for. We do not know. We
do not know, We do not know, we do not know.
All of this is about information. We do not know.
(02:12):
We do not know. It's funny because in verse twenty
two the Bible says, clearly, we know that the whole
creation has been growing, as in Pains of Travail. So
in verse twenty two we're talking about what we know,
but now in verse twenty six, we're talking about what
(02:36):
we do not know. How do you balance what you know?
That's what you do not know? And every last one
of us has things that we know simultaneously with things
that we do not know. We know that the whole
creation is growing. We do not know what we are
(02:59):
to pray for, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us
through wordless growthings. The Spirit interceeds for us. It's not
just your prayer partner, it's not just your pastor, it's
(03:21):
not just the church mother. The Spirit of God itself
interceeds for us and our weakness as we deal with
what we do not know, as we deal with leaning
into uncertainty. We can lean into uncertainty because we have
higher intelligence. The Spirit itself interceeds for us. Why does
(03:45):
it intercede for us because we do not know, We
do not know, We do not know, but he knows
we do not know what we ought to pray for
but the Spirit himself, and it seeds for us through
wordless groanings. And he who searches our hearts knows the
(04:08):
mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's
people in accordance to the will of God. So the
perfect prayer comes from within my soul, not out of
my head. In my soul, not out of my head.
When the Spirit takes over, when the language of the
Spirit takes over, when the intelligence of the Holy Spirit
(04:30):
takes over. The perfect prayer comes from the Spirit, because
he knows what is the will of God for me,
whether this is to be endured or rebuked, whether this
is to be suffered, or whether it's to be stomped on.
The Spirit itself knows, and it makes intercessions for us
(04:53):
with groanings that cannot be uttered. Are you with me?
Verse twenty eight, and we know, Wait a minute, we know.
In verse twenty two, in verse twenty six, we do
(05:17):
not know. In verse twenty eight, we know, we know,
we do not know. We know, we know that the
whole earth grown up. We do not know what to
pray for as we are. And in verse twenty eight,
and we know that all things God works for the
(05:42):
good of those who love him. So we know that
the world is trevailing. Okay, we do not know what
to pray for as we are because we're in our weakness.
But we do know that all things work together for
the good of them that loved the Lord, that when
(06:06):
the shaking is over, there's something coming out of this.
There is a reason that Paul says that the whole
creation grown as travail on a woman. That's pain with purpose,
travail on a woman's pain with purpose. That's not just
pain because of brokenness. That's pain with purpose. We know
(06:33):
that the whole creation growneth in pain, and we ourselves,
also without ourselves grown, are waiting for their adoption of
our sonship. We know that they've grown outwardly, we grown inwardly,
but everybody's grown it. We do not know what to
pray for. We cannot use our prayer life as a manipulation.
(06:54):
We cannot use it like which grasp. We cannot do it,
use it like name it and claim it and labit
in grammy something, because we don't know now what to
ask God to do. We do not know. So the
spirit itself praying in the spirit lifting your hands. You
should do it right now, lift your hands and start
(07:15):
just praying in the spirit, because when we start praying
in the spirit, we bypass our intelligence and our opinion,
and our uncertainty and our ambiguity, and the Spirit, who
knows what is the will of God, prays for us.
(07:36):
If the devil a thought you were in this by yourself,
he's crazy. Because you have inside intelligence. You have classified
information available to you through the spirit, and the Spirit
is praying for the will of God in your life.
The Spirit is not praying for you to get a
car like your sister. The Spirit is not praying for
(07:58):
you to show all your haters how good you are
and how God is best. Know the Spirit is not
praying from your perspective and from where you are seated,
or as a result of your culture, as a result
of your background, or even as a result of how
you experience God based on your condition, whether you're the
janitor or the president. Know, the Spirit doesn't have to
(08:19):
deal with your circumstances. It prays according to your destiny
and your purpose because he knows what is the will
of God. We know, we do not know, but we
know that all things work together for the good of
(08:42):
them that love the Lord, who are the call according
to His purpose, one more knowing, and I'm done for
those God for new He also predestined. We know that
all things worked together because God fore knew us what
(09:03):
this foreknowed me. He knew me before the sufferings of
this present time. He knew me before I made the
mistake I made. He knew me before I got in trouble.
He knew me before I got here, he told Jeremiah.
Before I formed THEE in the belly, I knew thee.
(09:24):
I ordained me to be a prophet unto the nations.
I did not ordain you to sit in a state
of depression and give up and die. I foreknew you.
And here the Bible says, for those God foreknew, He
also pre destined, pre DestinE, pra before the fix prefix
before destined, end before end. God pre DestinE, He fixed
(09:49):
the end before because He foreknew you before we know
we no not twenty eight, for we know that all
things work together. Why do we know it because verse
twenty nine, because He foreknew us, and so we can
(10:15):
deal with the uncertainty of the process. Because we know
that he predestined the end from the beginning, and those
that he predestined, he did it without them even knowing it.
(10:35):
He did it before they ever even got here. And
eventually that he called them made them aware, and those
he called he also justified them, made them clean. See
this is Romans eight, where Paul is teaching. There's therefore
now a Roman's ain't one no condemnation to them that
(10:56):
are in Christ Jesus. He had to justify me because
I wasn't even good enough for what he called me to.
So those he called he then turned around and justified,
and those he justified he also glorified. For I consider
(11:18):
that our present sufferings are not worthy to be compared
with the glory, with the glory that shall be revealed
in us. We started with the hope of the glory,
and we ended with those he justified. He also glorified.
(11:40):
If you don't see glory yet, it ain't over. If
you haven't got to the glory, it's not over. If
you haven't seen the glory from the sufffering, it's not over.
So lean into the uncertainty, because you don't have to
(12:01):
make this happen. It's okay, it's okay not to be okay.
It's okay not to be sure. It's okay in your weakness,
because the Spirit itself make an intercession for us when
we're worried, when we're tired, when we're stressed, when we're fatigued,
(12:21):
when we're uncertain. He that is certain is praying for
me right now. Did you know that He that is certain,
the Holy Spirit is praying for you right now? And
you don't have to know about tomorrow. He already knows
about tomorrow. And you don't have to know about the
(12:42):
next job. He already knows about the next job. And
you don't have to know about this and that and
the other. I know you want to know. I want
to know too. I want to know everything he knows,
but nothing before it's time. He knows how to get
me through this uncertainty, so I won't back up from it.
I'm going to lean into it because he knows. Somebody
(13:10):
I'm talking to right now, You've got some decisions to make,
and you can't seem to make them to save your life,
and you're going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth. Get out of God's way and let the
Holy Spirit make the decision, because he knows what you
have been predestined to do, and stop making decisions out
of discomfort. I'm just uncomfortable. I can't put up. Shut up.
(13:39):
The sufferings of this present time are not were they
to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed
in us. If I would have given up all my
life in times of great suffering, I would have never
made it to any level of glory that I have
gotten to see up to this point. If I would
have believed and the sufferings of my present moment at
(14:02):
different stages in my life, I never would have made
it to the next glory. Whoos how close you are
to the next glory? If you faint right now, you're
gonna miss it. So tonight I talk to you about
(14:25):
leaning into uncertainty, and I know it goes against the
greater everything that you are to lean into not being
in control, and lean into not having a definite plan,
and lean into having to depend on the invisible power
of God. But isn't that what being a believer, a
(14:45):
Christian is all about? Is to lean into the cross,
believe it for the resurrection, lean in, lean into it,
comfortable with it, know that God knows and that's enough,
(15:06):
and those of us who have the spirit of Christ
will guide us into all truth. Got close eyes right now,
Close eyes right now, close them and just reach out
your fingers and say, Lord, guide me. I can't see.
I'm blind. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
(15:30):
But you start reaching out with your fingers and say
guide me, Guide me God, my finances, God, my business,
got my marriage, God in my life. I don't know.
I'm through talking, like I know, I'm through faking, like
I know, I'm through pretending, like I know, I'm through
trying to manipulate other people's lives. Like I know. I'm
an impostor, I'm a plony, I'm a fake. I admitted
(15:52):
I'm blind. I can't see. I don't know, but I
do know that all things work together for the good
of them that love the Lord. And I do know
that He that praised within me knows what I have
been predestined to do. And I do know that I
don't want to live my life doing what I wanted
(16:13):
to do or what other people assigned to me to do.
I want to live and then finally die knowing that
I have finished my course and I have kept the faith,
and I have done what you created me to do.
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