September 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Learn to embrace God’s peace as a powerful foundation for true rest, reconnection, and building what others only dream of.
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It was a lawyer, a successful one in Chicago, and
he was married to a woman named Anna, and they
had five children together.
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He was a big supporter of D. L.
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Moody, who was very well known evangelist of that day.
Despite of his success, this lawyer's success, he experienced strategy.
In fact, his son, his only son, died of fever
at the age of four. And the following year after
his son died, he actually, some of you read about
Chicago fires, and these fires they claimed a lot of
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the real estate property of this lawyer, and so he
planned a vacation to cut take time to rest and
recoup with his family. At the same time, Deal Moody
was organizing crusades in Europe, so he was, you know,
trying to kill two birds with one stone. Help deal
Moody with crusades as well as have a vacation with
his family because of all the suffering loss of real
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estate and loss of their child that they experienced. Because
he had some pressing issues, he'd said to his wife
and four daughters to go on ahead and he would
join them later. What happened next was tragic. On November twenties.
On November twenty second, eighteen seventy three, while crossing the
Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a collision with
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another sea vessel and the ships sunk within twelve minutes,
claiming two hundred twenty six lives.
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All of his four daughters died.
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His wife survived, and she sent him now famous telegram,
saved alone, What shall I do? After getting this desperate
message from his wife, the lawyer set sail for England.
The captain of the ship on which he was traveling
knew that this lawyer lost his four daughters.
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He was now on the ship.
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He invited him on the bridge to show him exact
spot where the shipwreck happened a few weeks ago that
claimed four of his daughters, and as he was standing
there right after that, he went to his room and
with him was Philip Bliss, who was a vocalist and
a songwriter, and Philip was so moved by the poem
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that was written from such a deep broken place that
he composed a melody and wrote a song we all
know called it is Well with My Soul. And I'm
just going to read just the first verse of it.
When peace like a river attended my way, when sorrows
like sea billows roll, whatever my law thou hast taught
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me to say, it is well, It is well with
my soul. In Philippians chapter four, verse seven, it says,
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and minds.
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Through Christ Jesus.
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What you must understand is the word guard in this verse.
The root idea of this word is to guard, to
garrison and to protect by military guard. In the scripture,
this is the word that is used for armed guards
protecting a city. Paul portrays peace not as a feeling,
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but as a security guard, a soldier stationed at your heart.
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And mind, just as.
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Roman guards guarded the gates of the city to prevent
foreign invasion. God's peace is God's security the Gods your
heart against anxiety, against fear, and against depression.
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But may I submit to you that.
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God's peace doesn't always prevent storms.
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It protects you right in the middle of them.
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It may not prevent the valley of the Shadow of
Death from being the valley of the Shadow of death,
but it will protect your heart from fear, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness,
or blowing up your brains. God's peace is not always
something that solves everything immediately. See God didn't invent a microwave.
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Our God is more like an oven. Not everything that
God brings his peace.
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Into is instantly changed.
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But you feel an instant cowering and protection in the
spirit realm against the storms of life. And you can
be like the three Hebrew boys that walked into the
fire and see the peace of God didn't stop the fire,
but it stopped the fire from burning them. They were
in that furnace guarded by a spiritual security guard called
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the peace of God. Our generation chases happiness. Jesus offers peace.
Happiness is fleeing. Happiness changes with circumstances. It rides on
your mood. It's the roller coaster. But Jesus says, but
the peace I offer to you is not like the
world offers it to you. It's not connected to the
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stock market. It is not connected to how what people
think about you, he says. The peace I offer to
you is real because it's not based on the absence
of problems.
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It is based on.
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The presence of the Prince of peace, whose name is
Jesus Christ. What happened this week was tragic when the Madmen,
transgender demon possessed full of demons came and unloaded on
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children in the Catholic school that we're praying.
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And while the.
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Culture chooses to label this is a gun issue, it's
a demon issue. It's a human issue. And you see
the mayors and you see the politicians who are trying
to solve spiritual problems with political ways, are holding out
to straws and making these dumb, stupid comments like so
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what that we pray? Prayer is not gonna change anything
the kids were praying. What these mayors failed to understand.
For Christians, prayer is not a secret sauce to avoid suffering.
Prayer is the way we trust in God in the
midst of it. Christ prayed on the cross. He died
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on the cross, but he prayed. Prayer is not a
path to escape every single storm, but it's the path
to be clothed with peace that passes understanding that gods
are hearts and minds.
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Stephen was being stoned when people.
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Threw stones at him and he was praying Church. The
peace of God does not understand here. The peace of God,
the joy that comes from God, doesn't have basis in
our circumstances and in our emotions, but it has basis
on the world of God.
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Do we need better.
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Reforms in our laws, one hundred percent, But please understand
forks don't make people overweight, pencils do not misspell words,
and guns don't kill people. Before there were guns, before
there were knives, there was a man who took a
stone and killed his brother, who lived in a broken world,
where Satan seeks to take possession of confused, broken individuals
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and spread his evil. The same way Holy Spirit seeks
to gain possession of you and I to spread gospel,
love and peace. We are a war with two different kingdoms.
With that said, the peace of God, the presence of
God is not some kind of a magic vending machine.
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If you punch in the right numbers, you will immediately instantly,
at the snap of fingers, get what you want. Jesus
promises in this world, you will have tribulation, but I
give you peace. The world offers dopamine. The world offers relief, temporary,
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temporarily relief from your problems.
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Struggling with anxiety. Here is appeal for that.
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You're struggling being overwhelmed. Here is a label for that.
You probably have this and this disorder. That's the best
the world offers. But Jesus says, come to me. He
didn't say I will give you relaxation. I will give
you rest. He didn't say, come to me, and I
will give you a dopamine. Here he says, I will
give you peace if you going through hell. I have
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something that Jesus offers today to you. He's not offering
necessarily simplistic, generalized answers to every problem. He's offering his
peace and his presence to walk with you every step
of the way, through the lass, through the tragedy, through
them hardships, through the confusion, through all of these things.
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He walks with us.
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Today's message is going to be called when life gets quiet,
because when life gets quiet, it does not necessarily means
there is peace in our heart. And having peace in
our heart does not always mean that there is quietness
in our life. I've met many people who are famous
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and wealthy, but they cannot sleep without pills, not think
without being on something, because there is no peace in here.
And I've met people who lost people, and there was
more peace in them than in those who have a
peaceful lives. My friend, Peace is not a state of
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having your finances in order, having everything in order. Peace
is not a state of all your dreams coming true.
Peace is a person, and this person is Jesus. And
this person is a security guard for your soul. When
anxiety comes knocking, Jesus opens the door and says, there
is no room for you here. When the circumstances, use
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your mood, your feelings and knock and say listen, you
have been abandoned.
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God forgot you.
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The person of peace, Jesus Christ is your God. If
you have viven to guard your home, great, If you
have mon security to guard your home, great. But you
know who guards your soul, the peace of God. It
is your security guard. It will protect you. That's why
Christians are not afraid of the values of the shadow
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of death. That's why Christians are not afraid of hell,
high water, whatever happens, because not because we're stronger, we're protected,
not protected necessarily.
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From, but protect it in.
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That's why if your whole idea of Christianity is how
you're gonna escape, you will find that in the Bible,
Jesus doesn't offer an escape round from the challenges of life.
He offers his guard your heart and minds right in
the middle of it. So when the enemy attacks, he's
hitting that spiritual armor called the peace of God. When
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you're walking through it and people are like, how are
you still holding it together?
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I'm not. The peace of God guards me.
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The peace of God is this spiritual armor that surrounds me.
And this is not some kind of a promise. This
is a the Prince of Peace that's guarding my mind
and guarding my heart as I go through what I
go through. Is anybody grateful for the peace of God?
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A peace that does not make sense, a joy that
has no happiness in the sense that your mood is
still not happy, but there is joy in God. The
Kingdom of God is righteousness, joy and peace in the
Holy Spirit.
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If you're taking notes, write this down.
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Peace is the soldier God assigns to guard the gate
of your heart. That's why you can go through whatever
you're going through, and you can have peace because it's
God's soldier assigned to guard you.
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That is Jesus, the Prince of peace.
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Now, the three thoughts that I would like to share
with you about life being quiet are the following. Number one,
God gives peace in storms of problems, but he also
gives peace for the storm of our purpose. Jesus gives
peace in the storm Mark chapter four, verse thirty nine.
He calms the wind and the waves, but God also
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gives peace for the storm of great responsibility, for example,
like Solomon building God's house, which we're going to read
in just a moment. Your see, your personal life's see
and waves don't have to be calm for you to
have peace.
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The waves can roar, the winds can howl.
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But if you have the Prince of Peace in your bode,
you can still sleep through the storm. Sleep not in carelessness,
sleep in not I don't care attitude, but sleep in
complete quiet, passive trust. Gods got me, you know. Peter
was with Jesus in the boat. The waves were hitting
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the boat pretty loudly. Peter panicked. He thought he's going
to die. He woke up Jesus and said, Master, we
are perishing. And Jesus calm. Jesus slept in that storm,
which I can only matter. How can you do that?
But see, when peace is in your heart, it translates
into how you behave other people panic and you have
a sense of calculated confidence everything is gonna be okay.
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Do you know Jesus rebuked Peter for lack of faith.
Later on in his life, Peter gets arrested and the
scripture says, they tie him up in jail and they
put him in front. Actually they're planning to execute him
next day, and they have soldiers on one side, soldiers
on the other side. You know what's interesting that I
find is the Angel of God comes to jail and
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wakes Peter up, because while in jail waiting for his
execution next day, he fell asleep. I think Peter's faith
grew this time in the storm. He panicked thought he's
gonna die. And trust me, guys, I've been to the
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Sea of Galilee. It's not that big, Like it's great.
When I read these stories sometimes I wonder, disciples, where
was your faith?
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Like you could probably swim halfway through it.
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I was like, why were they so scared, But when
Peter had an execution scheduled next morning, that should have
been the reason to stay awake the whole night and
the story. Look, rebud, I can't be repetform all under
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I'm breaking through spiritually. But all of that is just anxiousness.
But the Bible says, the Angel comes and wakes him
up from Peter was finally able to sleep in his
own storm. The true faith, my friend, is when you
experience peace so powerful your mind freaks out. Your mind says,
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I don't know what to do, and your mind like
a weaned child, David says, actually gets weaned in the
presence of God. And the peace that flows from God
even calms your thoughts. And the most scariest night of
your life should have been the one you've been awakened,
had insomnia. Yet you can rest knowing God is in control.
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And finally Peter experienced that what a god we serve.
Can you give him random applause.
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For the peace that he gives us.
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Don't seek happiness, which changes with circumstances. Pursue peace, which
remains because it comes from him. The world offers happiness,
but it fades. Jesus offers us peace that stays. When
you come to Jesus, He's not giving you relief. You
will find rest. And rest is the peace of God
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guarding you and protecting you when you go through whatever
life throws at you. God not only gives peace when
I go through a storm. God gives peace to help
me fulfill and assignment in my life. I want to
share something with you today that I believe is going
to be revolutionary, and I do hope it changes how
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you view quiet seasons of your life. Right point number two.
Peace is not just for your enjoyment. It is for
your assignment. God doesn't just give peace as a hammock
that you lay on and rest.
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It is a hard heead.
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You need to do something, constructs something, build something for
His kingdom. And I will take my reading from First Chronicles,
chapter twenty two, verse nine. Behold, a son shall be
born to you. He shall be a man of rest.
I claim that, and I will give him rest from
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all his enemies all around.
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His name shall be Solomon.
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I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
Now David fought all his life. God gives him a promise.
A son will be born to you. And these amazing
words are He's gonna be at rest, He's gonna be
a man of rest, he will have quietness.
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And then verse seventeen.
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David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon,
his son, saying verse eighteen, is not the Lord your
God with you?
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Has he not given you?
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If you believe underlining Bible is not a sin, would
you underline that in your own Bible?
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Has He not given you? I want you to notice.
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David didn't say has not I given you, guys rest
by fighting the Philistines and all other illstines in the
Middle East.
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He says, God, has not he.
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Given you rest on every side? For He has given
the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the
land is subdued before the Lord and before his people.
Let's continue to reading verse nineteen. Now, now that you
got peace, now that your life is quiet, chill, relax,
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post selfies of you having a good time.
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But I want you to.
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Notice the instruction David gives to a generation that's about
to walk into a quiet, peaceful, RESTful state. Now set
your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. Therefore,
arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to
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bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and
the holy artic cost of God into the house that
is to be built for the name of the Lord.
David was a man of war, Solomon was a man
of peace. David fought battles, but Solomon build a temple.
Some victories are worn in war, but some dreams are
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only built in peace. Don't use peace to relax, use
it to rise into what you've been called by God
to do. When peace comes, it's not time to coast.
It's time to start doing construction. Because peace without purpose
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leads to passivity, but peace with purpose leads to productivity.
Ecclesiastes three eight it says, for there is a season
for everything, and I'm paraphrasing it, a time for war
and a time for peace. So when the time of war,
we know what to do to trust in God. Our
sword is bloody, we win battles, we take goliaths down,
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we take lions down. We persevere through the times of storm.
But man, I submit to you that many of us
do not know what to do with the time of peace,
and the time of peace becomes our tragedy because we
become complacent we become lazy, we start to compromise, we
get bored, which leads them to spiritual bondage, and that
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is extremely dangerous. Today, I will teach you through the
world of God something that I personally have been personally
convicted on. How I see good seasons, quiet seasons, and
peaceful seasons of my life. The reason why God gives
you peace is because he knows you cannot build certain
things in war. You can't build some things without peace.
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David had vision, resources and passion, but he had no conditions.
That's why he was a man of war. You can't
plan a vineyard while dodging bullets. Some assignments from God
cannot be built in chaos. They require quiet to flourish.
But what we misstake quiet seasons four as a trophy
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over hard earned deserved time. We see quiet as well.
I worked for it. I went to school for ten years,
I paid off my debts, I've invested, my investment paid off,
and quiet is just a reward of how God chooses
to bless me. Quiet is not a trophy, It's a platform.
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God has an assignment on your life to build something.
God has a call on your life to draw you
into his presence. And when quiet came to Solomon, when
the rest came to Israel, David gives instruction two of them.
He says, to Israel and to Solomon, Now is the
time to seek the Lord. You knew how to seek
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the Lord when you're battling sickness, But now seek the
Lord because you're walking in divine health. You knew how
to seek God when you had to trust in him
to meet your monthly needs, be as you were barely
making through.
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But now seek the.
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Lord and trust in him because you have overflow. You
knew how to trust in God because all of your
friends were getting married and you felt like biological clock
was taken, and you were kind at death.
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But he was the Lord. I'm trusting you.
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But now that you are married, it is time to
seek the Lord as a married woman, as a married man.
You knew how to seek the Lord when the ministry
wasn't growing and you were confused and you fastered and
your prayed. But now that God gave you rest on
every side and quietness, seek the Lord in your abundance,
as you thought.
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In your poverty.
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But the second thing I want you to notice, he
didn't just say seek his face. He said, build his kingdom.
Solomon came on the scene. He didn't have any big ambitions.
Solomon didn't have desires to build God's temple.
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It was David.
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David's ideas became Solomon's life's assignment. When God gives you peace,
the excuse we have is this, Well, it's not my building,
it's not my ministry. It's Lat's problem. It's this guy's problem.
Or like I like to say, God, it's your problem. God,
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it is your dream to win the nations. I'm just
happy you gave me peace. And the Lord had to
correct my understanding and say, Lat number one piece is
not an entitlement, it is entrustment. I entrusted you with
it because I attach my expectation and there is an
assignment on your life. Then secondly, you need to take
now my dream and make it your life's goal. David
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gave a dream to Solomon, and Solomon made his life's
ambition to fulfill the dream of someone else. You may
be at the place where God has helped you to
meet certain needs.
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God has helped you, but perhaps.
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You're like, I don't have big ambitions, I don't have
big desires. I want to welcome you to take on
the dream of God. And God's dream is that every
person gets to know Jesus, that people get disciple, that
his king them is bill. People are raised, demons are
cast out, bodies are healed, and churches are planted. Take
that on and run with that in Jesus name. Paul
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in the New Testament says the following in First Thessalonians,
chapter four, verse eleven, that you also aspire to lead
a quiet life. Lord, I claim that.
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Choiet. Somebody say quiet life, says.
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Some of us aspire to lead famous lives.
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Can I go there?
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Some of us aspire to lead loud. We want to
be loud about our life. We want everybody to know
how good we got it. The Bible says, shut up,
be quiet, lead a quiet life.
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You don't need to blow your trumpet all the time.
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Let the fruit speak for itself, and if it doesn't,
people don't need to know about it.
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Lead a quiet life. There is a beauty in.
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Living comfortable, in quiet life. But then he says the
second thing, and this is strong. Mind your own business, Paul.
I'm offended. I'm triggered. You know why some people don't
mind their business because they don't have a mind and
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they don't have a business. Now Paul didn't say that,
lad did Paul simple as said, mind your own business.
It's like Paul just got in somebody's face and he's like, dude,
just just leave a quiet life, and like, don't stick
your nose into everybody's business. Mind your own business. And
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then he's not done.
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He says, and.
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Work with your own hands, roll up the sleeves and
get job. It's a book in the Bible called job,
and it gives you purpose when you have a job.
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Work.
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Many people love to live in the dream Lalla land. Oh,
I'm just waiting for my breakthrough. Get a job, go
to work. Oh, but it's below my potential. I deserve more.
Get the entitlement out of the way. Government is not
gonna pay for all of that stuff. Get a job,
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Paul says this. And you know what is the crazy party?
He says, as we commended you whoa New Testament grace,
Preacher Paul went to a church in this Salonica or
the Salonia that city. He goes in there, and Paul,
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who says we are no longer under the law, He
goes to this Christians and he says, guys, can.
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Y'all learn to live a quiet life?
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Can you mine you own business and get it shop?
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I command you.
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What happened to the grace of God Paul. So I'm
not gonna commend you, guys. I'm just gonna borrow it
from Apostle Paul and said, this is what Apostle Paul
tells us. May I submit to you. Some of our lives,
they're not quiet, not because the battles we're fighting. It's
because the battles we manufacture. God is not in anymore.
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They are goliaths you need to fight. But some of
us fight not goliaths. We fight everyone except Goliath. And
there's a trauma all the time. There's always chaos in
our lives. Not because we're in spiritual warfare. It is
because we're in spiritual trauma. And Paul tells people like that.
He says, listen, you need to.
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Maintain a quiet life.
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Sometimes you can't control what happens to you. Meaning sometimes
there's a war you gotta fight.
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But my eye submit to you.
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Some of us are drawn to a battle that God
never sanctioned, God never started, and God.
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Is not in it. And there is no quietness.
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And when there is no quietness, there is no ability
to go peace, and then we cannot build anything. Somebody shout,
live a quiet life.
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Somebody shout, mind your own business.
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Give that attitude a little by saying, mind your own business,
work with your hands.
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I know a lot of us.
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I know Paul didn't see keyboards, but I think prophetically
he also spoke some of us will work with their
hands like this another one. So being on the phone
twenty four seven is not working with your hands unless
you're working with your hands and making deals and everything.
Peace is not just for enjoyment. It is to pursue God.
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Peace is not just for enjoyment. It is to build
God's kingdom. And the point number three is peace is
not a permission to relax.
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It's a call to pursue God.
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Solomon didn't just earn that peace, it was inherited. But
the response was very clear, set your heart to seek
the Lord and build. Don't trade peace for pursuit of happiness,
and don't trade rest for relaxation, and don't live for retirement.
Rest restores your soul. Relaxation numbs it. Now it's not
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in the Bible, but in our culture we are addicted
to relaxation. And when we say relaxation, usually it simply
means disconnecting, indulging in entertainment.
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It also means kind of chilling.
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Being ak couch potato without guilt for a little bit,
nothing wrong in itself. The problem, though, is if you
finish with that and you spend twenty four hours relaxing.
According to the Bible, when you rest it, you should
be restored in your soul when Monday comes, Tuesday comes,
you should be going back fully recharged. If you walk
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back into work after your relaxation again, I'm a slave
in Egyptian Empire, being tortured.
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Hate nine to five, Hate my boss, hate the man.
When when is the next weekation? Oh?
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Sometimes it's because you need to change a job one
hundred percent, But sometimes it's not a job. Sometimes is
this is there is no godly rhythm, biblical rhythm.
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Is this?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You work six days, not five, but biblically six, and
then you rest on one. The challenge is what we
do is we work five days, and we we then
spend working one day of all the things that we
don't get paid for, right running errands, and then the.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Other day what we do is we.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Usually relax relaxing, think of this and pass the land
and shots share this one time and he said, when
you put a phone on a night stand before you're
going to sleep, and you don't put it to charge,
you wake up though your phone was not was used.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It wasn't used during the night.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
It didn't get recharged because it wasn't used. Your day
off is not rest. Rest should leave you charged at
one hundred percent after twenty four hours. If you left depleted,
you simply didn't work.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You were trained and depleted.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
And what a culture does is this is instead of
biblical rhythm of work rest, work rest, we.
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Work work, work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Work work. Hope, Holy we can afford a vacation. And
I love vacations. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against vacations.
We have a vacation for the one week, two weeks,
ten days. But you know why this doesn't work. It's
because we come back from vacation. What is the first
thing we say after vacation, I need a vacation from
the vacation. Even if you didn't have children. We came
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from Europe vacation. I needed three days to recover from
a vacation. I was like, wasn't that supposed to be
my resttoration? Why do I need another one?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Why?
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Because while vacation is not wrong, it's good.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You can afford it, go for it.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Please understand biblically, that is not your fuel. Your fuel
is work rest. What we usually do is we don't rest,
we relax. Because I'm not working, I should automatically be recharged. Well,
applied it to your phone tonight and say, because I'm
not using it, it should.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Be at one hundred percent next morning.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, your phone needs to be connected. That means during
your rest day, the sabbath, you need to connect with God,
connect with your family. You need to be connected to
the things that actually replenish you. I'm gonna stipitch you
and watching ten hours of the Office twenty seventh time
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is not gonna replenish you. Now, you can do that.
You're a free bird. America is a free country. But
don't blame God or your work for why you come in. Man,
my battery is not like zero.
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It's not working. It's job, it's church, it's it's just
everybody's depleting me.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
No, my friend, you're violating God's rhythm. Pursue rest peace,
but the culture comes in and says, no, you need relaxation.
Why does the culture awful relaxation instead of because they
don't have someone that can give them rest.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
You do.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Jesus didn't say come to me and I'll give you
relaxation a dopamine. Here he says, come to me, I'll
give you rest. And because the culture doesn't have a
Christ to go to, and they don't honor the word
of God nor God's created order when God commanded us
to have a day of rest, they don't honor God.
So they create their own God and their own version,
which depletes them. And what we do as Christians we
listen to the self help goods. We pick up that
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ideas and we run our life according to that system.
We conform to the world no wonder we are depleted, anxious, overwhelmed,
and constantly stressed out.
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Jesus offers rest. Don't trade it for relaxation.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Thecation one fixed your bad rhythm.
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It won't.
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You'll come back, You'll still be tired. Because the problem
is the is the weekly rhythm not an annual relaxation.
Should you relax annually? Absolutely, if you can afford, you
twice a year, but it won't fix the weekly problem.
The weekly problem is God created you night and day
work and rest. Rest is not just I'm not working.
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Rest is not just I'm running around like a chicken
with its head cut off, running twenty seven side hustles
because I really want to get ahead and just kinda
play through in life. It's the same principle of tithing.
The reason we give first ten percent of our finances
to God is because we trust that less is more
with God. Ninety percent with God is better than one
hundred percent without him. The reason we take one day
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a week to set hand, to be with God, to
be with our family, and to really be refreshed and
restored in our.
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Soul is because we trust God.
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One touch of God's favor and the six days of
my work will do more.
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If you don't believe it, ask Chick fil A.
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They profit more than McDonald's and every fast food combined,
and they're closed on the busiest, most important.
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Day of the week.
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They know something business wise that if we could take
that and apply.
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This is not a law, it's a rhythm.
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Peace is designed to replenish you spiritually. Rest is designed
to restore your batteries. So you will be available for
your assignment, you will be available for your family, you
will be available for God's work. I'm dis earthed, whether
it's in your professional life, whether it's in your ministry,
whatever life. And when I say rest, this does not
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mean well, Saturday is my day of rest. I am
not available to do anything. I'm gonna be sitting at
home and just reading the Bible twenty four hours.
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That's not Also RESTful.
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Rest is I spend time with God, spend time with
the family, and they do what replenishes me. And sometimes
going and sweeping the floors at the church is actually
very replenishing because it's something you don't do at all.
I know that one time when we had that Saturday,
and honestly looked forward to going in the morning, spending
some time with brothers and sisters, having a lady sweep
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all of her dirt on my toes and my feet,
running around with dust and having a good time. And
then I left that time. I went on my bike
and went for like a sixteen mile bike ride, and it.
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Felt so good.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It felt like an air of eternity was breath into
me because I had a chance not only to shake
hands with somebody in the lobby and see how you doing.
I had a chance to pick up pieces of drywood
and all other stuff and carry with my brothers and sisters,
get to know the stories under way, and do something
that honestly.
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Restored my soul.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
This idea that like Jewish people treat the Sabbath, meaning
we don't touch anything, we don't turn on the elevator,
that is not what we're talking about. We're talking about
connecting to God, connecting to my family, and connecting to
what replenishes.
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My soul, not my flesh, because.
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Yeah, watching reruns entertains your flesh, but it doesn't necessarily
restore your soul. And when you have that, everything having
that every single week and sometimes it's serving, sometimes it's
actually going in and you're helping somebody, you're helping with
your family. You come out feeling actually rejuvenated, You're feeling renewed.
You feel like, man, this something that for somebody. They
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didn't pay me for that, and it feels good. It's
good for your soul. Your body may feel tired, but
then you go to sleep and you rest with your
body so much better because you.
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Got restored in your soul. So I just want to
challenge you.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Don't settle for relaxation, chase rest, don't settle for happiness,
chase peace.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
And last, sacred cow, I gotta touch this cow. This cow.
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Living for vacation, living for retirement. Now, retirement as we
know today is a modern invention. It's built on three assumptions.
Life's goal is to enjoy doing nothing. We can afford
to do nothing, and society can afford for many of
us and maybe all of us, to do nothing.
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A short history of retirement.
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It started kind of in thirteen BC by Augustus Roman.
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Emperor.
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First retirement pensions were for people to serve the military.
After twenty years of service, soldiers received a lump sum
of three thousand dinari, which was thirteen year salary. In
eighteen eighty nine, retirement was set at seventy in Germany,
but then.
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Later lowered to sixty five.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
But you have to understand that the life expectancy at
the time was thirty seven for men and forty one
for women. Retirement was men mainly an idea or strategy
to curve of Marxism. In nineteen thirty five, Frankfort Roosevelt
created a Social Security Act provided retirement benefits at the
age of sixty five, funded by payroll taxes. But in
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twenty sixteen there was a study done by Harvard Review
OCU following twenty nine hundred fifty six participants, and they
found out that retiring at sixty six versus sixty five,
so retiring a year later working one more year, actually
reduced your mortality by eleven percent, meaning you live longer
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if you work longer. What if I were to tell
you the very thing you despise is what's keeping your life.
What if I were to tell you not to set
your life on trying to retire. Now, there's nothing wrong
with leaving the professional nine to five. Don't resign from life.
Caleb at eighty five. And this was before plates eighty five.
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This was before protein shakes eighty five. This is before
doing his blood work every single year and taking all
his vitamins eighty five. This is before youothbrush invention eighty five.
This is where culture was crazy Wraw and eighty five.
Caleb comes to Joshua and says, Joshua.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Give me that mountain.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Moses at eighty gets a burning bush experience. See me
and Anna are in their old age. The Bible says,
interceding and praying. Paul says in Titus that young men,
the older men, and older women's supposed to mentor younger generation.
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And he says, he who is not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Speaking of people who kind of see retirement as an
opportunity to do nothing, she who lives in pleasure is
dead while she lives.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Doing nothing is not true.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Rest Now I understand maybe some were like, lad, you
just ruin my idea of my future. Find something to
do for God that you don't retire from that you
can do till your last breath for the Lord. And yeah,
maybe doing some of the physical heavy work is not
something you'll be able to do. And as you transition
from maybe that work, begin to not just look for
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doing nothing, but look for doing something that is pleasing
to God and bears fruit.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
The priests in.
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The Old Testament would retire at fifty, but from fifty
until their death they would serve as assistance to the
younger priests coming up. They didn't just disappear. Psalm says
that the old people, and I already begin to see
myself over there, because I have one more year and
I'm reaching the level four elevator to the level four fortieth,
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and that's gonna be like I used to look at
the older people, and you know, anyway, I take these
scriptures now and I see that as being fruitful. And
I want to honor the people in our church who
when they retire, some of them are financially so stable
they don't need to work anymore, and they would serve
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in jail ministry. They would serve starting a nonprofit. They
will serve coming early to church to pray, and they
will keep their mind their blowing. I see a guy
named Doug who would go in there at the church
and begin to serve there. Kip who would walk along
and every time remind me that his name has three letters, Kip,
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and he's serving over there as well. I would see
other people who would come into try cities and are
at the season. They don't need to work, and they
would come and they would say, can we find something
we can give to the Kingdom of God? Consider me
as an unpaid employee. Why I don't want to waste
my life. My idea of rest, my idea of peace,
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is not just doing nothing, It is doing something for
the Kingdom of God. I want to challenge you today.
Stop using peace as an excuse, as a trophy that
I somehow deserve this, I worked for it. Use it
as a platform to finally build what God called you
to build. Use it to advance the Kingdom of God.
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Seek the face of God.
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Amen. I'll finish it with this story.
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One man was trying to take his own life, and
he went on the bridge and then he was putting
all the thoughts back into his mind of why his
life needs to end.
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As he was standing there contemplating his final.
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Thoughts to push himself over, he noticed a young girl.
Current took her and she starts drifting, and then she
starts crying for help. And he started to hear her
cry asking, screaming for help, and there was nobody to help,
and so he kind of forgot about his plan, ran
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down the bridge, swam to the place where she was,
and he rescued her. By the time he rescued her,
the other people came on the shore. The media came
as well, and of course everybody was wondering how come
he was at the right place at the right time.
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When he told him the story.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
The next day newspaper published an article and they said
purpose saved man's life. Some people know how to stay
in the battle only when there is a fight. God
invites you and gives you peace to stay in His
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purpose even if there is no fight. Live a quiet
life so you can mine your own business or God's business,
work with your hands, fulfill God's assignment. God gives you peace.
It's not a trophy of entitlement. God's peace is a
platform and God has an expectation attached to it to
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build his kingdom and pursue his face. God gives you
quietness on every side. This is not a moment to
flaunt it into everybody and start writing books and blogs
and how to achieve life like mine, making six digits
income and be as like me. You might do that
good for you, but you must understand the purpose why
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God gave you those resources. That favor isn't to exalt
yourself and to tell everybody how to arrive at the
place where they have to do nothing now but just
enjoy their vacation relaxation type of life.
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Christian life is not for that esther. You will raised
for such a time as this Esther.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
You are not raised to tell the young girls how
to be pretty and to win beauty pageants, you will
raised to use the platform for God's kingdom. That's why
our conference is called Raised to deliver. God raises us
up not because we're worthy. God raises us up not
because we deserve it. God raises us up because there's
an assignment. God presses us because there is a purpose.
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God intrusts us.
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It's because there is the cry of a generation He
wants us to answer. If God released favor on your life,
don't let it go into your head. Don't walk around
like an abaccanezer.
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Is this not a kingdom?
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My hands will builds. Don't feel like you're entitled. Don't
feel like I deserve this. Humbly, the only thing you
and I deserve is the lake of fire. Everything else
is the grace of God. And yes, we worked hard,
Yes we paid our tithes, Yes we paid our taxes. Yes,
our parents set us up for success. But we have
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to be like David who said the Lord brought rest
on every side.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
The Lord brought quietness.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
So we seek him and build his kingdom. Do you
receive that today? Would you rise to your feet, every
eye open, every head up. Are you currently going through
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a storm and you're experiencing no peace. You feel tension here,
can't sleep at night, comes knocking, and anxiety already moved
in fear, confusion. I want to pray for you today
because Jesus wants to bring his peace in the middle
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of your storm.
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If you're that person, you're saying, this is me blad.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
I need God's peace because the storm I am in
is taking me under. Just slip the hand up. If
you have a hand up, to slip it up. Don't
be afraid were There's not a call for salvation. This
is a call for peace right now. If you see
somebody with a hand up, would you just turn around
and pray for them right now? Believers, if you're a believer,
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put your hand on their shoulder. That's all. If somebody's
in front of you, just do that. It's just put
your hand on their shoulder. Don't ask them their situation.
Right now. We're going to bring them to the Lord,
the second Sanctuary. I want you to do the same.
There are leaders there. Let's pray together right now for
those precious people and that person. I want you to
close your eyes and I want you to ask the
Holy Spirit to come right now. Believers, I want you
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to rest of us, to open your mouth. Next sixty seconds,
I want you to open your mouth and begin to
pray by faith. Say, Lord, bring your peace to this person. Lord,
bring right now your security to this person. The security
they will protect their heart, protect their mind. In the
name of Jesus, Father God, we come before you right now. Lord,
We thank you for the peace that passes understanding. We
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thank you for joy that's unspeakable. We thank you You're
not afraid of the valleys, You're not afraid of the fire,
and you're not afraid.
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Of the storm.
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I pray for every brother and every sister in this room,
in the second room, and watching us online. I pray
for those that they sees of life have overwhelmed their
mind and their soul. Jesus, you're right in the middle
of them with your precious holy spirit. I ask you
that you release peace right now. I ask you that
you release your kingdom right now. I ask you that
you will protect them with your peace. I ask you
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that you comfort them with your comfort. I ask you
right now, Lord, that anxiety leave fear, leave in Jesus' name,
intrusive thoughts, leave sleeplessness, because their mind cannot show off.
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Leave in Jesus name.
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Let peace like a river flood their hearts. Right now,
Let shoy from the Holy Spirit become their portion. Right now,
Let your kingdom come, Let your kingdom come, Jesus in
your kingdom is different than in our culture.
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In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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How many of you would say in here that your
time of quietness and rest has become a place where, honestly,
you stop prioritizing rest. You started to just relax, and
you're more exhausted than you've been before. You work your work,
You're overwhelmed, you're stressed to exhaustion. And even as I
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was speaking about rest, You're like, Yeah, I'm relaxing, but
I'm not resting. Even as I was speaking about the
purpose of that, You're like, you know what, I've realized
that I've been missing, that I've been chasing the cultural
way instead of seeking peace, seeing peace as God's purpose
to build his kingdom. If this part of the message
was for you to slip up your hand, I want
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to pray for you. Maybe you have not given your gifts,
your resources to God. You hoarded them. This was all
yours to slip that head up I'm gonna pray with
you right now, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit
will result in a changed direction going forward.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
This Sunday.
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Now, I want you to put your hand on your
heart in the name of Jesus.
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I pray for every man, every woman.
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Every person that retired, every person that God has blessed abundantly,
every person that has received from God an immeasurable amount
of favor, who maybe have allowed that to get into
their head, a sense of entitlement, a sense of I
deserve this, this is mine, instead of being a steward
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of what God has given to us. Lord, I pray
the repentance will happen and realignment will happen. I pray
for those who have worked and worked themselves to death.
They put in so much out and so little comes in. Lord,
help them to be like Chick fil A. Help the
Lord to close the shop one day a week, whether
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it's Sunday Saturday, where they spend spend time with you,
where they spend spend time with the family, and when
they do things that replenish their soul, not just deplete
or drain their soul, that they're ready for the next
They're ready for the assignment that you have for them.
I pray for those that you have given great resources
and great blessings. God, May we live to seek you
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in abundance as we sought you in our scarcity. And
may we live to build your kingdom, not build our
own castles, our own names, and our own kingdoms.
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We surrender our life to you, Lord in Jesus' name.
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It was a lawyer, a successful one in Chicago, and
he was married to a woman named Anna, and they
had five children together.
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He was a big supporter of D. L.
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Moody, who was very well known evangelist of that day.
Despite of his success, this lawyer's success, he experienced strategy.
In fact, his son, his only son, died of fever
at the age of four. And the following year after
his son died, he actually, some of you read about
Chicago fires, and these fires they claimed a lot of
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the real estate property of this lawyer, and so he
planned a vacation to cut take time to rest and
recoup with his family. At the same time, Deal Moody
was organizing crusades in Europe, so he was, you know,
trying to kill two birds with one stone. Help deal
Moody with crusades as well as have a vacation with
his family because of all the suffering loss of real
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estate and loss of their child that they experienced. Because
he had some pressing issues, he'd said to his wife
and four daughters to go on ahead and he would
join them later. What happened next was tragic. On November twenties.
On November twenty second, eighteen seventy three, while crossing the
Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a collision with
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another sea vessel and the ships sunk within twelve minutes,
claiming two hundred twenty six lives.
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All of his four daughters died.
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His wife survived, and she sent him now famous telegram,
saved alone, What shall I do? After getting this desperate
message from his wife, the lawyer set sail for England.
The captain of the ship on which he was traveling
knew that this lawyer lost his four daughters.
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He was now on the ship.
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He invited him on the bridge to show him exact
spot where the shipwreck happened a few weeks ago that
claimed four of his daughters, and as he was standing
there right after that, he went to his room and
with him was Philip Bliss, who was a vocalist and
a songwriter, and Philip was so moved by the poem
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that was written from such a deep broken place that
he composed a melody and wrote a song we all
know called it is Well with My Soul. And I'm
just going to read just the first verse of it.
When peace like a river attended my way, when sorrows
like sea billows roll, whatever my law thou hast taught
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me to say, it is well, It is well with
my soul. In Philippians chapter four, verse seven, it says,
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and minds.
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Through Christ Jesus.
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What you must understand is the word guard in this verse.
The root idea of this word is to guard, to
garrison and to protect by military guard. In the scripture,
this is the word that is used for armed guards
protecting a city. Paul portrays peace not as a feeling,
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but as a security guard, a soldier stationed at your heart.
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And mind, just as.
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Roman guards guarded the gates of the city to prevent
foreign invasion. God's peace is God's security the Gods your
heart against anxiety, against fear, and against depression.
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But may I submit to you that.
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God's peace doesn't always prevent storms.
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It protects you right in the middle of them.
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It may not prevent the valley of the Shadow of
Death from being the valley of the Shadow of death,
but it will protect your heart from fear, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness,
or blowing up your brains. God's peace is not always
something that solves everything immediately. See God didn't invent a microwave.
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Our God is more like an oven. Not everything that
God brings his peace.
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Into is instantly changed.
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But you feel an instant cowering and protection in the
spirit realm against the storms of life. And you can
be like the three Hebrew boys that walked into the
fire and see the peace of God didn't stop the fire,
but it stopped the fire from burning them. They were
in that furnace guarded by a spiritual security guard called
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the peace of God. Our generation chases happiness. Jesus offers peace.
Happiness is fleeing. Happiness changes with circumstances. It rides on
your mood. It's the roller coaster. But Jesus says, but
the peace I offer to you is not like the
world offers it to you. It's not connected to the
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stock market. It is not connected to how what people
think about you, he says. The peace I offer to
you is real because it's not based on the absence
of problems.
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It is based on.
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The presence of the Prince of peace, whose name is
Jesus Christ. What happened this week was tragic when the Madmen,
transgender demon possessed full of demons came and unloaded on
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children in the Catholic school that we're praying.
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And while the.
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Culture chooses to label this is a gun issue, it's
a demon issue. It's a human issue. And you see
the mayors and you see the politicians who are trying
to solve spiritual problems with political ways, are holding out
to straws and making these dumb, stupid comments like so
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what that we pray? Prayer is not gonna change anything
the kids were praying. What these mayors failed to understand.
For Christians, prayer is not a secret sauce to avoid suffering.
Prayer is the way we trust in God in the
midst of it. Christ prayed on the cross. He died
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on the cross, but he prayed. Prayer is not a
path to escape every single storm, but it's the path
to be clothed with peace that passes understanding that gods
are hearts and minds.
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Stephen was being stoned when people.
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Threw stones at him and he was praying Church. The
peace of God does not understand here. The peace of God,
the joy that comes from God, doesn't have basis in
our circumstances and in our emotions, but it has basis
on the world of God.
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Do we need better.
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Reforms in our laws, one hundred percent, But please understand
forks don't make people overweight, pencils do not misspell words,
and guns don't kill people. Before there were guns, before
there were knives, there was a man who took a
stone and killed his brother, who lived in a broken world,
where Satan seeks to take possession of confused, broken individuals
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and spread his evil. The same way Holy Spirit seeks
to gain possession of you and I to spread gospel,
love and peace. We are a war with two different kingdoms.
With that said, the peace of God, the presence of
God is not some kind of a magic vending machine.
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If you punch in the right numbers, you will immediately instantly,
at the snap of fingers, get what you want. Jesus
promises in this world, you will have tribulation, but I
give you peace. The world offers dopamine. The world offers relief, temporary,
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temporarily relief from your problems.
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Struggling with anxiety. Here is appeal for that.
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You're struggling being overwhelmed. Here is a label for that.
You probably have this and this disorder. That's the best
the world offers. But Jesus says, come to me. He
didn't say I will give you relaxation. I will give
you rest. He didn't say, come to me, and I
will give you a dopamine. Here he says, I will
give you peace if you going through hell. I have
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something that Jesus offers today to you. He's not offering
necessarily simplistic, generalized answers to every problem. He's offering his
peace and his presence to walk with you every step
of the way, through the lass, through the tragedy, through
them hardships, through the confusion, through all of these things.
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He walks with us.
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Today's message is going to be called when life gets quiet,
because when life gets quiet, it does not necessarily means
there is peace in our heart. And having peace in
our heart does not always mean that there is quietness
in our life. I've met many people who are famous
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and wealthy, but they cannot sleep without pills, not think
without being on something, because there is no peace in here.
And I've met people who lost people, and there was
more peace in them than in those who have a
peaceful lives. My friend, Peace is not a state of
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having your finances in order, having everything in order. Peace
is not a state of all your dreams coming true.
Peace is a person, and this person is Jesus. And
this person is a security guard for your soul. When
anxiety comes knocking, Jesus opens the door and says, there
is no room for you here. When the circumstances, use
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your mood, your feelings and knock and say listen, you
have been abandoned.
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God forgot you.
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The person of peace, Jesus Christ is your God. If
you have viven to guard your home, great, If you
have mon security to guard your home, great. But you
know who guards your soul, the peace of God. It
is your security guard. It will protect you. That's why
Christians are not afraid of the values of the shadow
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of death. That's why Christians are not afraid of hell,
high water, whatever happens, because not because we're stronger, we're protected,
not protected necessarily.
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From, but protect it in.
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That's why if your whole idea of Christianity is how
you're gonna escape, you will find that in the Bible,
Jesus doesn't offer an escape round from the challenges of life.
He offers his guard your heart and minds right in
the middle of it. So when the enemy attacks, he's
hitting that spiritual armor called the peace of God. When
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you're walking through it and people are like, how are
you still holding it together?
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I'm not. The peace of God guards me.
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The peace of God is this spiritual armor that surrounds me.
And this is not some kind of a promise. This
is a the Prince of Peace that's guarding my mind
and guarding my heart as I go through what I
go through. Is anybody grateful for the peace of God?
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A peace that does not make sense, a joy that
has no happiness in the sense that your mood is
still not happy, but there is joy in God. The
Kingdom of God is righteousness, joy and peace in the
Holy Spirit.
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If you're taking notes, write this down.
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Peace is the soldier God assigns to guard the gate
of your heart. That's why you can go through whatever
you're going through, and you can have peace because it's
God's soldier assigned to guard you.
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That is Jesus, the Prince of peace.
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Now, the three thoughts that I would like to share
with you about life being quiet are the following. Number one,
God gives peace in storms of problems, but he also
gives peace for the storm of our purpose. Jesus gives
peace in the storm Mark chapter four, verse thirty nine.
He calms the wind and the waves, but God also
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gives peace for the storm of great responsibility, for example,
like Solomon building God's house, which we're going to read
in just a moment. Your see, your personal life's see
and waves don't have to be calm for you to
have peace.
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The waves can roar, the winds can howl.
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But if you have the Prince of Peace in your bode,
you can still sleep through the storm. Sleep not in carelessness,
sleep in not I don't care attitude, but sleep in
complete quiet, passive trust. Gods got me, you know. Peter
was with Jesus in the boat. The waves were hitting
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the boat pretty loudly. Peter panicked. He thought he's going
to die. He woke up Jesus and said, Master, we
are perishing. And Jesus calm. Jesus slept in that storm,
which I can only matter. How can you do that?
But see, when peace is in your heart, it translates
into how you behave other people panic and you have
a sense of calculated confidence everything is gonna be okay.
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Do you know Jesus rebuked Peter for lack of faith.
Later on in his life, Peter gets arrested and the
scripture says, they tie him up in jail and they
put him in front. Actually they're planning to execute him
next day, and they have soldiers on one side, soldiers
on the other side. You know what's interesting that I
find is the Angel of God comes to jail and
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wakes Peter up, because while in jail waiting for his
execution next day, he fell asleep. I think Peter's faith
grew this time in the storm. He panicked thought he's
gonna die. And trust me, guys, I've been to the
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Sea of Galilee. It's not that big, Like it's great.
When I read these stories sometimes I wonder, disciples, where
was your faith?
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Like you could probably swim halfway through it.
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I was like, why were they so scared, But when
Peter had an execution scheduled next morning, that should have
been the reason to stay awake the whole night and
the story. Look, rebud, I can't be repetform all under
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I'm breaking through spiritually. But all of that is just anxiousness.
But the Bible says, the Angel comes and wakes him
up from Peter was finally able to sleep in his
own storm. The true faith, my friend, is when you
experience peace so powerful your mind freaks out. Your mind says,
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I don't know what to do, and your mind like
a weaned child, David says, actually gets weaned in the
presence of God. And the peace that flows from God
even calms your thoughts. And the most scariest night of
your life should have been the one you've been awakened,
had insomnia. Yet you can rest knowing God is in control.
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And finally Peter experienced that what a god we serve.
Can you give him random applause.
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For the peace that he gives us.
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Don't seek happiness, which changes with circumstances. Pursue peace, which
remains because it comes from him. The world offers happiness,
but it fades. Jesus offers us peace that stays. When
you come to Jesus, He's not giving you relief. You
will find rest. And rest is the peace of God
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guarding you and protecting you when you go through whatever
life throws at you. God not only gives peace when
I go through a storm. God gives peace to help
me fulfill and assignment in my life. I want to
share something with you today that I believe is going
to be revolutionary, and I do hope it changes how
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you view quiet seasons of your life. Right point number two.
Peace is not just for your enjoyment. It is for
your assignment. God doesn't just give peace as a hammock
that you lay on and rest.
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It is a hard heead.
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You need to do something, constructs something, build something for
His kingdom. And I will take my reading from First Chronicles,
chapter twenty two, verse nine. Behold, a son shall be
born to you. He shall be a man of rest.
I claim that, and I will give him rest from
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all his enemies all around.
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His name shall be Solomon.
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I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
Now David fought all his life. God gives him a promise.
A son will be born to you. And these amazing
words are He's gonna be at rest, He's gonna be
a man of rest, he will have quietness.
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And then verse seventeen.
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David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon,
his son, saying verse eighteen, is not the Lord your
God with you?
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Has he not given you?
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If you believe underlining Bible is not a sin, would
you underline that in your own Bible?
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Has He not given you? I want you to notice.
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David didn't say has not I given you, guys rest
by fighting the Philistines and all other illstines in the
Middle East.
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He says, God, has not he.
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Given you rest on every side? For He has given
the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the
land is subdued before the Lord and before his people.
Let's continue to reading verse nineteen. Now, now that you
got peace, now that your life is quiet, chill, relax,
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post selfies of you having a good time.
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But I want you to.
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Notice the instruction David gives to a generation that's about
to walk into a quiet, peaceful, RESTful state. Now set
your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. Therefore,
arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, to
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bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and
the holy artic cost of God into the house that
is to be built for the name of the Lord.
David was a man of war, Solomon was a man
of peace. David fought battles, but Solomon build a temple.
Some victories are worn in war, but some dreams are
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only built in peace. Don't use peace to relax, use
it to rise into what you've been called by God
to do. When peace comes, it's not time to coast.
It's time to start doing construction. Because peace without purpose
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leads to passivity, but peace with purpose leads to productivity.
Ecclesiastes three eight it says, for there is a season
for everything, and I'm paraphrasing it, a time for war
and a time for peace. So when the time of war,
we know what to do to trust in God. Our
sword is bloody, we win battles, we take goliaths down,
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we take lions down. We persevere through the times of storm.
But man, I submit to you that many of us
do not know what to do with the time of peace,
and the time of peace becomes our tragedy because we
become complacent we become lazy, we start to compromise, we
get bored, which leads them to spiritual bondage, and that
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is extremely dangerous. Today, I will teach you through the
world of God something that I personally have been personally
convicted on. How I see good seasons, quiet seasons, and
peaceful seasons of my life. The reason why God gives
you peace is because he knows you cannot build certain
things in war. You can't build some things without peace.
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David had vision, resources and passion, but he had no conditions.
That's why he was a man of war. You can't
plan a vineyard while dodging bullets. Some assignments from God
cannot be built in chaos. They require quiet to flourish.
But what we misstake quiet seasons four as a trophy
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over hard earned deserved time. We see quiet as well.
I worked for it. I went to school for ten years,
I paid off my debts, I've invested, my investment paid off,
and quiet is just a reward of how God chooses
to bless me. Quiet is not a trophy, It's a platform.
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God has an assignment on your life to build something.
God has a call on your life to draw you
into his presence. And when quiet came to Solomon, when
the rest came to Israel, David gives instruction two of them.
He says, to Israel and to Solomon, Now is the
time to seek the Lord. You knew how to seek
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the Lord when you're battling sickness, But now seek the
Lord because you're walking in divine health. You knew how
to seek God when you had to trust in him
to meet your monthly needs, be as you were barely
making through.
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But now seek the.
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Lord and trust in him because you have overflow. You
knew how to trust in God because all of your
friends were getting married and you felt like biological clock
was taken, and you were kind at death.
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But he was the Lord. I'm trusting you.
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But now that you are married, it is time to
seek the Lord as a married woman, as a married man.
You knew how to seek the Lord when the ministry
wasn't growing and you were confused and you fastered and
your prayed. But now that God gave you rest on
every side and quietness, seek the Lord in your abundance,
as you thought.
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In your poverty.
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But the second thing I want you to notice, he
didn't just say seek his face. He said, build his kingdom.
Solomon came on the scene. He didn't have any big ambitions.
Solomon didn't have desires to build God's temple.
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It was David.
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David's ideas became Solomon's life's assignment. When God gives you peace,
the excuse we have is this, Well, it's not my building,
it's not my ministry. It's Lat's problem. It's this guy's problem.
Or like I like to say, God, it's your problem. God,
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it is your dream to win the nations. I'm just
happy you gave me peace. And the Lord had to
correct my understanding and say, Lat number one piece is
not an entitlement, it is entrustment. I entrusted you with
it because I attach my expectation and there is an
assignment on your life. Then secondly, you need to take
now my dream and make it your life's goal. David
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gave a dream to Solomon, and Solomon made his life's
ambition to fulfill the dream of someone else. You may
be at the place where God has helped you to
meet certain needs.
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God has helped you, but perhaps.
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You're like, I don't have big ambitions, I don't have
big desires. I want to welcome you to take on
the dream of God. And God's dream is that every
person gets to know Jesus, that people get disciple, that
his king them is bill. People are raised, demons are
cast out, bodies are healed, and churches are planted. Take
that on and run with that in Jesus name. Paul
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in the New Testament says the following in First Thessalonians,
chapter four, verse eleven, that you also aspire to lead
a quiet life. Lord, I claim that.
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Choiet. Somebody say quiet life, says.
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Some of us aspire to lead famous lives.
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Can I go there?
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Some of us aspire to lead loud. We want to
be loud about our life. We want everybody to know
how good we got it. The Bible says, shut up,
be quiet, lead a quiet life.
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You don't need to blow your trumpet all the time.
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Let the fruit speak for itself, and if it doesn't,
people don't need to know about it.
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Lead a quiet life. There is a beauty in.
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Living comfortable, in quiet life. But then he says the
second thing, and this is strong. Mind your own business, Paul.
I'm offended. I'm triggered. You know why some people don't
mind their business because they don't have a mind and
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they don't have a business. Now Paul didn't say that,
lad did Paul simple as said, mind your own business.
It's like Paul just got in somebody's face and he's like, dude,
just just leave a quiet life, and like, don't stick
your nose into everybody's business. Mind your own business. And
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then he's not done.
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He says, and.
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Work with your own hands, roll up the sleeves and
get job. It's a book in the Bible called job,
and it gives you purpose when you have a job.
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Work.
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Many people love to live in the dream Lalla land. Oh,
I'm just waiting for my breakthrough. Get a job, go
to work. Oh, but it's below my potential. I deserve more.
Get the entitlement out of the way. Government is not
gonna pay for all of that stuff. Get a job,
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Paul says this. And you know what is the crazy party?
He says, as we commended you whoa New Testament grace,
Preacher Paul went to a church in this Salonica or
the Salonia that city. He goes in there, and Paul,
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who says we are no longer under the law, He
goes to this Christians and he says, guys, can.
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Y'all learn to live a quiet life?
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Can you mine you own business and get it shop?
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I command you.
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What happened to the grace of God Paul. So I'm
not gonna commend you, guys. I'm just gonna borrow it
from Apostle Paul and said, this is what Apostle Paul
tells us. May I submit to you. Some of our lives,
they're not quiet, not because the battles we're fighting. It's
because the battles we manufacture. God is not in anymore.
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They are goliaths you need to fight. But some of
us fight not goliaths. We fight everyone except Goliath. And
there's a trauma all the time. There's always chaos in
our lives. Not because we're in spiritual warfare. It is
because we're in spiritual trauma. And Paul tells people like that.
He says, listen, you need to.
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Maintain a quiet life.
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Sometimes you can't control what happens to you. Meaning sometimes
there's a war you gotta fight.
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But my eye submit to you.
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Some of us are drawn to a battle that God
never sanctioned, God never started, and God.
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Is not in it. And there is no quietness.
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And when there is no quietness, there is no ability
to go peace, and then we cannot build anything. Somebody shout,
live a quiet life.
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Somebody shout, mind your own business.
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Give that attitude a little by saying, mind your own business,
work with your hands.
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I know a lot of us.
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I know Paul didn't see keyboards, but I think prophetically
he also spoke some of us will work with their
hands like this another one. So being on the phone
twenty four seven is not working with your hands unless
you're working with your hands and making deals and everything.
Peace is not just for enjoyment. It is to pursue God.
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Peace is not just for enjoyment. It is to build
God's kingdom. And the point number three is peace is
not a permission to relax.
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It's a call to pursue God.
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Solomon didn't just earn that peace, it was inherited. But
the response was very clear, set your heart to seek
the Lord and build. Don't trade peace for pursuit of happiness,
and don't trade rest for relaxation, and don't live for retirement.
Rest restores your soul. Relaxation numbs it. Now it's not
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in the Bible, but in our culture we are addicted
to relaxation. And when we say relaxation, usually it simply
means disconnecting, indulging in entertainment.
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It also means kind of chilling.
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Being ak couch potato without guilt for a little bit,
nothing wrong in itself. The problem, though, is if you
finish with that and you spend twenty four hours relaxing.
According to the Bible, when you rest it, you should
be restored in your soul when Monday comes, Tuesday comes,
you should be going back fully recharged. If you walk
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back into work after your relaxation again, I'm a slave
in Egyptian Empire, being tortured.
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Hate nine to five, Hate my boss, hate the man.
When when is the next weekation? Oh?
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Sometimes it's because you need to change a job one
hundred percent, But sometimes it's not a job. Sometimes is
this is there is no godly rhythm, biblical rhythm.
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Is this?
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You work six days, not five, but biblically six, and
then you rest on one. The challenge is what we
do is we work five days, and we we then
spend working one day of all the things that we
don't get paid for, right running errands, and then the.
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Other day what we do is we.
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Usually relax relaxing, think of this and pass the land
and shots share this one time and he said, when
you put a phone on a night stand before you're
going to sleep, and you don't put it to charge,
you wake up though your phone was not was used.
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It wasn't used during the night.
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It didn't get recharged because it wasn't used. Your day
off is not rest. Rest should leave you charged at
one hundred percent after twenty four hours. If you left depleted,
you simply didn't work.
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You were trained and depleted.
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And what a culture does is this is instead of
biblical rhythm of work rest, work rest, we.
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Work work, work, work, work, work, work.
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Work work. Hope, Holy we can afford a vacation. And
I love vacations. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against vacations.
We have a vacation for the one week, two weeks,
ten days. But you know why this doesn't work. It's
because we come back from vacation. What is the first
thing we say after vacation, I need a vacation from
the vacation. Even if you didn't have children. We came
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from Europe vacation. I needed three days to recover from
a vacation. I was like, wasn't that supposed to be
my resttoration? Why do I need another one?
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Why?
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Because while vacation is not wrong, it's good.
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You can afford it, go for it.
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Please understand biblically, that is not your fuel. Your fuel
is work rest. What we usually do is we don't rest,
we relax. Because I'm not working, I should automatically be recharged. Well,
applied it to your phone tonight and say, because I'm
not using it, it should.
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Be at one hundred percent next morning.
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No, your phone needs to be connected. That means during
your rest day, the sabbath, you need to connect with God,
connect with your family. You need to be connected to
the things that actually replenish you. I'm gonna stipitch you
and watching ten hours of the Office twenty seventh time
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is not gonna replenish you. Now, you can do that.
You're a free bird. America is a free country. But
don't blame God or your work for why you come in. Man,
my battery is not like zero.
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It's not working. It's job, it's church, it's it's just
everybody's depleting me.
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No, my friend, you're violating God's rhythm. Pursue rest peace,
but the culture comes in and says, no, you need relaxation.
Why does the culture awful relaxation instead of because they
don't have someone that can give them rest.
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You do.
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Jesus didn't say come to me and I'll give you
relaxation a dopamine. Here he says, come to me, I'll
give you rest. And because the culture doesn't have a
Christ to go to, and they don't honor the word
of God nor God's created order when God commanded us
to have a day of rest, they don't honor God.
So they create their own God and their own version,
which depletes them. And what we do as Christians we
listen to the self help goods. We pick up that
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ideas and we run our life according to that system.
We conform to the world no wonder we are depleted, anxious, overwhelmed,
and constantly stressed out.
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Jesus offers rest. Don't trade it for relaxation.
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Thecation one fixed your bad rhythm.
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It won't.
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You'll come back, You'll still be tired. Because the problem
is the is the weekly rhythm not an annual relaxation.
Should you relax annually? Absolutely, if you can afford, you
twice a year, but it won't fix the weekly problem.
The weekly problem is God created you night and day
work and rest. Rest is not just I'm not working.
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Rest is not just I'm running around like a chicken
with its head cut off, running twenty seven side hustles
because I really want to get ahead and just kinda
play through in life. It's the same principle of tithing.
The reason we give first ten percent of our finances
to God is because we trust that less is more
with God. Ninety percent with God is better than one
hundred percent without him. The reason we take one day
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a week to set hand, to be with God, to
be with our family, and to really be refreshed and
restored in our.
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Soul is because we trust God.
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One touch of God's favor and the six days of
my work will do more.
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If you don't believe it, ask Chick fil A.
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They profit more than McDonald's and every fast food combined,
and they're closed on the busiest, most important.
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Day of the week.
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They know something business wise that if we could take
that and apply.
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This is not a law, it's a rhythm.
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Peace is designed to replenish you spiritually. Rest is designed
to restore your batteries. So you will be available for
your assignment, you will be available for your family, you
will be available for God's work. I'm dis earthed, whether
it's in your professional life, whether it's in your ministry,
whatever life. And when I say rest, this does not
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mean well, Saturday is my day of rest. I am
not available to do anything. I'm gonna be sitting at
home and just reading the Bible twenty four hours.
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That's not Also RESTful.
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Rest is I spend time with God, spend time with
the family, and they do what replenishes me. And sometimes
going and sweeping the floors at the church is actually
very replenishing because it's something you don't do at all.
I know that one time when we had that Saturday,
and honestly looked forward to going in the morning, spending
some time with brothers and sisters, having a lady sweep
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all of her dirt on my toes and my feet,
running around with dust and having a good time. And
then I left that time. I went on my bike
and went for like a sixteen mile bike ride, and it.
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Felt so good.
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It felt like an air of eternity was breath into
me because I had a chance not only to shake
hands with somebody in the lobby and see how you doing.
I had a chance to pick up pieces of drywood
and all other stuff and carry with my brothers and sisters,
get to know the stories under way, and do something
that honestly.
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Restored my soul.
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This idea that like Jewish people treat the Sabbath, meaning
we don't touch anything, we don't turn on the elevator,
that is not what we're talking about. We're talking about
connecting to God, connecting to my family, and connecting to
what replenishes.
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My soul, not my flesh, because.
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Yeah, watching reruns entertains your flesh, but it doesn't necessarily
restore your soul. And when you have that, everything having
that every single week and sometimes it's serving, sometimes it's
actually going in and you're helping somebody, you're helping with
your family. You come out feeling actually rejuvenated, You're feeling renewed.
You feel like, man, this something that for somebody. They
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didn't pay me for that, and it feels good. It's
good for your soul. Your body may feel tired, but
then you go to sleep and you rest with your
body so much better because you.
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Got restored in your soul. So I just want to
challenge you.
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Don't settle for relaxation, chase rest, don't settle for happiness,
chase peace.
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And last, sacred cow, I gotta touch this cow. This cow.
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Living for vacation, living for retirement. Now, retirement as we
know today is a modern invention. It's built on three assumptions.
Life's goal is to enjoy doing nothing. We can afford
to do nothing, and society can afford for many of
us and maybe all of us, to do nothing.
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A short history of retirement.
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It started kind of in thirteen BC by Augustus Roman.
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Emperor.
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First retirement pensions were for people to serve the military.
After twenty years of service, soldiers received a lump sum
of three thousand dinari, which was thirteen year salary. In
eighteen eighty nine, retirement was set at seventy in Germany,
but then.
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Later lowered to sixty five.
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But you have to understand that the life expectancy at
the time was thirty seven for men and forty one
for women. Retirement was men mainly an idea or strategy
to curve of Marxism. In nineteen thirty five, Frankfort Roosevelt
created a Social Security Act provided retirement benefits at the
age of sixty five, funded by payroll taxes. But in
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twenty sixteen there was a study done by Harvard Review
OCU following twenty nine hundred fifty six participants, and they
found out that retiring at sixty six versus sixty five,
so retiring a year later working one more year, actually
reduced your mortality by eleven percent, meaning you live longer
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if you work longer. What if I were to tell
you the very thing you despise is what's keeping your life.
What if I were to tell you not to set
your life on trying to retire. Now, there's nothing wrong
with leaving the professional nine to five. Don't resign from life.
Caleb at eighty five. And this was before plates eighty five.
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This was before protein shakes eighty five. This is before
doing his blood work every single year and taking all
his vitamins eighty five. This is before youothbrush invention eighty five.
This is where culture was crazy Wraw and eighty five.
Caleb comes to Joshua and says, Joshua.
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Give me that mountain.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Moses at eighty gets a burning bush experience. See me
and Anna are in their old age. The Bible says,
interceding and praying. Paul says in Titus that young men,
the older men, and older women's supposed to mentor younger generation.
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And he says, he who is not doing anything.
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Speaking of people who kind of see retirement as an
opportunity to do nothing, she who lives in pleasure is
dead while she lives.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Doing nothing is not true.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Rest Now I understand maybe some were like, lad, you
just ruin my idea of my future. Find something to
do for God that you don't retire from that you
can do till your last breath for the Lord. And yeah,
maybe doing some of the physical heavy work is not
something you'll be able to do. And as you transition
from maybe that work, begin to not just look for
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doing nothing, but look for doing something that is pleasing
to God and bears fruit.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
The priests in.
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The Old Testament would retire at fifty, but from fifty
until their death they would serve as assistance to the
younger priests coming up. They didn't just disappear. Psalm says
that the old people, and I already begin to see
myself over there, because I have one more year and
I'm reaching the level four elevator to the level four fortieth,
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and that's gonna be like I used to look at
the older people, and you know, anyway, I take these
scriptures now and I see that as being fruitful. And
I want to honor the people in our church who
when they retire, some of them are financially so stable
they don't need to work anymore, and they would serve
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in jail ministry. They would serve starting a nonprofit. They
will serve coming early to church to pray, and they
will keep their mind their blowing. I see a guy
named Doug who would go in there at the church
and begin to serve there. Kip who would walk along
and every time remind me that his name has three letters, Kip,
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and he's serving over there as well. I would see
other people who would come into try cities and are
at the season. They don't need to work, and they
would come and they would say, can we find something
we can give to the Kingdom of God? Consider me
as an unpaid employee. Why I don't want to waste
my life. My idea of rest, my idea of peace,
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is not just doing nothing, It is doing something for
the Kingdom of God. I want to challenge you today.
Stop using peace as an excuse, as a trophy that
I somehow deserve this, I worked for it. Use it
as a platform to finally build what God called you
to build. Use it to advance the Kingdom of God.
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Seek the face of God.
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Amen. I'll finish it with this story.
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One man was trying to take his own life, and
he went on the bridge and then he was putting
all the thoughts back into his mind of why his
life needs to end.
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As he was standing there contemplating his final.
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Thoughts to push himself over, he noticed a young girl.
Current took her and she starts drifting, and then she
starts crying for help. And he started to hear her
cry asking, screaming for help, and there was nobody to help,
and so he kind of forgot about his plan, ran
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down the bridge, swam to the place where she was,
and he rescued her. By the time he rescued her,
the other people came on the shore. The media came
as well, and of course everybody was wondering how come
he was at the right place at the right time.
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When he told him the story.
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The next day newspaper published an article and they said
purpose saved man's life. Some people know how to stay
in the battle only when there is a fight. God
invites you and gives you peace to stay in His
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purpose even if there is no fight. Live a quiet
life so you can mine your own business or God's business,
work with your hands, fulfill God's assignment. God gives you peace.
It's not a trophy of entitlement. God's peace is a
platform and God has an expectation attached to it to
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build his kingdom and pursue his face. God gives you
quietness on every side. This is not a moment to
flaunt it into everybody and start writing books and blogs
and how to achieve life like mine, making six digits
income and be as like me. You might do that
good for you, but you must understand the purpose why
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God gave you those resources. That favor isn't to exalt
yourself and to tell everybody how to arrive at the
place where they have to do nothing now but just
enjoy their vacation relaxation type of life.
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Christian life is not for that esther. You will raised
for such a time as this Esther.
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You are not raised to tell the young girls how
to be pretty and to win beauty pageants, you will
raised to use the platform for God's kingdom. That's why
our conference is called Raised to deliver. God raises us
up not because we're worthy. God raises us up not
because we deserve it. God raises us up because there's
an assignment. God presses us because there is a purpose.
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God intrusts us.
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It's because there is the cry of a generation He
wants us to answer. If God released favor on your life,
don't let it go into your head. Don't walk around
like an abaccanezer.
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Is this not a kingdom?
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My hands will builds. Don't feel like you're entitled. Don't
feel like I deserve this. Humbly, the only thing you
and I deserve is the lake of fire. Everything else
is the grace of God. And yes, we worked hard,
Yes we paid our tithes, Yes we paid our taxes. Yes,
our parents set us up for success. But we have
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to be like David who said the Lord brought rest
on every side.
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The Lord brought quietness.
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So we seek him and build his kingdom. Do you
receive that today? Would you rise to your feet, every
eye open, every head up. Are you currently going through
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a storm and you're experiencing no peace. You feel tension here,
can't sleep at night, comes knocking, and anxiety already moved
in fear, confusion. I want to pray for you today
because Jesus wants to bring his peace in the middle
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of your storm.
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If you're that person, you're saying, this is me blad.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
I need God's peace because the storm I am in
is taking me under. Just slip the hand up. If
you have a hand up, to slip it up. Don't
be afraid were There's not a call for salvation. This
is a call for peace right now. If you see
somebody with a hand up, would you just turn around
and pray for them right now? Believers, if you're a believer,
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put your hand on their shoulder. That's all. If somebody's
in front of you, just do that. It's just put
your hand on their shoulder. Don't ask them their situation.
Right now. We're going to bring them to the Lord,
the second Sanctuary. I want you to do the same.
There are leaders there. Let's pray together right now for
those precious people and that person. I want you to
close your eyes and I want you to ask the
Holy Spirit to come right now. Believers, I want you
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to rest of us, to open your mouth. Next sixty seconds,
I want you to open your mouth and begin to
pray by faith. Say, Lord, bring your peace to this person. Lord,
bring right now your security to this person. The security
they will protect their heart, protect their mind. In the
name of Jesus, Father God, we come before you right now. Lord,
We thank you for the peace that passes understanding. We
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thank you for joy that's unspeakable. We thank you You're
not afraid of the valleys, You're not afraid of the fire,
and you're not afraid.
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Of the storm.
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I pray for every brother and every sister in this room,
in the second room, and watching us online. I pray
for those that they sees of life have overwhelmed their
mind and their soul. Jesus, you're right in the middle
of them with your precious holy spirit. I ask you
that you release peace right now. I ask you that
you release your kingdom right now. I ask you that
you will protect them with your peace. I ask you
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that you comfort them with your comfort. I ask you
right now, Lord, that anxiety leave fear, leave in Jesus' name,
intrusive thoughts, leave sleeplessness, because their mind cannot show off.
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Leave in Jesus name.
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Let peace like a river flood their hearts. Right now,
Let shoy from the Holy Spirit become their portion. Right now,
Let your kingdom come, Let your kingdom come, Jesus in
your kingdom is different than in our culture.
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In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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How many of you would say in here that your
time of quietness and rest has become a place where, honestly,
you stop prioritizing rest. You started to just relax, and
you're more exhausted than you've been before. You work your work,
You're overwhelmed, you're stressed to exhaustion. And even as I
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was speaking about rest, You're like, Yeah, I'm relaxing, but
I'm not resting. Even as I was speaking about the
purpose of that, You're like, you know what, I've realized
that I've been missing, that I've been chasing the cultural
way instead of seeking peace, seeing peace as God's purpose
to build his kingdom. If this part of the message
was for you to slip up your hand, I want
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to pray for you. Maybe you have not given your gifts,
your resources to God. You hoarded them. This was all
yours to slip that head up I'm gonna pray with
you right now, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit
will result in a changed direction going forward.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
This Sunday.
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Now, I want you to put your hand on your
heart in the name of Jesus.
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I pray for every man, every woman.
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Every person that retired, every person that God has blessed abundantly,
every person that has received from God an immeasurable amount
of favor, who maybe have allowed that to get into
their head, a sense of entitlement, a sense of I
deserve this, this is mine, instead of being a steward
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of what God has given to us. Lord, I pray
the repentance will happen and realignment will happen. I pray
for those who have worked and worked themselves to death.
They put in so much out and so little comes in. Lord,
help them to be like Chick fil A. Help the
Lord to close the shop one day a week, whether
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it's Sunday Saturday, where they spend spend time with you,
where they spend spend time with the family, and when
they do things that replenish their soul, not just deplete
or drain their soul, that they're ready for the next
They're ready for the assignment that you have for them.
I pray for those that you have given great resources
and great blessings. God, May we live to seek you
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in abundance as we sought you in our scarcity. And
may we live to build your kingdom, not build our
own castles, our own names, and our own kingdoms.
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We surrender our life to you, Lord in Jesus' name.
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