WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Perez – Bouncing Back Publishing Date: 2023-07-02T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/perez-bouncing-back/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Okay. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.000 You were in Seattle? Welcome back. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Yeah. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.000 This is Chad. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Chad's real name is Chadwick Samuel. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 And let me introduce him properly. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 So like he's actually Dr. Chadwick Samuel. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 And he runs a... 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Sorry. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.000 He runs a church of about 30,000 people. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 And in Chennai, it's one of the largest churches in India. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.000 He's 11 years younger than me. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.000 In some areas, smarter. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.000 And last time he came here was 2019. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.000 And he was about 20 pounds more than he is right now. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.000 He's on a keto diet, which I don't recommend at all. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.000 And so if you take him out, he's going to be fine. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.000 And he's going to be fine. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.000 And so if you take him out, know that it's going to be really difficult. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.000 And... 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.000 Anything else? 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.000 Yeah. He's staying with me. So pray for me. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.000 So... 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.000 I really wanted to do this properly, 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.000 but I just couldn't make it. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.000 So let me introduce... 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.000 I've introduced him now. Let me introduce the topic, 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.000 and then I'll let him do what he wants to. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.000 Hey, at least you get an intro. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000 When I come to your church, you don't even introduce me. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.000 Okay, so... 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.000 The topic for the next three nights is... 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.000 Perez. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 If you go to Genesis 38... 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.000 Genesis 38. 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.000 Hey, do you want this mic, or do you want this mic? 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.000 Hold. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.000 Genesis 38, verse 27, 28, 29, and 30. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.000 Genesis 38. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.000 So that's kind of where we'll be stuck for the next three days. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.000 It says in Genesis 38, verse 27 onwards, 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.000 Genesis 38, verse 29, and 30. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.000 So that's kind of where we'll be stuck for the next three days. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.000 It says in Genesis 38, verse 27 onwards, 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.000 Genesis 38, verse 27 onwards, 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.000 from the message, verse 27, 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.000 chapter 38, Genesis. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.000 So, we're going to start with the first verse. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 So, we're going to start with the first verse. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:41.000 So that's what we'll be talking about. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Perez breaking out. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.000 We'll be talking about Perez bouncing back. 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.000 We'll be talking about Perez bouncing back. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.000 And then tomorrow we'll talk about Perez breaking out. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 And then tomorrow we'll talk about Perez breaking out. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.000 And then day after, 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.000 we'll talk about Perez... 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.000 We don't know yet. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 We don't know yet. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 So, this we are sure of, this is very likely, 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.000 this we don't know yet. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.000 And yeah, let's go. 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.000 Do you need this board? 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.000 Okay. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.000 Okay. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 Hey, Brandon, are we live streaming this? 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 Hey, Brandon, are we live streaming this? 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Check. Check. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.000 Check. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Good evening. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.000 Hey. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.000 So glad to be back in this house. 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.000 And so sick of being only on Zoom calls 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.000 with so many of you for several times now. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.000 But to be on live face to face with you all 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.000 is such a blessing. Amen. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.000 And you exactly know who to pray for 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.000 as I'm staying with Jacob. You all know so. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.000 I know that you've been with Jacob, 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.000 that you know that you need to pray for me. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.000 Good. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.000 Well, we're going to talk about 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 bouncing back. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.000 Because even before we break out 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.000 and really have a breakthrough 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.000 in our lives, 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.000 sometimes we are so down and under 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.000 that first and foremost we got to bounce back 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.000 to even normal levels. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.000 Because the bar 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 has to be reached out because it's gone so low. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.000 You're so down. You're down and dusted. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.000 Sometimes depressed, sometimes discouraged, 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.000 sometimes so caught up with sins, 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.000 so caught up with 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.000 such struggles that you feel like 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.000 you're caught in that same sin again and again. 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.000 And that's a habit. That's a habitual sin 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.000 that you're part of. And it drags you down 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.000 and you do not know how to come back. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.000 And today I just want to talk about 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.000 hey, first and foremost bounce back 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.000 from your setbacks in life because certain things 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:24.000 have set you back. Certain... 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.000 Because you're not holding it anyway. 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.000 I mean, this... 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.000 How do I do it? Yeah? 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.000 Yeah, that's fine. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.000 I'm going to bring you in. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.000 I was worried 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.000 that with the microphone still with Jacob, 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.000 you don't know when he would speak in between. 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.000 And so it was better to take the 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:13.000 microphone off his mouth. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 It's not that funny, guys. Why is the smile on your face? 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.000 So we're going to 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.000 talk about bouncing back. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And I want to take the scriptures from 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.000 Romans 8 verses 26 onwards. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 And so there's a series of scriptures that we're going to display 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 up there and we're going to read it out. Is that OK? 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.000 Romans 8 verses 26 onwards. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.000 And let's read the next... 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.000 Just go up. 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.000 Romans 8 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 and 26 onwards. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.000 We can keep sliding that up if you want. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.000 The PDF. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.000 OK. 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.000 OK. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.000 Is that... OK, let's go. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.000 Can we all read together? Romans 8, 26 to 28. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.000 Everyone together. In the same way, the spirit 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.000 helps us in our weaknesses. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.000 That's the most important thing that I want you to capture 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.000 this day. Because we cannot have our 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.000 Paris without the spirit. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.000 We cannot really bounce out of our 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.000 setbacks without the spirit. Because this 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 spirit has been sent to us 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.000 as a church to help us 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.000 in our weaknesses. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.000 We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the spirit 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.000 himself intercedes for us through wordless groans because 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.000 after we have prayed everything that we need to be praying and we are not able to have 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.000 that bounce back, or we are not able to have that 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.000 breakthrough, or we are not able to have that Paris in our lives, 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.000 God, the Holy Spirit, he comes 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.000 within us and he is the one who helps us 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.000 in our weaknesses. And when we do not know what to speak 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.000 or what do we pray because we have prayed everything 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.000 that we needed to pray and we have knocked every door 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.000 that needed to be knocked, the spirit begins to speak 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.000 and he begins to pray the will of God 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.000 over our lives. Because the spirit knows 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000 exactly what he needs to be praying 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.000 over your life. Because the spirit knows your past, the spirit 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.000 knows your present, the spirit knows your future, 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.000 the spirit knows where we are going as a church together, 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.000 where you as a family need to be going, 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.000 where you as an individual need to be moving. 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.000 And therefore the spirit begins to actually 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.000 open up doors. Sometimes we keep knocking 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.000 on doors that we should not be knocking because 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.000 those doors are closed doors and we keep knocking, 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.000 we keep kicking, we keep bashing around the door 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.000 but he opens our eyes to see the open 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.000 door that he set before us. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.000 He is the one who is helping us. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 In Romans chapter 8 and verse 28 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.000 and everyone must keep memorizing this 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.000 verse and we know that all things, can we do this 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.000 together? We know that all things work 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.000 together for good, for those who 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.000 love him. All things work together. 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.000 And yet another passage and yet another 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.000 verse that we need to know. The next slide please. 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:52.000 Chapter 8 and verse 30. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.000 Can we go to the next slide? Okay. 31. 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.000 What then shall we say in response to these things? 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.000 If God be for us, can we say this 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.000 together? If God be for us, 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.000 who can be against us? 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 We know in all these things we are more than what? 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.000 Conquerors through him who loved us. 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.000 That's what the spirit 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.000 wants to do in our lives. That's what 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.000 he wants to do at Acts 29 this season. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.000 As you wind up this building and 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.000 you move out of this place, God is saying 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.000 I want to give you a breakthrough in your life. 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.000 I want to actually bounce you back. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.000 It doesn't matter how far you 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.000 are down and dusted and you feel like 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.000 you are in a pit. His hand is 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.000 not shortened. That his hand can actually 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.000 reach down to you and pick you up. 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 Sometimes it's about you lifting up your hands. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.000 It's about you collaborating with him. Because sometimes 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.000 what is the gesture or what is the act 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.000 that we've been doing is that we've tied our hands down. 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.000 And we are waiting. We are really expecting him to do something. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.000 Yes, he is going beyond. Whether you are 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:10.000 reaching out your hands or not, he goes down and he 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.000 continues to lift you up. But how nice it would be 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.000 for Acts 29. How nice it would be 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.000 for individuals. How nice it would be for 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.000 families together to just put a little effort 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.000 to lift up your hands. Because there 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.000 is a hand that is reaching down from heaven. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.000 If you would just lift up your hands 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.000 and hold on to him, he will 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.000 pull you out of the difficulty. 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.000 Some of you have been going through some discouragements 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.000 in your life. You have not even been opening it up. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.000 Because you are so disappointed. Sometimes you are disappointed 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.000 with leadership. You are disappointed with some people in the 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.000 church. You are disappointed with certain things that are happening 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 that you feel like, man, I don't want to. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:58.000 God is saying, don't do that. Cooperate with me. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.000 Lift up your hands. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.000 Because I have reached down to you. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.000 The first thing that you and I need to do as we 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.000 as God helps us bounce back is that 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.000 we would have 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.000 what is called as deep remorse 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.000 and repentance. Deep remorse 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.000 and repentance. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.000 The challenge with the 21st century church 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.000 is that we have not 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.000 been able to have 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.000 deep remorse for the sins 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.000 of our life. Yes, we believe 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.000 that His grace is sufficient. True. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.000 We believe in 1 John chapter 1 and verse 9. If we confess our sins, 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.000 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. True. 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.000 It is absolutely true. The moment we ask Him, 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.000 Jesus forgive me, He forgives. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.000 But we have not taken the time 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.000 to understand 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.000 that we hurt Him. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.000 Every time you and I sin, 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 we hurt the one 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.000 who truly loves us. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.000 I want you to go down 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.000 to a statement that I have put together. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:23.000 I want you to process that statement together. 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.000 Can we just go down a few more? 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.000 21st century...let's go down. Let's go on. 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.000 One more, one more, one more, one more. Yeah. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.000 The greatest law of the 21st century Christianity 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:38.000 is that we have developed a casual 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.000 attitude towards repentance 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.000 that makes the grace of God cheap. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.000 This is one of the reasons why we fall 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.000 back into sins again and again. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.000 It is time for deep 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.000 remorse. Yet balance it out with the help of the 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.000 Spirit to not let the guilt of our sins 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.000 that Satan brings rule over us. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.000 Deep remorse is not to experience guilt, no. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.000 Guilt is what Satan brings 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.000 and it condemns us. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.000 Guilt is, oh I've done this 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.000 and oh unto me I'm gone, I'm destroyed, 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.000 God is going to punish me. 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Deep remorse is like Samson crying out 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.000 to God in between those two pillars 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.000 and Samson is crying out to God 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.000 in between those two pillars and saying, 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.000 God, remember me. Yes, I've failed you 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.000 but remember me, remember me. 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Please help me. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:45.000 It's like David crying out to God and saying, 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.000 against thee have I sinned, O God, done things that are evil 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.000 in your sight, creating me a clean heart 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.000 for my heart is not right, O God, 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.000 for you desire truth in the 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.000 most parts of my life. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.000 Deep remorse is running to God, 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.000 guilt is running away from God. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.000 Deep remorse is holding on to God and saying, 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.000 God, I'm so sorry and I'm so 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.000 frustrated with my life that I keep doing 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.000 the same things again and again. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.000 Because somehow, someway, within the 21st century church 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 we have come to a place where we have taken this 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 grace to be so casual. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.000 Because he forgives us. Grace 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.000 available is not grace that is cheap. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.000 I cannot demand 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.000 grace. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.000 He gives it freely. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 But I plead for his grace. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.000 He grants it in abundance. 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.000 But I don't make his grace cheap. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.000 The secret of bouncing back 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.000 for some of you seated here 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.000 this evening is that you would 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.000 take some time to identify 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.000 those habitual sins 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.000 that is plaguing you, that is not allowing you 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 to have a pares in your life. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.000 2019, 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.000 2020, 21, 22, 23, 24, 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.000 oh, five years. 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.000 These last five years you continue on 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.000 and you analyze and see that it's the same thing that you 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 for. Man, two, three months you're okay and then again. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.000 Then again. It's the same old 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.000 thing. Certain people, it's the same 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.000 old thing for the ten years. Certain people, same 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.000 old thing for the past 20 years. You have not 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.000 had a breakthrough. If you don't have a breakthrough, your next 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 generation is not going to have a breakthrough. If you don't have a breakthrough, 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 this church is not going to have a breakthrough. You know why? Because 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.000 Acts 29 is not some Jacob here. Acts 29 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.000 is not just a few people here. Acts 29 is all of us 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.000 together. And therefore if you don't have a breakthrough, 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.000 if you don't have the pares, this church is not having 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.000 pares. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.000 You've got to bounce back. And if you've got to bounce back, 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.000 that means certain aspects of your life needs to be 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.000 settled and pinned on tonight. And it's 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.000 done and dusted. It's gone. It's over. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.000 Let there be a new sin 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.000 that we commit. Not that 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.000 old one. 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.000 It's too boring 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.000 committing the same old sin. 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.000 Because you're getting frustrated. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.000 And God is saying, I've given you grace 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:46.000 and abundance. You are a conqueror. 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.000 Don't let someone say, you're a conqueror. 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.000 You are more than a conqueror. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.000 Bounce back, 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:58.000 guys. Bounce. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.000 Bounce back. Amen. Are you 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.000 listening? Are you getting it? 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.000 Identify those flaws. 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000 Go to Him. Settle it. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.000 Settle it once and for all. I know we are 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.000 sinners. I'm not saying that we're going to be perfect this 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.000 night. But that same old plaguing thing must 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.000 stop tonight if we have to have a breakthrough. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.000 That's when confidence rises up within you. 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.000 That's when you have the boldness to actually approach 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 His throne room, His throne room of grace 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 boldly and ask Him certain things. Because 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.000 this next season is about this entire church. I know 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.000 Jacob has been asking for certain things. Certain leaders have been asking 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.000 for certain things. But what this press is going to be for this church 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:46.000 is that the entire church is asking for nations. Amen? 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.000 Are you listening? Are you listening? 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.000 Christians ask for things. 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.000 Sons. Sons and daughters ask 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 for nations. Paris is about 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.000 a breakthrough for nations. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.000 Paris is about cities in North America. 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.000 Paris is about Europe just buckling 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.000 under the power of the living God because Acts 29 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.000 is asking for certain nations in Europe. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.000 Oh, Paris is about asking for the wealth 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.000 of this world, this wicked world to be transferred 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:27.000 into the kingdom so that the kingdom of God will advance. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Paris is not about we really being 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.000 stuck in the old. There must be 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.000 a big, big breakthrough. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.000 And you know why? The Spirit says 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.000 the same old things that you get stuck with regards 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.000 to sins that does not allow this church 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:57.000 to ask certain things boldly. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:01.000 You could ask. Secondly, 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.000 we got to learn to encourage 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.000 ourselves in the Lord. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.000 Yes, first year of coming 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.000 into this church, you could actually ask 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.000 someone else to encourage you. 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 Second is fine. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.000 A third is fine. 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.000 But after several years 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000 of being here, you still 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:34.000 are looking for someone to encourage you. It's not 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.000 wrong. It's not wrong to expect someone 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.000 to encourage you. But the Spirit of God says that there 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.000 is coming a season when you can't expect 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:46.000 someone else to come around you 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.000 and encourage you. 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.000 You and I need to learn 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.000 to encourage ourselves in the Lord. 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:58.000 Are you listening? How do you bounce back? You bounce 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:01.000 back because you are able to encourage 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:04.000 yourself in the Lord. First Samuel 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:07.000 and chapter 30 and David is now 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000 here in Ziglag. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:13.000 All of the possessions is gone. All of his 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:16.000 wives and all of his sons and daughters 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:19.000 have been taken away. And I catch up with verse 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.000 34 of first Samuel and chapter 30. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.000 And if you really slide down, no, no, no. 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:28.000 Go forward. Go forward. Yes. Yes. 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:31.000 Right there. And verse 4. Then David and the people 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.000 that were with him lifted up their voice and wept 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:37.000 until they had no more power to weep. Yes. 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.000 And David was so greatly distressed. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.000 For the people spoke of stoning him 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.000 because the soul of all the people was grieved. Every man 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.000 could not see the Lord and his sons and his daughters. 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.000 But David encouraged himself 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.000 in the Lord. 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.000 And that's something that you and I need to learn. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.000 One of the things 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.000 that the Spirit has been teaching me is like 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:07.000 when you are really burdened, 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.000 you are really heavily laden, you need to 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.000 actually stop looking for somebody 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:17.160 else to come and say some good words to encourage you. 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:22.040 Good words to encourage you. True, there are times that you can reach out to some people 00:23:22.040 --> 00:23:25.560 but God intentionally does not 00:23:25.560 --> 00:23:29.000 allow certain people who have helped you in the past 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:33.960 inside this church, they would be too busy and they would continue. Sometimes 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.600 it's not that they ignore you, it's that God, 00:23:37.600 --> 00:23:40.960 the Spirit, actually causes 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:45.160 them not to pay attention to you. Why? Because he wants 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.320 to bring you to a place of Paris. 00:23:48.320 --> 00:23:51.880 He wants to bring you to a place of breakthroughs. 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:55.440 Oh, he wants to bring you to a place of bouncing back 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:00.360 and this bouncing back needs to happen not dependent on somebody else 00:24:00.360 --> 00:24:04.600 but you yourself are able to come into the presence of God 00:24:04.600 --> 00:24:07.400 and you're able to encourage yourself in the Lord. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.240 When you are able to come into his presence and say, 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:15.080 Jesus, thank you for all things worked together for good for those who love him. 00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:19.040 Oh, I'm more than a conqueror. If God be for me, 00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:23.800 who can be against me? Hey, even the mountains be removed and the earth be 00:24:23.800 --> 00:24:28.040 gone. Oh, his everlasting kindness is more than enough for me. 00:24:28.040 --> 00:24:32.840 Yes, he said, I'm not going to leave you, I'm not going to forsake you 00:24:32.840 --> 00:24:36.680 even though your father and your mother have forsaken you. Oh, Jesus, 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.880 you are not going to forsake me. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:46.040 After speaking those words and you feel like man, still that heavy burden 00:24:46.040 --> 00:24:50.760 is still pressing you. And that's when you actually begin to ramahasala 00:24:50.760 --> 00:24:54.320 karamaka diyatala seka. Hey, the lahasa. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.720 And I do not know what I'm speaking. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.120 I do not know what it doesn't mean anything to me. 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:04.520 But my father, who hears those things of the spirit, 00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:09.720 who groans and he speaks the will of the father and his presence comes down 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:11.760 and the atmosphere changes. 00:25:11.760 --> 00:25:14.600 I go to my bed 00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:19.640 because I have learned not to go to bed with heavy burdens 00:25:20.040 --> 00:25:22.320 because it doesn't allow me to sleep. 00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:26.120 So I go out and I said, I come sleep. 00:25:26.600 --> 00:25:29.560 Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I'm so light. 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.560 Learn how to encourage yourself in the Lord. 00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:35.560 That's a good challenge. 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:39.760 If you don't do that, the seasons are coming 00:25:39.760 --> 00:25:46.240 because you got into a habit of somehow someone actually reaching out to you 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.200 from this church because everyone's going to be busy 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:55.600 doing what the Lord is going to do through them outside of this church. 00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:58.680 But you would feel like you're left alone 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:02.720 if you don't know how to encourage yourself in the Lord. 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:07.200 Are you listening? 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:11.400 Thirdly, 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:16.400 you and I, 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.400 if we have to bounce back, 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:21.400 you and I, 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:25.400 if we have to bounce back, 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.400 you and I need a touch from heaven, 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.400 a touch from heaven 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:38.400 and words of direction from heaven. 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.400 A touch from heaven and words of direction from heaven. 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.400 Elijah, 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.400 1 Kings chapter 19, 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.400 he is actually in a very, very depressed state 00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:59.400 and Jezebel has declared, I'm going to kill you. 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:03.400 And he is going and sitting under a juniper tree or a brown tree 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:06.400 and a broom tree and he is actually saying, 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:09.400 this is what is called a spiritual suicide 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.400 because you know that if you commit suicide, it's not right 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:15.400 and you know all the knowledge of God's Word. 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.400 And you go and actually say, Lord, you take me. 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:19.400 Lord, you take me. 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:20.400 That's spiritual suicide. 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.400 Because he wants to come and say, God, you take me. 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:26.400 Because I know I can't take myself out, so you take me. 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.400 And God is someone who is a giver of life. 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.400 He's not a taker of life. Amen. 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:33.400 And therefore, he's not going to take your life. 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:35.400 Those prayers, stop those prayers. 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:38.400 Stop those prayers of saying, God, take me away. 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.400 It's enough. 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:43.400 Stop those prayers because those prayers are meaningless, useless. 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:46.400 And some of you here are praying those prayers 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:49.400 and you're not saying, stop it, in Jesus' name. 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.400 Because whenever you're depressed, whenever you go through tough times, 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.400 you're saying, I want to give up. No, don't give up. 00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:58.400 That's what Elijah was doing. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:02.400 Especially when they are discouraged and depressed. 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:05.400 These are three things that usually people do when they are discouraged and depressed. 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:09.400 Number one, either they eat a lot 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:13.400 or they shut down everything and sleep a lot 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:16.400 or they do what is called binge watching now. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:20.400 Thank God Elijah didn't have Netflix to keep watching. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:25.400 And I heard recently from someone that actually Netflix asks people in between, 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:27.400 hey, are you still there? Are you still there? 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:32.400 Because people just put on the television and they are gone on their sofa sets. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:36.400 That the television begins to speak to you and say, hey, are you still there? 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:38.400 Okay? 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.400 How about me, man? 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.400 And so, 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:53.400 what happened with Elijah is that the angel of God came 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.400 and he touched Elijah. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:58.400 He touched Elijah. 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:01.400 He said, get up. And he gave food from heaven. 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:06.400 And this is what you and I need to experience when we are going through depression and discouragement. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:12.400 Because the times and seasons are coming, but there is absolutely no time to waste with depression and discouragement. 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.400 This depression and discouragement must leave our lives. 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.400 There's a lot of waste of time with discouragement and depression. 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.400 It's a waste of time. 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:31.400 Because there's nothing that is added to us. 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:36.400 By our worrying, we don't add anything to our lives. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:41.400 We don't subtract anything from our lives because we worry. 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:47.400 What can change that is a touch from heaven. 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:53.400 We process, and many of times we process God only rationally. 00:29:53.400 --> 00:30:00.400 It's time that we process God not just rationally, but we process God emotionally. 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.400 We want to have those goosebumps movements too. 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.400 Where you feel God. 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:14.400 Just not that you know God, but you feel Him in your room. 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:20.400 You feel Him while He wakes you up in the middle of the night and you sit up and you know it's God. 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.400 It's time that we experience His embrace. 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.400 It's time that we actually process Him. 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.400 That's the reason why when he spoke to Israel, he said, 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:43.400 Here, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one. 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:50.400 This triune God is this one God, but you shall love the Lord thy God with all of your heart and soul and mind and strength. 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.400 That means, hey, it's not just rationally you process God. 00:30:53.400 --> 00:31:01.400 Yes, without your irrational, you would have a crisis of your faith and therefore we need our rational. 00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:04.400 We need to know why I believe this God. 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:13.400 True, but we need to go beyond our rationality into processing God emotionally where we know He is here. 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.400 Where this relationship is truly dynamic. 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.400 Where this relationship is that He gives. 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:24.400 There are many times in my life that He would actually speak next steps. 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.400 And that next steps solves the matter of the present. 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:33.400 I don't even care what crisis I'm going through presently because I know the next steps. 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:38.400 Because I'll just leave what the crisis is and I'll start focusing on the next steps. 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:43.400 Father, I know that I need to appoint Jehu because Jehu will take care of Jezebel. 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:50.400 I know that I need to appoint a father, Elijah, because the next generation of a double portion of an anointing is coming. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.400 And therefore it doesn't matter what happens to me. 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:55.400 I would begin to focus on the others. 00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:00.400 And then the Spirit of God begins to speak into Elijah's life and says, Elijah, you know what you're saying? 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.400 You're the only one. You're the only one. You're the only one. 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.400 Stop saying that for I have 7000 others. 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:12.400 And He opens your eyes to see that there are many in the kingdom of God that God is raising up. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.400 And He's fighting the battles and He is a God of success. 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.400 He is a conqueror. He's more than a conqueror. 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:24.400 And He wants you and I to be a conqueror. 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:34.400 Therefore, deep remorse helps us bounce back, encouraging ourselves in the Lord, having a touch from Him. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:40.400 Unfortunately, we need a community. 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:45.400 Well, I said you don't need anyone for your encouragement. 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:50.400 I'm saying you need a community to bounce back. 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.400 It may not be a source of encouragement. It's eating together. 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:57.400 It's meeting together. It's not even about praying. 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.400 It's sometimes just having meals together. 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.400 You know, there is magic in the meals. 00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:11.400 And God ordained the supper or the Lord's table for us to have this community and where He comes, His presence. 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:15.400 And that's why He said that two or three are gathered together in My name. 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:20.400 Who's there? He's there. 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:26.400 Paul writes to Philemon because there is a runaway slave. 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.400 Onesimus has left and Paul says, you know what? 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.400 Bring Onesimus back to the household. 00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:39.400 Sometimes we think that Philemon is a letter written to Philemon. 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:42.400 It's not a letter written to Philemon. It's written to the church. 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:48.400 If you take...he was writing to Philemon. He was writing to the archipelago. 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.400 He was writing to Apia. 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:55.400 And he was writing to the church that meets together in your home. 00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.400 And he says to Philemon and to the church, 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:03.400 take back Onesimus because he needs a community. 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:07.400 I know he's a failure. He's failed Philemon. 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:12.400 Maybe he couldn't sustain as a slave, but he needs a family. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:19.400 And don't be alone. Don't be alone. Be together. 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:23.400 The greatest challenge is isolation. 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.400 Somehow, someway, Satan wants to isolate you. 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:33.400 He would bring offense. He would somehow bring offense and isolate you. 00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:37.400 That's his strategy. I do not know about your textbooks in Canada, 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:41.400 but in India, while I studied my fourth grade, 00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:46.400 I remember in my textbook, an entire lesson that is about, 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:48.400 look at the pictures and write the story. 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:54.400 And this story is about a herd of cows actually grazing together. 00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:01.400 And you see a tree and a lion actually waiting to pounce upon the cows. 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:07.400 But as long as the cows stayed together, the lion would not be able to do anything. 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:13.400 But there would be one cow that thought it had better pasture somewhere else, 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:19.400 and it isolated itself away from the herd of cows, and it got isolated a little bit. 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:29.400 The next picture, the third picture would be the lion pouncing on that particular cow that is isolated. 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:36.400 Isolation is the only way by which Satan would devour you. 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:41.400 Stay together as a community. Do not leave offense. 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:48.400 Don't be offended. Time to get out of your fence. 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:53.400 Because Paris is coming. Breakthroughs are coming. 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:59.400 We can't allow offense. 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:05.400 Stick together as a community. You need a community. 00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:09.400 Community is not perfect. Your community is not perfect. 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:12.400 You know what? I keep telling the church back home, 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:18.400 the church was much better before I joined it. Me. 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:26.400 Because I brought all my flaws into that church. It got corrupted. 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:34.400 I doubt it. They came. That would have been the best. 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:49.400 Because I can't imagine you telling them that because of me. That's not you. 00:36:49.400 --> 00:37:01.400 Community. Stick together. Stay united. 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:11.400 There was a father who brought four sons and gave each of them a stick in their hands and said, 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:16.400 Can you break it? They just broke it. 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:21.400 But then he brought four more sticks and then put them together and tied them together 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:26.400 and gave four sticks to each of the sons and they tried. 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:33.400 Breakthroughs come because you guys are not broken. 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:38.400 Paris comes because you guys are not broken. 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:43.400 There can't be. We can't afford. 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:57.400 Max 29 in Vancouver. Can't afford fractures. Can't afford cracks. 00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:02.400 We got to stay together. We need to be a community. 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:07.400 Fifthly and finally, you need mentors. 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:11.400 John Mark. Paul declares him a quitter. 00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:18.400 Paul declares him a person who just ditched them. 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:23.400 And he says, I can't take John Mark with us. 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:28.400 But Barnabas said no. Barnabas' sister's son. He said no. 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.400 But I'm going to stick around with John Mark. 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:38.400 That in 2 Timothy and chapter 4, I think it's verse 6 or verse 11, 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:42.400 Paul after several years is telling Timothy, his son, 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:46.400 Only Luke is with me. Get this John Mark and bring him with you 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:51.400 because he's helpful to me in my ministry and we need Pauls. 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:57.400 We need Pauls who would focus on the task and we need Pauls who need to really keep running 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:00.400 and doing what needs to be done because if they wait for the John Marks, 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:04.400 it's going to be difficult because the task is ahead of them 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:08.400 and Pauls need to really pursue the task ahead of them, 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:10.400 the nations that are set before them. 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:17.400 But we need Barnabas' two in the kingdom. Barnabas' two in the church 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.400 who would not give up on the John Mark. 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:31.400 But listen, there are some of you who are really waiting only for Jacob to mentor you. 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:37.400 It's not helpful because Jacob needs to focus on what needs to be focused 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.400 in the times of Paris that is coming. 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:47.400 But we need Barnabas' in the church who would rise up. 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:50.400 And Barnabas' are there in this church. 00:39:50.400 --> 00:40:00.400 But the problem is that John Marks are still looking for validation from Pauls. 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:06.400 And the moment you still are looking only Paul to mentor you, 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:12.400 you always feel there's nobody for you. There's no mentor for you. 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:16.400 There's no father for you. 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:22.400 But God is raising up enough Barnabas'. Barnabas' may not be charismatic. 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.400 Barnabas' may not have prophetic words always over your life. 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:33.400 Barnabas' may not be the person who will actually always have something spectacular 00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:38.400 that you can look up to. Oh, Barnabas' would be ordinary people. 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:42.400 Barnabas' would be casual people. 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.400 Barnabas' would be people who may not speak much. 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:51.400 Oh, Barnabas' may not even prophesy over your life. 00:40:51.400 --> 00:41:01.400 But you need Barnabas' because Barnabas' would turn your uselessness 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.400 into usefulness for Pauls. 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:11.400 But take your eyes off Paul. Put your eyes on the Barnabas' 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:14.400 that God is raising up within this church. 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:18.400 They may be women, they may be men, they may be younger to you, 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:22.400 but God is raising them up. 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:27.400 Five things that I've shared with regards to bouncing back. 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.400 I don't have to tell you that. 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:36.400 Five things that I've shared with regards to bouncing back. 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.400 I don't have 25 things like Jacob usually has. 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:45.400 I just have five. 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:51.400 A joy of the Lord. It's okay. 00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:58.400 A deep remorse and repentance, strengthening ourselves in the Lord, 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:04.400 receiving a touch and a still small voice from heaven on the next steps of your life. 00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:08.400 Part of a relational church family. 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.400 A mentor for life. 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:14.400 These are five important things that Action 29 needs to embrace 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:20.400 in order to have a breakthrough. 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:26.400 Are you ready? Are you guys ready for a breakthrough? 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:30.400 Are you getting it? Do you have some questions to ask? 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.400 Is that okay, Jacob, to allow questions? 00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.400 Yes. 00:42:37.400 --> 00:43:01.400 What if you don't know how to develop that deep remorse in order to move forward? 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:10.400 I think we maybe need to explain how to do that. 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:22.400 It's not difficult because what happens with sins and habitual sins is that we toggle between two extremes which are not right. 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:32.400 One is we feel guilty or we have committed that sin so many times that our conscience is seared. 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.400 We don't even feel bad about doing what we do. 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:42.400 These two states are wrong because it is basically focusing on ourselves. 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:50.400 If it's guilt, we focus on ourselves and say, it hits our value, it hits who we are in Christ, 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.400 it hits all of those negatively. 00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:04.400 On the other hand, to have a seared conscience is the worst because now you don't even feel bad for what you've done because it's so casual and so usual. 00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:08.400 So these two states are about focusing on yourself. 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:16.400 But deep remorse is not focusing on you but focusing on God. 00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:22.400 God, you are strong enough to help me. 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:26.400 You have overcome and you will help me also. 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:33.400 The whole shift of deep remorse is, remember me Lord. 00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:38.400 It becomes more about Him and focus on Him. 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.400 The issue with habitual sins is that we don't really give. 00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:49.400 Because we go to Him and we ask sorry immediately. 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:56.400 But we really don't think about why we ask sorry. 00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:02.400 We really don't think that we should not do this again in our lives. 00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:14.400 And therefore deep remorse is about internalizing and saying what are the ways by which I can actually avoid this habitual sin of my life. 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:24.400 Which means like you are sitting down and saying, and there are times actually you have sat down and saying what is actually leading me to this particular sin? 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:27.400 And I've identified certain patterns in my life. 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:36.400 Especially when I've had a high in ministry or I've finished a large meeting and it's been a grand success. 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:44.400 Healings are happening, prophetic words are true and you've finished those things and you come back from a successful meeting. 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:48.400 I've seen I've slipped down in particular sins of my life. 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:51.400 I've seen certain times when I'm really tired. 00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:58.400 And so I am beginning to identify patterns that lead to this particular sin of my life. 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:04.400 And therefore what is deep remorse? Deep remorse is identifying patterns and the moment. 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:17.400 So I'm now when things are happening and I'm becoming tired and tired and I know by now. 00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:24.400 If I'm not taking care of my tiredness, I'm going to slip into certain things of my life. 00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:31.400 And therefore deep remorse is identifying patterns in your life that leads you to sin. 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:39.400 And deep remorse is actually sitting down and working with God on identifying the doors of escape. 00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:45.400 Because there is no temptation that comes to you that you would not be able to overcome. 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.400 Because God is not going to let a temptation that you will not be able to overcome. 00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:54.400 So if he is allowing a particular temptation, he is not the originator of the temptation. 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:56.400 He's not the origin of that temptation. 00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:06.400 But he would allow without protecting you because he knows that you are able by his strength you are able to overcome. 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:15.400 And therefore he says that there is a door of escape and you need to identify that door of escape to escape that sin. 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:23.400 Temptation is not wrong, but succumbing to it and falling into it is the flaw, is the sin. 00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:30.400 And therefore to identify the doors of escape that God would actually have for your life and escape. 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:38.400 And therefore there are times that actually I don't let myself to be alone when I am very tired. 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:46.400 I pull myself to company. I pull myself to family. 00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.400 Are you getting the understanding of deep remorse? 00:47:54.400 --> 00:48:02.400 Is that helpful? Thank you. 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:17.400 Sometimes deep remorse is not possible without a deep emotional relationship with God. 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:33.400 I don't think it's possible to have deep remorse without an emotional relationship with God. 00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:37.400 A rational relationship sometimes does not allow deep remorse. 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:47.400 Grief and grieving God must be real before I can even begin to fathom what it is to hurt someone. 00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:53.400 It hurts to hurt the one you love. 00:48:53.400 --> 00:49:03.400 What I've learned in this process is that he loves you so much and you love him so much. 00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:10.400 And it really hurts. It hurts me to hurt the one I love. 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:17.400 Because if you don't really have that love for him, it doesn't hurt you. 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:20.400 Because every time you sin, it hurts him. 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:26.400 And so it begins to hurt me because I hurt him. 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:36.400 And the moment I begin to realize it truly hurts to hurt the one I love. 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.400 This is Chadwick Mohan's statement. 00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:42.400 No, but I made it before you. 00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:52.400 Because at the end of the day, the fear of the Lord in the New Testament Church is the dread of offending or grieving the one you love. 00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:57.400 That is the fear of the Lord. I said that about three years ago. 00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:00.400 Not this Veda. This is a nice Veda. 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:03.400 Mine is a tweet. 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:07.400 So on one hand there's that. 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:16.400 And then the other thing is it is not possible to have deep remorse unless I know how deeply it matters to him. 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:30.400 Part of the reason I don't think lying is a big deal, or exaggerating or white lies is a big deal, is because I don't think he should be too bothered about that. 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.400 But for him who calls himself the truth, falsehood is unbearable. 00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:40.400 He has never entered into touched, flirted with falsehood. 00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:46.400 So when his beloved son, me, begins to flirt with it, it does affect him. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:55.400 And so one of the things that prevents me from deep remorse is I don't really know how much certain things matter to him. 00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:03.400 And the more I become aware of how much it matters to him, the more you guard it like treasure. 00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:11.400 There are things that matter to him. I've got to make sure in those areas I do what is required so that he doesn't creep. 00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:16.400 But other things I know it doesn't matter. 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:29.400 These are the reasons why there's no deep remorse. 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.400 Anything else? 00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:35.400 Yes? 00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:47.400 It's not about feelings, it's not a checklist, it's a process that you begin where you cling to God until there's a change basically. 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:50.400 It's just something that you have to begin. 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:51.400 Yeah. 00:51:51.400 --> 00:52:00.400 And then, yeah, don't know what is the initial step. It's just not, I guess you're constantly going through it. 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.400 It is a constant process, true. 00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:14.400 But that's why I said we've got to get rid of certain old ones. It's okay to sin new sins. 00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:24.400 When I say it's okay, you know, we've got to deal with certain things that are plaguing us. 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:32.400 To get rid and be absolutely pure and perfect is a whole process. 00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:43.400 But this plaguing of the same old is a nagging issue that's been for long, that needs to be dealt with. 00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:54.400 If we have to have even anything to do with Paris, we've got to settle this old quickly. It's enough. 00:52:54.400 --> 00:53:09.400 That's the force with which vehemently we need to really address these issues. 00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:17.400 After you address, this is what I've discovered, after you address a particular issue in life, then you see, hey, there are others. 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:22.400 Because this sin is so huge and it stands before you. 00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:29.400 Until this big one is removed, you don't see, identify the smaller ones that are plaguing you. 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:35.400 Because this is huge. 00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:43.400 Yeah.