but I have determined in my life not to
let what I don't know keep me from
sowing what God has given me to so I've
come to the conclusion at this point
that I don't have to know how the way I
came to this conclusion was that I saw
when God said my thoughts are not your
thoughts and my ways are not your ways
that's the point when I stop trying to
calculate and figure out how God was
going to do what he said he was going to
do because he told me in his Bible that
the kingdom is like a seed and at times
it's going to feel like it's not enough
to meet the need that I'm up against so
I know that there are going to be times
in my life that I feel like my gift is
insignificant and my resource is
insignificant and maybe even feel like
my existence is insignificant there are
times that I get off this stage
preaching to you and I feel like I
failed I never want to preach again I
think about calling Guitar Center and
seeing can I sell drums starting Monday
because I sow the seed and it goes into
the soil and I can't control what
happens next and this is the part of
faith that we need to explain to people
so that they don't give up when they
scatter the seed and the thorns choke it
out there will be large stages and long
seasons of your Christian life that you
will not feel like you are growing and
those are the times you're growing the
most when you can't do one more rep when
you don't feel like you have one more
prayer to pray when the Bible reads like
an instruction manual from Ikea that's
when you're growing just don't pluck the
seed out of the soil
in those dry seasons because I could
Clare
he is the lord of the harvest and he
makes it grow and great takes over when
your faith runs out if you have the
faith to say you say I don't know how
and if we could converse you could fill
in the blank I don't know how to some of
you are running a business and don't
know how how to uh I try to be obedient
to these moments and I feel one right
now
usually when we preach I don't know how
we preach to the person who doesn't know
how to pay their rent it's not just
people who don't know how they're gonna
make their next rip a man who need faith
some of you are managing millions of
dollars of resources and you don't know
how to be happy
you don't know how to have peace you
don't know how to balance work and
family and ballet and the boardroom and
Susie's got ballet but you've got
payroll and you don't know how to
balance it all oh it's difficult to
survive the soil of success just like it
is the soul of failure is it's difficult
to survive in emotional seasons of
barrenness just like financial seasons
of Baroness I think everybody in here
has I don't know how if we could get
past all of you're an angelic facade
your faith facade faithless dirty work
let me tell you a little dirty dirty
little secret about the kingdom the
person next to you doesn't know how
either they don't know how they made it
they don't know how they kept their
faith they don't know how they survived
it really defines their understanding
that's what makes it bein so now I'm at
the point where I'm okay to not know how
I learned it from Abraham God told him
to go but he didn't somewhere and the
problem with a lot of us is we need to
know too much we need God to give us
step 7 before we'll do step 1
we need God to give us a contract we
need God to give us provision before we
trust him with the provision he's
already given we need to know too much
some of us have we have been Abraham we
would have made God put it in our GPS
before we would have left her of the
Chaldeans but that wouldn't take faith
and God is not going to allow you to
live in a state of certainty because
that would strangle your faith I grow
the most when I don't know you know when
I have to apologize and say I'm sorry I
handled that wrong
I probably was a little harsh on that I
never did this before can you forgive me
bless our poor in spirit theirs is the
kingdom of heaven blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for righteousness they
will be filled not those who are so full
of themselves that they always have to
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