Let me tell you something every day every moment of your life you need God's help
There's not a moment in our lives, when we do not when we are not desperate
You understand me desperate for God's help. If I were you I would probably say no less than a hundred times a day
God help me
Just help me you don't even have to know what you need to help for because I can guarantee you you need help for something
Just
God help me and I I wish that I could explain the mystery of it to you
But just to sit down
Don't worry so much about what you do when you spend time with God. Well if I spend time with God, what do I do?
Truthfully
And I hope this you know is not doctorally insane, but I don't really think it matters so much what you do
I think the thing that's important is that you have come to him
You're giving him time and by coming to him you're saying I'm afraid to start this day without you
I don't trust myself
I need you
Help me
Strengthen me
Now obviously when you add studying the word to that and and you learn principles of prayer and confessing the word, yes, there's a lot of
spiritual disciplines that we can practice in that time
but I think that too often people worry about what they're supposed to do
And they have this set formula and they try to follow it every day and it won't be long and you're gonna get really bored with it
but if you follow the Holy Spirit
there will be creativity
and variety
And you're going to enjoy the time and you're not even really going to know what happened
You just know that you were and God was and there was a connection that you don't
Understand and now all of a sudden you've got a brighter outlook on the day than you had when you went to spend that time
Let's all be
people who really want to bear good fruit
Let's not be the kind of person that just our whole walk with God is just to get him to give us what we want
Let's be more concerned about what we can give to God how we can represent him
How we can be an ambassador
for Christ
And early in the morning
while it was still dark
He arose and he went and departed to a lonely place and he was praying there
Jesus
He demonstrates for us that to be stirs of revival that even when the whole
City is at our door when there's a need at church. There's a need at work. There's a need with this group of friends
There's a need even over here everywhere
People are pulling at us and tugging at us and our schedules are busy
and full and replete with things to do put first things first so that we build margin into our lives so that early
In the morning if that's the best time for you what that symbolizes is
Priority where ever you need to put it in your life so that you have prioritized
Intimate time with the father Jesus knew even if everybody is knocking at my door
I'm not going to let everybody else's expectations of me determine what I do with my time
I'm gonna have some supernatural
Priorities I'm gonna put first things first and keep the things that are most important to my father
I'm gonna make sure those things are also most important to me
And when we live with the favor of God in our lives not resting in our laurels
But resting in his favor that is upon us and when we have supernatural
Priorities when our friends see that when they're busy doing everything for everybody. But we say you know what
Give me a moment so that I can meet with my father to get some clear direction
For me and my children and my spouse and my family and my career when they see us
Prioritizing our relationship with God when we lift him up in these ways. People will be drawn
Revival will be stirred
Match will be lit. Fire will spread folks will want to know who is this God
I believe that if we totally give ourselves to God he will give us what we want
It may not be what we thought we wanted, but it will sure make us happy
It will be the thing that nobody else can give us and we will be so fulfilled now
If things seem to be going a different direction than what you want them to go just say God
I trust you your will be done
and not mine
Don't ever be afraid to let God do what he wants to do in your life
That's why I stay on this thing all the time about
spending time with God spending time with God spending time with God and
Realizing that our walk with God is not just a Sunday morning event
And the enemy wants nothing more than to keep the people of God from actually experience God experiencing God outside of church
if he can keep our
Experiences with God limited to the time we're just corporately gathered together
He's got us right where he wants us what he does not want
What is dangerous to the kingdom of God is someone who leaves the room like this and actually
encounters God in the regular rhythms of their everyday living
If the only time you are soaking in the presence of God is once a week at your home church
I'm so glad you go, but that ain't good enough
If the only time you're in the presence of God is once a week at Bible study
I'm so glad you're in Bible study, but that ain't good enough
You've got to have a daily
ongoing encounter and meeting with the presence of God so that his presence becomes your daily portion
And your public life will only ever be as powerful and as successful as your private prayer life
Do you know what's gonna compel people to come to this God that we serve
It's when you go back home or back to your job or back to that
Organization where you know the task to which you have been assigned
You're the underdog you're not as smart as they are. You don't have as much skill as they do
You don't have as much talent as she does and yet somehow
By the power of Almighty God that marks your life
You do not shrink back in fear and insecurity passing off the task to somebody else
But you believe but if God has called you to it
He's gonna equip you for it and you step into the gap and you fill the space and the power of Almighty God
When the world sees us operated y'all with supernatural ability the world will take note that there's got to be a God that we serve
That is giving us this kind of confidence not confidence in our own flesh
But confidence in the power of God to operate in our weakness
One of the main ways we're going to see the power of God in our own experience
I'm talking about where this God that was powerful enough to divide the Red Sea in the Old Testament
Powerful enough to raise Lazarus from the dead in the New Testament one of the ways
we're gonna see this God of the Bible leap up off the page and actually
Experience him in a tangible real practical way in our lives. Do you know when that happens
It happens when you're in a position that you're in over your head
It is beyond you, you know, you're not capable. You don't have enough time. You don't have enough money
You don't have enough patience. You don't have enough ideas. You don't have enough creativity
You're not gifted enough talented enough and yet you excel by the power of God
It's when he takes you into a position where you know, you can't do it in your natural resources
And he gives you his resources to complete the task
Here's the trouble with us when we're compelled to do something for which we know we are outmatched
We let fear talk us out of doing it
which means we let fear talk us out of an opportunity to experience God
I want to compel you
And encourage you that if you've been shrinking back in insecurity from a task to what you know, you have been called
But you've been passing it off to somebody else who you think is more suited for the task
I want to ask you to consider the fact that that exact opportunity is the way he plans to
Demonstrate his power through you
It's the way he intends for everybody else in your office to want to know about this God that you serve
It's the way he intends for the people that are on your University campus are or are in that
Organization or that ministry and which are involved. This is the way where he will draw attention to himself
He will glorify himself when we step into the places for which we are not capable in our own natural talent and ability
Have a friend who puts it this way
We pray for miracles
But then in the next breath we pray and say lord
Please keep me out of any situation in which a miracle would actually be required
Everybody wants to see the Red Sea divided but nobody actually wants to be the one that's face to face with a Red Sea
Everybody wants to see the walls of Jericho come tumbling down
But nobody wants to be the one who actually has to walk around those walls in obedience to God's Word
We want to see miracles, but nobody wants to be in a place where we have to see miracles
When you've been compelled to do something for which you know, you are outmatched
But you know God's Spirit is compelling you to do it
anyway this is your opportunity to see the power of God on display if he's called you to the Red Sea
That means he intends to divide it if you'll just show up hold out your rod and expect that great
Supernatural things are on the way