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Walking with Christ in a Stressful World: Week 2

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  1. Good morning, Good morning, family. Is so good to be

  2. here this morning, so good to be able to celebrate

  3. and worship together. I don't know about Pastor James Thursday.

  4. I was six foot tall nine forty five. I was

  5. five eleven, and now I'm six foot and a half.

  6. I'm growing. I'm growing. Amen, I'm just glad to be growing.

  7. But listen, it is so good to be here with

  8. you as we dive into the second week of this series,

  9. walking with Christ in a stressful world.

  10. I hope that.

  11. The devotional has been a blessing to you as you've

  12. been diving in and taking time to reflect over how

  13. you can stay connected to Christ. This series probably couldn't

  14. have come at a better time. As we look at

  15. the world, things are chaotic. Better yet I would also

  16. say things are just crazy right now. But this is

  17. a time where we need to lean in even more

  18. into Jesus and allow him to guide us through uh

  19. this season. The world is always going to be like this,

  20. he said, And it's a word that you know, trouble

  21. will always be there. It's gonna be there. But He's

  22. overcome the world, and so that's the good news. So

  23. this morning, I know there were several persons who approached

  24. me this week and said, hey, I didn't get to

  25. get a devotional. Literally last week we sold out and

  26. so that was such a blessing. Thank you for those

  27. who paid it forward. So today I went into my stash, yeah,

  28. and brought some It's not that many, but there are

  29. several out there at the connect desk in case you

  30. needed a devotional. Uh, and it still would be at cost.

  31. Just my gift to the congregation. All of the proceeds

  32. that do that you purchase this with do go to

  33. the ministry where we serve kids who are incarcerated, so

  34. us know that is the background. I don't profit anything

  35. off of this, but it goes right into the ministry. Also,

  36. today I want to let you know that at both

  37. doors there will be a toolbox for you to take

  38. home with you. Today we'll talk through some practices that

  39. will help us to reduce the anxiety and stress that

  40. we face daily, some tools that we can just practice

  41. to help us stay connected to Christ as we navigate

  42. through this world. Amen, let us pray Father, I thank

  43. you that you are here in this place, that you

  44. hear us, and you have always heard us. We pray

  45. Lord that you would be in this space to meet

  46. the needs of your people. We come with very diverse needs,

  47. very diverse perspectives, but we are united in the fact

  48. that you are Lord. So we pray our Father, who

  49. are in heaven, hollow be your name, your kingdom.

  50. Come.

  51. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

  52. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive our debts

  53. as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,

  54. but deliver us from the evil one.

  55. Amen.

  56. Today's big idea is long, but it's very important. God

  57. gives fresh grace for today. Receive it daily, Release yesterday

  58. to him, and rest in His care for tomorrow. Today

  59. we want to receive release and rest. There'll be several

  60. scriptures that are lived up today, and I want you

  61. to take those to heart and apply them to your life.

  62. Life is noisy.

  63. Deadlines, bills, notifications, opinions, all these things are bombarding us

  64. every day. But Jesus teaches this very simple prayer, and

  65. in that prayer in Matthew six, he says, give us

  66. today our daily bread. Jesus is at the point where

  67. he is having or teaching or giving the best sermon

  68. ever preach Now, there's a lot of preachers out here

  69. who think they really can preach. But Jesus delivers the

  70. best sermon ever preached. And in this Sermon on the Mount,

  71. he tells us not only about all of these pieces

  72. of life, but he offers us a prayer that we

  73. should pray. Now, if you're gonna pray, I think you

  74. should pray the way that Jesus prayed. Amen, because it's

  75. got will work. Because he is like the son of God.

  76. He is the one who laid down his life, picked

  77. it back up, has all power in his hand. I

  78. think this is the right prayer. I don't think we

  79. could come up with a better prayer. So Jesus offers

  80. this prayer in the midst of all that's going on

  81. today as we embrace the theme of daily bread. We're

  82. not talking about groceries, but we're talking about the sustaining

  83. presence of God's word and his spirit. So, just for

  84. background context, I want you to understand that as we

  85. look at the word that Jesus says, give us today

  86. our daily bread, this is a reference to the children

  87. of Israel in Exodus. In Exodus sixteen, we remember that

  88. the children of Israel were in a place of wilderness,

  89. and the Lord was providing them bread every day, what

  90. we call mana and mana was delivered every day and

  91. each person will get what they needed, and they knew

  92. that they couldnot keep it because it would spoil. And

  93. so every day they were learning to trust in God,

  94. to believe that the same God who provided yesterday will

  95. provide today, and he would provide tomorrow. But Jesus gives

  96. us the reference and says, give us today our daily bread.

  97. When I was a kid, my grandmother had a record player.

  98. Now many of you probably triggered because you remember the

  99. record players that sometimes would break down and you have

  100. to put a coin on top of the arm in

  101. order to keep the record on the record player, and

  102. it would play a song. But she would play this

  103. one song, and I grew to love it, even though

  104. I did not understand it as a kid.

  105. It was one day at a time.

  106. Amen, I got some people who remember, right, And so

  107. she would play that song. And then later in life,

  108. my mom would always not She wouldn't allow us to

  109. say goodbye. You couldn't say goodbye to anyone, and you

  110. had to say I'll see you soon, because we didn't

  111. know when we would see a person, if we would

  112. see them here or there. But she taught that, and

  113. then my grandmother added this phrase, if the Lord is willing.

  114. We've heard that before, If the Lord is willing. Now,

  115. every service that I've done, someone walks up to me

  116. and they say, you've got the second part and the

  117. creek don't rise. Well, my grandmother didn't live by a creek,

  118. so I didn't know about the creek rising, okay, but

  119. I know that phrase. And so the reality is that

  120. all of this culminated into an understanding that all we

  121. have is today. It created a theology of sanity that

  122. today is what I got. I can't worry about yesterday,

  123. and I really can't focus on tomorrow. So if stress

  124. lives in yesterday and tomorrow, Jesus teaches us how to

  125. live today. There are three steps that we're gonna take

  126. today to help reduce the stress that we face. As preachers,

  127. we often teach the gospel with the hope that when

  128. you leave, you will consult God about the implementation. But today,

  129. for the purposes of this gathering, we're gonna look at

  130. not just what to do, but I'm gonna give you

  131. some examples on how to do it. First step one,

  132. receive today's portion.

  133. I'm gonna say that again.

  134. Receive today's portion. This is presence over panic. Jesus says,

  135. give us today our daily bread. Two things are happening

  136. in this statement this phrase. There's a request and then

  137. there's the statement to let us know that bread comes daily,

  138. but we want to receive bread today. And so we

  139. are introduced to this idea of that bread's coming, but

  140. let's get it today.

  141. In Exodus sixteen.

  142. It helps us to remember the idea of where Jesus

  143. is coming from because the Lord it says this in

  144. Exodus sixteen sixteen. This is what the Lord has commanded.

  145. Everyone is to gather as much as they need.

  146. Take an omer for each person.

  147. You have in your tent, and an omer is about

  148. forty three dry ounces of grain. This is what the

  149. Lord was providing so that they could eat. And so

  150. he said, give us this day our daily bread. That

  151. was a reference to those who were from a long

  152. time past history, so they would understand that this is

  153. something I need daily. But then he comes around in

  154. John six thirty five and he says, then Jesus declared,

  155. I am.

  156. The bread of life.

  157. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever

  158. believes in me will never be thirsty. So he changes

  159. the ideology from something that we receive to a person

  160. that we're not looking for stuff.

  161. Help us Lord today.

  162. We're not looking for stuff, but we are looking for

  163. the personhood of Jesus. Because when we have Jesus, we're good.

  164. Let me offer you this truth. God gives fresh bread

  165. for this day. Yesterday mana mod Yesterday's grace was real,

  166. but today needs today's portion. When we were talking about man,

  167. I want you to understand that it would mold, it

  168. would spoil.

  169. It could not be held over the day.

  170. It couldn't be held for weeks or month, it would spoil.

  171. And so God was providing it every day. And when

  172. he gave it was real, it was ready, It was

  173. for right now, but it would spoil. We need the

  174. Lord today. Christ says, I am the bread of life.

  175. So we're not asking for anything but his presence, for

  176. his guidance, for his direction. Whatever we need can be

  177. found in Jesus. This is where we take a shift.

  178. We have to shift in our anxiety. Everybody has a

  179. form of anxiety. Anxiety happens at different levels. Some people

  180. get anxiety if there's no coffee. No one should be

  181. anxious today, a man, it's coffee in the lobby if

  182. you need it, right. So people get anxiety over different things.

  183. If it's about your kids, or it's about your spouse,

  184. it's about certain.

  185. Things, you become anxious. So check this out.

  186. We have to shift in our anxiety because panic says

  187. or anxiety says, I don't have enough, but presence says

  188. the giver is here. Anxiety says I don't know if

  189. I'll ever be healed, but presence says, the healer is here.

  190. So we shift out of our anxiety and we embrace

  191. who Christ is in our life, so we don't have

  192. to worry.

  193. So I'm going to give you.

  194. The first tool for your tool, and the first tool

  195. is called the first bite. This is something you do

  196. in the morning when you wake up, and in the morning,

  197. what you would want.

  198. To do is first start with the Word of God.

  199. Now I'm gonna say something I didn't say to other services,

  200. but try not to read the Word of God on

  201. your phone because you already got notifications. And if you're

  202. anything like me, when you open that notification, you find

  203. yourself at whatever you've been notified about Instagram, Facebook, email,

  204. and then you say, oh, no, that wasn't what my

  205. intentions were. Find a written copy of the Word of God,

  206. so you don't even have that distraction. You can avoid

  207. that temptation. Open the Word of God and spend four

  208. minutes reading from a Psalm or from the Gospel. And

  209. after you read from the Gospels, I want you to

  210. ask this question.

  211. What is today's bread for my soul?

  212. Lord?

  213. What is today's bread for my soul? What are you

  214. saying to me? Out of what I just read, I

  215. believe and I know that God will speak to you.

  216. You ask a question, God will answer. Secondly, pray, pray

  217. the Lord's prayer, but pray it slowly. Pray it slowly,

  218. because I remember when I was a kid, we used

  219. to pray. See how fast we could pray the Lord's prayer.

  220. Our Father, But you are and have a hollow be

  221. thy name of the King, come to give this an

  222. they out of prayer. You know you got that think, No,

  223. that doesn't work. That doesn't work, because that's a checklist.

  224. That's something we did. We checked the box.

  225. We did it.

  226. But when you are reflective and thinking about the words

  227. that you are saying, the words that Jesus said that

  228. now you repeat because he says you should pray life

  229. this it is more meaningful. Take your time when you

  230. get to the park where it says, give us this day,

  231. give us two day our daily bread. Thirdly, take two

  232. minutes and sit in silence.

  233. Now. I know if you have little ones, you're gonna have.

  234. To get up a little bit earlier because they're moving

  235. around right, But two minutes in silence, stillness, and I

  236. want you to breathe this out after those two minutes. Jesus,

  237. you are enough. Jesus, you are enough. And finally, a blessing.

  238. Whether you text a blessing if your phone you can

  239. use your phone at this point text a blessing, maybe not,

  240. because you might get distracted, or you walk in the

  241. room and your kids are still asleep and you wake

  242. them up with a blessing. Lord, bless little Sarah, bless

  243. her day, helpe her to have the most fantastic day.

  244. I bless you.

  245. In the name of the Lord, that everything you do,

  246. everywhere you go, you feel blessed, You feel safe, you

  247. feel loved in Jesus' name. That's a blessing, so you

  248. bless someone else as part of this practice. Now, I

  249. know many of us as soon as we do this,

  250. we're like, oh, I'm good. I'm good. Then we get

  251. in a car. It's always a big mistake to get

  252. in the cars.

  253. One. You know, leaving your home is a.

  254. Big mistake most times because the world will hit you

  255. right because you just had a great time with Jesus.

  256. But now we're in traffic.

  257. And somebody cuts you off, and they don't just cut

  258. you off, they give you all kinds of fingers and

  259. stuff like that. So in that moment, this is a

  260. micro tool that you can use anytime. This is morning, noon, night,

  261. in the middle of night, you have a bad dream,

  262. wake up, you can use this micro tool. And this

  263. is what we call breathe and cast. Breathe and cast.

  264. So you're going to inhale four seconds. Let's do that

  265. right now together you're ready, and then we're going to

  266. exhale six seconds. In hell for exhale six I explain

  267. that in a minute. You're ready, let's try that. Let's

  268. go exhale. Now say this, I cast this care on you.

  269. I cast this care on you. Whatever just was there,

  270. cast it let it go. And the reason why we

  271. take six seconds to breathe out because there's something on

  272. the inside you need to let go.

  273. Let that go.

  274. That's the casting portion. Cast that care on Jesus because

  275. he cares for you. So receiving today's bread is one step.

  276. But what about the regrets and fragments from yesterday? We

  277. all have some regrets, some fragments from the things that

  278. may have happened to us when we were five, when

  279. we were twelve, when we were thirty two, whatever that was.

  280. Those things in our past or our yesterday's that seem

  281. to creep into today, and so today we want to

  282. address those things. So step two is to redeem yesterday's fragments.

  283. To redeem yesterday's fragments recycled, not trash. When I was

  284. a kid, I remember waking up in the morning and

  285. on Saturday morning particularly, and I would hear the trash

  286. cans being rustled through because there would be people who

  287. were grabbing the bottles to be able to redeem them

  288. or take them so they could receive a nickel for

  289. each bottle.

  290. Actually I did that a couple times too.

  291. You know, cool way to make a dollar You only

  292. need twenty bottles man so that redemption or recycling of

  293. those bottles created value. There are things from yesterday that

  294. still have value today.

  295. Let's look at this a little bit deeper.

  296. Remember I said to you that Mana was a daily

  297. thing that had to be consumed in that day, and

  298. if you saved it, it had no usage. But now

  299. we're moving from Mana to Jesus.

  300. Oh, my God, the bread of life.

  301. Jesus never spoils. Jesus never goes stale. Jesus never molds.

  302. Jesus is always applicable every day. But we need to

  303. look at what happened yesterday so we can use the

  304. usefulness of it into today. Check this out. This is

  305. what the screech church would say. John six twelve says this.

  306. When they had all had enough to eat, he said

  307. to his disciples, gather the pieces that are left over.

  308. Let nothing be wasted.

  309. Now this happens when there was a multitude, and you

  310. remember the story of Jesus and the crowd wanted to

  311. be with Jesus so bad that they go to this

  312. remote place where there's no place that they could buy

  313. or get too easily or accessible. And there was a

  314. kid with two fish and five loads. You remember that

  315. now in one of the passages. I always joke about this,

  316. but I really it never says that the kid willingly

  317. gave his lunch up, so I always feel like he

  318. might have got jacked.

  319. Nevertheless, a miracle happened.

  320. Amen, the kid did eat that day, right because they

  321. all had enough. But Jesus, after this miracle takes place,

  322. there's the leftovers, and he says, hey, let nothing be wasted,

  323. and they collect twelve basket full of bread. I can

  324. go real deep and ask question, well, while were there

  325. no fish? While were there only bread? And we'll do

  326. that some other time, but not today. He says, let

  327. nothing be wasted. Interestingly enough, Matthew six' six twelve six',

  328. twelve says after or in the midst of, this prayer,

  329. he says and forgive us, our debts as we also forgive.

  330. Our debtors jesus mounts this idea of bread. And forgiveness

  331. there is two. Things happening at the. Same time he is,

  332. offering bread but he's also saying there's got to be

  333. an offering, a forgiveness and forgiveness is us releasing some things?

  334. From yesterday there are some things in yesterday that we

  335. are stuck at and it causes us to miss the bread.

  336. For today i'm gonna say. That again i'm gonna try

  337. to say. That, again lord help make this.

  338. Make sense there's, some situations there's.

  339. Some circumstances there's some things that are happened that either

  340. we have not forgiven someone or we are still operating

  341. under that thing from Yesterday that god, is saying if

  342. you would move from yesterday and stop focusing, on it learn,

  343. from it.

  344. Then you can receive.

  345. Today's BREAD when i work with my kids who are in,

  346. DETENTION centers i always ask them when something goes wrong

  347. and they they crash out.

  348. As kids, SAY today i, always say what did? You learn?

  349. What, happened happened but what did you pull away? From

  350. it what is the bread out of? The Situation the

  351. lord always. Offers bread we need to be people who

  352. can receive. The bread let me offer you, This truth.

  353. Jesus says gather. The fragments let nothing. Be Wasted, with

  354. jesus yesterday's broken pieces, aren't trash but they are ingredients for.

  355. TOMORROW'S testimony i don't know, about you but you want

  356. to make a good dressing some of y'all call. It

  357. stuffing i'm. Sorry now if you call, it stuffing have.

  358. Ad it BUT when i, grew up they, had dressing

  359. and dressing had all kinds, of stuff and like, you

  360. know chicken thighs and onions and celery and. All this

  361. the Broth from oh, my lord it was. So good matter,

  362. Of fact i'm getting Hungry while i'm talking.

  363. About it but you take bread that was already old.

  364. Or mature it wasn't fresh bread out of the oven

  365. that to eat, that day but whatever it was from the,

  366. day before you take that to make, this dressing and

  367. oh how good.

  368. It was jesus.

  369. Seasons and gives us the ingredients for a testimony if

  370. we would apply our.

  371. Apply it.

  372. Notice that these two are melted. Together forgiveness as, we

  373. released we're also able.

  374. To receive we're able to.

  375. Lighten the load, of guilt lighten the load of a

  376. heavy heart when we. RELEASE forgiveness i don't know, about

  377. you but if you've been on a, plane before you

  378. know they adjust the weight on the plane so that

  379. they can take off. And LAND and i would say

  380. taking off and landing, is great but landing is more

  381. important than.

  382. Taking off and so we want to be able to.

  383. Land well and so, this unforgiveness whatever it is that

  384. we need to, deal with we need to release it

  385. so that we we can receive fully What the lord has.

  386. For us this is the second practice in.

  387. Our toolbox this is what we call the recycling ben

  388. because we want to recycle and Remember what jesus offered

  389. us yesterday without being stuck.

  390. In yesterday, hear that what's the lesson?

  391. From, yesterday first if something, happened wrong you don't know what,

  392. it is whether it was yesterday or what is. Happening,

  393. today lord here's what, broke today here's what. Broke yesterday

  394. we need to.

  395. Name it name what. It is this is. What broke

  396. and after we, name it hand.

  397. It over picture yourself placing it in the hands Of the.

  398. Lord and some. Of us we want to write. It

  399. down write down, what broke write down, what happen write.

  400. It down and then after you have, it there imagine

  401. placing that piece of paper in the hands Of. The lord,

  402. and thirdly receive a word to cover. That thing.

  403. Take the Word of god and apply it to.

  404. That thing maybe you wrote what it is and you

  405. write the scripture all. Over it to remind yourself that

  406. this is covered by the Word. Of god maybe you

  407. say something Out, of romans and, you say and we

  408. know that all things work together for the good of

  409. them Who love god and.

  410. Those who are called according to.

  411. Its purpose that this crazy thing that, happened yesterday this

  412. crazy thing that, happened today, guess what it's working together

  413. for my Good because god has done.

  414. Something or is doing something. Through it and then finally

  415. practice the act, of release.

  416. If possible make, one reconciliation, call, text apologize release It

  417. to god that forgiveness that needs to, be given so

  418. that your heart is light and your belly can now

  419. be filled with the blessing of the bread.

  420. From, today well we received today's bread and redeemed.

  421. Yesterday's crumbs but anxiety also spikes when we try to.

  422. Control tomorrow any control freaks in, the house, come.

  423. On wave your hands in, the air weave even. Like

  424. it just, don't care but, you do.

  425. Okay control many of us want to be in control

  426. because when you're, in control you can manage, the pain

  427. you can manage. The hurt many of us in this

  428. room you've been. Injured before many of you remember just

  429. a few, WEEKS ago i pulled, a HAMSTRING and i was.

  430. Walking Around, ONE sunday i came in with, a crutch

  431. AND then i, Kept saying i'm gonna be Healed. By

  432. SUNDAY but, i REMEMBER and i was Healed, By sunday Praise.

  433. The lord BUT.

  434. While i was walking around with, A crutch i was

  435. trying to manage my PAIN because i KNEW if i stepped,

  436. JUST right i was gonna fill that muscle pull and

  437. the pulling up that muscle WAS something i didn't want.

  438. To EXPERIENCE so i was trying to manage. By limping

  439. and some of us have been limping through life when

  440. you've already, been healed but you're trying to.

  441. Avoid It the lord has already healed you, of that.

  442. But you've been safeguarding yourself so you don't experience.

  443. The.

  444. Pain well Step three Rest in, tomorrow's provider.

  445. Trust.

  446. OVER control i want you to Trust. In jesus whatever you're,

  447. going through place your trust, in him because he can handle.

  448. Your tomorrow matthew six thirty, Four, says therefore do not worry,

  449. about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry. About itself each day

  450. has enough trouble of.

  451. Its own.

  452. That's something it never says don't worry about. Tomorrow today

  453. you can handle it tomorrow and take care of tomorrow

  454. because you. Got, tomorrow no it doesn't. Say that it

  455. says tomorrow will. Handle, tomorrow well who? Is, Tomorrow well jesus.

  456. Is tomorrow, he's, yesterday today, and forever so. You're tomorrow

  457. he has Already handled so don't worry about Tomorrow because jesus.

  458. Got It been philippians for six.

  459. And, seven listen if there's an anchor for, this series

  460. this is.

  461. The anchor this is.

  462. The anchor i'm giving you. The anchor if you're reading,

  463. the devotional this is suggested that you would put it in.

  464. Places now Talking to, gene's WARNING and i saw on

  465. her phone she actually has the scripture on her phone so.

  466. That she can see it and.

  467. Be reminded as one of the practices that the devotion

  468. will suggests that you can be reminded not to.

  469. Be anxious but this is how the whole scripture, reason.

  470. Says do not be anxious, about anything but in, every

  471. situation by prayer, and petition, with thanksgiving present your Request,

  472. to god and the Peace, of god which transcends, all

  473. understanding will guard your hearts and Minds In.

  474. Christ jesus that's. A mouthful.

  475. That's the lord doing a. Whole lot but, it says

  476. do not, be anxious don't worry.

  477. About it.

  478. Don't Worry because jesus will guard your heart.

  479. AND mind i like to offer. This truth peace rides,

  480. with trust. Not control peace rides, with trust.

  481. Not, CONTROL recently i have a beloved brother who not

  482. so recent but, recent enough who was picking me up

  483. from the AIRPORT when i come in, and OUT when

  484. i was coming in, and out AND sometimes i even ride.

  485. With HIM now i don't. Know why matter, of fact

  486. he's taking me to. AIRPORT today i hope. He remembers

  487. but one day he picks me up and he's, like

  488. driving and while, HE'S driving i am trying to figure

  489. out what's going on in. His vehicle he HAS an

  490. EV and i noticed that he did not have.

  491. His hands on the. Steering wheel this was a problem.

  492. For me we're on four sixty five and.

  493. You know how many trucks Come through indianapolis and you

  494. don't have your hands on the.

  495. Steering wheel and so then he explained to me that

  496. he had. Self drive it was in a self, drive mode.

  497. And that it was the, safest thing and he starts

  498. playing all. THIS stuff i really. DIDN'T care i just

  499. needed him to put his hands on the steering wheel

  500. to give. ME comfort i needed to feel like somebody was.

  501. In control it was BAD enough i was in the,

  502. passenger seat but now you don't even have your hands

  503. on the. Steering wheel he's my brother and. MY buddy

  504. i started a. New thing so if you hear it,

  505. around here you'll know it started hearing. The service it's.

  506. Called bruddy so, you say, what's?

  507. Up, bruddy ah you. Heard it somebody already heard it from. Last.

  508. Service AMEN but i had to become comfortable with the

  509. fact of not being.

  510. In control my kids have been trained a, certain way

  511. and it's. My fault it really is. My fault when they,

  512. were younger we would go out, to eat and, my

  513. kids we allowed them to order off, the menu and

  514. we started with the. Children's menu you could pick someone

  515. off the, children's menu and usually, you know it's like four.

  516. Ninety nine now it's like seven.

  517. Ninety nine it's the same, chicken nuggets but it's seven ninety.

  518. Nine now but then they carry that over when they

  519. were no longer able to eat off the, children's MENU

  520. and i would, Sit there, i'm like and then they

  521. want to order, a drink and a drink literally is like,

  522. six bucks and it's six of us in, our family

  523. and so you start adding.

  524. That up that gets.

  525. Really expensive And so, i'm like everybody's, Getting water.

  526. Mama can get a.

  527. Sweet tea and so another thing that they would do,

  528. is that as they all of them did at one time,

  529. or another when the bill, would come they, Would, say

  530. daddy how much did?

  531. That Cost and.

  532. I'd, BE like i would move the bill away, and

  533. say if, you look you gotta pay.

  534. For it they never. Asked again we need to adopt

  535. that Mentality.

  536. That jesus is going to pay. The price he's taking care.

  537. Of IT so i don't need to worry about how much.

  538. IT costs i don't need. To WORRY all i need

  539. to do is to consume the bread that he's.

  540. Offering. Me TODAY when, I do i. Have peace.

  541. I'm not WORRY because i Serve a god who provides

  542. for EVERYTHING that.

  543. I need.

  544. I told you earlier my grandmother, would say If the lord,

  545. is willing, and everyday.

  546. Can we get ice? Cream tomorrow If the lord, IS willing.

  547. I feel Like the lord was always willing to get,

  548. ice cream WELL until i became, lactose intolerant but that's.

  549. Another story.

  550. But everything was If the lord, Is willing i'll. See

  551. you If the lord, Is willing i'll. Go here If

  552. the lord, is willing AND so. I would some would

  553. assume that this, is fatalism, but no this is. Not

  554. fatalism this. IS freedom i don't need to worry about

  555. TOMORROW because i am living. In.

  556. Today tomorrow god will take care.

  557. Of TOMORROW all i need. TO do i got. One

  558. job you got. One job we've got, one job and that.

  559. Is today SO today i need to DO everything i

  560. can AND while. I can THAT means i only need

  561. to Love like i've never. LOVED before i need to

  562. display pre PEACE like i never displayed. PEACE before i

  563. need to have the joy Of the lord like. Never

  564. before because tomorrow's not promised. To me i've, got today

  565. and today.

  566. Is enough.

  567. Oh we would hope for tomorrow because somebody's got to

  568. plan a wedding. PLAN tomorrow i don't know why they're

  569. getting Married, on monday but it.

  570. Is cheaper.

  571. But guess what if we don't make it to? A

  572. WEDDING did i show THEM that i. Love, them today.

  573. All we got.

  574. Is today this is the final part of. Your toolbox

  575. this is what we Call the Lord is. Willing posture

  576. name three things that you're, grateful for whatever those. Things,

  577. Are lord i'm glad you woke me up. This morning

  578. i'm glad THAT when i got to church they had

  579. a lot. Of, Coffee god i'm so glad that the

  580. seat is comfortable and the temperature in this place is.

  581. Just right.

  582. I'm GRATEFUL that i got to see this one Person

  583. because i've been thinking. About, Them lord i'm so GRATEFUL

  584. that i got to hear your.

  585. Word today i'm so grateful they sang. That song that

  586. song helped me.

  587. To remember just three things that you're grateful, for today

  588. not what he did five. Years, ago today then release.

  589. This prayer this is what we do at the end of,

  590. the day at the end of our. Full Day and

  591. i'm gonna. Encourage you listen when you. Do this don't

  592. HAVE the, Tv on LET that tv, Be off Get

  593. in god's presence and take just five minutes and pray. This,

  594. PRAYER lord i entrust tomorrow to you.

  595. Your will.

  596. YOUR way i entrust tomorrow to you, your will, your

  597. way and then finally close with this simple prayer or

  598. blessing for your sleep Found in psalms. Four eight, IN

  599. peace i will lie down and sleep for. You, alone

  600. lord make me dwell in safety.

  601. This morning.

  602. There are many people who don't, feel safe who, are

  603. anxious who, are worried who. Are CONCERNED but i want

  604. you to know That, the Lord our god allows us

  605. to sleep and rest in his.

  606. Divine protection.

  607. When you step, out today be sure to pick up

  608. one of these toolboxes to help you through. Your days,

  609. this morning to, THE believer i pray that you receive,

  610. fresh bread not, yesterday's leftovers not, tomorrow's Fantasies but jesus.

  611. Himself today he's enough to the heart.

  612. That's, searching jesus the bread of life satisfies all hunger

  613. and quenches. Every thirst why don't you say yes to?

  614. Him today if you find yourself in either category under pressure,

  615. or searching would you repeat this prayer with me as

  616. we repeat it as. A, congregation.

  617. Jesus my bread, OF.

  618. Life i receive your portion. FOR today i place yesterday's

  619. fragments in. Your hands let nothing. BE wasted i release

  620. tomorrow to, your care.

  621. My heart and mind.

  622. With.

  623. Your peace if you pray, THAT prayer i pray that prayer,

  624. for you that you, might receive that you, might release

  625. and that you might rest bow, your heads and let

  626. us pray together this.

  627. Morning we hard in.

  628. Follow to be li kingdom will be.

  629. Nor as he in the.

  630. Fastiday our bread and forging, on side as we forgive powers.

  631. And the not into.

  632. Tempting shine but you leave ross.

  633. From me.

  634. Is the king, of hand the.

  635. Hand the doll to oh