Don't Let Negative Become Your Normal

Something that God is saying.

You know what, I'm taking you through something uncertain right now.

Who is this for?

I'm taking you through something right now that you've never

seen before. But just because you've never seen it before

doesn't mean it's not normal, Thank you, Jesus. Just because

I have never known it doesn't mean it's not normal.

You mean it can be normal for me to have

a heart that is at peace.

Yes, Yes, that's how it's supposed to be.

You are supposed to have peace in the.

Middle of a storm.

Jesus, did he slept through stuff that we scramble about

because he's not from here. See, when you're from someone

else or somewhere else, it changes what you see as normal.

Help me preach, Stand up and help me preach. Because

I come from a different place, because I am.

Not from this world, because it is not my home.

I do not have to accept.

The patterns of this world as normal.

I don't have to accept ease. If this normal?

And what if God is trying to bring me into

a new normal? But I'm so I'm so afraid that

I reach for what's familiar. Can I tell you when

new normal? I think God is trying to give us

right now.

Better priorities.

Because we are so toxic in the way we treat

each other, what we say to each other, how we

categorize and box each other.

Well, we can't box each other like that anymore.

Now I need you and you need me, And if

we don't all do what we're supposed to do, we

may not ever get.

Out of this. God is making a nation.

God is bringing the people through the Red Sea together,

but not for them to go through, for.

Them, for them to get there, there's something that they.

Have to give up. Question, what is God calling you

to give up to get there? What if there's a

new normal? What if your true nature has been so

buried and embedded in what Romans twelve colls the patterns

of this world?

Can I show you this?

But here's what I want to show you from Roman's

twelve one. Some you've heard the scripture before, but let's

put it in context. Okay, just like the children of Israel,

we're going through the Red Sea. And remember all they've

known as normal, all their parents knew is normal, All

their parents' parents knew is normal, All their parents' parents'

parents knew is normal. This is four hundred and thirty years.

Look how weird our world has gotten in just a

few weeks. Okay, this is four hundred and thirty years

of you thinking you're never supposed to have enough.

You'd never before. This is what it's like to be

in bondage.

And some of you know this because you've been in

bondage to depression. You've been in bondage to patterns of thought.

And this is a chain breaking scripture in Romans twelve

to one. And I never saw it before, y'all. I

never saw it before. Rob Debby, Chelsea Dawn, Lisa, Shanika

May Sharon, I never saw it before.

Somebody's name on here is honey. That is not a

normal name. I like it.

If it's my message. My name is honey. What's your name?

My name is honey. That's that's one way to get

a date. All right, my name is honey, Call me honey.

But watch the scripture in Romans twelve, verse one. Are

you ready this revelation to me? I've read both of

these scriptures a lot. They're both classic passages. The children

of Israel coming through the Red Sea.

They want to go.

Back to Egypt, they want to go back to what

they've known. They want to go back to what's familiar

because they are afraid. I'd rather go back to what

is negative, even if it's not really normal. So we'll

call negative normal just because it's what we know.

You see this, Some of the.

Things that I've called normal my whole life aren't normal.

And this scripture shows me just the full extent of it.

In Jesus Christ, now let's put the gospel on this

Old Testament passage. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters,

in view of God's mercy.

That's not normal. That's not normal.

How many of you in a relationship can just do

wrong over and over and over and over and over again,

and the person fully accepts you only God. So in

view of that kind of mercy, and that's where we

get used to things. We get used to things that

we used to be grateful for, we become entitled to.

But remember, for this community that Paul is writing to,

none of this is normal. They're used to relating to

God through a sacrificial system. So when they come before God,

they have to make offerings and spill blood in order

to have their prayer request heard, in order to meet

with God in order to atone for sin. So this

is not normal for Paul to be talking about mercy

coming to God on the basis of grace.

This is new, this is a new normal.

And you know what their temptation was to go back

to the old way. So he's telling them no, no, no,

no no, in view of God's mercy. I urge you

that needs you to I'm begging you to stop trying

to get back to normal, stop thinking that there's something

you could do to earn God's love, and realize that

it's already been done through the gift of his son

Jesus Christ.

That the blood has already been shed.

Instead of getting back to normal, move forward into this

new way of life. And instead of offering pigeons and

turtle doves and lambs and goats and rams, offer your

bodies as a living sacrifice, holy.

And pleasing to God.

This is your true, true You're true and proper worship.

This is your new normal. Your new normal is that

you are forgiven and not condemned. Your new normal is

that you are a child of the most High God.

I am no ordinary child. I am a child of God.

Me and Moses have acts seven twenty in common. I

am no ordinary child.

I am a.

Child of God. I am a royal priesthood, I am

a holy nation. I am set apart. I'm not trying

to be normal. Normal is broken. Normal is broken, The

culture is broken. The world is weird. And it didn't

just get weird when a virus was unleashed. The world

has been weird for a long time. I'm gonna show

you in the Bible, Romans twelve to two. This is

way before coronavirus. You got it, Romans twelve to two.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world? Why

not because the world is weird? Oh no about Christians,

they're weird. You know what's you know what's kind of

cool about going through something really traumatic? What used to

be weird now is the only thing that works. That's

the only thing I'm excited about. I'm not excited about

anybody being sick, anybody dying, anybody losing their job, anybody

losing their company, anybody losing.

Their life's work.

I'm not excited about anybody having to work twenty hour days.

I'm not excited about any of it. But what I

am excited about is that our faith finally fits. See

the world always operates by logic, but now we've come

to a red sea, and so the world is trying

what is always tried ah more information ah, and none

of it works. So now there's room to do what

Romans twelve one says, and worship isn't weird anymore. It's

not weird to worship.

Now, is it?

Because the only thing I can do now is to

call on God. People are praying right now. Who used

to think that praying was superstitious? It's not weird anymore.

For once, we're not the weird ones. We're not weird

for just a minute. Let's just take this moment. It's

like it's like we're a middle school boy who finally

hit a growth spur and our voice isn't cracking, and

we finally fit.

The church finally fits.

You could send this link to somebody today and they

wouldn't be annoyed that you invited them to church. They'd

be excited. They are bored to death. They've got three ulcers,

They've got ulcers in places where you.

Don't even normally get ulcers. So faith finally fits.

This is our moment, this is our time, this is

what we were born to do. Oh, I'm born to

be normal. We fit this amazing moment. Finally there's space

for faith in your life. As long as everything's normal,

there's no space for faith.

Oh, I got this. I figured this out. Here's what

I do.

I took the kids here, and I took the kids there,

and I took the kids there, and I take the

kids here. The Lord said that in this season, he

is helping people reset their schedule. And since you didn't

want to do it manually, now as the whole thing

is shut down, one of the new normals that God

might bring us into is that we have a different

baseline for busy.

Or a reordering of pies. Think about this.

Many of us worshiped soccer more than we worshiped the Savior.

I know that sounds like one of those cliches I

would normally do it in the country preacher voice, Oh,

worship soccer more than the Savior. But it's the dang truth.

And I don't have anything against soccer other than I

hate it. But listen to me, Church, listen, you're listening

to me right now. Sit up and listen to this.

God said, I'm not trying to get you back to

the normal, to where you worshiped your kids' activities and

left no space for me.

I'm not trying to bring you.

Back to that Egypt where you had to.

Make bricks without straw.

And you were just spending your money and spending your

time and never full and holds in your purses and

just running after this and running after that to impress people.

So now you're going through a season where you can

put on any clothes you want, Nobody's going to see them.

God's reordering some priority because Romans twelve to put it

back on the screen. Please, I feel this message. I

want another week of this next week. Thank you Jesus.

Do not conform anymore to the pattern of this world,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Why the world was weird to begin with.

It's not normal, and even the way you develop your

construct of.

The world is important. Right.

If you get your construct of what the world is

like from the news, you will not know normal. The

news does not make money by showing you normal. The

news makes money by showing you the most extreme example

to keep you watching. You think the news is there

to inform you. The news is not there to inform you.

The news is there to engage you, so you'll keep watching.

You're getting your construct of the world right now from

the news, the news, the news, the news.

That's not normal.

I'm not telling you not to check the news.

I'm telling you not to watch it just all the time.

It's not normal. That is not normal. You know how

the world has these patterns.

It's like all these patterns of the world where we

overextend ourselves all the time, and we do all.

These things to impress people.

That has never been normal, That's just been culturally accepted.

That doesn't make it normal. What does God call normal?

That's what I want to know in this season. What

does God call normal? I told Elijah the other day,

I don't care if you like sports or don't like sports,

if music is your thing, because I grew up with

this too. The kids who did sports were normal. The

kids who liked music were weird.

You know what.

I'm forty and I probably can't play sports anymore either,

even if I was good at them at one time.

I can still make music. So watch this. What was weird?

Then?

Is making ministry happen? Now? Can I preach? Do not

be conformed? That's to be.

Acted upon by the outside. That's conform. You can make

it what you want it to be. That's what the

world has done to us for so long. Your faith

goes here. Don't talk about your faith. Your faith is

just this. That's not normal. The world is weird. Faith

is normal. Faith is the substance of things hoped for

and the evidence of things not seen. And now we

get it that the unseen is the most significant. I've

been preaching this since the beginning of the year, but

now we finally get it that what is unseen is

most significant. We get it because we're fighting a virus

that we can't see. So now we understand that the

things which are seen were made of things which do

not appear. Faith finally fits because we are standing in

front of the red Sea and we no longer understand,

and we can't count on the things we used to

count on, and in one sense we want.

Them back for comfort.

But God cannot bring change while we hold to comfort.

There is a new normal. There is a better you,

a truer you, are real you. The patterns of this

world are just pretend. It is not real. There is

a peace that comes from above. There is a wisdom

that whispers and it doesn't show. And God said, I'm

not trying to get you back to normal.

I'm trying to bring you into it. I'm looking forward

to normal. Somebody say it in the chat. I'm looking

forward to it. I'm looking forward to God reinventing me.

I'm looking forward to God increasing my capacity to connect

with people for real. I'm looking forward to God. I

prayed that God would help me with my gratitude. I'm

looking forward to being able to put it into practice

in the next season. I'm looking forward to normal, not

trying to get back to it.

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