Let Peace Rule:- 12.28. 2025 (12PM) - Elder Brett Rodway

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That is a faith we benefit from. So thank you.

And I want to encourage you, stir your faith.

I want to encourage you. Don't say, oh, that's nice for

them. Say that's something I'm part

of. And I can have a bit of that

faith. I can lay a hold of that faith.

That kind of faith that moves, that kind of faith that builds,

that kind of faith that is planting the kind of faith that

changes. I'm not talking about faith

today. That's just for fun.

OK, bless you, peace through the storm.

Let peace rule. Let peace rule.

In the first experience, Laura actually shared this verse and I

was like, you're cheating. You got in early Colossians 315

from the New Living Translation and it says and let the peace

that comes from Christ rule in your hearts for as members of 1

body, you are called to live in peace and always be thankful.

It's interesting there's this parallel between peace and

always being thankful, always having gratitude, always having

that heart of love for what God has.

But the the word I want to focus on is and let the peace that

comes from Christ rule in your hearts.

Pastor Terence spoke about this in, I think the last Sunday

message talking about how the peace of God can rule like an

umpire and govern. The peace of God actually has a,

a place and a a capacity to govern us, to govern our

thoughts, to govern our feelings.

Like an umpire gets to make a decision, gets to make that

decision, whether he got tagged before he touched the base or

not. What's an analogy?

That's not sport. That's always hard for me.

What was an analogy similar to that?

That's not sport. But a, a, a, a judge will be

able to rule whether that speeding ticket was right or

wrong. OK, there's an arbitration.

There's a decision making process.

What's allowed to go and what's not allowed to go.

So the question to you today is what will you let rule your

feelings and thoughts? What will you let rule in an

ironing experience? If you weren't here, I encourage

you to take a listen. Elder John was speaking about

which Kingdom you connect with and you contribute into is the

peace that you get to receive and benefit from.

There were two kingdoms, Mammon and the Kingdom of peace, and

Abram gave in to the king of peace, and so now he received

the benefit of that peace. So what will you let rule your

feelings and your thoughts? Mark 439 we see the story of

Jesus and he's in the boat and he's been preaching for to the

people for the day. And he's like, we got to go over

there. And so they're they're heading

over to the other side and the storm hits and the disciples

wake up Jesus. And Mark 439 says when Jesus

woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the ways, silence be

still. And the new King James says

peace be still. And suddenly the wind stopped

and there was a great calm. Nine years ago, I was on a

flight for work to Las Vegas, for work for work to Las Vegas,

OK. So I was on a flight for work to

Las Vegas and we got a little bit into the flight and we're

going to have a little bit of turbulence.

Now. I've had turbulence before,

traveled to Australia. There's one time we were

travelling towards Sydney and just after they passed Hawaii,

they didn't know there was turbulence and we had this big,

big drop that was, that was exciting.

And so I've, I've, I've had experience with turbulence

before, but here I was on this flight to Vegas and the

turbulence was funny because not only turbulence, like bouncy,

right? This one felt like a swing.

Oh yeah, that's a different feeling.

That was a weird feeling. And so I always pray before a

flight, you know, I know God's got got got the capacity and

strength to manage my flight, but this one warranted an

additional mid flight prayer. And and I said, I said, I, you

know, I read my word. I knew this scripture, you know,

I've raised the church so I could make my declaration.

So I declared to the wind, peace, peace still.

And then a thought dropped in the back of my head, when the

Holy Spirit, Jesus didn't need the wind to be calmed, to have

peace. And so here I am thinking, oh

hang on, let me go through my head.

Has that story go again? Is that right?

Is that right? Oh, OK, OK, that seems to be

right. Wow, what peace is that?

A piece of rules. A piece of rules with authority.

He didn't. He didn't need the storm to be

calm. He brought the calm.

Jesus had peace despite the storm.

The storm was exterior His peace.

What's from within? Let's read more of this story.

Back to Mark 4. Verse 35.

As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, let's cross to

the other side of the lake. So they took Jesus in the boat.

Who's in the boat? OK, so they took Jesus in the

boat and started out leaving the crowds behind, although other

boats followed. Verse 37 But soon a fierce storm

came apart up highways were breaking into the boat, and it

began to fill with water. That's not great.

You don't want a situation. You want the water outside the

boat, not inside the boat, right?

And one thing we got to remember, it's these are

fishermen who knew the area. They knew boating.

They knew how how boats were they?

They'd gone out on the water at various times.

But here this storm is such that it was like, whoa, what's going

on now? Do you remember, Pastor,

terrorists talked about peace is a person.

Peace is a person. The Prince of Peace.

The answer you think it is, it probably is.

The Prince of Peace is OK, let's go with a little bit more

conviction. The Prince of Peace is all

right. There we go.

Good. Jesus peace personified.

Jesus was in the boat with them. But then we read in verse 38,

Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on the

cushion and the disciples woke him up shouting, Teacher, don't

you care that we're going to drown?

Wake up, wake up freaked out. But who was in the boat?

Jesus? Peace was in the boat.

And yet, even though peace was in the boat, they didn't partake

of that peace. They didn't allow the peace to

rule. But Jesus knew how to have peace

rule. Jesus was sleeping at the back

of the boat with his head on a cushion.

Where the peace of Jesus rules. Rest abides.

How? How could he be resting in the

back of a boat? What?

What's that? What's happening in the boat?

So much is going on around. We had a key.

Proverbs 1923. The reverent, Worshipful fear of

the Lord leads to life, and he who has it rests satisfied.

So the fear of the Lord, the fear of God that the fear of God

that honors and is in awe and recognizes the greatness of who

God is. When we had that fear of God,

the recognition of Almighty God, the rest can abide.

And so Jesus is rest because Jesus is peace.

So here He is at peace in the back of the boat, and so rest

could abide. Back to verse 38, Jesus was

sleeping. Oh, actually I missed a bit.

My apologies. I'll go back to this part.

The fear of God is the soil peace grows in.

I don't want to miss that bit because Stacey helped me with

that. She made it look pretty.

The fear of God is the soil that peace grows in.

Well, why would that be? Remember, we just I just shed a

little bit, but the fear of God is actually our recognition of

the greatness of God, the awe of God, the wonder of God.

When you have this idea and and a revelation of what it means a

just a partial revelation because we can't fully even

understand God with our mind. But when you get a revelation of

who God is, we get also a revelation of peace.

If the God of the universe is your Father, we walk different.

We talk different when we recognize that God of the

universe is our Saviour and our Deliverer and has adopted us as

his sons and daughters. If we get a revelation of that,

we can't but walk in his peace. You see, the disciples were

frantic, even though they'd seen Jesus do miracles.

But something was missing. Something wasn't allowing them

to walk in peace back to verse 38.

The disciples woke him up shouting teacher don't you care

that we're going to drowned with a piece of Jesus rules.

It could be misunderstood. See the peace of Jesus, it

doesn't mean we don't do, but in our doing we have a calm because

we know who we're doing it for and who holds us up.

The fear of God actually position us in a place of

strength because we know who we are in Him and who's we are.

I tell you, there's so much revelation of what it means to

be reborn men and women of God, to actually walk now take that

understanding and then walk it out as a revelation in our

lives. And it sometimes means we could

be misunderstood because the peace of God is beyond

understanding. It doesn't make sense.

Philippians 4 verse 6 Don't worry about anything.

Philippians 4:6

Instead, pray about everything that makes no sense to the

world. That makes sense.

But don't worry about my finances.

Who else is going to do it? But don't worry about my work.

Who else is going to do it? But what God thinks is important

is vastly different to what the world believes is important,

what God values. Matthew 633.

Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then

all these things will be added to you.

But that doesn't make sense. I thought I was supposed to

grind and make it happen. But in the Kingdom of heaven,

this is how you make it happen. Seek first God's Kingdom, seek

His righteousness. So don't worry about anything.

Instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank

Him for all He has done. Again, the thank you is

attached. There's a thank you attached to

your prayer. There's a thank you attached to

your request. There's a thank you attached.

But don't worry about those things.

Don't be anxious for those things, but pray about

everything. And you know what's interesting?

That prayer about everything can be.

I have a position of prayer. I have a, a place where I'm in

communion with God. So therefore, as I'm walking it

out in a moment, I can hear God because I've, I've had that

relationship, I have fostered that friendship.

I have fostered that dialogue with God.

And now my prayer could be, is that right, Lord?

That could be it. Is this right, Lord?

OK, Yeah. OK.

Good. Yeah, we're good.

Is this how we'll is this what we're operating in?

Is this fit with what you're calling me to?

No. OK.

No, The answer's no, but it's so good.

The answer's no. I have a couple of opportunities

at the end of the year where people push me for some

business. I do B2B sales and I just felt

the Lord say you're not to add anything right now and says

ladies still calling me, emailing me, Yeah, you should do

this. It'll be great.

You'll make lots of Yeah, it'll be fine.

Lots of money. No.

Well, why not? You should add it as much as you

can. No, right now I'm not adding

anything. Now I didn't have to pray about

it because I prayed about it and the Lord had given me the

framework that there's right now is a no, so I don't have to

check again. Are you really sure?

No, it's a no right now. So in praying about everything

is that awareness of God's presence, awareness of what He's

saying, awareness of how He's moving.

And then in verse 7, then you will experience God's peace,

which exceeds anything we can understand.

His peace will guard your hearts and minds.

As you live in Christ Jesus, the unreasonable peace of God, the

peace that is beyond reason, it don't make sense.

It doesn't make sense. Jesus sitting in the back of a

rocking boat, sleeping on a cushion, resting there.

It doesn't make sense as unreasonable.

It's beyond reason. It's beyond reason.

He can stay calm or we're all freaking out.

That's beyond reason. That doesn't make sense.

But the peace of God is beyond reason in the Philippines. 47

But in the Amplified classic it says, And God's peace shall be

yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation

through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God.

Why? Because we have the fear of God.

When we have the fear of God, we don't need to fear God or fear

anything from Him, because He is our God.

Fearing nothing from God and being content with his earthly

lot of whatever sort that is that peace which transcends all

understanding shall Garrison amount God over your hearts and

minds in Christ Jesus that's powerful.

See, nations have gone to war for peace, to get their peace

that people people have have have given their lives for the

idea of what peace might be. And here we are.

He says, man, don't be angry, just come to me.

I'll give you rest. I'll give you peace.

A peace that doesn't make any sense at all, A peace that can't

be understood, a peace that will hold you in your circumstance, a

peace that actually is a power to give you strength and firm

foundation when everything else seems to be falling apart.

That's the peace of Jesus. John 1427, Jesus said peace I

live with you. My peace I bequeath to you.

It's a substance. It's substantial, His peace.

I can't bequeath something I don't own, but he bequeathed

what he had. He is the Prince of Peace, he

said. I am the Prince of Peace.

And that peace I have, I bequeath to you that peace that

makes no sense. I bequeath that to you.

What are you going to do with it?

That peace that's beyond reasonable understanding.

That's the peace, that's the quality of the peace that I give

to you, a peace that cannot be shaken, a peace that cannot be

taken, a peace that's powerful. The peace of Jesus mounts God to

rule your heart and your mind. Now you consider that that there

is working on your behalf, the peace of God to rule your

thoughts working on your behalf, the peace of God as guarding

your heart working on your behalf is the peace of God.

Back to the story in Mark fourth verse 39 to 40.

When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves

silence be still. I think of that.

I think I think treating him like, you know, one of those

mischievous toddlers, you know, I, we had, we have two kids.

They were younger. And sometimes it's like, JT, do

you ever have this? We have to say silence, be

still. That's it.

That's that's a fun one. And it's kind of like, all

right, enough with you done So you're talking to your dog.

Stop barking. We're done.

No more ways, no more wind. Just, but with the authority

that it just was so, the winds and there was a great calm.

The wind stopped and there was a great calm.

Then he asked, why are you afraid?

Do you still have no faith? Remember who is in the boat?

Who is peace? He was in the boat.

But peace operates in the realm of faith.

See, perhaps you say, man, I I still get all these things and

all these worries and all this, this stress and I'm holding it

and it's weighing on me. And it some people, the stress

can actually 'cause their body to reveal that stress through

sickness and pains and and and blocked arteries and all sorts

of things, the body is responding to that stress.

But have you stepped into the realm of faith?

My dad says faith is a realm of possibility beyond the

wilderness of reason. Reason will hold you to your

worries. Reason will hold you to your

worries. But faith steps beyond that, to

the realm of possibility, the realm of where God moves, the

realm where the currency of heaven operates, the realm where

God is moving. And so today is Decision Day.

Who will you let rule in your mind?

Are you bound so firmly to your reason that you will not embrace

the One who will give you peace? Beyond that reason, can you

shake yourself out of the natural to recognize the power

of the supernatural God who is calling you?

He has bequeathed you peace. He has given it to you in the

will. Will you take it?

Will you acquire it? Will you fight for it?

The disciples were absolutely terrified.

Verse 41. The disciples were absolutely

terrified. Who is this man?

They asked each other, even the wind and waves obey him.

What are they looking at? See, they still don't get it.

They still don't get it. What are they looking at?

They were looking at the waves and the winds are going, wow,

that's amazing. Look what happened in the

natural around me. They were wowed by the natural,

but Jesus was calling them to a new dimension.

They were still obsessed with the winds and the waves.

They were so caught up that they say, wow, look at this guy, He's

incredible. Look what he could do.

He could stop all this and make it all calm.

But the real power was the peace he had that the new dimension he

was calling them to was. You can have peace in the middle

of the storm. The storm can be going on and

you still have peace. That's the new dimension you're

being called to. A dimension where His peace

holds me, His peace garrisons, His peace rules.

His peace is governing and umpiring on my behalf.

The peace of God. There's power in the peace of

God. The peace of God is not passive.

The peace of the world is passive.

A piece of the world requires everything from the outside to

be going great. Can you go to the next slide

with the circles on? So here we see we've got the

spirit, soul and body, the tripod being who we are, Spirit,

the spirit where God the Holy Spirit dwells.

Our soul is our thinker and our our emotions and our body, our

physical body. And we got worries about finance

hitting our soul. We got work hitting our soul.

We got environment hitting our soul.

We got a family hitting our soul hitting us from the exterior in.

So when these things are great, hey, I got, I got, I got the

money, I got the pay raise. We're doing great.

Then we feel great because the outside is fitting with where we

want to be. Maybe our environment, man, I'm

vibing. This is cool.

You know, that sounded the 70s there.

Cool, man. I was born in the 70s.

I did not live in the 70s for, you know, for that.

Thank you, bless, Thank you, older John.

And then family when things are going great and everybody's

happy with you and they're all listening and the kids are doing

what they're told. Fantastic.

I've got peace. Work is great.

Just got that promotion and when we rely on the externals for our

peace, then when this gets shaky, my soul gets shaky.

When when things are going on arrived with the family

relationships, does my soul shake?

Because that's what where I get my peace from.

That's where I get my wholeness from.

But if work is going bad or maybe I got laid off, or is that

going to now allow my peace to be shaken?

It was February 2020 before everything went crazy and they

restructured and I lost my job. And I'm thinking, OK, Lord, I'm

the I, what, what are we going to do with this?

So I went for a walk and, and spent some time with the Lord

and he says, are you going to let that affect this?

Who's your source? Who's your source?

If my source was the job, then of course I'll be shaky.

But if my source was always God, then how's that?

That won't shake me. I have to work some things out,

but it doesn't mean I have to be shaken by it.

Next slide, please. Now this is what he's calling us

to. Out of your spirit man, out of

the Spirit of God inside of you. Out the spirit man.

Now that's affecting my soul and my body and my environment.

God, it worked within us. The peace of God, peace of God

here means that it's going to affect my environment, it's

going to affect my family, it's going to affect my work, it's

going to affect my finance. If these things shake, did that

shake? Did my spirit shake?

No, that's the place where the Spirit of God dwells.

You are the temple of the Holy Spirit who's in you, whom you

have from God, and you are not your own, for you are bought

with a price. So when my spirit man is settled

on him with the fear of God and the peace of God and the rest of

God, now we're we're we're we're emanating, we're pushing out

because where God dwells the innermost being, it says in

Ephesians 316 in your inner man in the innermost being.

The world can't rob that peace. The world can't shake that

peace, that wholeness that comes from God.

So when there's disturbance around.

OK. Thank you, Lord.

What are you saying? Thank you, Lord.

Where am I going with this? My rest is in him.

My hope is in him. My joy is in Him.

My life is in Him. I'm surrendered in Him.

It all comes back to Him. So what will you let rule your

feelings and thoughts? The peace of God is not

behaviour modification, but surrender, behaviour

modification, all that stuff, that external stuff.

But actually the peace of God in the inside is calling us to

surrender to Him. Isaiah 26 verse 3 says you will

Isaiah 26:3

guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace.

Whose mind? Both his inclination and his

characters stayed on you. Why?

Because He commits himself to you, God, and leans on you and

hopes confidently in you. That's the key.

He will keep in perfect peace the one who stayed on him, who

lean on him, whose life is rested in him, who I depended

upon Him as our source, as our life.

That surrendered position, a place of surrender is.

I've learned in all things to pray, learning all things that

He is faithful. I've learned in all things that

He is trustworthy. I've learned in all things He is

faithful. I've learned that in all things

He has got it covered. I've learned in all things.

As I seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all

these things shall be added. I've learned.

I've learned His heart of love for you.

In Matthew 6, it talks about if a Sparrow drops, he knows.

And then Jesus says, how much more valuable are you?

How much more valuable? So much more valuable, so much

more. Does he care about your detail

so much more? Does he care about your life so

much more? Does he care about your family

so much more? Does He love them so much more?

Does He care to bring wholeness? His love is vast.

See, we need revelation because we can hear it and it can go in

one ear and not necessarily out the other, because usually

there's something in between, but it can get missed.

The revelation is the love of God was poured out on you.

He loved you so much. He loved first, He loved best,

He loves fully, and His love for you is poured out.

He cares for you, He cares for the detail of you, He cares for

the heart of you. He cares because He created you.

He loves because He is love. And so here we see in the

scripture, when we lean on Him, we're pressing into Him.

We're relying upon Him. He is the one in whom we trust.

Then we will have perfect and constant peace.

There's the last two verses I have and Galatians chapter 5

Galatians 5:16

verse 16. It says let me emphasize this as

you yield to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit,

you will abandoned the cravings of yourself life.

Other scriptures say then you King James, I believe it says

when you walk with the Spirit, you're living your life with the

Spirit of God. You'll abandoned the self life

crazy. All the things that are

surrounding us that are so messed up, so messy.

And when the Holy Spirit is operating in you, the fruit of

his spirit presence is peace. The fruit that shows that you're

yielding. Life is now.

It's like peace. Unexpected peace at unexpected

times. Unexpected peace when it doesn't

make sense when you go on. I should really be worrying

about this, but I'm I'm finding it hard to.

Peace doesn't mean you don't care.

Remember we said Jesus was misunderstood because he's their

sleeper in there and they're like, oh, what, You don't care?

We're about to drown. He's like, of course I care, I

don't want you to drown. But we've got peace, peace.

So I want to encourage you today in this the peace of God.

Cannot be shaken. The peace of God is stepped into

by your surrender to Him, and you're leaning into Him.

Lay a hold of it. Get beyond the realm of your

reason. Get beyond the realm of Well

that's not what the influencers say.

Get beyond the realm of I googled it.

Get beyond the realm of I saw it on TikTok.

Get beyond the realm. Get beyond the realm of the

natural. We got to stop being wowed by

the natural when the supernatural is in you.

And we lay a hold of it by faith.

We lay a hold of that peace by faith.

We receive it. So I want to encourage you

today, if you find it difficult to lay hold of peace, make a

decision today. I resolve to lay a hold of the

peace that Jesus has for me. Part of making that decision is

setting aside your focus on the exterior and setting your focus

in on Him. Make a decision to trust.

Make a decision to walk with the Lord.

Make a decision to set your affection on him.

Make a decision today. Perhaps still you think, but I

don't know how I could get that. You don't know what I'm going

through. God knows and he still tells

you. Look to me, look to God, look to

his presence. I'd bite you to stand.

I'm going to pray. I encourage you give voice to

your heart. Remember the scripture said be

anxious for nothing. Don't worry about anything but

everything by prayer. So your prayer is a prayer of

Thanksgiving. Lord, thank you for the peace

you've given me. Thank you Lord, for the peace

that is mine in Jesus. Thank you Lord, that peace

operates in my life. That peace has ruled in my life.

I make a decision today. The peace of God shall rule.

My eyes are on you. My wise are focused on your

prowess, your presence, your might.

My eyes are focused in Your goodness, your love, Your joy,

your life. I my heart is focusing on You

Lord, so your peace may rule over my thoughts.

Your peace may rule over my feelings.

I no longer walk by my exterior perceptions, but my interior

reality which comes from You. I thank you Lord.

I look not to the world for my peace, but I look to the Spirit

of the living God who dwells within me, who is my strength,

who is my might. And the fruit of His presence,

the fruit of my surrendering to the Spirit of God is peace.

The fruit of that, that heart of love, that pursuit of you is

peace. Oh God, we praise you today.

There's peace in the house. There's peace for stepping out.

There's peace. For those new moves, there's new

moves. There's peace.

For that position, there's peace, Lord.

For that new understanding, there's peace, Lord, thank you,

Lord, we operate in peace. We operate out of the love of

you, and we operate out of our focus on you.

We operate in faith in you. I encourage you.

Lift your voices in Thanksgiving.

Lift your voices in Thanksgiving.

Thank you, Lord, for that peace. I thank you, Lord, for that

peace. Thank you, Lord, for your Holy

Spirit who is peace. Thank you, Lord, that Jesus, the

Prince of Peace, came for me. Thank you, Lord, for this peace

that is mine. Thank you, Lord.

The world cannot take it because he didn't give it.

The world cannot move it because it cannot be taken by him.

The peace I have is a piece of Jesus.

It's a firm foundation. It's a piece that cannot be

shaken into the peace that cannot be moved.

I am strengthened by the Spirit of the living God who is in me,

whom I have from God. His spirit of peace is upon me.

His spirit of peace is a work in me.

The spirit of peace is whom I walk with.

I walk in peace because I walk by the Spirit.

I walk in peace because the one who is peace walks with me.

I thank you, Lord, peace is mine.

I lay a hold of it. I lay a hold of it in Jesus

name. Lord, we thank you for your

peace. For some of you, there's a

darkness and it feels a heavyweight.

He who is light is the one who will remove that darkness.

Jesus is light and the peace of God that passes understanding

will be yours. Now lay a hold of it.

Now press in, press in. This is no, this is no situation

where I sit back and kind of watch what's going on.

You press in. You press in.

You pursue, pursue the the peace of God, pursue the one who gives

peace. Thank you Lord.

Thank you Lord. I thank you Lord.

You are light in darkness. You're the light in darkness in

Jesus name. Thank you holy Lord.

Praise you Jesus, bless you Lord.

Come on, lift your voices. Come on, lift your voices.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. I don't I don't know what you're

playing. I don't, but but it's it's

triggering. What is this song?

Is is it turning over tables? Was that what you was playing?

But it's in my spirit. Amen.

Amen. Start at your turning over

table. Sing it out.

You clean. Out the.

Dead, for we are your territory then, Lord, we are your truth.

We are your people and you are God.

We are your temple. Take us holy like you are.

Make us holy like you are. Lay this corn.

Make us holy like you, holy like you.

See the. Whole nation of love, a chosen

generation, a hero called to pray.

So help us God to please where all we can see.

For every moment I say we are your people.

We are your people and you are our our God.

We are your level. Make us whole.

We are your children. We are your children.

You set us up God for your glory make us whole.

We are your people. We are your people.

You are our God, and we are your dream.

Oh, make us holy like you, and we are your children.

You've set us so hard. I'm all your holy.

Take us holy like you are. Make us.

Take your seat for a second while we hold that bridge in our

spirit. It's a couple things.

There's a couple things I was hearing over there that I want

to give you keep out your iPads, your phones, your notebooks,

whatever you typewriters, whatever you want to keep out.

But I I love, I love, I love, I love everybody.

I also love seeing people who live by the spirit.

It's a beautiful thing. You know, the Brett was up here

and there was some stuff you were saying earlier in your

message and, but it led me to something else.

I, I, I think in next year when we do some equipping things, we

got to, we got to equip, we got to teach people how to sit in

the presence of God in atmospheres where he's speaking

through people, how to listen. It takes skill.

It takes skill. So as you were preaching, it

activated some other things. And that's why it's also

important to be in your word as well, because Holy Spirit uses

he could take you to another scripture that you know of,

right? But we got a lot of Google

Saints and we, we just think of a topic and we we Google and

that's kind of our safety net. But I just want to a couple

things. But there was a scripture that I

was going to read that you started to read.

But I'm glad you didn't read all of it because what I was going

to read was more than what you was going to read.

But it was clear that you was going that way in the Holy

Spirit. So it was confirmation.

So thank you. Couple things Elder Brett said,

by the way, you did a phenomenal job.

Thank you both for our elders. For those that don't know, one

of the prerequisites for an A biblical elder is that they can,

they can teach the word, not read the Bible, teach the word,

and I thank God we got elders that can teach the word.

Elder Brat said a couple things. One thing that just stuck out

that I think it's important to echo is he said it's decision

making day. Anybody remember that?

If you don't remember it, write it down.

Everybody say it with me three times.

Say decision making day. Look at your neighbors, say it's

decision making day. Now look at somebody else and

say it's decision making day and tell yourself one more time.

Say it's decision making day. Silly.

That's the one you tell yourself.

That's the one you tell yourself, OK, it's decision

making day. See, See, people don't

understand that although peace, peace was left with us.

Peace is a decision. OK, watch this.

How many people somebody gave you a job and how many people

decided to go to work, right? So you got a job, but how many

people know you would have got that job taken if you didn't

decide to go to work? Watch this.

How many people know that you would have got fired if you

didn't make the decision to work on that job based on the

policies and procedures they have?

If that job say 8:00 AM, that's going to keep you paid, guess

what time you got to be at work 8:00 AM Because that's going to

keep you paid. And guess how many of y'all

would be at work at 8:00 AM? 7-50 to be exact, because it's

going to keep you paid. Whereas how principles work.

That's why God never gives you the sewing part and not the

harvest part, OK? He never gives you the sacrifice

without the benefit. He might tell you to go

somewhere and don't tell you about there, but He told you if

you obey Him, there's always reward, OK?

And so peace is a decision. Watch this.

The people in here that don't have the peace of God, that is

your fault. It's not the devil and it's not

God. You've given your peace away.

Watch this. I was thinking about this.

How many people in here, if you'd make a decision to not lie

right now when you sit in church, you're thinking about,

you're thinking about other stuff that don't got nothing to

do with church, right? We got a lot of liars in here.

Amen. But that's OK.

That's OK. You don't have peace.

That's why you're lying. You think if I expose myself, my

piece is going to be stolen. But the truth so sets you free.

Now I'm going to do one more time I'm giving.

See, Because you don't understand.

These are the moments that break chains.

You think an altar call is what's going to break a chain?

No, no, no, no. Participation breaks chains.

He says, OK, well I'm going to stir up the pool.

And when the Angel of the Lord dip in the pool and stir it up,

it's your job to go ahead and get in the water.

Why? Because I put healing in the

principle and I put healing in the water.

Amen. So how many people have sat in

church and have thought, let me tell you something.

When I'm up here, I could tell you thinking about something

else. So you looking at the screen,

you looking at the pastor, but your mind is somewhere else.

Raise your hand. Thank you.

You hid your hand behind your wife's back.

I see. I see you hiding.

You hiding. All right.

The point is everybody minds drift back to Elder Brett's

point. Turn the heater off.

Just for a few minutes. Thank you.

Back to Elder Brett's point is the disciples, do you know why

engaging in a service is important?

It's because the conversation you're listening to, you have to

combat that. I'm not just saying Amen all the

time, or that's good all the time or or come on, preach man

of God or standing up and getting engaged.

I am telling my body I am here. That's more important than

what's going on here in my medulla.

And I got to keep myself alive. And Jesus was frustrated.

Watch this. Because he had no plans to calm

the storm. Jesus had no plans to wake up

and calm the storm. Jesus had no plans to take you

out of that situation. But the only way he can get to

you sometimes is if he calm your external storm.

But why your external storm has become your God and he says I

love you so much. Let me calm the storm.

But what did he say once he calmed the storm?

You unbelieving? He was ticked.

He wasn't like let's go back to eating sandwiches buddy.

Let's let's hang out. Let me go back to sleep now.

OK you guys OK? No, he was like you unbelieving

you non faith having generation. You woke me up out of my sleep

to calm a storm when I put peace in the boat with you.

The storm, the turbulence. I prayed that same prayer and

I'm trying to figure out how to reword it because the storm that

turbulence causes, it only exposes an inner storm.

Jesus said it don't matter how that plane, this ain't doing

this because watch this. Christ is my firm foundation.

We sing that all the time, huh? The rock on which I It's easy to

stand when nothing's pushing you.

It's easy to stand when there ain't no wind blowing.

It's easy to stand when there ain't no persecution.

The reason for this piece is because watch this.

We're in the world but not of it.

He says you're in it, not of it. He didn't say you're in it and

when you die you won't be in it no more.

He said while you're in it, you're not of it.

So so for the people around you who idolize the natural, they're

of it. They're of it.

You're not of it. So Jesus is frustrated because

he's like, why y'all trying to make me be of it?

Why are you trying to make me be of your perception?

Why are you trying to make me focus on the storm like you are?

You're of that natural storm. I'm over here sleeping good

right now. Toes might be a little wet

because the water in the boat, but I'm still good.

Watch this. Can you, can you have can you

have evidence of the storm on you but no storm in you?

Yeah, go ahead, write it down. Can you have watch?

It can be on me, but not in me. I'm in it, but not of it.

What makes you of it is because it's in your heart.

They misunderstood peace. They thought peace should be

freaking out like them. Watch this.

This is important. Jesus say you fix your eyes on

me, I'll give you perfect peace. Watch this peace was illustrated

right in front of them. It was not that they watched

Jesus and they would have fell asleep.

But have you ever been on the dance floor and you caught a

glimpse of somebody who was off beat?

How many of y'all kept watching the person that was off beat?

Or did you turn away like you going some in me getting off by

watching you off? Jesus stayed there calm and

still because the same way an offbeat person can get you off

beat. He said just look at me watch

this because that storm is actually acting.

That water is acting out of character.

I didn't make the ocean to toss you around.

I didn't make animals to eat, y'all.

I didn't make waters to go past the line that I drew for them,

the boundaries that I drew for them.

But in the rebellion of humanity, all of nature is

suffering because of sin. Somebody throwing mints at me, I

didn't ask for one. All right?

I wish I would have saw who did it.

I'm the pastor that throw it back at you.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Amen. That's funny, but I'm trying.

I'm still I'm. I'm trying to, I'm trying to

keep my eyes on Jesus because I'm trying to figure out who

threw that men at me. Amen.

It fell off the table. Thank you.

OK, well, Amen. That's the first time in

history. I don't know how it got off the

All right, All right. He was the source of calm.

Jesus was irritated. He had to calm the external

storm in order to calm their internal chaos.

So calm environment was their Prince of Peace, not Jesus.

Calm environments was their Prince of Peace, not Jesus.

Enough money in the bank was their Prince of Peace, not Jesus

being accepted was their Prince of Peace.

Him calming the wind. Watch this.

Jesus, having to calm the wind was behavior modification.

There are many people in this room.

You, you have you have fixed your own storm by modifying your

circumstance. Watch this soon as that

replacement leave your life, the storm will be back seven times

stronger. Hallelujah.

I'm talking to it's good to be pastors and leaders like us

because we talked to the people that's here, right?

You walked in here with your modification.

You walked in here with your modification.

I promise you the Lord's coming for your modification so he can

get to you. Now watch this.

If you are the if, if, if your modification walked in here as a

person, then I'm going to say this next thing to the

modification. If you are the modification in

somebody's life, you're being used.

Eventually you will not satisfy the gap that you filled.

Watch this. It's like being the number two

or the side piece. No, don't be somebody else

modification. Somebody say run.

I'll end with this. Can you put up Galatians 516 T

PT? And I need 1000% of the people

in here to lock in for this end. And then we'll sing this bridge

and we'll go home on this last Sunday of the year.

Get ready for New Year's Eve to get what God has to say about

2026. I need everybody, especially the

young people. That's everybody.

I need you to lock in. I need you in this moment.

Do not answer. No text message.

I really need you to get this. This is everything.

This is, this is everything. This passage is everything.

This passage is like the key to the city.

As you yield freely and full is this TPT Yield freely and fully.

As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power of

the Holy Spirit, you will abandoned the cravings of

yourself life. What the self life is, is the

life of the flesh. Now I want you to see this very

clearly. It did not say, as you stop

sinning, some of you struggle with sin because you're not

yielded to the Spirit. He says as you yield to the

Spirit fully, you will not even crave what the flesh wants.

So as you yield to the Spirit, give me less, give me less, give

me less, give me way less. As you yield fully to the

Spirit, watch this, your flesh loses power.

Watch this. It comes to a point where you're

no longer battling with your flesh, you're dominating your

flesh. And I spent too many years

battling with my flesh instead of yielding to the Spirit, and

my life in the Spirit causes my flesh to yield.

Some of y'all in here battling with your flesh every day trying

to stop sinning, trying not to think about that.

Instead of wake up in the morning and yield to the Spirit,

put your mind on the word of God.

You trying to go throughout the day.

I'm not going to be on Instagram.

How easy would it be to stay off Instagram?

When you put your mind on Him, your craving to get on there

would diminish. It says as you yield freely.

This is not OK. Well, I got to read the Bible

today. Don't read the Bible then,

because you're sowing grudgingly.

You won't reap nothing. You going to read?

How many times have you read because you thought you had to

read? And after you read, you went and

got in your flesh because you wasn't reading in intimacy, you

were reading out of obligation. As you yield freely and fully to

the dynamic life and power of the Holy Ghost, you will

abandoned the cravings of yourself.

Life. Watch it for yourself.

Life craves hinder. OK, tap your neighbor on the

shoulder and say stay woke. Say lean in, watch this, tap

them one more time. Say your flesh does not want to

hear this right now. Tap your other neighbors.

Say if you need me to stand up with you so you can stay

focused, I will do that. I, I think, I think the Lord

wants you to tell your neighbor one more thing.

Tap them on there and say, you've been kind of silly in

2025, so we need to get it together.

All right, All right, all right. Here it is.

Pay attention. For real.

I care about you. I love you.

I really do. For yourself life, the stuff

that that that satisfy you. Everybody struggles with this.

For yourself life craves the things that offend the Holy

Spirit. Man, I just want to tell them

off. Yourself life want to tell them

off. But when you tell them off, it

offends the Holy Ghost yourself life want to get back in that

relationship, but it offends the Holy Ghost, right?

Remember Elder John said at some point you got to choose, right?

So you see it's two governments going on on the inside, self

government and Holy Spirit government.

Watch this. Yeah, watch this.

Watch this. I got out that relationship and

I'm missing sex. Self life is like right, your

your flesh is woke self life is but watch this.

You got to get this before we read self life, that choice and

watch this entertaining the thought.

See, we think, oh, I slipped in. That's the sin.

No, no, no, no, he says even here you letting it nest is the

sin. He says watch this, it offends

the Holy Ghost. Watch this, the help you need,

watch this. When you offend the Holy Ghost,

production stops. The fruit of the Spirit is

produced by the Holy Ghost working in you.

We're about to see that the cravings of the flesh hinder the

production. So the very thing you actually

want peace, joy, you're actually working against your own joy.

OK, Watch it, watch it, watch this and the and the and the

holy and the Holy Spirit, intense craving for the God

things in your life actually hinder your old self life.

Come who flick it, who flick it? Come on.

OK, Spirit's intense cravings hinder your old self life from

dominating you. Somebody say thank you, Jesus.

Right, here's the battle, but this isn't the design, this is

the intervention. So the Holy Spirit, if you are a

believer, he's in there worrying.

He's in there trying to say no, I don't want that.

When you was in the world, you didn't have the thing in you

saying I don't want that. It was flesh, all gas, no

brakes. But now you got saved and the

Holy Ghost like if me and you going to walk live.

I don't want to drink that. I don't need that.

I am a drink Holy Spirit. I am the high I I I am the

euphoria. I am the I am the good feeling.

Watch this so, so his desires are contending with yours.

And that's why it you, you, you get offended with, with folks

that's trying to live right around you because the Holy

Spirit in them is convicting the flesh in you.

So you want watch, watch how you choose who you hang out with.

Watch how you choose who you listen to.

Oftentimes the ones that will speak to your carnal desires,

Elder John Ero you don't want to talk to them because you know

they going to give you what the Spirit won't.

Watch this. So then the two incompatible and

conflicting forces within you watch this.

The two I'm really helping somebody because 2026 Yep,

trying to help you. Now go back.

There are two. So then the two incompatible and

conflicting forces within you, where are they?

Within you are yourself, life, all what you want, what you

think, and the new creation life of the spirit.

And you thought when you got saved everything was going to be

easier. No, no, no.

You started a war. You just invited a war and this

is the good news. And This is why I need to yield

to the governor of the Kingdom of God, because he's the one

that's going to govern. So he's not just, it's just not

the Holy Spirit. Have your way.

No, no, no, no, no. He says thank you, but you got

to do what I tell you to do for me to have my way.

OK is at least five people with me right now.

OK, cool. But when you are brought into

full the full freedom of the spirit of grace, you will no

longer be living under you can even stop the pad.

I need them to hear this. You will no longer be living

under the domination of the law. Watch this.

So there comes a freedom that when the Holy Spirit truly has

you, there's things you're not not trying to do.

You're not spending your day fighting temptation and not

trying to drink, or not trying to sleep with him or her or not

trying to get in a relationship. When you know you ain't healthy,

that battle is over. So I understand when I really

start living in Jesus is when I stop battling with my flesh and

truly fully surrender. Watch this.

The person that loves themself ends the battle.

How do you end the battle? Bible says choose ye this day.

Life, government, deaf government, trying to help

somebody today. But you soar above it.

You soar above it. Which means there are some

things you should stop being tempted to do now.

This is where 110% people got to listen because many people don't

know this part. Elder John, the cravings of the

self life is obvious. Come on, come on, come on.

I need everybody pay attention. Come on, tap your neighbors say.

Pay attention. Tap your neighbors say.

Stop being fidgety. For real, for real.

For real, for real. Here's how you know a person

that lives in the flesh and here's how you know your flesh

is dominating you. This is what the Bible say.

Watch this. The cravings of the self life

are first one sexual immorality. Yep, lustful.

Watch this lustful thoughts. Oh, how long you going to

entertain that? Watch this.

You think lustful thoughts is sex?

No, no, no. Sexual immorality is sexual

immorality. Lustful thoughts.

I can't put this down. Even when I put it down, I'm

thinking about it. Even when I leave somebody, I'm

still thinking about it. I'm thinking about lying.

I didn't lie. I'm just thinking about lying.

I didn't manipulate nobody, but I'm thinking about how I can get

over, right. My my flesh is controlling my

thoughts. Now watch this pornography.

Here it is chasing after things instead of God.

Oh, so it's not saying it. Watch this.

It's not you kill somebody. Watch this.

I'm not possessed by no demons. OK, cool.

Your flesh run. You manipulating people.

It's called witchcraft. Hatred of those who get in your

way. Senseless arguments.

You know the people. Watch this.

Let me give you a better word. Argumentative.

You know people, huh? What you say.

What? What you say.

I didn't say nothing. No.

No, you did What you say, Huh? Say it again, Huh.

Baiting Argumentative Watch this Another form of argumentative is

gossip. Gossip is an argument, the

bearer of bad news. Senseless argument.

Resentment when others are favored.

Temper tantrums. Won't play the music on this

because even adults have these. Some of y'all married couples.

Your your spouse be having temper tantrums.

Watch this Angry quarrels. Watch this only thinking of

yourself. Not how it hurts other people,

not how your decision is going to impact other people.

Only thinking about yourself and being in love with your own

opinions. Oh, watch this.

Being envious of the blessings of others murder.

I like how that one was down the list.

What did the list start off with?

That's even that's that's not watch this.

You don't got to be physical with somebody to be sexually

immoral, uncontrolled addictions.

I'm not. I'm not going to try to control

it. Watch his addictions.

So that's not just drugs and alcohol.

That's this for us. That's this for us.

Uncontrolled. You didn't say uncontrollable.

I like uncontrolled because it says you're not taking

responsibility to control it. Wild parties watch this.

I love this. For the few people in here

that's like, yeah, I pass. There was nothing in there for

me. Cool.

And all other similar behavior dot dot dot dot haven't I

already warned you that those here it is here it is EJED.

Haven't I already warned you that those who use their freedom

for these things? Will not inherit the Kingdom

realm where peace is those who use their freedom.

He's talking to all believers who have been set free by Jesus.

You use your freedom not for discipline, not for yielding to

the Holy Spirit. You use your freedom to let your

flesh watch this. You are you.

You. You lean on grace as your bail

bondsman, so you can commit as many crimes as you want to to

the One that lives in you next. But I can't give you the flesh.

But the fruit of the Spirit within you is divine love in all

its varied expressions. Here it is.

Watch this. None of these exists below.

Love if love is not anchored, Joy that overflows, peace that

subdues, patience that endures, Kindness in action, a life full

of virtue, faith that prevails, gentleness of heart and strength

of spirit. This is very beautiful.

Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to

be limitless. Keep in mind that we who belong

to Jesus, the Anointed One, have already experienced crucifixion,

right? For everything connected with

our self life was put to death on the cross and crucified with

Messiah, right? So we must live in the Holy Holy

Spirit and follow after him, right?

So if you're saved by Jesus's blood, but you're saved, who's

working out your salvation, Who drew you to God is the Holy

Spirit. So you must continue to be led

by Him. I don't know how else to help

you, but I can tell you every single issue that's happening in

this room, every area of where there's no peace, you can find

your, your, your, your, your pill right here.

Let's simplify it. Where your flesh is ruling, you

have decided to not yield to the Holy Spirit.

And if you will not yield to the Holy Spirit, watch this.

Yield your relationships to the Holy Spirit before you start

picking new people, watch this. Yield your body to the Holy

Spirit before you start. Watch this.

When you sleeping around, let me help you.

For those that don't know, when you sleeping around, guess who

else is right there inside you? Holy Spirit?

Guess who you working against? It's no way you can sleep around

living in sexual immorality and have the peace of God.

So watch this. You now live in the Kingdom of

anxiety. Your life is being governed by

anxiety, and until you can get all of that under control by way

of the Holy Spirit, not modification, then you are a

dangerous person to partner with on any level.

Friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, business partner, you

are absolutely dangerous. So as you're out there picking

who you going to hang with, I challenge you to see who governs

their life before you can make the decision on how you will

govern your relationship with them.

Because if the Holy Ghost do not govern their life, watch this,

then anxiety will spill into your life.

You will get water in your boat and then be trying to wake Jesus

up and say why my feet wet? And he's just going to say,

where have you been focused? And so my prayer today, Elder

John, Elder Brett, we pray over you today.

And we say thank you for filling, filling this room with

wisdom, filling this room with direction, filling this room

with courage, filling this room with the word of peace.

Lord, fill these men of God back up till they overflow.

Lord, I speak a harvest into their lives for their obedience.

Lord, I thank you. We will be a peace of a people

of peace. May may our response to your

word not just be a man. May it be I do?

A. Yielded people fully committed

to your power, your presence. Take 30 seconds, open your mouth

and just seal today. Seal the Sundays of 2025 with

some faith statements, some repentance, a little worship.

Just lift your voices tell you I'm talking about.

Pray in a way that your flesh is like, uh oh, something's

shifted. Something has changed.

Yeah. I put my flesh under my feet in

Jesus name. You have no power. 2026 will be

my most disciplined year. 2026 will be my most peaceful year.

Holy Spirit, we yield to you. Holy Spirit, we yield to you

corporately. We yield to you individually.

We yield to you. Come on, Somebody make up their

mind today that my flesh will not rule my life.

If peace is in the boat, I'm standing in the boat.

Come on, we fix our eyes. Come on, come tell your flesh.

I'm fixing my eyes on him. Come on, I'm I'm putting my

marriage before him. I'm, I'm putting my children

before him. I'm putting my career before

him. Come on, take a few more

moments. Come on.

Your family needs it. Your coworkers need it.

Your teammates need it. Your business partners need it.

Your spouse needs it. May peace anchor you.

Come on. 10 more seconds of power.

Open your mouths, Intercessors. Come on.

I want to be marked by your glory.

I want to be marked by your presence.

I want to be marked by your love.

I want to be marked by your faith.

I want to be marked by your hope.

Come on. Come on, we love you, Lord.

We love you, Lord. We love you, Lord.

We love you, Lord. Come on, Say Hallelujah.

Come on, say Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's sermon.

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