The Distraction Of Dysfunction // Do Not Disturb (Part 5) // Pastor Roosevelt Stewart

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Are you ready for the Word today? All right? I

just we're gonna read together. If that makes sense. We're

gonna continue this series. This is the last installment for

Do not Disturb. It's in honor to do this with you.

Let's read. Let's open up our bibles to Romans chapter

twelve and verse one. I'll be reading from Romans chapter twelve.

We know it so well, but I want to just

expose our understanding a little bit, just a little bit

deeper today. If that's all right. If you got to say, man,

if you're looking for it, it'll be on the screen. I

love you're still looking for it. Don't worry about it.

It'll be on the screen. Praise Jesus. Romans twelve and

one says up, I beseech you there for brethren, and

as we do, we stand for the Word of God. Amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

If I could stand for the president, I could stand

for the King of Kings. Craze Jesus. Hallelujah. I beseech you, therefore, brother,

and by the mercies of God, that you would present

your bodies as a living Somebody say, living sacrifice, holy,

inacceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Let's get

to the one that we're going to dive into, and

do not be conformed to this world, but be Somebody

say transform. You didn't realize it was in your name.

But let's keep moving by the renewing of your mind,

that you may prove what is that good and acceptable

and perfect will of God. We're gonna keep reading. Can

we go over to our next scripture? Halleluj Can we

read a little bit? Is that all right? I feel

like it don't make sense to just get up here

and talk. It's got to be backed up by the

word Amen. So if you go to your Bible to

Ephesians four and seventeen, and we're gonna read all the

way to twenty four, he says this, I say, therefore

and testify, and the law that you should no longer

walk as the rest of the gentiles, which means you're

not going to move in the direction of culture. I

can't get stuck there I'm just reading the scripture in

the futility of their mind. That means anybody that's not

in the will of God, everything they're doing is useless.

Let's keep going. Let's go to the next one. Having

the understanding darken, somebody say, darken being alienated from the

life of God because of the ignorance that is in them,

because of the blindness of their heart. I gotta keep moving.

I really want to unpack it, but I'll wait. Who,

being past feeling God hear this, have given themselves over

to lootiness, to work, all uncleanliness and greediness. Let's keep going.

But you have not learned Christ. This is what Paul saying.

You don't really know Jesus like you say you know them.

Because if you really knew him, if indeed you have

heard of him and not just been a hero of

his word and being a doer of his word, and

you have been taught by Him as the truth is

in Jesus, this is what you would do that you

would put off concerning your formal conduct. The old man,

Oh God, help me in here which grows corrupt according

to the deceitful us. Here we go. Let's keep going

and be renewed. Somebody say renewed in the spirit of

your mind. Yeah, and that you would put on the

new Man. I feel that thing for me. Put on

the new Man, which has created the which was created

according to God in true righteousness and holiness. Today I

want to unpack Today. We've been talking about disturbance, do

not disturbance. We've been talking about what not to be

distracted by. And God has pressed me to speak on

this subject. And I'm like, Lord, we really want to

talk about this because I think people like where they are.

They really don't want to come up higher. So are

you sure you won't talk about You do what I

told you to do. And so I'm going to be

honest and say that today we're going to talk about

the distraction of dysfunction. But when God gets done with you,

the subtitle the answer is going to be. The response

is going to be welcome to your new normal. If

you just need a new normal. Let me know this

word ain't just for me talking, but you tired of

things being the same way. I'm tired of coming the

same way and leaving the same way I came. I

pray this word be a blessing to you. Let's pray. Father,

it's been an honor and a privilege to bless your name.

You're a holy God. You're a righteous God, your faithful God. God.

I have studied, I've done all that I can do,

but where I fall shortly, anointing never fails. And God,

I pray that you would just breathe through these words.

This is not my idea, this is not my argument.

These are your words. It is the truth. And I

pray that there would be some that have never heard

your word, that they let them leave today saying God

is real because I met Him at Transformation Church today.

And as I pray always that your holy Spirit would

set me on fire so the world can watch me

burn for you. It's in Jesus' name, we pray. Everybody,

say amen, Amen, as you make it to you. See

said I need a new normal. I need a new normal. Yeah,

I need a new normal. So listen. My favorite preacher,

arguably of all time, is believe it or not Jesus.

And the reason why I say that is because you

know some peoples like well, of course he would be

sometimes you don't whatever. But the reason why I say

Jesus is my favorite preacher is because he was able

to relate to people who didn't understand the Kingdom. And

he used illustrations and he used parables to help people

understand the Kingdom of God. He would use things that

people were connected to and could relate to to expose

the mysteries of that which is the Kingdom. So he

would always say things like the kingdom it's like a seed.

The reason why he would say that is because most

people grew to grew their own crop to feed themselves.

And so he helped people understand what the kingdom was

with something they use all the time. So if you

don't like illustrations, and if you don't like parables, then

you don't like Jesus. Let's keep moving, all right, Let's

keep moving. So I'm gonna do my best to be

like my savior and help bring something that we use

all the time and never talk about. But I'm gonna

use it to expose and reveal the mysteries of the Kingdom.

Can I do that? And so what I want to

tell you is that the kingdom perspective of a renewed

mind is synonymous with a device like a cell phone

or a laptop. Some of you, everybody got a cell

phone in here right. If you don't, I'm praying for

you because I don't know what's going on. But everyone

should have at least a cell phone or some advice

that device that interacts with you. And so, as I said,

the Kingdom perspective of a renewed mind is synonymous with

something like a cell phone or a laptop, if you will.

The cool thing is like in the tech world, the

device is a finished work. However, on the inside, the

work is never finished. I'm preaching already, don't miss it.

The truth of the matter is the creator has put

endless potential on the inside of the device. Are you

understanding me? Put he's always finding a way too. I'm

talking about the the one who created. The manufacturer. He's

put so much potential in the device, so much so

that he's got to always constantly check in and see

how the device is doing. If it's not moving up

to the representation or the resemblance of the name that

it represents, he's got to do an update. He's got

to offer them an opportunity to update themselves to catch

up to what the manufacturer is thinking. Are you understanding?

The device cannot access this potential though on its own,

it must remain in constant and current connection to its creator.

I'm preaching already. Please don't miss it, Please don't miss it.

But but but I need you to understand if if that,

if the device refuses to remain in constant connection with

the one who created it, it will set itself up

to be in a place where it can be corrupted,

where it can be compromised. Now, see, this is the

thing being compromised. It's kind of dangerous because you don't

know you've been compromised, because it's weird. The device can

still function even though it hasn't been fixed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

it can function. It could. You can still call people

even though you ain't up to date with the creator.

You can still text people and you not be up

to date. You can you can end and you can

interact with people on apps and you still not be

up to date with what the creator is saying. So

there there takes a moment where you're functioning without being fixed.

Now the danger is functioning without being fixed is a

gradual process that causes deterioration of the device. The more

you delay yourself, the more that you reject being getting

the download from the one who created you. You go

from corruption and compromise to deteriorating yourself. And now the

dangerous thing about deterioration is by the time that you

actually realize that some is wrong, it is already taken

such deep root. It has already taken such deep route

that it leads to ruin of the device. And now

you got to replace the device because you never renewed

the device. All you understanding. So the only way that

the device can realize it's full potential, it has to

be renewed. Somebody say renewed. It has to be renewed

with a download given by the one who created it.

If you need notes, I'll give this to your Refusing

to receive the renewal eventually leads to ruin or replacement.

So God saying I got an idea. I'm not even

supposed to get onto the side yet, but God says,

I got an idea, And if you won't let me

rebuald you, I might have to replace you. In other words,

my idea is gonna get out somehow, and you'll be

looking around seeing everybody walking in the thing I offered you. Okay,

let me keep moving. So what I'm trying to get

you to see is when God the Creator made you,

you are a finished work. Somebody need to set themselves free.

Right there, you are finished work. When God made man.

The last thing he said was it's good. It is good,

So you can stop finished with you as Is said,

it's good, and he put endless potential on the inside

of you. God, I'm trying to just do the introduction.

He's put less potential on the inside of you. You

are a finished work, but on the spirit realm, your

work is never finished. Your God moves from faith to faith,

from glory to glory. He's constantly exceeding himself. He's constantly

out doing himself. And and you'll get so comfortable where

you are. He'll say, no, I got something greater for you. Yeah, yeah,

I got something. I got something I want to take

you deeper into. I want to expand your knowledge. And

so you got a lot of potential right where you are.

Even if you are feeling, if you've been, if you backsliding,

if you if you got a situation you battled with.

God wants you to know. God put endless potential inside

of you. But like the device that the potential cannot

be realized unless you are in come, scent and current

connection with the Creator. So if you're trying to do

this on your own, you've already set yourself back because,

let me help you. The invention, which is you, must

remain in alignment with the idea and the image of

the one who created you, which is God. So whenever

the Creator comes up with a new version of you,

you've got to align yourself with him. Are you hearing me?

My voice is trying to trick me, But the devil

is alive. You're gonna get this work. I just need

you to turn me up just a little bit. Collosions.

If you need scripture, I'll back it up Collosions, Chapter

three and ten. If you need scripture, I got you.

It says, and have put on the new man, who

is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him

who created him. I want to unpack the word image.

Can I do that today? The word image in that

text means report and resemblance. Did you hear me? You

know on the screen we would always have represent And

so what we don't realize is we have an opportunity

when we are trying to align ourselves with God we

are stepping up as his representatives. We are trying to

do our best to resemble the King of Kings and

the Lord of lords with how we live, how we move,

and how we speak. Do we understand? But we must

stay and we must stay so close to God that

we can represent and resemble Him properly. What I mean

by that is there's some people who are pretending that

they are representatives God, and God will walk in the

church and say that don't look like me, that don't

represent me, that doesn't represent me. That's I don't stand

for that, because if you can speak in tongs but

can't speak to your brother, I don't stand for that.

So periodically, God's got to do a check up and

see is the church aligning with my image they Are

they representing me? Or are they or are they resembling me?

You have to make a choice with dealing with God.

When he wants to build you up. You're either gonna

stay with him or stay the same. There's nothing in between.

You're either choosing God, I want to be where you

are or God, I feel better right where I am.

If you are looking for God to be where you

left him, then chances are you've already lost him. See

Apple didn't even mention the name. But anyway, devices, if

you will, devices, you will. They're constantly updating themselves to

a new version, even before the new one comes out.

There's constant elevations and constant alterations to the inner side

of that device. They do this on a quarterly basis.

Cars are replacing themselves within the same year. But it

seems like the place that we don't want to develop

ourselves and to renew our identity and stay in alignment

and constantly update ourselves seems to be the Church. The

Church has been okay with being the same for the

last three decades, and we're wondering, why are we losing

our impact? Why are we not interacting with the new generation?

Why does it feel like we are speaking gibberish to

people who don't understand it. Well, God is saying, well,

I'm the Creator. Ain't nothing wrong with me? It must

be the Church hasn't updated itself yet. Help me, Holy ghosts.

If you're taking notes, write this down. The lack of

constant and current connection with the Creator leaves you open

for corruption and compromise. I'm not just talking about the device.

I'm talking about your spirit. Now, if you need scripture,

I got you four Ephesians for twenty two says that

you would put off your concerning your form or conduct.

The old man which grows corrupt, corrupt, corrupt, according to

the deceitful LUs can I help you? In that text,

the word corrupt means to waste, to shrivel, to be spoiled,

watch this or be ruined. So in other words, in

the tech world, when you would be corrupt, that means

you would be made unreliable by errors that you made

or alterations you refused to take. So that means there

is no That means in the tech world, if you've

been corrupted, that means that your credibility is no longer valid.

It cannot be trusted, It is not moving in the

direction of the one who created it. It's useless. Can

I just be honest with you? We are useless without

God on our side. Are you understanding? But see, this

is the crazy thing. Compromise in the spirit world and corruption.

It's not easily detectable because we can we can still

function without being fixed, leading worship, functioning without being fixed,

preaching the word, preaching the gospel, functioning without being fixed, prophesigning, interceding,

functioning without being fixed. If you want a definition for dysfunction,

I got one. This is mine. It hain't in Webster.

I'm gonna just give it to you. It's functioning without

being fixed. That's what dysfunction. You show up. You show

up and you pretend you have a form of Godliness,

denying the power thereof You're not realizing that you are

doing something that God says. That's my outdated version of me.

You need to step into what I'm doing right now.

And anytime you don't let God take you up, anytime

you don't let God take you deeper, you are living

in a world of corruption and compromise. It reminds me

of a time when I went and got this massage.

It was amazing, and at the end of it I

felt amazing. I was like, man, I feel like a

hundred bucks one hundred million bucks. That make it because

one hundred bucks is a lot to me because I

gotta pay gams. But anyway, I said, man, I feel amazing.

And the therapist said to me, can I be honest

with you? And I said yeah. She said, when's the

last time you drink water? I started to feel a

little way. I said, wait a minute, what I just

told you? I feel fine, and you telling me, you

asking me questions about my personal intake of water. So

I tried to conjure up a little. So I said,

I drink enough when I need, and when I need

I do it. I do it. I do what I

need to do. When I need to do it, I don't.

And so she said, well, sir, I could tell by

your skin you are severely dehydrated. God help me, she says,

you are severely dehydrated. And I said, well, that's weird,

because because I feel fine. And she said, well, that's

the thing about dehydration. You've lived in it so long.

You've been functioning with dehydration so long that you don't

even know what you would be if you actually took

quarter in it. So she says to me, she said, Roosevelt,

I think you should try to drink a gallon a day,

because what you don't realize. You feel fine, But your

skin is the first indication of dehydration. It starts to

shut down on me on the inside of you. What

am I telling you? I'm telling you that the enemy

wants to keep you in dysfunction so long that it

feels like it's normal. You don't know that you're out

a good standing with God. You don't know that you

need a touch because you've been living in dysfunction so

long you don't even know what breakthrough feels like. So

the trick of the enemy is to keep you so dysfunctional,

trying to live in abusive situations, functioning without being fixed,

letting people call you everything but a child of God,

functioning without being fixed. Some of you got so much

trauma that you you think it's just normal to think

this way. You think it's just normal to react this way,

functioning without being fixed. Can I help you today? Let

me unpack the scripture for your Ephesians, for we started

with it today. It says this, I say, therefore and

testifying the Lord, that you should no longer walk as

the rest of the gentiles, the rest of them okay,

in the futility of their mind, Let's keep going. It says,

having their understanding darkened sounds like corruption, being alienated from

the life of God, meaning like the device you don't represent,

the logo that you wear. Okay, okay, because of the

ignorance of that is in them because they've denied me

so long, because of the blindness of their heart. Let's

keep going. Watch this. This is what I want to

bring up. Who being past feeling? I don't know. I'm

dysfunctional being past feeling because I got goosebumps. I thought

God was here being past feeling. Can I tell you

what being past feeling is? Being past feeling represents to

be emotionally or morally numb. It is a loss of

sensitivity to right and wrong. It's a hardened conscience. It's

a spiritual detachment. I know this ain't a jumping shout message,

but I want to help you. Can I do it?

We can we correct some things before we shout, because

I want to give you a real reason to shout.

But I can't give you the reason if I can't

tell you the rue. So we've been functioning without being fixed,

and we don't even know something is wrong. We've been

past feeling. And I'm telling you that's not a sudden

thing that actually happens after prolonged times of saying God,

I don't want to talk to you today. No, no, no, no,

I don't I don't feel like I don't feel like

speaking to you. Today, I got something else on my mind.

And as you continue to deny him, as you continue

to walk away from him, and it can becomes a

sudden process that you don't even know what you need.

Some of you haven't had a drink of the living

water in a long time. God wants to save you

because he knows that if you stay in dysfunction too long,

the end result is ruined. Can you hear me talking

to you today? But I hope that I have somebody

in here that will be honest and say pass the road.

I've been going through some things and I've forgotten what

the touch of God feels like. I forgot what being

in his presence really felt like. I forgot what freedom

feels like. And I need a new normal. If that's you,

can you throw your hands up and say I need

a new normal. I need a new normal. Tired of

going the same way, come in to church it's the

same way, and leaven the way that I came. I

need a new normal. I want to remember what it

feels like that when you spoke to me, I knew

your voice. The day that I heard your voice, I

didn't heart in my heart. I need a new norm.

I want to know what it feels like when I

wake up in the day and it feels like we've

commune together. And my prayers are not complaints, but it's

conversation with you, God, what you want to do today? God,

give me a new normal. If that's you, can you

holler back at me. I need a new normal, say, God,

give me a new normal. I need a new normal.

So guess what the remedy for ruin is? Renewal. I

know it was a little dark at first, but I

want to help you. There's an other side to this, cecc.

The enemy wants you to keep you in corruption. Me

wants to keep you and compromise. The enemy wants to

bring you to ruin. But God says, the way that

you fix ruin is you need renewal. You need scripture.

I got you. Ephesians four and twenty three says, and

be renewed. You've been tied for a long time, but

God came to renew you today. You've been tired of

being the same way. God says, I'm coming to renew

you in the spirit of your mind. Can I tell

you what renewal means? In that text, it means continuously

transformed renovated, made new. Watch this made young again. See,

this is why I understand our oldest saints being this

little corner. And they shot better than we do. And

I asked myself, no, why do they move better than me?

And I'm thirty five and I know some of them

knocking on seventy five, eighty five, ninety, But they seem

to got a little pep and that stuff. He says, Well,

it's because they've been in my presence so long. Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They don't look like on the inside they're young, but

on the outside you know their age. But it's because

I made them new. I made them young again. I

touched them in such a way that age don't touch

them the same. If you want God done make you

young again, just holler back at me, make me your

young again. So culture chooses to replace a thing, they

replace the old thing. As soon as they get tired

of the old thing, they replace it. That's not how

Christ moves. Christ likes to renew a thing. The reason

why he chooses to do a new thing in the

old thing is because he gets the most glory. He

gets the most glory out of doing a new thing.

In the old thing. So God will not do a

new thing by replacing the old. He'll do a new

thing by renewing the old. Did you hear what I

just said transformation? Because some of you want God to

give you something new, and he says, if I give

you a new thing and you got the same on mine,

all I did was give you a new Okay, it

won't be long before the new thing I gave you

will be old again. You don't really need a new house.

You really just need to do some new things in

the house. Because see, some of y'all want to move

to another city. And God is saying, if you don't

let me touch you on the inside, all you did

was change your address. You're not gonna get the new touch.

You're not gonna get the new perspective because you didn't

let me do the inside work. Your scarier code does

not design your annoying take your area code does not

decide your destiny. It's what I do on the inside

of you. So you don't need a new phone. Oh

you're mad? Now wait, Roosevelt, the new iPhone is coming

out soon. I've been saving my money. If not, I

got the payments, I can figure it out. You telling

me I can't buy what I want to buy. I

ain't say that, but what I did say is if

you don't know how to update, you wasting your money.

You don't need a new phone. You just need to

renew the one that you got. You don't need a

new call. You just need to renew the call that

you got. I'm about to mess with social media and

I'm about to mess with culture. You don't need a

new fouls. You don't need a new fouse. You just

need to renew the marriage that you got. I'm about

to get in trouble. You don't need a new body.

You don't need doctor Miami. You don't need a prest onion.

You don't need it. All you need answer renew norne

that you got it. Somebody said I'm gonna keep the

one I got. I'm gonna keep the one I got.

Everybody replat listen, I ain't judging nobody. Don't get mad

at me. I'm just trying to help you, because if

you're eating crazy, then the BBL don't help it. Don't

it don't help it, don't help. And I'm trying to

save you from saving thirty five forty five fifty five

thousand dollars. Let God do all work on the inside

of you, and they're a show up on the outside.

I feel my health coming. God is telling you stop

looking for better around you, because I buryed better inside

of you. Oh yet, oh yet, You've been looking for

it online. But I'm telling you the best thing you

ain't seen yet, it's on the inside of you. You

ain't even met you yet. You need to understand. God says,

stop looking for better. I buried better on the inside

of me. You know how I know because this word

says for we have this treasure in earthen vessels. It's

on the inside of me. You can't see it yet.

Let us sit here. You counted me out. Let us

in here. I know you counted me for dying, but

it's in here. Somebody says, it's in here. We have

this treasure in earth and vessels. Who feel God in

here without a voice? I was feeling. This is how

you know its strength is made perfect. I've been fasting

for five years, five weeks since the baby came. This

is why I'm preaching the word to you that I'm living.

And when the baby came, I was like I got

I got five weeks. I'm about to play two K

all day. I'm about to play Madden all day. I'm

about to call Uber eats Me and three are about

to have a ball, and all the spirit started talking

to me, says, I gotta new you available. This is

how you're going to repay the prayers that I answered God,

going back to what you remember when you needed me?

You what's there every day. But now that I gave

you what I promised you, you don't know my name

no more. I'm talking to somebody and gain. When God

blesses you, don't forget him. Be just as dependent on

him as you were befather blessing. So he says to me, Roosevelt,

you for five weeks without discipline, without a workout regiment,

and without me pushing you to be a better version

of you, you're gonna be back to four hundred and

twenty pounds. So this is what I want you to do, Roseveldt.

I want you to go on a fast. No meat,

no drinks, no sugar, just me and you and everything

I made. Don't put nothing in you that I didn't create.

I'm talking about what I'm going through. So my body

is a little weak, but my spirit is on one.

I'm trying to tell you. What I'm telling you is

because of that. It has created a new normal for me.

I realized I really don't need that sugar. I was

living off of sugar like it was my next my

next breath. But now I realized, you're really not good

for me. I'm getting ahead of my message, but some

of you are gonna go to some relationships that you

depended on. But when God gets his hands on me,

you know what, you really wasn't good for me. It's

really it's really not good for me. I probably need

to give you some space till you find God. But

until they me and you got to disconnect. I just

need to give that to somebody because I'm not preaching

us and I ain't living okay. God is very better

on the inside of you, and guess what, he's the

only one that can get it out. I know we

got books, I know we got conferences. I'm excited for

the one coming, but don't ask the conference to do

what his word can. Only can I help you today.

The conference should only be confirmation of what happened in

your closet. That's when I know people are shouting, They

spend some time with God because they've been in the closet,

like God, what does this mean to me? And then

they get to the conference and it's exactly what they've

been praying about. It should only be confirmation of what

happened in your clauset. I gotta move so God buried

better on the inside of me. Somebody says it's on

the inside and he's the only one that knows how

to get it out. If you need proof, can I

give it to you? Isaiah one of my favorite scriptures,

but God gave me a new revelation of it. It says, behold,

I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth?

Shall you not know it? Don't you realize it? This

is what I'm doing. I will make a way in

the wilderness. I will bring rivers out of deserts. Can

I help you? I want you to read it again.

I want you to hear my inflection on a certain word.

I will make a way in the wilderness, which means

God didn't give me a new way. The way was

already in the wilderness because God made it. God made

it so if he made the wilderness that I'm walking through,

then I know that it's got to be away. The

wave was always in the wilderness, the river was always

in the desert. So what I'm trying to get you

to see and every thing you praying for is God said,

already put it in you. When you come out of

this storm. The response you're gonna say is, you didn't

know you had it in you, did you? Somebody said,

I didn't know I had it in me. I didn't

know I was a price until I went through what

I went through. I didn't know I was a worship

until I went through what I went through. I didn't

know had a while until I went through what I

went through. God says, stop looking for it around you.

I put the answer even I put the price through

riding you. I put the development in you. I put

the download in you. I put the I know I

take in you to trust the devils. I put it

on you. Somebody say it send it all right. That

was just a introduction. But I need to help my

people because some people will stuck. And in order to

get into your new normal, there's a process. Somebody say,

there's a process. I'm gonna be as quick as I

can with the twelve minutes I got that's all right.

There is a process to meeting the new you and

being exposed to better. Can I give it to you?

Number one? Number one is to decide, y'all want all

five right now and I give them to you one

by one, or you want to hear them insequential one

by one. All right, I'm gonna give it to you

one by one. Somebody spoke first. I'm gonna answer that one. Okay.

Number one, Decide. Somebody say, decide. It's crazy because I

heard past the Tasa decision. I heard Pastor Will say decision,

and God told me make a decision. Anytime you hear

something like that, God's trying to tell somebody and here's

something He's like, No, they need to hear this because

I know you don't want to repeat yourself and you

don't want to pull off of what everybody else says.

But that means somebody ain't hurt me yet, somebody not

listening to me. And so they heard the word when

Todd preached it, and they went back to the same

old way. They heard it when Pastor Wheel preached it,

and they went to the same old way. They got

one more shot to not have to deal with dick

function on the inside of them. I want you to

make it number one on your process. So number one,

it's somebody say decide. In the tech world, periodically the

one who created the device will present a new version.

It is an elevated it's an elevated version. It's a

very version above their current state. Now when you get

that offer. When you get that offer, a sign will

show up that alerts the device that there is a

new version available. You ever had it on your phone?

Oh y'all still okay? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah. You have a You ever trying to make

a phone call and all of a sudden that signs

to say, I know it's been three months, but I

just want to check with you. I got a better version.

Do you want it right now? I'm telling you all

you got to do is say yes, and then what

we do when you choose. You got two options. You

got two options. You can either accept the process by

saying I'm ready for the update now, or you can

you can you can avoid the option. You can avoid

the process by saying maybe later. And how many times

the Holy Spirit said I need you to pray with

me at three in the morning and you say maybe later.

How many times did you walking you up? And you're saying,

I don't know why I just went to at twelve am,

and now I'm both at four am. Maybe I should

just go back to sleep. And the Holy Spirit is

knocking on your heart saying I need you to be

a watchman tonight. I need you to speak over this

family that don't know you. And your response is I'm

too tired, Jesus, maybe later. So if the device opts

to choose to say maybe later, can I help you?

Or even choose this not to decide, because see some

of y'all saying I don't feel good saying maybe later,

So maybe I just won't say nothing. Can I help you?

Though I'm talking about the tech world, I'm in the

tech world. If you choose to say no or choose

to say nothing, then altogether the new version will remain

dormant on the inside of the device, and the device

will have no access to become better than where it is.

Can I help you? Everything starts with a choice before

the download. You are either living in the life of

dormancy or you're living in a life of dysfunction. Can

I show you the difference between dormancy and dysfunction. Dormancy

is if something is dormant, that means better is available,

it just hasn't been activated. Dysfunction means there's something better

on the inside of me. Better is available, but I

refuse to accept it. See, some of you are just

doing the Greeter's ministry and you really don't know God's

calling you to ministry. And so you think if I

just stay in the back wave at everybody in smile,

then maybe God will stop asking me for more. I

came to tell you you can choose to say yes, no,

or not now. But if you say no or not now,

then whatever God put inside of you remains dormant. But

you gotta understand something. The reason why He's trying to

activate that in you is because he knows there's a

world that the new you has to live in and

the you that you are can't exist or survive in it. Okay,

so God is not He doesn't intimidate you the better,

That's not what I'm saying. But he will invite you

to better. Let me help you. Better is not an obligation.

Better is an offer. But there can be no access

to better until you accept better. Are you following me.

I want to give you an example. What I'm gonna

do is, like I said, my favorite preacher, Jesus, I

looked at his whole life, and so every one of

these points there is an example that matches every one

of these processes. Can I give you the first one

for decision? Decision? Jesus was gone from his parents house

for three days, not turning up like I would have been.

When they finally find him, he is in the synagogue

asking questions, and the people are marveled at what he's asking.

In some ways it feel like he was actually teaching them.

And Mary pulls up on him and say, Jesus, what

have you been doing. I've been looking for you anxiously.

Where you been? Now? I probably wouldn't tried this on

my mom because I probably wouldn't be here with y'all

to day. But Jesus' response was, why are you looking

for me? Don't you know I must be about my

father's business. Now let me help you, because some people

are like, oh Jesus, with disreprectfrom no, no, no, no, let

me help you. According to Jewish culture at that time,

a bar mitzvah would take place at the age of

twelve and thirteen, So that means that Jesus was actually

authorized to move in adulthood. I love the Bible. I

love the Bible. I'm gonna sorry. So according to scripture,

according to the customs, Jesus is considered a grown man

at twelve, so he don't have to check in with

his parents. But then what Jesus does blows my mind

because this is the all seeing, all knowing God in

human flesh, and he submits to his parent. Now I

need you to know Jesus has to choose between either

functioning as is or go through a longer process to

become better. Can I help you? Kind of help you?

Sometimes the process is presented with the intention to prepare

you for a problem that you may or may not

see coming. In this text, God is offering Jesus enough

in invitation to become better. Not that anything was wrong

with the Savior as is, but God and his foreknowledge

knew that walking through the wilderness for forty days without

food is a little overwhelming for a twelve year old.

Being beaten until your skin fell off is a little

bit above the pain threshold for somebody at twelve. Carrying

across that ways about my size. It is a little

too heavy for somebody that's twelve. So I know I

could send you to die for humanity right now and

above all that you would actually be covered. But I

actually want to give you the strength to carry on

what you need to do. Man, that blessed me because

I didn't even understand that. That blew my mind. I said,

wait a minute, it all makes it. God, Why would you?

Why would you send them back home? Because God knows

what you want to walk in? You ain't built to

carry yet? You ready to take down Goliath and ain't

met a dog yet? You ain't You ain't killed nothing yet.

God is saying, let me spend some time with you

in the field that when you meet Goliath it will

be nothing to you. So the cross would be a

little heavy if I was twelve years old, then when

I was thirty three? Are your following? So Jesus in

his humanity has to decide, do I con you the

function on what I was designed to do as is?

Or do I go under my parents' leadership, go under

my parents authority and wait a little longer? Can I

tell you what he did? Luke two and fifty two

says and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor.

Watch this with God and man. So Jesus submits to

his parents. I'm talking about your savior. He submitted to

his parents, and because of that he stayed long enough

to grow not just in wisdom, but in stature and

favor with God and men. Wisdom means he grew in

knowledge and understanding because God knew you were about to

get in an argument with some pharisees, and they gonna

try to pollute this word. But by the time you

get to them, you will have answer for every question.

He grows in statue. Yeah, I know the cross is heaven,

but the time I spent with you, you gonna know

that you're strong enough to carry this burden. He grew

in favor with God and the men, saying so meaning

not just the relationship with my father is intact, but

my reputation is good with people. So to decide, it's

to say, I no longer want to put what I

no longer want to wait and let what's dormant in

me stay on the inside. I refuse to live and dysfunction.

I want to see what God has for me on

the inside. I just want to tell you your dormant

days are over. When you make a decision, it's time

to come out. I'll be following, all right. Number two,

let me make it quick. Discard. Discard means to the

better version. It's crucial. Making the decision is crucial, but

it doesn't mean that's the only process. Deciding is only

step number one. There are some directions that follow the

device when you choose to take on the better you

there's some things that have to happen for the download

to begin. The device must discard or dismiss any apps

or activities that they are currently involved in. The download

is so massive that in the capacity that it refuses

to share space with anything else. God, I'm preaching. I'm preaching.

I'm preaching apps and activities. They are entertaining, but it

comes at the cost of your energy. So you're enjoying

the app, but the app is actually enjoying you. You

think you're using the app, but the app is actually

using you. You think you're getting access to the app,

but it actually the app is getting access to you,

and it is the download. And to discard is important

because it means to get rid of anything that is

not useful at the time, useful at the time, and

it is to protect the download because if I'm involved

with TikTok, then TikTok could get a load of what

Apple's trying to do with the device. And so God

is saying, I got to pull you out of the

things that you're active in because the enemy is lurking

in some of the activities that you do, and he's

trying to get notice of what I'm trying to do.

You know that's the truth, because the enemy was trying

to find Jesus before he was even born. He's lurking

through the details. Hey tell me, tell me when Jesus

is born, that way I can come to worship and

when really the perspective what I really want to kill him?

And I'm telling you that's some things that you think

love you. That's trying to get the download on you,

trying to get the information of how can I weaken him,

how can I break him? How can I take from

him what's given to him? And I'm telling you this

is why God tells you You've got to let it that,

you gotta let it go, you gotta shut it down,

you got to close it. So discard if you need,

if you need a definition, it means to get rid

of something that is currently not useful. Some of you

are gonna have to make room for the massive thing

God wants to do in your life. And what's crazy

is just like if the spirit as it is in

the natural, so it is in the spirit. It's crazy

because every time you think you're ready for the download,

distractions will start to come up and pop up and

demand your attention. Every time that you think you're ready,

it just seems like all these kind of things. Everybody's

calling you, everybody's pulling on you, everybody wants something from you.

You gotta make sure this is in place. You gotta

make sure this is in place. I got relationships, I

got friendships, I got this going on, I got that

going on, and I'm trying to find time. God, I

really want to accept the update, but I gotta figure

out how am I gonna get my spouse to cheesecake factory.

I gotta figure out how am I gonna figure out

how am I gonna pay my bills? And all of

a sudden, your spirits got all these notifications popping off

all that one time, and I'm telling you that the

only way that you're gonna get the download is you

got to shut it down. Somebody say, shut it down.

I gotta shut it down because I need something from God,

and what I need from God you can't give me.

Some of you are gonna have to shut down some relationships.

Some of you are gonna have to discard some day ones.

I'm talking about the one that know your password. I'm

talking about the one that you've always been sync with.

I wanna talk. I want to talk to you about

the one that you've always been able to call. I'm

talking about the one that's always been able to call you.

You're gonna have to cause them to say, hey, listen,

I know that we normally link up at this time,

but I've got to talk to God. And I'm gonna

just prepare you that some people are gonna look at

you and say you changed. They're gonna say you changed,

but they just mad because they no longer have access

like they used to. Okay, but us what Listen, I

got to put my focus on God because talking to

you and being distracted by you, whether I want to

admit it or not, it's draining me. Somebody, shay, shut

it down. Can we move on. Not only do we

have to discard, we have to also directly connect like

the phone. Before we do the download, there's a note saying, hey,

make sure you are plugged into a source. Make sure

you're plugged into a source, because the download is too

heavy for you to try to do on your own,

and if you try to do it on your own,

you'll actually fail and have to start over again. So

make sure you're plugged into something so you got enough

energy to carry what I'm about to give you. You understand,

if you need scripture, I got you. Matthew fourteen and

twenty two says, immediately Jesus made his disciples get into

the boat and go before him and to the other side.

While he sent the multitudes away. That's discarded. He said, Andy,

y'all go over here. Because he been doing ministry. He

had been healing people, he had been teaching people, he

had been preaching, he had been performing. Now I want

to afford and say, he's about to walk on water.

That's a whole nother word. So before he is about

to do something that nobody ain't never be seen, before

he go plugs in with God. What I'm trying to

say is when you're about to do something that's beyond you,

you're gonna have to connect to the one that created you.

Are you understanding? So God chap in Matthew fourteen and

twenty two, he discards the team. He sends him away.

I don't need them right now. I just need to

talk to my creator. But then he then does this,

He directly connects. On verse thirt twenty three, it says,

and when he sent the multitudes away, he went up

onto the mountains by himself to pray. Now, when evening came,

he was a there, are you understanding? I mean, let

me unpackt this being in the mountains was a place

where it was normally quiet. That means that there was

no way for interruption. That would be nobody saying Genus,

the son of David, come heal me. It was not

people asking who's the most important in the kingdoms. I

need to be away from all of that because I

know a cross is coming and none of them can

help me. I need to connect to the one that can.

Are you understanding? So he goes to the mountaintop to

communicate with God to receive guidance from God. Are you

following me? To be empowered by God for the process

that's to come. Are you with me now? I'm a

forest developed? Okay, we talked about decide. You made the decision. God,

I really want what you have for me. You decided

to move all things out of the way and discard things,

and you directly connected to him And now you're God.

I'm ready for development. I'm ready for you to build

me up. I'm ready to see what eyes haven't seen

or ears haven't heard, nor has it ends to the

thoughts of men. And right when you think it's about

to go great, it seems like everything goes dark. Can

I preach this thing? Can I ap preach to you?

Some of you feel like you right here, right now, God,

I did everything you asked me. God, I removed every

distraction that you asked me to get rid of. God.

I've been praying, I've been fasting, I've been waiting, and

now I feel like just when I was about to

see what you were gonna bring to my discovery, you

turn the lights out on me. But can I encourage you?

If you're right here like the device, do not confuse

dead with download. Listen to me. This is the closest

you'll ever be to your creator, because I need you

to know he's always been in the dark. He's always

bending in the dark. In Genesis One, when darkness was

upon the face of the deep, the spirit of the

Lord moved upon the waters. He's always been in the darkness.

Jagor David says, Yay, though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of Death, I fear no evil, for

thou art with me. He's always been in the dark.

And first Kings, a great cloud came into the person,

and that the priests weren't able to minister. It was

a dark cloud. It was the Holy Spirit. He always

been in the dark. Michael says, when I sat in

the darkness, the Lord was my life. He's always been

in the dark. And first pet Up, he says, y'all

not hearing me, y'all not hearing me. Y'all, not hear me.

Even in his crucivefection, it was darkness on the night hour.

He's always been in the dark. The Bible says in

First Peta that for humble yourself under the Mighty Head

in the dark. He's always being in the darkness. All

I'm trying to tell you is stop running from the dark.

Stop hiding from the darkness. You're getting the battle in

the dark. You're being made true and the darks you're

being fun of. Hide and the dark you're being filled.

And the doll. When God's gonna do this thing in

you this time, He's gonna do it in the dark.

Stop looking for validation, Stop looking for people to promote you.

God says, if you want me to do this thing

in you, I gotta do it in the dark. Is

there anybody that's in the dark season right now? Holler

back at me. I want you to know you will

not die in this darkness because God is standing with you.

You will not quit in this darkness because God is

standing with you. It may look like nothing is happening,

but just keep standing in the dark from God's talking

to you and doll. God is walking with you and

the doll. God is stressing in you and the doll.

I need you to know He does his best work

in the dark. I feel this for somebody, even in

your tears. He's working in the dark. Like this screen

behind me. While you're waiting, He's working. See you don't know.

The download is to develop in language between the device

and the one who created it. So that hackers can't

get into it. Some of you are gonna tap into

your prayer language, and when you're praying to the Father

and the Holy Ghost, the enemy can't hear you. He

don't understand you, and so he's confused on how to

break in. He's confused on how to take back what

you've gained. And I'm telling you, as long as you

say in the dark, development is happening in the dark.

The download in the dark. I dare somebody to just

worship God even in the midst of the darkness. I

can't see nothing, but I still trust you. I don't

know where you are, but I still believe you. I

sense this for somebody. But you need to know God

is working in the dark. Can you say that God

is working in the dark. Say it like you believe

in God for something. God is working in the dark.

God's gonna do it in the dark. That's where he

does his best work. I'm telling you God's gonna do

it in the dark. You've been crying and you've been frustrated.

But I'm telling you God's gonna do it in the dark.

We've been made do it for tonight. But I want

you to know joy is coming on the other side.

Now watch this. The beauty of that text means I

won't be shouting just because the light has come right

I'm shouting because when the light came, it showed me

all God brought me through in the darkness. Because see

some of y'all looking for the way to be made

right now. But God says, just wait till I'm finished,

and you'll see what I've been doing this whole time

in the dark. You're gonna see every door I open

in the door. You wanna see every way I made

in the door. We gotta move, We gotta move. After

enough time of the download, when the download becomes complete,

sometimes it doesn't even wait to get all the way

to the end. It just shoots up and says hello.

When the download is complete, there is a light and

a sound. And what's happening in this moment is your

being introduced to the you you never met. So we

at number five. Number five is discovered. Welcome to your

new normal. This is where you are being reintroduced to you.

And now you're spending your days discovering what the Creator

has activated in you and giving you access to I'm

gonna say this to some of you. When God gets

done with you in the dark, you're not gonna be

able to recognize you. I gotta get out of here,

John twenty. My example for discovery. This is after Jesus

spent time in the dark in the dune. This is

after he was raised from the dead. It says at

that same day, at evening, being the first day of

the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples

were assembled for the fear of the Jews, Jesus came

and stood in the midst of them and said, peace

be with you. As a part of that text that

describes that the doors were locked and Jesus just showed

up in the room, when you let God develop you

in the dark, you'll be able to do things you

weren't able to do before. This is what I'm saying.

I need you to understand. You can walk in rooms

without nobody opening the door for you. You can walk

in rooms without nobody mentioning your name. You don't need networking,

You just need some time in the dark. But this

is the part that's beautiful. As I said, God is

about renewal. He never gets rid of He never wants

to get rid of the old thing. Jesus didn't have

a new body. You know. I know because he was

able to show them the holes in his hands. He

was able to show the piercing and his side. Are

you following me? So he still has the holes in

his hand, he still has the piercing in his side.

It's not that God renewed Jesus's body and by giving

him a new one. It's just that God allowed the

resurrection power to do a new thing in the body

he already had. I want you to know, if you

trust God to make a decision, if you discard everything

in your life that is distracting you, if you directly

connecting Him and let him strengthen you, if you develop

in the dark. I'm telling you on the other side

of this, You're gonna discover exactly what God built you for.

If you receive this word, could you stand to your

feet and give God some praise in Internet? Listen three

prayer casts. Some of you may be in this room

and you don't know Jesus, and I want you to know. Listen.

All this stuff we said that that is accessible to you,

you can't even access it until you accept Jesus as

your personal savior. As much as I want you to

figure out the new things and the apostle He's gonna

make you be, or a prophet or whatever God has

designed for your life. Whatever He designs for you, it

cannot be activated unless you accept it. So if you're

in this room and you heard this word, I want

to ask you if you don't know Jesus and you're

saying God, I want you to activate the Greater on

the inside of me, and I know I cannot do

it without you. I need Jesus. On the count of three,

I want you to lift up your hand one, two, three.

I see that hand. I see that hand. I see

that hand. I see you in the bath. I see

you in the bath. I see you. I see you.

I see you. Wow, I see you. I see you,

I see you, I see you. Yeah. Yeah. A second

prayer call. It's for those saying God, I decided to

follow you, but uh, I let some things get in

a way to distract me between you and me, and

I'm realizing that everything that I've been given my attention

to has been draining me and God. I know I've

got to let some things go. God. I want to

renew my relationship with you. If that's you on the

counterfie ration you hand one two three, I see you,

I see you, I see you. I see it. I

see you, I see you. I see it. I see you,

see it, I see it, I see I see it.

Last prayer call, it's uh. I want to pray for

those that say Pastor Roald. I feel like I just

thought that I would see the light on the other side,

but I feel like I've been stuck in the dark.

I feel disappointed in the dark. I feel devastated because

of the dark, and it's been hard for me to

see the brighter side is coming because I feel like

I've been living in the dark for so long and

I just need somebody to pray with me and remind

me it won't always be like this. If that's you

on the kind of three, raise your hand one two three,

I see it, see it, I see it, see it,

I see it. I said, if you raise your hand

at any of those things, I want to ask you

to lift your hands all the way up like this

in any of those prayer calls. It's a sign of surrender,

saying God, I know that you are my only help,

and I just want you to repeat after me, say God,

I've heard your word. I receive it. God, I feel

your presence. I embrace you. Thank you for Jesus. Thank

you for making him who knew no sin, all of mine.

But once he died, and from being nailed in at

the cross, once he was raised up. Because I am

in you, and you live in me. Because I believe

that you lived. I believe that you died, and I

believe that you rose. I will get up as you

got up. I'm getting up with authority. I'm getting up

with identity. I'm getting up with destiny. Say Satan, your

hand on me will be loose. I live for the Lord.

Say Holy Spirit, teach me, leave me God me, I

am yours in Jesus' name. Somebody shout, ain't math. If

you're ready for God to do the new things, somebody

give them glory. Listen. If you received Christ online, listen.

I want you to text savee to eight two eight

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