Purpose of Brokenness

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A horse that has been tested has been broken, means

that the horses the will is not a wild will,

but a will totally submitted to the master who rides

it for his purpose. It's for his will, it's for

his plans, his purposes, and he has got great plans

for your life and mine. Can I hear a good amail?

You know? In this world, people go for skill, they

go for talent, strength, experience. Oh, people go for brains

and beauty, ability, and of affluence. That's how the world works, right,

isn't that true? That's how we choose. God chooses broken people,

but we choose perfect people. We choose people with all

the skills and all the talent. When God wanted wanted

to choose musicians, he chooses broken musicians because broken musicians

bring about the best, most beautiful music and lyrics. You know,

Compare one who has never suffered and he writes a song.

And compare and compare to one who has suffered so

much pain and brokenness and he writes a song or

she writes a song. See which of the songs touches

you more, goes further ministers, and gives God more glory.

When broken people step up to do what God has

called them to do, they create more than just excellence

and eloquence. They release an anointing, don't they, As David

did when he ministered to King Saul with music. It

David didn't have perfection. David, you know, was probably rejected

many times. The father almost forgot that he had the

eighth son. You know, when the prophet asked for all

the sons to pass by, and God was choosing the

next king had the prophet had to ask, do you

have one anymore sons? And if other you know, oh yeah,

one more. He's not around his he's out there taking

care of a few sheep. And the prophet Prophet Samuel said,

we won't sit down until he comes. Youngest RADI looking,

you know, inexperience. David played the harp, and he didn't

just play as one who was like known to be

a top musician. But when he was playing, annoying and

came forth removed the distressing, depressing spirit from King Saulile

first disciple first is truly counterculture to go against the

ways of the world. That always just looks at perfection

and beauty and talent and skill. God looks at the heart,

you know, friends, something of God is produced in us

only through brokenness. That's why it has to happen. It

only happens, you know. Like for example, when you think

about the pearl, the pearl can only be formed no

other way except that some irritant, some dirt goes into

the oyster. And what happens is that there is a

chemical that is released and a protection mechanism comes about,

and it begins to form a beautiful, precious pearl. That

peerl doesn't happen without the irritation. That which God wants

to bring about in our lives, that is more precious

than God, doesn't happen until brokenness happens. It cannot be

obtained in any other way. And that which is produced

in us is exactly what God needs to fulfill his

plans and purposes in and through our lives. What is

God after? It could be humility, It could be compassion.

It could be patience. It could be respect. It could

be disciplined. It could be submission. It could be forgiveness,

The ability to show mercy and not be so judgmental.

When we don't go through brokenness, we still hold on,

you know, to things that we feel. We are we

have the right to feel, and we feel like you know,

that guy doesn't deserve this. He doesn't deserve my forgiveness,

He doesn't deserve my mercy. You know, we still have

an amount of arrogance, but we don't call it arrogance.

We call it and cover it with another name and

give it an excuse, and see, I have every right

to feel this way. Blah blah blah. But it's only

when we are broken that something is produced. We begin

to see things in a very different light. In the end,

it's really the breaking of our will. Our will is

very strong, so breaking happens so that our will can

be broken, so that God's will can be done in

our lives. Remember what Jesus said, nevertheless, not my will,

but yours be done. How many of you have ever

seen a beautiful painting of wild horses, Oh, they are

the most beautiful things. Wild horses are only good for paintings.

You will never be able to ride a wild horse

into war. A general will never ride a horse that

has never been tested. And what is a horse that

has been tested. A horse that has been tested has

been broken, means that the horse's will is not a

wild will, but a will totally submitted to the master

who rides it for his purpose. Don't just be a

beautiful painting where people just go and look at you

and go like wow ooh my miye so nice, but no,

godly use You know when breaking is complete, when you

don't go back to who you were before. If you

find that after the breaking of a few weeks, maybe

you know, let's say, for example, you were rude to

your wife, or maybe you were so impatient, very impatient

with your children, and then you find you know, you

are humbled for a few weeks, and then by the

fourth week, you know you think that okay, now I

think I'm better. I think I'm better, I think I'm better. Okay, God,

i think I've learned it. Let's already now, can you

please end the breaking? And then you know the law

is very silent. And then three hours later your children

do something and then you find yourself backing at them

because maybe it's still in you. It's still in you,

and God is still working. So really, at the end,

they don't tell God when he should finish. He knows

when he's finished. And this is what you need to

be looking for. You look for this. I don't want

to go back to who I was before, and through

all the testing you find. Yeah, I think I really

have got it now. I think I really have got

a better hold of my temper. Now I think I

got a better hold of my mouth. Now I think

I've got a better hold of my thoughts. Now I

think I've got a better control of the way I react.

Now I am really changed. No, no, but not because

I say it. I'm changed, but because God allowed the time. Again,

Please don't short change God. Don't be impatient, learn to surrender.

God knows exactly. Okay, there will be a version two,

if not a virgin three of you and me. It

will be a much better version. Somebody say, Amen, so

much better version, and we will be more ready to

do God's will. Amen. Now remember the woman Mary of

Bethany who broke the Allah bastar flash. What happened? You know?

It was so costly the disciples even thought what a

waste the woman broke. It takes the breaking alabaster flask

filled with costly spikenard perfume. You know, when she broke

that and anointed jesus head with that precious oil. Can

you imagine the fragrance. It's not just Jesus could smell it.

It's not just the woman who could smell it. It's

not just the people who are seated nearby. If you

want to fill a room with the fragrance of the Lord,

then take the opportunity that God has given you and

I the opportunity of breaking. And let that breaking not

bring bitterness, not bring anger and a shout, what a waste.

But let that breaking, it is happening in your heart

and my heart, be one that will bring about a

costly fragrance is a fragrance from a broken life and

being in Bethany, says Mark, chapter fourteen, verse three, six

eight nine. Being in Bethany at the house of Simon

the Lepper, as he sat at the table, a woman came,

having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikee nat.

Then she broke the flowers hallelujah, and poured it on

his head. There was no other way, ladies and gentlemen,

There was no other way for this fragrance to be

experienced by everybody, except that the thing that held the

fragrance be broken. She broke the flowers and poured it

on his head. But Jesus said, let her alone. Why

do you trouble her? She has done a good work

for me. You know, friends, when I think about brokenness,

I think about this very thing that God allows is

not just for us, but it's for him. Think about

it for a moment, because too many of us always

think about ourselves. Right, Why me? Why now? Why are

the inconvenience? Why so hard? Why the burden on my

loved ones? Why? Why? And it's a lot of us

me And it's not totally wrong, because it's natural. But

the supernatural way of seeing it is that God allows

breaking and brokenness because at the end of the day,

it's for him. It's for his will, it's for his plans,

his purposes, and He has got great plans for your

life and mind. Can I hear a good amen? She

has done what she could. She has come beforehand to annoying.

There you go again, what annoyed? That's what breaking is

for my body, for burial, As surely I say to you,

wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world. What

this woman has done will also be told as a

memorial for her. Remember that Jesus was let into the

wilderness to be tempted. But remember this also. I said

it before, I'll say it again. What God allows, Satan

will take advantage. So when God allowed me to go

through this injury and to go through this time of

recovery and through this time of waiting, and I have

been in pain, and I have been broken, and I

have been you know, crying out to God, I have

all those times up and down. And as God allows this,

the flies will come. You know, like when you cooked

a really good meal. You put the plate of good food,

good smelling food on the table, and then the flies

start coming. The flies didn't come when the dish is

not done. Satan like a fly. By Elzeba, the Bible

calls him lord of the flies. He is a fly.

He's the lord of the flies. All right. We don't

like flies in our kitchen. We don't like flies in

our home and our lives. All right. When you see

all those countries where there's poverty and there's illness and

all that kind of stuff, you see flies is coming

onto people's faces, faces of children. Right, that's a very

demonic picture. Really, and we don't want flies, We don't

want The Lord of flies bells them, but we don't

want him. But he will come. The Lord would allow,

and Satan would take advantage. Remember the forbidden tree in

the garden of Eden. God allowed the tree to be there,

you know, and that very one tree broke Adam. And

if God allowed it, but who was taking advantage of it? Satan?

God would allow you some people are people be asking

of today? Why did God allow the tree to be there?

If he knew you shouldn't be eaten? Well, that's how

people get broken. Meaning you say that Adam and Eve

didn't need you sin. But just by saying no, I

can't take this fruit, No I can't, that's a level

of brokenness because if you can say yes to everything,

then we don't have to feel pain suffering, we don't

have to feel inhibited, we don't have to feel anything

except yay, I can do anything I want to do.

I'm a lord of my life, you know. God put

a tree there to say no, you are not God

of everything. I am God of everything. And so just

by saying no and bending your will to God's will,

that's a form of brokenness. But listen, the devil came

and tried to short change that brokenness and told them

and Eve that they can do anything, they can be

like God. So instead of being broken God's way, they

were broken by Satan, ultimately by a lie. Don't listen

to Satan's lives. Now, let's look at Luke four one, thirteen,

and fourteen. Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit,

returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit

into the wilderness. Or even Jesus himself, the son of God,

was brought led by the Holy Spirit into a place

of breaking. That's what wilderness and desert is is not

a party, is not a buffet. It's a place of isolation, nothingness.

But Jesus was led by the Spirit. Now, when the

devil had ended every temptation, says verse thirteen, he departed

from Jesus until an opportune time. Now I underline opportune

time because I have recognized opportune time to mean that

Satan came when Jesus was being broken in the wilderness.

That is the first opportune time. And so the next

opportune time will be when Jesus will go through breaking again.

And so the devil is an opportunist. He will take

opportunity in an opportune time. But maybe you didn't understand

what opportunity time meant is because we don't go through

breaking every day. We don't go through breaking even every year,

or maybe some level of it, but not always painful,

not always desperate. So the devil knows that he can

only get to you, can he can really really get

to you at the opportune time, meaning the opportunity and

time that God allowed something to happen. That is his

opportune time God allowed it. Otherwise you will always be

protected by God. Right, you will always be covered by God. Right,

God would allow nothing bad to happen to you. But

when God allows something that seems to be bad in

the eyes of the world, you see because at all

other times, you're always covered, you're always provided for. And

then sometimes God just allows something. You know that opportune

time Satan is waiting for because that's when he believes

he can get you. Are you going through a breaking

time now, a brokenness, a painful suffering time? Now be

careful because this is this is an opportune time for

Satan as well. But don't allow him to have any opportunity. Amen,

But you and I can take the opportunity in Christ

to do what. Let me read the last verse there,

verse fourteen. Then Jesus returned in the power of the

Spirit to Galilee, and news of him went out through

all the surrounding region. We will come back with power,

ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. Are you listening to me?

Do you hear my heart? I also believe in Christ

that I will come out of this suffering, out of

this brokenness, out of this cave, out of you know,

my time of recovery, with the power of the Holy Spirit. Now,

if I read this to you again, you will see

three things. It says in verse one, Jesus, being filled

with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was

led by the Spirit. So verse one already says phil

and Lead. Why is the Bible so specific? Because sometimes

we can be filled by the spirit, and many of

you are, but not Lead. It's not complete. We all

want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but we

also want to be led. So don't just be filled. Everybody.

Come on, in the name of Jesus, I pray that

God will fill you more and more. Even those of

you who are not filled, lift up your hands say yes, Lord,

I desire to be filled. But number two, we want

to be led by your Holy Spirit. Lead every decision,

every direction that we can take or should take. Oh God,

we want you not only to fill us, but to

lead us. But number three, listen, there's a difference being filed.

That's a difference being led. And finally, there's a difference

being or having the power of the Spirit. Feel led

and empowered.

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