What you fear most motivates you

know it started out weird um every 3 months I have to go take

blood test then go see the doctor a week later Monday I went and took my blood

test felt great doctor calls me on Tuesday and says you got to go to the hospital right now and I go for what and

he goes well your potassium levels at 6.5 you need to get to the hospital your heart could stop beating it's all this

kind of stuff he's telling me and I went okay and he goes I'm being serious I said okay I'm going to the hospital so I

get to the hospital I walk into the emergency room at qu Delta walk up to the cter L goes why are you here and I

said my doctor sent me here says my blood potassium levels is 6.5 and I need to be treated oh my God I was

like I felt fine get back there the nurse comes in

she goes how are you feeling and I'm I feel fine okay so we got to do this really

invasive procedure I said which is she so she goes we're going to shoot you full of sugar we're going to shoot you

full of insulin we're going to shoot you full of uh calcium and we're going to shoot you full of Lasix and I go sounds

like the treatment is worse than the condition so they did right I've never

had my blood sugar go to 395 before it did

um I never had Soo many blood tests taken out of my arms in a matter of 4

hours but they did and the whole time the nurse the doctor the

nephologist the the um what do you call them the FLOTUS they come into my room

right I'm in the ER they come in there and I'm just laying there and they go you're not freaked out

and I go for what well you your heart could stop beating and I go you know what I said if

you knew the god I knew you wouldn't worry about it and they go what do you mean I said if my heart stops beating I

have a DNR in place don't resuscitate me because that means my ministry here on Earth is over and the doctor goes

what said if it's my time it's my time I

don't care and they go and never anybody could be this calm you know your heart could

stop and I went okay and they were like did I get

up to they finally after I don't know how many hours I was in the ER they finally send me upstairs

right I thought I was going to get to go home the neologist says oh I want to keep you overnight for observation all

right so you know they're up there doing blood they go in there checking my blood sugar every two hours they come in 2

hours after I eat check my blood sugar they go do all this stuff and I'm telling them I said you know what I really want to do and they go what's up

I said I'd like to go to sleep and they're going what I said I'd like to go to

sleep oh so I get up the next morning they feed me breakfast they feed me

lunch and nurse comes in she goes all your blood Works back to

normal I don't know what to say I said I do said what's that I said get my paperwork so I can go home I'm tired of

being in this hospital so I go to see the doctor Friday doctor pulls up all my

blood work right and he goes you know other than that potassium level being high I have nothing to say I said what

do you mean and he says everything's normal he says your A1C is normal your

your cholesterol all your cholesterol levels are normal uh your blood pressure

he goes how old are you I said 61 he goes and your blood pressure is 117 over

78 he goes I don't have anybody your age comes in here with blood pressure like that or numbers like this and I went if

you knew the god I knew you wouldn't worry about it so I'm sharing all this with you

because it ties directly to this what you fear most motivates

you that sounds like a weird statement right what you fear most motivates

you how many of you are familiar with job go there the next slide Chris so

before I get into that part there's two words in Hebrew that we're looking at here that translate into English as

fear the first one is pakad and it means to be startled or to be afraid or you

saw a spider and you jumped up on top of the table that's what that one means it's the same word that used in

job 3:25 and that word is used 25 times that one word 25 times in the Old

Testament the other one is pronounced

yearo and it means to be morally reverent or to stand in awe and it's

what's used in Proverbs 1:7 and it's used 45 times in the Old

Testament okay so go to the next slide Chris fear motivates every area of your

life what type of fear you're experiences experiencing influences how

you think how you speak and how you act so if you're

experiencing go back to the previous slide Chris so if you're experiencing

pakad you're experiencing terror you're

afraid you ever have you ever do you suffer from

anxiety overthinking it overthinking it overthinking it

you're falling into the first kind of fear because whatever you're

thinking it's not true it just might be true but it's not

true so you're you're following this fear that can overwhelm

you but when you get a bad report or you have the doctor tell you something and you react in year

off it doesn't matter so go two slides up Chris so

these are scriptures to look at and we're going to look at them and I'm going to I'm going to share with you why

they're important and they do tie into what we've been talking about uh the

first one is Proverbs 1 and 7 you guys should probably know these by by

now Proverbs 1:7 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise

wisdom and instruction now if we left it like that

and fear and you say the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom people say why should I be afraid of God if God

is full of love well if we want to accurately translate that that scripture

it should say this faith in the Lord is the beginning of

wisdom think about that and fools despise wisdom and and

instruction faith in the Lord is the beginning of wisdom because it changes your

opinion it changes your outlook it changes everything that you do because

we're no longer talking about fear we're talking about Faith how many you seen those bumper stickers to say faith over

fear okay how many times have you said Faith over fear how many times did you actually

believe that how many times have you had a bad

report and you speak the opposite of the bad bad report and people look at you

like you're an alien from Mars because you're not

afraid you're not worried not overcome by

it this is how most people react it's in

job I'm going to read it to you because it's

important it's important to be able to wrap this around round uh wrap this in your mind the correct

way because it affects how you worship it affects what you

do and this is what it says it says for the this is job what happened to job

lost his kids he lost his house he was get covered in boils he's got all this stuff going on listen to what he said

this is 325 says for the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me me and that which

I was afraid of is come unto me if you fear

God using the wrong definition of fear you can't draw close to him because

you're afraid of what's going to happen you're afraid that God's standing there with a big old baseball bat waiting on

you to make a mistake but when you have faith in God

and faith that his word says as it says in uh uh 1 John 1:9 he says Brethren if

we sin he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness if we understand that

then we know God's not standing there with a baseball bat we understand he's standing there with his arms

outstretched saying get up dust yourself off come back to me let me clean you up

so you can keep going and go forward so many times

in our church life and Christians are bad at killing their own somebody makes a

mistake and all of a sudden that person's pushed over in the corner by himself they they have been

subjected to judgment rather than being

given Grace remember you weren't perfect either you had come to Jesus and ask him

to forgive you it took took his grace and his mercy and his blood to bring you

back into into fellowship with God when you have people who stumble and fall and

guess what we all stumble and fall there is nobody sitting in this building right now who has never stumbled and

fell so none of us have the right to

judge what we do have though is a god-given mission to extend

Grace and and the church forgets that the church forgets where they came from

the church forgets their failures you ever met sister holier than

thou that's not someone you want to hang around with okay cuz when you when you get to

start hanging around with them man that critical spirit jump off on you it it's

like how many of you has ever ridden a horse you ever saddle a horse and accidentally get a bur under the

blanket oh yeah you don't fall off you get throw off you get throwed way off in fact that horse if you can't get that

that bur out from underneath that saddle he'll stomp you it hurts him that

bad uh but we have people in church they react the same

way to someone who has stumbled and Fallen it's all of a sudden oh you're a

pariah we can't get near you I've experienced this firsthand by the way when I went through my divorce I go to

Texas I'm in I'm in Houston Texas right I go to Friendswood and I go to church assembly

God church not much bigger than this one I go in there everything was cool the first time I went to church but between

the first time I went to church and the second time I went to church the pastor called the SoCal

Network and he found out that I was going through a divorce I come back to church the

following Sunday I wound up sitting on the back row over in the corner and told

there was Fellowship after church but I wasn't welcome to join you went through a divorce

yep I was also told at that very same that very same service that I was not

allowed to address any of the women that live that were attended that church and that I wasn't allowed to shake hands

with any of the women that attended that church and I looked at him and I said and and

so why am I here then and the pastor looked me goes well

you know this is the Bible Belt I go well nothing you just told me lines up your

scripture um and I won't be back and I didn't go

back that's an example of what I'm talking about you can't live that way because

you're never going to extend Grace to those who need it most if you're constantly judging them for their past

failures we all have past failures we all had to come to that point where we

looked up and what we saw in front of us was the cross we said we need what's at the

cross forgiveness grace mercy Redemption

not judgment Jesus said I came to save not to

condemn and that's the thing we have to do Proverbs

18:21 is anybody taking

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Proverbs 18:21 says death and life are in the power of

the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof when you have people coming into

church you can clearly see they need Jesus are the words coming out of your

mouth speaking life to them or are you speaking death to

them there's a statement that says where Angel men will go Where

Angels Fear To Tread there's also another one that says but for the grace of God there go

I the only reason you're standing here today is by God's grace amen

okay we've all had some pretty major things happen I mean Brenda you're here today because of God's grace all right

I've been in some of them nasty accidents okay and survived them

um we're all here by God's grace there isn't a single one of us sitting here

who hasn't experienced God's grace and every single one of us are

required by God to extend that same Grace to other people backsliding Christians Christians

that aren't walking in the place that they probably could walk in a better place people who've never known

Jesus we're supposed to be in the business of extending

Grace of telling them God loved them so much that he sent his son to die in

their place the Great

Commission and in that process what happens is when we keep that

perspective in how to talk to people how to treat people how to do what Jesus

said in Matthew 7:12 do unto others as you would have them do unto you not do unto others as they've already done unto

you okay we begin to walk in that place where we become

effective where God is able to use us in in Mighty ways

and to help us reach people that would be considered unreachable um I had to learn that

lesson too it it was it was quite a thing realizing

that that these homeless people I worked with were just as important I'm talking

about when I was at the mission this is where I learned it at that these homeless people in these people that were drug addicts and alcoholics and

prostitutes and all these other people that were coming there for a free meal needed Jesus's love just as much as

I did and that it wasn't my place to say well you can't come

here unless they got violent with somebody you know and then I had to call the police to get them off the property

but outside of that wasn't my place to say you can't be here Jesus came for

everybody he didn't leave anybody be out and

so I began to realize that and and then it began to put pieces together pieces

that I had here and there that I'd learned over all the years I've been saved at that time it was

oh 30 years 29 somewhere 28 somewhere in there um that I began putting these

pieces together and it made a bigger picture and when I got all the pieces put in there guess what the picture

was Jesus it's a picture picture of Jesus not a picture of me not a picture

of anything else it was a picture of Jesus and I realized that to reach the people that God wanted me to reach I had

to reach them with Jesus no matter what situation they were in

so and with that came a better understanding of God's word 3D John 2 it

says Brethren a w that you prospers and be in health even as thy soul prospers

my prosperity and my health are not based on what comes out of my pocketbook

my prosperity and my health is based on what's going into my spirit into my soul

I would that you prosper and be in health even as thy Soul Prosper my soul

has to is the key to prospering and I'm not just talking about financial prospering I

mean flourishing living a uh the joyfill life living the life of Peace living a

life of love living a life extending Grace it all comes from what's coming out of my spirit because as a man think

in his heart so is he and then you have to come to the

place where you realize that nothing can take that away

from you and that's in Romans 8 and I'm going to go over there this is

actually my favorite chapter in the whole in the whole Bible is Romans chapter 8 there's more stuff in Romans

chapter 8 than you can possibly imagine and in the last two verses of

Romans chapter 8 Paul tells you this he says for I am persuaded have you

ever been persuaded if you're persuaded it doesn't matter what somebody tells you they can't convince you of anything other

else anything other than what you are persuaded in he says I am persuaded that neither

death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height

nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our

lord that removes

fear completely why why because there's no torment in it he's telling you have hope

have faith accept God's grace why because there's nothing that can

separate you from him except for one thing

you you can separate yourself from it but there's nothing in creation that can

separate you from the love of God unless you allow it to

you have control Jesus said those the father put in my hand that I don't lose any of them

he said my sheep know my voice another they will not follow you might be saying well brother

John what's is there any more slides Chris or is that the last one so you might be asking why I did

this I started out the beginning of this month teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and fear is really critical for

you to understand now I'm going to tell you why have you been in a service you felt the Holy Spirit dealing

with you you felt like God wanted you to do something but you held back because

you were afraid that you were either going to say the wrong thing you were going to do the wrong thing or that you

might be missing

God every person who is trying to get to that place of operating

the gifts of the Spirit experiences that experience even me first time God wanted

me to give a message in church um I held

back so and God gave the message to somebody else because I was afraid I was going to

say something wrong and I didn't realize till later on

that it wasn't me doing the speaking to start with it was God so how could God get it

wrong okay so the next opportunity came up and I felt the Holy Spirit dealing

with me to give the message I gave the message Happ to be a message in tongues and then as soon as I finished giving

the message I had the I had the interpretation and I gave that

too and I'm saying this to you because a lot of times now I've went over quite a

quite a number of things that keep the Holy Spirit from from operating in the church like uh lack of Praise prayer and

worship those kind of things fear you being

afraid of what you might say or do will hinder the

spirit and I've I've seen sister I've seen you operate in a word of knowledge

I've seen you come up here this is before I pray for you to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and say I

really feel the holy spirit is telling me that somebody needs

prayer he operates that way sometimes he tells you a specific

person sometimes it's a general statement because there's more than one person who needs prayer for the same

thing sometimes he gives you a message directly for somebody I've been there

too um had people up here in the prayer line and start to pray for them there was like I don't know 30 of them up here

at one time and and as I was praying for them God would give me a message for

each person specifically you remember uh brother

Mike brother Mike vinon used to operate in the gifts of the Spirit in that way that he would personally tell you a word

from a message from the word he would give you a word from God so so all of

those things are possible for any person setting in the

church but to be able to operate in that

area you have to let go of the fear you have to not be afraid

um it's just like when you're praying and you begin to speak in tongues in your prayer

closet there's no fear associated with that because you nobody can hear you it's just you in your prayer closet

but when you're in church and you get a message in tongues you're scared because you don't want to say something to somebody say what was

that or wow CU here's the thing it's really

bad that Pentecostals are this way for the most part they measure your

spiritual maturity on how many times you give a message in

tongues and guess what you can be going through the worst kind of garbage at home failing God

miserably and he'll still use you to give that message in tones or he'll use you to give a word of

Prophecy or a word of knowledge or any of these other things because you were yielded at the moment and you were

repented at the moment and God used you at that moment to meet somebody else's

need that's what the gifts of the Spirit do they're to meet somebody else's need

you take care of your need when you're back in your prayer closet when you're praying in Tong James said build up your

Most Holy Faith or Jude did build up your Most Holy Faith praying in the

spirit that's how you build it up that type of prayer life is between

you and God when you're alone when you're in there crying out to God because everything went sideways

this week um or you you or the enemy used somebody

to try to give you a bad report and uh they can't understand why

you're not receiving it you know the doctor goes um do you feel weak do you feel

dizzy how's your heart going um you have a are you having cold sweats

or you having that no I don't have any symptoms at all I feel fine

so I I get down to the emergency room now on Monday it was at 6.5 at

Tuesday it's at 5.8 they put me through all this I got the bruises to prove it they put me

through all this stuff 2 hours later it's normal in fact it went all the way down

to three and then it balanced off at

4.4 and the whole time I'm just laying there twiddling my thumbs cuz I'm in a room with no TV there's nothing in that

room it's just me you know there's no TV there's no

radio you can't be on your phone because you don't want your battery to die in your phone while you say because unless

you get up on a floor where they can plug it in and charge your phone your phone's going to die right so you have all these things going

on so I want to encourage you couple of things

don't accept bad reports because if it didn't come from

God it's not something youi the doctors still are kind of you

know bewildered um because I never got freaked

out at all I just looked at him and I go okay

he you're not making any sense you're not making any sense and I go but I feel

fine he said actually I felt better before you started giving me this treatment than I do right now because

they gave me this shot and it sent my blood sugar to 395 my blood sugars never went that high

before the highest they ever been is 159 and they sent it to

395 before the insulin kicked in to bring it back down

and I'm going like I bet you if you take a buest tomorrow my my uh potassium level will be

normal but we can't take a chance like I feel

fine don't accept the bad report don't accept things that don't line up to

God's word what did he say he said by his stripes you are healed does it not

it says he was bruised for our iniquities that's our failings the chastisement of our peace was upon in

other words that takes away the fear there's no fear and by his stripes we are

healed so if we don't have to if he did everything he did to take away our iniquities to bring us

peace and to heal our bodies our minds and our souls what have we got to fear

fear has torment and we're able to do great and

abundantly and exceedingly for his name's sake to do the things he's called

us to do so I want I want you guys

to begin to look at yourself that way I'm blessed I'm

redeemed I I have God's will directing me the enemy has no Authority me over me

when you have those days where he's beating you over the

head you need to be able to tell him you know what that's a lie his word says by his stripes I'm

Healed his word says the chastisement of my peace was upon him you don't you

shouldn't have to fight anxiety depression and these other

things when you accept the fact that he's he took that that beating that's

what the chastisement is to give you peace in every area of

your life when doctors could call you and give you a bad report you don't freak

out they don't know how to act it's kind of funny I I mean I when saw my doctor

on Friday and he's from India from right across the border of where I'm going

next month told me so he goes I'm from Punjab in Northern India and you're

going to Punjab in pacan they're right across the border from each other uh cuz I had to make sure my

vaccinations were all up to date and they are he said the only thing you need do is take malaria medication but then

you're good I said all right and uh but e even

on Friday after being out of the hospital for 2 days he still still freaking out over the blood

work and I'm like okay whatever and he goes I don't get it and so I told him I

said I'm a pastor and a Christian and a and he goes a Christian and I go I'm not Catholic cuz you got to realize in the

Middle East in India Pakistan any of the Muslim countries when you tell them

you're Christian they automatically assume you're Catholic okay you have to explain it to

them so I explained it to him I said I am not Catholic he goes I didn't know there

were any Christians in Pakistan I said oh yeah especially in in in the punjob region he goes that's where I'm from but

on the other side of the border so okay God wants to use you he wants you

to be a testimony to people he wants you to be a testimony to your own

doctor if you get an opportunity

and he does expect people to look at you like you're from Mars especially when you have peace that

surpasses all understanding when you have that that bad report from the

doctor doesn't matter when you're in church and you're

in service and you feel the Holy Spirit begin to deal with you that God wants you to do

something I'm not talking about jumping out the windows or running around outside screaming and yelling I'm

talking about getting up and praying for somebody for laying hands on somebody for giving somebody a word of knowledge

or a Word of Wisdom don't be

afraid because he wants to use you to meet somebody else's

need all right and what are you guys going to do this week you're going to go

you're going to go be the church you're going to do what he said to do go into

all the world sharing the gospel with them Heavenly Father we thank you and Praise

You Lord God we ask that you bring all those that are going to be back this evening back