Beyond Emotional Relief: A Theological Review of ‘Casting Your Cares’

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[00:00:00] Thank you World Changers. Well it's opportunity for wholeness time. Opportunity for prosperity time. Amen. Let's look at the book of Luke chapter 6 verse 38 in the mirror translation. Luke chapter 6 38. If you need an offering envelope if you'll lift your hands up the ushers will go ahead and get one to you right now. Look how he says this. Now the King James says given it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down shaken together running over shall men given to your bosoms. But you really
[00:00:34] don't get the context of what's going on until you read it out of this mirror he says gift language beats reward language gift language better the give than the receive same thing gift language beats reward language by far this is the mirror measure your giving reflects your source
[00:01:02] your giving reflects your source are you your source or is God your source he says a good measure it reflects your source a good measure press down shaken together running over will they pour into your laps your source here's what I want you to understand here giving is my
[00:01:33] response to what God has already done it is my harvest of generosity that begins to flow from my relationship with God my relationship with God is what moves me to give out of my heart and so given giving doesn't even we have been trained
[00:02:08] that giving you you you got to give to be blessed now you're blessed because of Jesus blessings finished it's already taken care of my giving puts me in a position where I become a part of the
[00:02:22] generosity flow of God he is good right his goodness didn't come to me because I did something to deserve it because I'm connected as a branch to the vine the goodness that he is begins to flow
[00:02:39] in my life. And that's, that's dealing with everything. Everything that Jesus has finished when the vine and the branch are in union, just from the relationship, what he is flows into your life. And I pray that your giving becomes your way to participate in who God already is. I am
[00:03:06] righteous so I live from that righteousness I am complete in him I live from that completeness I am whole and prosperous so I live from that so what is it that helps me to stay in line
[00:03:19] with what I already am my giving is easy to do because I know that God cares for me and when you have problems giving it's probably because you kind of doubt whether or not God
[00:03:33] cares for you. Settle that in your life. God cares for me. Amen. And God will take care of me. God has taken care of me and God is in present tense taking care of me. Keep that in your heart and
[00:03:50] your mind and giving is never going to be a problem. Amen. Father, we thank you for the opportunity to give this morning an opportunity to connect with the the generosity of God through our giving our giving is a response to what Jesus has
[00:04:08] already done Lord you have blessed us and we're responding to that blessing we thank you for it now in your name we pray and everybody said amen let's just go ahead and receive the offering this morning alright so big big big big big
[00:04:45] big day I need you to seriously get your pads out your phones however you take notes because I'm going to be talking about something that all of us are going to be able to relate to it happened
[00:04:59] to me I was a little concerned about my dog Rocky uh you know he's not as energetic as he used to be and you know and I'm like you know just wondering about old Rock Rob been doing a good
[00:05:14] job all all the years he'd been he'd been he'd been managing the property and uh if you dare come up didn't know you were supposed to be there rock will let you know you're not supposed to be
[00:05:26] here and um so i was i was getting ready to go to bed and i said well lord i cast this care over on you and then as soon as i cast it i kept it in my mind have you ever done that before you
[00:05:43] You said you gave it to the Lord, but then you went right back. It was almost like a you remember a bolo bat or Slinky mirror bolo back when you hit that ball on that paddle and it just keep coming back
[00:05:56] Well, that's how some of us cast our care on the Lord. We hit it to the Lord and it comes right back So this morning, I think it's so important in this day and time with all the things that are going on in the world
[00:06:09] world all the news all of the kind of weird things that are happening how people think and how they live and what goes on now more than ever before you need to understand practically how to cast your cares on God not not saying it
[00:06:26] religiously but today I'm going to talk about you how do you do that in your in your daily living how do you cast your care on the Lord and in this we're going to talk about several things that you have to deal with every day this is not going to be some kind
[00:06:41] of sermon like uh you know just just full of a bunch of religious stuff to try to get you to shout i don't want you don't shout just listen shout when you get a home because we've got to
[00:06:52] we've got to be victorious in casting our care on the lord what's going on up here when you cast a care and as you listen to this today i pray that it will give you some answers and and help you out
[00:07:05] And y'all started the clock. I hadn't started Uh, you didn't start the clock. Did you we good? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't don't start the clock father We thank you for this Another opportunity to the minister to these your precious sheep
[00:07:18] Thank you lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force Speak through my vocal cords lord Think through my mind and it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said
[00:07:31] amen if you have your bibles go with me to the book of first peter first peter chapter five and verses five through seven first peter chapter five and verse five through seven okay here's what he says here he says likewise you younger submit yourselves unto the elder
[00:07:56] yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and he giveth grace to the humble real quick definition a man who is humble is now submitted
[00:08:14] to God's plan for his life God's way for his life a man that is prideful it's the opposite he is not submitted to God's plan for his life he's only concerned about his own plan and he'll he'll he'll
[00:08:28] get under what he wants to do for his life now notice he says I will resist the proud but I'll give grace and you'll find out he'll give more grace to the humble I'll resist the guy that's
[00:08:40] trying to do it his way and I'll provide grace to the guy that will do it my way and then he says in verse six humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in
[00:08:55] due time stop right there I did not notice this colon I've read the scripture the whole time and I did not notice this colon he because the colon says you know I want you to humble yourself
[00:09:07] therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time and here's how to humble yourself colon now notice what comes after the colon cast all your cares upon him for he careth
[00:09:24] for you oh so what he's saying is humility is you casting your care upon him pride is you refusing to cast your care upon him he resists the proud but he'll give grace to the humble and he gets
[00:09:44] specific here. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. How? Casting all of your care upon him for he careth for you. This is a huge issue because I know stuff happens in our life every
[00:09:59] single day. And there are things that we carry that we should not be carrying because the very act of you carrying the care is an act of pride. It's, it, it, it puts you in a position where
[00:10:14] you're not open to receive the grace that'll help you when you cast the care on the Lord.
[00:10:19] What he's saying is, I don't want you to own your cares. I want you to switch ownership. I want you to take the care that's come on your life, and that's mine. I want you to cast that on me. Oh,
[00:10:33] well, Lord, I don't see how I can do that, or that's difficult to do. Listen, folks, There are several things that we do practically every day That require us to know exactly how to cast our cares
[00:10:49] I'm going to give you seven of them seven really specific ways to cast your care over on the lord. The first is obvious The first thing you do when a care shows up in your life. How many of you have cares show up in your life?
[00:11:03] Cares, let me use another word cares or distractions Okay, not now baby. We'll help you. We'll help you. But baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby We will help you. We got somebody here that help you you come up here afterwards and there'll be help right here
[00:11:22] Okay, it doesn't matter you right here right here Right here right here. You're gonna get your help Okay. Okay, you're gonna get your help but You're you're you're gonna get your help. We we are we will
[00:11:40] We will now you're being distracting we will help you we love you and we will help you isn't that something we will help you that's how some of us do God says I will and you keep talking
[00:12:01] there's nothing else I can say except yes I will okay so I love you darling we will help you okay the guy that has your hands he's going to help you there he is there is he got you he's got you he's gonna help you he's gonna help
[00:12:23] you he's gonna help you okay so now you see what I'm saying that is an illustration of what I'm preaching okay that's the illustration what I'm preaching cast all your cares or distractions now a long time ago I would
[00:12:40] have responded way differently it would not it would not even have been that but I'm telling you the Lord has done a work on the inside of me oh yes he is and and you will get help but the cares of the world she needs to get back in here
[00:13:09] because I'm getting ready to show her to how to handle the care somehow we think the other ways of helping you is stronger than God's way of helping you because whatever we do for you today is going to come back because you don't know how to deal with
[00:13:29] the root of the issue. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Excellent illustration. I don't know where it came from, Lord, but excellent illustration. Now, that's what we do. Help people. If you can't get help when you come to the church, what the church for? We don't help you, but we got to be

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[00:13:48] careful not to be focusing on just us and not everybody else you want to make yourself the center of the attention and you forget about all of the other people that are in probably worse
[00:14:08] situation than you are in but the word of god be ministered to help you out heck yeah we're gonna

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[00:14:15] help you girl you're gonna get plenty of help and when they help her get herself right back in here

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[00:14:19] so she can get some more help because i can't help you like the spirit of god can but i'm just so glad i'm not i oh i ain't the same praise the lord oh she that would have been that would have
[00:14:33] been three seconds and out you know but i have fallen in love with people amen now so the first thing you do to practically cast your your care on the lord is number one you got to cast you got
[00:14:52] to cast. You don't carry the care. You transfer the weight of it. You transfer the weight of the care off you and on God. Casting your care isn't, it's not pretending you don't feel it because you
[00:15:10] do. Casting your care, you don't pretend like you don't, don't feel it. Casting your care means you're going to transfer the ownership. Just like you do a title deed on a car. You're going to
[00:15:22] transfer the ownership. Here's a big care in my life. I'm going to transfer the ownership over on God. I can tell you, God does better than I can do. He does better than the church can do.
[00:15:36] God knows how to take ownership of your care and your distraction and do something at the root of the issue that you will never have to deal with it again. We say we trust God,
[00:15:48] but we really don't. We trust what we can see coming our way. We got to learn how to totally lean on him, totally depend on him. Now, first Peter chapter five, verse seven in the mirror
[00:16:04] translation. Now watch this. So we got to cast. And that's what I, when I was praying for Rocky, I didn't cast. It was, I wanted to still own it. I wanted to own the care. I wanted to still
[00:16:18] own the distraction instead of casting it by transferring ownership to God. Look what he says in the mirror. Take immediate action when it comes to distractions and cares. Take immediate actions when it comes to distractions and cares. So, you know, when a distraction approaches my life or a
[00:16:45] approaches my life i'm not going to carry that for an hour or two a day or two a month or two i don't care where i am i'm going to take immediate action to transfer the ownership
[00:16:58] on god in fact i don't really want to hold it long enough to take the ownership i want to transfer the ownership on the god he says how do i do that flinging them upon the lord
[00:17:09] He's got your best interest at heart and he's got your back Flinging it upon the lord You know what you're saying when you fling your care on the lord immediately you're saying I trust you
[00:17:27] You're saying This is already handled. I'm not going to carry this And as a result of people carrying care see god knows there are physical manifestations that will come As a result of you holding on to the stress of care
[00:17:43] Cortisol level raises higher than what it should be raised blood pressure level raises higher than what it should be raised You're not the same person because you're being weighed down With your ownership of a care that you have no idea how to resolve or solve or how to deal with it
[00:18:01] And I know we're church people and we talk real good. Um you know church talk But on the inside are you still walking around owning that care are you still walking around with that care?
[00:18:17] Way past the time he said fling it upon the Lord He's got your watch this your best interest. God's got your best interest above anybody That's sitting here today. God will always have your best interest and here's the thing. I love
[00:18:35] He got you back He got your back now What you got to do is come to the place of believing that no no not not not that that that taught well, you really don't believe it, but you got to get to the place where I

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[00:18:53] Believe God's got my back enough to give him the ownership of this

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[00:18:58] We're about to come face to face with our hypocrisy. Did you cast your care? Oh, yes, praise the Lord I thank you. I cast my care. You still got it All we got to do is listen to you the next hour and you'll bring the care back up. Why because you still own it
[00:19:14] So the first thing is in your everyday life in your living Not trying to be spiritual but in your everyday life practice casting and practice doing it immediately Because you are leaning on god And you trust god
[00:19:34] If you understand that say amen In fact, why don't you say this with me? I got some confessions. I want us to say throughout this Say this out loud father This care does not belong to me
[00:19:46] I give this rejection hurt lust and regret to you You care for me I refuse to carry What grace has already carried?
[00:20:09] Amen All right. Now here's the second practical thing you do When casting your care upon god You've got to learn how to name the lie You got to learn how to name the lie. Now. What am I talking about here naming the lie?
[00:20:30] You've got to Replace the lie with the truth Think with me for a moment. Have you ever had?
[00:20:39] the lingering thought The lingering thought when you were rejected It lingered in your thinking the hurt lingered in your mind the lust lingered even the regret began to linger every lingering thought like that is attached to a lie every lingering thought is trying to sell you a lie let me show
[00:21:15] you what i'm talking about let's look at rejection i want to look about four or five things to bring it on a practical level has anybody ever been rejected before okay the rest of you will cast out lying devils in just a moment okay what is the what is the what
[00:21:34] is the lie that rejection is trying to sell you he's trying to sell you this lie you're not enough with every issue and every time you've been rejected he's trying to sell you to lie you're not enough and with that lie if you buy it
[00:21:57] you're gonna become addicted to approval working hard to get people's approval and validation you're always going to be looking to see if somebody approves of you because of the rejection that sells you the lie that says you are not enough
[00:22:18] so you got to replace that lie with the truth so what is the truth even after a rejection tries to sell you to lie. The truth is I am accepted in the beloved. Look at Ephesians 1
[00:22:32] and 6. The truth is I'm more than enough. I'm accepted in the beloved. You are enough. In Ephesians 1 and 6, he says, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us
[00:22:49] accepted in the beloved. We are already accepted in beloved. Say this out loud. I have been accepted.
[00:22:59] in the beloved. God loves me. I'm complete in him and I am more than enough. Yet rejection wants to sell you the lie. You're not enough. Look at that same verse of scripture in the mirror translation.
[00:23:22] The mirror translation says his grace plan is to be celebrated. He greatly endeared us and highly favored us in Christ in Christ is where your where your life is is going to be lived I am
[00:23:39] more than enough in Christ I am complete in Christ I am highly valued and loved in Christ I am highly favored in Christ see you you're you've got to replace the lie with the truth
[00:23:53] here's the battle it's a chess game going on in your mind and when certain things happen the enemy's going to use his most powerful weapon, which is suggestion. He's going to try to sell you a lie. He's very limited in what he can do to you because he's the defeated foe. So he wants to
[00:24:09] sell you a lie. But it's in Christ that I go against that lie. It's in Christ where I find out the truth about myself. He says his love for his son is his love for us. How many of you know
[00:24:27] God loves his son why should you ever question his love for you his love for his son is his love for us yeah brother I'm not perfect like Jesus no no no no no he ain't said nothing about your
[00:24:44] behavior he says I need you to not buy the lie because all of that's trying to mess with your identity and if you can hold on to your identity and start living from your Jesus identity you
[00:24:54] know what happens your behavior changes his love for his son is his love for us somebody said what's the big deal there well I know because God loves me then I know that through him I'm more than enough
[00:25:09] because he loves me I know he'll heal me because he loves me I know he'll deliver me because he loves me I know he'll take care of me I don't know how you're going to do it but I know he loves me
[00:25:19] and I have faith in his love because I know because he loves me everything he promised me is going to come to pass but if you think god hates you if you buy the lie that god hates you
[00:25:30] he's mad at you and what you did disqualified you from god if you do that then you won't have faith in his love and when you think god hates you then you'll you'll all of a sudden think think that god
[00:25:43] won't do what he said he'll do for you you got to walk around every day i know god loves me god loves me and i know it i know i'm in the middle of crazy stuff in your life god loves me and i know
[00:25:53] it you just did something stupid and you're like God loves me and I know it well don't be sending me that well I feel funny like a hypocrite talking about God loves me I know after I did that it is
[00:26:02] because after you did that that you say that so you can line yourself up with the provision that comes from God because you did that are you following what I'm saying so you got to replace
[00:26:14] the lie with the truth all right let's deal with something and I want to spend a tremendous amount of time on this one the lie of hurt how you may have been hurt before the lie of hurt this is big
[00:26:34] especially in the body of Christ we try to walk around like that didn't hurt that didn't hurt and that's the issue sometimes your bad attitude comes as a result of unresolved hurt so what does hurt say what does hurt try to sell you hurt tries to say to you and it tries to sell
[00:26:53] you that what happened to me defines me that I am what happened to me so you get hurt and you say I am what happens to me so now practically speaking how does hurt try to define you number one hurt defines you by trying to rewrite your
[00:27:20] identity hurt defines you by trying to rewrite your identity hmm think about that for a moment I'm just gonna leave that up there for a moment so you can get it hurt wants to want you to rewrite your identity he wants you to become and
[00:27:39] see yourself as oh I'm hurt so therefore I am now the rejected I am now the the betrayed. I am now the overlooked. I am now the unsafe. I am now the unworthy.
[00:27:56] Hurt's trying to sell you that. You got to make your mind up. I'm not going to buy that because when hurt tries to sell me or tries to say what happened to me defines me, I'm going
[00:28:08] to replace it with the truth. And the truth is God heals the brokenhearted. Let's see, let's see how else hurt tries to define you. Number two, hurt edits your inner narrative. The story you've been telling yourself, hurt tries to edit it. It tries to edit it. How? You'll start saying on the
[00:28:33] inside of you, people always leave me. If I open up, I'll get hurt trying to edit your inner narrative I have to stay on guard trying to edit your inner narrative I have to stay guarded
[00:29:00] because that hurt that came my way I got to stay guarded it tries to edit your inner narrative number three here's the third way hurt tries to redefine you or tries to define you hurt will try to shrink your expectations now all of a sudden because you've been hurt
[00:29:29] your expectations begin to shrink I don't expect love to be consistent because of my hurt I don't believe joy can last because of my hurt I settle for survival instead of abundance because of my hurts and you think this is wisdom but it's actually fear in disguised you think it's wisdom
[00:30:01] for you to say, well, you know, don't expect love to be consistent and don't believe that joy can last and you need to be in survival mode instead of abundance. You think this is wisdom.
[00:30:14] That's hurt trying to redefine you. Number four, hurt gives a false sense of safety, a false sense of safety like this. Hurt says you never need help. Never need help. Don't never need help. Don't ever get yourself in a place where you need help because I've been hurt
[00:30:42] by that. Never get close to anyone. I've been hurt by that. Be agreeable so you can avoid any conflict. That's what hurt does. It's trying to redefine you by what happened, a false sense of safety and then number five hurt distorts how you interpret God how you interpret others
[00:31:19] and how you interpret yourself wow it distorts how you interpret God how you interpret others and how you interpret yourself what what happened is hurt will begin you'll begin to project that hurt on on God you will begin to project that hurt uh on people they will fail me you project
[00:31:48] that hurt I'm hurt so I see everybody else you're gonna fail me you project that same hurt on God and so you you say he allowed this to happen so maybe I can't trust him either and then you
[00:32:03] projected on yourself. Maybe I deserve this. And you know what? Hurt becomes a lens and you start seeing everything and everybody through the hurt that you've encountered and just don't know how to resolve. You're just buying a lie. Hurt is selling you a defined self of yourself and you
[00:32:25] let it happen. Number six, this is the final one. Hurt mistakes pain for truth. Hurt mistakes paying for truth I mean just because something hurt deeply doesn't mean it's true deeply just because something hurts deeply and I know they're especially men a lot of men won't even voice their
[00:32:54] hurts they've been hurt but they'll respond like this oh I'm gonna be all right you're not you got so much hurt in you it's traumatic and and you carry yourself by a character that's not even you
[00:33:08] so what happens you you don't feel like you're enough you feel like you've fallen short you are now walking around inferior so you have to come up with some way or somebody that you can be superior
[00:33:22] over to try to hide your inferiority and so nobody really gets to know you because you don't speak your pain nobody gets to know you and any relationship you develop is false intimacy because we got to know the guy that we got to know through this fake superiority and found out that
[00:33:48] wasn't you at all and so as a man you walk around afraid that one day you're going to be found out that one day your wife might find out that that you're really you're really a rejected person
[00:34:00] you're really an inferior person you're a person that has allowed hurt to define you and because you won't deal with it because you you you were sold this lie and then you went ahead and bought the lie you don't even realize you purchased the lie and that's not really you you're
[00:34:16] afraid to be who you are and so you look at somebody that everybody else seems to like and you try to be like them and we get robbed of the authenticity of who you are and how God has
[00:34:29] has wired you to be and we don't get a chance to benefit from that because you're hiding the real you from you because you don't think it'll be accepted because you have bought all you don't
[00:34:38] care you you've been carrying that care all of your life what daddy did or he didn't do what mama did and she didn't do what friends did or how I got Billy or the trauma that I never dealt with
[00:34:50] and all these things that have happened to me I didn't get rid of the care because I didn't know where to go I didn't know nothing about God I got baptized but I never got saved I didn't know I
[00:35:01] could cast the care on God nobody taught me how to cast the care on God that's why I take this seriously. I'm not going to waste your time or my time coming up here and try to have a performance
[00:35:11] on a stage at church. This is a classroom that I pray the Holy Spirit will invade and begin to teach you so you will know how to deal with this life when you get home. Nothing else left to do
[00:35:29] except this. Preach the gospel around the world, get kicked out of churches, get slandered and talking about and still keep on going and I'm going to do that until it's over and when it's over I'm going to dress up in the suit I want to be buried in tell everybody who want to say bye
[00:35:49] come on say bye I'm out here by 12 but not yet this gospel of the kingdom has to be preached in all the world and then the end will come what is it that God has for you and you hadn't cast
[00:36:12] to care and you've allowed hurt to sell you all these things you bought it and you've been walking around a hurt woman guys are interested in you but you can't see it because you keep looking at
[00:36:28] everything through that lens why do i always seem to end up with this kind of man because you won't pay attention to the red flags he's giving you the first time y'all meet the first time y'all meet he
[00:36:43] told you he was a fool you got distracted with all the curly hair and you walked around like you're this inadequate woman that you're not good enough and and you're not pretty enough because the former dude you had who was inferior himself who tried to be superior over you kept telling
[00:37:10] you you too fat you too ugly you you you're not smart enough and you you bought that lie junk that you have ever gone through in your life and today transfer the ownership of it
[00:37:28] over on the Lord Jesus Christ did y'all get that may I go to the next one all right what's the next lie this is a big one lust lust it's so interesting because lust wants to sell you to lie
[00:37:56] that I need this in order to be okay.
[00:38:02] Lust or craving.
[00:38:05] The craziest thing about craving is why is that craving still there?
[00:38:12] It's still there because you've convinced yourself that it's going to bring happiness.
[00:38:18] Craving is still there because somehow you convince yourself it's going to make you happy.
[00:38:25] Sometimes we refer to it as an addiction.
[00:38:27] Oh, I just believe if I can just get this weed right now because i had a hard day and things hadn't worked out right and so you're craving for something that you think will bring you happiness i need this in order to be okay so you get drunk i need this in
[00:38:44] order to be okay so you go and and pull out your little your little your little oh lord what was the name that book you understand that book you pull that book out somebody said what book you
[00:38:54] know the um how do you say this like in church god i mean i'm not saying that in church you know you know you you make that call and lily come over and knock on the door and you think it's going

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[00:39:16] to make you happy that i need this in order to be okay and you buy it and you find out

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[00:39:29] that it was a lie you're not okay you're high but when you come down the problem's still there you're drunk but when you come down it's still there and then see here's the thing about the
[00:39:43] craving, it sells you to lie and then wants you to continue to stay with the thing or the substance that you think will bring you happiness. Now you're in an addiction. Now you got to hide from
[00:39:55] people. Now you got to, you know, rinse your mouth out with Listerine, like we can't smell the liquor past the Listerine. Like, is that a new brand of Listerine? They don't smell like my Listerine. What is that? That sound like Bricardi Listerine or, because what happens is,
[00:40:20] is when you purchase a lot, you think everybody else is going to purchase the same lot you purchase. My heart goes out to people who say they love God, but they just don't trust him
[00:40:37] enough to transfer the title deed of that care on him. I was so frustrated at one time, like, man how come people can't see this gospel how what is it and God's like you are putting so
[00:41:00] much energy on why they don't receive it versus why you you need to just continue to teach it and I had to give the ownership of that to to God I gave the ownership of this church to God
[00:41:17] you know how do you say how do you have 61,000 members who say don't move me off the membership role and I don't have full services on Sunday. Okay, I don't move them off. That's not my deal
[00:41:32] no more. Whatever is going on with them and however they're going to church, whether it's once every five months or once just on Wednesday or online or whatever, whatever they're doing, that's really, that's, that's, God now owns that. What have you been carrying? What were you carrying
[00:41:53] last night that stopped you from sleeping well? What are you carrying that keeps running away the husband you asked God to give you or the wife that you asked God to give you? But you can't see
[00:42:07] that you're being impacted by the pride of your cares. Wow. Let's go to the next practical step in casting your care over on God. Number three, turn the pain into prayer immediately. Turn the pain into prayer immediately. Oh, but Pastor Dollar, it's hard. It's hard. I hear people say
[00:42:37] it all the time, but it's hard. Listen, hard becomes the excuse to be prideful. It's hard.
[00:42:47] Listen, if it was easy, everybody would have some of it. It's hard. That's why you need the Holy Ghost. It's hard. It's hard to say no to this, and it's hard to say no to this. It's hard.
[00:42:57] What he would was that an excuse for you to just ignore the glory of this grace and what Jesus can do for you It's hard to trust God. What are you? What are you? What are you saying?
[00:43:09] Or is it just an excuse?
[00:43:13] For you to stay in your pride. It's not as hard as not nearly as hard as you think it is Turn that pain in the prayer. That means you don't rehearse that pain. You don't nurse that pain you disperse that pain
[00:43:28] you don't rehearse the conversation in your head over and over again you don't rehearse that conversation every time somebody called you there let me tell you what they said today you're you're rehearsing that thing you're nursing
[00:43:40] that thing and you won't disperse it you can't continue to replay failure and that's what you're doing replaying failure you can't keep doing that Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 through 7 let's look at that in the King James I
[00:43:59] mean he promises peace when we trade worry for prayer he promises him he's just asking you give it to me why do we want to keep it when you got somebody who says I'll take it from you he says be careful for nothing be careful for
[00:44:18] nothing but in everything by prayer and supplications with Thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God and the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your heart guard your heart and your minds through Jesus Christ so one
[00:44:39] of the ways you start dealing with things have y'all ever done that you know things happen and you rehearsed it you just thought about it it seemed like you couldn't get it out your head
[00:44:47] that's that's let me say something that that's human okay but I'm telling you how to deal with that and one of the ways I deal with that is I start praying short prayers throughout the day
[00:44:59] in other words that thought will come up in your mind and uh you have to just to me you say jesus right here meet me with your peace right here meet me don't don't see because if it stay up
[00:45:13] there too long enough and you don't deal with it you don't turn the pain in the prayer long enough you're gonna start speaking it and endorsing it and then it it it it nourishes it and even more
[00:45:23] i mean when you've been hurt when you've been lied to when you've been slandered when you've been doing all those things don't don't rehearse it disperse it but we like nursing it you know what happens when you nurse it it gets bigger you pray prayers like holy spirit fill the space that
[00:45:45] this thought is trying to occupy fill the space that this thought is trying to occupy i cast this thought down i give it to you i fill the space with it and i go get my bible or i go listen to
[00:45:57] teaching or I sing a song I do whatever I have to do because you know what if you do that every day that goes by that thing begins to just fade away because if you don't do it you're going to
[00:46:12] allow bitterness to grow and the bible says bitterness will trouble you and bitterness is unresolved forgiveness that marinates in your heart and you have enough to kill a person because you never dealt with that unresolved offense or bitterness. Pride does not come
[00:46:38] from being able to control it. It comes from the exchange that you make. It comes from the exchange that you make. I think I said pride, but I mean peace. Peace comes from the exchange that you
[00:46:56] make peace doesn't come from being able to control a thing peace comes from the exchange that you make there's something that happens when you say God I'm casting this on you and when I make that
[00:47:07] exchange peace comes peace comes as you get older your peace is going to become more valuable than any million dollar house you'd rather have peace than the nicest car you'd rather have your peace than the most successful business I don't want nothing if I can't have my peace if it costs you
[00:47:28] your peace, it's too expensive. I'm not going to be spending my peace on somebody else's drama.
[00:47:38] I got to have my peace. I got to have my peace. Well, pastor, the member want to do that.
[00:47:49] Go talk to assistant. I got to hold my peace. I can't, I got to hold my peace. I can't be battling with you because I'm addicted to your approval of me as a pastor. Therefore, if I don't
[00:47:59] do what you think I should be doing as a pastor, I call it pastor abuse, but because I don't do what you think i should be doing as a pastor then i got no peace because i'm more concerned about you
[00:48:08] and then now you're going and telling other people and then you know y'all gonna decide y'all gonna go to some church who will who will do all that stuff to appease you i got peace leave go find
[00:48:21] somebody that's gonna die early because of you i ain't doing that i've been doing that doing this for 45 years right now and i love people but i am not going to disrespect my boundaries and my
[00:48:40] capacity to receive because somebody don't like it. I might not be your pastor. You might need one of them rubby-dubby kind of pastors that, you know, oh, they're the boys when they come by the
[00:48:52] house, and they see Frank Nim, and they come to the school plays and all that stuff. I got a job to do. I got to preach the gospel around the world. I ain't got time. And when I finished
[00:49:00] preaching gospel, like when I finished in Jacksonville this past week, it was a great meeting in Jacksonville but when I finished man my feet were hurting and I missed dinner and I'm like oh and on Saturdays after one of those um spirit and grace tour I don't plan nothing I take
[00:49:21] a shower and put my pajamas on why because I ain't doing nothing but I'm gonna I'm gonna marinate in my piece all day long I ain't answering no telephone somebody said it's an emergency well
[00:49:31] that's some people that I'm paying to deal with emergency you call them be careful don't take that offense don't take it don't take it don't take it don't take it well I don't think a pastor
[00:49:53] hush girl Taff and I we didn't ask for this we were in the congregation at one time and God chose us out of the congregation to do this we just we we was in the congregation sitting next
[00:50:10] to you not you but you remember you know I remember that time I tried to get a ministry away I said yeah man you want this he said who me man I don't want this I said I don't want it either
[00:50:26] I was never gonna be no preacher. I ain't I don't even like preachers That last thing I want to do is be a preacher with the last name dollar, you know what they're gonna say
[00:50:33] Peace will come when you exchange that lie for the truth And you got peace That passes understanding don't live with the lie You're more than enough amen number four Number four. I got about 16 minutes here
[00:51:02] You ever been wounded before gosh, I have oh, that's no fun oh that's no fun it's oh and it hurts oh oh you don't want to move you don't want to leave the house you just oh it's so painful you got to learn how to bring the wound into the light
[00:51:23] not into shame you remember when Adam and Eve uh sinned in the garden and they realized what they did and their eyes were open and they were they realized they were naked and the bible says they
[00:51:39] hid themselves because they were ashamed. There's a tendency when you've been wounded to hide it. Grace heals what shame tries to hide. It's shame that tries to hide it.
[00:52:05] I've been wounded, but I'm not going to tell nobody because if I tell somebody that means I don't have enough faith. And you carry that? You carry that wound? See, what you don't understand is it's gonna come out you just don't quite know when it's gonna come out it may come out in the
[00:52:25] marriage it may come out at work somebody might it's a trigger somewhere that can cause that wound to come out because you won't deal with it because it's been in hiding all it needs is a trigger
[00:52:35] what is that trigger that's going to cause something you thought was dealt with you thought it wasn't no problem and then somebody pulled that trigger and all that stuff came out your wife said something to you and you don't know where that stuff all that stuff came out where did it come
[00:52:49] from? A wound that you've been carrying for 40 years, 50 years, 60 years. You've been carrying that wound. It's been in hiding. Then you wanted to keep it in hiding because it was accompanied with much shame and shame will keep the wound in hiding. See, I don't have time to write sermons
[00:53:19] and saying if they're going to shout after this one, if they're going to shout. We've been shouting so long we ain't been hearing nothing we shout we dance we go home how was church today oh it was
[00:53:33] good what did the preacher talk about he talked about and isn't that sad you can't even tell

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[00:53:39] what he talked about it didn't even last long enough to get in the house what kind of failure

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[00:53:48] is that how can i grow when i don't even remember what was taught oh because i was so busy wanting to have church I wanted to do church but I still don't know how to do life and this gospel of grace
[00:54:07] is for living it's for life it's not for entertainment and cartwheels so you can do church and then go out and your your mind is still not putting on the finished works of Jesus I didn't want to stand before God I didn't want to have to stand before God and and he pulls some
[00:54:32] the world changes up and said tell me what y'all learned um we learned how to praise him and and god like a hundred years and you all that's the only thing you learn grab low come here front and center lord i so how do i deal with this wound instead of hiding it

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[00:55:00] you know you will be shocked at the secrets that sit in this holy tabernacle the stuff that people walked in here hiding and there's so much shame that you already have from the hidden wound

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[00:55:21] the last thing you need for a pastor to do is out of his own wound that he's hiding to wound you even more by shaming you even more because you can't you can't lead people when you're injured
[00:55:37] because you're just going to injure the people when i first got in the ministry all i did was I should have called my instead of world changes I should have called it injury ministry because I
[00:55:53] had so much hurt and pain and unresolved trauma I would ask God all the time are you sure you got the right dude my motivation now the thing that motivates me the thing that even puts screaming
[00:56:10] in my voice is because I so want you to get it I want you to come out of hiding I want your wounds to be healed and they can't be healed if you're protecting them in shame instead of casting them

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[00:56:24] and changing ownership over on the Lord. So I didn't ask myself, oh, this sermon is going to get you to do cartwheels. Oh, this sermon is going to tear the church up. I'd rather not.

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[00:56:37] I want you to go home and I want you to change. And if you can't find nobody you can trust to talk to at least go to God and say Lord I got some stuff I want to talk to you about I've been
[00:56:55] carrying this care of rejection all my life and all my life I just thought I was just nothing because by this they cast your care on him so talk to him and I understand why you just can't
[00:57:08] talk to anybody where aren't they Christians what does what that mean don't they go to church what that mean I understand it might be good for you to start out talking to God first being vulnerable
[00:57:20] with god and then being vulnerable with yourself and then maybe you'll be ready for the third level of vulnerability with a trusted friend that provides a safe place for your secret james chapter 5 and 16 says something pretty amazing because what happens is ladies and
[00:57:43] gentlemen you you want and listen when you choose who you're going to talk to it's got to be a a mature believer or a counselor who is held by the statutes of confidentiality or a trusted
[00:57:56] friend. But the last thing you want to do is get involved in isolation. Isolation is the soil where lust and resentment and regret grows stronger. In fact, it grows its strongest in the soil of
[00:58:13] isolation. So is that your plan? Is isolation your plan? Because if isolation is your plan, lust is going to grow strongest. It's going to be its strongest in isolation.
[00:58:27] Resentment is going to be at its strongest in isolation. Regret is going to be at its strongest in isolation. I love what James 5, 16 says. He gives us a little hint here. He says,
[00:58:39] confess your faults one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much i love the the uh the mirror translation he starts off in the mirror translation he says do not tolerate vibes i'm like oh did you just
[00:59:03] say that yeah you know you get around somebody you say oh i get a bad vibe from them don't tolerate the vibes girl if you have wrong somewhere someone talk to him about it pray for each other
[00:59:19] to maintain a healthy fellowship righteousness is the fuel of that effective prayer don't sit around with the elephant in the room you carrying that care that's why i say sometimes it's really good for you to handle a lot of this between you and the father you really do i mean god god gives some

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[00:59:44] excellent advice there just may be certain things you don't want that person to know he's there but

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[00:59:54] you got to see him as real. You can't see him as the object of religion. You got to see him as my unseen partner. He walks with me every day. He talks with me every day. I talk with him every
[01:00:06] day. I don't know what it would be like to wake up in the morning and throughout the day and not have somebody to talk to. I always have somebody to talk to. He's always there. He's never going
[01:00:20] to leave me. And this is where your relationship with God becomes organic because you're not just talking to him out of a religious obligation you're you really believe in this unseen partner and you you get up and do things like good morning I have to watch myself I'm like how you doing it's
[01:00:40] like well you God I know you're all good up there and I ask question I get immediate answers I misplace things I say Lord show me where it is he shows me exactly where it is sometimes I forget
[01:00:56] words and I'm like Lord what is that and it comes to my mind he's real I don't even understand how somebody say he ain't real he is so real and he is so wanting to walk with you every single day
[01:01:05] if you're a young person or even an older person let me just not say that if you're any person and you deal with uh walking in a situation of lust and and and you're you're not quite strong
[01:01:20] in that area and you and you you get that call and you're getting ready to go somewhere and it's it's always pretty kind of pressured and and and and and you you say lord you're able to keep me
[01:01:30] from falling thank you and do you know God will throw a wrench in that plan that you got the one you had that you had on the inside but you don't want to admit you had and he'll he'll
[01:01:44] throw a wrench in it they have an argument they'll spring an ankle they just ain't gonna feel good they got a nasty cough you ain't trying to kiss nobody with no nasty cough he is able oh that's
[01:02:05] baptist came out of me to keep you from falling if you see him as real healing accelerates when we stop hiding reveal yourself to him number five forgive even when it still hurts what some people
[01:02:35] do they don't forgive until the pain ceases forgive forgive even when it still hurts forgive even when it still hurts. How many of you have situations even today it still hurts but you have forgiven? See forgiveness isn't saying it's okay. When you forgive you're releasing the debt so it
[01:03:00] can stop owning you. So I'm forgiving you. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not saying what you did to me and what you said to me was okay. Own it no more. I'm casting this over on the Lord. Some people
[01:03:20] think forgiveness means I forgive you so you have access to me and we can continue on uh-uh you showed me something give you but you don't have the same access to me as you used to have I forgive
[01:03:34] you because I'm not going to own this and I see you now but I'm not going to own this in fact let's let's let's let's pray this little prayer some of y'all still got but you ain't got to raise your
[01:03:52] hand uh say this out loud father i release them not because they deserve it but because you released me because you do some stupid stuff too and god released you and and i can't say you know that
[01:04:17] relationship may grow to be better than what it ever was and that's what god wants reconciliation but don't don't just jump right back because you misunderstand forgiveness and it's kind of like The saved people want to tell the saved woman all the stuff she need to do. She need to go on her own journey
[01:04:39] It's all right to get some advice, but you know how it happened to you may not be how it's happening to her She'll figure it out That's what i've learned how to do I started to say i'd be i'm wanting things
[01:04:54] more passionately than other people And i'm like if I can't want it more than you You got to want it. That's the way that scripture is. Do you have a cell phone?
[01:05:11] Do you have siri?
[01:05:12] Ask her do some work and living folks. I'm not about religious playtime. I'm talking about living every day I'm talking about when you get up in the morning You got to go to work and when you have to encounter people that are not believing like you believe you got to encounter
[01:05:33] People that are just just mean and hateful and and hurt their pain. They they got a lot of pain They got a lot of trouble in their life They're not gonna tell you but the way people read the reason people act the way they act is because the unresolved
[01:05:45] Issues in their life they slander you they're unforgiving they're mean they try to do I was online on the grace gang last week and there was this guy came in he was dropping f-bombs every every f-bombs and Taffy she was on there with me she said oh
[01:06:02] you got some mean people on your tiktok page I said no they're just they got hurt it changes my whole way of dealing with people there there's something wrong because there's something unresolved. There's a care that hasn't been cast. They're not bad people. They're hurt.
[01:06:31] They've been rejected. They don't know God. They were only trained in self-preservation, not God preservation. They don't know mama and daddy left. They had to raise themselves.
[01:06:46] They had a fear of security. I don't know where I'm going to stay from one day after the next day.
[01:06:51] even you don't know what that's why empathy is so important that we can be empathetic when we see people instead of just so judgmental when we see people and wonder what they had to go through
[01:07:00] in order to turn out like that and I wonder if I have a supply that can kind of help them in the situation that they're in y'all got to recognize what kind of time we're living in right now
[01:07:11] it's crazy and it's gonna get more crazier but for those who have their heart filled with grace the bible said it is good for your heart to be filled with grace and you get hungry for god
[01:07:25] you get hungry for his word and coming to church is not just well i'm gonna give you our lord and after that i got to go i gotta do what i need to do you got to make this thing so so vital so
[01:07:35] the number one value in your life is i gotta come to church i gotta get fed i gotta i gotta i gotta get that word i gotta practice that presence i it's the most important thing in my life because
[01:07:45] I know if that happens then everything else happens like it needs to happen and I'm no longer coming to church out of religious obligation or religious duty I'm doing it because I'm hungry for you Jesus I'm doing it because I love you I'm doing it father because
[01:08:00] I want I want out of my heart for this thing to work and here's the real truth about wanting it because you want it to work the real truth is he's already done everything for it to work you
[01:08:13] just ain't put it on yet you still keep putting on the rules to try to get it to work renewing the mind is not let me renew my mind up to the place where I can get it to work renewing the
[01:08:23] mind is let me put on what's finished let me get up every morning and say I have Jesus identity I am righteous I am forgiven I'm not renewing my mind to come up to that I'm renewing my mind to
[01:08:33] go ahead and put that on every day how you know when you're growing let's see how quick you put it on put on the finish quickly put it on quickly we'll talk about that later i got a series on
[01:08:46] renewing the mind because you think through my education i come to to to to deserve these things now that my mind is renewed no you got to say jesus already did these things let me go ahead
[01:08:59] and renew my mind to start putting on the finished instead of the performance hmm oh what we talking about? I got lost. I'm like, where we at? Where we at? Huh? All right, number six real
[01:09:32] quick. We got to finish up. Number six real quick. Just listen to it. Here it is. You got to build replacement rhythms, all right? Not just resistance, okay? I'm resisting this thing. No, you got to
[01:09:42] build a replacement rhythm. Freedom isn't just saying no. It's filling your life with a whole bunch of better yeses. What are some better yeses? Okay. Replacing care with yes to daily scripture and reflection. Replacing that care with worship when anxiety rises. Replacing that
[01:10:09] care with physical movement and exercise. Replacing that care with sleep and boundaries with your cell phone screens, replacing that care with purposeful service to other people instead of just with yourself, replacing that care with internet filters
[01:10:27] or accountability if lust is triggering you, replacing that care by removing those triggers and building nourishing habits.
[01:10:37] It's replacement, building a replacement rhythm and not just resistance.
[01:10:43] And then finally, and this is the most important one in my opinion to cast this care you got to let the Holy Spirit lead not your past the Holy Spirit's got to lead you not your past see regret tries to chain chain you chain you to yesterday your regret
[01:11:06] wants to chain you to your yesterdays but grace invites you in today grace wants you to come in today he don't want you to look at yourself based on what your past tells you who you are he wants
[01:11:19] you to look at yourself based on what grace and what jesus has said hallelujah let's say this together it's a prayer and then i'm gonna let you go home y'all did good today i'm proud of you you
[01:11:35] sat down you just you listened you nodded just a little bit go to bed a little earlier i love this place in fact stand to your feet don't get you on out of here now i just said stand up people like
[01:11:53] it's our time to go let's get on out of here right now come on we ain't got time come on and be that traffic. All right, say this out loud with me. Father, I cast the weight of rejection,
[01:12:07] hurt, lust, and regret onto you. I receive your love. I receive your forgiveness.
[01:12:20] I receive your acceptance. Help me to renew my mind with the word of grace.
[01:12:30] Heal what I cannot fix Fill me with your spirit And anchor me in your peace I walk free Not by my strength But by your grace And now unto him Final blessing Give yourselves a big hand
[01:12:59] Final blessing Lift your hands up and receive this Now unto him No, no, no, no, no I want to bless you.
[01:13:12] Y'all ready, though.
[01:13:13] Whatever we got to say.
[01:13:14] Whatever we got.
[01:13:15] Father, I thank you by your spirit of grace that is available in this place.
[01:13:26] That by the grace of God, the angels of God watch over every family.
[01:13:31] Lest they dash their foot against the stone.
[01:13:34] I pray that wisdom will flow in abundance this week.
[01:13:39] That every person will know what to do when they don't know what to do.
[01:13:43] I pray for divine protection over every life I pray in the name of Jesus that you will open doors That would not open before but now they are open because you give grace to the humble
[01:14:00] and now unto him Who is able to keep us from falling?
[01:14:06] And to present us faultless before the almighty god be glory majesty dominion and power both now and forevermore be blessed this week every day of this week and in all of your sleep be blessed in Jesus name God bless you have an amazing day today for a long time I did not

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[01:14:35] realize what I was doing I just knew I worked hard I said yes a lot and I kept going I didn't name it as pressure I called it love I didn't know I had internalized all of that I just thought
[01:14:47] this was normal. This gathering isn't about blame or guilt. It is about awareness, about noticing the weight that we've been carrying quietly and realizing it doesn't have to be this way.
[01:14:59] If this sounds familiar, this is your invitation to pause, reflect, and awaken together.

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[01:15:08] If this stirred something in you, don't delay it. Moments of clarity don't last forever and neither do open seats register now for from ashes to awakening not because you're rushed but because you're ready there is room for you but the time is now good afternoon everybody and happy sunday

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[01:15:33] we appreciate y'all so much for joining us for service it was a good service it was a great

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[01:15:37] service i'm curious to find out what they got from service drop what you got in the chat for us

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[01:15:42] definitely so tell us what nugget did you get from service i had several nuggets it was a chicken

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[01:15:47] nugget meal you know what i mean like it was so many that i got but one of the main things that i thought of towards the end of service pastor was talking about being injured and kind of
[01:15:55] ministering through the from the pulpit injured and i just can't help but think about myself like how many times i was hurt or wounded but had pride and was like oh i'm good i'm good and in the
[01:16:05] natural when we're hurt you get a cut you address the wound you change the band-aid you put peroxide alcohol you disinfect it you do all the things in the natural and just thinking about spiritually
[01:16:15] casting the cares is how we attend to the wound. We allow the Holy Spirit to get in there to clean out whatever is inside of us that may be hurting or harmful to others. So that was my biggest

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[01:16:25] takeaway. What was yours? Yeah, I love that. No, that's a good nugget there. And mine was towards the beginning of service. And I like when he read, I think it was in the New Living Translation or
[01:16:32] something like that. But it was the verse in 1 Peter where he talked about take immediate action when it comes to distractions and cares. Cast all your cares on God. The Lord has our best
[01:16:43] interest. I thought that was like, like amazing. You know what I'm saying? Because it was really just self-explanatory and really just kind of broke down exactly what you're supposed to do, you know? So definitely that. So then we also want to encourage you guys to participate in giving.

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[01:16:57] So yes, it's our favorite part of service. We're not going to reinvent the wheel. I'm going to share the same scripture that we always share because it's so good. And that is 2 Corinthians 9 and 11. And the New Living Translation says, you will be enriched in every way so that you
[01:17:10] can always be generous and when you take your gifts to those who need them most um that's a a way to thank god so i think in the natural also we're talking about in the natural and in the
[01:17:20] spiritual just being able to thank him physically for all he's done spiritually yeah you know just

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[01:17:25] it's just a transfer of course yeah and then we also want to share the ways you guys can give so ways you guys can give is text world changers all one word and leave a space and add your amount
[01:17:35] to 74483. You can also call us here at the church at 866-477-7683. Then you can also mail it to us here at the church as well, 2500 Burdette Road, College Park, Georgia, 30349. And then you can
[01:17:51] also give online on the websites at worldchanges.org or Creflo Dollar Ministries. So we have some

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[01:17:57] announcements coming up. So many things happening. You all saw the radical video that played, but we also just want to take a moment and thank the ladies we had a virtual service on friday it was
[01:18:07] a virtual fellowship and we were talking about self-love you know february's love month everybody want to be loved valentine's all the things but it was really good to just be able to spend time with you all our virtual guests our e-members as we call you grace gang so to spend time with them
[01:18:21] online was amazing and for those of you that want to come kick it with us in person come see us in march we have so many wonderful things planned there's a pajama party for those that do vip
[01:18:31] There's, you know, regular itineraries you're going to get so much.
[01:18:34] We have Dr. Octavia Roberts, our own women's director, Shardé Orr, Pastor Alyssa.
[01:18:40] We have so many people.
[01:18:41] Chris Lemming, our own Pastor Taffy, and Dr. Dollar.
[01:18:43] There's so many people that you're going to get in the seat and be poured into from.
[01:18:47] You just don't want to miss it.

[01:18:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:18:48] That sounds good.
[01:18:49] Sounds like it's going to be a good one.

[01:18:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:18:50] Yeah, so go ahead.
[01:18:51] Sign up, sign up, sign up, sign up.
[01:18:52] I want to see you in these blue seats with me.

[01:18:54] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:18:54] Absolutely, guys.
[01:18:55] What else we got to read?
[01:18:56] Yeah, so the young adults, this is for you guys, right?
[01:18:58] So attention, young adults.
[01:18:59] Are you guys ready for a shift?
[01:19:01] Shift is a space created for you to grow spiritually, build healthy relationships, and strengthen your faith.
[01:19:07] Our heart is to help adults like you know Jesus personally and also live out your faith authentically.
[01:19:13] We meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the chapel.
[01:19:17] So we definitely encourage y'all to come join us.
[01:19:19] We're both part of Shift.
[01:19:19] We volunteer.
[01:19:21] We've been part of Shift for quite a while now.
[01:19:22] And it's just been every year.
[01:19:25] It's just been awesome.

[01:19:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:19:26] Yeah, I know this isn't a word, but it gets gooder and gooder and better and better.
[01:19:29] You see the same people every week, so you have an opportunity to build community.
[01:19:33] There's some shifters I know watching online right now, so drop it in the chat and let them know what they can look forward to.

[01:19:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:19:38] Yeah, yeah, go and pop out with us.

[01:19:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:19:39] I think our last announcement, there are so many areas to volunteer.
[01:19:43] You volunteer, I volunteer, we have friends that also volunteer.
[01:19:48] We actually have a volunteer fair coming up February the 22nd.
[01:19:53] So you're going to be in the building, it's going to be in the fellowship hall, immediately following service.
[01:19:58] if you're like this church is huge i don't know anyone i want to get to know someone i don't even know where i can serve trust me there is an area or multiple if you're grace for multiple ministries
[01:20:08] for you to volunteer so we want to see you february 22nd immediately following service

[01:20:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:20:12] in the fellowship hall yeah absolutely definitely come serve with us and it's been a great experience i know serving for at shift for the past couple of years has been great and i've enjoyed it so

[01:20:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:20:22] i think the beautiful thing too i know i'm getting a little little long-winded but sometimes you have so many gifts in you and you like how do I where do I Lord show me how to do it a
[01:20:30] lot of the gifts that the Lord has been able to pull out of me I've been fortunate enough to see him pull out when I serve so just think about you know the different areas in your life that you're praying for manifestation
[01:20:39] for you just you want to see God operating and he may just want to use you here in this church of course yeah we gave them a lot of stuff today anything else you want to say before we yeah just want to say a a Super Bowl

[01:20:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:20:49] Sunday so you know enjoy the game eat some good food and have a good time

[01:20:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:20:53] Who are you going for?

[01:20:54] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:20:54] Well, I definitely can't go for the Patriots because I'm a Falcons fan.
[01:20:57] Can't, you know, remember that Super Bowl.
[01:20:59] We're not going to talk about that.
[01:21:00] Okay, okay.
[01:21:00] But that's why I'm going for the Seahawks.
[01:21:02] Okay, all right.

[01:21:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:21:03] As LeBron James said, I'm going for the winner.
[01:21:05] Whoever wins, I pray for you.
[01:21:06] That's my team.
[01:21:07] We love you.
[01:21:08] God bless you.
[01:21:10] And we'll see you next week.

[01:21:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:21:12] It's time.

[01:21:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:21:13] I will travel.

[01:21:14] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:21:14] Coming from New York, I had to be here.
[01:21:17] It's just amazing.
[01:21:18] Every year, I look forward to coming.
[01:21:21] Every year.

[01:21:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:21:22] Get ready to be awakened.
[01:21:23] Rise from the ashes, rise from the ashes, and be who you were made to be.
[01:21:33] Join us for the Radical Women's Conference, March 19th and 20th.
[01:21:37] Two days that will shift your destiny.

[01:21:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:21:40] It feels like one big girl group party.
[01:21:43] It's full of joy, it's full of laughter, it's full of supporting each other.

[01:21:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:21:49] With guest speakers, Octavia Roberts.

[01:21:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:21:51] You have to recognize the power that you have. Your spark is on the inside of you. It's not lost. It's there.

[01:22:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:22:01] Stop waiting on somebody else to validate you through your pity party. You've already been approved.
[01:22:09] I have something different that the God that I know, I don't have to worship Him in order to get something.
[01:22:16] I am worshiping God because everything is already done.
[01:22:20] Alyssa Worrell.
[01:22:21] There's no situation or no circumstance that you cannot overcome.

[01:22:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:22:26] And Creflo Dollar.

[01:22:28] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:22:28] It's one thing for you to know what the scriptures say.
[01:22:32] It's another thing for you to know what God said to you.

[01:22:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:22:35] And bringing the sound that will set the atmosphere on fire.
[01:22:39] Special musical guests Jordan G. Welch and Kiara Sheard.
[01:22:43] Get ready to be awakened from the ashes we rise.
[01:22:48] Register today at TaffyDollar.org.
[01:22:52] It's time for your radical awakening.

[01:22:58] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]
[01:22:58] The Spirit and Grace Tour is coming to a city near you.
[01:23:01] Join Creflo Dollar for an unforgettable night of revelation and empowerment.
[01:23:06] Seats are limited, only 500 per city.
[01:23:09] Don't miss this night of power, grace, and transformation.
[01:23:13] Register now at SpiritandGracetour.com and get ready to be empowered and forever changed.

[01:23:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:23:20] Pastor Todd spoke out of his heart with all the people asking the questions.
[01:23:23] I've never seen that before.

[01:23:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:23:25] He was just chatting with people, and it was really kind of getting to know them and really giving them personalized answers and things like that, and it was really good.
[01:23:32] I used to be saved but walk with my head down.
[01:23:35] But now that I heard the message of grace, I know I'm saved, but now I walk with my head up.

[01:23:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_09]
[01:23:39] Now I understand through grace what peace beyond all understanding actually means.
[01:23:45] it's the teaching that you need it's going to be worth it you're not going to regret it

[01:23:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]
[01:23:50] register now and get ready to be empowered and forever changed