PRAY ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU WORRY| LET GOD INTO IT – Inspirational video
you need a place in your life where you
separate and you isolate yourself a
place that you shut yourself in and you
shut everybody else out you know what
I’m talking about not only do you need a
place where you can build a physical
altar but you need that spot in your
heart that you don’t give to anybody
else it’s the spot that is off-limits to
everybody else it is it is it is a place
that that you say this is just me and
God right here it’s the place where you
don’t let nobody in but God Himself
it’s where the altar is also where you
lay a knife to your fleshly attachments
and you start cutting things out of your
life and you say if I gotta let go of
you in order to have more of him then
just give me the knife cuz I got to cut
this thing out of my life your altar is
a place where you don’t make any
apologies for it I make no apologies for
my altar and I make no exceptions for it
either when you have it all – you defend
it with everything that you have in you
and just for the record let me set the
record straight and you ought to set it
straight – you ought to let people know
right up front just because you are in
my life it doesn’t matter how close we
get you will never get my altar you know
why because if you get my altar then
you’ve got me I’m not saying you can’t
love people I’m not saying you can’t be
good to people
but I am saying that there ought to be
an inner sanctuary when I can’t go to a
place and kneel down there ought to be
an annus sanctuary a place that is
reserved for God alone
he’s got reserved seating in my heart
he’s got reserved seating in my life and
you don’t let anybody sit in the seat
that belongs to God
you don’t let a spouse you don’t let
kids you don’t let friends you don’t let
your mama you don’t let your worries you
don’t let your bills
don’t let anything sit in the seat that
belongs to him you don’t let anything
get in that place
because it is that place where God
restores you it’s there where he renews
you it’s there where he preserves you
and it’s there where he stabilizes you I
am and you are who you are simply
because of that place you are who you
are and I am Who I am because of my
altar and if I give up my altar I can’t
be the woman that I need to be you can’t
be the man that you need to be I can’t
be the friend I can’t be the leader I
can’t be anybody that I need to be if I
don’t have an altar because here’s why
if I lose my altar I lose my convictions
I lose my consecration I let my
standards fall and I see her my
conscious and then I might become
somebody that you don’t even know as a
matter of fact you might not even be
able to recognize me if I lose my alter
and that is why I got to keep my alter
look at somebody and tell him you can’t
have my alter you gotta have a place
where you just say God I give it to you
that is my alter my altar is where my
life changes it’s where not Lee it’s
where I wrestled down my desires it’s
where I decrease and God increases it is
where the turning of the soul takes
place under the Oh Lord do I lift up my
soul what is your soul you will your
intellect and your emotions your alter
will help you wrestle down the old man
and allow the new man to come to life we
need our alter God will give you answers
at your altar look at somebody and ask
them have you prayed about it he will
give you answers at the altar he’ll give
you direction at the altar he’ll give
you strategies and you’ll find a way to
figure it out and put it all together at
the altar he’ll give you counsel at the
altar he’ll give you hope when you are
at the altar and
thing well anchor you nothing will save
you nothing will hold your steadfast
unmovable like having an altar in your
life when I have been through the fire
and I’ve been through the storm if I
have an altar in my life I can say winds
go ahead and blow but when it is all
said and done I’m go still go that
direction because that’s the direction
that God has assigned me to go have you
ever had hope just ripped out of your
hands I thought that things would be one
way but one phone call one incident and
now all of a sudden all of my faith has
been stripped away I never thought that
I would be the one going through a
divorce I thought that we wouldn’t make
it to the long haul but my faith got
stripped away I never thought that I
would be the one who didn’t know how I
was going to make ends meet but for some
reason my faith got stripped away when
we find Peter in this text his faith has
been stripped away and when your faith
is stripped away it changes how you see
the world it changes how you engage and
how you interact there are people in
this room who have it really felt like
themselves in such a very long time and
if we retrace your steps and retrace
your history we would find that it was
all because of one incident that changed
the way you saw everything
I witnessed something and I saw the
worst of people and when I saw the worst
of people it made me stop believing in
the best of them and so now I’ve become
a cynic disconnected from hope and every
time I close my eyes at night I remember
that person I used to be but as I was
praying and I was pressing again I felt
like God was saying that everything must
go that everything that is not
profitable that everything that has no
no value for what he wants to do in our
life has to go that maybe just maybe as
we filtered through our lives and we
filtered through our memories and our
emotions we will recognize that we
picked up some habits and some patterns
and some thoughts that we shouldn’t have
and we’re out of season right now where
I can’t go to the next unless I clean
out back there sometimes God just moves
on you and it’s not that he’s lost it’s
not that you did anything wrong it’s him
saying everything must go so that
everything can grow if I don’t move from
where you’re used to seeing me then
you’ll become one of those complacent
churchgoers and I called you to be a
kingdom agent in this world so I’m
constantly expanding your capacity I’m
trying to see how hungry you are to hear
from me I’m trying to see how desperate
you are to get a word from me so I’m not
saying Within Reach I’m trying to
stretch you into the next dimension
I know you’re used to walking with me
but can you person and show me that you
have taken in what you used to want to
take for granted
I hear guys saying this in you I hear
guys saying that you are depending on
faith in one arena that you thought your
help came from a job not recognizing
that he’s gonna be your provider so I
struck the drop away so that you can see
man didn’t have to write you a check
that I would make a way for you to make
it anyway I’m your God saying I had the
most some people out of your life
because you were beginning worship him
and some things away so that I could
grow and increase inside of you
everything must go everything must go I
won’t be satisfied with this message
until you leave here desperate to clear
out anything that’s taking up
unprofitable space down on the inside of
you anytime a negative thought starts
rising up until you say everything must
go got to renew my mind and give me a
mind like Christ I can’t afford to have
this thinking thinking any longer I’m
trying to press towards the mark and I
can’t do it thinking like the same girl
I used to be everything’s gotta go
everything’s gotta go and I just want
you to know because some of you got so
many issues rising to the surface right
now that you’re ready to give up so many
memories
and thoughts rising to the surface but
what I love about this is if Peter gets
this out of his system this denial out
of the way one time he never has to be
the person who denied Jesus again that
if I confront what’s in me then it makes
space for what’s on me to reach its
fullest potential and I know that some
of our families and some of us are more
comfortable when we don’t let those
issues rise to the surface because we
want to avoid conflict but as long as it
exists within you then you are
conflicted and divided and we have to be
united if we want to be powerful in the
kingdom because there’s enough outside
that’s willing to divide us that we
can’t go into it already divided within
ourselves and so Jesus says I see
potential in you where I can build my
church on you but first you have to deny
me so that you know what’s in you
there are some things that you won’t
even realize are in you until you’re
placed in situations that bring it out
of you
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