I Didn't Know I Could Do That // The Blueprint with Dr. Dharius Daniels

What's up, family? Welcome to the Blueprint Bible Study, and I hope you're doing absolutely amazing. We believe there are three ways you can live your life. Cultur's way, church's way, and the King's Way. The King's Way is the third way, and the blueprint is a third way Bible study cuz we believe the Bible is the blueprint to God's best, and we're incredibly excited about all that God is doing.

Well, we're currently in a series on the book of Ephesians called Identity Theft. But on this week, particularly if you're watching this live, it is the week after Easter. And so we had a marathon during the Easter weekend and we are taking this week to reset and to recover.

And so we'll be back next week with a continuation of our series in Ephesians. But I wanted to make sure that you were properly nourished spiritually. And so you're about to watch a message that I actually taught in Chicago, Illinois. It was actually on Holy Week and the message is a message that I didn't get to include in a prayerology series that we were doing at Change Church on Sundays.

The message is called I didn't know I could do that. You're about to get some third way teaching and I believe it's going to add value to your life. All right, take care. God bless. I used to come to Chicago for years to the west side. What side is this? >> This west side. >> Oh, this south side.

Okay. Yeah. My uncle pastored for like almost 40 years on the west side of Chicago. I think it's West Roosevelt Road, the United Baptist Church. Yeah. Reverend Wilson Daniels. That's just preach my second sermon of my life at that church. Uh used to come every year for November for family day.

And um so I feel a unique sort of kinship to this city in many ways. It has contributed greatly to my ministry and spiritual formation and honored to be here on this Jesus week. There is a small snippet of scripture I want to read from the book of Matthew chapter 14 beginning at verse 25.

And it reads like this. Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. It's a ghost, they said. And they cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them, "Take courage. It is I.

Don't be afraid. Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell me to come to you on the water. >> Come, he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on water, and came toward Jesus. >> Then Peter got down out of the boat, >> walked on water, >> and came toward Jesus. >> Then Peter >> got down out of the boat, >> walked on water, >> and came toward Jesus.

Then Peter >> got down out of the boat. He walked on the water and then he came >> toward Jesus. I want to stop the reading of scripture there and tag this title this text in our time together. Family, I didn't know I could do that. Clap your hands if you're ready for God's word.

Everybody, I didn't I didn't know I didn't know I could do that. This week is dubbed and designated on the Christian lurggical calendar as holy or what some would call passion week. And it is a week of historical reflection on Christ's passion for us. And it should be a week of personal renewal of our passion for him. >> And the focus of this week is often skewed on the ministry of Jesus.

And this is imperative. This is important. It's appropriate. We need to commemorate and celebrate his ministry. >> We need to be reminded of his ministry, renewed by his ministry, realigned with his ministry. However, I'd like to argue that although it is important to remember the ministry of Jesus, it is equally important >> to remember the makeup of Jesus. >> In other words, I'm simply suggesting that he could not do what he did >> if he wasn't who he was.

The ministry >> flows >> from the makeup. So if his ministry flows from his makeup, if his makeup makes ministry possible, this means if we miss his makeup, >> we actually miss part of his ministry. So then there's a question we need we need to try to ask and to answer in our time together tonight.

And the question is simply this. What is his makeup? >> And I want to argue for the benefit of brevity. Jesus is not just a man of God. >> Jesus is God who became a man. It it is it is it is what some in academic theological circles would call the incarnation. >> John writes about it when John says in the beginning >> was the word. >> Is that what he says? >> And John says and the word >> was God. >> The word was with God.

So he was God and with God at the same time. >> Is that what he says? >> And then THE WORD THAT WAS God and the word that was with God became flesh. >> So the word, the logos, the reason, THE RATIONALE, THE THOUGHTS OF GOD WAS GOD AND WAS WITH GOD AND BECAME FLESH.

IT IS THE INCARNATION. IT IS THIS coexistence of two realities in THE SAME PERSON WITHOUT INTERMINGLING. >> IT'S IT'S CALLED THE HYPOSATIC UNION. HE'S HE'S NOT HALF God and half man. >> He's all God >> and all man. THE WORD BECAME FLESH. SEE, JUST because I became doesn't mean I stopped being.

And when he became flesh, WE BEHELD HIS GLORY. >> THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER FULL of grace and truth. >> Yes, sir. >> God >> became a man. That's it. >> That's it. >> Not to show you and I how to become God. >> God became a human >> to show you how to be a human. >> Did you hear what I just said?

God did not become a human to show humans how to become a God. God became a human to show humans how to be a human. God doesn't want any more gods. Creating more gods were was never God's intent. In the Garden of Eden, he was not after more gods.

In the Garden of Eden, he was after a human. But the enemy did in the Garden then, which is what he's trying to do now, is to influence humans, not to be humans, but to INFLUENCE HUMANS TO TRY TO BE GOD. And you weren't built to be God.

You don't know enough to be God. YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE GOD. And when you start talk taking on God weight and trying to control outcomes and trying to change people and trying to rearrange everything, then your body and YOUR SOUL BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN as a signal that you've assumed responsibility that your shoulders are not wide enough to carry.

Give somebody a high five and tell them you're doing too much. >> Yeah, you're doing too much. You can't change everybody. You're doing too much. You can't be everywhere at the same time. You're doing too much. God is the only one that is omnipresent. You're doing too much.

You can be where you can be. YOU GOT WHAT YOU GOT. YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU can do. God did not become a human >> to show humans how to be a God. >> God became a human to show humans how to be a human. >> So we must redeem AND RECLAIM OUR THEOLOGY OF HUMANNESS.

And when an individual doesn't understand this, they will live their life, watch this, loving the divinity of Jesus, but not learning from the humanity of Jesus. The the the divinity of Jesus shows you what God can do. But the humanity of Jesus shows you what you can do.

The divinity of Jesus saves you from sin, but the humanity of Jesus saves you from settling. Did you hear what I just said? I said, "The divinity of Jesus saves you from sin, but the humanity of Jesus saves you from settling." Because the first Adam was a failed human experience experiment, but the last Adam was a successful human experiment.

And he came as a prototype for you and I so that you and I HAVE A PICTURE AND THE POWER to practice humanity as God intended. I want somebody to just say it so that you can get free from pressure God never designed for you to carry. Say, "I'm a human." >> That means I get tired cuz Jesus took naps.

That means I get frustrated cuz he got frustrated with the disciples. That means I get stressed because he was stressed in the garden of Gethsemane. I'm a human. >> Yes, sir. >> The divinity of Jesus >> gets me to heaven. The humanity of Jesus >> teaches me >> how to live on earth. >> He models for me >> humanity as God intended. >> And unfortunately we have allowed culture >> to co-opt humanness. >> So when I say humanness, some people think humanism. >> Cuz we only having conversations about the divinity of Jesus and not the humanity of Jesus. >> Which is why we are on our way to heaven but settling and suffering and stagnant and stuck and stressed and shook on earth.

See, see, see. It's one thing to be converted. >> It's another thing to see your capacity. >> It's one thing to know you've been forgiven for the past. It's another thing to see you've been unlocked for the future. And I'm simply suggesting that a biblically comprehensive view of salvation should give us a revelation of our redemptive potential.

When I get saved, my potential as a human changes. I don't become something other than human. I become a different kind of human that could do different kind of things than other humans who don't have on the inside of THEM WHAT I GOT ON THE INSIDE OF ME.

HOW can I have all of this power? How can I have all of these principles yet and still be GETTING THE SAME RESULTS AS EVERYBODY ELSE? IT'S because when there's a reductionist view >> of Jesus, >> you have a reductionist view >> of salvation. >> And when you have a reductionist view of salvation, you live a life where you saved, but you settling. >> Are y'all okay?

Is this all right? >> Yeah. Because when you and I get saved, our potential changes. I It's redemptive potential. It is the God-given ability to experience more, endure more, and accomplish more than we could before we were redeemed. There are some things that we can now get a hold of because God got a hold of you and I.

And a powerful picture of what I'm attempting to articulate is seen in this passage pinned by Matthew in Matthew chapter number 14. In Matthew chapter number 14, we see a powerful picture of redemptive potential in action. >> Yeah. Dr. Biano just mentioned this to us. This this text captures Jesus after one of his most notable miracles. >> The miracle where he feeds thousands >> with two fish and five loaves of bread. >> This miracle in itself is a picture of redemptive potential.

Cuz the text says thousands have been listening to teaching for hours and they had nothing to eat. And all one family had was enough to feed them. And the Bible says that they take what they have and they bring it to Jesus. And here's the sequence in Matthew.

Here's the way Matthew sequences this out. He says Jesus took the bread. >> Then he blessed the bread. >> Then he broke the bread. Then he gave the bread. >> That's the sequence Matthew gives us. He say Jesus took the bread. >> Then he blessed the bread. >> Then he broke the bread.

Then he gave the bread. That's the sequence Matthew gives us. Matthew says he took the bread. >> Then he blessed it. >> And after he blessed it, he broke it. >> And then after he broke it, he gave it. >> Okay, y'all missed it. Matthew says Jesus took it and after it got in his hands, he blessed it.

And then after he blessed it, he broke it. But even when he broke it, it was still in his hands. And then after he broke it, he gave it. Y'all missed it. He took it, he blessed it, he broke it, then he gave it. He took it, he blessed it, he broke it, then he gave it.

He took it, he blessed it, he broke it, then he gave it. He didn't break it and then bless it. When it was broken, it was already blessed. Y'all missed it. Before it was broken, it could only feed one family. But after it was broken, it could feed thousands.

And if you are missing where I'm going with this, bread is used in scripture in a number of metaphorical ways. One of the metaphors Jesus uses for bread is the body of Christ. So here we see, WATCH THIS, NOT JUST JESUS TAKING BREAD. >> Jesus took you, >> blessed you, >> broke you, and then distributed you. >> THE BROKENNESS DOESN'T MEAN YOU AREN'T BLESSED.

THE BROKENNESS IS EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED. And he wants to use YOU IN A GREATER WAY, BUT HE HAS TO BREAK YOU TO DISTRIBUTE YOU. And am I talking to anybody that's honest enough to admit I've been through some breaking? He broke some pride. He broke some ego.

He broke some mindsets. He broke some perspectives. But now I'm multiplied in ways that I was not multiplied. My joy is multiplied. My peace is multiplied. My focus is multiplied because he took me. He blessed me. He broke me, then he gave me. The bread was limited in its potential until it got in the hands of Jesus. >> Text says after immediately >> is what Matthew says. >> Somebody say immediately.

Immediately. >> Come on, say it again. Say, immediately. >> Immediately. >> Immediately after this miracle, he tells them, >> "I want y'all to get on the boat >> and I want y'all to go ahead of me." >> Now, I don't have time to bother this. But >> I want you to see what happens.

Now, >> the text says, He dismisses the crowd >> and then sends the disciples. >> That's what Matthew says. >> He dismisses the crowd >> and then sends the disciples. >> He dismisses the crowd. I don't know where y'all going. Y'all just go. >> But then he he sends the disciples.

Dismisses the crowd. Say, "I don't know if y'all going home. I don't I I fed you spiritually and naturally. May the Lord watch >> between me and thee >> while we're absent one from another. He >> But he puts the disciples in the boat. He sends them. See, >> this is a powerful picture >> of a principle some people need to put into practice >> if they're going to reach their redemptive potential >> cuz some people can't go >> cuz you won't send. >> I'mma say that again.

Yeah, >> he dismissed the crowd. >> And the text says he sent the disciples >> and he went to pray >> and some people can't go. >> Cuz they won't send. >> I'm going to say it one more time. He dismissed the crowd and then sent the disciples >> and he said, "I'm not going with either of y'all. >> I'm going to pray." cuz some people can't go >> because they don't know who to send. >> It's like Jesus is saying, "In order for me to be good to you, they're going to cross some seasons where I need distance from you. >> I need a minute.

I've been teaching all day. I need a minute. I just took this bread and performed a miracle. I need a minute." Watch this. Sometimes we need to recognize our assignment requires replenishment. >> And there are people who don't reach their potential not because they don't have the ability.

They don't reach their potential because they don't have the energy. >> And Jesus understands the danger of excessive activity. And he refuses to be imprisoned by the overwhelming and unrealistic expectations from people. and and he refuses to accommodate people's preferences emotionally because he knows that robs him of the energy he needs for his assignment practically.

He demonstrates a powerful principle that sometimes I got to put distance between us now so I can help you later. I'M A HUMAN AND I NEED A MINUTE. >> I'm a human. I >> I need a minute. I need a minute to catch my breath. I need a minute to talk to God.

I need a minute to regulate my nervous system. I need a minute to realign, realign, and rethink. I need a minute. I know you want me to be on the boat with you, but there's a difference between your preferences and your needs. And when your preferences get confused with your needs, then what you end up doing is you end up overextending yourself in the name of assisting people.

But what you're really doing is enabling people. And enabling people is spiritual deformationation because it produces codependency instead of dependency on God. So you just want me in the boat with you cuz it feel better. >> Cuz you're more comfortable with me in the boat because you have not matured enough to operate in isolation for a temporary period of time.

I'm a human >> and I'mma get back to you in a minute. >> Is anybody getting set free tonight? >> I'mma call you back >> in a minute. Yes, sir. >> Text says >> they're on the boat. Matthew doesn't give us detail. >> So, I don't know if this is a sailboat, rowboat.

I just know they're on the boat. Now, Matthew says that when they're dismissed, it's evening. >> And then he says shortly before dawn. >> The disciples are on the boat >> on the sea >> dealing with what's called a squall, this unexpected storm. and they see something >> walking >> on the water. >> It was shortly before dawn >> when they dismissed him. >> When he dismissed him. >> I mean, it was evening when they dismissed.

Shortly before dawn when they see him walking. >> Don't miss this now. this part this this part of the sermon. >> Please don't miss this. When they see a figure walking, >> the text says they say it's a ghost. >> They say it's a ghost. Now, I don't have time bothered, but listen.

How have you been eating with him, >> walking with him, >> learning from him, spending time with him, and can't recognize him? >> You sitting under all this teaching and you still believe in ghosts. They have been walking with him, talking with him, learning from him. >> And they say it's a ghost. >> And Jesus has to say, "No, it's I." >> Here's something to consider. >> God doesn't always initially look like God >> when you in a storm. >> Did you hear what I just said?

The emotional intoxication from a storm impacts your ability to perceive properly. So, you start seeing stuff that isn't even there. Did you hear what I just said? I said the emotional intoxication, fear and anxiousness and stress and worry impacts our perception. It actually hijacks the logical part of the brain.

And so as a result of that, we're not perceiving properly. Therefore, God doesn't look like God in a storm. >> This is why we got to be careful prematurely >> labeling stuff. while you in the middle of it. Cuz in the middle of it, you may call it a ghost, BUT AFTER GOD GET THROUGH, you'll say, "That was God."

In the middle of it, you may say, "This is rejection." But when God get through, you'll say that was protection. In the middle of it, you'll say, "That was a closed door." BUT WHEN GOD GETS THROUGH, YOU'LL SAY, "THAT WAS AN OPEN DOOR." IS THERE ANYBODY IN the room that can look BACK OVER YOUR LIFE AND SEE STUFF YOU WERE CRYING ABOUT THEN, BUT YOU'RE PRAISING about now?

Take about 17 SECONDS AND PRAISE HIM FOR what you used to be mad about. I was mad about it then, but that was God. I was crying, but that was God. I was mad, but that was God. I was confused, but that was God. I was in pain, but that was God.

And when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's DONE FOR ME, MY SOUL CRIES OUT, "HALLELUJAH. >> Here it is. >> Here it is." >> Peter says, "I'm almost done. I got seven minutes. Y'all good? PETER SAYS, "LORD, if it's you, >> did y'all hear what I just said?" >> Okay, they Okay, they they don't they don't believe me.

Give me, give me verse 27. Give me verse 27. Give me verse 27. >> Uh uh. Give me verse 26. In verse 26, when the disciples saw him, it is a ghost. >> They said, >> is that text? >> Okay. Now give me verse 28. >> Lord, if it's you, Peter replied. >> All right, give me verse 26 again.

They said >> verse 28, >> Peter replied, >> they all thought >> it was a ghost, >> but Peter was the only one, >> bold enough, >> audacious enough, >> to speak up. >> This speaks to something >> that that continues this conversation about redemptive potential. the same impulsiveness >> that is a liability. >> Okay, I'm talking about Peter now. >> Let's let's at least be intellectually honest, right?

And just say at best he's impulsive. I'm talking about you cutting off people. >> It means he moves quickly. >> He's decisive, >> he stand on it. >> So that same impulsivity >> that we would call a liability in one season is the same sort of impulsivity or decisiveness that's a asset in another one. >> This is powerful.

See, this is why this humanology conversation is important because we conflate and we confuse what Paul calls the flesh >> with humanity. >> And they're not the same thing. When he uses the WORD FLESH, HE'S NOT TALKING about your humanness. He's talking about a nature >> that influences the way you behave, think, and act as a human. >> He's talking about a nature that is fighting for for the influence of your humanity. >> So when you don't understand that, >> you will try to change traits >> because you think the trait is a reflection of the flesh. when actually the trait is A GIFT >> THAT GOD has given you as A HUMAN THAT HAS BEEN MISMANAGED in previous seasons and God doesn't want to remove it from you.

He wants to redeem it cuz he wants TO SHOW YOU HOW TO USE IT. Y'ALL AREN'T talking to me. So some people that are just bold AND THEY SAY WHAT THEY THINK. When people get into RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTS THAT DON'T HAVE A HEALTHY HUMANOLOGY, THEY WILL TELL THOSE PEOPLE, "YOU NEED TO BE QUIET AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE SO BOLD."

WHEN GOD DOES NOT WANT TO REMOVE THAT, he wants to redeem THAT AND SHOW THEM HOW TO USE THAT. You notice Don Thomas didn't say a word, did he? Peter said, >> "Lord, >> if it's you, >> tell me." >> Listen to the request. Now, >> to come to you, >> the request isn't to walk on water.

He's not trying to sanctify unbridled ambition. >> And so many of the saints just want to walk on water. >> Yeah. >> I want to be seen walking on water. I want to be known FOR WALKING ON WATER. I want people to repulse me walking on water. And Peter wasn't even TRYING TO WALK ON WATER.

PETER WAS TRYING TO GET TO JESUS. >> He says, "I'm trying to get to you because the storm is hitting this boat and IT IS SAFER WHERE YOU ARE THAN IT IS WHERE I AM. I'm trying to get with you. >> The only reason I'm with them. >> It's cuz you picked them. >> AS FAR AS I KNOW, IT WAS ME, JAMES, AND JOHN.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE OTHER NINE came from. I'M NOT HERE FOR THEM. ARE Y'ALL OKAY? I LOVE THEM, BUT I AM NOT HERE FOR THEM. I'M WITH YOU. Am I talking to anybody in this place? >> I'm just trying to get to Jesus. >> I'm not trying to walk on water.

I'm just trying to get to Jesus. >> Notice the text. >> Jesus says one word. >> He says, "Come. Then Peter >> got down out of the boat. >> He didn't go >> until he got a come. >> And there's some people that go when they didn't get a come, then they drown >> and now you're mad at God.

I didn't tell you to. >> He said, "I I told I told them to quit their job. I didn't tell you to >> Isn't that what Pharaoh did? >> He saw Israel >> experienced a miracle with water." >> So, he tried to do >> what they did >> cuz they did it and they didn't have what he had.

All they had was feet. >> He had horses and chariots. >> So he thinking if they can make it on feet, >> surely if they can do it and they don't have a degree, surely if they can do it and they single and I'm sure. But Pharaoh teaches you >> you drown >> when you try to follow a word God didn't give you. >> I'm wrapping up.

Here's my time. HERE IT IS. >> COME. HE said >> many people >> can't reach their redemptive potential >> because they confuse incomplete sentences >> with incomplete instruction. >> God will not give you in he'll give you incremental but he won't give you incomplete instruction. >> But sometimes incremental instruction feel like a incomplete sentence.

So some people never step out of the boat >> cuz come not enough for you. >> You got to hear come on and I'm going to make the water like a roadway. Come on and I'mma suspend gravity. Come on and the wind's not going to be blowing. Come on and as long as you keep We need an explanation. >> And God's like, I'm going to give you enough to obey, not enough to make you feel comfortable.

And what many people many people say they waiting on clarity when they really waiting on comfort. >> You got enough cl You know enough. You know enough to get out OF THE BOAT. YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO GET STARTED. YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO DO WHAT HE TOLD YOU to do.

TARO, WE OUT of time. Here it is. The text says, "Then Peter >> got down out of the boat, >> walked on water, >> and came toward Jesus." >> Now, there were a number of disciples >> with a number of different occupations >> in that boat. Yeah. >> Ironically, >> coincidentally, >> providentially, >> the one who is the star in this segment of the story >> happens to be one who made his living on the water.

Peter >> was a fisherman >> by trade. >> He was always on the water. >> He was never unfamiliar with water. He'd been on sailboats on the water, >> rowboats on the water. He swam in the water. Probably bathed in the water. But once he met Jesus, He was able to do something on the water he had never did before.

He was able to walk on the water because when you reach your redemptive potential, God will show you how to do new things >> with some old stuff. He's probably thinking, "All these years >> I've been on this water >> and I had no idea >> I could do that.

What if I told you >> Calvin says this really interesting Calvin says I think he says it in the institutes he says that spiritual growth is not just a journey toward God discovery it is also a journey of self-discovery >> that when you're growing spiritually >> God not only introduces you to him. >> But God also is constantly reintroducing you >> to you. >> Yes, sir. >> And showing you >> new things >> you can do on water you've been in >> your whole life.

Y'all miss this. >> Showing you new things you can do in cities you've been in >> your whole life. >> Showing you new things >> you can do on jobs you've been on your whole life. >> It's him reintroducing you >> now >> to you. Now I'm wrapping up here, y'all.

Okay, >> I'm done. I'm done. >> Here it is. I'm done for a season or excuse me, a segment. Peter's walking on water and the text says when he saw the wind, >> he began to sink. That's what Matthew says. Here's here's what's important to know. You don't see wind. >> You can feel wind, >> but you can see what wind is doing to something else. >> And sometimes when you see what something is doing to something else, it provokes fear.

Because now what you see when you see what the wind is doing to something else, you start making assumptions >> that the wind's going to do that to me. >> Here it is. I promise you I'm done. Here it is. >> Here it is. So he begins to sink cuz he looks at the wind and not Jesus. >> This is something it deals with redemptive potential because redemptive potential requires more than vision.

Right? >> Vision is not vision is foundational but it's not enough >> cuz Peter didn't lose vision. He didn't go blind. He lost focus. >> And some people are sinking. Not because you don't have a vision. >> You don't have focus. >> And focus is selective attention. >> Is you making a decision which you're not going to look at.

And when he begins to sink, he screams for the savior. And Jesus is on the same sea dealing with the same storm >> and is not only able to hold himself up, he's able to hold able to hold Peter up and get him back to the boat safely. >> So you got two men in the same storm on the same sea.

One is sinking, the other stepping. What's the difference? Here's the whole point. I've been preaching all this time to make this one point. Here's the whole point. Peter tried to do what Jesus did in public without doing what Jesus did in private. Cuz when Jesus dismissed them, what did he go do? >> It speaks to spiritual optimization. >> And Antoine, the Lord showed me something.

Showed me this a couple weeks ago. I've been sending this text my whole life. A couple of weeks ago, he showed me this. I call it preparatory prayer. So, it's prayer that's not reactive, it's proactive. >> Jesus didn't pray before. Jesus didn't pray after Peter was sinking. >> He prayed before.

So it's this idea of preparatory prayer >> which is prayer as a spiritual discipline not in response to a problem but in anticipation of an opportunity that will require spiritual optimization from you. Did you hear what I just said? It's it's prayer in response to a prophetic glimpse or a prophetic hunch that you get that something is coming in the future that is GOING TO REQUIRE A VERSION OF YOU THAT is spiritually optimized and not spiritually inconsistent.

That there's a season WHERE YOU CAN SURVIVE >> NOT BEING spiritually optimized. Not where God's taking you though. >> Cuz when that wind start blowing You got to be prayed up >> when that rain starts falling. >> You got to be prayed up >> when those waves start rocking. >> You should be prayed up. >> So what if God's getting ready to take you >> outside the boat?

Jesus the human is teaching you how to successfully manage the wind that's waiting for you on the water. >> Lord, call me to the water. It's wind out there. >> It's wind out there. >> And if you're not ready for the wind, you'll sink. >> Lord, make my name great. >> More lights, more heat. more influence, more criticism.

It's windy out there, >> more responsibility, more stress. It's windy out there. >> And a a version of you that is not spiritually optimized, >> you're going to sink. And on this Jesus week, >> may we be inspired by and educated by >> the example of Jesus. >> As some of us have a prophetic glimpse of something that's coming >> that's out of the boat, >> out of the box >> and it requires a spiritually optimized version of you.

One of the greatest things God did for me and does for me is paces me properly. >> He know what to give you. >> At the right time. >> Oh, if I didn't know if I didn't know who I was right now, I'd be one confused person. >> I had two people re in the same week.

One person said, "Man, you take the word and you make it so simple and I can understand it." Then the other person said, "I got to lead this church cuz I feel like I got to do intellectual gymnastics to understand them." Two people in the same week. If I didn't, >> if I didn't know who I was, that win >> would have me rocking out there. >> Some of you, you dealing with the wind right now. >> You out here now.

But if you out here seeking, I want you to see something. I want you to see Peter knew what to do when he started sinking. >> When you start sinking in the sea, you better learn how to scream for the Savior. I said, when you start sinking in the sea, you better learn how to start screaming for the Savior.

And if you'll scream for the Savior, the Savior will come see about you. Somebody take 30 seconds and just scream for the savior. Come on. I want to pray over you. I came because something's coming. >> I came because something's coming. >> And I'm telling you, it's wind out there.

What's coming comes with wind. >> So, Father, today we pray against spiritual apathy >> and complacency. We pray for a revival of our appet a resurrection of our appetite for prayer. Not prayer as a response to problems, but prayer in anticipation and in preparation >> for an opportunity >> that you're going to extend to us. to get out of the boat.

I thank you for this. >> Breathe on us again. >> We don't want to walk on water. We want to get to you. >> Ask this in Jesus name. >> Amen. >> And amen. All right. Hey family. Hope you're doing incredible. First of all, I want to thank you for sticking with us and I hope this message added tremendous value to your life.

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