Latest / Koinonia Christian Center / Let’s Ride Part 2 | Let Him | Pastor Trev Evans
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- 0:00Come on, let's grab our Bibles as we get
- 0:01ready to get into this word. Whether
- 0:02it's a paper Bible, phone Bible, uh
- 0:05tablet, whatever it is that you have. E
- 0:07church, I want you to grab your Bible.
- 0:08Make this confession with us. Come on,
- 0:11say, "This is my Bible.
- 0:12>> This is my
- 0:13>> It is God's word.
- 0:15>> It reveals to me.
- 0:17>> God's will.
- 0:19>> Therefore,
- 0:19>> therefore,
- 0:20>> it's the final authority.
- 0:21>> The final authority
- 0:22>> to which I submit
- 0:24>> to settle all the issues
- 0:26>> settle all the issues
- 0:27>> of my life."
- 0:28>> of my life. It's the standard the
- 0:30standard
- 0:30>> of my conduct
- 0:32>> and the basis of all my expectations.
- 0:35>> all my expectations.
- 0:36>> Shout it out. I am
- 0:37>> I am
- 0:37>> what it says I am.
- 0:39>> It says
- 0:39>> I possess what it says I possess.
- 0:42>> I can do.
- 0:44>> I can do
- 0:45>> absolutely everything.
- 0:47>> Absolutely everything
- 0:48>> it says I can do.
- 0:49>> It says I do.
- 0:50>> I'm a believer.
- 0:51>> Not a doubter.
- 0:53>> I'm a doer.
- 0:54>> Not just a hearer.
- 0:56>> And my life. In my life,
- 0:57>> my everyday life,
- 0:58>> my everyday life
- 0:59>> is the better
- 1:00>> is the better.
- 1:01>> After having heard
- 1:02>> after having
- 1:02>> the word of faith.
- 1:04>> The word of faith.
- 1:04>> Faith comes by hearing.
- 1:06>> Faith comes by hearing
- 1:08>> and hearing.
- 1:08>> And hearing
- 1:09>> and hearing by
- 1:10>> the word of God.
- 1:11>> Word of God.
- 1:12>> Let's rise.
- 1:14>> Yes, Lord. You may be seated in the
- 1:16presence of the Lord.
- 1:19>> Amen. Amen.
- 1:22My God,
- 1:25on New Year's Eve,
- 1:30>> God gave us a phrase
- 1:33for the transition.
- 1:35>> Yeah. God gave us a phrase for the
- 1:37transition. We talked about Joshua and
- 1:40the children of Israel and the
- 1:42transition that they were in and uh we
- 1:45paralleled it to our transition not just
- 1:48from one year to the other but also the
- 1:50transition of this church
- 1:52>> as we are transitioning new leadership
- 1:55>> and God gave us a word to look at
- 1:57Joshua's situation and parallel it to
- 2:00our situation and God told us that we
- 2:04have the very same mission that Joshua
- 2:07had.
- 2:08>> Amen.
- 2:08>> When Joshua transitioned from Moses, he
- 2:10said, "Listen, I'm not giving you a new
- 2:12mission. You had the same mission."
- 2:14>> That you are to go and possess the land.
- 2:18>> And I can't even get any further into
- 2:20this lesson because I got to tell us as
- 2:22Cornelia, we have the same mission.
- 2:25>> That God has given us the same mission.
- 2:27But not just corporately, but you and I
- 2:30have that mission personally
- 2:32>> that there is land there is there is
- 2:35territory that God wants us to take.
- 2:39>> Oh yeah, let's ride. There's territory
- 2:41that God wants us to take.
- 2:43>> That that that there is financial
- 2:46territory that God wants us to take.
- 2:48>> I know 2025 may have been challenging,
- 2:51but I need you to know that the mission
- 2:53has not changed.
- 2:55>> That there is territory. There is land
- 2:57that God wants us to possess.
- 3:00>> Amen.
- 3:03>> Yeah. There's there there's physical
- 3:05territory that God wants you to possess.
- 3:07>> There's a level of health in your body
- 3:10that God wants you to possess.
- 3:13>> There's relational territory that God
- 3:16wants you to possess.
- 3:19>> You have a good marriage, God wants a
- 3:21good marriage to be better. Amen.
- 3:24>> If you have a challenging ma marriage,
- 3:26God wants that marriage to be better.
- 3:29>> And that is territory that you and I
- 3:32must go after and take.
- 3:35>> Some of you need to take take territory
- 3:38uh back with your children.
- 3:42>> Take territory back with with your
- 3:44siblings.
- 3:45>> Y'all hadn't been talking for 10 years
- 3:48over $20. No, you need to take THAT
- 3:50BACK.
- 3:52YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO
- 3:53START WITH. COME ON, TAKE THAT BACK.
- 3:57TAKE THAT TERRITORY. SEE, TIME IS MOVING
- 3:59too fast for us to allow trivial things
- 4:03to steal from us.
- 4:05>> Oh, yeah. YOU GOT TO TAKE IT BACK.
- 4:08>> BUMP YOUR NEIGHBOR. SAY, "Take it back."
- 4:10>> Take it back.
- 4:10>> I refuse to spend another year wondering
- 4:13if God wants me to have it. I GOT TO
- 4:15TAKE IT BACK. AMEN.
- 4:18>> The promise wasn't passive.
- 4:21>> He said, "WHEREVER YOU PUT THE SOLES OF
- 4:23YOUR FEET, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU."
- 4:26>> Could have, would have, should have is
- 4:28the saddest song ever sung. You got to
- 4:30put your faith on it. TOUCH IT AND SAY,
- 4:32"Put your faith on it."
- 4:34>> They put their foot on it.
- 4:37>> You and I have to put our faith on it.
- 4:40>> I know it's been a long time, but put
- 4:42your faith back on it.
- 4:44>> Yeah, it's been a while. and you stop
- 4:45praying about it. You stop putting it on
- 4:47your vision board. You stop confessing
- 4:49it. YOU YOU YOU TOLD YOUR PRAYER PARTNER
- 4:52>> and they haven't heard you say it in a
- 4:54while
- 4:55>> because you you you it's been a while
- 4:57and you have kind of just taken it taken
- 4:59it out the out of what God have for you.
- 5:01Can I tell you something? God had
- 5:02changed his mind.
- 5:05>> Oh, God hadn't changed his mind.
- 5:09>> You just let time discourage you.
- 5:13Good.
- 5:14>> God still wants you to possess the land.
- 5:19>> God still wants you to take that
- 5:21territory.
- 5:24>> Same mission.
- 5:26>> Say we had the same mantle. We still had
- 5:28the same presence of God with us.
- 5:31>> We still had the same message. God said,
- 5:34"Be strong
- 5:36>> and courageous.
- 5:38>> Don't be afraid." Amen.
- 5:41>> We had the same mission. We have the
- 5:43same mantle. We have the same message.
- 5:46And to this response,
- 5:48>> Joshua told the officers to tell the
- 5:52people, "Let's ride."
- 5:55>> Oh, he he told to let's ride. And we
- 5:58define let's ride. Give me my first
- 6:00slide. The definition of let's ride.
- 6:03yet. Let's ride
- 6:04>> is a bold yes
- 6:07>> to the will of will and promise of God.
- 6:10It's a bold yes.
- 6:12>> This is not a weak yes.
- 6:15>> This is not a discouraged yes.
- 6:17>> This is not a negative yes.
- 6:19>> This is It didn't happen last year, BUT
- 6:21I DON'T KNOW. NO, I CAN'T HELP THAT IT
- 6:24DIDN'T HAPPEN LAST YEAR. I still have a
- 6:26bold yes.
- 6:30Let's ride is a bold yes to the will and
- 6:33promises of God.
- 6:38>> It's a bold yes to God's will and his
- 6:41promises
- 6:43>> to the things he said you should. Peace
- 6:45should still be yours.
- 6:48>> NO, NO, NO, NO. PEACE SHOULD STILL be
- 6:51yours.
- 6:52>> It's a bold yes. God didn't ask you to
- 6:55consider your circumstances before you
- 6:57agree with his word.
- 7:00>> Oh yeah. He's not asking YOU TO SURVEY
- 7:03WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU AGREE with his
- 7:06word.
- 7:08>> IT'S A BOLD YES FOR WE WALK BY FAITH.
- 7:12>> Help me, Holy Ghost. It's a bold yes to
- 7:15the will and the promise of God. Catch
- 7:17this. It is the sound of confidence.
- 7:21>> OH, LET'S RIDE. IS THE SOUND OF
- 7:23CONFIDENCE.
- 7:25>> Not in my ability.
- 7:28>> See, because I would be sounding shaking
- 7:31shaky if it was on me.
- 7:35>> No, because I I know me.
- 7:37>> And some of y'all know me.
- 7:40>> And you know you. Don't look at me like
- 7:41that. You know you.
- 7:45>> But can I tell you something? It's
- 7:47confidence in the one at the helm.
- 7:51It it is confidence in the one that we
- 7:53should have behind the wheel
- 7:56>> and it is a yielded heart that is ready
- 8:00for the journey.
- 8:02>> Somebody say let's ride.
- 8:03>> Let's ride.
- 8:05>> God has called us to ride. But what God
- 8:08arrested my attention
- 8:11between Wednesday and today to let us
- 8:15know that it's not enough to have God in
- 8:19the car.
- 8:21>> You have to let him be behind the wheel.
- 8:27>> Today I want to talk to us from the
- 8:30subject let him.
- 8:34Let him,
- 8:38>> you and I, if we're going to get to
- 8:40where God wants us to be, it's not
- 8:43enough for him to just be in the car.
- 8:45See, let's ride gets us in the car and
- 8:47we ready to go.
- 8:49>> But you got to make sure that you let
- 8:52the right one behind the wheel.
- 8:56>> Luke chapter 2, just write it down. Luke
- 8:58chapter 2 around verse 44, the Bible
- 9:00talks about that Mary and Joseph, they
- 9:03were journeying. They went up to
- 9:04Jerusalem and they were coming back from
- 9:08the city going back home and the Bible
- 9:11said that they supposed that Jesus was
- 9:14in the crowd
- 9:16and they come to find out that they had
- 9:18left Jesus back at Jerusalem.
- 9:22>> They supposed that he was somewhere.
- 9:27>> THEY FIGURED THAT HE WAS SOMEWHERE in
- 9:30the crowd.
- 9:32Maybe he back there with mama and them.
- 9:36>> Maybe he back there with my uncle that
- 9:37pray all the time.
- 9:40>> Can I suggest to you
- 9:43that if we're going to go and possess
- 9:45the land that God has for us?
- 9:48>> That it's not enough for Jesus just to
- 9:50be somewhere in the car.
- 9:54>> It It's not enough for him to be be I
- 9:58think he's somewhere around here.
- 10:02See, because that's what we do. We we
- 10:04don't Oh, God.
- 10:08>> We say he's somewhere
- 10:11>> like like in my relationship with my
- 10:13like my my grandmama know God.
- 10:16>> My grandmama know God. She pray all the
- 10:18time. So I you know I don't necessarily
- 10:19have to pray like that cuz grandmama
- 10:21going to pray for me. That's when he's
- 10:22somewhere
- 10:26>> that it's something he's my mama pray
- 10:28all the time. I got to pray mama you
- 10:30know. Mom, pray for me. She covered me.
- 10:31That That's not enough.
- 10:34>> It may have gotten you to where you are.
- 10:36Maybe it have kept the devil off your
- 10:38track, but if you're going to get to
- 10:39where God has designed for your life, he
- 10:42just can't be somewhere in the car.
- 10:44>> You got to let him be behind the wheel.
- 10:50>> Jesus has to be behind the wheel. In
- 10:52order to go where Jesus desires to take
- 10:54us, we have to, catch this, give up
- 10:57control.
- 11:00decide to walk by faith
- 11:03>> and let him drive.
- 11:07>> Point number one, how am I going to let
- 11:10him? Number one, I have to acknowledge
- 11:13who's driving.
- 11:16>> No, if I'm going to let him, if I'm
- 11:18going to have this ride, if I'm going to
- 11:19have this bold confidence, the first
- 11:21thing you and I must do is acknowledge
- 11:24who's driving.
- 11:26>> Yeah. But when we say let him, we're
- 11:28surrendering control. We are
- 11:30acknowledging that the road ahead, the
- 11:32land that we're trying to possess is too
- 11:34complex, too dangerous, and too big for
- 11:37us to navigate by ourselves.
- 11:41>> Oh, no, no, no. That's what I'm saying.
- 11:43I'm admitting that I can't do this by
- 11:45myself.
- 11:47>> That's the start for SOME OF US RIGHT
- 11:49NOW. We have to acknowledge. We have to
- 11:52admit that we can't do this by
- 11:54ourselves. Amen.
- 11:57>> I know you smart.
- 11:59>> I know you have chat GPT.
- 12:02>> I know you have AI. See, YOU KNOW,
- 12:04BECAUSE WE HAVE TO SAY THIS IN OUR DAY
- 12:06because we have we have become so
- 12:08reliant.
- 12:12>> I'm afraid
- 12:14>> I'm afraid that we'll we'll we'll let AI
- 12:16replace prayer.
- 12:20>> OH, WE'LL WE'LL ASK AI WHAT WE SHOULD DO
- 12:23BEFORE WE ASK GOD WHAT WE SHOULD DO. BUT
- 12:25YOU AND I MUST ACKNOWLEDGE WHO'S IN THE
- 12:27DRIVER'S SEAT.
- 12:32>> I APPRECIATE THOSE THINGS,
- 12:34>> BUT I can't let them be in the driver's
- 12:36seat.
- 12:40>> I got to acknowledge
- 12:42>> who who's actually
- 12:45driving.
- 12:46>> Catch this. Life never runs on
- 12:48autopilot.
- 12:50>> Someone or something is always driving.
- 12:56No, no. Life never runs on autopilot.
- 13:00>> Something
- 13:02or someone
- 13:04>> is driving.
- 13:08>> No, some some something is IS ALWAYS
- 13:10DRY. I got up this morning just as
- 13:12tired.
- 13:14>> My wife asked me, "How are you doing?"
- 13:17And and I said, "How you feel?" I said,
- 13:19"Oh." And I almost started just whining
- 13:23right there.
- 13:25And the Holy Spirit arrested me
- 13:28>> and said, "You can't let your feelings
- 13:30be in the driver's seat."
- 13:34>> Now, it doesn't mean that I don't admit
- 13:37when I'm tired.
- 13:39>> It doesn't mean that I don't talk about
- 13:42when I'm down,
- 13:44>> but I can't LET IT DRIVE ME.
- 13:47>> I CAN'T LET IT DRIVE ME. I CAN'T LET IT
- 13:50STEER MY MOOD.
- 13:53>> I can't let it make my decisions.
- 13:57>> YEAH, SOME SOME OF US SOME OF US LET THE
- 13:59blas behind the wheel.
- 14:03>> I mean, I don't know.
- 14:08I mean, I just don't know. I mean, I
- 14:09don't even
- 14:11Lift your hands and give God praise. I
- 14:13don't I don't feel it.
- 14:17>> You're letting it drive you. Yes.
- 14:19>> I'm not saying YOU DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE IT,
- 14:21BUT YOU CAN'T BE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT.
- 14:26>> Some of you let pride drive you.
- 14:30>> Can't nobody tell you nothing.
- 14:35>> OH NO. CAN'T NOBODY TELL YOU NOTHING.
- 14:38They said the sky is blue and blue. Like
- 14:41really is it blue? Like it's gray. Oh
- 14:44god.
- 14:48where you where you can't hear
- 14:50>> anybody.
- 14:52>> Where if IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO YOU,
- 14:54YOU'RE NOT LISTENING.
- 14:56>> If you don't see it, YOU'RE NOT GOING.
- 14:58BUT CAN I TELL YOU, THERE'S SOME THINGS
- 15:00THAT YOU CANNOT SEE.
- 15:02>> There's some things that you do not
- 15:03know. AND YOU HAVE TO HUMBLE YOURSELF.
- 15:07PREACH, HOLY GHOST. YOU HAVE TO HUMBLE
- 15:09YOURSELF.
- 15:12>> Cuz pride is in the driver's seat.
- 15:16Some of us let fear be in the driver's
- 15:18seat.
- 15:20>> Thank you, Pastor Tracy. Some of us have
- 15:22let condemnation
- 15:24>> from bad decisions
- 15:26>> be in the driver's seat.
- 15:30>> Yeah, you made the mistake. You messed
- 15:32UP. THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. YOU BLEW
- 15:33IT. You can't put that one on nobody.
- 15:36>> But you have allowed the condemnation of
- 15:40the bad decision
- 15:42>> to cause you now to get in the backseat.
- 15:44And you don't even care who's driving.
- 15:49>> You You don't even YOU DON'T EVEN CARE.
- 15:51YES, YOU MESSED UP. BUT CAN I tell you,
- 15:53God has given us a remedy for even
- 15:55messing up?
- 15:56>> He says, "If you confess your sins, I'm
- 15:58faithful and just to forgive you of YOUR
- 16:00SINS AND TO CLEANSE YOU FROM ALL
- 16:02UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
- 16:08>> You can't allow Yeah, you made the bad
- 16:10decision. It happened.
- 16:13You can't do nothing about it now,
- 16:15>> but learn from it.
- 16:17>> Both your neighbor say, "Learn from it."
- 16:19>> No, you got to learn. If you don't do
- 16:21anything with it, learn from it.
- 16:23>> No, you got to learn from that situation
- 16:25because last year his name was Daecoin.
- 16:27And if you don't learn from it, this
- 16:28year his name will be Omar.
- 16:32>> Y'all ain't going. I know it.
- 16:37there. IT'LL BE THE SAME SITUATION,
- 16:40>> DIFFERENT NAME,
- 16:41>> SAME SITUATION, DIFFERENT STATE.
- 16:44>> I KNOW SOME OF YOU TRYING TO MOVE AWAY
- 16:46FROM GREENVILLE SO BAD, BUT YOU GOT TO
- 16:47UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT WHERE YOU ARE. IT'S
- 16:49NOT IT'S NOT ABOUT WHERE YOU where you
- 16:51go to.
- 16:53>> My mom USED TO TELL ME ALL THE TIME, SHE
- 16:55SAID, "I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU GO. YOU
- 16:56GOT TO TAKE YOURSELF with you.
- 17:10Who's driving?
- 17:12>> No, I GOT TO I GOT TO I GOT TO STOP AND
- 17:14pause and ask myself who is driving.
- 17:18>> Bad decisions have you singing kra sar.
- 17:22>> Whatever will be the devil is a liar.
- 17:25>> No, it's going to be what I call it and
- 17:27I want to say what he said.
- 17:30>> Hallelujah.
- 17:31I WANT TO SAY WHAT HE SAID.
- 17:34>> That's right.
- 17:36>> Oh god. Here we go.
- 17:38>> Some of y'all letting your horoscope
- 17:40drive you.
- 17:44>> NO. LET'S GO. LET'S GO. LET'S GO. LET'S
- 17:46GO. NO, YOU LET YOUR HOROSCOPE DRIVE
- 17:48YOU.
- 17:50>> I refuse
- 17:53>> TO LET SOMEBODY TELL ME
- 17:55>> BECAUSE I'M BORN IN A CERTAIN MONTH, I'M
- 17:57SUPPOSED TO ACT THAT WAY.
- 18:05NO,
- 18:06>> NO, NO,
- 18:08>> NO,
- 18:09>> NO, NO.
- 18:12>> We are believers.
- 18:14>> We live by the word.
- 18:16>> I'm a scorpion. I DON'T TRUST NOBODY.
- 18:19WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
- 18:21>> NO, YOU'RE BLOODWASHED. YOU'RE BORN
- 18:23AGAIN. YOU'RE SAVED. YOU BELONG TO HIM.
- 18:33GET YOUR HOROSCOPE OUT OF THE DRIVER'S
- 18:34SEAT.
- 18:35>> HALLELUJAH.
- 18:41>> Somebody say I have to let him.
- 18:43>> I have to let him.
- 18:47>> I have to let to let to let means to
- 18:50allow or to permit to give permission.
- 18:56You have to let God.
- 19:00>> You have to You have to let God. He
- 19:01said, "Behold, I stand at the door." And
- 19:09>> you see See, see, God is not like my
- 19:11parents.
- 19:13My parents didn't knock on no door. Not
- 19:15when I lived in their house.
- 19:20Look at my mama. She's shaking her head.
- 19:22I AIN'T KNOCKING ON NOTHING I PAY FOR.
- 19:31She said, "I'LL TAKE THE KNOB OFF OF it
- 19:33before I knock."
- 19:41>> See? See?
- 19:43>> But God is not like man.
- 19:46>> He's going to stand there and knock.
- 19:48Yeah.
- 19:50>> He said, "I stand at the door and knock
- 19:54>> on the life he gave you." He's standing
- 19:55outside knocking
- 19:58>> with the breath he gave you. He's
- 19:59standing out there knocking
- 20:01>> with the sense he gave you. He's
- 20:02standing out there knocking. And you and
- 20:04I have a choice whether we're going to
- 20:06let him in.
- 20:09>> He's not kicking the door down.
- 20:12>> No, no, no. You think that's God kicking
- 20:15the door down. That's just the
- 20:16consequences of your bad decisions.
- 20:22>> And God, DID GOD JUST COME IN AND TOLD
- 20:24MY LIFE? OH, NO, HE DIDN'T. He was
- 20:27standing knocking
- 20:28>> with wisdom.
- 20:30>> HE WAS STANDING KNOCKING WITH THE WORD.
- 20:32HE WAS STANDING KNOCKING WHEN HE WAS
- 20:34SPEAKING THROUGH YOUR PASTOR. HE WAS
- 20:35STANDING KNOCKING WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO
- 20:36TALK TO YOU THROUGH YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY.
- 20:44>> Your neighbor say you got to let him.
- 20:46to let him just to allow or to permit or
- 20:49to release or relinquish.
- 20:52>> If we're going to let God, we we got to
- 20:54release or relinquish the wheel. Who's
- 20:57behind the wheel?
- 20:59>> We got to acknowledge who's driving
- 21:02if we're going to let him. That means to
- 21:03allow or permit or to release or
- 21:05relinquish or catch this or to yield or
- 21:08surrender.
- 21:10>> For some of us, this is what God is
- 21:13calling for. If we're going to if we're
- 21:15going to less ride this year,
- 21:18>> you're going to have to yield.
- 21:19>> Yeah.
- 21:21>> You going you going to have to you have
- 21:22to yield and surrender that area that
- 21:24you've been holding on to.
- 21:27>> I'm not talking about the one you let go
- 21:29in 2025. I'm talking about the one you
- 21:31holding on to.
- 21:33>> I'm I'm talking about that one. I'm
- 21:34talking about the ONE YOU YOU YOU'RE
- 21:35COVERING.
- 21:37>> I'm talking about the one that you're
- 21:39MAKING EXCUSES TO HOLD on to.
- 21:42>> Oh yeah. I'm I'm talking about THE ONE
- 21:43THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FIND SCRIPTURE AND
- 21:46FIND SOMEBODY ONLINE TO VALIDATE YOUR
- 21:48POSTURE WHEN THE HOLY GHOST BEEN TOLD
- 21:50YOU TO LET IT GO.
- 21:55>> You have to yield
- 21:57>> and surrender.
- 21:59>> See, catch this. Catch.
- 22:02All of us have those areas in our lives
- 22:06>> that that coming to the altar one time
- 22:08don't help. Come on.
- 22:11>> No, excuse me. It helped. It don't fix
- 22:13it.
- 22:16>> It helps,
- 22:17>> but it doesn't fix it.
- 22:19>> You came up here one time.
- 22:22>> You can't No, it's not going to be that
- 22:23one time
- 22:24>> that's going to get that done.
- 22:26>> It may have gotten SOME OTHER THINGS
- 22:27DONE, BUT NOT THIS.
- 22:29>> OH, YEAH. RIDE, Holy Ghost. RIDE. NOT
- 22:32NOT NOT that one thing that THE HOLY
- 22:33GHOST POINTS OUT TO YOU.
- 22:36NO, you going to have you got to you got
- 22:38to yield
- 22:40>> and catch this
- 22:41>> and keep on yielding.
- 22:42>> That's right.
- 22:44>> You going to have to surrender
- 22:45>> and keep on surrendering
- 22:48>> every day. Get Lord, I give it to you.
- 22:50>> Lord, I yield it to you.
- 22:52>> Lord, I thank you for BRINGING ME
- 22:54THROUGH YESTERDAY,
- 22:55>> BUT TODAY, LORD, I yield it to you.
- 22:59>> Why? Because I want him in the driver's
- 23:01seat.
- 23:04I got to let him. I got to let him.
- 23:06>> I got to let him. First, I got to
- 23:08acknowledge who's driving.
- 23:10>> Secondly,
- 23:12after I acknowledge who's driving, catch
- 23:15this.
- 23:17I have to trust the GPS of his word.
- 23:25>> I have to trust the GPS of his word.
- 23:31I acknowledge who's driving. And I get
- 23:32God in the driver's seat. But catch this
- 23:34y'all. We got to trust the GPS of his
- 23:36word.
- 23:39>> When you let God drive, catch this. His
- 23:41word becomes your GPS.
- 23:45>> It gives you direction when emotions are
- 23:48loud.
- 23:49>> When doubt creeps in
- 23:51>> and when the road ahead feels uncertain.
- 23:57>> Yeah. I got to I got to trust the GPS of
- 24:00his word. I I I can The Bible says Psalm
- 24:04119 105, write this down. He says, "Your
- 24:07word is a lamp
- 24:08>> to my feet
- 24:10>> and a light unto my path."
- 24:15>> I can I can remember, you know, I told
- 24:17y'all I like to go riding. Yeah, I like
- 24:19to go riding. And most often times when
- 24:21I go riding or even if I have a
- 24:24destination that I'm going to, I don't
- 24:26like to go back home the same way I
- 24:28came.
- 24:30Something about me likes the challenge
- 24:33of just going and and the scenery of
- 24:35seeing something different.
- 24:37>> So, I'll go to a place and then I get
- 24:40ready to come back home. I want to go to
- 24:42a different route. So, I will put my
- 24:45home destination in my GPS.
- 24:50Larry, I'll start following my GPS. This
- 24:53is crazy.
- 24:56until it tells me to take a path that
- 24:58I'm not familiar with.
- 25:03>> What kind of foolishness?
- 25:07Why would why would I put the
- 25:09destination in
- 25:12>> supposedly trusting it to take me back
- 25:15home
- 25:16>> and then when it shows me something that
- 25:19I'm not used to
- 25:20>> try to revert back to what I know
- 25:25>> or what I think I know.
- 25:27>> I can't tell you how many times
- 25:31>> it tells me to go this way
- 25:34>> and I've said to myself, Dr. Berry
- 25:37421.
- 25:40Highway 421. Now I took Le all the way
- 25:42up here.
- 25:44That's country. NOW I TOOK LE ALL THE
- 25:47WAY UP HERE. WHY IT'S TELLING ME TO TAKE
- 25:48421? I don't
- 25:51I put the directions in it.
- 25:54>> I said I wanted his help.
- 25:57>> But now when it shows me something
- 25:59that's not familiar to me,
- 26:02>> you said you want a good marriage.
- 26:05NO, THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID. GOD, GIVE ME A
- 26:07GOOD MAN, LORD. JUST FIX MY MARRIAGE,
- 26:09LORD. F my marriage. And so when God
- 26:11tells you
- 26:14>> to to to to don't speak with with with
- 26:16with don't don't your your words, you
- 26:19got to watch your words,
- 26:21>> a soft answer
- 26:23>> turns away,
- 26:24>> the GPS of the word. Then you start
- 26:27talking sweet and you like this don't
- 26:29feel right.
- 26:31I'm not used to saying baby hunt to him
- 26:35and he ain't cooked yet.
- 26:38So God, LET ME SAY. SO YOU ASK ME, LORD,
- 26:40TO TAKE THIS WAY.
- 26:42>> But I ain't I'm not used to going this
- 26:44way.
- 26:46>> And if you're not careful, you'll desert
- 26:48HIS DIRECTION TO GROW BACK TO WHAT'S
- 26:51FAMILIAR.
- 26:55>> Do you believe in God? AND THIS YEAR,
- 26:56I'M STARTING NOW. I'M GOING TO TITHE.
- 26:58I'm going to tithe. That's right. I'm
- 26:59going to bring the tithe into the
- 27:00storehouse. could be meat in my house.
- 27:02That's right. And I do it the first
- 27:04week.
- 27:12>> And I go to try to go to Starbucks every
- 27:14day like I'm used to.
- 27:18And by Wednesday, I'm looking at like, I
- 27:20can't get Starbucks. I might get that
- 27:22dollar that dollar coffee from
- 27:24McDonald's.
- 27:28>> And it feels Come on.
- 27:30>> Unfamiliar.
- 27:33>> It doesn't feel like what I'm used to.
- 27:36>> And so what'll happen is by February, I
- 27:39will have abandoned the path,
- 27:41>> the direction that God is calling me to
- 27:43because it just don't feel
- 27:46>> it's not familiar.
- 27:48If you and I are going to get get to
- 27:51where God wants us to be,
- 27:53>> we going to have to let the GPS GPS of
- 27:57his word
- 27:59>> direct us.
- 28:08Amen.
- 28:09>> Because you're not used to this road.
- 28:12>> Not in that area.
- 28:15>> No, you're not. You You may be used to
- 28:17following the word of God when it comes
- 28:19to guarding your mind,
- 28:22>> but you hadn't been used to following
- 28:23his word when it comes to guarding your
- 28:24mouth.
- 28:29>> Yeah. And it feels different.
- 28:33>> See, because because Oh, see the word
- 28:35recalibrates us.
- 28:37It renews our mind. Why? Because when
- 28:40we're following God's word, a win
- 28:43doesn't look the same as it used to.
- 28:46>> You used to equate a win with with
- 28:50having the last word.
- 28:54>> Yeah. You You used THAT'S HOW YOU
- 28:55EQUATED the win. Every time they say
- 28:58something, YOU RIGHT ON top of it,
- 28:59right?
- 29:01>> Oh, YOU HAD TO COME BACK for everything.
- 29:03and you felt like you won
- 29:06>> because you had the last word.
- 29:08>> NEVER MIND THAT THERE'S A DIFFERENCE
- 29:10BETWEEN PEACE AND QUIET.
- 29:15>> YEAH, YOU MAY HAVE GOTTEN THE LAST WORD,
- 29:16BUT YOU HAVE JUST TORN UP YOUR
- 29:18RELATIONSHIP.
- 29:22>> Touch your neighbor and say, "I got to
- 29:23follow."
- 29:24>> I got to follow
- 29:25>> the GPS of his word.
- 29:27>> GPS of his word.
- 29:29His
- 29:31word gives us direction
- 29:34and we have to have the GPS of his word
- 29:37because understand something when
- 29:38emotions are loud we need something that
- 29:42speaks louder.
- 29:50>> I can't tell you I'm I'm almost done. I
- 29:52can't tell you how many times that I
- 29:54chose to go the direction other than
- 29:56what the GPS was telling me
- 30:02only to find out sometimes Dominique
- 30:05that there was an accident that it was
- 30:08trying to take me around. And catch
- 30:11this. Sometimes the GPS will show me
- 30:14with the red in the road that there's an
- 30:16accident there. But guess what?
- 30:18Sometimes it won't. RIGHT.
- 30:20>> SOMETIMES I JUST have to trust.
- 30:22>> Thank you, Holy Ghost. WHAT IT SAID.
- 30:24>> SOMETIMES GOD WILL TELL YOU WHY NOT TO
- 30:27DATE THAT PERSON. BUT sometimes
- 30:30>> there's no red in the road.
- 30:33>> Oh, at least not yet that you can see.
- 30:43You're not going to always
- 30:45see why God's telling you
- 30:48>> what he's telling you.
- 30:50>> What did you tell me, doc, yesterday?
- 30:51That sometimes obey. You're going to
- 30:54have to obey without clarity.
- 31:00>> Sometimes you're going to have to obey
- 31:01without clarity. Sometimes God's going
- 31:04to send that old mother cross your path
- 31:06and she's going to say something to you.
- 31:08AND CATCH THIS, SHE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT
- 31:09SHE SAID.
- 31:11>> But you know,
- 31:14>> and just because she can't explain
- 31:16everything to you doesn't mean you
- 31:17shouldn't obey.
- 31:19>> I know. I know. I know.
- 31:22>> We got to let him.
- 31:24>> We got to let him. We have to
- 31:25acknowledge who's in the driver's seat.
- 31:28>> Then we have to trust the GPS of his
- 31:31word. Thirdly, and finally, if we're
- 31:33going to let him, if we're going to have
- 31:35this ride, if we're going to let God
- 31:36drive, we're going to have to be
- 31:38released from the roadblocks of fear.
- 31:43>> No, we're going to have to be released
- 31:45from the road blocks of fear. Fear is
- 31:48one of the biggest roadblocks to letting
- 31:50God drive.
- 31:53>> It stops progress.
- 31:55Yes.
- 31:56>> Fear paralyzes faith
- 31:59and it keeps us from stepping into the
- 32:02promise of God.
- 32:05Can I tell you something? That fear is a
- 32:08roadblock. It's not a warning sign.
- 32:14>> Fear is a roadblock.
- 32:18It's not a warning sign.
- 32:20The Bible says, "God has not given us
- 32:24>> the spirit of fear,
- 32:26>> but of love and of power and a sound
- 32:30mind."
- 32:32No, fear fear is not of God.
- 32:36>> God doesn't want to direct you by fear.
- 32:38He wants to direct you by wisdom,
- 32:41>> by instruction,
- 32:44>> like even as a parent, I don't I don't
- 32:46we we we can't parent out of fear.
- 32:50I'mma beat you. I'mma tag behind her
- 32:52now. You know that has its place.
- 32:56>> I'm sorry, doctor.
- 32:59>> No, that has its place.
- 33:04But that can't be that can't be how
- 33:08>> how we
- 33:09instruct them
- 33:12>> because after y'all seen Joshua lately
- 33:18that JOKER ABOUT BIG AS I am
- 33:22now. You know what I'm saying? I still
- 33:23fold them now. Don't make
- 33:27it. It's still a little old school down
- 33:28here.
- 33:29My mom said if I got grab a shoe or
- 33:31something, I'mma let you know.
- 33:34But fear that fear can't be
- 33:37>> the thing that drives.
- 33:42>> As it is with us, so it is with God.
- 33:46>> God's not trying to drive us out of
- 33:47fear.
- 33:49>> Being afraid of going to hell is not
- 33:51going to keep you living right for a
- 33:52long time.
- 33:58Fear's a fear is a roadblock, man.
- 34:00>> It's not a warning sign.
- 34:03>> God wants to instruct us by his word.
- 34:06>> God wants to lead us by instruction.
- 34:09>> He doesn't want us being fearful.
- 34:12And that is what's keeping some of us
- 34:14from moving forward.
- 34:16>> That is what's keeping some of us from
- 34:18letting God take the wheel
- 34:20>> is fear.
- 34:22>> Fear of what happened the last time.
- 34:25Yeah,
- 34:26>> that didn't go quite right the way I
- 34:28thought it would. Didn't pan all the way
- 34:29out.
- 34:30>> And so now I'm more reluctant to trust
- 34:32God. I'm I'm I'm less reluctant to trust
- 34:34God. That's fear.
- 34:38>> He has not given you that, baby.
- 34:40>> Can I tell you God can be trusted?
- 34:43>> Go on. Let me LET ME KNOW. LET ME TELL
- 34:45GOD can be trusted.
- 34:47>> He is the best driver
- 34:50>> that I have ever seen in my life.
- 34:53I was talking to Doc and Pastor Chris
- 34:55yesterday and they said God is the real
- 34:57designated driver
- 35:01>> cuz you talking about being able to
- 35:02drive at night.
- 35:04>> He can drive at night.
- 35:06>> When life gets dark, you get A BAD
- 35:08DOCTOR'S REPORT. YOU WANT GOD BEHIND the
- 35:10wheel.
- 35:13>> He knows how to navigate the potholes.
- 35:17>> He knows how to get you around the
- 35:19situation that wants to block you.
- 35:22Let me tell you something. I can
- 35:23remember. See, fear is paralyzing. I'm
- 35:26about to fear is paralyzing.
- 35:31I am My God. I can just jump off this
- 35:34stage and start running. I am two
- 35:37semesters away from graduating with my
- 35:40bachelor. Let me tell y'all something.
- 35:42Let me tell you something. I No, don't
- 35:45do that.
- 35:50Don't do that.
- 35:54>> Y'all talk about a party.
- 35:57>> Hey, cuz they going to think I got my
- 35:58doctor. They going to see some of They
- 36:00GO, "DID HE GET A DOCTOR?" NO, HE GOT
- 36:01HIS BACHELORS.
- 36:09>> Let me tell you why. Because for so
- 36:12long, God, I could cry.
- 36:15I didn't realize that fear was
- 36:17paralyzing me.
- 36:21>> I didn't I didn't know I didn't realize
- 36:23it. Q how fear was paralyzing me
- 36:26>> that I went to North just just give me
- 36:28these last five minutes. I went to North
- 36:30Carolina ENT State University
- 36:33>> Aggie Pride.
- 36:35My mama working two jobs, dad doing all
- 36:37these kind of things to send me to
- 36:39school. And I go to school not really
- 36:42knowing what I should do.
- 36:45>> 17 years old,
- 36:48>> brighteyed and bushy tail,
- 36:50>> but hadn't stopped long enough and done
- 36:53enough introspection
- 36:55>> to know what it is that I should be
- 36:57going after.
- 36:59>> So I get there and consequently
- 37:04I just, you know, I end up in computer
- 37:06science major.
- 37:12the tourist eyes. And I can remember
- 37:15being in the engineering building at
- 37:16McNair Hall
- 37:18>> and because and in McNair Hall and being
- 37:20lost as a ball in tall weeds.
- 37:24I mean I was lost. You hear me? They
- 37:26were talking ABOUT C++. I I DIDN'T KNOW
- 37:28WHAT they were talking about.
- 37:31Hey Jeff, I didn't know what they were
- 37:33talking about,
- 37:35man. They handed me a book. That book
- 37:37was thicker than zoo glass. I didn't
- 37:39know what
- 37:41I didn't know what to do.
- 37:44So I I found myself on academic
- 37:46probation.
- 37:47>> Yes, sir.
- 37:48>> And I was back home in two years.
- 37:52>> And I felt like a failure.
- 37:56>> No, I felt I felt like a complete and
- 37:58utter failure cuz my mom had done so
- 37:59many things. My dad had done so many
- 38:00things. Lord, they had a scholarship at
- 38:02the church. If you grew up in the
- 38:03Baptist church, they going to send you
- 38:04off to school, right?
- 38:06They going to give you that Bible.
- 38:08>> And they going to pull together a
- 38:09scholarship $250, $300.
- 38:13>> Oh Lord. Yeah. They going to put THEY
- 38:16GOING TO SEND YOU off
- 38:20>> and I had to come back home
- 38:23>> without a degree
- 38:25>> in two years. Ended up working at a
- 38:28factory.
- 38:29Met the most amazing woman I have ever
- 38:32met in my whole life.
- 38:38standing in a laundromat.
- 38:40>> She said, "You can go back to school." I
- 38:43said, "Who?"
- 38:45I said, "I can't go back to ENT."
- 38:48>> She said, "No, you can go to Pit
- 38:49Community College and you can graduate
- 38:52with your associates. You can do this."
- 38:55I can remember thinking, "Are you
- 38:56serious?"
- 38:58>> So, I went back to Pit and then she
- 39:00said, "Now you can get your four-year
- 39:02degree.
- 39:08I graduated from Pit Community College
- 39:10in 2003. I think it was 2003.
- 39:15It took me almost almost 20 years to
- 39:19apply for school again.
- 39:23>> I did not know how fear was holding on
- 39:25to me.
- 39:27>> I didn't I didn't I didn't know how the
- 39:29condemnation was holding on TO ME.
- 39:32>> NO, I DIDN'T KNOW IT. IF YOU ASKED ME
- 39:33WHY I HADN'T GONE BACK TO SCHOOL, I
- 39:35don't know. I g I don't know what I
- 39:36would have said.
- 39:37>> I don't know.
- 39:39>> But one day in prayer, God showed me
- 39:42>> how condemnation
- 39:45>> and fear
- 39:46>> was holding me, doc.
- 39:50>> And it wasn't until I I I I told God as
- 39:54he brought it up to me and I sat with
- 39:57him and he showed me probably doing
- 39:59after one of your sessions
- 40:03And I put it out there before God.
- 40:07I asked God, help me to forgive myself.
- 40:13>> No. Help. Help me to forgive myself. And
- 40:17then God, help me
- 40:19to get this fear off of me.
- 40:23>> SCARED TO GO BACK GO BACK TO CLASS AND
- 40:26GET BACK in school because of what
- 40:27happened before.
- 40:30And boy, I can remember
- 40:33signing up for a class that I had
- 40:35dropped.
- 40:38>> And here I am face to face with it
- 40:40again.
- 40:41>> And I can remember getting to a CERTAIN
- 40:43AND I I can remember just AS GOOD IN THE
- 40:45SEMESTER WHEN I DROPPED THE class and
- 40:48coming back to the same point.
- 40:51>> And this time,
- 40:55>> this time
- 40:57I let him
- 40:59This time I TOOK FEAR OUT OF THE
- 41:02DRIVER'S SEAT. THIS TIME CONDEMNATION
- 41:05HAD BEEN KICKED OUT.
- 41:10>> Pass that class with an A.
- 41:18>> Hallelujah.
- 41:22>> What am I saying? That the same God.
- 41:26>> This is the power OF CORNER CIRCLES. SO
- 41:28YOU CAN HEAR SOMEBODY ELSE TESTIMONY AND
- 41:29YOU'LL KNOW THAT THE SAME GOD,
- 41:32>> if he'll do it for him, he'll do it FOR
- 41:34ME. GO BACK TO SCHOOL, SIGN UP FOR THE
- 41:38CLASS, GO BACK AND get the business.
- 41:47>> Let him
- 41:50>> This year, it's a new year.
- 41:52>> Make sure it's a new driver.
- 41:56>> It's a new year.
- 41:58But don't let the same things drive you
- 42:01that have been driving you.
- 42:04>> It's a new year,
- 42:06>> but let the word of God be your GPS.
- 42:10>> It's a new year,
- 42:12>> but you and I cannot let the roadblock
- 42:14of fear
- 42:16>> win. Catch this. I'm going say it like
- 42:17my grandmama. Not in another time.
- 42:20>> I don't know another way to say it.
- 42:23Not another time.
- 42:28God has called us to take territory
- 42:31>> now. He has called us to take territory
- 42:34>> and it is time for us to let him.
- 42:38>> Let's pray.
- 42:40Father, in Jesus name, we thank you for
- 42:42your word.
- 42:44We thank you Lord for how you are
- 42:45challenging us, how you're positioning
- 42:48us.
- 42:51Thank you, Father.
- 42:53Even for the difficult times where you
- 42:56will bring things up to us, you don't
- 42:58bring it up to us to make us feel bad or
- 43:00to condemn us. You're bringing it up to
- 43:03us to confront us that you have given us
- 43:06the strength and what we need to
- 43:07confront it and deal with it so that it
- 43:10does not sabotage or steal from us
- 43:13anymore.
- 43:16Father, we our response is let's ride
- 43:20It is our bold yes to your will and
- 43:23promise.
- 43:24Father God, it is our confidence in the
- 43:27one that we have to have behind the
- 43:29wheel.
- 43:31But Father, we don't want to just
- 43:32declare it and still be driving.
- 43:35We don't want to declare that and still
- 43:36allow fear or condemnation or pride to
- 43:40be behind the wheel.
- 43:42Father, we pause this first Sunday of
- 43:45the year
- 43:47to let you
- 43:49to let you get behind the wheel, to let
- 43:51your word be our GPS, to not allow fear
- 43:55to be a roadblock to destiny.
- 43:59Father, we thank you
- 44:02that you'll give us what we need to do
- 44:04what you called us to do. You're not
- 44:06asking us to do it in our own strength.
- 44:09Father, may we yield to you, to your
- 44:12strength, to your will, to your way. And
- 44:16for that we'll give you praise in Jesus