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A Wound That Calls
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| What led you to write this book? | |
| This is quite an unusual book. | |
| I'm shocked. | |
| I wrote it during the pandemic because of a series of messages that God began to lay on my heart. | |
| And sometimes you have to be wounded. | |
| Sometimes you have to be hurt. | |
| Sometimes you have to go through things in life before you're really qualified to say what you're saying and it connect with people. | |
| There's a story in 1 Kings 20 about a prophet and the Bible said that God told him to walk up to a soldier and say, strike me. | |
| Strike me with your sword. | |
| And the man wouldn't do it, and a lion came and ate him. | |
| So the next soldier he went to, the scripture said, struck him. | |
| Because he said, I'm not going to let that happen. | |
| And when he struck him, the Bible said that prophet went, and the king was coming, Ahab, and he, with a wound bandaged around his head, the only reason the king stopped, wicked Ahab, he had all kinds of people screaming at him, sermons, I'm sure. | |
| But the only one he would listen to is when he saw the man, the old prophet that was wounded on the side of the road, he stopped his royal possession, team and soldiers, and he turned and he said, what do you want to say to me? | |
| Because it was a wound. | |
| It was a wound that allowed him to take the message where it needed to go at the right time to intercept the right people. | |
| So you ask why did we write, why did I write the book? | |
| Because we went through a season of absolutely feeling overwhelmed. | |
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Disturbing the Comfortable Nest
00:05:48
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| I love the Lord. | |
| I honor him. | |
| I've done my best to live for him and raise my family in a way that brings glory to his name and build a ministry. | |
| But it's not just one thing, but when it's coming in every direction, when it's a health situation with one family member and a divorce with another and something else and this one and that one and then the church and then the pandemic and then legal issues or whatever. | |
| It's multiple things and you begin to feel like you're sinking and being overwhelmed. | |
| People see ministers and they see preachers and they think they just have the most wonderful life and they have, when we do, we do. | |
| It's beautiful and wonderful. | |
| I don't want to become a cynic. | |
| I don't want to become a negaholic and just talk defeat and trials and tribulations. | |
| But the truth is, in this life, you will have tribulation, pain, trouble. | |
| Feel at times absolutely overwhelmed. | |
| And what I felt was that when I looked at the pandemic, that, you know, it was God allowing these things to kind of wreck the beautiful, comfortable nest that we all had built. | |
| Deuteronomy 32 says, as the mother eagle stirs up the nest, so will God stir Israel. | |
| And the nest represents security. | |
| The nest represents comfort and just cozy, wonderful, beautiful family, beautiful life, beautiful security. | |
| And every once in a while, God allows a stirring, a disturbing of that nest. | |
| A lot of people are watching me right now, and your nest has just been busted up. | |
| It's just been dismantled. | |
| And what that mother eagle does is she will fly down and she doesn't tear it up at first. | |
| First, she pulls out the fur and the feather lining so that that eagle, those little eaglets in there, will stand up on their feet or stand up on their tall, what are they called? | |
| Talons, thank you. | |
| They're talons and they'll stand there. | |
| Because you don't want, we don't need a generation that learns how to fly that doesn't know how to stand. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's right. | |
| Because you can have great successes, but if you don't know how to stand in integrity and stand on God's word and stand for what is right, I'm afraid there's a whole generation, even of pastors, that are learning how to fly, but they haven't learned how to stand up yet and speak what is the truth. | |
| That's so true. | |
| And so God is disturbing and tearing nest all to pieces. | |
| And it hit our family. | |
| It hit our life. | |
| We went through things that we never saw coming, never dreamed in our wildest dreams we would experience. | |
| And Job said it like this in Job 29. | |
| He said, I thought I would die in the nest. | |
| You know, he had everything. | |
| He's the wealthiest man. | |
| He had 10 beautiful children, seven gorgeous daughters. | |
| He had health. | |
| He had a happy marriage. | |
| And then the storm came. | |
| The overwhelming hit his life. | |
| But it's possible to be overwhelmed and be an overcomer at the same time. | |
| Because when you find yourself submerged in suffering, when you find yourself forsaken by your friends and hurt by your family, when you find yourself walking in absolute darkness, Job said, I go forward and I can't find him. | |
| I go back and I can't find him. | |
| I turn to the left and the right and I'm lost. | |
| You're never so confused as when you know where you're going. | |
| In other words, you know what God promised you, but you don't understand where you are. | |
| I've been in that place where I knew where God was taking me because he promised me his word. | |
| But I have also at the same time been in the place where I know where I'm going, but I don't understand where I am. | |
| And that's when you feel overwhelmed. | |
| And that's when you feel like, I can't, I don't know what I'm going to do here. | |
| But here's the word that I want you to get. | |
| And what I was trying to say in the introduction of this book is even when you're falling and flapping, because the next thing that eagle will do after she disturbs the nest and messes and makes it uncomfortable. | |
| Many of you, you've been nesting too long. | |
| Churches had become nesting centers before the pandemic. | |
| We had our little thing. | |
| We had our little deal. | |
| And the Lord comes along and tears the nest to pieces and says, that's not the church that I have called you to be. | |
| I've called you to walk in my power. | |
| I've called you to be full. | |
| I've been full of the Holy Spirit. | |
| I've called you to preach on miracles and healing and prophesying. | |
| I feel the Lord here. | |
| Praise God. | |
| And also preach the second coming of the Lord Jesus. | |
| Amen. | |
| He's come. | |
| Each the book of Revelation, too. | |