Moving past our pain Part II, Bible Study 120909

Posted on December 15, 2009 by growintheword

<Moving past our pain Part II
Synopsis of bible study120909
Delivered by Bishop Walker III

James 1:2-5: 2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. – Translation: Everybody listen up! Whatever you are going through, count it joy, because you know that whatever you are going through is to test the word in you, so that you will have dependence on God. Once you have dependence in God you will become mature. Your maturity will bring you to a place of completeness and you will not be codependent on people to do for you what God can do while you are going through.
A lot of our pain is because we place people in positions they were never intended to be. People hurt us because we are vulnerable and hurting. Often what happens is we place people in places of expectations and once those expectations are not met, it creates pain. If you look at it, John 16:33 says 33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. – Translation: Jesus says I have been teaching you and giving your impartation and revelation that you might have peace, so you can go to bed at night. He says I can’t promise you an exemption from trouble because in this life you are going to have it, but be of good cheer. He says I have already overcome the world. Jesus says if he has already overcome it then whatever you are going through, as a result of your relationship with him, you will overcome it. You don’t fight for victory, you fight from victory. The fight is fixed! When we talk about this, we think it is important to understand that you have to have joy in the midst of whatever you go through.
I. Finds joy in midst of it
1. Joy is a revelation. It is not based on happenings. You have two responses that you can have? Either you can respond to how things are happening or you can respond based on a revelation. The revelation is God’s word. So it is the revelation that we receive that we respond from. It does not respond from happenings. What the test comes to do, what the trial comes to do, and the infraction upon you came to do was to test the depth of the revelation. If there is not revelation, all there is just our emotion. So when we have a revelation, you can go through a painful experience and still count it joy, because of what you know. We know that whatever we have gone through, it has created within us a sense of dependence on God, because we recognize through our experiences that we can’t depend on others. As a result we are mature. We are better and bigger now. This makes us complete in him through our relationship with him. We must then learn through this process how to completely let go of the past.
2. How do we completely let go of our past? Philippians 3:13 says 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, – This does not mean that I have amnesia. Are we supposed to literately x out our history? No. It doesn’t indicate that we are supposed to forget what happened. That would be unwise. As a matter of fact, you learn from what happens in your past. Sometimes you don’t need to forget, because you can use it as a point of reference and make sure it doesn’t happen again. What it says is that we will not allow your past to have influence on our future. The problem with many of us is that we have been so influenced by our past that we cannot move into what God desires us to move in. We must learn how to completely let go.
3. How do we severe relationships from things that are influencing us negatively in my past? Why is it so difficult for us to let go of things in our past? It is because of our anger. We shout and give God the glory and after all of that when we come off the glory cloud, we are still angry. Anger is a strong feeling of intense displeasure, hostility, or indignation as a result of real or imagined threats, insults of frustration, or injustice done toward ourselves or others important to us.
a. 3 types of anger
i. Rage-explosive anger.
ii. Resentment-repressed anger.
iii. Indignation-rigorous anger over an unjust situation or a wrong someone else has suffered.
4. Ephesians 4:26-27 says 26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27Neither give place to the devil.
a. This scripture says we can be angry, but we are not to sin through this anger. We can’t let the moment of anger change our character.
b. Don’t let sun go down on your anger. Don’t go to bed angry, because when you do, it gets in your spirit.
c. Don’t give the devil an opportunity.

5. There is a book called “The Bait of Satan” by John Bevere. The thesis of the book is how Satan uses or offense as bait. Someone offends us and we are therefore left with a choice. Do we take the bait? If someone transgresses us we take the bait. When you take the bait we go down this incredible spiral. We have to look at how offense deals with us. When we are offended, we will have to be careful. The devil is looking for an opportunity. The devil tries to convince us that we need to make somebody else’s pain greater than ours so our pain will be over. As long as your pain is minimized and there’s maximized, then we think we will feel better. When this happens, we have taken the bait. You have drawn an imaginary line or boundary and you feel you are cool as long as they are over there and you are over here. What you have done is made your anger a travel agent. Your anger begins to dictate where you can and cannot go. You must understand that it all begins with an offense. Once they offended you got angry. When people don’t deal with their pain, you lash out in anger. When you lash out in anger, you are really hurt. Some of you can testify that the devil tried to get you to take the bait on the job today.

II. What does anger do?
1. Anger breaks fellowship with God. You will never be at peace with the Lord, when you are angry with another person. You can’t be angry and have fellowship with God. Matthew 5:23-24 says 23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
2. Anger causes relationship with other people to suffer. Nobody wants to be around you, because you are angry all the time.
3. Anger causes you to develop a critical spirit. These are people who are always judgmental and bitter to justify their feelings. Nothing is every right according to you.
4. Anger will cause you to lack of peace. You are holding on to the anger caused by what someone done to you and they are on the beach not even thinking about you.
5. Anger leads to emotional isolation. When people are wounded, they protect themselves from other hurt by pushing people away. They have boundaries. They are defensive.
6. Anger results from frustration and anxiety. They constantly question motives of people around them. You can ask them do they want you to bring them lunch why you are going and they want to know why you are offering. They are suspicious of everyone because they have been hurt.
7. Anger leaves you feeling empty. They cut their selves off from friends to prevent further hurt.
8. Anger can cause you to become narrow in mind and heart. All of us talk about people. These type of people talk about people all the time, constantly. They are hurting. They minimize others to maximize themselves.
9. Anger sometimes manifests itself through chronic tardiness. They are tardy because being late they try to demonstrate that no one can tell them what to do. They are rebellious against any authority.
10. Anger (hostility) can make you to be disagreeable. These types of people disagree with everyone. They are mad at everyone. Ex-Bishop says he plays ball at 5 in the morning for exercise. This one guy got mad one morning while playing ball. He begin not to be mad just at that situation, he was mad at somebody he was mad at the day before. Then he start calling out people that wasn’t even there. He was just in pain.
11. Anger can affect your health. Unresolved anger increases your adrenalin, heart rate, and blood pressure. Chronic rage or resentment over something. You can get so angry that you can actually die over a situation.
12. Anger hurts those around us. People don’t understand why you can’t move on.
13. Rage can cause damage to the belongings and others. They throw stuff and punch stuff.
14. Anger grieves the Lord.
15. Anger hinders God‘s work in your life. God will not pour out his full blessing on an angry person. James 1:19-21 says 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.-If you lay aside the anger and let word be engrafted in you, then you respond out of revelation rather than emotion. We should be leaking the word ever time we open our mouth when we found our self being tested. Ex-If somebody beats you to a park and you are slow to speak them out then he will not withhold good things from us. .
16. He that is slow to anger is might. Proverbs 16:32: 32He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. – We give great props to people that are strong. Watch the crescendo of a voice of a person that is in a verbal altercation. Whoever gets the loudest we consider the winner. However, the scripture says when a man or woman can rule his spirit, he or she is the strongest. There are people in jail right now because they couldn’t rule their spirit.
17. There is glory in passing over transgressions. Proverbs 19:11 says 11The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.-We can defer our anger, by passing over a transgression or by walking away. There is glory found in the person that can walk away.
III. How do we walk away?
1. We must have a vision that is greater than what we are going through. Proverbs 29:18 says 18Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. – We must have a vision that is greater than what you are going through. When you see how big our vision is, you see how small your problem really is.
2. When there is nothing to live for, then it is easy to die. When you have vision that comes from revelation of God’s word then you have hope. The moment we lose hope we become vulnerable. Every attack of the Devil comes so that we may lose hope. When they laid you off your job, they were trying to make us lose hope. When that tragic thing happened in your life, it was to make you lose hope.
3. Vision is that thing that sustains us during the time of difficulty. Vision is what causes us to move past our pain. Ex- If you were sitting in the back of the church and your Pastor had a $100 and he told you that you could come up and get it if you need it, you would come up to get it. Even if on your way up, people talked negative about your choice, you would still end up coming to get the $100. Even if you didn’t actually see the $100, because you trust your Pastor, you would come for the $100. If along the way you hear people talking negative about your choice and they try to prevent you from going, you will still come for the $100. The longer you waste time on who has offended you about your choice, the more you delay your time getting to your blessing. It is taking some of you so long to get to your blessing, because it is taking you too long to get to it. You are entertaining who offended you rather than moving towards your blessing. This thing that God has shown you is so big that everything that has happened to you looks so small. If your problem is looking big to you, then your vision is not big enough yet. Ex-Bishop Walker says when he started pastoring Mt Zion there was only about 150 members. When Mt Zion reached around 1000 members, people started calling Mt Zion a cult. People asked Bishop Walker was he concerned about this. Bishop says he was not concerned because he had been shown the vision. The vision was bigger than the problem. 2 Corinthians 4:1 says 1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;-This scripture says when see something we don’t just give up.
4. It is just a light affliction. Your inward man will get tired, but you have to know that it is temporary and will not last for every. Proverbs 29:16-17 says 16When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. 17Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. – There is glory heading your way. The story will validate the worry.
5. Joseph in Old Testament had a vision. Joseph kept his eye on what his father told him. Genesis 50:20 says 20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. – After all his brothers had tried to do to him he recognized that all of Egypt was saved because Joseph focused on his vision and not the offense. Had he not, all those people would have died.
6. We must glory in our tribulation. We must focus for our growth. Romans 5:3-5 says 3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. – We can move past stuff because of what we are hoping for.
7. We must trust in the Lord in all things. Who can you trust? When people are hurting, they have trust issues. Psalm 5:11-12 says 11But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. 12For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.- God defends you. Gods got you covered. We have been hurt, but Gods got us covered. This scripture is almost a paradox. A Paradox seemingly contradicts itself. If God is defender, how do we get hurt? Why are we still in this painful place? This is the affirmation that God is a defender. If it didn’t kill you, he is a defender. The offense was to mature you. The fact that you are still alive is evidence of God’s defense.
a. Psalm 37:3 says 3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. – Trust the Lord and don’t key their car. Trust the Lord and don’t’ curse them out.
b. Psalm 37:4 says 4Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. – Trust in him and he will give you the desires of heart.

8. Stop worrying about stuff. Philippians 4:4-7 says 4Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. 5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. 6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.- Tell God what you need and it will keep your heart and your head right.

Psalm 125:1 says 1They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. – The offense and the pain were sent to make you move. Everything that happened to you was about moving you. It is not always about moving you physically. It could be about moving emotionally, spiritually, or emotionally. How many people can testify that a person was here, but they moved? It says if you trust in God, you will be like Mt Zion that shall not be moved. There has to be something inside you that says you are not going nowhere. It says you are going to be where God wants you to be. We are going to be grounded and rooted and we are going to represent God where he wants us to be, so somebody got to get over this. Here is a quotable or a Twitter-able or Facebook-able. You can’t be big when little got you. Let little go and pursue big. Some of us little has a chock hold on. God has so much he wants to do, but we are letting little hold us back.

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Christ’s Bell

Posted on December 11, 2009 by growintheword

Christ’s Bell
THE BELL
I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God’s child (John 1:12)
I am Christ’s friend (John 15:15 )
I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ. (Acts 1:8)
I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt 5:13-14)
I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)
I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2)
I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil 3 :20)
I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8:31 -34)
I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor 5:17-21)
I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39)
I am established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor 1:21-22 )
I am assured all things work together for good (Rom. 8:28 )
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16 )
I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph…. 3: 12 )
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13 )
I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5)
I am God’s temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
I am God’s co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected. (Phil. 1: 5)
I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as God’s child (Eph 1:5)
I belong to God
Do you know
Who you are?

‘The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you
And be gracious to you;
The LORD turn His face toward you
And give you peace…
Numbers 6:24-26

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Life in perspective today Part I, “I almost quit” Sermon 12/06/09

Posted on December 9, 2009 by growintheword

Life in perspective today Part I
I almost quit
Synopsis of sermon 12/06/09
Delivered by Bishop Walker III
Text: Jeremiah 20:7-9, 11-13 7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. 8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.13Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
One of the things that the bible gives us is this idea of incredible testimonies. The bible is highly testimonial with personalities within the bible. It gives us a glimpse of the struggles and successes of folks that went through some things. This is import. Without these testimonies, we would never have a sense of transparencies. Without these transparencies, we would think that we were the only ones who went through what we are going through. Like it was with Jeremiah, we will see how one man shows us how to respond by becoming transparent when you come to the break or boiling pot and you begin to contemplate quitting or giving up on your assignment. Jeremiah is the author of the book Jeremiah and Lamentations. It is no secret that he is referred to as the weeping prophet. He was called at an early age, and he was called to a great assignment, but Jeremiah felt that his assignment for him was too great for him. The persecution that he endured as a result of doing what God called him to do forces him to throw his hands up and tell the Lord that he wanted to quit! This message today is for people just like Jeremiah. You know that God has a great assignment for your life, but the truth is you are at a place in your life where you are contemplating just giving up. Many of you have assignments and you are contemplating giving up. Some of you woke up this morning declaring if I don’t get a word today I am done! You have decided that you are not going to fight for it anymore. Your frustration is at an all time high. You love the Lord, but you have decided that God is going to have to find somebody else to finish your assignment. It is amazing how God will send his word at the right time, to give us the word that you need, so you cannot walk away from the awesome thing that God is going to do in your life. There are two things we would like for you to remember. One is you are necessary. No matter what the enemy is doing with you, we have to realize that our life is necessary. Secondly, you are significant to the Kingdom. There is a larger thing playing out and your life is part of God’s Kingdom Manifestation in the earth realm. The devil realizes that if he can make you give up, he will literally manipulate Gods agenda in the earth realm. You have to recognize that quitting is not an option. This word is being preached today because for many of us you are too far out here to be contemplating quitting. You have been too much and made it through too much, so you might as well hang in there. We know you almost quit, but you can’t give up now!
I. Assignment is tough
1. Jeremiah assignment was to prophesy concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Jeremiah’s assignment was to go to the people of God who had fallen into apathy. These were people that had become lukewarm and that chosen to fall away from God. These were people that God had been good too, but had now chosen to live contrary to his word and as result had become so arrogant that they walked around saying they could do what they wanted to do, because God was with them. These were the people that Jeremiah had to prophesy to.
2. When God gives you and assignment, the assignment is never to make the conformable more comfortable. The assignment is always to make the comfortable uncomfortable. The assignment is always to effect change. It is to push you into their destiny whether they like it or whether they don’t. This is why you have to be called to this. Jeremiah 1:5 says 5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.-Before you were born, God called you to this. God will not call you to something that he will not walk with you through. You were born too solve a problem. You will always know when God has placed a call on your life. It will be validated by conflict. This is why some go and others were sent.
3. How do you know if you have an Authentic call:
a. Conflict of your flesh. Your flesh will always war with your spirit. Your flesh will say maybe you need a drink to face this. Whenever you have this conflict in your flesh you will know you have been called to an assignment. You spirit will know what it is supposed to do, but your flesh will always fight against it. Jeremiah’s conflict was he thought he was too young. God told him not to worry about his age, because he had already laid his hand on his mouth. He said as a result, the words he spoke would not be his words. Instead they would be God’s words.
b. Challenges of folk- Whenever you are in your call remember you are going to run into difficult people. It was in Jeremiah’s case, Pashur. Pashur was the governor of the temple. There were 24 governors of the temple and Pashur was one of the original ones. He was one of the original gangsters who really didn’t want people to contradict the lifestyles of people that were living in that day. Jeremiah 20:3: 3And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.-Pashur put chains on Jeremiah hands and feet. The stocks mean they put Jeremiah into an awkward position. Pashur’s name meant on all sides. Jeremiah says God wasn’t calling Pashur what the others were calling him, he said his name to God was Magormissabib. Magormissabib means terror on every side. In other words Jeremiah is saying to Pashur that he wasn’t what people called him (on everyone’s side). His says God know who he really was (Magormissabib-terror on every side). He says he was trying to act like he was with everyone, but at the end of the day they know that Pashur is a private hater. You have people that show up like Pashur, but they are really terrors on every side (Magormissabib). When you are in your assignment, everyone is not going to like you. If you want everyone to be just like you, you will never walk in your assignment and your call.
c. Constant frustration-It is a systematic plot of the enemy. In the text the enemy was trying to use:
i. Intimidation (stop you). The enemy is trying to stop you so the assignment will never come to fruition.
ii. Humiliation on (stop others) – The enemy tries to put you stocks on your and put you in unusual or awkward positions, so other folk would be scared to do what you did. Ex- If they see you were following God and ended up in that situation, they will be scared to go the same way
iii. Annihilation (stop God)-The devil is so stupid, he don’t realize you can’t hinder God’s work. You are not the only one who has gone through tough assignments. Nehemiah had the tough assignment of building a wall, but he could not come down because he had agreed to do the work. Paul went through, and he kept doing what God told him to do. He said nothing would separate him from the love of God. He knew he could do all things through Jesus Christ. Even Jesus said let this bitter cup pass from him, but he later said let it not be his will, but instead God’s will. God says we are so close, we can’t quit.
4. Why can’t we quit? It is because you are anointed for this trail
II. Anointed for the trial
1. Jeremiah means Jehovah appoints. Wherever God appoints, he anoints. All of us have lamented (cried) over what we have gone through while trying to do God’s will. No matter what others tell us, we are anointed for the assignment. It is a test of our character. God wants to know if you will represent him while you are going through what you are going through. Anyone can praise him when there is a mall in their closet or a traffic jam in the drive way (from all the cars you own), but can you say this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it when all is going bad? It is about how you will act under pressure. So many of us are going through so much, we think the devil only has our address. If you would look back over your life, you will realize that you should be dead or out of your mind by now, but you are still here because of your anointing. You were anointed for your assignment.
2. This is really about a commitment:
a. You have to realize the Sovereignty of God. Jeremiah 20:7: 7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.-This is why you have to be called to your assignment. Jeremiah says, “O LORD, thou has deceived me…” In other words he was saying if God would have told him in verse one what came with the assignment, he would have never arrived at verse 7. You have got to realize that you didn’t choose the assignment, the assignment chose you.
b. You must understand the scope of your assignment-there will be people that benefit from your assignment. If you give up, some body’s life will be affected. Salvation is always available. God won’t let you go where salvation is not available. Peter said I was doing what I was supposed to do. There church was praying while I was in prison, but God got him out. Paul and Silas said they were doing what God wanted them to do, yet they were still locked up, but God brought them out. You are anointed for this trail. All you need to do is just remember something. God is sitting you up for an awesome testimony.
III. Awesome testimony
1. Nobody wants to talk about our point of contemplation. How many times have you woke up on Sunday morning and looked in your closet and looked at your bed and decided you really didn’t want to come to church? How many times have you waked up in the middle of the night and looked at your spouse and decided you should just leave? Verse 9 is such a power statement. It says in Jeremiah 20:9: 9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. – It says in the “a” portion of this verse that Jeremiah had decided to quit. He said he wasn’t even going to mention God’s name anymore. He was convinced that every time he tried to do what God told him to do; he got all kinds of attacks and drew all kinds of trouble. Many of us have the same testimony. If we had just tried to leave alone what God wanted us to do, all that trouble would not have happened to us? We feel like we ought to get some kind of credit for doing God’s will. The whole time we try to do what God called us to do there seems to be trouble all around us. In verse 9 Jeremiah was convinced that he was going to give up and let God get somebody else to do what he wanted him to do. Jeremiah’s testimony is remembering. Jeremiah said “but, his word was in mine heart like a burning fire shut up in his bones”. Jeremiah realized he could not stay in this rut another day.
2. God put forth his hand and anointed Jeremiah and told him that the words he spoke would not be his words. He told him that his words would be God’s words. Jeremiah 1:8-9: 8Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
3. Jeremiah forgot God had anointed him for this assignment.. Jeremiah 1:10 says 10See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.- Somebody reading this is contemplating giving up, but God says you got to complete your assignment!
You got a:
a. Situation- It bought you to a point of resignation.
b. Resignation – In this place, you must remember you consecration.
c. Consecration – When you remember your consecration, it will remind you of your obligation.
d. Obligation – While remembering your obligation, God’s revelation will come to you.
e. Revelation – When God’s revelation comes to you, it will give you determination.
f. Determination – While you are getting your determination, don’t worry about your haters, because God will be your vindication.
g. Vindications – While God is dealing with your enemies go on and have your celebration.
h. Celebration – You came here today with a situation that got you to a point of resignation and now God sent this word to remind you that you have been anointed for the trial. You have been consecrated for this. Because of your consecration, you have obligation. You can’t be anointed and not obligated to fulfill your assignment. Thank God for his word revelation. Just when you are about to give up, God will send a word to quicken or ignite you. His word ignited a fire in your life and gave you determination. He is your vindicator so a result you can celebrate, because God delivers. God delivered Jeremiah out of the hands of the enemies. Ex-Bishop explains he had his first car. He was out one night going to pick up his girlfriend and the car quit. Now the worst thing that can happen to a teenager is to have your car breakdown while you are going to pick up your girl. The car would not start, the lights would not turn on, and the engine would not blow. (This is much like someone that sits beside you at church. They are there, but you know something is wrong because instead of being bubbly like they usually are, their horn is not working. ). Bishop called his Dad and told him that his car quit working and he went on to explain that the horn would not blow, the lights wouldn’t cut on, and it wouldn’t start. He was actually crying when he called. He told his Dad that he was getting ready to call and have it towed away. Bishop thought the car was done for and it was time to just have it towed away. (Just like this, the devil makes you think it is all over so you are just ready to have your situation towed way) Bishop’s father started laughing and told him that he didn’t need to tow it. He told him all that he needed to do is boost it off. Bishop’s father came and gave the car a boost and the car started back running and everything on it begin to work again. Just like this, you don’t need to be towed off. You don’t need to quit. All you need is a boost. Go to God and get a boost and suddenly you will be able to work again!.

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Moving past your pain Pt1, Bible Study 12/02/09

Posted on December 6, 2009 by growintheword

Moving past your pain Pt 1


Synopsis of Bible Study 12/02/09
Delivered by Bishop Walker III
It is important for us to understand how serious this topic is, because many of us are still shackled by things that have happened to us. A lot of people are chained to their past because of emotional wounds, broken relationships, and addictions. Lots of things make us frustrated because we cannot move beyond what has happened to us. It is kind of like one of those things in church that people don’t want to talk about, because we have learned how to live with pain. So as a result of having learned how to live with our pain, we have desensitized ourselves to the reality of what we are dealing with and we go through life with denial and sugar coating our issues. We are talking to people today that have some real issues. How do we move past it? How do we fulfill our God given assignment and get past the pain that is attempting to paralyze us and that is preventing us from fulfilling our assignment? Well we want you to understand that there is an anointing available to you as a child of God and that anointing through Jesus Christ has come to set you free. In Luke 4:18 the bible declares “18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, ”.
Let’s talk about this. When you see this first you are seeing the progression of pain. When you look at it again, Jesus says that he has been anointed for something. He says he has been anointed to bring the gospel to the poor. Let’s look at poor as a condition instead of a mind set. So he is saying we have been anointed to bring good news to people in a bad situation. Jesus said he has been anointed to bring good news to a people whose head is not right and he was sent us to bring healing to people whose hearts have been broken. If our head gets right, then our heart gets right. If our head gets right and our heart gets right, guess what happens next? Then we preach deliverance to those who are held captive. The reason we are in bondage and the reason we can’t move on is because our head is messed up, our heart is broken, we were paralyzed and couldn’t move.
Jesus said he came to give us good news. The good news is that the bad news was wrong. Jesus came to preach unto us the good news no matter what our state of mine is. We came to tell you that God has something better for you. We came to tell you that even though somebody broke your heart and no matter who left you, we have come to heal you. As a matter of fact, in John 14:1 when Jesus got ready to leave, he had to remind his disciples not let their hearts be trouble. John 14:1:1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Jesus deals with matters of the heart. Jesus came to bring deliverance to people who are held captive, but not only that; he came to bring sight to the blind. Jesus did heal people physically. He did restore blinded eyes. There are people who’s prospective is tainted by carnal cataracts. There are people who do not have a clear view of the reality out of their pain. It is like a form of blindness, because they don’t see life the way God wants them to see it. These people look at somebody who reminds them of someone who hurt them and all of a sudden they treat that person like they are the person who hurt them. The people that are being looked at wrong wonder why this person that has been hurt looks at them the way they do. It is all because they are being viewed through the lines of another person’s pain. You are literally blind, but the reality is Jesus says he came to open up our eyes. Jesus says he came to help us see past who hurt us. Jesus says he came to let us know how to take people for who they are and not make them pay for who hurt you received 15yrs ago. Not only that, the scripture says Jesus also came to set at liberty those who were bruised. Look at all the folk around you. There are folk reading this today who are still bruised. Do you know what a bruise is? It is that thing that hurts and hasn’t healed yet. It is there, but it is painful. Ex-You know when you are bruised, you are going through life and then you see somebody that hurt you, you are reminded that the bruise is still there. You talk about them and your voice goes up 4 octaves. This is an indication of being bruised. You see someone in the Mall that hurt you and you are reminded that you are bruised. Like a bruise, the injury is still affecting you. It is still painful. You don’t want to talk about that area because that area is still tender. What is it that is in your life that is still tender? We say that we are delivered, set free, and that God’s been good to us, but if we bring up certain things to us, that area is still tender. Jesus says I cam e to heal you from that. Jesus says he doesn’t want us going through life having those tender spots. He is trying to help us get to a place of complete healing and wholeness.
All of us in this place have pain that is un-dealt with. King David says in Psalm 109:22: 22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.- In this scripture, King David declares that he is poor and needy. How can a king say that he is poor and needy? It is because poverty is not a condition. It is a mindset. The scripture says and his heart was wounded within him. In other words the scripture is saying he is in the wrong place in his head. He is Poor! Because his head ain’t right, now his heart ain’t right! Now this makes him needy! When we are needy, we start reaching out to people for stuff to try and make it right, so consequently, everywhere we go, we are end up in a dysfunctional relationship. If David had never been in this state of neediness, maybe he would never have went over to be with Bathsheba. This kind of stuff happens because of this type of neediness and this kind of un-dealt with pain. When you see the manifestation of behavior, you cannot make judgment calls based on the behavior without identifying the source of the pain. People are hurting these days. People, who hurt, turn around and hurt other people. No matter whom you are, whether you are a white collar worker, blue collar worker, construction worker, mother, father, son, or daughter, everybody reading this has some deep wounds or deep pain. The question that has to be recognized is this, is there any hope? Well we come to tell you that there is. There is hope for you. Listen carefully. We have to begin to examine, what caused our pain.
I. What caused our pain and what gives rise to our wounds?
1. Was it an emotional wound inflicted by your parents? Some people reading this right now haven’t gotten over some things that their parents did to them. It could be something their parents did not do, or a father that was not there. Maybe it was a mother that wasn’t there. Maybe it was something said that you never got over. . Mark 9:22 says 22And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.- The scripture shows a father owning up to his responsibilities. He says if you can do anything Jesus, have mercy on us, because he felt he had failed his son. He acknowledges that what is wrong with his son may also be wrong with him.
2. Was it some physical, mental, or verbal abuse? Proverbs 18:21says 21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. What did somebody say to you that hurt you that bad? You would be surprised how you can murder someone with your tongue or with the things you say. The physical and mental and verbal abuse that people carry around is so heavy some time. Some of you right now have low self esteem which was a result of what somebody said to you when you were a little child and you haven’t out lived it yet.
3. Sexual abuse-This is the big shhhhh in church. Nobody wants to talk about this in church. You would be surprised how many females and males reading this today have had some inappropriate touching by people who were not supposed to touch them. Even in 2 Samuel 13 you have the rape of Tamar by her own brother. (We encourage you to read it sometime). This was nothing new. All throughout the bible, you have people that had been sexually abused and all kind of different things manifested out of the pain of the sexual abuse.
4. How can something like this happen? What do you do with the general meanness of some people? You know how some people can just be mean and how that can affect you. It’s like when you go on the job and you ask why come some people have to be so mean to us. Sometimes this can create pain in your life.
5. Broken relationships- What about that person that said I am going to be with you and they assure you that it is going to last forever, then all of a sudden the Little House on the Prairie ends up like Nightmare on Elm Street. What do you do with that broken relationship or that big major disappointment? What do you do when things disappoint you and begin to let you down? What about that nasty divorce or that major moral failure you had. What do you do with those things? This is all examples of pain.
II. What are the affects of these wounds
1. What does it do? It creates side effects. Some of the side effects can be:
a. Hurt people, hurt people-Wounded people, or victims that don’t’ get help, become When you see people acting out, I guarantee you can trace it back to some pain that they didn’t deal with form the past. Anger, bitterness, and violence that people have are symptoms. People are just not born that way. These things over time just happen to them. Ex- A person might say “Somebody played me, so I guess I will be a player. “
b. Shame, guilt, and unworthiness and this whole idea of self condemnation and then having no confidence at all.-These are people that go through life lonely and withdrawn. They don’t have many friends.
c. People that are unable to respond to people properly. – These type of people hate to be in healthy relationships because they don’t know how to be in a healthy relationship.
d. Eating disorders and people that are slow to love. These are people that have big guards around them or barriers even. When someone of the opposite sex speaks to them, they don’t want to engage, because they are so guarded. They feel like everybody that has been in their life has hurt them so they don’t allow people to get close to them and they don’t want anyone to talk to them. They build unhealthy boundaries around them. As a result they don’t trust other people and they have misconceptions about God, because now their psychology is messed up, and their sociology is messed up, and their theology is messed up. They wonder why God let this happen to them. This is the trick of the enemy. He wants to turn you against God. They say if God loved them then this pain would never have happened to them. This then makes them become mythical about life and they begin to feel that they have no hope. This makes them go through life in depression and despair. This can cause a spiral that leads to addictions like alcohol and drugs and before long, they have a gun to their head and it is over. This is the cycle that is created.
2. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus says he came that we might have life more abundantly. John 10:10: 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. – This is life. We are not talking about just a free ticket to heaven. We are talking about the God life that you can have on the earth. We are supposed to live life. Life is not supposed to live us. We are supposed to have life , peace and love. We are not supposed to go through life saying that we hate to give up! We are supposed to wake up saying this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. We are not so much responsible for what the day brings, but we are supposed to be rejoicing in whatever it brings. We have to thank God that our name is not in the obituary column, and thank him that we have breath to breathe, that we have clothes on our backs, and that we have the stuff money can’t buy. Every day we wake up we ought to thank God for life!
III. How then does the healing come
10 principles to get healing
1. Recognize that Jesus really wants and desires to heal us. Jesus really wants us to be healed. Mark 2:17says 17When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.- This scripture declares that those who are whole, don’t need a physician, but the people who are sick do. He says he came not to call the righteous. He came to call the sinners to repentance. In other words, Jesus says he came for the people that have something wrong with them. Jesus says his ministry is for those who are sick! It is for those who can bring their issues and their pain to the great physician and say “here I am”. One of the worst things you could ever do is go to your physician with something wrong and not honest with your physician. You have something hurting you but you tell him that you don’t feel any pain or it’s really not that bad. It is killing you and here is the person that you need to tell it to, but you say no it’s fine and all the time you are coughing up blood. You are in position to get help but you are so stubborn to tell the physician about it.
a. Jesus said he came for whatever is ever wrong with you. Hebrews 4:14-16: 14 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.-Jesus knows what you are going through because he felt pain. He was through all points tempted, but he resisted it. He went through what we went through what we went through without acting a fool. He showed us how to go through it and manage our pain. He was betrayed, sold out, denied, and he even saw people that he blessed ask for him to be crucified.
b. Jesus taught us how to deal with it. He did not sin. He helped us manage the pain. Why do we go everywhere else but to the throne with our pain? There comes a time where we have to say what we need is at the throne. What we need is not in our self, it is at the throne.
2. Must come out of denial and openly confess the pain. Stop denying it. It hurts, so acknowledge it. Psalm 62:5-8 says 5 Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken.7 My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.8 O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. Interlude -He is our salvation. God doesn’t deliver from nothing. He delivers from something. One scripture we ought to remember is Psalm 118:5-6 which says 5 In my distress I prayed to the Lord, and the Lord answered me and set me free.6 The Lord is for me, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me? – Jesus took us out of the confined space and gave us room. When we are hurting everything tries to close in on us. Ex-Imagine if we were playing basket ball in a gym and Michael Jordon comes in and asks if he can join in. Everyone would quickly say yes he could join in and guess who you want on your side? If we were playing golf and Tiger Woods comes out and he asks if he can play with us, we would immediately say yes and guess who we would want on his side? If we have that much confidence in Jordan and Tiger then imagine how we ought to feel about having God on our side. Why are you walking around afraid what people are going to do to you and what is going to happen to you? If God be for you, he is more than the whole world against you! We got somebody with us! You might not know it until you mess with us, but we got somebody on our side. When stuff jumps off, god will in front of us to protect us.
3. Must have the courage to face the pain and the ugliness of the wound. How bad is it? This is when you have been hurt and you don’t want to deal with it. You don’t want to talk about it. You tell people you are going to be alright. It is your inability to deal with the pain. You will have to turn to it and face. You can’t fix it if you don’t face it! When Job lost everything he had, Job looked around and accessed everything Job 1:20 says 20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, – Job looked out and rent his mantle. He became angry. He acknowledged that he didn’t like it because it was painful, but he moved to a point where he began to worship God. You have to be able to look at this and transcend your natural human emotion and come to a place in the spirit where you can give God the glory even through the stuff that didn’t feel good to you. If it didn’t kill you, it made you stronger. Look at the stuff you hate to look at .Though you might be still salty and realize that you would not be in church probably if it wasn’t for it.
4. Must deal with the root and not just the symptom. You have to get to core issue. When you start dealing with symptoms, you don’t address the whole problem. Symptoms are indicators that there is something wrong. You don’t treat the symptoms and just stop. You have to go and treat what caused the symptoms. When God dealt with Israel’s enemies, the Amorites, in Amos 2:9 the Lord declares he destroyed the Amorites. God says he destroyed the Amorites right before them and their height was the height of cedar trees. He says they were as strong as oak trees, but he says look at how he destroyed them. Amos 2:9: 9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. God said he took out their fruit first, above, but he didn’t just stop there. He took out the root from beneath. He says he went to the core issue. He went to the roots. He went to what caused this tainted fruit to come forth. Many times we see people acting out in a variety of ways. They act violently, promiscuously, and various kinds of dysfunctional relationships. Ex- Bishop Walker says he is not as quick to pass judgment. He states he recognizes that it is his responsibility to pray for them in hopes they get to a place to go back the root of their problem, because the ministry of Jesus Christ dealt with the root. Every miracle that Jesus performed involving another person, he always went for the root. EX- There was a woman who had an issue of blood. Ex For 12 yrs, she has a flow of blood that is uncontrollable. There are a variety of things going on with her like psychological and physiological state. Imagine someone who is anemic. Imagine how it would affect their mind. She has a physiological disorder, she goes to physicians that are unable to help her, so now she is frustrated because the folk that should be able to help her, doesn’t have any answers. Now she is a social outcast, because according to Leviticus code, because she is bleeding, she is unclean so now she has to be in isolation, but she heard that Jesus was coming by. Now faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so when she heard that Jesus was coming by, she broke protocol. She said I need a miracle so bad, I don’t care what the law says. She was determined that she was going to get to Jesus. She presses her way to Jesus thought the crowd and Jesus says somebody touched me. The disciples say there are a lot of folk touching him, but Jesus says that he noticed that virtue has come out of him. He says to the woman, I feel your desperation and sincerity. The woman has come to Jesus, because she is frustrated. She is in pain. She is in physical and emotional pain. She is tired of this happening to her. She wants to be healed. She touches the hem of his germant and the bible says immediately, her issue dries up. Jesus turns to her and says woman, thou faith has made you whole. She came for healing, but Jesus was not going to just let her leave with a dried up issue. If she left only with a dried up issue, she would have left bitter and still not speaking to people that looked at her and said get away! She had all this anger and bitterness and rejection and all this pain, so Jesus says you don’t just need a healing, he says he needs to make her whole. Our problem is people come to church and act out, but we need to recognize that people need wholeness. Ex- Bishop says he is a theologically trained pastor. He literally spent 7 yrs after undergrad studying the bible in formal education. In seminary they don’t teach you a lot of practical stuff. It is a lot of heady stuff, theory. There is an assumption made that because people Pastor they can counsel. There are probably less than 35% of churches that have trained clergy. A lot of churches just have Pastors that were called and they start preaching without any formal education. There is nothing wrong with going to talk to your pastor, but Pastors are confined to the word. All pastors can give you in the word. Infact Lawyers say that Pastors are safe by giving the congregation the word, because you Pastor can’t say to a woman that she ought to leave her husband, because he is going to come and sue your Pastor. All the Pastor can tell you is what the bible says. The issue is, we put Pastors and ministers in these positions who have not been formally trained in clinical counseling so as a result, we want people to treat our symptoms. We just want a Pastor to give us a word or lay hands on us and if we fall out, we still get up with a root issue. This is why you see the same people joining church every Sunday (Ex-you were just down her last week. You already have a membership). This is because we want the easy way out. We just want a quick scripture, some oil on our head, and we fall out and think our trouble will go away when in fact we should be saying as spiritual men and women, it is our responsibility to give you the word and the word is going to help you get a better perspective on life. God has some good Christian counselors that can help us get to the root of why we are acting the way we are acting. There are some core issues that we need to discuss with somebody who is a professional and can deal with it. It is the Pastors’ responsibility to give us the word of God. It is the word of God that is going to bring healing. You got to get to the root. If you don’t get to the root, then you are going to be in a continuous cycle. Ex-Bishop says he goes to counseling. He Pastors a church and feels he should. He assures that he is not crazy. You have to get to the root of what’s wrong with you.
5. Forgive and let go. How many of us right now have people that we have not forgiven. Colossians 3:12-14 says 12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. – As Christ forgave you, you must forgive them. – Charity means love and perfectness means maturity. You don’t forgive for people for them. You forgive for you. Ex-You try to hold a grudge and the person you mad at done went on with their life. The person you mad at is with somebody else in the mall and moved on and you still holding on to your issue with them. Why you are we still bitter talking about them and they not even thinking about us. Ex- Bishop Walker explains that he has had people walk up to him and say,” I forgive you” and he says, well ok. He explains that he doesn’t even know what he did that he need to be forgiven for. Evidently it was something they felt went on that he didn’t hang on to.
6. Love your enemies. Love the hell right out of your enemies. If they have hell in them, you have to love it out of them. Matthew 5:44 says 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; – Make a list of all those folks that you need to love that has done stuff to you and pray for them. That will increase your prayer life right there! Ex- Bishop says he loves to love his haters. He says he loves to walk into a social setting and find that there are less than 1% of people there who hate on him. Bishop says it is his job to empower them with the love of Christ, and not empower their hatred towards him by being bitter to them. As a result he says he goes out of his way to be nice to them. If he asks how he is doing, he will reply fine. We can’t empower people because they have an issue with us. He is going to love them anyway. Some of you now is jumping locations simply because there is somebody there that you don’t like or who don’t like you
7. We must find a safe environment to take off the mask. James 5:16 says 16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.- This scripture says confess you faults not your sins one to another. Who can you be real with? Do you have somebody that you can allow to mentor to you? You got to have somewhere you can take off the mask. Bishop says he has some guys that he can go to and take off his Bishop hat and talk to real with.
8. We must find comfort in God’s word. God’s word is so powerful; we have to know that he sent his word to heal us. Psalm 119:50 says 50This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.-The word resurrected something in us. It brought us back to life. Psalm 119:92-93 says 92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.-if it wasn’t for Bible Study or Sunday Service we believe we would be gone. We will never forget what he Lord told us, because that word keeps quickening us over and over again. The moment we find our self slipping, that word keeps coming back in our spirit. Time will get rough and we start running down and that word just pops back up and revives us.
9. You must repent in areas where your sin has caused the damage. A lot of the pain we have we have to take responsibility for. Yes people hurt us, but there was stuff we did to contribute to our pain. A lot of our pain is because we are angry that we let this happen to us! Ex- Nobody told you to marry that person; you did it on your own.
10. You got to engage in spiritual warfare. What hurts us is a real devil. Ephesians 6:10 says 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.-What came at you was not a human being. What hurt you was a real devil that got into a very pain filled individual who refused to deal with their pain. The person that hurt you was a willing vessel. The devil uses these types of people. These are people who will not deal with their pain or people who are not whole, people that are looking to be filled with something. The devil says he will come in and cause you to do things to hurt other people, because you won’t deal with your own pain.
Hebrews 12:1-2 says 1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.-God has a lot for us to do. And our pain is trying to prevent it. We must look to Jesus Christ says verse two. The joy was the assignment. , Luke 4:8 says 8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. – Jesus came to set us free by purchasing us back from the devil. What did it cost him? It was pain. He was looking out at people that he helped denying him and he saw people betray him. It cost him 39 lashes on his back and being put on the cross, and offered vinegar when he asked for water. He went through it though he could have come down. His assignment was so great to save us that he went through the assignment. The greatness of his assignment minimized his pain. The reason your pain is so great, it is because you don’t know how great your assignment is. Your pain is causing you to want to give up. The moment you see how awesome and great this thing is that God wants to do in your life, then your pain will be minimized. Eyes have not seen nor ears heard nor has it entered into the hearts of men, the things that God has in store for you. He says he knows the plans he thinks towards us. These are thoughts of good and not evil to give you an expected end. God has all of this great stuff and you think I am going to let the pain cause me to forfeit it? I got to get over this and I have to go after what God has for my life.

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