Patience in an Instant Gratification World

WEBVTT

00:00:04.966 --> 00:00:12.545
Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of the faith through the lens of our middle-aged experiences.

00:00:12.545 --> 00:00:13.589
I'm Rick.

00:00:13.589 --> 00:00:23.571
Welcome to the show where I help you, gen Xers and Millennials, navigate spiritually through a world that looks nothing like we expected back when cars were square and mullets were totally awesome.

00:00:23.571 --> 00:00:24.152
I am so glad you're here.

00:00:24.152 --> 00:00:26.679
Nothing like we expected back, when cars were square and mullets were totally awesome.

00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.262
I am so glad you're here.

00:00:30.867 --> 00:00:34.512
Do you remember when you were a kid and you made popcorn?

00:00:34.512 --> 00:00:38.561
Y'all remember Jiffy Pop.

00:00:38.561 --> 00:01:05.049
It was that aluminum frying pan with that little aluminum handle on it and it had foil over the top and you'd light the stove, turn the electric eye on the stove and put that pan on top and shake it around and it would pop inside that tray and the aluminum foil would expand into a big ball man, that was so much fun.

00:01:05.049 --> 00:01:17.915
But you know it took like five, six, ten minutes to make and my mom used to make it in a pot.

00:01:17.915 --> 00:01:23.260
She'd put a little oil in the bottom and then put a half a cup of popcorn in the bottom of the bowl and stick a lid on top.

00:01:23.260 --> 00:01:25.082
She'd shake it.

00:01:25.082 --> 00:01:26.808
Every so often It'd start popping.

00:01:26.808 --> 00:01:34.831
You'd hear it pop, pop pop and then it would eventually start popping fast and push the lid up.

00:01:34.831 --> 00:01:38.067
That still took about 10 minutes.

00:01:38.067 --> 00:01:43.060
Now we got microwave popcorn.

00:01:44.944 --> 00:01:49.704
I found myself the other day making some popcorn Popcorn's good.

00:01:49.704 --> 00:02:04.828
I stood there impatient at the microwave because I think it takes less than two minutes now to pop popcorn in a bag, but I'm huffing like I want my popcorn.

00:02:04.828 --> 00:02:06.406
It's been 53 seconds.

00:02:06.406 --> 00:02:09.986
That's the world we're living in.

00:02:09.986 --> 00:02:10.247
Now.

00:02:10.247 --> 00:02:15.352
We have been consumed with instantaneous gratification.

00:02:15.352 --> 00:02:25.914
All of us, not just young people, all the generations, even our parents, the boomers.

00:02:25.914 --> 00:02:28.949
They've got to be gratified immediately.

00:02:30.102 --> 00:02:31.927
And I'm guilty, just like I said.

00:02:31.927 --> 00:02:36.169
I mean, I get caught watching these reels that are supposed to entertain us.

00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:43.150
They put them on YouTube, they put them on Facebook, they got them on TikTok, but I am not getting a TikTok.

00:02:43.150 --> 00:02:44.860
Now.

00:02:44.860 --> 00:02:49.513
If you search and you find renewed mindsets on a TikTok yes, I did start one.

00:02:49.513 --> 00:02:56.394
I don't think I ever posted anything and I just felt too much like a 13-year-old girl to be using TikTok.

00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:09.049
But you watch one and then the next thing you know you're caught up in this rabbit hole of videos and an hour's gone by and you just planned on watching one video.

00:03:09.049 --> 00:03:14.247
My pastor sends them to me and they're funny.

00:03:14.247 --> 00:03:19.568
But he sends one to me and I watch it and I'm like, well, I gotta find something to send him back.

00:03:19.568 --> 00:03:23.526
Next thing, you know, we've spent 20 minutes sending videos back and forth to each other.

00:03:23.526 --> 00:03:24.241
It's made us insatiable.

00:03:24.241 --> 00:03:26.843
Next thing, you know, we've spent 20 minutes sending videos back and forth to each other.

00:03:26.843 --> 00:03:34.534
It's made us insatiable for laughter or one-upping somebody else.

00:03:34.534 --> 00:03:46.109
We can't even listen to a conversation now without getting lost in our head because the conversation's taking too long.

00:03:46.128 --> 00:03:49.759
If this podcast goes more than 45 minutes or an hour, I can tell you.

00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.086
I can look at the metrics.

00:03:51.086 --> 00:03:54.090
I can tell you when everybody starts getting lost.

00:03:54.090 --> 00:04:01.830
It doesn't matter how good this revelation is, it doesn't matter how awesome this message that God gave me is.

00:04:01.830 --> 00:04:05.667
Whenever I start one, I can see.

00:04:05.667 --> 00:04:07.151
I can look at the timeline.

00:04:07.151 --> 00:04:09.644
When that thing starts, y'all are all in.

00:04:09.644 --> 00:04:18.286
I can see the graph Everybody's excited, man, the word of God, what's Rick going to talk about today?

00:04:18.286 --> 00:04:29.093
But as the minutes tick by man, by the time you get to the end of a 30 or 40 minute podcast, I see like one or two of you left.

00:04:29.093 --> 00:04:42.730
If it's taking longer than we feel like it should, then the listens go down, the downloads are done Dead, nobody can engage for longer than about 15 seconds anymore.

00:04:45.043 --> 00:04:51.305
We got all this stuff in our life that gratifies us instantly, especially in this country.

00:04:51.305 --> 00:05:00.783
And, man, if we're honest, how often do we expect God to instantly gratify us and give us our promises?

00:05:00.783 --> 00:05:04.369
How often do we want God right now?

00:05:04.369 --> 00:05:10.504
God told me something and right now I want it to be made whole in my life.

00:05:10.504 --> 00:05:15.742
I want it to be manifest now, and if it takes two weeks, then I've already lost interest.

00:05:15.742 --> 00:05:17.708
My mind's off somewhere else.

00:05:17.708 --> 00:05:23.447
If it takes longer than six months, I've really lost interest and I'm guilty about it.

00:05:23.447 --> 00:05:27.254
I'm not preaching to you because it's something I don't understand.

00:05:27.254 --> 00:05:31.891
I can preach it to you because, dude, that's me.

00:05:33.521 --> 00:05:41.754
God is trying to get us as a body to be unified, to be matured, so that we can take our church outside the four walls.

00:05:41.754 --> 00:05:45.002
I feel it.

00:05:45.002 --> 00:05:46.507
I desperately feel it.

00:05:46.507 --> 00:05:50.281
We've got to get outside of the four walls of the church now.

00:05:50.281 --> 00:06:01.947
The anointing of God is real, and it's real in your church, it's real in my house, it's real where I go to church, and sometimes I just can't wait.

00:06:01.947 --> 00:06:06.112
I'm ready to do it now, I'm ready to go now.

00:06:06.112 --> 00:06:13.166
But you know what, if we go before, it's time, before everybody is ready.

00:06:13.166 --> 00:06:19.175
We've been patient with everybody and everybody has a good, solid foundation.

00:06:19.175 --> 00:06:25.670
You've got to wait until that point Because if you go before, then people are going to crumble and fall away.

00:06:25.670 --> 00:06:47.706
Because when you go out into the real world where there's an absolute, real devil and you begin to come against the kingdom of darkness and fighting against hell and all the religious people are hating against you and all the demonic people are hating against you and all the demonic people are hating against you you got to have a backbone.

00:06:47.706 --> 00:06:53.233
You got to have a backbone made of steel and be able to stand up against that.

00:06:53.233 --> 00:07:03.209
So until you can get your group of people all in one accord, you really can't go outside the four walls of your church.

00:07:03.209 --> 00:07:06.706
But we have to get going.

00:07:06.706 --> 00:07:21.706
I'm telling you at my church we're going to get going and then you're growing and people, people, you will see it, people will grow in the Lord.

00:07:24.221 --> 00:07:25.305
It's happened in my life.

00:07:25.305 --> 00:07:32.432
In nine months I've gone from can to can't and I'm not even there.

00:07:32.432 --> 00:07:42.392
I'm not even close to being where I need to be and sometimes I think I don't think I've made any progress at all.

00:07:42.392 --> 00:07:54.250
And then somebody will say something to me and say, man, I just see something in you and I'm not bragging on myself, but it is my show and I've got to talk about something.

00:07:54.250 --> 00:08:02.954
If you look at my life a year ago at this time it's a completely different person.

00:08:02.954 --> 00:08:20.529
Sometimes I don't feel like I've grown at all, but when I look back on the year and I can see the picture of my life, I'm telling you it'll make me cry, because I can see what God has done in my life.

00:08:22.461 --> 00:08:23.586
It just takes time.

00:08:23.586 --> 00:08:26.125
We've got to be patient and wait.

00:08:26.125 --> 00:08:29.641
But the truth is we don't deserve it.

00:08:29.641 --> 00:08:35.630
We don't serve a microwave God.

00:08:35.630 --> 00:08:46.072
We don't serve a God that we can just pop our problems into and boom, we got a bowl of pop deliverance.

00:08:46.072 --> 00:08:51.291
It's just going to take our problems and dump them out.

00:08:51.291 --> 00:08:56.150
Sometimes we're in a big old hurry and God's not.

00:08:56.150 --> 00:09:05.669
God wants us to seek his face and pray, and at times he wants us to even fast from certain things.

00:09:05.669 --> 00:09:16.620
As we wait for him, as we wait for his divine answers and seek his face and pray and sometimes fast.

00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:20.485
That's what God wants from us.

00:09:22.607 --> 00:09:26.451
I am so busy I'm about to move.

00:09:26.451 --> 00:09:37.053
If you've been with this podcast since the beginning, you know I live in an RV and I am way off, an hour and 20 minutes from everybody that I know.

00:09:37.053 --> 00:09:57.177
So, going to church on Wednesday and a Friday night for prayer meeting and then Sunday, I'm spending, you know, three hours driving three days a week.

00:09:57.177 --> 00:09:58.605
That's nine hours.

00:09:58.605 --> 00:10:04.251
I'm in the vehicle and I am moving five miles from the church.

00:10:04.251 --> 00:10:10.711
I am so excited I'm going to be able to participate more.

00:10:10.711 --> 00:10:15.407
Okay, I'm going to tell the truth.

00:10:15.407 --> 00:10:19.291
I'm excited because I'm getting like nine or ten extra hours a week.

00:10:19.291 --> 00:10:28.293
I'm excited because I might take that ten hours and split it up and get an extra hour of sleep a night for an even six hours.

00:10:30.081 --> 00:10:34.326
I'm not complaining, lord, I'm not complaining.

00:10:34.326 --> 00:10:41.433
We're at a thing right now at my church that if we complain, we got to put a dollar in to help support the school that we have.

00:10:41.433 --> 00:10:46.932
Man, those kids are going to be getting some good stuff because we are all complainers.

00:10:46.932 --> 00:10:48.644
But I digress.

00:10:48.644 --> 00:10:51.529
This is not a podcast about complaints.

00:10:51.529 --> 00:10:53.727
This is a complaint.

00:10:53.727 --> 00:10:58.511
This is a podcast about gratification and patience.

00:11:02.860 --> 00:11:06.110
If you know me, if you've seen me, I'm a big guy.

00:11:06.110 --> 00:11:12.631
I'm not going to give you the weight, but I am 6'4" so I'm tall.

00:11:12.631 --> 00:11:35.326
But sometimes I get so busy and so caught up between work and coming home and working on the shows this podcast and the Wisdom for the Day podcast and the videos that I got putting out and wanted to talk to a special lady in my life, special lady in my life.

00:11:35.326 --> 00:11:42.707
I sound like somebody from the 70s Lady, but I don't have time for everything.

00:11:42.707 --> 00:11:44.785
Sometimes I forget to eat.

00:11:44.785 --> 00:11:52.701
I think that's why I'm fat, because when I finally remember I got to eat, I usually eat something bad McDonald's.

00:11:52.701 --> 00:11:54.347
I'm 56 years old.

00:11:54.347 --> 00:11:55.927
I need to quit eating at McDonald's.

00:11:55.927 --> 00:11:58.868
I need to quit eating ramen noodles.

00:11:58.868 --> 00:12:02.720
I probably wouldn't look so fat if I quit eating ramen noodles.

00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:04.166
I think I'm just retaining water.

00:12:05.721 --> 00:12:13.812
Jeez, I do sound like an old man, but sometimes I'll realize it's 7 o'clock at night.

00:12:13.812 --> 00:12:33.115
I haven't eaten anything all day and then I'm starving and I'm like I got to finish this show and if I stop to eat I'm not going to get to bed before midnight and I just run and I run, and I run, and I run and it's just like life.

00:12:33.115 --> 00:12:40.033
I'm running around in circles trying to get stuff done, waiting for a promise from God to become a reality.

00:12:40.033 --> 00:12:54.936
I mean, that's a natural part of being a Christian, but unfortunately a lot of believers give themselves over to worry, waiting for the time that God's blessing comes.

00:12:57.081 --> 00:13:08.628
And for those of us that get stuck in that worry of waiting on what God's going to do, it seems like the second hand on your watch is just not moving and you sit there and look at the clock.

00:13:08.628 --> 00:13:12.547
You know what I'm talking about.

00:13:12.547 --> 00:13:22.049
Waiting is the worst thing in the world Because you'd be sitting there and you're like okay, I know an hour's gone by.

00:13:22.049 --> 00:13:25.110
I call it conference calls for work.

00:13:25.110 --> 00:13:30.030
I'm like, how could this conference call have been an hour already?

00:13:30.030 --> 00:13:37.250
And I look at my watch and it's been five minutes and you would have sworn that you've been on this thing for an hour.

00:13:37.250 --> 00:13:43.571
But anyway, the second hand's not moving.

00:13:43.571 --> 00:13:46.788
It's the middle of the night.

00:13:46.788 --> 00:13:47.558
It's the middle of the night.

00:13:47.558 --> 00:13:49.265
It's the middle of the day.

00:13:49.265 --> 00:13:52.905
Dying's never coming.

00:13:52.905 --> 00:13:57.890
Pain might endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

00:13:57.890 --> 00:14:01.605
You don't get that.

00:14:01.605 --> 00:14:08.426
We're stuck.

00:14:10.902 --> 00:14:16.072
The worry on the weight causes all kind of grief and problems in our lives.

00:14:16.072 --> 00:14:19.408
We've got to come out of this mindset.

00:14:19.408 --> 00:14:30.428
If that sounds familiar, it's because this show is all about mindsets the worry of waiting.

00:14:30.428 --> 00:14:33.105
Where's it going?

00:14:33.105 --> 00:14:36.250
When's it going to get here?

00:14:36.250 --> 00:14:46.932
Some of us have read the entire third chapter of Ecclesiastes and we know that there's a time and a purpose for everything under heaven.

00:14:46.932 --> 00:14:48.865
We all know that.

00:14:48.865 --> 00:14:55.729
We know that in the scriptures it says we're supposed to be patient, but we still get caught up in this world.

00:14:55.729 --> 00:15:01.908
How many times are we going to ask God when is this going to materialize?

00:15:01.908 --> 00:15:06.149
When is this thing going to manifest in my life?

00:15:06.149 --> 00:15:09.947
When am I going to get that promotion?

00:15:09.947 --> 00:15:20.294
When is this podcast going to explode to where I can quit working and just make content 24 hours a day?

00:15:20.294 --> 00:15:29.019
Am I ever going to get married?

00:15:29.019 --> 00:15:31.100
They're all promises from God to me.

00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:35.500
I want them all now.

00:15:35.500 --> 00:15:38.666
When's it going to happen?

00:15:38.666 --> 00:15:48.373
You can only imagine that the Bible doesn't say it, even though you can look in it all you want.

00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.024
Look back in the Old Testament.

00:15:50.024 --> 00:15:56.081
Those people had the ability to wait a lot longer than we ever had to wait, my goodness.

00:15:56.081 --> 00:15:59.046
Everything they made, everything they had to eat.

00:15:59.046 --> 00:16:01.750
They had to grow it.

00:16:01.750 --> 00:16:03.231
They had to grind it.

00:16:03.231 --> 00:16:04.253
They had to grow it.

00:16:04.253 --> 00:16:06.596
They had to grind it.

00:16:06.596 --> 00:16:07.477
They had to prepare it.

00:16:07.477 --> 00:16:08.639
They had to get it ready.

00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:15.062
If they had a headache.

00:16:15.062 --> 00:16:17.230
They had to get the leaves and the herbs and grind them and make them into a poultice.

00:16:17.230 --> 00:16:20.039
I knew I was going to be able to use the word poultice at some point in this podcast.

00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.346
You got to grow it and dry it and prepare it.

00:16:23.346 --> 00:16:26.113
Everything had to be prepared.

00:16:26.113 --> 00:16:28.523
Those people knew how to wait.

00:16:28.523 --> 00:16:36.808
Now you better not get sick in the Old Testament because it's going to be a month before they get that Old Testament Tylenol fixed.

00:16:36.808 --> 00:16:45.330
I mean you got to prepare way ahead of time for the slow times and the times that you don't get things done or exactly when you want it.

00:16:45.330 --> 00:16:48.394
Patience, patience.

00:16:50.701 --> 00:16:51.586
What about Joseph?

00:16:51.586 --> 00:17:01.054
Whenever he was a servant in the house of Potterford, god gave him a dream, god gave him a purpose.

00:17:01.054 --> 00:17:05.630
God told him what he was going to do and where he was going to be when he did it.

00:17:05.630 --> 00:17:14.031
And his brothers told him that he was full of pride and arrogance and they hated his guts because of the promise that God gave him on his life.

00:17:14.031 --> 00:17:20.345
And he spoke of that promise of God and it made him angry and so they sold him out.

00:17:20.345 --> 00:17:22.166
They were going to kill him, but they sold him out.

00:17:22.166 --> 00:17:27.612
He ended up being a slave in the house of Potiphar.

00:17:27.612 --> 00:17:33.949
Now, how many times when he was in that house as a slave, did he think?

00:17:33.949 --> 00:17:40.048
Maybe I am prideful, but God told me this was going to happen.

00:17:40.048 --> 00:17:43.442
When is this going to happen, god?

00:17:43.442 --> 00:17:44.465
When is this going to happen?

00:17:44.465 --> 00:17:46.797
When is this going to happen, god?

00:17:46.797 --> 00:17:47.460
When is this going to happen?

00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:51.865
Well, then it gets worse because he's accused of something that he didn't even do and he's thrown into prison.

00:17:53.682 --> 00:18:01.549
Now I would imagine that the man, when he was thrown in prison for something that he was absolutely innocent for, just said why?

00:18:01.549 --> 00:18:14.451
Why, you know, he had to be in constant communication with God to hold on to that promise, a promise that he couldn't see anymore.

00:18:14.451 --> 00:18:19.911
He had to be talking to God in prayer all the time, asking God when God, when is it going to happen?

00:18:19.911 --> 00:18:22.998
And God's like asking God when God, when is it going to happen?

00:18:22.998 --> 00:18:24.405
And God's like not yet.

00:18:24.405 --> 00:18:41.863
Son, I can only imagine that David, when he was running for his life for the promise that God gave him, the promise that God anointed for him to be king of Israel, david's running for his life from Saul.

00:18:41.863 --> 00:18:44.007
For a long time he ran.

00:18:44.007 --> 00:18:47.753
He had to wait and hide in caves.

00:18:47.753 --> 00:18:55.133
I'm sure there seemed times in his life when he thought this ain't never going to happen.

00:18:55.133 --> 00:19:03.448
How many times did David say when, lord, when, I don't know.

00:19:03.448 --> 00:19:10.996
Maybe once, maybe none, maybe 40,000.

00:19:10.996 --> 00:19:15.784
I can't tell you, but I can only imagine that he did.

00:19:17.227 --> 00:19:20.933
Man, how do you respond?

00:19:20.933 --> 00:19:25.835
How do you respond?

00:19:25.835 --> 00:19:34.737
How you respond is vital when you're in the waiting.

00:19:34.737 --> 00:19:40.022
That's how you deal with the will of God To give us each a great victory in our lives.

00:19:40.022 --> 00:19:42.911
But there's times when those victories only come after a season of waiting.

00:19:42.911 --> 00:19:52.652
A season of waiting, oh, you know, we pray sometimes and God brings rain.

00:19:52.652 --> 00:19:58.892
He brings rain from heaven and it falls all year long.

00:19:59.961 --> 00:20:07.046
You plant something and the rains can come through the summer and the winter and the spring and the fall.

00:20:07.046 --> 00:20:17.589
And if it's in the spring that rain comes and it instantly waters the vegetation, it doesn't matter how long the drought was.

00:20:17.589 --> 00:20:26.511
Things will start growing as soon as it gets watered, as soon as they can get those nutrients in through their roots.

00:20:26.511 --> 00:20:32.371
But sometimes God sends that precipitate.

00:20:32.371 --> 00:20:36.191
Listen to me precipitate.

00:20:36.191 --> 00:20:49.846
Sometimes God makes it snow and there's seeds in the ground and there's snow sitting at the top, and so even when it all falls onto the ground.

00:20:49.846 --> 00:21:00.691
It sits on top of that ground and nothing gets watered until the next season when it warms up and that snow melts and that water gets into those roots.

00:21:02.272 --> 00:21:04.675
Sometimes we have to wait on the season.

00:21:04.675 --> 00:21:16.461
We got to wait on God to get those promises, but know that it's coming A lot of times.

00:21:16.461 --> 00:21:25.134
Many times, god will describe the kingdom of God as a garden that you plant everything in the kingdom of God.

00:21:25.134 --> 00:21:32.359
Everything that we do, everything that we see, everything that we say is a seed and it's planted.

00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:36.119
It's seed time in harvest.

00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:50.709
So if you plant that seed, you work that seed, god waters that seed and then later on, after, after you've waited, after you've taken care of it, you get from the seed and you get a bountiful harvest.

00:21:50.709 --> 00:21:56.246
You put one seed in the ground and you might get 70 tomatoes from one plant.

00:21:56.246 --> 00:22:07.221
But if you don't take care of it properly, take care of it properly, you're going to get less.

00:22:07.221 --> 00:22:07.863
It has to be prepared.

00:22:07.863 --> 00:22:12.209
How you respond while you're in waiting is vital.

00:22:12.229 --> 00:22:19.482
In John 16, 33, jesus gave a reality check to some man In this world.

00:22:19.482 --> 00:22:23.733
You got tribulations and trials and distress and frustration In this world.

00:22:23.733 --> 00:22:31.096
You got tribulations and trials and distress and frustration, but aren't you glad that God doesn't stop there?

00:22:31.096 --> 00:22:41.625
He said for us to be of good cheer, and that's hard for all of us, because some of us have been baptized in lemon juice.

00:22:41.625 --> 00:22:44.818
Oh, my goodness, you've seen those sour pusses in lemon juice.

00:22:44.818 --> 00:22:54.738
Oh my goodness, you've seen those sourpusses in church before the music's playing.

00:22:54.738 --> 00:23:02.074
And you've got your regulars that are just worshiping and praising and dancing and singing, and you've got those old sourpusses sitting there with the frown on their face, not moving.

00:23:02.661 --> 00:23:09.082
I'm kind of one of them, and it's not because I've been baptized in lemon juice, it's just.

00:23:09.082 --> 00:23:12.191
My pastor calls me a giant.

00:23:12.191 --> 00:23:15.328
I think I'm taller than most everybody in the church.

00:23:15.328 --> 00:23:17.788
I'm definitely bigger than most everybody else.

00:23:17.788 --> 00:23:23.465
I just kind of feel like I stick out like a sore thumb sometimes and I'm not real graceful.

00:23:23.465 --> 00:23:28.531
So there ain't a whole lot of dancing that can get done in my life that people aren't like look at that.

00:23:28.531 --> 00:23:31.929
Now, that's an issue that I have that I might have to get over.

00:23:31.929 --> 00:23:42.700
But I also don't do a lot of jumping around because, let's face it, I'm 56.

00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:45.739
I got two knees that probably need replacing.

00:23:45.739 --> 00:23:49.411
I got gout.

00:23:49.411 --> 00:23:55.050
Something's always hurting, but is that why I'm not doing it.

00:23:55.050 --> 00:24:02.730
No, no, it's not when that music gets to moving.

00:24:02.730 --> 00:24:08.127
Sigh, no, it's not when that music gets to moving.

00:24:08.147 --> 00:24:09.751
We just need to quit being so dead.

00:24:09.751 --> 00:24:19.428
We need to realize that the power of God can be in your life and if you wake up, then you're not dead.

00:24:19.428 --> 00:24:21.968
But if you're dead, you choose to be dead.

00:24:21.968 --> 00:24:28.912
If you're in a house of God on the weekend, on Sunday, that has life.

00:24:28.912 --> 00:24:32.990
You need to wake up and take advantage of it.

00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:36.409
Quit choosing the wrong path and get on the right one.

00:24:36.409 --> 00:24:46.643
You got to get on the right path and give thanks to God.

00:24:46.682 --> 00:24:48.506
How many times do you have to say it?

00:24:48.506 --> 00:24:54.494
How many times do you have to hear it, that the wrong path is going to lead to absolute misery?

00:24:54.494 --> 00:24:59.795
It does.

00:24:59.795 --> 00:25:01.365
You listening right now?

00:25:01.365 --> 00:25:04.215
Were you a drug addict?

00:25:04.215 --> 00:25:06.426
Were you an alcoholic?

00:25:06.426 --> 00:25:10.328
Are you stuck watching pornography?

00:25:10.328 --> 00:25:14.406
You couldn't get out of it and it ruined your marriage.

00:25:14.406 --> 00:25:15.590
Wake up.

00:25:15.590 --> 00:25:17.404
That's not good.

00:25:17.404 --> 00:25:22.188
You are miserable and there's no way out of that misery.

00:25:22.188 --> 00:25:29.167
Sin takes you way further than you ever wanted to go and it keeps you way longer than you ever wanted to stay.

00:25:29.167 --> 00:25:41.228
My goodness, if you can't feel the spirit right now, I don't know if you're ever going to hear it.

00:25:41.228 --> 00:25:44.306
Praise Jesus.

00:25:44.306 --> 00:25:47.689
I thank God every single day.

00:25:47.689 --> 00:25:58.663
My life's not perfect it's far from it but I thank God every day that I am baptized in the Holy Spirit.

00:25:58.663 --> 00:26:08.076
But I thank God for some of the people that I know that get on my nerves.

00:26:08.076 --> 00:26:16.215
I'm serious, I have to, because I'm sure they're praying the same thing for me.

00:26:16.215 --> 00:26:18.933
Man, I like that Rick, but boy does he get on my nerves.

00:26:24.726 --> 00:26:31.979
Our success and our failure in the dark, difficult times does not hinge on our circumstances.

00:26:31.979 --> 00:26:37.958
It hinges on how we respond to the trials and troubles that we face.

00:26:37.958 --> 00:26:56.196
When you're in the waiting and everything seems dark and bleak and you think it's not going to happen and why is it taking so long the last thing you want to do is be in good cheer.

00:26:56.196 --> 00:27:01.916
You want to wallow in misery, because that's what the flesh likes to do.

00:27:01.916 --> 00:27:05.272
I don't know why, but it does.

00:27:05.272 --> 00:27:15.286
And misery loves company.

00:27:15.286 --> 00:27:23.174
You'll see, miserable people will just gravitate towards a crowd and then people who are perfectly fine will jump on the misery bandwagon.

00:27:23.174 --> 00:27:28.240
Somebody I heard once called it joy zappers.

00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:30.892
Don't be a joy zapper.

00:27:30.892 --> 00:27:52.436
My pastor can make the most difficult situation seem like it's nothing but a thing Because he trusts God.

00:27:52.477 --> 00:27:53.941
He's seen God in the best times.

00:27:53.941 --> 00:27:57.340
He's seen God in the worst times.

00:27:57.340 --> 00:28:12.704
He understands that there's a time of waiting and that's something that I've learned from him, because they've seen it in real time.

00:28:12.704 --> 00:28:32.661
They've seen so many people come through that were in a season of darkness, that came in and got deliverance and started changing their life and started seeing the promises of God come to fruition in their life.

00:28:32.661 --> 00:28:37.946
You need to understand that.

00:28:37.946 --> 00:28:39.229
Jesus said that he has overcome the world.

00:28:39.229 --> 00:28:45.499
Jesus deprived it of its power to harm you and he conquered it for you.

00:28:45.499 --> 00:28:51.191
He overcame the world and deprived the world of its power over you.

00:28:51.191 --> 00:29:07.496
When he said that you have to understand that you don't start out in a place of defeat, but you start out now at a place of victory, because Jesus was victorious and you get to be victorious because of what he did.

00:29:07.496 --> 00:29:26.771
You've got to be in good cheer, you've got to be happy, you've got to be joyful, you've got to get excited about what God is going to do in your life, even if it takes 40 years, because it doesn't hinge on our circumstances, it doesn't change it one bit.

00:29:31.987 --> 00:29:34.214
We stand in the middle of a large storm.

00:29:34.214 --> 00:29:38.310
Can you recognize it in your own self.

00:29:38.310 --> 00:29:45.355
When you're standing in the middle of a storm, it seems like that storm has become our way of life.

00:29:45.355 --> 00:30:25.958
We can't see a way out, we don't know which direction to go, we feel defeated and broken, and that brokenness produces cynicism that's just going to keep us forever in that deep, muddy mire of only thinking that we're broken and the world is broken and our life is broken, and that the wind and the waves and the storm, the rains and the thunder and lightning, your brokenheartedness, your sins, that's all there's ever going to be.

00:30:25.958 --> 00:30:28.161
The choice is yours, though.

00:30:28.161 --> 00:30:30.503
Your sins, that's all there's ever going to be.

00:30:30.503 --> 00:30:37.157
The choice is yours, though, if you want to stay stuck in that place of defeat, in that place of depression and oppression that comes over your life.

00:30:37.157 --> 00:30:40.215
That's your choice.

00:30:40.215 --> 00:30:44.105
You have to choose to be upset or to be glad.

00:30:44.605 --> 00:31:01.967
Amen, right, there's no doubt that times of waiting can be discouraging and exhausting, but in the 40th chapter, isaiah, verse 31, it says those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.

00:31:01.967 --> 00:31:04.777
They shall mount up with wings like eagles.

00:31:04.777 --> 00:31:06.984
They shall run and not be weary.

00:31:06.984 --> 00:31:08.868
They shall walk and not faint.

00:31:08.868 --> 00:31:13.077
Do you know what that word means in Hebrew, weight?

00:31:13.077 --> 00:31:15.566
In that verse.

00:31:15.566 --> 00:31:25.997
It's kava, k-a-v-a, maybe Q-A-B-H, I don't know.

00:31:25.997 --> 00:31:26.897
It's kava.

00:31:26.897 --> 00:31:30.442
It means to bind or twist together.

00:31:30.442 --> 00:31:40.880
Picture this multiple pieces of rope that have been braided together to make one new, larger cord.

00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:48.298
That's what the Bible says that we should do to renew our strength.

00:31:51.006 --> 00:32:00.500
To wait on the Lord means to be with others, to be braided and interwoven with the Lord in his presence.

00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:02.491
That's going to renew your strength.

00:32:02.491 --> 00:32:09.518
In order to experience God's power and strength, he infuses a union.

00:32:09.518 --> 00:32:19.827
You need to take time to be alone with God, and those that are braided together and interwoven with God are going to renew their strength.

00:32:19.827 --> 00:32:25.976
That's why we go to church to get interwoven with other believers.

00:32:25.976 --> 00:32:29.340
It makes that wait a lot easier.

00:32:31.885 --> 00:32:32.527
How do you wait?

00:32:32.527 --> 00:32:34.490
How do you wait?

00:32:34.490 --> 00:32:39.338
You got to spend time in prayer with the Lord.

00:32:39.338 --> 00:32:44.790
You got to spend time reading his word.

00:32:44.790 --> 00:32:48.518
You need a relationship with him.

00:32:48.518 --> 00:32:54.441
Do you understand what I'm saying?

00:32:54.441 --> 00:32:59.471
You need to be interwoven with God.

00:32:59.471 --> 00:33:00.554
You need to push.

00:33:00.554 --> 00:33:08.448
You remember that Push Pray until something happens.

00:33:08.468 --> 00:33:10.573
Well, you know, I was a youth pastor in the 90s.

00:33:10.573 --> 00:33:21.338
If I'm talking about push, we had wristbands and t-shirts and hats.

00:33:21.338 --> 00:33:26.078
Push, we also had them.

00:33:26.078 --> 00:33:27.001
That said booger.

00:33:27.001 --> 00:33:35.826
Being obedient of God evokes righteousness, just so you know.

00:33:35.826 --> 00:33:36.509
Push Pray until something happens.

00:33:36.528 --> 00:33:37.609
Where did we lose that?

00:33:37.609 --> 00:33:46.529
Where did we get lost in not doing that, lord, bless me, lord, bless me, lord, bless me, father.

00:33:46.529 --> 00:33:48.536
No more, hurry up, lord.

00:33:48.536 --> 00:33:55.538
When do we start doing that, instead of pressing and pressing through and pressing and pressing on and pressing through?

00:33:55.538 --> 00:33:57.589
Nothing's happened yet.

00:33:58.946 --> 00:33:59.810
But I found God.

00:33:59.810 --> 00:34:15.177
So I'm going to keep on pressing and I'm going to keep on praying, and I'm going to keep on praying and I'm going to keep on until something changes, until the presence of God falls in my body Right.

00:34:15.177 --> 00:34:17.739
Are you doing it that way?

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:21.530
Because you can't be interwoven with God if you're not.

00:34:21.530 --> 00:34:25.599
You got to be bound together with God.

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.907
You got to be bound together with God.

00:34:26.907 --> 00:34:30.117
We're called to do things for God.

00:34:30.117 --> 00:34:33.956
You got to be interwoven with him.

00:34:33.956 --> 00:34:43.074
Well, that's all for this week's show.

00:34:43.074 --> 00:34:46.795
You know the name of this show speaks my hope for you.

00:34:46.795 --> 00:34:50.635
It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

00:34:50.635 --> 00:35:05.014
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

00:35:07.425 --> 00:35:12.411
If you enjoyed what you heard, do me a favor, please, and tell someone you know about it.

00:35:12.411 --> 00:35:19.791
Send them a link and a text you know you may even need to download it to their phone and show them what a podcast is.

00:35:19.791 --> 00:35:23.835
If it was valuable to you, it will be to them.

00:35:23.835 --> 00:35:40.092
Visit renewedmindsetscom to hear past episodes, read the blog and check out the new merch and, as always while you're there, send me a voicemail by clicking the button at the bottom right corner of the main page.

00:35:40.092 --> 00:35:42.811
Tell me what you think about this show.

00:35:42.811 --> 00:35:46.034
I just might play it on a future episode.

00:35:46.034 --> 00:35:50.867
Until next week, I'm Rick.

00:35:50.867 --> 00:35:55.311
I love you.

00:35:55.311 --> 00:36:05.822
See ya.

00:36:05.822 --> 00:36:09.806
The intro and outro music See ya.