Bless My Stress: Week 5 | May 17, 2020

The Source Of The Secret | Pastor David Hughes

Wwelcome and thank you for joining us for the Church by the Glades Podcast. If you would like
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rch by the Glades Hey,
thank you for logging on right now. These air these air 9 10 Very noisy people in a 2000 seat
room right now. Thanks for being with us if you're new to church by the glaze. My name is
David. I'm one of the pastors here at church by t
he Glades. So glad you're with us. We're in a
Siris of studies were calling Bless my stress and please engage man joining the chat, if you will.
In fact, here's a question during the quarantine most of their still staying inside the vast
majority of time.
I know it's starting to open up a little bit, but during the quarantine, what's
been your favorite binge food? I mean, typically, I eat a pretty healthy diet overall, but I kind of
lost my mind a few times during this this quarantine season. So my family w
e love a good
cheeseburger, love a good cheeseburger. Thrown some burgers on the grill. Uh, padrino is
Cuban food. So good idea. I get the chicken breast, but gotta do that. Black beans and rice,
right? So little cheat there. But now our go to has been piz
za and pizza. If you're watching this in
the Nebraska or California or Zimbabwe or something here in South Florida, our campuses are.
We got great pizza being here, right here on this campus, man. Anna Marie's pizza. Guido's
pizza. Uh, Pizza Time Cafe. I t
hink I mentioned pizza. Even last week. A few days ago, we had the
university at least 9, 22 years. Thank you, Han. 22 great years. But we couldn't go out to dinner.
You know, we had a We had a great anniversary, though. We hung out with each other all day
long. We exercise, played with the kids, and then you chose for dinner pizza. Once again, we
have this beautiful meat lover's pizza. Check this thing out. Look at this. Oh, my gosh. That's one
of those beautiful pictures of my wife ever. Right there. Look
at that. Beautiful pictures. So
what has been your binge? What have you gone to during this time. What do you eat? And you
typically wouldn't eat, you know. Well, listen, we're gonna binge right now on the Bible the
Bible self defines as food. The Bible d
escribes itself as spiritually meat to grow your muscle. And
God, uh, describes itself as milk to grow up babies into maturity. Even the Old Testament the
Bible defines itself is honey sweet to the taste. So we're going to dive into day dying on God's
word
. Philippians Chapter four star text We've been studying. It is my favorite chapter in all the
Bible. It is so positive, full of God's promises, so wonderfully optimistic. And it fits the
circumstance we're going through right now. It speaks to times of un
certainty and with, you
know, the economy. And with Kobe 19, all those things going on these of those kind of time. So
if you're binging on food, that's fine. I've been doing that too. I'm not judging. I mean, some
some people go to college, pick up the fr
eshman 15. I'm working on the cove in 19 right now, so
I'm not not judging. We're gonna get into God's word. It's something healthy to spend time So I
hope you ramped up a good spiritually appetite as we jump into Scripture. So I'm going to study
Philippin
es for today. And then let me tease you up for next week. Hey, guys, next week,
Mother's Day gotta honor the ladies. Um, do something nice for your mom. Now I know it's a
little different. Like I can't take my mom to dinner. My mom's 88. So she's staying h
ome. Uh,
you can't even get her flowers right now. The florist is still closed here in South Florida. I don't
know. Get your mom toilet paper something, you know, make sure your caller how about this?
Do church with her? In fact, moms, moms, moms, you have
leverage this week and there's
somebody in your life. Probably some knucklehead guy. They've invited a church church by the
Glades past years and they won't come because they got to dress up and drive and blah blah
blah this year. Easy, easy, virtual chur
ch. So there's gonna be some smart mom you're gonna





call your son or ask your husband. Hey, I want you to do church, right? You're gonna call that
stuff lives in different state. That's fine. And so he's gonna watch church with you. Say, I wanna
watch chur
ches do the 11 30 hour together. I'll join you on the chat and guess what? He'll do it.
He'll watch church by the Glades on a smartphone. And And Mom, you, your your techie.
You're going to go ahead and and near your iPad on your smart TV. You'll do church
together.
So moms is all you. And by the way, next week, something so special. This is wonderful.
Communicator God, she was with us maybe six or seven years ago. She is outstanding, but she
is in such high demand. I couldn't get her back. I've tried. We k
now her well. She's awesome.
Brazil a shire. And there's always opportunity in every circumstance we thought. Guess what
was? She's in quarantine in Dallas. Fact, she's had a pretty serious surgery. So just, um, immune
issues right now. We reached out to P
riscilla Hate Priscilla while you're there. How about you
shoot a message for church by the Glades on Mother's Day weekend? So she agreed. So she has
put together a unique message just for our church family. If you're not her, Priscilla, get ready.
Get rea
dy. She communicates to young and old, male and female. I don't I don't know if there's
a better preacher on the planet thing. Brazil. A Shire. If you're part of church by the Blade, you
know her brother, Anthony Evans, gifted worship leader. Yeah, a lot o
f talent in that family,
right? And she's a great preacher. He's a great singer. Their dad, Dr Tony Evans. One. The
greatest pastures in America right now. So Priscilla Shire next week, Church by the Glades
Mother's Day. And then, if things go according to
plan and plans air fluid right now, right,
everything's changing. But I plan on wrapping up the conversation. Bless my stress the week
after that, and I wanna land on verse 19 of Philippians, Chapter four, Verse 19. When the great
Promises and all the wor
d of God, it's on the big screen behind me right now. Check out what it
says. Hey, would you read out loud? The highlighted word. Here's what it says and my God shall
supply all your needs. Look at this according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus, it
is hard to
fully fathom the scope and the scale of this magnificent promise. My God shall supply all your
needs Not just your religious needs every life need. But look at the source of the re sourcing
from his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. I mean, God
has everything. God has truly unlimited
supply here on Earth. Things run out all the time. There's shortages all the time, especially right
now. But God has this inexhaustible supply and he's willing to resource your life. Now he's not
gonna promise to mak
e you rich, but to meet all of your needs or according to his riches and
glory in Christ Jesus some Bible scholars say the magnitude at this verse This one promise is so
big that every other promised in the Bible God makes fits under the umbrella of Philip
pians 4
19. So it God promises to supply your life with his powers piece or his blessing or his
forgiveness. It all is from this inexhaustible resource of Philippians 4 19. So no matter what
you're lacking right now, you've You've lost your job. You need a
paycheck. You're sick. God
says I'm gonna meet your needs. Philippians 4 19. That's coming up next week. It will be so fun.
Make sure you're here Things for engaging right now, Whether here in the room to you nice
nine people. Noisy, rowdy, nine people. T
here's all the people watching online, like our Amen
corner. Where is our digital? Amen Corner, What's up? Amen Corner, Thank you guys for being
with us right now. So, Priscilla, next week invite somebody Priscilla. And then we wrap up
Philippians 4 19. Th
at great promise the week after that and again to backtrack in this chapter is
so amazing. All these great promises Verse four. Rejoice and Lord, always again, I say Rejoice!
Verse six. God promises a piece of surpassed his comprehension. Philippians 4 13.
I can do all
things through Christ. Who is my strength and put that one on the mug. The bumper sticker,





the Christian T shirt, right? I mean, what a great promise. But in verse 12, Paul says, I have
learned the secret to be in content in any and every sit
uation. When I say three, shout the word
every ready. 123 Yeah, put it in the chat. They're all caps, every Paul says. I have learned the
secret to peace and contentment in every circumstance every situation you see, most of us are
our hope of peace or con
tentment based on our circumstances. If everything is going well,
everything's smooth, harmonious my my job, my income, my relationships, my health. If all of
my life is firing on all cylinders all the time, I could have peace. I could be content. Paul say
s. No,
I've learned a secret of contentment that supersedes the circumstantial on you. Recall, Paul
wrote this from a prison. What is that secret? Well, there's a Siris of techniques embedded in
these verses. I wanna explore these with you. And by the way,
right now, if you're watching and
you're not a person of faith, you're not Consider yourself a Christian person. Guess what?
Number one. Thank you. Thank you for being with us right now. What you're doing. Gosh, it's
brilliant. There's never been a better
time to investigate the claims of the Bible than right now.
And the claims, the Bible there big the Bible teaches God, there's a God who made you a God
who loves you, a God who has a purpose for your life. A god who sent his son Jesus Christ dying
across
to pay for our shortcomings, our sins. And if we say yes to Jesus, by the way you could do
that today you could begin an eternal, beautiful relationship with this God. Those claims are so
magnificent. You've got to research this issue. You gotta do your sp
iritual homework and you
can do it right now from the anonymity and the comfort of your own home, you can check out
the claims of Christ in your jammies sipping decaf right now. Well done. And by the way, if
you're not a person of faith, these techniques a
re still things you can do if you're battling stress.
If you're deal with anxiety or fear right now. So let's back up. Philippians four, Verse four
through verse seven, it says, Rejoice in the Lord Always again, I say, Rejoice. Let your for burying
your ge
neral spirit. Be made known. All men, the Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing.
Translation. Be worried for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication. With
Thanksgiving, let your request be made known under God and the peace. That's what you wan
t.
The peace of God. I'm so stressed out. There's so much anxiety, so much pressure right now.
Global economies. Ah, pandemic. What's the future going to look like? My retirement Peace
and the peace of God. The surpasses comprehension will guard your heart
s and your minds in
Christ. Jesus. Now, I believe embedded in these verses are some steps. Um, steps quickly
review the steps you discovered thus far like verse for verse five. Step number one thing to
know number one God is near God is near. Let your fore
brain spirit. But in all men, the Lord is
near And we take comfort knowing that God is close by that God is not distant. God is not
unaware. God's not annoyed and bothered. God loves you and he is near. That's why God
whispers because to hear a whisper, yo
u have to come here. So God is with you in this situation
right now. Then the second thing we learned last week when you worry when you're stressed
out, maybe it's it's attached to a circumstance, an event something bad happened in your life.
Or maybe you'
re like me the time I worries Nighttime nighttime like happened. Actually, last
night I went to bed early, I was tired and I woke back up. Lisa about about 12. 31 o'clock. I just I
just I was worried. So what you do? If you like me and you're a nighttime w
arrior, you make a
critical substitution. A critical substitution. What do you do? Put worry on the bench, but worry
on the bench? Ever been bench? Did you play a sport in high school or college and had to sit the
bench? Maybe you made a mental mist Ake I
mentioned last week. You watch the message
from last week. Played high school football. I blew a play. I messed up on my assignment and





my coach, good coach, but a tough, fair coach. Put me on the bench. Think about my mist ake
Hey, guess what? Bench worry
when you're laying there at night stressed out, you know, having
that eternal dialogue, scripting mental scenarios about disastrous bench worry. Hey, worry. Get
out of the game. You're doing nothing to help my life right now. Oh, my gosh. You're making my
head hurt. You're making me lose sleep. I'll be grumpy tomorrow. You're giving me an all worry.
You sit there on the bench and think about what you have done. Yeah, Pull worry from the
game. Be anxious for nothing. Now, if all you do is bench worry, it ha
s to be more than that.
Because the moment you turn your back Ah, worry is gonna sneak right back in the game the
moment not paying attention. You just can't stop worrying. So you make a substitution When
when you're worried, you say no to where you bench
worry. And then it says in verse six by
prayer by prayer. So I'm gonna start to praise. What does that mean? Is instead of just having
that that conversation with myself about this issue, right? I'm gonna invite God into that
dialogue. Is it talking about
it? My thinking about my own issue, like four people impressed will
take for you guys on that one. Um, I want God to be involved. God, I'm worried about my
paycheck. I'm worried about my job. Someone I love is tested positive. Gosh, When things start
back,
you know God, what do I do? God, I want you to guide me. God, would you lead me?
God? Would you bless me? God, would you supply my knees? God, would you keep in by God?
So prayer. So I'm gonna substitute put worry on the bench and put prayer in its place.
Now let's
pick up some new territory I mentioned last week, but it's a two for one substitution. You pull
worry and you replace worried, not with one player prayer, but with two so back to the past.
You just come back if we can. Diverse six. Be anxious fo
r nothing but in everything by prayer,
ready and supplication with thanks giving Thanksgiving. So the second player I'm gonna put in
Thanksgiving your basketball, you got six players on your team and it's OK, Huge advantage. So
I'm gonna bench worry, put i
n prayer and thanks giving. So if you're here watching this right
now and I am a Christian, you could still be grateful. So if you're stressing and you're worried
this just throw the brakes on that. Turn the page and think about the good things in your lif
e.
Remember the good people in your life. If you're believer, remember God's goodness in your
life. So Thanksgiving is just remembering all those positive things. Remember, remember when
I say three, say the word, Remember 123 They can't remember the good
things because You
don't have to remember the worries. Do you understand? I mean, laying there like 1 a.m. or to
him I can't sleep. I'm not laying a bit every going man. I can't remember things to be worried
about. Man. I can't remember issues right now. T
hey invade my mind. All those negative
thoughts, all that dysfunction, all that broken this man, they they show up like unwanted guests
like party crashers. Man, they just invade. My mind is like, I have to work hard to remember all
the bad stuff that that
that comes naturally. Sadly, I gotta work to remember the good things in
life. I gotta work hard to remember what God has done in my life. Let me show you an example.
Lamentations. Lamentations is an Old Testament book. I recommend you don't read when
you
're sad. I mean, it's a bit of a downer Book. Lamentations is a Siri's lamentations. It's the
author venting if you will. Uh, he's going through a really rough patch and he's telling God. So
why is this this down? Her book In your Bible? Here's the reason
why it shows me that I could
always be honest with God, I said before. Faith is not spiritualized denial. So I'm hurting or
confused or angry man. I could tell God even using the Bible like King David in the Psalms, he
gets mad at God. God, this seems like
it's not fair. The profits, the Old Testament say almost the
same thing. And God's not offended. Here's the good news. Your God is highly secure. My pain,





my sorrow, my frustration. If I tell God that he knows, he knows already anyways. But it won't
knock
him off his throne. So the author and lamentations, we're not sure exactly who it is. My
best guess is Jeremiah is going through a tough time now for this Jeremiah couple things now as
far as background. Uh, Jeremiah was a prophet when profits were not ve
ry popular. Hey, was a
truth teller when truth was not trending whatsoever. And for a number of years, he'd been
warning the people of God, Israel, if they didn't change their ways, turned back towards God
stopped spiritually compromising, worshiping idols
and stuff that God wouldn't punish them.
Just God would take off his hand of protection and life would punish them. And they didn't
listen and sure enough it happened just the way Jeremies said. And in 5 86 BC, the Babylonians
invaded that part of the wor
ld decimated Israel, uh, broke down the walls of the capital city of
Jerusalem, raised the city, even destroyed the beautiful temple the Solomon built took all the
sacred things, the valuable things, even traffic. The population took many of the wealthiest
people in the ruling class. Ah, way to a captivity for 70 years, and Jeremiah and a few people
left behind. But life is ruinous and difficult. And he recognized. He remembers how bad things
are in lamentations. Chapter three, he says, I'll never forget th
e trouble. The utter loss. Nous
hey remembers the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all. How well I
remember the feeling of hitting the bottom. Have you hit bottom? Maybe a battle addiction
right now on this, This quarantine time has
been so difficult for you can't get to your 12 step
group and maybe made mistakes. You have regrets. You feel like you've hit bottom, Jeremies.
Just things are so we've lost everything. We've lost our city. We've lost our economy. We've lost
our neighbors
. We've lost family members. Everything's been taken, our national pride, the
feeling of hitting bottom. But there's one other thing I No, I'm gonna choose to remember this
and remembering I keep a grip on hope. Remember something I'm gonna show you? He ke
eps
a grip on hope by the way we got that. That's what the church has. One of the product is the
church that I get it. Churches confusing. What is David? What is the endgame of church? What
is the product of the church? Because we're not like most companie
s or businesses, that we're
not a business or a company. We're really not work, not even organization. Where a living thing
where? Family, if you will. But I I get it. We're confusing like it were Nike. What does Nike make
Expensive, expensive athletic sho
es, right. If we're Taco Bell, what's the product of the Taco
Bell? Like tacos, Breeders and Chiluba's right? So what's the product of the church? Hope we
dispense authentic hope. Publics doesn't have any hope, right? The mall has no hope, and it's
closed,
by the way. Uh, Dolphin Stadium. No hope, right. Nothing, eh? NBA playoffs. Stop. I
hope they have no hope. We have authentic transcending God based hope. That's what we
dispense, all right. Speaking of hope, look how the passage continues. God's loyal lo
ve couldn't
have run out. His merciful love couldn't have dried up there. Created new every morning. How
great your faithfulness. I'm sticking with God. I say it over and over even if he's all I've got left.
Sometimes in life you find when God is all you h
ave, God is all you need. I'm remembering the
good goodness of God. Remember the good things he's done? I'm gonna choose to remember
and be thankful. So when you're worried or stressed out, turn the page, go towards gratitude.
Go towards gratitude. Then qu
ickly, quickly Another thought in the following verses. Verse
seven again in Verse eight and the Peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension. Shell
show guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus than Verse eight. Intriguing verse. Finally,
brethre
n, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely. What is of good repute? If there's any excellence or anything worthy o

f
praise, let your mind dwell on these things. What's Verse 87 is saying, Here's anot
her step.
Another secret. So what? Verse eight is saying? It's important what you think about? I think you
should think about what you think about because it's vital that we guard our thought life. We
guard our thought like we're discriminating as the thou
ghts we allowed to dwell in our mind.
Messi David it seems to extreme Why should I do that? Simple answers. This protection
matters. Protection is a thing in life. You gotta protect your mind. You see, the Bible teaches the
centerpiece of God. Transformati
on is not your heart mean love God with all of your heart, Yes,
but the place God changes people is is our mind. Romans, Chapter 12, it says, were transformed
by the renewing of our minds, so protect your protection matters. Example. Example. I love
sports
. So I've been hating the quarantine, right? Any sports fans in the House? This scene n b
A. So sad Miss College basketball Missing baseball That's going to be postponing football. ESPN
has nothing right now, ESPN. I'm watching like cornhole championships
and, you know, world's
strongest men competition and MBA playoffs in 1986 right? Oh my God. But Finally, they had
something close to real sports this past week. It wasn't a game, wasn't a race. Wasn't that they
had the NFL draft the NFL draft. I love the N
FL draft and the Dolphins had three picks in the first
round this year, and they took a quarterback with pick number five. They took two out of
Alabama. Fine young athlete, great character. Is supposed to believer. Won a national title.
Heisman Trophy fina
list. Thrilled. We got him. I think he's going to do well. In fact, other sports
fans who said, David, how do you think two is going to do my interests? Well, he'll do great if he
is protected. If you're not a football fan, quarterback is the most importan
t position on the field
by far, but it's a highly synergistic position. Ah, quarterback can only thrive if he has a good
receiving corps. A good run game helps your good offensive coordinator, uh, defense and get
the ball back once in a while and an offens
ive line to protect him. The Dolphins took a couple
offensive lineman. I thought that was a great movie. You gotta protect back quarterback if he
has time protection he'll prosper. He'll do well, I mean, the Dolphins have only picked four
quarterbacks in t
he first round in their history. Two of the four in the Hall of Fame. They had
great protection now, so to it will do well if they protect him. Got to protect him. How
important is this? Okay, Our last quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, is with the Titans now. R
yan. I'm a
little biased. I know Ryan. He's part of our church. Ryan and Lorna. Awesome people. So I am
biased by say all the time. Being biased just makes you biased. Doesn't make you wrong. Ryan
Bald out last year, he had a remarkable year. Speak of the
bench. He started the season on the
bench, but the Titans bottom in. There were only two and four going nowhere. Oh, my gosh, he
stepped in. He played out of his mind. He set records for Q B R and Accuracy. One. The NFL
Comeback Player of the Year took the
Titans to the A F C championship game. Phenomenal, and
I heard some dumb sports fans say things like this. Will Ben Tannehill finally got good, finally got
good. He's always been good. He just had protection this year. He had a team that could
protect him
. The synergy of protection. You need the same thing for your thought. Life is vital.
You guard your thoughts, protect your mind, and our minds just drift all these negative places.
And then we fixate on these things. I think Verse seven verse is not sayin
g, You know, you can't
have a random negative thought, Right? Thoughts are kind of pass to your mind. It's more
about the idea of what you dwell on. What you fixate. One What? What? What? You marinate
on in your mind, But you need to protect your mind. Thi
nk about your brain, guys. You gotta
have a on the like a big brain. Can you find me a big brain? They go think about your brain. Your
your mind. Right. So all these thoughts all day and during your waking hours at night, or trying





to penetrate your brain,
pass to your brain and get stuck in your brain. Right. So I think you
need this Based on these two verses, you need a brain bouncer. Guard your thoughts. So this is
Jeff Jeff, Uh, Jeff, Someone is Jack and Jeff volunteers at the church does security for u
s. He's
gonna represent this idea of guarding your thoughts, guarding you know, the things that enter
your mind, that penny that you do you dwell on. So in verse eight, there's a checklist of eight
qualities right on the screen right now. Boom. These eight
qualities and what it's saying is just
like Jeff stand there looking, all intimidating you need like a guard. You need a braid balancer
before any thought penetrates and tries. The lodge in your mind doesn't meet this eight fold
checklists. Is it true? Is
it honorable? Is it right? Is it pure? Is it lovely of good repute or
excellence are worthy of praise. Well, David, what do these mean? Gosh, it's a great list, and I'm
gonna tell you during Fearless Five this week, Fearless five you don't know is a five
minute
Devo. I'm doing five days a week. Monday through Friday I put on my instagram five o'clock. It's
on the church Instagram other social media platforms. Thank you for sharing that. By the way,
people all over the country and beyond are enjoying those
words of inspiration. So thank you.
But this list is so phenomenal, I don't want to rush through it. So I'm gonna take the time to
explain what these eight mean and how critical they are and helping you reduce stress in your
life. So fearless. Five. Begin
on Monday this week. Philippians 488 qualities. But look this look
where they land. Look at verse nine. If you'll do this. If you put that brain balance on your mind,
if you guard your thoughts, verse, nines on the screen, these things you have learned and
received and heard and seen in me practice. These things get ready and the god of peace shall
be with you. Now you might recognize that phraseology. It looks somewhat like verse seven.
Verse seven says if we do, certain things practice these secrets that
the peace of God will guard
your hearts and minds. But here it's not exactly the same. And by the way, I think God did that
on purpose, I believe, is something called the inerrancy of Scripture, meaning God put every
single word in your Bible just the way
he designed it on purpose. So they're the same. There's a
clear but subtle difference in verse seven, he promises the peace of God. But here in verse nine,
it's the god of peace. In one verse, it's his promise. And the other verse, It's his presence. And a
s
a believer, if I'm doing these things habitually surrender to God, you know all these things. You
know God is near making that substitution pulling out Worry. I'm praying, Offering
Thanksgiving. Now I'm guarding my thought life I get not just the promise
of God's peace but
the promise of God's presence. And I do my life between those two things and that makes me
highly secure Person. Let me close with this idea. Please, please, Please, man, check out Brazil a
next week. And if you wanna have your own rela
tionship with Christ, you know, for certain
ensure you know God, at the end of my talk, they're gonna tell you how to do that. You can text
a number and just text the word salvation, and someone will contact you this week and you can
begin your journey wit
h Jesus. It is the ultimate life game changer. But this idea of verse seven,
the peace of God and Verse nine, the God of peace being so powerful. This twofold promise. It
reminds me of moving to our new house. It was not new to us. We've been there. Like w
hat?
Honey? Eight years, eight years or so? Nine years. So we moved there like Zane, my youngest,
by the same stories. Late. Lots of pizza and Zane lately. Anyways. Zane God, she was a little guy
when he's like four or five, not in our neighborhood, but ac
ross the street, like there's a four
lane street and cross streets. Is this giant house? It's not even in the neighborhood is kind of
this weird, random, massive house across the street Looks like Looks like a castle has a big gate
right fence around the w
hole thing. I've never seen who lives there for all kinds of rumors. I





don't know who the person is and maybe maybe it's Batman's house. Maybe it's Batman's
house because you know, who knows who lives there? Never seen going out. Maybe comes in
out the bat
cave. So Batman lived. There is Wayne Manor. And then a few years later, M. M a
fighter. Vitor Belfort, uh, champion. Tremendous athlete, by the way, a great guy he loves God.
Great father, a great husband, became a very good friend. So kind of like V tou
r is a sweet dude
who could break off my arm and anytime and beat me to death with it. Right? He's that guy.
But Vito are moved in down the street, like in our neighborhood. Right? So we had veto over
here. And then we had Batman, like, across the street.
And so Zane's like, seven or 81 time he
said, Dad, I think I lived in the safest house in America. I got veto a bill for over here in the
neighborhood, and I got Batman across the street. I got I got Batman in vitro. That's a safe place
to be Christians. W
e do every day of our life between the safe place off, the promise of God and
the person of God. We have the verse seven promise and the Verse nine presence of God. You
live your life in such a wonderful, secure place. So guess what? Be anxious for nothing
but in all
things by prayer with supplication Thanksgiving Let your request we made known unto God and
the peace of God where surpasses all comprehension shall guard your hearts and your minds in
Christ Jesus. And then Paul says these things you have lear
ned and seen and heard and seen in
me practice these things and the God of peace shall be with you. So Christian, you can be
fearless God in Jesus name, we believe and receive everything you promised. Amen. We'll see
you next week. welcome. And thank you f
or joining us for the Church by the Glades Podcast. If
you would like more information about church by the Glades, including service times and
directions visit CB glades dot com Way. Hope you enjoyed today's message way. Okay. What's
up? Church by the Glad
es. Hey, welcome your new My name is David. I'm in the past is here at
C B g. So glad you're with us, but I'm not alone on stage. Uh, here, 16 away. I got Lucas Gomez
giving Luke everybody. Lucas, you are many things. You're many things. You're a great lea
der
here. The church, your great worship leaders. Well, love your prayer moments. You're a ninja
warrior like competitive in all the way to Vegas on the TV show. Um, and you did a great job
hosting did announcements last week with his mom, his mother's day
. And so, Lucas with his
mom. Your your mom, She's the best. Oh, she's that she's so charming. That beautiful Brazilian
accent. And but your mother asked you for something for Mother's Day. What? She asked for
only one thing. All she wanted me to do is sha
ve my beard shape, shave, shave the beard.
You've had that corona quarantine beard going, and I see you kind of do with your mom Asked.
I didn't kind of do what she did. Ask. I did exactly what she asked. My beard is gone. Can you
get a tight shot? Get a t
ight shot, But I still have a little something going on right now. It's a
mustache, so I followed her instructions. Its's a loophole. Listen, listen. That is a terrible
mustache. And the chat right now in the chat mustache is terrible that he has to lose t
he stash.
Please let him know that. That's one of the reasons you actually got rid of Beard. People hated
on your beard, Everybody. I mean, listen, I thought there's gonna be a solid debate going right
now. Some people are gonna say, Keep the beard. No. Ev
erybody said the beard is terrible.
Shave the beard right away. And now I got the stash, so I'm sure everybody hates this to
everybody. Hey, thank you guys for connecting. Thanks for being involved in the Jack. Get up
for Lucas Lucas. I love you. Hey, than
ks. Be involved. Is the one time you could talk in church
when I was a kid growing up in church. Don't talk in church. Get involved in the chat on your
format and go ahead and communicate and share your thoughts. Should Lucas lose the stash,
right? Answer
is yes, but, uh, anyway, you want to share prayer. Request a need we want to





involve. We are your church family right now. A great time to still ask someone to join us for
me. I love Instagram live. I love a little paper airplanes so easy to tag someone Do
it right now
when we meet physically, hopefully in the near future, it's hard to invite some mid service, but
you can still invite someone. So let's jump in Philippians, Chapter four when the Siri's uh, like
this week number five Bless my stress. Bless my
stress. We live in a situation with so many
stressors right now. Still, anxiety and fear. If you're prone towards any of that, this is gonna be
so helpful for you. And by the way, I have nine wonderfully rowdy people in the room. But we
have many times mo
re that watching online, representing those folks. Where's my amen corner
today? Where's amen corner there they are didn't gonna show up. Amen. Corner Glad you're
with us. Welcome, people watching all over the country all over the state I saw Lori from
Pho
enix with Brooke. Uh, Joe from Flower Mound, Texas up there. Awesome. So wherever you
are, thanks for joining us today. Philippians Chapter four is the passage. It's one of the great
chapters in all the Bible fact, maybe my very favorite chapter. Why it is
so full of powerful
promises of God like one amazing epic promise after another. And the context is stress and
anxiety. So if you battle for those, this is the right study will try to land it. Today I got to cover a
lot of territory. So where do we pick u
p Philippians? Chapter four when you get the 1st 19 in a
moment, but for running start. So we kind of wrapped up last week and in Fearless five, taking
apart verse eight. There's a list of qualifications things to think on, not to think on in verse eight.
Then in verse nine, I think I could do this. I could paraphrase this, Paul says in verse nine. These
things you've learned and received and heard and seen in me practice these things practice the
things, and the God of peace shall be with you. What a promi
se God will bring his peace and his
presence if you practice these things. So Paul says, Guess what? If you're like me and you're a
person of faith is not just knowing what the Bible says, a steaming what the Bible says even
memorized. What the Bible says
is practicing what the Bible says that's not unique to Paul.
James says the same thing. That the blessing of God is not given to the hero of the word but the
duo of the word. So the more we practice what the Bible says, the Mauritz power becomes
ours. So P
aul says this stuff, By the way, Paul says, I'm doing it. You're seeing this and me
practice this and the God of peace shall be with you. Another one that's great. Promises in
Chapter four, then starting in verse 10. Um, Paul has been the pastor of this ch
urch years
before. He loves these people, so it's kind of some personal business, and the context is well,
the flipping church has resource. His ministry. They've been generous. They've sent him a gift.
Probably not money, probably some kind of ah, fragran
ce or perfume that was very expensive,
but it's helped pay for Paul's needs to resource Ministry. So the context of the next promise
you're about to see is generosity. Now, by the way, we've not pushed hard on that at church by
the Glades. We've not hit yo
u. Hey, please give support our ministry anytime during these
weeks. But people ask, How are you guys doing financial aid? Church by the Glades. Simple
answer is kind of like everyone else We've taken a hit were filling this. But guess what? God's
work is
still being done because even without my highlighting, you're asking so many you
continue to be generous online support what God's doing? Thank you so much for that. So
we're still meeting ministry needs. We're doing okay. And I believe that God blesses ge
nerosity.
So you're about to see an amazing promise. But the context, biblically speaking, is the
Philippians. And by the way, they're not a rich church. They're not wealthy people, but
sacrificial e they're giving to meet the ministry needs the Apostle Pa
ul, and Paul hits him with
this promise Coming up in a moment. Verse 19, But he says, Verse 10, he says. But I rejoiced in





the Lord greatly for now. At last, you revive your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned
before, but you lacked opportunity. Not
that I speak from once, for I have learned to be content
in whatever circumstance I an. But I know how to get along with humble means, and I know
how to live in prosperity and any and every circumstance. I have learned the secret of being
filled and going
hungry. Both have in abundance and suffering needs. I can do all things through
Christ. Who is my strength? What? But he continues Verse 14. But nevertheless you've done
well to share with me and my afflictions for you yourself know Philippines at the fir
st preaching
of the Gospel after I departed Macedonia. No church shared with me in the matter of giving
and receiving except you alone. But more than once you said a generous gift to meet my needs.
Not that I speak for the gift itself, but I think for the
profit that increases for your account for I
have received everything in full I have in abundance I am amply supplied have received from
Oppa. Aphrodite is what you have sent. Ah, fragrant aroma. Acceptable sacrifice, Well pleasing
under God. Then Verse 19
, Verse nine. Here it is. Here's what he says. And my God shall supply
all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ, Jesus that promise today I want to drill
down on that great promise verse 19. But before that again, context the context of ge
nerosity.
Then also back in verse 12, we talked about this already. Uh, Paul says I've learned the secret of
being content in everything in any and every situation. I've learned this secret of Solis
satisfaction. I have this personal peace no matter what's
taking place in every area of my life.
When I say three, please say the word everything loudly. 123 Yeah, put every there in the chat
in every area. Paul is not just saying Hey, God gives me peace in the spiritually area of my life
for the religious part
Note. In every area of my life my future, my past, my failures, my financial
part of my life, navigating relationships in every situation. I have divine supernatural peace and
contentment. Man, Don't you want that in every area of your life? What's the are
a that stresses
you out? God says I wanna bring peace Now This is a promise, of course. Verse 12. A promise of
God. But every promise of God is predicated on something. We do practice the word. Here's
the trick on this one. To see God's peace in every area
of my life, I must surrender the Lordship
of every area of my life to Jesus. Meaning this I actually invite God to invade every area of my
life. Have to make him the lord of my life. Lord, Lord, Lord, confusing term. I know it's It's a
biblical term. We u
se it in church, does not want to use in everyday conversation. Right? So
what's the word Lord mean? Well, I grew up in church and I heard like Lord Jesus Christ, I just
thought as a kid it was part of his name. Like my name is David Charles Hughes. His wi
th Lord
Jesus Christ. It's not part of his name. Lord is a designation of authority. It means you're the
master. You're the king or you're the CEO of my life. this area of my life. It is yours. The piece
that touches every part of my life is predicated on
allowing Jesus to rule in every part of my life.
Have you done that? I don't mean promising perfection, E. That's a promise we can't deliver on.
Right on, Lee. One perfect person. That's Jesus. The rest of us we fall so short, we're gonna
stumble. We're go
nna send We're gonna make mistake's. But that's different than locking God
out of some area of your life. Quarantining God like you. You can't have this area of my life, and
believers do this all the time. In fact, we show God the areas we have surrender l
ike Hey, God!
Look, I give you the religious quarter of my life. I've given you a little slice of my Sunday I've
given you my worship. God have even invited you into my habits and some of my disciplines
and some of relationships. All that is yours. But God
, keep your hands off my money or God,
you could even have my money. But keep your hands off my sex life and the crazy thing about
this idea of God's peace in every part of my life is is predicated on surrendered every other part





of my life to him first. A
nd if I locked him out of even one area What? I forfeit this piece. It
doesn't seem fair, does it? Wait. I'm like 98% surrender to God. I'm I'm 80% surrender to God.
Why does Why? Why should have peace in most every well piece this piece. And this promise
is
predicated on something called faithfulness. God desires our love. And our faithfulness and
faithfulness is one of those life. All or nothing propositions you can't compromise on. Faithless,
faithless. You're all in or not, right? Faith. It says in the
Scripture, without faith, it's impossible
to please God. So God wants me to be faithful. If I have locked him out of quarantine God from
some area of my life, I'm not being faithful. Faithful requires that all or nothing dynamic. You
look confused. Example
. Okay. My way. Better Half is on the front row. Lisa Hughes. How are
you today? Doing good. Uh, least I've been married over two decades. Honey, I've loved you for
all those years and I've always been faithful to my wife. All those years without a felt we
've
been I've been faithful but moving forward. If I told you, honey, I've always been faithful, but
moving forward I will love you and be faithful. You every Monday I'll be faithful every Tuesday,
every Wednesday, every Thursday, every Saturday, every Sun
day. Faithful. Is she going to go for
that? What would I leave out? Yeah, What husband tries that one dead husband, right? My
husband tries that when? Stupid husband. Right? What husband would try to see how I will be
faithful to you. Six days out of seven
. No wife would accept that she'd recognize well, to be
faithful. Six days out of seven means you're not faithful at all. Faithful by definition. Amen. Lisa
Hughes is all or nothing proposition. So I'm not saying perfection. We all stumble in many ways,
bu
t the lot got out of some area of your life. You'll have peace in no area of your life. So So
what does God say? Hey! Hey, Trust me. Give me that area right now and you're afraid? Well,
God, you'll take away my joy or my foot. That's not the heart of your
God. He's a loving, divine
dad. Yeah, There's some beautiful biblical boundaries, but he wants to deliberate. He wants to
set you free. He wants to protect you. Surrender every area of your life to Jesus. Every Okay, all
that is just rubbing up for Verse 1
9, Verse 19. I love verse 19. It is such an epic promise. In fact,
some Bible scholars a verse 19. Uh, every other promise in the Bible falls under the canopy of
verse 19. The scope and scale of this verse. The magnitude is so magnificent. Every other vers
e
falls under the umbrella of verse 19. This is the promise that encompasses all other biblical
promises. God's promise of love. His promise of grace has promised to forgiveness. It falls all
under this promise why this promises about God's willingness to
resource. Everything in our life
is good. So Verse 19 is so rich. There's so much truth. How do we get to study this together? I
wouldn't do a word study. Some verses are pregnant with truth. Just got taken part almost
word by word. So get your your mobile
device and highlight if you're the words. If you like me
have a old school paper bible got a pin. Circles and words Take notes in the margin of your
Bible. Let's look at some of the words in this grace verse guys, put on the screen, if you will.
Verse 19
Philippians, Chapter four Where do we start? And my God and my God, my God shall
supply here. This and my God shall supply all. Oh, when I say through, would you please shout
the word? All 123 Shout the word all your needs Doing this speaks to the scope an
d scale of
God's willingness to be generous in your life. There's nothing you need that God will not supply.
God says I am there. I want to get involved in the big things and the small things. Oh, all your
needs. Right. So God said, guess what? All of it.
All of it. He said, Hey, guess what? I got your
back. I got your front. I'm above you. I'm beneath you. I got your present. I got your path. I got
your future. Oh, a Z All encompassing promised the scope of this promise. You cannot even
describe with words
. The next word it says And my God shall supply all your needs, your needs,





your needs. Now you might be overwhelmed right now. There's so much taking place. The
world is so crazy. Remember the good old days? Two months ago? Everything has changed,
man. Th
ere's shortages. There's fear. There's people who are sick. A lot of people lost their jobs.
Uh, maybe you're behind in your mortgage payments or bills. My gosh, My needs are so much
man is God. Ebeling is God willing to really meet my needs because my nee
ds air profound.
Yeah, Yeah. Gods, Gods more than able. But he's also more than willing. Our God is a loving,
very generous, very personal God. And he's willing. Now willingly is if you wonder if your needs
are so big right now, maybe Gods are willing to g
et involved in my messy needs. My complex
needs. Here's how you know Easter. We're just a few weeks past Easter. We're still in the
shadow of Easter. Easter lets me know how willing God is to get involved in my mess, to be my
needs, how generous he is, rig
ht, because my need was sin, uh, cosmic treason eternally keep
me separated from God and God is so willing and so generous. Nobody gave his son most
famous verse Has to be. What, John 3. 16 for God so loved the world that he gave what? Yeah,
not stocks and
Bonds. And he gave his best. He gave jeez, Onley and special that he gave Jesus
on the cross for us to meet our profound spiritual needs. Or eternally, he gave Jesus. So after
that, when he's calibrated his generosity, I gave you my son. What other need i
n your life
compares to that? Every other physical or financial need you have after giving you that. Giving
you g a small change. Don't you understand? The comparison is like going to the G M lot and
paying for a escalate and you pay sticker price and then
you're shocked at the end. They throw
in the formats. If he gave us Jesus, he'll throw in the mats. You buy 10,000 diamond ring, they
throw in the box, he's gonna meet your needs, is gonna meet your needs. I love this verse. And
my God, my God shall suppl
y all your needs according to Hiss. Okay? It gets fun. His riches, his
riches, alright, his riches, his riches. I say three to shout the word riches. 123 Riches. But the
word riches in the chat exclamation points behind it. Right? Uh, riches riches. Okay,
so they're
in the chat. Please tell me how rich you are. Tell me how rich you are and giving your value. If
you don't do that, I'm just kidding because that's that's a word conversation, right? People get
funny when you talk about money, right? So So how d
o you view yourself As far as your wealth
or your lack thereof? It is so subjective. It's a It's a strange conversation. So don't don't respond
in the chatter here in the room. But are you rich? Are you rich now? People right now are
watching this literall
y all over the world. But if you live, you know, in some, some country that's
not the US. Just give me a moment to talk to the Americans. Americans, I find, because our
economy historically has been so blessed by a global standard, we underestimate how wel
l off
we are. Now, listen, you know you know God is not an American. God does not wear red, white
and blue. God does not sing the sparse Star Spangled Banner. He's a global god. I'm very
patriotic, by the way. I'm not trying to offend Americans, but God is
not an American. Jesus was
not American. He was Israeli. Alright? God loves everyone again. That famous first for God so
loved the world and Americans. We could be America centric. And maybe I said, Are you rich
like no man? I'm American. I'm watching Neb
raska. I'm not rich. I live in a single wide or I'm
watching in Tallahassee, Florida I live in a small apartment or I'm watching in Coral Springs,
Florida and I Look, look, David, my car. I got a card. My car! Oh, my car's older is it's not new.
It's not f
resh. I'm surely not rich. Okay? Just stop. He's a global god. He measures us by a global
standard. Do you know if you own a car, I could argue You're kind of rich, You know, If you live
in the nations of Ethiopia, North Korea, Tanzania, Haiti, Rwanda, Bur
undi, Less than one person
in 100 owns a car. If you have any kind of car, I could argue you're rich. Hey, some of you in





America, you have a room in your house for your car. You have a room in your house for your
car. Some of you have have a room big enou
gh for two cars. Just called a garage called a garage.
If you owned a garage, I could argue you're rich. All right. You're blessed, but I get the pushback
knowing what to say. I'm rich because we look at people richer than us. Okay, lets lets the
verses th
e riches of God. All right, let's let's talk about Rich. So who's someone we would all
acknowledge is rich? Uh, how about the young, brilliant, beautiful Kylie Jenner? Kylie Jenner I
would I would say it is rich. She is the youngest self made billionaire i
n history. By the way, you
started saying billions, not millions, but that be man, it means a lot of money. It's transcendent
wealth. You start talking billions. She makes so much money. Colleague Juniors Cosmetic
company produces for her personally about
$19,000 an hour A Now, er the U. S. Median
income for worker last year was 45 5 So $45,500. So if that is you, she makes your yearly
income in 2.5 hours. Kylie Jenner. I would say she's rich. Okay, who's richer than that? Jeff
Bezos. Jeff Bezos is thought
to be the richest man in the world. Amazon getting richer all the
time. By the way, we're all buying stuff from Amazon right now. So he is worth somewhere
between 120. $145 billion that is, he is so rich. He makes $2500 every single seconds, every
single s
econd. Right again. That's about twice the average income for American worker that you
make in a week. You make in a week. So he ill earned you buy twice like that 1001. He doubled
you up. 1000 and two. He's quite put you up. That's a lot of money, right?
That's a lot of money.
Okay, that's so much money. Even hard to think of. How about somebody a little more down to
Earth, if you will. Okay. Anybody missing? Sports E Miss Sports So much. So you're watching
fake sports on ESPN right now? Did you do a good
documentary on the Chicago Bulls? The last
dance, The Great Bulls? Heather, the great Bulls teams with Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen
and, of course, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan? Yes, now you know. He's a great athlete,
arguably the best basketball playe
r of all time. Sorry, Eric Basket all time loves Kobe. Is all goods
all good? Um, but, you know, he was the first athlete billionaire in history, made a lot of money,
has money, did not come. We made a lot in basketball, but he made $90 million during his
basketball career that that's a lot of money, but nowhere near a billion. Where he made his
money. Well, he was great as a player, but as a businessman, Michael Jordan. He's a mogul. All
kinds of business relationships, endorsements, eso He made 90 million
his entire n b A career.
But we think right now he made someone the neighbor of 145 million every single year as a
business person by way of his endorsement, that that's a lot of money. Um, and he's grown
over the years. So his first Nike contract, always
thinking Michael Jordan Nikes his first contract
his rookie year. It was valued at $250,000. Now Nike, Jordan products every year, gross over $3
billion. And so his personal wealth. Forbes magazine says about 2.1 billion U. S. Oh, that's
nowhere near Bezo
s, but it's again billions. In fact, that is so much money that is so rich that's
transcended. What if I help you calibrate? What if Michael Jordan want to spend all his money
in one year? How much of what would you have to buy? It has been all his money i
n just one
year, right? So Michael Jordan's thought of Nike Okay, sneakers. You always think of the
Jordan's right, So the average pair of Jordans goes for, what, 100? $45 a pair. Okay, He'd have
to buy 39 0 pairs of his own shoes every single day and stil
l have money left over the end of the
year. Michael Jordan does not fly commercial. He flies private. I get it. He's Michael Jordan. He's
really tall. He looks weird in that middle seed and Coach Spirit Air right into the awkward. See,
he flies Private, li
kes private jets. What if you wanted to buy his own private jets? What's the
private jets worth $3.8 million each. He'd have to buy 10 a week, and he still have money left





over the end of the year. Jordan is so rich, he loves golf. He's an avid golfer. If
you went to the
most expensive golf course in the world and played round after round, he had to play 4.3
million rounds of golf to exhaust his net worth About finally, finally, this. So another product he
endorsed over the year. McDonald's McDonald's. He w
as McDonald spokesman back in the
day. What if George was hungry for Big Max? Big Max? Uh, okay. He'd have toe order 43 million
Big Macs every single month, and you still have money left over the end of the year. That's
wealthy. That's well the But whether
it's you know, Bezos or Jenner or Jordan or Buffet or Gates
or Oprah, they all look penniless compared to King Solomon, Solomon in the Bible in resolving,
yeah, the wisest man of all time, probably also the richest man of all time, because God and
hiss, s
overeign wisdom, put his accounting ledger in the Bible. We get a no overview of how
wealthy Solomon Waas, at the apex of his glory is found in Second Chronicles, Chapter nine and
it says, Oh my gosh, that all the kings and the governors of that region gav
e him gold every year
in jewels people gave him. Give some animals had Azua Menagerie. You've got a yacht, a boat if
you're rich. He had a fleet of personal ships. Horses in equestrian had 4000 horses and stables,
chariots, personal army plethora palaces.
But in Verse 13, it says just how much gold he
received. Every single year, it says in Second Chronicles 9 13, the solemn received every single
year of his reign and he reigned 39 years. 666. Talents of Gold. Well, David, what's the talent?
That, like a co
in or something? No, it's a block. It's a chunk. By our best guess, we think in
modern wait 25 tons of gold every year for 39 years. Wow! Net worth probably in the
neighborhood just on the gold. $2 trillion. So outpacing Bezos by what, 12 times 13 times. B
ut
compared to the promise of verse 19, that God resource is us. What his glory enriches in Christ
Jesus. All those rich people from Solomon to base. Those two gates toe MJ. They're like broke
people in ragged clothes with cardboard signs on a street corne
r begging for change. You
wonder if God can meet your needs. You wonder if God has sufficient resource in tow. Bless
your life. Look at this promise. His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. It's a great verse. I mean, it's
amazing. Now, quickly. I got a coup
le minutes before I let you go. There's a couple of words that
are not in this verse that kind of bug me. Just be honest. I hate to criticize head of the word of
God, but there's there's a couple of words I wish were in this first that you don't find in an
y
translation. I don't say any word because God promises promised supply all your needs,
corners, riches and glory. Huge promise. But it never says anywhere the word, how or when so
and that bugs me a little bit because I'm right now hurting. I'm afraid ri
ght now I'm concerned. I
need re sourcing God, how and when. When, when I love know how and when. But God, I think
God is highly intention. But everywhere he puts in the scripture. It's called the inerrancy of
Scripture that God puts every word. They were
divine intent. God never stutters and stammers.
I do, but God doesn't. And he's very intentional about what he leaves out of the word of God.
So on purpose, the Holy Spirit inspires Paul. Not to say how Irwin, how are went. How here's my
31 The how and the
wind are the system of the resource is the system, I say. Three. Say the
word system 123 system the how and the wind is the system of the resource ing. But the source
his guy, the source is the promise. Making promise. Keeping God. Now the source is
uncha
nging. The systems are always fluid. They always change their subject to the economy,
the subject to viruses. They're subject to the absence. We have a couple of quick examples of
this comparison and contrast between the system and the source. I've been us
ing Elijah
throughout this study as an example of a man who who battled for peace. Elijah was highly
talented, very bright. He was troubled. He's even suicidal, at one point, no doubt had





depression, but God used this troubled man in a brilliant way. Remem
ber the story? There's
gonna be a famine. There's gonna be a drought for 3.5 years, and God has to resource. Elijah
has to keep his man alive and hydrated during the 3.5 year drought. So in first Kings Chapter 17,
God says Elijah, I got you. I want to go t
o the special Brooke, and I'll make sure the water flows
in the book and then you're gonna need food. That's that's water food. I'm gonna make sure
that birds bring you bread and meat, bread and meat twice a day. Remarkable, Right? And so
this Brooke and t
he birds bread and me now. So the system are the birds and the brook, but the
source is God, you seem refuse. The source. When's the last time a bird ever brought you a
sandwich? Okay, so the birds super nationally, by the way, the birds about I love bibli
cal detail.
There. Ravens there Ravens. There's a detail about Ravens and Deuteronomy. Chapter 14,
Verse 11. That's remarkable. We'll tell you about during Fearless five this week because I have
time right now, but maybe feels five Remarkable Why God choos
es the Ravens. Every word in
the Bible matters anyways. So then, in Verse seven, same chapter office in the Bible says, and
the brook dried up something dry up in your life, your income dry up Confidence dry up 40401
K drying up right now, but I'm a Christ
ian. Why is it happened? Why am I not protected?
Insulated? The Bible says God causes rain to fall upon the righteous and the unrighteous. So
here's righteous Elijah going through the same pain as everybody else. They made mistakes. It's
systemic. There's
an economic implosion. There's a famine, there's a drought. And so guess
what? The book just naturally dried up, and God's Man was not protected. But God always
keeps his promise. See the brook and the bird? What systems? Systems are always changing
system
s air always fluid, but God's a source. So next version said Cool. I got you go to finish.
God never been to finish before. That's not even God country that's pagan. Could go toe to zero
fast and finish in. I got a widow there, and this widow is gonna meet
your needs. Oh, it must be
a rich widow. G dead broke on her last meal on her last night. What? What? What? But he goes,
and sure enough, read it for yourself. First. Kings Chapter 17, Verse 18 Fights. Remarkable God
uses this woman to keep Elijah alive a
nd herself alive and her son alive. Why? Because she sets
out on faith with his God. She's known for like 15 minutes. But from Elijah's point of view, I
wonder if he's thinking, Hey, God, I was really cool with the brook and the birds. I'm there is
beautif
ul. It's tranquil. I'm not being bothered. Body body. Now I have to go ask this woman for
help. Good. This new area Why change it up? Because I think even for Elijah, Godly man is
human nature that we start to trust in the system instead of the source. So
God will allow this
broken world to mess with our system to remind us that he is the source soon got time for
another one. They're gonna say yes because they work for me. But I hope you do too. Anyways
acts Chapter 27 actually won the Great boat stories. T
he Bible acts chapter 27 We did a series
back, remember? Holy shit, we did a holy shit Siris on the stage they built This led battleship
was also and I really meant to cover This epic story acts Chapter 27 whites when the great
seafaring stories and all of
ancient literature Lucas the author. He's very bright, very arctic. It
tells the story that Paul has to get from Israel to Italy, why he's under arrest for the crime of
preaching the Gospel. But Paul takes full advantage of his rights, not just as a Jew b
ut as a
Roman citizen. He appeals his case to Caesar. So now it's Rome's responsibility to get him to. To
Caesar, right? They're gonna use a boat. Easiest way to get there now, even back in the on a
boat, it would take weeks or months based on the weather,
to make it from Israel to Italy. They
had bad weather that they had a hurricane. They spend 14 days in a hurricane and again,
languages so vivid, uh, they put out the sea anchors. They lashed the hall of the boat, trying to





keep the boat. In fact, they je
ttison the cargo. The sailors try to escape in a lifeboat. I mean, it
was incredible story, and everybody's freaking out because the hurricane, everybody, the
captain is freaking out. The passengers are freaking out. The Romans are freaking out. The
sailor
s air freaking out. Paul, he's cool. Paul's just fine. But why? Because he's pretending like
the storm, isn't there? No. No. I told you, faith is not spiritualist denial. He knows the storm is
really but he's cool. See everybody else? They're trusting the
ship, right? No. He's trusting the
promise of God to God promised Paul that he was stand before Caesar and wrong God
promised Paul. God spoke and gave Paul a word that he would stand before Caesar. That God
didn't tell me how he would get there. He's on a
ship, but the ship is merely the system. God is
the source. The promise is the source. The sailors air freaking out. The Catherine is freaking out.
The Romans were freaking out the passion because their eye is on the system, they say. But
Paul, the ships b
eing beaten to death posted. I didn't say the ship will get to Rome. Just I would
get to Rome. I wanna be cool if you all hang out with me. Stay close to me. My coolness might
rub off on you. Oh, when you're highly favored and blessed Sometimes that blessi
ng spills off
on the people around you. They So you stay with me some of the way. Can't swim. Doesn't
matter. I got a promise. An angel of God spoke to him again on the ship. Now he's heard the
word twice. You see their eyes. They're freaked out. Their eye
s are on the system. Their eyes is
on the ship. Their eyes are on the vessel. His focus is on the voice and I won't ruin it for you.
The ship does go down. Some people came and swim, but everyone is saved. A big ship, 270
plus people. Everyone is safe. Why
? The source is unfailing. And my God shall supply all your
needs according to his riches and glory in Christ. Jesus, I apologize. I went a little long today and
I have actually neglected to share the most important word. Like the first one last time. I'll
close
with this thought. This the most pivotal word. If you have this promise to be yours There's a
little qualifier here. And plus is my God, I've been saying for weeks, man, God gets powerful.
When God gets personal in your life, can you say with clarit
y He is Your God has become a Has
there been a time in your life you made Jesus Christ your personal lord and savior? I know you
have God questions. I know there's issues you've not Russell to the ground. I know you feel like
you're not ready, but you're m
ore ready than you realize. The scripture says now is the time.
And today is the day of your salvation. If you've never given your life to Christ, would you just
text the word salvation to the number you see right now on the screen? Are people respond to
y
ou right away? Someone who's knowledgeable and carrying will help navigate your salvation
decision. Jesus wants to be your personal lord and savior and the promises get powerful when
God gets personal. Make that move today and this God and his promises, th
ey become yours.
Father. God, thank you so much for this great promise for your truth, for your wisdom, for your
word that God, you will supply all our needs according to riches and glory in Christ Jesus when
you make that prayer in Jesus name, Amen. You b
e fearless church.