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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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Going to read the Word. We are going to start Romans, chapter 5, verses 1 through 4. I'm going to be reading the King James Version. It says, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Christ Jesus, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of the Lord. There's so much. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope. Spirit of the living God, may we have a fresh encounter with your Word today. I pray, Lord, that we have ears to hear, that we have eyes to see. Holy Spirit, we are completely at your will. And Father, use me however you see fit, wring me dry of what you've placed in me, that those may receive it, may receive it, run with it, and give you honor and glory with that which they do. In Jesus name, amen. Y' all can be seated. So we have been in our series, which has been a very powerful series of identity with one at the end of it last week who was blessed by next one. And if you haven't had the chance, please make sure that you go ahead into those archives. Global Family, I'm glad you tuned into this one, but if you missed the last one, go get that one and this one too. One of the things that really stirred me about something PDA said was she spoke of how at times we give our testimony short shrift, where we believe that what we went through is what we went through because we were designed to just give it as a testimony. And if we have not allowed the experience of what took place to really work the fullness of what God intended for it to do. We're missing it. We're a little bit short. And so that stuck with me. And now here we are today, and I'd like to pick up the baton from. From that particular portion and move forward. For my note takers today, our Encounters title is Resilient One. You know, as a parent, one of the things you're always on the radar for is the next strategy for how to raise your kids. There's so many, I mean, we use words and terminology now that I never used or heard when I was a kid or when I was a teenager or when I began to be a parent and talk to other parents. And one of these words that has struck me because I do believe it is very effective, is this word resilience. And so now the teaching is to make sure that you are raising a resilient child. And by resilient meaning, this is a child who, when placed in a situation where they cannot figure out what it is to do. They have the resilience in them to. To stay in a difficult situation, still allow for a solution to come forth, and then mature because of the difficult situation that took place. Now, as a parent, this is challenging because anytime I see any one of my babies going through anything hard, I want to jump in and solve it immediately. I want to give them the answer. I want to give them the solution. I want to make it easier for them, not realizing that as I do that, I'm making it harder for them later. Later. I may be making it comfortable for them now, but I'm making. Making it unbearable for them later. And so as I start to look to figure out how it is I can incorporate raising a resilient child, I go to the best model for fatherhood that I have is my father. I mean, my heavenly Father. So as I'm searching through my word, I realized that there has been a blueprint for resiliency there in the Word the whole time, all of these books and podcasts. And meanwhile, I go in my word and there it is. And it's this process that we just spoke of in Romans 5. I love that. Resilience not only speaks of what you go through, but ultimately it speaks of how you go through it and who you are as you are in the midst of things, separate situations. So I want to give you this definition of resilience from the American Psychological Association. Clearly, I've been hanging out with Pastor Dr. Anita Phillips. This says resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences. Especially through mental, emotional and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. That was a mouthful. But what I love about this is the adjustment to external and internal demands. If we are going to be known as resilient ones in our walk with God, we have to make sure that we are able to adjust to external and internal demands. We have to be ones who can successfully adapt to what life puts in front of us. Now, one of the things that is very challenging is because we know we walk with all power in us. Once you accept Jesus as your Lord and the Holy Spirit that is on the inside of you, we become more aware of who he is. Now all of a sudden, we're aware of the power of the Lord in us. And that makes us believe that we are now exempt from hard life. Because we know Jesus says, fear not, I have overcome the world. But here's the thing, we have things to do too. We still have to experience life as it unfolds. Yes, he overcame the world, and yes, we have overcoming power in us, but that does not mean that we don't have life happen to us. And so the trap that I want us all to avoid from today forward is trying to use Scripture to. Hmm, I want to say this as nicely as I can. I want us to avoid using Scripture to bypass the difficulty of a situation. I don't want life to happen to me and then read Scripture and feel better. I want life to happen to us. Read scripture, have scripture, edify us, strengthen us, and then give us strategy for how to deal with what life has placed in front of us, how to successfully adapt to the difficulty that is taking place and, and the successful adapting means I have to change. I don't make the situation disappear because I spoke scripture to it. I spoke Scripture and I changed. And because I changed and my perspective changed and I get strategy from the Holy Spirit for how to navigate what life has put in front of me. Now I develop resilience because just because I overcome one situation or I deal with one set of adverse conditions and I change once doesn't mean that's it. This is not a one transformation thing. This is not the butterfly. The cocoon opens and the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, and then the butterfly stays a butterfly for the rest of his life. If we're gonna walk this thing out and be resilient ones, we have to understand that situations are coming, challenges are coming, and we have to stop being surprised when they happen. This is one of the biggest setbacks for us. Something challenges who I am and challenges how I do life. And instead of immediately saying, okay, all right, Lord, who are you in this? Who are you about to turn me into? What do I need to do to navigate this and adapt successfully? What we will first do is, I can't believe this is happening to me. Meanwhile, the word speaks of how tribulation will happen to us. Yet when tribulation comes, when trial comes, when adversity comes, we are the most surprised people in the world. So we need as resilient ones to be able to move and navigate through this in such a way where we continue to build this flexibility and adjusting to external and internal demands. We have to learn how to successfully adapt to really difficult situations and do it so often, it becomes an identity. Yes, we are overcomers. We are also overcomers because we know how to be resilient in the midst and through what's coming. So I want to take this beautiful passage in Romans and I want to highlight a few words, and I'm going to have you out of here by at least winter, at least cool in here. I get you out there by the time the air conditioner kicks out. So let's start here. I'm going to go down to verse three. It says not only and not only so, but we glory in tribulations. I'm going to pause right there because this is challenging you right now. Off the rip. What do you mean I have to glory in the midst of what's taking place. Pastor ab, you just said I'm not supposed to be trying to smile my way through this, but I need to make sure I'm aware. But now you're challenging me to have glory in the tribulation. Let's look at this word glory. Definition is to vaunt, which is to lift, boast, joy, rejoice. I want to hone in on the word boast. So when it speaks of glorying in tribulation, let me also give you the word tribulation. These are going to be some working terms. We're going to go through this a few times, so then once you hear it once, you'll know tribulation. The literal word of the definition, tribulation, is pressure. Then it also speaks of being afflicted, being burdened, persecution, trouble, anguish. But the actual literal word, it speaks of pressure. So when verse three says, we glory in tribulation, we're now looking to figure out, how am I boasting, how am I finding joy when I'm pressed, The reason I'm able to do this. Now, the order that we're reading it in is one thing, but the order that we're living it in is something a bit different. And so when we're talking about glorying in tribulation, that is almost like a hindsight 2020 thing. You're able to look back on what you've gone into and say, I can boast in this. And the key is we're not boasting in us. We're not bragging about us, about who we became at the end of it. The boasting, the lifting, the joy is in who God was through it all. If we get that one thing right today, we're going to be straight, because some of us are looking in terms of glorying in the tribulation. And we're trying to celebrate ourselves and celebrate who we are and celebrate what we've done and celebrate the new changes and celebrate the new accomplishments, all the things that we did and how new we are at the end of it. But the glorying, the boasting, is in who God was, in his consistency, in his love, in his patience, in His. His grace, in his mercy, in his strategy, in His Word. That is what we glory in. When I come out of my trial or my tribulation. I'm speaking more about who God was than about who I am now. Because the more I speak of who God was in the midst of it, the more it makes sense when I then say, look at what God did through me, because I'm giving Him the honor and the glory for being the agent of transformation and the agent of resilience in my life. So before we move too far forward, let us remember this part is challenging only if we're trying to find glory for ourselves in our tribulation. But if I'm looking to this to say, God, who are you about to show me? Who are you about to show me you are in this situation? I'm gonna find another way to say this. God has many characteristics. That's how we have so many names of God. And there are not in. There's not enough words in the language to describe the multifaceted identity of God. We know him as our protector, we know him as our healer, we know him as our provider. And. And all of these are true in the midst of tribulation. Part of being resilient is being able to say the way that I can, one of the ways I can adapt to what's happening to me. Lord, which characteristic of you are you showing me in this? He's either reminding us of a characteristic that we have experienced before and perhaps have forgotten, or we're experiencing him in a brand new way. Every single time God revealed Himself and they gave Him a name, it was something that person had not seen before. And so for us, as we glory in tribulation, as we are giving him honor and glory for sustaining us as life pressed on us, we have to remember we are doing it because we're giving him the glory, we're lifting his name, we're boasting of who he is. And we're not just doing it for the people, we're speaking to our quite honestly, we're doing it for ourselves because we need to remember it for the next trial and tribulation that's going to come so that we're not surprised. Christians, when stuff happens to us. Verse 3. We glory in tribulations knowing that. Here we go. Tribulation worketh patience. Ooh, we. Because one of the things about patience is for some of us, it's work. But it says tribulation worketh patience. We know the definition of tribulation worketh, translated in the new King James as produces, it means to work fully, to finish and fashion. So tribulation, the pressure, the anguish, the burdening, it finishes and it fashions your patience. The only way we know we have patience is when we can point to the tribulation that forced and pressed the patience out of us. If we haven't been through anything, we have nothing to point to that says we're patient people. If you are looking for your patience to be finished and fashioned by finished meaning completed and shaped and evolved so that you can walk with a sense of renewed resilience, you'll have to go through something. So for those of us who are praying for patience, Lord, give me patience. Oh, snap. Global family, I'm gonna come to you. Y' all caught that too. Because one of the interesting things about that I love about God is what we pray for and what we get doesn't always match the idea that we have when we're praying. We say, give me patience. And we think my insides are going to expand, my heart is going to be tender and my mind is going to be calm, and I'm going to be strength still. And suddenly I will emerge patient. Nah, fam, you ask for patience, God's going to put you in a situation that requires patience, that requires us to now learn what being patient is. Patience is needed to develop resilience. And so when it says tribulation worketh patience, it fashions, it finishes our patience. I want to give you the Definition of the word patient who? Endurance, constancy, patience. I love when they use the word in the definition because it's just the definition is so good. Continuance, waiting. This was the one that challenged me. Cheerful. I said, okay, now hold up, I have to search out who you are. Lord, in the midst of my tribulation, in the midst of my pressing, in the midst of my anguish, in the midst of the thing that is challenging me and who I am. And somewhere in this there's supposed to be cheers. Can I submit to you because it is hard. The cheer is something that grows through doing this over and over with him. Say that again. Like I said earlier, when we are reading through this we have to understand how we read it and how it unfolds are two different things. But what happens as we become resilient ones is we become become accustomed to being put in circumstances, in trials and in tribulations over and over. And God continues to lead us through them over and over and we continue to adapt if we're willing and we're patient over and over. So now the cheer that comes when we see the tribulation is not celebrating the tribulation because some of us will do that. Woohoo. Hard situation. Yeah. No, no, no, wait. The cheer comes from knowing who God is. I've been here before. He's brought me through this before. He has never left me nor forsaken me. So whatever's in front of me that's trying to press something else out of me, I won't allow it because I'm going to press into him. And pressing into him produces a patience I did not have before. And it is my time with him, my increase of time with him, my increase of revelation of His Word and His presence. The closer that tribulation brings me to my Father is where I get my cheers. Cheer ain't cheap. Say that again. Cheer ain't cheap. It costs, especially in the midst of tribulation. But the reason that we have what it is to eventually pay that cost is because of the patience that tribulation is producing. So it says, we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Tribulation produces, it fashions and it finishes and finishes our patience. I have this written down and I'm going to move forward. Patience weans us off of our timetable and onto God's timetable for everything that happens to us. Say that again. Patience weans us off of our timetable and onto God's timetable for everything that happens to us. When tribulation shows up whether we like to admit it or not. We have a stopwatch. The minute the situation starts, click. And we are already like, this is over in five days. God's gonna show up in one week. We click the clicker and just wait. And the reason that we have not lasting cheer is because we're cheering our timetable. We're excited because we believe we know when this tribulation is going to end and how it's going to end. And so we're happy. Oh, Lord, do your work, Lord, work through me. And then the two weeks and four days passes and we say, wait a minute, this was supposed to be over two weeks ago. What's this extra four days? What is going on? Why is this okay, now we hit three weeks, it's getting worse. We hit a month, it's getting worse. Six months is getting worse. But as this is happening, we have a choice. We can either grow closer to him or further from him. And the closer we grow to him, this is what allows us to grow in being resilient. Because my game plan doesn't change regardless of the tribulation. No amount of pressure, no amount of trial moves me further from him. Because I've gone through so many, they all bring me closer to him. No one wants to admit this, but your prayer life in tribulation. If I compared your prayer life in tribulation versus your prayer life and blessing, I'm pretty sure there's a difference between the two in terms of duration and passion. Because the blessing prayer is like, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Lord, you're so good. I love you so much. You are such a blessing. Hallelujah. Amen. Check. Be in some tribulation. Woo wee. Father, if I need you to get me out of this, Lord God, if you would just do a work in me. He that became a good thing shall complete it. Unto the name of Christ Jesus. And you're in there for 45 minutes sweating. Start to take water into your little prayer time because you know you're gonna be dehydrated from all the sweating you about to do from hard praying you about to pray. We pray different. Our intimacy level is different in tribulation than outside of it. And so as we begin to develop, what allows also for the beauty of resilience is it fortifies my prayer life. So no matter what stage of life I'm in, my communication and my intimacy with God is always growing. My new adaptation is, instead of allowing tribulation to shift, shake me so much I don't hear him I allow tribulation to shake me so much I cross. I get closer to him. I spend more time in my word. This is my adaptation. And also, not only is that the only adapt, not only is that the only adaptation. Now my way of viewing what is happening in front of me shifts and changes. Because I'm a different person now. The adaptation that takes place is who I am is different. I handle things differently. I handle pressure differently. Pressure used to fold me and put me in a puddle of tears in the corner. Now all pressure does is let me know I need to shout a little louder. All pressure does is make me shift my pressure perspective. All pressure does is make me shift my altitude a little higher. Because I didn't realize my altitude was too low. Because I'm looking at my problem. But now instead of looking at my problem, I'm looking at my God. And as I look at my God and I hear what he says, and I let him convict me about what needs to change in me. How I then look at my problem or my tribulation shifts. My problem doesn't disappear. My tribulations don't go away forever. I just level up. I become a new thing. Behold, I do a new thing. Shall you not? Our perception of a new thing is shifted by tribulation. Because tribulation forces me to have to be the new thing God has commanded for me to be from the beginning. And having to become the new thing over and over and over and over is what allows me to become a resilient one. I don't grow stale in seasons because I'm allowing God to continue to do the work in me that he started and that this tribulation is a catalyst for. I want us to look at each of these as stages in an assembly line. If you've ever seen what an assembly line looks like in a factory, there are pieces and parts we can't even identify. We don't know what these things do. We just know that at some point they pump out a car that we want to buy. We love the car. We know the car. The car gets the awards, the product gets the awards. But nobody awards the factories. There are parts of our lives that God is using, like an assembly line to develop us, to put us together so that we can become who he's called us to be and continue to evolve from stage to stage. And so what we have to look at this as is the next part of the assembly line, the first part we see that we glory in the tribulations. That's our point of View later on knowing that tribulation and has worked. Patience, that's stage one. Now, patience works experience. Now, as we're reading this, I want you to put the word worketh in the midst, in the midst of all of them. They're very concise and I appreciate that so much about the word. It says and patience, experience and experience hope. But in the middle of them, patience worketh experience, experience, worketh hope. Now we're talking about how patience works experience, how patience produces experience. There's a translation of this word experience, which is character. The translation we're normally used to in the new. In the new King James says patience produces character. In the old King James, it says it produces this. Patience, produce experience. So patience fashions and finishes character or your experience. This word character or experience, it means test, as it's implied here, Trustiness, proof and trial. So patience, the patience that we develop as God is working through tribulation to get us to become resilient, that patience comes and it does this work for us. It gives God time to show his trustiness through his processes for us. So if we are patient, if we are not just enduring, but we have developed the spirit and the mind and the mentality that says, I know what this is right now is extremely difficult and it is painful. Painful. And it is hard and it is challenging. Yet what this is developing in me is the understanding of how trustworthy God is. And as I begin to develop in the trustiness of God, as I continue to learn just how much I can trust God to stay in the midst, if I learn that I can trust God in any situation, I can. I love what it does. Because people who can trust God on this level tend to be people you can trust also. Because once you develop the level of faith and understanding that you can trust God in the midst of anything. Now, becoming resilient is a byproduct because I trust God no matter what I see in front of me and no matter how it feels. We trust it when it feels good and it looks good and it's given us results. But it is very hard to trust God in the midst of tribulation that we have not seen before. Then being pressed into becoming someone we've never been before. But when we learn to do this and this becomes our identity. Oh, man. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Someone wants some. Too excited. Too many of us are looking for a finished product at the end of every tribulation. I've been through this. God got me through this. This is all I want. And I don't want to become anymore because tribulation is hard. Tired of becoming. Tired of God put me through stuff to make me. I don't want. I'm just going. I'm right here. I'm going to live in this testimony for forever and ever and ever. Amen. This is the only testimony I want. I don't want anymore. I'm tired. Tired of growing things. Tired of changing. I'm tired of adapting. I've got my one testimony, and every time I tell somebody, it knocks them dead. I'm gonna keep that one. I ain't trying to go through nothing else. That's been each of us for a season. Don't play. Meanwhile, the whole point of this is that as patience develops experience or develops character, what it is fashioning and finishing in us is the ability to adapt and become whoever God wants us to be. And know God however we need to know him in any season. This is the essence of being a resilient one. How you know me now? I can be completely different five years from now. My understanding of God can be five, five years from now can be completely different. How I handle situations can be completely different. How I handle pressure can be completely different. How I handle a challenge can be completely. How I strategize in the boardroom can be completely different. I used to be the observer in the boardroom, and I would just sit and wait and then make calculated moves. Then God put me through something where I had to open my mouth. And now I have to be a lot more aggressive with my tone and my speech. Because instead of waiting for things to happen and reacting, God is putting me in a position in a situation where I need to speak in order to make things happen. If I don't speak, nothing will happen. So now it's dependent on a version of me that I'm not familiar with. I need to get familiar with this new version of me. Me and God. We need to talk, Father. I'm used to being the one who's always in charge. Everything I say, it has to be my way. It has to go this way, it has to go that way. I've got to see things 10, 15 moves ahead. Otherwise, I'm not going to say anything at all. But I'm used to operating in this way in every area of my life. In my business, in my family, in my relationships. I need to say it. I need to be in charge. I need to know how it's going to end. Before I started, God said, oh, really? Say less. Here comes the business opportunity that causes you to have to not say a word and not see the predicted outcome of your experience, but the expected outcome of God's experience. And now I have to again adapt. I have to change. And I have to know that God may call me to be a version of who I used to be before 10 years from now and then five years after that. I have to get used to shifting from one version to another depending on the environment he puts me in. In one area, I'm a listener, and another in another area, I'm the talker. In one area, I'm aggressive. In one area, I'm a little, little more laid back. And he can move me from room to room. Not just month to month, not just day to day, but in the same building, the same day at the same time. On the fifth floor, I'm the talker. On the eighth floor, I just listen. By the time I get to the penthouse, I do both. Patience works, character. And so as I am patient and going through this tribulation and I'm mindful of what God is doing on the inside of me, my character, and understanding that I can trust God in all of it. Because once I have to do something I've never done before, I gotta trust him. I've never done it before, I can't trust me. So now I have to have the posture of Lord, put the words in my mouth like you did with your prophets. Because I don't have the expertise to do what you've shown me to say what you've shown me, to act out what you've shown me, because I've never been this person before. Lord, I need you to put the words in my mouth for this one, or, Lord, I need you to shut my mouth for this one. Because I got a lot to say. But I don't think what I have to say is going to accomplish your mission for where you place me. Patience develops, experience produces, worketh experience. Patience allows the proof of who God is to fully mature in our story. Say that again. Patience allows the proof of who God is to mature in our story. And so now from patience, God has produced character and experience where he has exposed me to a level of trustiness for Him I did not have before. Now we're going to get to what experience produces what experience worketh, experience works, hope. This word hope, is an anticipation, an expectation, faith and hope. So now, because I have gone through so many seasons where God has shown me versions of me that I didn't know I could be, and God has shown me characteristics of him that I did not previously know. And each time I walked with that revelation, and it was strange and it was uncomfortable, but there was a lot of pressure. But I came out on the other side of it as I continue to do this over and over. And I'm not just talking about the things we do. I'm talking about the parts of life that we experience. This isn't always just going to be how I win. In some boardroom or in some arena. Sometimes what God is doing is giving you the ability to adapt, to survive. I may be speaking to someone right now, and their tribulation is grief. And how you learn about who God is when you grieve is a completely different experience from how you know God before you lost whoever or whatever it is you lost. So experience produces, works, hope. And this hope ensures that we go through the tribulation and become better at going through things. This is the anticipation that we're speaking of. And it says it's to anticipate, usually with pleasure, Meaning I have the understanding that whatever is happening, I'm going to be very careful with using this phrase. This too shall pass, and I will not be the same because of it. This tribulation cannot pass and have me stay the same. Otherwise why would I go through the tribulation? Something in me has to change. Something in how I see my father has to change. I have to now use the muscle of resiliency that has been developed from the beginning of this process. Let's start from the beginning of the process again. It says that tribulation worketh patience, patience, experience, and experience hope. As I went through each of these, I was developing the identity of being a resilient one. God can now shape me, move me, convict me, edify me however he needs to so that I can be the new thing he said I was and that I can see it and perceive it. Being a resilient one means I am committed to becoming. But it's something that has to be worked out through this process over and over and over again. And so what we now learn is we don't have to smile our way through everything that takes place that's trying us. I don't have to pretend I have a knowing. I understand this is a process. And I allow God to do that which he needs to do through me. And I agree to do the work I need to do in the midst of it. And when I can do this on a consistent basis, this is where I become a resilient one. That's when you become the person where people literally can't tell what you've been through. See, the part about being a person that people can't tell what you've been through is you got to go through stuff. Everybody just wants to look like the person. You can't tell what I've been through. That's great, but you gotta go through some stuff. You have to go through versions of you in situations you would have never imagined for yourself. Difficulty, tribulation. You would have never imagined for yourself. You have to gain things that are too heavy for the version of you to carry. And you have to lose things that you thought the version of you needed, but the next version of you does not. And you have to know that God is the same in the midst of the gains and the losses. And I have to trust that my father not only is still with me, but never left me the whole time. That's what allows me to be resilient. This is what allows me to. And I want to use this again. The process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences. Mentally, my mind, emotionally, my spirit, behavioral flexibility. I can think the way God needs me to think. I can be who God calls me to be. And I can act the way he needs me to act according to the version of him that is being the version of me that he is walking, working out of me through the tribulation I'm in. I'll become that. If I could sum this whole message up because we about to stand in two minutes. I'll become that. This is what being a resilient one is. I'll become that. I know you're pressing me right now with where you have me, God. I'll become that. I know you're asking me to do things I have never no urge or comfort in. I'll become that. This is pressing me beyond what I believed my capacity to be. I'll become that. This is going to cause me to take a temporary who loss because we think it's gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain, gain. No, no, no, no, no, no. There is a circumcision of the heart that takes place where the dead parts of my heart, the unfeeling parts of my heart, the parts of my heart that are not committed to my father, the parts of my heart that don't trust him all the way. I go through this tribulation and I allow this incredible blueprint for resilience to actually take place on a regular basis. I go through all this and my heart comes out new. And from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So now my speech comes out new. My personality is different. I am different. And I am willing to become different as often as as I need to. I'll become that. Let's stand. Leave you with this. Because we're going to have a moment with Jesus Christ does not solve our problems. He is the power within us that allows the solution to be worked out in his Father's timing. As long as we remember that. When it speaks of glorying in tribulation, I understand now what that means. The glory ain't about me. The glory is always about him. The glory is always about who he was in spite of, in the midst of, as it was at the end of, in the beginning of before. I thought it was going to happen. He was already there. I want to take a moment right now. Hmm. If you are afraid of becoming the next one, as Dr. Pastor Dr. Anita Phillips mentioned, if you didn't know you had it in you to be resilient, if you didn't even think adaptation was something that God could do through you. Put your hand up. Felt stuck. I can only be this version of me and I'm afraid to change it because if I do, I don't know what I'm gonna lose. Put your hand up. Sorry, I see you. Saw a couple of you put your hands up, then put your hands down. I saw y' all global family. I want you to join us in this as well. Put your hands up in the chat. If one of your greatest challenges has been Lord, how do I learn the process of becoming resilient? Put your hand up there as well. We're going to pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you in making all of us into resilient ones. We are submitting ourselves to your presence. We are submitting ourselves to the Holy Spirit. We are submitting ourselves to your word. And we are submitting ourselves to the process that we know allows us to become as you've called us to become consistently. Season in, season out. And Father, with that comes the faith and the trustiness that you are with us in it and through it. I bind the spirit of fear. I cancel it. I cast it out of our minds, out of our spirit. In the name of Jesus. The fear to change gone. In the name of Jesus and I speak, a boldness and a courage to be able to embrace you and how you choose to use our trials and tribulation to make us resilient ones. In Jesus name, Amen. Keep that one simple. Now, I spoke earlier of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. If there's someone in this house right now who wants to start a life with Jesus, who wants to begin walking with his son. And as you walk with his son, you get to know his father. And in walking with his son, you get to know the voice of the Father. That's the Holy Spirit in us. If that's an adaptation, a change that you need to have right now, go ahead and come on down. Come on down to this altar. Come on down to this front. Because you've been trying to change yourself. You've been trying to shift yourself. You've been trying to go through circumstances yourself. And there is. There is a man named Jesus who can lead you and guide you. Hallelujah. I see you through every season of adaptation. There is global family. Put your hand up. We have someone to receive you as well. Bless you, sis. Whoo. Let's all lift our hands. We're going to pray together with her. Repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I thank you for your mercy. I thank you for your grace. I thank you for Jesus. I thank you for making him who had no sin. All of mine, all of my weaknesses, all of my shortcomings, all of my failures, you put them to death on the cross. And because I'm in you, you are in me. When you rose up, I did too. Free, victorious, and resilient. Holy Spirit, I opened my heart. Fill my heart. Dwell in me in Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Can we shout real quick? Because one person decided Jesus is going to lead her through. Hallelujah.
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Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades, and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience. Experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Terry Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.