Wednesday Night Bible Study: Don't Forget to Breathe | Dr. Oscar Williams

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The Potter's House Podcast

Wednesday Night Bible Study: Don’t Forget to Breathe | Dr. Oscar Williams

Date: January 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this midweek Bible study, Dr. Oscar Williams delivers a vulnerable, deeply spiritual message titled "Don't Forget to Breathe." Drawing from Numbers 20:1-12 (the story of Moses striking the rock), Dr. Williams explores the parallels between physical, emotional, and spiritual breath—how life’s relentless pressures tempt us to hold our breath, lose our spiritual connection, and respond out of old wounds instead of faith. The teaching challenges listeners to face internal struggles, let go of spiritual quick fixes, and embrace God’s “Ruach” (breath, spirit) as the source of true life—especially when anxious or under pressure.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Meaning and Power of Breath

(03:30–11:15)

• Breath as Life and Spirit:
  Dr. Williams opens by connecting the physical act of breathing with spiritual reality. He explains the Hebrew word “ruach”—meaning “breath, wind, spirit”—appears at creation (Genesis 1, 2) as God’s very life force in humanity.
  • “Breathing is spiritual… your breath is His breath, your air is His air.” (06:30, Dr. Williams)
• Automatic vs. Disrupted Breathing:
  He notes that we breathe 17,000–24,000 times a day without thinking—until life interrupts us. Moments of anxiety, trauma, or uncertainty cause us to “hold our breath,” shifting breathing from an automatic to a conscious struggle—and spiritual union is subtly disrupted.

2. How Life Teaches Us to Hold Our Breath

(11:16–17:30)

• Examples of ‘Holding Your Breath’:
  • Anxiety for children at school, workplace uncertainty, fear from bad news, global events, and personal trauma.
  • “You get that phone call…and you’re holding your breath because you don’t know what they’re going to say… you’re holding your breath.” (12:30, Dr. Williams)
• Consequences:
  Labored or irregular breathing clouds judgment, impairs reactions, lowers efficiency. Spiritual life suffers; we live defensively and faith is stunted.
  • “Church sometimes sells you quick fixes… but some things that make us hold our breath can’t be fixed with a dance or a prayer line. It takes hard internal work.” (14:57, Dr. Williams)

3. Vulnerability in Ministry and Life

(17:30–21:10)

• Leaders Holding Their Breath:
  Williams confesses as a pastor/worship leader, he sometimes helps others experience freedom—while leaving the stage feeling lonely or spiritually suffocated himself.
  • “I could preach and speak to thousands—and yet I would leave the stage wondering, did God even hear anything I said?” (17:45, Dr. Williams)
• Biblical Heroes Felt This Too:
  • David—dealt with rejection and isolation (19:00)
  • Elijah—was depressed and suicidal after victory (19:57)
  • Paul—his “thorn in the flesh” kept him desperate for grace (20:31)
    • “God’s response to Paul…was, ‘You can handle it because my grace is sufficient.’” (20:54)
• Lesson:
  • God often positions us “between the promise and the pressure.”

4. Moses: The Pressure of Unresolved Issues

(21:10–32:20)

• Moses as an Outcast and Leader:
  • Born during genocide, orphaned, raised in conflicting cultures
  • Struggled with rejection and self-doubt, even after being called by God from isolation (23:06–24:55)
  • Returns to lead millions—amidst constant complaint and spiritual pressure (26:29–28:34)
• Ministry Doesn’t Fix What You Don’t Face:
  • “We think because we serve, that something is fixing the thing in us that needs therapy… but it’s just a mask… that thing is still there.” (29:05, Dr. Williams)
• The Cost of Unaddressed Anger:
  • Moses’ impulsiveness leads him to break the tablets (God’s commandments) in a fit of rage (30:08)
    • “If you don’t deal with that thing on the inside, you will mishandle the very thing you’ve been praying to God for.” (30:45)

5. Numbers 20 — The Waters of Meribah: A Test of Faith vs. Force

(34:21–51:36)

• Context:
  • Moses, older now, leading a new generation, on the threshold of the Promised Land.
  • The people complain again about no water.
• Comparison of Two Miracles:
  • In Exodus 17, God tells Moses to strike the rock.
  • In Numbers 20, God tells Moses to speak to the rock—signaling a new, maturer season of faith.
    • “This time I want you to speak to it, because this is not about your force, this is about your faith.” (41:03, Dr. Williams)
  • Moses, in grief, frustration, and old patterns, strikes the rock twice instead.
• Key Insight:
  • “You may still see it [the provision] work, but your proximity to Him now has changed… Moses forfeits his ability to enter the promised land.” (50:18)
  • “Because you haven’t dealt with unresolved issues, it has now cost you the very thing you lived your life for.” (51:36)

6. The Example of Jesus—Breathe, Don’t Break

(53:06–61:02)

• Turning to Mark 8, Dr. Williams points to Jesus under pressure from Pharisees and clueless disciples:
  • “But he sighed deeply in his spirit…” (55:12, quoting Mark 8)
  • Greek: “anastaso”—to breathe from the depths.
    • “Jesus, at the height of frustration and anxiety, did not forget to breathe.” (55:12)
• Practical Application:
  • In physical exercise, childbirth, and life pressure, breath regulates, centers, and prevents chaos.
  • “Life can try to take your breath away… but at your moment of greatest anxiety, remember what Jesus did: just breathe.” (57:00)
• Altar Call for Renewal:
  • Williams invites all holding “the pains of your past, generational pains, anxiety, betrayal” to surrender the things they can no longer carry—by breathing, releasing, confronting.
    • “Breathing is a release… sometimes you gotta release that pain, release that animosity, release that anxiety.” (60:57)

7. Speaking to the Rock—Prophetic Activation

(61:51–65:23)

• Power in the Mouth:
  • “You better learn how to speak to the rock. I am getting ready to enter into the best season of my life, so breathe.” (61:53, Dr. Oscar Williams, quoted by service leader)
  • “The power is not in your hand, it’s in your mouth. The power is in your tongue. Death and life are in the power of your tongue.” (43:49)
• Exhortation:
  • Stand up, declare God’s promises, sow seeds of faith, and receive what God is releasing.
  • “Every time you hear something, even in the office, and you hear something prophetically, just do like this—grab it. That belongs to me!” (64:10)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On communion with God:
  • “Our breath brings us into common union—communion—with the Father. When I breathe, I’m having a conversation with heaven.” (07:30)
• On the cycle of spiritual exhaustion:
  • “You know how to camouflage it… but really, inside, you’ve been holding your breath.” (16:58)
• Facing vulnerability as a leader:
  • “I saw God heal, and I saw God make a way, but then I would go home to a feeling of loneliness, feeling like God… have you heard it for me?” (18:12)
• On leadership and unresolved wounds:
  • “If you don't get that anger under control, you'll destroy that marriage you’ve prayed for; that business God told you to build.” (30:45)
• On Moses’ pivotal error:
  • “God does not cancel out His provision, He cancels your privilege… your proximity to Him has changed.” (50:18)
• On Jesus’ example in stress:
  • “At Jesus’ moment of frustration, what did He do? He did not forget to breathe.” (55:12)
• On confronting pain to breathe again:
  • “The very thing you have not confronted, the thing you camouflage to everybody else… you know it still shows up.” (58:00)
• Prophetic declaration:
  • “I am getting ready to enter into the best season of my life. So breathe. Take it easy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper… So breathe.” (62:51)

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Important Timestamps

• [03:38] – Introduction, Scripture reading (Numbers 20:1–12), theme setup
• [06:30—11:15] – The spiritual significance of breath (“Ruach”), automatic to disrupted breathing
• [13:36—17:30] – Life examples of “holding your breath,” consequences for body, mind, and spirit
• [17:30—21:10] – Church leaders' vulnerability, biblical examples (David, Elijah, Paul)
• [21:11–32:20] – Moses’ life story: rejection, anger, leadership under pressure
• [34:21–51:36] – Moses’ test at Meribah: difference between old miracles (striking) and new miracles (speaking); consequences of spiritual regression
• [53:09–61:02] – Jesus sighing (breathing) deeply in frustration (Mark 8); call to breathe and let go; altar invitation
• [61:51–65:23] – Prophetic exhortation: declare God’s promises, “speak to the rock,” faith activation

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Conclusion

Dr. Oscar Williams’ message is a heartfelt exhortation for believers to recognize when they are “holding their breath” due to life’s pressures—spiritually, emotionally, physically. Drawing from Moses’ story and Jesus’ own example, he calls for honest surrender, healing old wounds, and learning to breathe (and speak!) with faith. The power to journey into God’s promise lies not in returning to old patterns, but embracing the new way God wants to work—through surrendered, spoken faith and the ever-present breath of God.

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“Breathe. Take it easy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper… It's turning around for me.”
— Service Leader, reflecting on Dr. Oscar Williams’ core message (62:51)

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We're going to the Word of God. We're going to the word of God in the book of numbers. It is our custom to stand for the reading the word. If you're here for the first time, we want to welcome our first time visitors. Let's clap our hands for those who'll be visiting us for the first time. We're so grateful and excited that you are here. To our e church, our e online audience, we thank God for you. Thank you for coming in and supping with us tonight. And if you're a proud member of the potter's house, just make some noise real fast. Hallelujah. We give honor to God. To our senior pastors, Pastor to pastor Sarah Jake Roberts. We give God praise for their leadership. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. We give God praise for our bishop, our overseer, Bishop Jake, first lady Jakes. We give God praise for their life. Come on. Come on. We thank God for their life. We give God praise for all of our associate pastors standing on the wall and doing the work of God. And we give God praise for you. Clap for yourself. Numbers, chapter 20, verses 1 through 12. And this is an interesting passage that I want to just take my time with. I'll read it. It's coming out of the new King James version. Numbers, chapter 20, verses 1 through 12. If you have it, say amen. If you don't have it, say hold up. Uh, oh, two people, I think was on the minister's row. My God, today. Help church. Numbers, chapter 20, verse 1 says, Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. And the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there. Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, if only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord. Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness that we and our animals should die here? And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there any water to drink. So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. And they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, take the rod, you and your brother Aaron, gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes. Speak to the rock before their eyes. Speak to the rock before their eyes. And it will Yield its water thus. Thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their animals. So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock. And he said to them, hear now, you rebels, Must we bring water for you out of this rock. Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod, and water came out abundantly and the congregation and their animals drank. Verse 12 says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, because you did not believe me to hallow me in the eyes of the children of Israel, I want you to hear that. Because you did not believe me to hollow me in the eyes of the children of Israel. Therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. I want to, for a few moments, tag this text and just simply tell you, don't forget to breathe. I know it might not make a lot of sense now in what we just read, but hopefully and with the divine help of the Holy Spirit, I hope to reiterate this title so that you can understand what it means when I say, don't forget to breathe. Father, I thank you for this moment, this sacred solemn moment, and I pray that you take control of this entire vessel. Have your way. I am not capable of doing this work in my own strength. But you, if you put your super on my natural supernatural things will take place. I give you praise for what shall happen in Jesus name, Amen. You can have your seat. It's going to take a bit of vulnerability for me to deliver this the way that I need to deliver it so that you can understand the essence of this teaching tonight, because it's truly a teaching. I really want to just talk to you about something that's been weighing on my heart, something that's been in my spirit. I say don't forget to breathe because breathing is essential to life, as we know breathing regulates life. Breathing is something that we don't even think about. It is controlled by our autonomic system, the nervous system. It is something that we do and take no attention or pay no attention to. There is a whole process to breathing where air comes in to our lungs and then from our lungs it's expelled as oxygen to our blood and to our brain. And in that moment, our body is able to survive and function naturally because of the process of breathing. It is so auto that we don't even think about it. And science tells us that we go through the process of breathing at least 17 to 24,000 times a day we breathe, not thinking about it, not focusing on it. Just something that's automatic to our existence. That God has created this process within us to not only take air in, but dispel the poison air that could stay in us. Carbon dioxide. And so 24,000 times a day, you are going through this process of breathing, not thinking anything about it. Not just from a scientific place, but also from a spiritual place. Breathing is associated or connected to the Father. There is a Hebrew word called ruach. And ruach is the word translated either breath, wind, or spirit. And so we see ruach in Genesis, Genesis chapter one, where the ruach of God, the spirit of God is hovering over the face of the deep. And then we see it again in Genesis chapter two, where the Bible says, and he breathed into man the breath, the ruach of life. And man becomes a living soul, a living nefesh. Breathing is spiritual. It is God's breath, God's air reverberating on the inside of you. It is not just your heart beating that keeps you alive. It is not just the functionality of your brain that's keeping you alive. But what is keeping you alive and motivated and cognizant right now is that you have the breath of God on the inside of you. You are connected to the Father because your breath is his breath, your air is his air. That's why the enemy is so mad, because he cannot separate. Separate you. That's why Jesus says, there's nothing that can separate us. He died so that we have access. And now that access gives us communion with him. Our breath brings us into common union. Communion with the Father. When I breathe, I'm having a conversation with Heaven. Every time I exhale and inhale, I'm having a conversation with the Father. And I am connected, my spirit to his spirit. That is the reason why I can slip out of one dimension and slip into another dimension.

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Because I hold his air inside of me. I hold his breath inside of me. There's nothing that can keep me from.

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Getting to the Father.

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I don't need a person, I don't need a place.

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I don't need a finger to go.

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Before the Father on my behalf. What you mean I gotta go to you to talk to my daddy? I got his breath on the inside of me. His is in me.

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It is why I breathe his ruach. His ruach, his air, his breath. Right now, you are connected to the Father through your breath. And the only time we think about breathing is when that breathing becomes disrupted, when our breathing becomes interrupted, disruptions from life situations, traumatic situations, things that come our way. Anxiety can trigger the part of our nervous system that puts us in what is called fight or flight mode. This is when your breathing changes. The very thing that you do without giving thought to it now becomes a voluntary thing. Because something has triggered the sympathetic nervous system and caused you to feel defensive, caused you to feel afraid, caused your anxiety to rise. And what happens is now your breathing becomes different. Your heart starts racing, you start hyperventilating. You start bracing yourself. Some people hold their breath because they just want to get ready for whatever is happening. Holding your breath, trying to brace yourself for what is to come. You have now interrupted the natural process of breathing because of what's happening. And you're holding your breath. Your kids go off to school and you're holding your breath until they get home, wondering if they're going to be okay. You walk into work holding your breath because you don't know if this is going to be your last day. You don't know if your boss is going to clown. You don't know what's going to happen. And you're holding your breath. You open up your phone or you turn on the news and you're holding your breath because you're trying to brace for the next catastrophe that will happen. You're holding your breath. You get that phone call and you see that number. And you're holding your breath because you don't know what's going to go on the other line. You don't know what they're going to say. You don't know what kind of bad news you're going to get.

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And you feel your life with holding your breath.

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Some of you in here right now are holding your breath. You've gotten so used to irregular breathing patterns because your life is so topsy turvy. Your life is so ups and up and down.

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Your life throws blows at you day by day.

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And you have conditioned yourself to always.

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Live in a defensive mode.

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So you're holding your breath, not able to breathe properly, worrying what's going to happen next. And because of that disruption, science tells us that when there are irregular breathing patterns, breath cannot get to the brain. Oxygen cannot get to the brain like it should. And when oxygen doesn't get to the brain like it should, some of our functions don't work as efficiently as they should. We're not as cognizant our decision making Things get perplexed. Our senses become aware. Our senses become really impaired because our breathing has been labored. See what happens all when you hold your breath, when you disrupt the very natural thing that God has given to you. And because of that, it causes now a situation in how you function.

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Your.

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Efficiencies, how you solve your problems, your reflexes all become tampered with because your air is being held. I think if we were to be honest as a church, sometimes we have sold you remedies that are just quick fixes. Because some of this that we're dealing with needs to have a more labored hard work instead of a quick fix. If it were as easy as just dancing around the church, I tell the musicians, turn on the click track and let's go to dancing. If that could fix it. If it was as easy as a prayer line, I would stop preaching right now and tell everybody to get in the prayer line because that would fix it. If it were as easy, easy as just giving money to get out of.

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Debt, I would empty out my whole bank account. But I recognize that some of these things that internally make me hold my breath. It's going to take more than a.

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Quick fix to get it done.

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I recognize that everything that I have seen, some of the stuff that I've.

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Seen in church, some of the stuff.

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That I have done myself has not worked because I've done all that I danced around the church and I've given all my money, and I walk outside of these doors and that same thing hits me and I find myself holding my breath again.

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I've done all that I've been told to do. I've been in every prayer line, and I find myself back in the same scenario and situation, holding my breath. I thought it worked. I came and got prayer and everybody.

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Laid their hands on me and I.

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Fell out and I spoke in tongues.

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And I felt good in the moment. But when I hit those doors, that same feeling hit me in my gut and I began to hold my breath again. I began to get defensive and brace myself. I came and I shouted and I felt the spirit.

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And yes, the spir was here.

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But when I got home, I put the covers over my head because I couldn't deal with what was coming next. I know I'm talking to some real people. You quiet, but I know you just holding your breath.

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You got so used to it. You know how to camouflage it, you.

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Know how to put makeup on it, you know how to shout around it, you know how to wave your hand around it. But really inside, you've been holding your breath. You've been hyperventilating because you're afraid of what's getting ready to happen next. You're afraid of what's going to happen to your bank account, what's going to happen to your kids. And you're tired of coming to church and not getting answers. And you're really frustrated with God, but you're too saved to be truthful. And you come into church and you're in worship and you got your hands.

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Lifted, but you're holding your breath. And I thought, being vulnerable, I thought it was just me. I felt guilty, if I can be honest. I felt guilty being a minister, being a worship leader, being someone called by God, that I could lead thousands into worship and I could preach and speak to thousands. And yet I would leave the stage wondering, did God even hear anything I said? I admit there are some times that I prayed for people and I saw God move and I saw God deliver.

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And I saw God heal and I saw God make a way and I saw God honor the prayer. But then I would go home to a feeling of loneliness. I would go home feeling like I was by myself, feeling like God. You heard it for them, but have you heard it for me? Holding my breath again, preaching and liberating other people, but living bound myself.

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And I said, it must just be me. It must just be me. It's just me. Until. Until. Until the Bible started speaking to me. And some of the people that I consider heroes of the Word begin to talk to me. David, David, David talked to me. He said, you see me as king David. You see me as in the lineage of Jesus.

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But what you don't see is I.

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Dealt with rejection issues too, because my.

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Own father didn't even call me when the prophet came to line up to see who would be king. My own father treated me like an outcast. You see me up on the mountain, you see me killing Goliath, but you don't see me when I was in the cave writing my psalms because Saul was trying to kill me. You don't see me when I was hiding from my own son, trying to kill me. And you don't know, I was dealing with isolation myself. Elijah. Elijah calls down fire from heaven on Mount Carmel. Elijah shows them that the prophet of God is still moving and working and God is still alive. And right after that, Elijah goes and crashes out under a tree. Elijah, if he was here today, would be diagnosed with depression and suicidal because he was threatened by what Jezebel was going to do to him. You mean to tell me the one who called down fire was dealing with suicide?

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Yes.

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Because Elijah, no matter how anointed he was. No matter how cold he was, Elijah found himself holding his breath.

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We talk about Paul and how Paul is credited for most of the New Testament. We talk about Paul's missionary trips, we talk about what Paul did. But we skip over the fact that Paul had a thorn in his side, and the thorn kept it on his knees.

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The thorn kept him at the foot of Jesus. The thorn buffeted him. The thorn bothered him so much that he asked God three times, take this thing from me. If you just take this, I can serve you better. If you just take it, I can worship you better. If you just take it, I can praise you better. And God's response to Paul, the one who wrote a third of the New Testament, his response was, you can handle it.

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Because my grace sufficient, I'm trying to let you know that sometimes God will position you between the promise and the pressure.

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That sometimes the benefit for being called is that God will show you the.

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Promise, but put you in the pressure cooker.

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Sometimes you sitting in the pew, sometimes you being saved on your job, sometimes you being a witness means that God has you in the pressure cooker because he needs you to understand that I'll be in there with you.

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And it brings me, with this understanding, to my text with Moses. Moses is a complex leader. Moses life is full of complications. Moses, the one who talked face to face with God, did not start out the way he ended. Moses gives me hope. Because when I look at Moses life, this is what I see. I see someone who was born in the midst of a genocide, who was orphaned and then adopted by an Egyptian person, raised in an Egyptian household, but still Hebrew by culture and ethnicity, raised.

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In an environment that was not his.

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Own, always looked as an outcast, a little different, not the same as everybody else. Yeah, you in the building, but you not like us. Yeah, you in the family line, but you got a different mama, you got a different daddy. Come on, somebody talk to me. Yeah, you in the church, but you don't look like us. You didn't come from this type of denomination.

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You weren't raised like us. And you sitting amongst the people and everybody's smiling, but you can kind of feel them looking at you. And you're dealing with that feeling of being an outcast, that feeling of being exercise and being an outlier. And you want to fit in. You're like Moses. You want to fit in with the Egyptians, but you're too Hebrew to be Egyptian and too Egyptian to be Hebrew.

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And this is the formation of Moses life.

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This is how his Life starts to the point where Moses makes a decision.

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To show his loyalty to his brothers. Where he kills an Egyptian because he sees them messing with his Hebrew brother.

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He thinks, this is going to get me in with you. I did this favor for you. I did something good for you. You finally going to accept me? You finally going to love me? You're going to call me brother? But what they did, they turned their back on him. So much so that it pushed Moses into isolation. You mean the thing that I did to help you out now is the thing you crucified me for?

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Moses is now pushed into isolation. He goes to Midian where he meets.

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Jethro, his soon to be father in law.

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And it's in Midian that he gets called into ministry. In isolation, God calls Moses into ministry through a burning bush.

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In isolation, God calls Moses into ministry. But the only problem with that is.

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Now Moses has to face his own idiosyncrasies.

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Moses has to deal with his self esteem issues.

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Why?

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How do we know this? Because Moses starts to say stuff to God like, who am I that you would send me to those people? You mean you want me to go back to the same place that rejected me? They didn't like me then and they sure not gonna like me now. You're sending me back there in ministry. I can't even talk. I'm slow in speech, I stutter. God, all of these issues, you don't understand who you're calling God. I've gotten used to my problems. I've gotten used to my defects. It makes me comfortable to be in isolation. And you're trying to pull me out of where I run to. And God says yes.

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Moses is now faced with the command of God. And Moses, through all his trepidation, goes back into Egypt, the place that rejected him. He goes back to the place that did not receive him. Don't you know how crazy it would be to come back to a people that turned away from you? Surely God could have raised somebody up that was already in the midst of them. But God sends Moses back.

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And he says, if they ask you.

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Who said, tell them I am. That I am.

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I'm giving you backup. Tell your neighbor you got back up. You're not going by yourself. You're not going. God is not just sending you into the battle by yourself. He said, I am. That I am is going with you. And Moses is now back in Egypt and he's facing Pharaoh. And understand. And I want to paint this picture of Moses because sometimes we see him on the mountaintop but you got to understand the pressure of leadership that was put on Moses shoulders because he went from leading sheep on the backside of a mountain to leading more than 2 million people who did not know him. Do you understand the pressure that Moses had? You're not only sending me back to Egypt, you're not only sending me to Pharaoh, but you're sending me to a people who have quadrupled in size and they don't know me. And all you've given me is your name. But I'm gonna walk it anyway. But God, you know I can't speak. Take your brother. But God, you know I don't have no power. Take. I am. And Moses now has to lead with the pressures of life on his shoulders.

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Does anybody know what I'm talking? And you would think, you would think that once God shows up and we know the story like he did for Moses, once God defeats Pharaoh and brings the Israelites out of Egypt, you would.

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Think Moses could breathe a sigh of relief. But no sooner when they get out of Egypt, they go through a wilderness.

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Where there is no water.

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And now the same people who were.

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In slavery for 400 years now are.

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Complaining to Moses, saying, why did you bring us out into this wilderness to die? Why did you do this to us? You could have left us in chains. Wait a minute. You were shouting glad with your tambourines when we crossed over. Now you're mad that you're not in chains anymore. I can't even even please you. There's nothing I can do that's right or wrong that's gonna make you happy.

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Moses is dealing with a complaining people and God backs Moses up every time.

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Moses says there is no water, God provides water.

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Moses says there is no food, God provides manna.

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Moses says there's no meat, God provides quail. They get before a Red Sea. Moses says, how we gonna cross a? God says, use the rod that's in your hand. God parts the Red Sea and they walk through on dry ground. Oh, and they're shouting glad. But no sooner than that happen, they were complaining again and again. And there was years of years of them complaining back and forth. And every time Moses would find himself on his face talking to God. But you have to understand that just because we see Moses acting as a deliverer, the same Moses who killed an Egyptian, the same Moses who was struggling with isolation, the same Moses who was struggling with low self esteem, is still the one lifting up his rod.

[D]

And this same Moses makes the mistake sometimes that many of us make in ministry that we think because we're in the work, that the work is working in us. We think because I serve on the usher board, there's some kind of way fixing the thing in me that needs therapy. We think because I sing on the praise team, that some kind of way that's camouflaging or glossing over the fact.

[E]

That I got anger issues. Oh, we think that because I'm a minister, that some kind of way, when I put the collar on, it alleviates me from the problems of my depression. But I came to tell you it's just a facade, it's just a mask. Because that thing is still there. That thing is still lodged on the inside of you. And you can't dance it away, you can't shout it away. You can't just pray it one day away. That thing is going to take work. God is coming to expose that thing because he's not qualifying you just for that work.

[D]

He's qualifying you for the thing that he wants to do in your life. And here is Moses still leading. But we start to see glimpses of this old Moses show up. Because Moses goes up to the mountain to hear God, to see God, to.

[E]

Talk to God face to face.

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This is where God gives Moses the ten Commandments that God writes himself on a tablet. But because Moses has not dealt with that impulsiveness, that anger, he comes down out of the mountain and sees Israel.

[E]

Worshiping the BAAL God. And in his anger and his impulse, he breaks the very word of God that he just got. That's the problem. If you don't deal with that thing on the inside of you, you will mishandle the very thing that you've been praying to God for. If you don't get that anger under control, you'll destroy that marriage that you've been praying for her. If you don't get that anger and that frustration under control, you'll destroy that business that God told you to build. If you don't get that thing under control and give it it to God and allow God to do the work on the inside of you, that ministry will be destroyed because you don't know.

[D]

How to control your breathing. We see Moses breaking the tabernacle. Can you imagine God writing his commandments and Moses being so angry to break the very thing that God wrote? Can you just take a moment to think about that, that you have just talked face to face to God? You have been in the presence of.

[E]

God, the very thing that you've been.

[D]

Wanting all your life.

[E]

And you get an opportunity to stand before God. And God gives you a word about your life. And God gives you his handwriting on a piece of paper.

[D]

And.

[E]

And he says, I need you to take this back to your people and deliver it. But because you can't control your emotions, but because you can't control your frustration, but because you have not got a handle on your mentor now, you break the very thing, mishandle the very thing that you asked God for all of these years. And we look at Moses, but it's happening today because God wants to put something in your hand, but he already knows you. You don't have a handle on that thing. If I were to give you that business, it'd be destroyed in a week because you don't know how to control your mouth. You gotta pop off on every hand. If I give you that marriage, it'd be gone in a day because you don't know how to stroke control your emotions. Your emotions are all over the place. And I'm trying to bless you with what you asked me for, but you.

[D]

Have not learned how to breathe.

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Moses, though he makes a mistake, God says, come back up to the mountain. I'll give you another chance. Because this is God's man. And Moses sees moments like this all throughout his life. Until we get to numbers, Moses has been able to lead the children of Israel for 40 years. He's been able to intercede on behalf of the children of Israel to God. And God has relented of his punishment to Israel because of Moses. Israel has disobeyed and rebelled so many times to the point where God has said, this generation now that's in the wilderness, will not see the promised land. So you're going to stay in this place until all of them die out. And by the time we get to numbers, we have seen the old generation die out. And this is a new generation. But not only is a new generation, Moses has grown older and they are months away from getting to the promised land. They can see it. They sent spies over. They've sent spies over. They came, Joshua, they came back and said, we are well able. Can you imagine? Moses, who has spent all his life dealing with these cantankerous Israelites, now can see on the threshold, we are almost there to the land that's flowing with milk and honey. Moses has endured and been able to camouflage all of the defects that he's had. He's been able to get away with all of those unjustified outbursts. He's been able to hide and camouflage and mask himself and deal with it.

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And still get away and still, and.

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Still be able to lead.

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He's been able to serve and function. He's been able to give and function. He's been able to sing and function and able to preach and function and able to play and function and able to pray and function. And now he said, I'm almost there.

[D]

To the promised land. The only problem is they run out of water again. They've run out of water again. Now this is not like the first time. So in Exodus, in Exodus chapter 17, they ran out of water and they had just come out of Egypt. And so when they run out of water, it says, so Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, what shall I do with this people? Exodus 17:4. They are almost ready to stone me. Now this is early on we see Moses dealing with that same spirit of rejection and isolation, isolation, that same low self esteem. He doesn't know God like he knows God in numbers.

[E]

And he's telling God, they getting ready to kill me. You gotta back me up on this. You gotta support me on this. We've run out of Water. And the Lord says to Moses, go on before the people and take with.

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You some of the elders of Israel also. Take in your hand your rod, which you struck the river, and go.

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And behold, I will stand before you.

[D]

There on the rock in Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it and the people may drink. And Moses did this in the sight of the people. So in Exodus, God tells him, strike the rock. And I'm gonna stand there with you and back you up, because this rock is a big rock. And I'm gonna give you the force that you need to pull water from it. But when we get to numbers, this is a different rock. This is a different time and place. This is a different season. Moses is not in the same season he was in in Exodus. Moses is in a different season. Moses has grown older. Moses was supposed to have matured to.

[E]

The place where God.

[D]

I don't need you to do the last miracle that you did.

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You can do something new. In this season of my life.

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And God is trusting Moses.

[E]

God is saying, you have seen me part the Red Sea. You have seen me tear down Pharaoh and his army. You have seen me bring quail out of the sky, bring manna out of the sky. You have seen me work miracle after miracle. Surely by now you don't just need.

[D]

Another forceful miracle in your life. And so they get to this place, Kadesh. And the Bible says, there is no water. And this new generation has the same complaints of the old generation. And I can imagine Moses saying, I thought I got rid of them when they died. I thought those complaints died with them. And here again is the same complaint of no water. Here again, it's the same complaint of why you didn't leave us in Egypt.

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Here again, it's the same complaint of why we couldn't die with our father, why we couldn't be in chains. And Moses is saying, after all that you've seen God do you still don't.

[D]

Believe that he can bring water to a waterless place? I want to stop and pause and ask that question. After all you've seen God do, do you still not believe that he can bring provision to where you feel like there is poverty? After all you've seen God do. Do you not believe that he can dry up that cancer cell like he did before?

[E]

After all you've seen God do? After all the ways God has made, do you still believe that he needs your job to support you? After all the things that God has done? After all the times God has Answered your prayer. Are you still wondering why God has you in a waterless situation? Don't you know that he is the water from the well that will never run dry? Have you. Have you not learned anything by walking with God these 40 years? Have you not seen anything about the miraculous hand of God that you still question when you show up in an.

[D]

Environment that looks like it's barren? Have you not seen anything? And here again, we see that old Moses show up. Moses and Aaron go to God. They say, God. They complain it again, there's no water. And God says differently this time. This time I want you to speak to it, because this is not about your force. This is about your faith. The first time, I needed to show force, so I had to strike it with your rod because the people had seen me use your rod to clear out Pharaoh in Egypt and do all of the plagues. The people had seen me use your rod to part the Red Sea. The people had seen your rod when.

[E]

They were ballading the Malachites. But this time, this generation doesn't need to see the power of your rod, but the power of your faith. This season, I need you to use the power that's in your mouth. I don't want you to use your faith force your fist. I want you to use your faith. I want you to open up your mouth and understand that when you declare a thing, when you affirm a thing, when you speak a thing, it has to happen. And I'm going to back you up. I need you to understand that you have reached a place of maturity where you can't rely on the old miracle. Because I'm doing a new thing in this season, and I'm trusting you to follow me. I'm trusting you to believe me. I'm trusting you to use what I put in you. This is what he's saying to Moses, but I believe he's saying it to somebody in this house. I believe he's saying it to somebody in these pews, to somebody online. You're looking for God to do what he did. And God is saying, I'm getting ready to do something new. The power is not in your hand, but it's in your mouth. The power is in your tongue. Death and life are in the power of your tongue. I'm trying to get you ready that when you speak a thing, it has to show up. And it has to happen because you've been in my face so much that I don't have to stand next to you. My presence is already going with you.

[D]

At this Season. You're expecting God to give you the same blueprint he gave you in the last season. And God is saying, I've moved from there. Why have not you? I'm not in Exodus anymore. You're not just coming out of Egypt. You've been walking with me. You've been coming to church. You've been in Bible study. You've been praying, You've been fasting. You got to elevate your faith now.

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It's time to elevate. You just can't let all that lie dormant. You got to elevate your. Your faith. You got to get bold. I know it's a rock. I know it's a stony thing. I know it don't move. But greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. You gotta use your faith. I know it's not supposed to produce water, but I didn't tell you what it was supposed to produce. I told you what you were supposed to produce. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. You got the water on the inside of you. That. That's why he told Moses to speak up. It's not the water in the rock, but it's the water in you.

[D]

It's the water in you.

[E]

It's the deliverance that's already inside of you.

[D]

It's that thing that's lying dormant in you.

[E]

And God is trying to wake that thing up in you.

[D]

You won't need so many prayer lines.

[E]

If you are understand you already got an intercessor on the inside of you. You won't need nobody to lay hands on you when you already understand that the healer is inside. Remember I told you his ruach is already in you. You've been going to other people. You've been going to other places. And God is saying, I'm trying to.

[D]

Position you up to use what I put in you. And Moses, Moses, Moses says, okay, God. Moses says, okay, God. Moses leaves the presence of God and he goes back to the children of Israel. And Pastor Don, I don't know what happened between him being in God's presence and getting into the people. Maybe he started to remember how they complained all these years. Maybe he started to think about those anger issues that he had and that frustration and how they were always complaining about water. Maybe, maybe a small, subtle detail that we miss sometimes is that in the beginning of that chapter, Moses sister died. Maybe he's dealing with grief because his sister Miriam, you know the one. Miriam, Miriam, the one that danced when they came out of Egypt, you know, Miriam, the one that he had to pray for. He had to pray for her. Because Miriam and Aaron, at one point in Moses leadership, Miriam and Aaron had turned their back on him and said.

[E]

Hey, is God the only is.

[D]

Moses is the only one that God speaks to.

[E]

And God struck Miriam with leprosy. And Moses had to pray that God relent. Can you imagine praying for the person that talked about you? Praying for the person that was trying to remove you from your position. Praying for the person that was backstabbing you. Moses had to go to God on Miriam's behalf.

[A]

Why?

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Because that was his sister, and he loved his sister. And though she had betrayed him, Moses said, I'll still stand in the gap for you. So Moses was not only dealing with isolation, but dealing with betrayal. But we get to numbers, and that sister has died.

[D]

And in the midst of her dying, here they go complaining. If it ain't one thing, it's another. Here. You go to the doctor and get a diagnosis, and you trying to deal with that. And then you come home and your kids are screaming. You got the complexities of trying to be in a household and how the ends are going to meet. And then you come to church and they don't speak to you. You like me, you got a whole bunch going in your head. And then you start driving in this Dallas traffic, and somebody cut you off. Some of us do more than huck that horn. Pray for us. I'm telling you that life sometimes will bring you so many interruptions that it will cause you not to be able to breathe. And I don't know because it doesn't say. But I, in my spiritual imagination, can imagine that as Moses is dealing with all of this, dealing with grief from his sister dying, dealing with the complaints of people. And they have not diminished in size. They have now increased in size. So we're not talking about 1, 2.

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3, 4, 5 people.

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We're talking about millions and millions of people.

[E]

Can you imagine hearing complaints from every side? When you wake up, somebody's complaining you go to sleep. Somebody's complaining you go to the bathroom. Somebody's complain on every side. You can't do nothing right. Even the last thing you did right, they forgot about that and they complained about something else. And everywhere you turn, somebody's pulling on you, and somebody's needing something from you, and somebody's begging from you, and somebody's complaining about you, and somebody's trying to take your position and somebody's trying to backstab you. And all the while, you're just trying.

[D]

To hear what God is saying. And Moses goes to the people and he says, you rebels. And somewhere in between him being in the presence of God and getting to the people, his frustration, his anger, his anxiety lead him to strike the rock. God said, speak to it. Speak, speak, speak, speak. But Moses gets to it. Gets to it, and he. The Bible says he strikes it twice. We don't know if it was immediate or labored. Striking it out of anger, out of frustration, doing it because, God, I just want this to be over. God, I know this worked last time, so I'm just gonna try the same thing again.

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God, I know what you said, but I don't know if I can go by what you said.

[D]

I'm gonna go by what I know works.

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I like being comfortable. I like being complacent. And this thing worked last time, and so let's just go with that thing. I'm not ready for you to do a new thing. Let's try that another month.

[D]

But right now, I'm gonna strike the rock. And you know what happens? Water comes out. You would think that because of Moses disobedience that God does not allow the miracle to take place. But God does not cancel out his provision. He cancels your privilege. You may still see it work, but your proximity to him now has changed. You may still see the blessing come forth, but because of this moment, Moses now forfeits his ability to enter the promised land. Can you imagine Pastor Dobbins living your life, serving and working, only to get to months before you walk into what God has promised you? But because you haven't dealt with those unresolved issues, it has now cost you the very thing you lived your life for.

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Hey, it's Raj and Noah. And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.

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Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.

[A]

But who isn't? That's why each week, we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with, whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.

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All.

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And I wonder what would have happened if Moses would have Just.

[A]

Breathe.

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I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what would have happened if Moses had taken a moment and just. In my studying asking God, what is the solution? How did I get to breathe? Because God took me to Mark Chapter eight. Something real interesting. Mark Chapter eight. Because any solution you find in Jesus, Mark Chapter eight before that, you have to understand. Jesus has had several encounters with the Pharisees. They have tested him and they have tried to trick him up, and they've had tried to trip him and try to get him to be folly in his responses. They've asked him, why don't your disciples do what we customarily do? Why don't your disciples do this? And they're always antagonizing Jesus. And Jesus is always having to respond to the Pharisees. And not only the Pharisees are his frustration, but also his disciples, because he's dealing with disciples that have been around him, yet they don't seem to really grasp his teaching.

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He's fed now 5,000 and he's fed 7,000.

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And these same, these same disciples are.

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Saying, but where is our bread? And Jesus is saying, didn't you just see what I did? You are the closest thing to me. And you're still wondering about where the bread is. Don't you know I am the bread of life. You're still wondering where your next meal is coming from. You're still wondering who's going to provide. Have you not learned anything from me at this point? And Jesus in Mark 8 is dealing with all these frustrations. And here comes the Pharisees again.

[D]

The Bible says, then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, testing him. But this is the part but he sighed deeply in his spirit. I said, God, what does that mean? That word, sigh deeply is a Greek word, anastaso, which means Jesus breathed from the Depths of his spirit. What am I telling you is that at Jesus moment of frustration, at Jesus moment of the height of his anxiety, what Jesus did, he did not forget to breathe. Dealing with the Pharisees, dealing with the frustration of his own disciples, dealing with the complexities of ministry, dealing with all that came along, dealing with what he knew, where he was going to the cross. Jesus means of substitution for his frustration. Jesus means was to just breathe. And I labored with this because I understand what it means to not breathe. If you ever worked out, you understand the power of breath. When the weight gets heavy, you'll hear your trainer say, keep breathing. Have you ever given birth or in Lamaz class, they work with you on your breathing techniques? Why? Because there's something spiritual and internal that happens when you breathe. There's something that happens inside your body that when you regulate how you breathe, you bring all your senses back into order. And I understand that life can try to take your breath away.

[E]

I understand that life can take the.

[D]

Very thing that you need to survive. I understand. Understand that trauma can be triggering to you.

[E]

I understand that you're holding on to stuff that you never let go. I understand that even when you're in worship, you're still holding your breath because you haven't learned to breathe.

[D]

But I want you to hear and.

[E]

See what Jesus did at the moment of his frustration, at the moment of the height of his anxiety, when everybody was trying to test him and get answers from him. And when he couldn't find a place of solace.

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Jesus, just breathe. And I knew this message wasn't going to be a shouting one. Because my assignment was for those who find themselves not able to breathe. For those who are so weighted down by the cares of life. For those who feel like you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Those who wake up every morning tired because you can't sleep at night worrying about what's happening on the next day. Dealing with pressure. Those who have been carrying things from generation to generation. This was not just. This is not just one scenario, one circumstance. But you show up every day with the pains of your past. Generational pains. And you wonder why, even when you come to church as faithful as you are, does God see that I can't breathe? I wonder if you will be honest tonight. I wonder if we make an altar for all those who just say, I want to breathe again. I wonder who would be honest and come and say, father, help me to breathe. I want to invite you, whoever you are, wherever you are. I want to invite you to this place. I want you to confront the very thing that you've been holding on to. I want you to confront that anger that's lodged so deep inside of you that is getting ready to destroy the thing that you've been praying to God for. The very thing that you have not confronted. The very thing that you camouflage to everybody else. But you know it still shows up. You can look back over your life and see situations that you messed up because you didn't know how to control your tongue. You didn't know how to control your emotions, your anger, your anxiety. Some of y' all haven't traveled yet because your anxiety is so high. You're afraid to get on plane because fear has you gripped and you refuse to confront it. You're just gonna try to live with it because you don't think there is any deliverance for it. You tried it. You tried. Deliverance for it. You tried. You tried. It's not like you didn't try. You came, you had them pray for you. But you still find yourself holding your breath and not being able to breathe. You tired of being afraid of solutions and situations because you don't even trust yourself anymore. You don't go around your family because you're still dealing with that spirit of betrayal. You're holding on to what they did, what they said 10, 15, 20 years ago. You haven't talked to your mother, your sister, your brother, your father in years because you're still holding on to that. And you won't breathe and release it. The thing that Jesus did when he sighed deeply is that he released. Breathing is a release. And sometimes you gotta release.

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You gotta release that pain, you gotta pray, release that animosity.

[D]

You got to release that anxiety.

[E]

You got to release that fear. You are not made to hold it. It's messing with your breathing. You're not getting enough oxygen to the places for you to make the right decisions. And you keep jumping off at the wrong times.

[D]

It's because you are not breath. Somebody I hear you saying, well, what's going to make this time different? Because this time you're not just coming to the altar, but you're coming to breathe. So here.

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Here. Here's what I want you to do. If you believe that you're about to enter into the best season of your life, I want you to look to your neighbor and say, God is doing it right now. God. God is doing it right now. See, sometimes you better open your mouth and learn how to speak into the atmosphere. I can get ready to walk into the best season of my life. So you better learn how to breathe. Dr. Oscar said it best. And you better learn how to speak to the rock. I am getting ready to enter into the best season of my life. So breathe. Take it easy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. And every tongue that rises up against you. So breathe. Matter of fact, just tell your neighbor, breathe, Breathe. Breathe. It's turning around for me.

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Breathe.

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It's turning around for me. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to get a number in your mind whether you're here, whether you're online. I want you to get a number in your mind of what you feel that God deserves from you right now. Whether it's your tithe. We know that's the 10th, but it's a sacrifice. You're giving your offering. Raise your hand if you need of a tithing or offering envelope. Someone from our PMT will serve you if you're online. There's ways to give it online. But I'm. I'm declaring, man, that that message has stirred up something to me. I've been. I've been worried about some stuff. And God said, just breathe.

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Just, just breathe.

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Just, just, just breathe. And if you know anything about training, the trainer does tell you to breathe, but the trainer tells you to breathe when it's inconvenient. So you better learn how to give and breathe when it is inconvenient. And you may be living in an inconvenient season in your life, but just breathe. Don't stop breathing. If you're ready to give, I want you to jump on your feet. I want you to jump on your feet all over the building if you're giving online, if you're at home, jump up on your feet as a prophetic gesture. So let me tell you why I wanted you to jump on your feet. Pastor Sarah said something Sunday that captured my attention. She says, anytime you hear something, I believe in prophetic gestures. She said, grab it out of the air. You better grab it and say, that belongs to me. You better grab that. That's a prophetic gesture that I am declaring that everything the enemy has stolen from me, I want it all back. The seed I'm getting ready to give is about to bless me like never before. I'm getting ready to get it all back. And every time you hear something, I am declaring every time you hear something, even when you're in office and you hear something prophetically, they might think you're crazy. Just do like this. What's wrong with you, child? You don't understand. If you gotta ask me, you don't understand. I was just being prophetic. What happened? I heard the Lord say I'm healed. I heard the Lord said I'm delivered. I heard the Lord say my children gonna be saved. I heard tenfold hitting my house. I heard a hundred fold hitting my house. See, I am being prophetic. It may not make sense, but when.

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You learn to speak to the rock.

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And the seed I'm getting ready to give, it is not the end, it is the beginning. To be the best harvest I have ever seen in my life. And I believe it and declare it. So, Father, whether you're in here or online, everyone that is giving, I am declaring that as they are planting it into good ground, that this will be the best season of our life. We are declaring it and we are speaking to every rock that when we speak, the oil is going to flow and we are coming against every plan of the enemy. Satan. The Lord rebukes you and the blood of Jesus is against you. God, we thank you. For this seed will change generations. That I'm getting ready to give live. This seed that I'm getting ready to put in the ground is going to bring back a hundredfold a thousand fold. This seed that I'm putting in the ground is going to change generational wealth for my children's children. And I'm declaring in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Take your seat. Pass it to the left. Pass it to the left.

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Hey, it's Raj and Noah. And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.

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Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.

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But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with, whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions or even dreaming.

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And for the first time ever, we're going to have full video episodes on YouTube because as long as there are things to get wrong, we're going to be right here to help you do them better.

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Love you.

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