THE PAIN OF TRANSITION (Loss, Moving On, Getting Unstuck) | Daily Word 1 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi guys. For a while I've felt prompted
2. 0:02to come on here to YouTube and other
3. 0:03social media platforms and to share just
4. 0:06a little bit of prophetic teaching
5. 0:07regularly. Uh,
6. 0:09I love the Bible. I love the word of
7. 0:11God. And uh, what I really want to do is
8. 0:14probably two, three, four times a week
9. 0:16just open the scriptures for 10 or 15
10. 0:18minutes. Um, go through a passage verse
11. 0:22by verse, line by line, sometimes even
12. 0:24word by word and see what the Lord wants
13. 0:28to say. I believe that the word of God
14. 0:31is powerful. It speaks into our lives in
15. 0:34every situation, in every generation.
16. 0:37And I've been waiting for the perfect
17. 0:39moment. I've been waiting until I have
18. 0:40this backdrop all sorted out. We have
19. 0:42just moved to Australia, as some of you
20. 0:44know, so we're getting the house sorted
21. 0:46out. But I got to the stage today where
22. 0:47I was just like, if I don't do this now,
23. 0:50I'm never going to do it. So, 10, 15
24. 0:52minutes, three, four times a week.
25. 0:54That's where I'm at, I'm not. I just
26. 0:56want to open the word of God and to
27. 0:58share it with you. I wanted to be
28. 1:00something that you can
29. 1:02watch and listen to maybe as you're
30. 1:04getting ready in the morning for 10 or
31. 1:0615 minutes. Something that will speak
32. 1:08into your day. Maybe you will listen to
33. 1:10it on your commute to work, whatever
34. 1:11that is. But I just really want this to
35. 1:14be helpful. That's my prayer. That the
36. 1:17Holy Spirit would take the written word
37. 1:20of God and speak into your life. And
38. 1:22there's a passage that I want to look
39. 1:25at, particularly one verse today. And
40. 1:27that is 1 Samuel 16, that's the
41. 1:30anointing of David to be king. 1 Samuel
42. 1:3316 and I want to look at verse one. The
43. 1:35Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you
44. 1:39mourn for Saul since I have rejected him
45. 1:43as king over Israel? Fill your horn with
46. 1:47oil and be on your way. I am sending you
47. 1:50to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one
48. 1:53of his sons to be king."
49. 1:56And the Lord would say to Samuel, and
50. 1:58the Lord would say to us, "How long are
51. 2:01you going to mourn for something I no
52. 2:03longer want in your life?
53. 2:05How long are you going to cry?
54. 2:08How long are you going to get be angry?
55. 2:10How long are you going to be emotional?
56. 2:12How long are you going to be held back?
57. 2:15How long are you going to look back for
58. 2:17something in your past that I can't
59. 2:20allow to be part of your future?" And it
60. 2:24seems from the passage that Samuel has
61. 2:26been mourning for some time, and that's
62. 2:27understandable. Samuel was invested in
63. 2:30Saul. He was the one who had anointed
64. 2:32him as king. He had been the one that
65. 2:34Saul went to. He had been his mentor,
66. 2:37his guide, the one who heard God for
67. 2:40Saul. And so, he is taking this
68. 2:42personally. He has poured everything
69. 2:44into this guy, and Saul hasn't worked
70. 2:46out. And we'll talk about that more in
71. 2:48the next few days. That Saul had failed
72. 2:51God. Saul had been rejected as king. And
73. 2:54Samuel is taking this personally. And
74. 2:56the Lord comes along and says, "How long
75. 2:59will you mourn?"
76. 3:01In other words, Saul,
77. 3:03it's time to dry your eyes. It's time to
78. 3:06move on. It's time to take off your
79. 3:09funeral clothes. It's time to step into
80. 3:11the next thing that I have for you.
81. 3:14And sometimes we will get stuck in life
82. 3:17mourning for something that God has
83. 3:19moved.
84. 3:20We will get stuck in life looking back
85. 3:23at something we lost, something we had
86. 3:25to leave behind, something that God
87. 3:27removed from our life, something that
88. 3:29wasn't good, something that wasn't
89. 3:30healthy. Or maybe even it was good, it
90. 3:32was a God thing, but God has taken it
91. 3:35away, and we are finding it difficult to
92. 3:38move on. And I believe the Lord would
93. 3:40say to some of you today, "Stop mourning
94. 3:42for something I removed.
95. 3:45Stop grieving for something that is
96. 3:46gone. It's time to move on." Now, let
97. 3:50Let say this, there is nothing wrong
98. 3:52with mourning. There's nothing wrong
99. 3:54with grief. Grief is love that
100. 3:59that we're struggling to express because
101. 4:01there's the person or the thing isn't
102. 4:03there to express it to you any longer.
103. 4:05Grief is natural, grief is normal, grief
104. 4:08is healthy. When we lose someone
105. 4:11um
106. 4:12and that loss can be more than just
107. 4:14somebody dying. It can be losing a
108. 4:16friendship, somebody moving away, um a
109. 4:19divorce. But even you know what, when I
110. 4:21talk about grief it can be even more
111. 4:23than that.
112. 4:25It can be losing a pet,
113. 4:27losing your your beloved dog that you've
114. 4:29had for 12 years. It can be losing the
115. 4:33youthfulness as you get older. It can be
116. 4:36losing a job.
117. 4:38It can be losing um friends as you move
118. 4:41away from an area. They are not dead. I
119. 4:44mean, Saul here wasn't dead, that's the
120. 4:46thing, but Samuel is mourning.
121. 4:49And so mourning is right because
122. 4:52and proper and and and and normal and
123. 4:55natural because here's the thing that
124. 4:56I've discovered.
125. 4:58Transition brings loss and loss brings
126. 5:02grief.
127. 5:03When you go through any major shift or
128. 5:06transition in your life, that will bring
129. 5:09loss and loss will bring grief and pain
130. 5:12and heartache.
131. 5:14And so the Lord would say to you, it's
132. 5:16okay to mourn. He says we walk through
133. 5:18the valley of the shadow of death, but
134. 5:20we don't camp there. We don't stay
135. 5:23there. We don't build a house there.
136. 5:25We don't take up permanent residence in
137. 5:27the valley of the shadow of death. And I
138. 5:29believe the Lord would want to speak to
139. 5:31some of you prophetically today who have
140. 5:33got stuck in a place of looking back at
141. 5:36something that you've lost, something
142. 5:38that he has taken from you, something
143. 5:40that is gone from your life. I just want
144. 5:42to make sure this is recording.
145. 5:48Yep, it is. Just wanted to make sure.
146. 5:50You can tell this is my first YouTube
147. 5:52video, guys.
148. 5:53Um but I I believe the Lord would want
149. 5:55to say to you, let it go.
150. 5:57It's time to let it go. It was right to
151. 5:59grieve. It was right to mourn.
152. 6:02It was right to cry. It was right to
153. 6:04feel that loss. That was okay. He's not
154. 6:06condemning you for that.
155. 6:07But it's time now to move on. It's time
156. 6:11to let it go. It's time to step into the
157. 6:13next place, space, and stage that I have
158. 6:16for you.
159. 6:17For that thing, that person, that
160. 6:19relationship, that church. Some of us
161. 6:21get stuck with church hurt from the
162. 6:22past.
163. 6:24We're grieving something we poured
164. 6:26everything into a church, into a uh
165. 6:29a ministry, and it fell apart.
166. 6:32For some of us that could be many
167. 6:34things, but the Lord would say to you
168. 6:35today, it's time
169. 6:38to move on. It's time to let that go.
170. 6:41You see, God isn't as sentimental as we
171. 6:43are. God has already moved on. And we'll
172. 6:45see that as we go through this passage
173. 6:47over the next few days.
174. 6:48God has already moved on. He says, I've
175. 6:50found somebody else.
176. 6:52But Saul, he can't or Samuel, he's
177. 6:54struggling to move on.
178. 6:56Samuel is stuck in the past. Samuel is
179. 6:59stuck in that old relationship. He's
180. 7:00stuck in that old
181. 7:02um identity even that he had as Saul's
182. 7:06advisor, as Saul's mentor.
183. 7:08And God is saying to him, Samuel, don't
184. 7:10stay stuck in somewhere that I'm no
185. 7:12longer.
186. 7:13God has moved on, but Samuel is stuck in
187. 7:16the past. And I believe the Lord would
188. 7:18want to say to some of you today,
189. 7:21it's okay to mourn.
190. 7:23And you can't properly leave unless you
191. 7:26properly grieve, but there comes a point
192. 7:29There comes a point, and I want you to
193. 7:31hear this today. There comes a point
194. 7:32where the Lord would say,
195. 7:34take off your funeral clothes. It's time
196. 7:37to move on.
197. 7:39It's time to wash your face. It's time
198. 7:41to get moving again
199. 7:43because I have more for you.
200. 7:45You see, Samuel thought that with the
201. 7:47loss of Saul as king,
202. 7:50that was the end of his ministry.
203. 7:52That was the end of kingship. That was
204. 7:54the end of the whole project.
205. 7:56But God would say, "No."
206. 7:58Because that thing is over doesn't mean
207. 8:00you're over.
208. 8:03I've got something else. I've got
209. 8:04someone else.
210. 8:06I've already chosen someone else to be
211. 8:08king.
212. 8:09And God would say to you, that thing
213. 8:11might be finished, but it doesn't mean
214. 8:14that you're finished.
215. 8:15That thing might be over, but it doesn't
216. 8:18mean you're over. You know, when Jesus
217. 8:19died on the cross, he said, "It is
218. 8:21finished."
219. 8:23He didn't say, "I am finished." He said,
220. 8:25"It is finished." And there is a
221. 8:26difference. When God gives you an
222. 8:29assignment, it has a beginning and it
223. 8:31has an ending. And just because an
224. 8:33assignment is finished doesn't mean you
225. 8:36are finished. God has another assignment
226. 8:39for Samuel. And today I want to tell you
227. 8:41God has another assignment for you. That
228. 8:43job might not have worked out.
229. 8:45That relationship might have fallen
230. 8:47apart.
231. 8:48That church might have hurt you deeply.
232. 8:52You might have been brokenhearted by the
233. 8:54loss of that relationship. But the Lord
234. 8:56would say to you, "I have something else
235. 9:00for you.
236. 9:01Just because that is finished doesn't
237. 9:03mean I'm finished with you."
238. 9:05And I believe the Lord would want to
239. 9:06remind you today that I have more for
240. 9:08you.
241. 9:09I have more for you.
242. 9:12God says, "I have already found another
243. 9:15person, another man to be king."
244. 9:18Not I will, but I have. In other words,
245. 9:21I'm already ahead of you. I've already
246. 9:23got the next thing ready for you. And I
247. 9:26believe the Lord would say that to some
248. 9:27of you prophetically today.
249. 9:29You're mourning what is behind you.
250. 9:33And that's stopping you moving into what
251. 9:35I have placed before you. It's stopping
252. 9:38you stepping into the new thing that I
253. 9:40have prepared for you.
254. 9:42Because I am ahead of you and I have got
255. 9:45a good future for you.
256. 9:48But until you release and relinquish the
257. 9:50old, until you let go of that thing from
258. 9:54the past that you're holding on to so
259. 9:56tightly,
260. 9:57I cannot give you the new thing that I
261. 9:59have for you. Some of you might have
262. 10:01heard me tell this story before. Before
263. 10:03I met my wife, I was dating another girl
264. 10:05for about 2 years. A wonderful girl.
265. 10:07It was one of those relationships that
266. 10:09wasn't bad enough to break up, but it
267. 10:11wasn't good enough to move towards
268. 10:13marriage. And I knew that. And it was
269. 10:15going on and on and I knew it wasn't
270. 10:18going to go anywhere, but I didn't want
271. 10:20to be on my own.
272. 10:21And so I kept hanging in there and I
273. 10:23kind of kept hoping either that
274. 10:25something would change or that someone
275. 10:27else would come along and sweep me off
276. 10:28my feet and that I'd give me an excuse
277. 10:30to break up. And neither of those things
278. 10:33happened. And so
279. 10:34I was really struggling because I didn't
280. 10:37want to hold on to this, but I didn't
281. 10:38want to let go of it because I didn't
282. 10:39want to be on my own.
283. 10:41And I remember a
284. 10:42a girl from our church, a young girl who
285. 10:44was very prophetic, came up to me one
286. 10:46day after a service and she said,
287. 10:48"Craig, the Lord gave me a picture for
288. 10:49you. You're holding on to this
289. 10:51relationship and because you're holding
290. 10:52on to it, your hand is closed.
291. 10:55But if you will release and relinquish
292. 10:57it,
293. 10:58that person,
294. 10:59your hand will be open to receive." And
295. 11:01my response was this, "Could we not just
296. 11:03swap?"
297. 11:04>> [laughter]
298. 11:05>> "Could I not just kind of release and
299. 11:06get the new thing at the same time?"
300. 11:08Because I was afraid I would just end up
301. 11:09with an empty hand. I didn't want to
302. 11:11spend Saturday nights on my own. I was
303. 11:13what? 30
304. 11:152 33 at this stage. All my friends were
305. 11:19married.
306. 11:20And so I was like, "Can we not just
307. 11:21swap?" But that's not the way it works.
308. 11:23That's not how God works.
309. 11:25And so over the next few weeks, God
310. 11:27began to challenge me. God began to
311. 11:29convict me. And I released that
312. 11:31relationship. And can I tell you, it was
313. 11:32painful. It was difficult. And I
314. 11:35wondered if I would meet someone else.
315. 11:37But I want to tell you this, 4 weeks
316. 11:39after that, I met my wife for the first
317. 11:41time. 2 months after that, we had our
318. 11:44first date. And 4 months after that, we
319. 11:46were engaged to be married.
320. 11:48I sometimes wonder, what if I hadn't
321. 11:50been willing to release something good
322. 11:53that wasn't God's best? What if I had
323. 11:55held on to something because I was
324. 11:57afraid of letting it go? I would have
325. 12:00missed out on meeting the girl who has
326. 12:03become my wonderful wife.
327. 12:06And I want to say to you, maybe you're
328. 12:08holding on to something because you're
329. 12:10afraid to release it because you know it
330. 12:12you know it's not best for you. You know
331. 12:14it's not God's best. You know it's not
332. 12:16right for you, but you're afraid if you
333. 12:18let it go, that you're going to have
334. 12:19nothing. I believe the Lord would say to
335. 12:21you, release it.
336. 12:23Just release it. Open up your hand and
337. 12:25let it go.
338. 12:26And as you let it go, and as you release
339. 12:29it, and as you relinquish it, you will
340. 12:32have an open hand to receive. And you
341. 12:35will see that I will move, and I will
342. 12:38bring the next thing into your life. The
343. 12:40next person, the next role, the next
344. 12:42ministry, the next assignment.
345. 12:45When something has come to an end, don't
346. 12:48keep holding on to it. Stop mourning for
347. 12:52something God has already removed. Stop
348. 12:54grieving for something that is gone.
349. 12:57There was a time for it, but the Lord
350. 12:59would say to you, that time is now over.
351. 13:01How long will you mourn for? And you can
352. 13:04put whatever it is in there. How long
353. 13:06will you keep holding on to that thing
354. 13:09that is no longer aligned with where I'm
355. 13:11taking you, says the Lord. And I decree
356. 13:13today over you,
357. 13:15that you will step into the purposes of
358. 13:18God. That you will fully release
359. 13:20anything that's not aligned and assigned
360. 13:22to your next season.
361. 13:24That you will walk in the fullness of
362. 13:26the purposes and the goodness of God.
363. 13:29And that you will know and experience
364. 13:32his abundance, his provision, and his
365. 13:35best for your life in this next season.
366. 13:38And so, I bless you today.
367. 13:40I bless you wherever you are, wherever
368. 13:42you're listening to this under the sound
369. 13:43of my voice. I bless you in the name of
370. 13:46the Father,
371. 13:47in the name of the Son, and the name of
372. 13:50the Holy Spirit.
373. 13:51Listen, if this has been helpful to you,
374. 13:54why don't you like, why don't you
375. 13:55subscribe, why don't you share it with
376. 13:57someone? This is the first one, it's
377. 13:59been a little bit rough,
378. 14:01>> [laughter]
379. 14:01>> and that's okay. May I just needed to
380. 14:04start, and maybe some of you need to
381. 14:05hear that today, actually. Just start
382. 14:08messy. This wasn't perfect, guys, but
383. 14:10I'm not going to redo it.
384. 14:12Sometimes you need to stop waiting for
385. 14:14perfect conditions and just start as you
386. 14:17are with what you have, and let the Lord
387. 14:19take your loaves and fish and do what he
388. 14:22wants with them. So, I bless you today.
389. 14:24Have a wonderful day. I look forward to
390. 14:25seeing you again. Bye.