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0:00You said people always be saying thank
0:02you for your yes.
0:04>> Yes.
0:04>> And your response [laughter] is which
0:08one?
0:08>> Yeah.
0:09>> A singular yes
0:12will not lead to anything that lasts
0:15very long. [music] I look back and go my
0:17no almost cost me.
0:20>> Yes it did.
0:20>> Not just my path.
0:22>> Yep.
0:22>> But everything that God taught me on
0:25that path. When [music] God wants yes
0:27and you say no, you can always expect a
0:30divine headwind. Let me say,
0:32>> are you freestyling right now?
0:33>> Let me I think the [music] enemy wants
0:34us to look at the cost of the yes, the
0:37annoyance of the yes, and the [music]
0:40Lord is going, "Are you not catching the
0:42divine compliment? My request truly is."
0:46The yes doesn't mean you like it. The
0:49yes doesn't mean it's joyous. I'm not
0:54telling you there will be awards,
0:58accolades,
0:59and an open heaven of financial
1:02abundance. Here's what I'm telling you.
1:04The most excruciating
1:07yeses are a red carpet welcome, Matt.
1:12Your heart rolls out for the King of the
1:15Universe, and the most [music]
1:16excruciating yeses bring him
1:19exponentially closer.
1:23What's up everybody? Welcome to the
1:25leader cut. As you can see, we have my
1:28twin.
1:29>> As you can see,
1:30>> we have my Spanish speaking twin.
1:33>> Hola toos.
1:34>> Yeah, we're I'm at some point I'm going
1:36to need a translator. I'm I'm going to
1:39just start keeping my phone and be like
1:41I'm going to talk to Google Translate
1:42and say, "What did he just say?" Because
1:44my guy is getting that Spanish in these
1:47days
1:48>> and I love it.
1:49>> Gracias. My best friend Tim Ross is in
1:51the house today. We love to get to sit
1:54down. We love to get to sit down with
1:56you and we're talking about something
1:59today that is one of my favorite
2:01subjects. I think it is part of the
2:04secret sauce for every follower of Jesus
2:07Christ. I don't think we talk about it
2:09enough. I think it's got to be
2:10normalized. And so, twin, we're going to
2:13hit it today. Let's pray. Spirit of the
2:15living God.
2:17We need our flesh cut on when we talk
2:19about not just obedience
2:22but continued obedience. And not just
2:25continued obedience. We're talking about
2:28obedience which escalates.
2:31>> See,
2:34Holy Spirit, would you just help all of
2:35us to hear what you are saying to our
2:38hearts? Would you take out the sword of
2:41the spirit which is the word of God, the
2:43knife of heaven as the surgeon of
2:45heaven? Would you cut all over our
2:47flesh? If there's somewhere I am white
2:49knuckling
2:50>> an area of my life or something in my
2:53life
2:54>> which you are asking me
2:56>> to let go of. If there's something
2:59you're asking me to do which I don't
3:00want to do, Holy Spirit, I pray for
3:03conviction.
3:04>> See,
3:04>> it is your kindness that leads us to
3:06repentance. You're not going to yell and
3:07scream, but you will bring conviction.
3:10>> The closer you come, the more convicted
3:12we become.
3:14>> Holy Spirit, cut on us.
3:16>> We want to look more like Jesus. We want
3:17to live more like Jesus,
3:20>> but we can't without this. So help us in
3:24Jesus name.
3:25>> Amen.
3:26>> Amen. Twin, you said something that made
3:30me die laughing as we're both I sound
3:34like Herman the Frog and you you just
3:36said strep a week ago.
3:37>> I did. It was so ridiculous. This trash
3:39is going it's it's offensive. It's going
3:41around. I don't like it. It's wild.
3:43>> Um but if you ask me why it's happening,
3:45I'm just going to plead the fifth 111
3:47times.
3:48>> Okay.
3:48>> Like Fouchy.
3:50Sorry. Sorry. I mean,
3:53>> where did that come from?
3:54>> I know. I know. Well, if [laughter] I
3:56played the fifth.
3:57>> Oh my god.
3:57>> And again and again. Sorry. And again.
4:00And again. And again.
4:00>> Sorry. That not that pod. But you know,
4:03I mean,
4:04>> I've been fighting this thing for a
4:05couple weeks. Um, you said something
4:08talking about obedience that made me die
4:10laughing. [laughter]
4:12>> You said people always be saying, "Thank
4:15you for your yes."
4:16>> Yes.
4:17>> And your [laughter] response is, "Which
4:20one?"
4:21>> Yeah. It's a gang of yeses out here,
4:23fam. It's like it's like they they they
4:27act like it's one.
4:28>> This is what I'm saying to me. We we've
4:30got to talk about this. We've got to
4:32normalize.
4:32>> Yeah.
4:33>> A singular yes
4:36>> will not lead to anything that lasts
4:39very long.
4:39>> Yeah. No, not at all.
4:41>> And so we we there is an initial yes,
4:44but there is never a singular all by
4:48itself.
4:49>> No. Yes.
4:50>> No. There's no blanket yes,
4:52>> bro. The biggest yeses always lead to
4:57bigger yeses.
4:58>> Absolutely correct.
4:59>> Like when you said it, I was like, you
5:00know what, when somebody's like, because
5:02we get hit up Yeah.
5:03>> consistent. It's like, thank you for
5:04your Yes. I'm just going to say,
5:07>> which yes are we talking about? Are we
5:09talking about waking up at 2:00 in the
5:11morning, my 50-year-old wife feeding a
5:14baby we took in this summer? Which yes
5:16we talking about? For sure. Absolutely.
5:17Because when we walk with him,
5:21>> it's impossible
5:23to consistently say no.
5:25>> Yeah.
5:26>> And so I I want to hear from you. Let's
5:29Why do you think people think through
5:32the lens of one solitary yes? Um I I
5:37think because
5:40we
5:42in our minds
5:45we feel like when we've made a decision
5:50it's final
5:53and that finalization
5:57presupposes
6:00that whatever comes next I've already
6:02said yes. January 14th of 1996,
6:06>> right? So
6:07>> God got my yes.
6:08>> God got my yes. So whatever you want,
6:12>> not understanding.
6:15My 30 years of walking with Jesus has
6:17been yes. Yes. No. No. No. No. Yes. Yes.
6:20No. No.
6:22Heck no. Heck yes. Yes. Yes. No. No. No.
6:27So, it hasn't been
6:30>> a string of consistent yeses for 30
6:33years. I've fallen off on some things.
6:37>> I told I told you with Max when he
6:39wanted me to adopt Maxin, I said no
6:402,000 times.
6:42>> Literally, I I I bet if I went back and
6:44counted, he'd tell me it was over 2,000
6:46times.
6:46>> Yeah. I there I'll never forget um uh I
6:50was still driving the doughnut truck at
6:51this time. I was delivering Gatorade
6:54um in [laughter]
6:56a
6:57>> I love flashbacks.
6:58>> Hey, I I was delivering Gatorade in a
7:03Dolly Madison truck.
7:04>> Was this was pre-Nissan?
7:06>> Oh, this is pre- Nissan. Oh, absolutely.
7:08I I have been in Texas for just over a
7:11year. And so I I got this uh well the
7:15subdivision I work for uh this mom and
7:18pop company
7:20um got the account for Gatorade's first
7:25um uh vending machines
7:28>> that they had and they had like 32 in
7:30the DFW Metroplex all over the DFW
7:33Metroplex. I'm talking like
7:35>> Yeah.
7:35>> deep down in Fort Worth. that
7:37metropolitan area
7:38>> way way up in Denton, right?
7:42>> Wherever you saw a Gatorade machine back
7:44in the late 90s. I feel
7:46>> that was you.
7:46>> That was me.
7:47>> So, I'm I'm out on this account. I I got
7:51to go to this recreational park. There's
7:53a there's a vending machine there and
7:55there's a little Hispanic kid that the
7:57Holy Spirit tells me. He gives me a word
7:58for this Hispanic kid while I'm while
8:01I'm working like like I'm going in there
8:04to fill up the Gatorade machine and and
8:06then the Holy Spirit says tell him
8:08something and I'm like
8:10nah.
8:12>> Would it be Monito in Spanish?
8:14>> Monito?
8:15>> I don't know. Did I just make up a word?
8:17>> It sounds like you I thought you
8:18>> little brother. I don't know how would
8:20you say [laughter]
8:21>> uh uh
8:24manito probably little brother like like
8:26um but start Yeah, it's all good. So So
8:29he he he tells me
8:32to like go tell him something and I just
8:34won't do it. I'm filling up the the the
8:36machine and and it gets heavier and
8:40heavier
8:41>> and heavier.
8:42>> Yep.
8:43>> Yep.
8:45It doesn't get that heavy now, but back
8:47then it was getting heavier and heavier
8:49and heavier. And I just kept talking
8:52myself out of it. I'm like, "This this
8:54dude is probably going to be looking at
8:55me like I'm crazy. I don't I ain't going
8:57to be walking up to like this younger
8:59kid." And I didn't do it.
9:02>> I felt
9:05so convicted. It wasn't guilt. It was
9:07the conviction of the Holy Spirit like,
9:10"Are we
9:11>> Mhm.
9:12Are you good, bro? It's
9:14>> a pushing it on [laughter] the chest
9:15feeling. I know it. Well,
9:16>> are you all right? Like, I just told you
9:19to go. What were you going to lose by
9:21telling him this or whatever I told you
9:25to say? [snorts] And
9:28there's been a lot of times where it's
9:31been a no,
9:32>> right? And so when so so we have to we
9:39have to calibrate yeses because there's
9:41three time there's three kind this this
9:44is why yeses are something that we
9:47really need to like focus on and I'm
9:49glad we're actually talking about this.
9:51There's three kind of yeses. There is
9:54first and foremost a counterfeit yes.
9:59A yes that's actually a no.
10:00>> Mhm. [clears throat and snorts] Then
10:02there's a conditional yes
10:05which is yes if
10:07>> the ultimatum.
10:08>> Yes, but yes but
10:11yes as long as
10:12>> Y
10:13>> right
10:14>> the confirmation yes the the the yes
10:16yes.
10:18That's way in the back. Nobody wants to
10:20give that because then you're obligated.
10:22Then you're responsible. Then you gave
10:24your word, right? And so, um,
10:28I imagine that there's a lot of people
10:30that think they said yes to the Lord
10:35until he asked for that certain thing.
10:38And that confirmation yes might go back
10:40to a conditional yes or that
10:43confirmation yes might slip all the way
10:45and slide all the way back to a
10:48counterfeit yes. So, I think this is why
10:50it's important for us to talk about it.
10:51>> Okay. Oh, I you mentioned something
10:53about the nose, and I I want to hit
10:55that.
10:56>> Yeah.
10:56>> As the on-ramp because we've both
10:58learned some really valuable lessons in
11:01life through our nose.
11:03>> Absolutely.
11:04>> Immediately when you said that, my mind
11:06went to when I was the the youth pastor
11:09at Gateway back in the day, and Robert
11:11came to me and he goes, "Hey, uh, I feel
11:13like you're supposed to become our young
11:15adult pastor." They had a college
11:17ministry,
11:18>> but they'd never done
11:19>> young adult ministry. Mh.
11:20>> And he he he was very resolute. Okay.
11:23Now remember, you know this the the
11:26first the first four years of youth
11:29ministry for me
11:30>> a I was the worst worst youth pastor
11:32gateway ever had and will ever have in
11:34its history
11:35>> because the first my first twothirds of
11:38being their youth pastor.
11:39>> So funny.
11:40>> I was an arrogant donkey, insecure
11:43donkey
11:45>> and who was not hearing from the Lord. I
11:47I was struggling.
11:48>> Mhm. And then the last, you know, the
11:50Lord broke my kneecaps spiritually. And
11:53the last two years, I started to to kind
11:56of feel like I was hitting my stride and
11:57starting to get under the oil. And then
11:59this guy comes to me and he's like, I
12:01feel like the Lord has clearly said
12:03you're to transition and take start our
12:07young adult ministry.
12:09>> Mhm.
12:10>> Immediately I said, "No,
12:15[laughter] no." Yeah.
12:18because I in my mind I was like, "Well,
12:22you're you're a little too distant from
12:24this." Like, I appreciate you feel like
12:25the Lord's saying that
12:28and I respect your
12:31you your ability to hear from the Lord,
12:32but
12:34>> this last two years, I'm finally hitting
12:36my stride.
12:37>> Y
12:38>> I can't leave.
12:40>> Yep.
12:41>> He let it go.
12:42>> Okay.
12:44A couple months later, he comes back and
12:48triples down.
12:51And it it became obvious. Now, the first
12:53time he was giving me an opportunity to
12:57say yes.
12:57>> Mhm.
12:58>> The second time
12:59>> Mhm.
13:00>> he was saying yes for me. [laughter]
13:03>> Right. And this this truly was one of
13:06the first times I can remember if not
13:08the first time
13:09>> where I learned
13:12the power
13:14of a yes when God is the one asking. It
13:18wasn't just an opportunity. This was God
13:20saying this is the path
13:22>> I have for your life.
13:24>> I don't know if I would have ever met
13:25you. One of the reasons we Oh,
13:26absolutely. Because we were doing the
13:27same thing in the same field in the same
13:30metropolitan area.
13:31>> That's absolutely correct.
13:32He made me. He made me say yes.
13:36>> Yep.
13:38>> And you know, it led to
13:41>> seven years.
13:42>> Yep.
13:43>> Of learning with the Lord.
13:46>> The likes of which, even as a senior
13:47pastor, I've never had a season of life
13:49like that.
13:50>> Where personally I was growing. Yep.
13:53>> He had me growing. And Timmy, I look
13:55back and go,
13:57>> my no
13:59almost cost me.
14:00>> Yes, it did. Not just my path.
14:02>> Yep.
14:03>> But everything that God taught me on
14:06that path.
14:06>> That's right.
14:07>> That would come in so handy.
14:09>> That's right.
14:10>> In the days to come. So I I think about
14:14>> life isn't just as simple as
14:17>> do I want to say yes or do I want to say
14:18no? What is the yes
14:20>> God is looking for and asking for?
14:23>> And so my mind goes to
14:26>> to your point, we're not always going to
14:27get it right.
14:29You know, I have a I have a string. So
14:31then the next thing Gateway was popping
14:33off. There was not enough room and there
14:37this is a little known fact. The first
14:39extension campus of Gateway Church was
14:42at Harkkins Theater in South Lake Town
14:44Square.
14:45>> I remember this.
14:45>> Okay. This was pre I remember this
14:47>> North Hills.
14:48>> Yes.
14:48>> Robert looks at me and he goes, "You're
14:50supposed to be the campus pastor. This
14:52you're going to have to do this one day.
14:53Set up and tear down. It's supposed to
14:55be you." What did I say?
14:57>> You said no.
14:58>> No.
14:59No.
15:00>> Yeah.
15:01>> And what ended up happening, it it was
15:03maybe a year, not even. I learned more
15:07lessons about how to set up and tear
15:10down, which I was going to go on to
15:11plant a church that we were set up and
15:12tear down for two years.
15:13>> Yep.
15:15>> After that, the church folds in.
15:17Northstar, it's Gateway's first far away
15:19campus. Preston goes, "I feel like
15:21Robert goes, I feel like you're supposed
15:22to go out there." What did I say?
15:24>> You said no.
15:25>> No. [laughter]
15:27I learned more lessons before coming out
15:30here to Scottsdale.
15:31>> Yep.
15:32>> And then when he sat me down and said,
15:34"The Lord said it's time for you to go
15:35Yeah.
15:35>> to Scottsdale." What did I say?
15:38>> I said, "No."
15:39>> No. Again,
15:41>> I look back and one of the things I'm
15:43grateful for is I had somebody in my
15:45life
15:47who knew what the right answer was. And
15:50>> oh, we got to talk about this.
15:52>> Even when I didn't.
15:53>> Yeah.
15:55This is what Proverbs talks about. There
15:57is safety.
15:59>> Yes, there is.
16:00>> And a multitude of counselors.
16:02>> Yeah.
16:02>> And so, here's the big thing I learned.
16:06You need to be close enough with people
16:08you trust in life. So that when you get
16:11to a fork in the road and you could go
16:13yes or you could go no that when you
16:16want to go no when you actually say no
16:21they hold their ground and say I see the
16:25pillar of cloud going down this yes
16:28you've got to say yes
16:30>> these are the people we need to be
16:32surrounded with in our lives because I
16:34would regret
16:35>> Yep.
16:37>> greatly
16:37>> Yep. Oh, for sure.
16:38>> Some moves on my path that I have stuck
16:40to my no.
16:41>> Yeah. Okay. So, I'm I'm curious. What
16:44does it feel like
16:47to go from no to yes? What does it feel
16:51like
16:52to have said no,
16:55meant it?
16:57>> Yeah, it's great.
16:58>> And then it
16:59>> that's great. it becomes. Here's what I
17:00would say in my scenario where my no
17:05>> conflicted
17:06>> with the yes God was looking for. I'll
17:08tell you exactly what it feels like.
17:09Jonah
17:13>> okay.
17:14>> When God wants yes and you say no, you
17:16can always expect a divine headwind.
17:20>> Let me say it.
17:21>> Are you freestyling right now?
17:22>> Let me say it like this. I will punch
17:23you.
17:23>> I was just with RT Kindle last week in
17:26the face. I walked I came back and it
17:28was like, "Lord, do you is this man at
17:3091 years old just giving out
17:33impartations of of a spirit of wisdom,
17:35the gift of wisdom?" Like, what do we
17:37Bro, 91 years old man,
17:38>> did you just freestyle that sentence?
17:40>> Yes. And here here's
17:42>> very obnoxious, dog.
17:43>> Not every headwind is the enemy.
17:49Just ask Jonah,
17:52Timmy. When God
17:55wants a yes and I keep giving him a no,
17:59I have learned I should expect
18:03opposition.
18:05Here's another way scripture says it.
18:07God opposes the proud.
18:09When God asks me for a yes and I give
18:11him a no, my no is my way of saying I
18:13know better.
18:18I can expect to be.
18:19>> Your no doesn't mean you know.
18:24buddy. But it's my declaration that I'm
18:26pretty sure I do. And I have learned
18:31to flesh.
18:35Listen, we talk about being opposed by
18:38the enemy as though it's the worst thing
18:39on planet Earth. Can I just say it's
18:42not? Being opposed by the king of the
18:45universe is far worse.
18:49[laughter]
18:50Giving the king of the universe a no
18:53will lead you to the belly of the well.
18:56>> I had to write that down. I was not
18:58going to act like I mean you my twin and
19:00all but I wasn't about [laughter] to I
19:02wasn't about to sit up here and be like
19:03oh it was a great quote. I had to write
19:05that one down. That was nasty.
19:08So this this is what it feels like. I
19:10and I can go through so many times in my
19:12life where God wanted a yes and I kept
19:15giving him a no. And I know what the
19:17feeling feels like now. It it feels like
19:19David before he confessed
19:24>> where you try and convince yourself it's
19:27not that big of a deal. But when he
19:29keeps coming back to it, you know what I
19:31learned with Maxon? Cuz I've told the
19:32story, he literally asked me two to
19:35three years before we even adopted him
19:38and this was the question. Will you
19:40please do this for me?
19:42>> And I said no. [laughter]
19:46This is so good for people to hear me.
19:49>> Oh yeah. People be looking with adopted
19:51son.
19:52>> Thank you. Thank you for your
19:54>> Thank you for your No. Let me tell you
19:56the story of my nose. [laughter]
19:59>> Oh my god.
19:59>> Let me tell you of the story of 2,000
20:01nos leading to
20:04>> my eventual yes.
20:05>> And what I learned
20:06>> y
20:07>> immediately when I said yes, I came back
20:09to the Lord. But right before I said yes
20:12finally about Maxon, I said, "Lord, I
20:14don't understand this. This makes no
20:15sense." Y
20:16>> in my the calculator of my life I don't
20:19understand why
20:21>> it wasn't 8 weeks after adopting him
20:24>> that thing shifted so quickly in me I
20:28started changing in a way I went back to
20:31him and I said
20:33this might be the most gangster chess
20:35move you've ever made in my life because
20:38I've been his father for not even a
20:40hundred days and I can't even recognize
20:42me
20:44when I look at certain parts parts of
20:45me.
20:46>> Wow.
20:47>> So, this is both sides of what does it
20:49feel like to move from no to yes. Well,
20:54number one, it's relief
20:56because when he's opposing you,
21:00it it's I that feel I hate that feeling.
21:03It's that I describe it as the pushing
21:05in on the chest. There's the pushing in
21:07that's intimate and then there's the
21:09pushing in because I'm going in the
21:10opposite direction.
21:11>> Sure. Absolutely.
21:13>> I move to the Yes.
21:16It's just easier. Even if it's harder.
21:18>> Yep.
21:19>> Even if it's heavier, it's easier.
21:20>> Yep.
21:21>> But more than that, it's like he wants
21:24you to know. He's the God of
21:25confirmation. He's not the author of
21:27confusion.
21:28>> Yep.
21:29>> I say yes. And it's like he wants me to
21:31know immediately. Now, I need you to see
21:34this was a me request, right?
21:35>> This was not some choice in your life.
21:37>> This is something I asked you for. And
21:39I'm going to respond
21:40>> in kind.
21:41>> Yep.
21:42>> Okay. Okay, I'll file that away for the
21:44next time you ask for a really hard yes.
21:46>> Yep.
21:47Okay.
21:49Um,
21:51so I think the
21:55most disorienting
21:57Yes. This is probably a two-parter.
22:01Um,
22:05came in October of 2021.
22:10So the last Sunday um of September,
22:14which was our anniversary month at
22:17Embassy City, Charlotte Gamble comes and
22:20speaks.
22:20>> Yep. I remember it.
22:22>> Gives this prophetic word
22:23>> clear as day.
22:24>> That we both, me and Juliet, we we we
22:27both thought we understood exactly what
22:29she was saying and what it meant.
22:32>> Oh, absolutely. The the season is
22:34changing and God is doing something
22:36else. And I'm [snorts] like, "Oh, yeah,
22:38that's true." cuz we're reorging and
22:40we're about to buy a new building and
22:41blah blah blah blah. Child,
22:454 days later, I'm in a hotel room in
22:48Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Holy Spirit
22:50says, "I need you to watch that
22:52prophetic word that I spoke through
22:54Charlotte again." I'm like, "Oh, okay."
22:56And I turn it on and I listen to it and
23:02press I thought it was overdubbed.
23:04What I was hearing four days later was
23:06not what I heard
23:08>> four years prior. I was like,
23:10>> she didn't say this,
23:11>> right?
23:12>> That is not what I remember.
23:13>> That is not what I heard. This is not
23:16what I remember. Somebody has chopped
23:18and screwed. Somebody took this to
23:20Houston and they chopped and screwed it
23:21cuz this is not what she said.
23:24And the Holy Spirit was like, "Your
23:26season as a lead pastor is coming to an
23:28end."
23:30And I
23:32burst into tears.
23:36I thought I sinned to let you know how
23:39>> jacked up my relationship was with God.
23:43>> That when he makes a request,
23:45>> something must be off.
23:46>> Something must be off. I must have done
23:47something wrong. Cuz there's
23:49>> Right.
23:50>> If I didn't see it coming, then there's
23:52something I didn't see. Something I
23:53Yeah.
23:54>> What? Who do I think I am? Right. That's
23:56wild. Jesus told his disciples, "It
23:59ain't for you to know the times and the
24:00hours." He never answered the question.
24:02Oh, my father knows that question. Like,
24:03[laughter]
24:04he wasn't tripping off that, right? But
24:06I I I literally like spiraled just I I
24:11just felt like I'm I can't be hearing
24:13this, but I know I'm hearing this.
24:15>> Yeah.
24:16>> Um
24:18>> what am I supposed to do with this
24:19information? So, I called Jerome Lewis,
24:21my mentor in Delaware.
24:24you know, it's it's five my time, it's
24:26sixth time. He's like, "Hey, son." And I
24:29was like, "I [laughter]
24:31was already He probably thought somebody
24:33was dead." I baldled my eyes out on that
24:36phone
24:38and
24:40um by the time we hung up, I was stable
24:44and reeling.
24:47And
24:50that yes started that day.
24:53>> Right.
24:53>> Do you hear the words coming out of my
24:54mouth?
24:55>> 100%. And I've lived it.
24:57>> I've lived it the last two years. Even
25:00I've watched you live it. [laughter]
25:02>> That yes started
25:05October.
25:06>> So good.
25:07>> The fourth I think.
25:10And when I tell you
25:13it has continued
25:16>> to be a followup of yeses
25:19>> because
25:22that thing I could have said yes in
25:24October and no in January and still been
25:27the lead pastor.
25:29>> Like we cannot think that it's one yes.
25:32>> No. No. that everybody looks back at
25:35that season of your life and they're
25:37like that was a moment where you made a
25:40singular choice. The choice was to
25:44say yes in such a way that you were
25:47getting on a new path that would demand
25:50a million yeses.
25:52>> That's
25:54like Timmy, we should just tell them.
25:56>> We should
25:56>> we we like if we actually love them,
25:58[laughter]
25:59>> we should tell them
26:00>> this this is not a trick. It's not some
26:03divine game God is playing.
26:05>> No, it's not.
26:06>> The bigger the initial yes, the more
26:09yeses, the more excruciating,
26:12escalating yeses you can expect, right
26:15to have to give.
26:16>> That's exactly that's absolutely correct
26:18because not only was it yes to what I
26:21heard, it was yes to have the
26:23conversation with Juliet with no context
26:25and no answers. Then it was yes to have
26:28the conversation with the elders.
26:29>> Elders
26:30>> with less context. Correct. and I'm a
26:32strategist. I don't even want to
26:34>> I don't want to talk to you till it's
26:35done. I want to I want I want to look
26:37good. Let's let the pride and ego in on
26:39this. Right?
26:40>> So, and and I have to just keep saying
26:43yes to conversations even though they
26:45feel awkward and they feel
26:48um um disorienting. And then then the
26:52Holy Spirit tells me who my successor
26:54is. It's a guy I've been mentoring for
26:56three years. I've never even heard him
26:58preach. And there's no second name.
27:00there there's no American Idol search
27:03that's going on all these five and point
27:05out yeah let's cast lots no it's that
27:07guy
27:09>> um so to say yes to
27:13who I heard who doesn't attend our
27:16church and attends somebody else's
27:17church and is very active in that church
27:19and I got to sit down with that person I
27:21got to say yes to that meeting before I
27:24can even say yes to the next meeting
27:25that I'm supposed to have after that
27:26meeting
27:28>> and then in the middle of all that he
27:31tells me to do a podcast to which I said
27:34no
27:35>> nope
27:36>> I'd rather throw a penny in the ocean
27:39those were my exact words of the Holy
27:41Spirit he said I need you to start a
27:43podcast I said I'd rather throw a penny
27:44in the ocean there 5 million podcasts
27:48I'd rather throw a penny in the ocean
27:50sir the Pacific or the Atlantic or the
27:54Indian
27:56and
27:58I said yes to the
28:00Then he told me the way he wanted me to
28:02do the podcast. I need you to be as
28:04vulnerable publicly as you were privat
28:05as you always are privately. Oh, I'm
28:07about to get cancelled. He said, "Go
28:09ahead and get cancelled."
28:12I guess. And And it's almost like when I
28:16said I guess, he just heard the S and
28:17was like, "So yes." [laughter]
28:22Cuz I heard close enough. Let's roll.
28:25>> Is that it? Is that I guess a yes? I
28:28guess I guess it's a yes. So this is a
28:31string
28:33and we are stringing together the yeses
28:37that keep us on the path that he started
28:42with the initial one
28:43>> 100%.
28:46But let's be honest,
28:48we live in a day and age now where we've
28:50seen a lot of people go, "Yes, yes, yes,
28:53yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes for 20
28:55something years and then just be like,
28:57no,
29:00no more, no mass."
29:02>> Yep.
29:02>> Right. It's over. I don't want to do
29:05this anymore.
29:07And all those yeses
29:10literally
29:12come to a screeching halt because
29:14somebody goes, "No,
29:17I'm not doing that no more. I don't want
29:18to be faithful anymore. I don't want to
29:21be transparent anymore. I don't want to
29:22have integrity anymore. No,
29:24>> I don't want to pay that price anymore.
29:25>> I don't want to pay that price anymore.
29:28I gave you 11 years of yeses, right?
29:31>> I'm selfishly taking this no now and
29:33let's keep it a buck.
29:39Submission
29:41is as long as we are in this flesh
29:44because of Genesis 3. Submission is
29:48never going to be the default setting of
29:51the flesh.
29:53>> That's why it's so hard to do. That's
29:55why there has to be a crucifixion behind
29:57it. There has to be a depth.
29:59>> Yeah.
30:00>> For a confirmation. Yes.
30:03You don't get a confirmation yes without
30:06a no dying.
30:08>> Yeah.
30:10>> Because our flesh wants comfort and
30:13pleasure. Bottom line. And I've seen a
30:16lot of people string together years of
30:19yeses who finally get so tired they just
30:21go,
30:24it's too expensive. Now,
30:25>> a marriage with 25 years of yeses can be
30:29ruined with a single solitary no. This
30:34is the power of the wrong no.
30:39And this is the power of the right yes.
30:42>> Absolutely. And and here's the thing.
30:47A Genesis 12 yes
30:50[clears throat]
30:51is a yes for the rest of your days.
30:55When God said, "It's time to leave your
30:58father's home and go to the land I will
31:00show you."
31:04Where are we going? I didn't say I would
31:06tell you. I said I would show you.
31:10Why are you doing it that way? Well,
31:12there's a number of reasons. If I told
31:14you the location today, you'd be tempted
31:16to grab your version of GPS and
31:19>> find the fastest shortcut.
31:21>> Mhm.
31:22not realizing the shortcuts
31:25are the fastest way to move the furthest
31:27from me.
31:32I love you. I love your face off. I feel
31:34seen. I don't need to be celebrated.
31:37Just those little looks. It's like
31:40>> you're obnoxious today.
31:42>> I'm with my twin.
31:43>> Yeah, you're obnoxious today.
31:44>> I'm with my twin for sure.
31:45>> But Timmy,
31:45>> you're on something.
31:46>> Abram saying
31:48okay. Yes. Was not a yes. I'll leave my
31:52father's home. It was a yes.
31:57I will step by step give you my yes by
32:03yes because it's the only way I'll get
32:07there.
32:07>> Absolutely correct.
32:08>> Every step Abram took was another yes.
32:12>> Yes, that's exactly right. If it was
32:15just a Genesis 12 global one yes fits
32:19all. No, he had to say yes again in 13
32:2314 15 16 17 faux sure show.
32:31>> Ain't that is 15 or 17 circumcision.
32:37Talk about a putting together a string
32:39of yeses. How about going to have to get
32:41a flint rock when you're like,
32:45>> bro,
32:46>> you better hurry up with that rock.
32:48[laughter]
32:4980 something years old. 90 something
32:50years old.
32:53I think it's 15.
32:56It feels like 15 in my head, but it
32:58might be 17.
33:06>> Yeah. Cutting of the covenant 18 and 19.
33:10Yep. 17.
33:13>> It is 17. Okay. So, cut. Okay. So, the
33:16cutting of the covenant is 15. That's
33:18when That's when God tells him to cut
33:20the animals up. And then
33:2517.
33:26>> Are you talking about the command to cut
33:27or are you talking about foreskin on the
33:29feet?
33:30>> That's No, no, no. I'm talking about 17.
33:3217 when he But but uh 15 is the co the
33:35cutting of the covenant
33:37>> that God wants him to do. That's why and
33:39both of them are cutting. But one was
33:42cutting himself.
33:45>> I got you.
33:45>> How about that? Yes.
33:46>> I got you.
33:48How about those yeses
33:51when a piece of you has to come off
33:55in order to be where God wants you to
33:57be? That's a different type of yes, man.
34:01So, yes, there's a bunch of people that
34:04might do the Genesis 12. Yes.
34:07But there's a gang of people that might
34:09chunk deuces to the Genesis 17. Yes.
34:14BECAUSE OKAY. HOLY GHOST.
34:17OH, that's stinky. Genesis 12 is cutting
34:20ties. [laughter]
34:26Real time sermon development right here.
34:2912 is cutting ties.
34:3215 is cutting covenant.
34:35And 17 is cutting myself.
34:37>> Cutting me.
34:40>> Those are three different yeses.
34:44And it's easier to cut ties than cut
34:46self.
34:48The escalating [laughter] obedience. The
34:52escalating. Yes. That's it right there.
34:57So this is faith to faith and glory to
35:00glory. Sometimes can be gory.
35:03>> I was about to say it.
35:05>> Too gory.
35:06Take that L out.
35:07>> That's how you know you're doing it
35:08right.
35:10>> Am I bleeding anywhere?
35:12What has this actually cost me?
35:16Those yeses are like not
35:19easy.
35:21And
35:23I have empathy for people
35:26who can't muster a yes
35:29when it comes to sacrific sacrificing
35:32something that they love or they think
35:35they need. I know what I get it. I'm not
35:39this is no this not a judgment pod to be
35:43like you you said no and you ain't you
35:45ain't got that yes yes in your spirit
35:47like all that all that some preachers be
35:49doing all that foolishness and like they
35:52don't have a closet full of nos
35:56[laughter]
35:59>> that's another bot a closet full of the
36:02wrong nos and the wrong yeses
36:06I I just want to encourage people
36:10that
36:12the yes
36:14doesn't mean you like it.
36:16>> Yeah.
36:18>> The yes doesn't mean
36:22it's joyous.
36:25Abraham's yes in 17 is filled with pain.
36:30There's no anesthesia.
36:31>> Yeah.
36:32>> What are we talking about? There's no
36:34numbing agent. This is a flint rock,
36:38fam.
36:39>> For the joy set before him wasn't
36:41talking about the act of carrying it and
36:43being crucified on it. It's what was on
36:46the other side.
36:47>> What's what's on the My yes here is for
36:50what I want there.
36:51>> But let's not act like this is not
36:53excruciatingly painful
36:55>> because it is. And I I just think
37:00>> I just think some of these Thank you for
37:02your yes has been a little too chipper.
37:04That's my thing. I totally agree.
37:05>> You know what I'm saying? It's like I
37:06need you to put a little respect on my
37:08>> You need to pull that calculator out.
37:09You really need to
37:10>> Yeah. When you tally that thing up, you
37:12won't be saying it so chipper. You'll be
37:14like, "Hey,
37:14>> hey, don't count my followers.
37:17Count the cost of my Yes.
37:20And yes, and yes. Don't count my
37:23followers. Don't That
37:27doesn't tell a story of the path he
37:29asked me to navigate."
37:31But to me, that's what Thank you for
37:33your Yes. Don't Hey, don't be looking at
37:37them views now. Don't do that. Don't do
37:40that. You need to go back and ask me the
37:41stories about the back side of the
37:43mountain in
37:43>> Midian
37:44>> where no one was viewing.
37:46>> Yeah. Yeah. For sure.
37:46>> And he was asking for a bloody yes.
37:49>> That's right.
37:50>> 40 times a day.
37:51>> That's exactly right. That's exactly
37:53right. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm I'm
37:57The best yeses are the bloodiest yeses.
38:00And Timmy, I I think the older we get,
38:02the more we realize if you go a couple
38:06days without a yes, which doesn't hurt.
38:10I I don't know that I can say I was
38:13fully navigating
38:16the past couple of days
38:19handin hand with him.
38:20>> I agree. No, I absolutely agree. Walking
38:22in with him cost me something.
38:25>> Every day.
38:26>> Every day. I promise. Even if it's talk
38:29to the talk to the boy, buy the
38:32Gatorade.
38:33>> That's exactly
38:34>> saying I I mean it it doesn't have to be
38:35huge,
38:37>> but the yeses he asked for are designed
38:40to hurt.
38:42>> Okay. So, um
38:43>> where you at?
38:44>> I'm in second Corinthians chapter number
38:4512. This never ceases to amaze me. Um
38:532 Corinth 2 Corinthians 12:8. This is uh
38:56tree of life. I pleaded with the Lord
38:58three times about this that it might
39:00leave me. But he said to me, "My grace
39:03is sufficient for you,
39:06for power is made perfect in weakness.
39:09Therefore, I will boast all the more
39:11gladly in my weaknesses, so that the
39:13power of Messiah may dwell in me. For
39:15Messiah's sake, then I delight in
39:17weaknesses and insults and distresses,
39:19in persecutions, in calamities. For when
39:22I am weak, then I am strong." All right.
39:24Now, in most Bibles,
39:30the response is in red.
39:35This is not Gabriel
39:40or some other messenger of the Lord.
39:43This wasn't an inward witness of the
39:45Holy Spirit speaking.
39:49Yeshua responds
39:52to Saul
39:56and I think it's
40:00divinely poetic
40:03that Yeshua responds. I I I've had to
40:06have shared this with you before.
40:11Here's the reason why I think Yeshua
40:13responds.
40:16Paul prays three times
40:20for something to be taken from him.
40:24THERE'S ONLY ONE OTHER GUY
40:26>> MHM.
40:27>> who has prayed three times to have
40:30something taken away from him and it
40:33wasn't taken.
40:36The cup was not removed. He had to drink
40:39it.
40:41And so when Saul is now in the same
40:45moment where he has a thorn in his side
40:49and he prayed three times for it to be
40:53taken. It was like Jesus was like, "Hey,
40:56Holy Spirit, I know you could speak and
40:58I know it's your dispensation, but
41:00Gabriel, I know you could go give a I
41:02want to let me talk to him because I I
41:05can empathize with that.
41:07>> I know what it is. I've been right there
41:12and
41:18no, no, no, no, no
41:20is running through this man's mind,
41:24but I'm going to let him know what I
41:26what I said yes to and invite him to say
41:29yes to the same thing. All right.
41:32So he says yes to that
41:36and that yes changes his perspective
41:40on his weaknesses, his persecutions, his
41:43insults and his infirmities.
41:47So, could it be Preston Morrison
41:51that some of our nos
41:55hinder us from having a perspective
42:00to treat what we could say yes to and
42:04see something a completely different
42:06way?
42:06>> Yeah.
42:08If I would have said no to the Holy
42:10Spirit's
42:12leading to transition the church,
42:16my perspective could have been, "The
42:19Lord is trying to take something away
42:20from me, and I'm not going to let him do
42:22it. You gave it to me. You can't take it
42:24back. You're an Indian giver."
42:27But because I said yes, my entire
42:30perspective was different
42:32because of a yes.
42:35The no would have gave me a perspective
42:38that would have been negative. But the
42:40yes gave me a perspective that wasn't
42:43just positive. It was in line with what
42:45heaven was thinking about what was a
42:49sign for my life in this in this season.
42:51So I'm like my
42:55this is like a organic thought that's
42:57just growing. I think there's a lot of
43:02there's a lot of times I've said no and
43:04as a result I had a narrative
43:09that I would have never had if I said
43:12yes.
43:15It comes back to
43:18when we say no, we think we know.
43:23And on the other side, hindsight has
43:25taught us time and time again.
43:26>> Yep.
43:27>> And we see all throughout scripture.
43:28Yep. When one gains the value of
43:31hindsight to be able to look back at a
43:33no they were giving Jonah
43:37and then see
43:41the moment my heart switched from no to
43:43yes
43:45that wasn't the only thing that changed.
43:47>> Mhm.
43:50>> Mhm. And this is why I think it's
43:52important to
43:55we're not begging,
43:57but we are strongly saying as big
44:00brothers.
44:04Don't linger in the wrong nose. That's
44:06right.
44:10Because there's something, you know, the
44:12question everybody loves to ask is why?
44:15Why?
44:17What I love about Jesus in the garden,
44:19Jesus isn't saying, "Why me?
44:23Why me? Why me?" He's saying,
44:28"Are you sure of me?"
44:30>> If it could if this cup could be passed
44:32to anybody else,
44:32>> right?
44:34>> Oh, only me.
44:38[clears throat]
44:40>> I'm the only one that can say yes.
44:44He's not asking anybody else. And Timmy,
44:47this is the transition.
44:51I think the enemy wants us to look at
44:53the cost of the yes, the annoyance of
44:56the yes. And the Lord is going,
45:01Timothy
45:02Preston, are are you not catching the
45:05divine compliment my request
45:08truly is?
45:12For example, out of all the daddies in
45:14the history of the world,
45:15>> Mhm.
45:17>> I'm only asking one and trusting one to
45:21care for the heart of this boy.
45:26>> When I gave 2,000 nos, I was not
45:28thinking about it like that.
45:29>> Of course not.
45:30>> That this was a compliment from my
45:32creator.
45:34Timmy, the most excruciating requests
45:36are divine compliments from our creator.
45:39But the enemy doesn't want us to see it
45:41like that.
45:41>> Not at all.
45:43>> He wants to He wants us to see us being
45:46He wants us to see the request as an
45:48inconvenience,
45:50as a
45:53breach of what we thought our covenant
45:55was, as a deal broken, a promise
46:04augmented
46:05or changed. Yeah. You didn't,
46:08>> right?
46:08>> You didn't tell me.
46:09>> This is not what you said.
46:10>> This is not what you said. You didn't
46:12>> That's not what I thought you meant, you
46:14know.
46:15>> Um,
46:17>> and yeah, the second the switch flips,
46:19Paul goes from saying, "I don't want
46:21this. I don't want this. I don't want
46:23this."
46:25Annoyed with the weakness to immediately
46:29flipping, "Oh, I can keep all this and
46:32rejoice in it. I'm weak. I'm weak now.
46:36really really weak.
46:37>> I'll brag [laughter]
46:39about the very thing 3 minutes ago I was
46:42complaining most about.
46:43>> Hey, you know I got this thorn in my
46:44side. Hey, come over here. No, for real.
46:46I really got a thorn in my side. It's
46:47really terrible.
46:48>> Hey, Thomas. [laughter]
46:50Thomas, come over here.
46:52>> I want you to see.
46:53>> Put your hand in my side.
46:55>> Don't do that because I to this day
46:59Don't do that. Don't do that. [laughter]
47:01Yeah. No, don't do that. Cuz cuz to this
47:04day,
47:06one of the most gangster moves
47:12in all of human history
47:15is to get up from a grave
47:19and a body
47:21that is glorified.
47:24And I guess you get to tell it what to
47:26do. [laughter]
47:28And you just are like, "But keep those
47:30there. Keep the scars there. Those will
47:32benefit me. Nobody's going to recognize
47:35me without them.
47:42>> A glorified body shouldn't have no
47:44blemishes,
47:45let alone no gaping wounds.
47:49>> He keeps them there on purpose
47:52just so other people can be Oh, that
47:55that's got to be him. Cuz that's the
47:56same spot where the wounds were
48:00received.
48:03Like like it is
48:06that's what we should be doing with our
48:08yeses
48:11still pointing to the wounds
48:13>> and going hey I got this from
48:16>> we're people of the cut.
48:18>> Oh okay I you know what I all right Holy
48:21Spirit I'm slow I get it.
48:28He wasn't going to remove the evidence
48:30of his yes.
48:36I voluntarily
48:42chose
48:45to die.
48:47And I won't remove the evidence
48:50>> of my yes. [clears throat]
48:54I'm not going to do it. I'm not removing
48:56the evidence of my yes.
48:58>> The fact that the scars
49:02in part were meant to serve as a
49:05reminder of the cost
49:08of a yes. See, we can't put Jesus
49:12glitter on this stuff.
49:13>> No, we can't. No, we can't.
49:15>> And in the pew, it's like we love to we
49:18love to sprinkle the Jesus glitter.
49:20>> That's right. Cuz we want everybody to
49:21feel good. And and
49:24yeses don't feel good. Yes is going to
49:25kill you. But child, you going to be
49:28glorified on the other side of it. Paul
49:30[screaming]
49:32>> Paul gave Jesus his yes.
49:36And it didn't change the things
49:40that were hurting him.
49:40>> No, it did not.
49:42>> It changed how he saw them.
49:43>> That's exactly right.
49:44>> It changed how he talked to them.
49:45>> That's exactly right.
49:46>> And it changed how he let them shape
49:50him.
49:50>> That's right.
49:52This is part of the evidence of the
49:53scars.
49:54>> That's right.
49:55>> These scars
49:57tell a story.
49:58>> Yep.
50:00>> And I will not
50:01>> Yeah.
50:02>> Let the evidence of my Yes.
50:03>> Yeah.
50:04>> be wiped
50:05>> from the records.
50:06>> Yeah.
50:09>> I I think sometimes we our flesh wants
50:12to hope that a really big yes will lead
50:16to a season of not being asked.
50:19[laughter]
50:20Oh,
50:22>> and what I feel like wow
50:25we're doing in this episode is to say
50:29you probably need to start wrapping your
50:30mind around the fact that if the initial
50:33yes is this weighty and big and hard to
50:37for you to give to him.
50:40>> There's more where that came from.
50:41>> There's more where that came from and
50:44not the opposite. Will you leave me
50:46alone now? Okay, I'm gonna say yes. Are
50:48you done? You're done with your You're
50:50done with your inquiries. You're done
50:51with your requests, right? I'm saying
50:53yes to this, Lord.
50:56>> I I've met my quota for the for the
50:59month. I've met my quota for the year.
51:01>> You told me you wanted me to volunteer
51:03in the parking lot in Phoenix,
51:05>> right?
51:06>> In the summer. I've done it. Are you
51:08good now? Are we are will you leave me
51:11alone now? It's not happening.
51:13>> Your big yes doesn't buy you time.
51:17It leads to another question almost
51:19immediately, [laughter]
51:21another request.
51:24And I I will tell you if if we talk
51:27about because I guarantee you, Timmy,
51:29there's some people that are like,
51:30[sighs and gasps]
51:31>> "But why should I say yes?" And they
51:33have a laundry list of reasons why they
51:35think they shouldn't.
51:36>> Mhm.
51:38>> I think there's a variety of ways. And I
51:40want I want to hear your perspective.
51:42Why should someone say yes?
51:46My mind immediately goes to the pleasure
51:48of the Lord.
51:51I go back to Noah.
51:53Can you imagine being Noah?
51:56How ostracized he was.
51:58>> Mhm.
51:59>> During
52:01desert drought.
52:03>> Mhm.
52:04>> Building a big boat no one saw the need
52:07for.
52:07>> Mhm.
52:08>> For decades.
52:09>> Mhm.
52:11>> And then it rains and he and his family
52:14are left. Mhm.
52:17>> And when it's all over and the waters
52:20subside,
52:23it's just him and he's the patriarch of
52:27this little burgeoning tribe.
52:31Timmy, he could have gotten off that
52:33boat and started putting stakes in the
52:36ground in all of his favorite places.
52:39That's mine. That's mine. This is where
52:42our second house is going. This is where
52:44our third house is going. Ain't nobody
52:46here to take it,
52:47>> right?
52:48>> This is mine,
52:49>> right?
52:51>> My flesh at 18, 19, that's probably what
52:54I would have been thinking.
52:54>> Mhm.
52:55>> I'd have spent my time on that boat in
52:57[clears throat] the storm going,
52:59>> "What land do I want?"
53:00>> Mhm.
53:01>> Now, it depends where this boat finishes
53:03up, but I act one, scene one, right?
53:07>> I'm going to claim my territory.
53:09>> Yep.
53:10>> What was his first act? He built an
53:13altar.
53:14and he sacrificed.
53:16And what does scripture record about the
53:19smell
53:21of said sacrifice?
53:24>> It created a pleasing
53:27aroma.
53:28>> That's right.
53:29>> To the king of the universe.
53:31>> Yep.
53:33>> Pleasing.
53:37I've been telling people all summer. I
53:38We were kidding when I picked you up
53:40from the airport this morning. We both
53:42took some time off this summer and I
53:43call mine paternity leave.
53:45>> Exactly right. That's what you have
53:46>> because we're fostering a five-day old
53:49and have for three months.
53:51But [clears throat] I've been telling
53:52people
53:55I've never felt the pleasure of the Lord
53:57more.
54:00>> And and what I would say is in the past
54:03I would have said than I am in this
54:05season of my life. I am so much more
54:08specific at 48 than I was at 18.
54:14I am seeing the pleasure of the Lord
54:17more with this yes.
54:19>> Yes, sir.
54:20>> And all of its subsequent yeses
54:23than maybe I ever have with any other
54:26request
54:28he's given me.
54:31There is a look on his face.
54:34My here, this is probably the oneliner.
54:39When my when the face of my flesh has a
54:44scowl,
54:46thinking about the cost of this. Yes.
54:50When I give it to him,
54:52the look on his face is unbridled
54:55>> pleasure. This is my son
54:59>> in whom I'm well pleased.
55:04There is something about
55:08his pleasure that as I get older is
55:11becoming my addiction.
55:14And that's why I think like I look
55:15through I am 3 four years older,
55:205 years older than when we were praying
55:22about adopting Maxon.
55:25And so when we were praying about
55:26adopting Maxon, it was I'm going to be
55:31when he graduates high school,
55:34>> I'm I'm going to be
55:3760.
55:40Well, if the Lord asks us to adopt this
55:41little girl,
55:43Holly's going to be almost 70
55:47when this little girl graduates high
55:49school. And here's what's crazy. I said
55:51no 2,000 times to the Lord with Maxon.
55:56And this this may sound absolutely
56:00heretical to people. I didn't even have
56:03to pray about this little girl.
56:07And this is the power of learning
56:13what God does
56:15with the right. Yes.
56:18Whatever it costs,
56:20if he made the request, it's always
56:23worth it. And please, please hear me.
56:25I'm not telling you there will be
56:28awards, accolades,
56:31and an open heaven of financial
56:33abundance.
56:36Here's what I'm telling you. The most
56:38excruciating
56:40yeses
56:42are a red carpet welcome mat. your heart
56:47rolls out for the king of the universe
56:51and the most excruciating yeses bring
56:54him exponentially closer.
56:57So, um you know when when you said what
57:00you just said, I didn't even have to
57:01pray about it. The the first thought I
57:04had was who in the Bible did
57:08this was a sovereign God telling them
57:09what to do and they just did it.
57:11[clears throat]
57:15>> Imagine me
57:17telling a Lord
57:20and B a bonafide Lord.
57:23Hey duly noted heard what you said. Just
57:25want to go pray about that. Make sure
57:27that's you.
57:29Uh, first Kings 17.
57:34There's three words I wrote I want, but
57:36I got to give you the story before I can
57:37give you the three words. All right.
57:41Now, Elijah the Tishbite, one of the
57:43settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As
57:46Adonai, God of Israel lives,
57:49before whom I stand, there shall be no
57:52due or rain these years except at my
57:56word." Do you know how gangster that is?
57:58He doesn't preface it by saying, "Thus
57:59said the Lord." [laughter]
58:01He just says, "As Adonai, God of Israel,
58:04lives before whom I stand." All right?
58:06So God is co-signing on his words. Okay?
58:09Imagine having a relationship that
58:11close. Okay? Then the word of Adonai
58:14came to him saying, "Leave this place.
58:15Turn eastward and hide yourself by the
58:18Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan. It
58:21will come about that you will drink from
58:23the Wadi. I have also commanded the
58:26ravens to feed you there." So he went
58:28and did according to the word of Adonai.
58:30He went and lived by the wadi cherith
58:33which is east of the Jordan. The ravens
58:35kept bringing him bread and meat in the
58:37morning and bread and meat in the
58:39evening and he drank from the watti.
58:41Then it came to pass after a while that
58:44the watti dried up because there was no
58:47rain in the land. Then the word of
58:49Adonai came to him saying, "Arise,
58:53go to Jerusalem.
58:55Go to
58:57Go to Dan. Go to Napali.
59:00>> Go to
59:03Manessa.
59:07Go to Zarapath.
59:12Ain't nowhere in Israel good enough for
59:14ME TO GO RIGHT NOW. You telling me to go
59:17to the hometown of Jezebel?
59:21[laughter]
59:21Arise. Go to Zerapath of Siden and stay
59:26there.
59:28I have just commanded a widow there to
59:30provide for you.
59:33First three words in TOV. So he arose.
59:40And so he went. That's where I'm trying
59:43to get my yes to. Yeah.
59:45>> You tell me what to do.
59:47I So Tim arose.
59:52The Lord told him to do a thing. Tim got
59:55up and did it.
59:57I want the yes to be such that it's in
1:00:00my action and not with my mouth. I've
1:00:03said enough nos out of my mouth.
1:00:04>> Yeah.
1:00:05>> On the request that he's asked. The Holy
1:00:08Spirit has asked me to do so many things
1:00:09throughout my 30 years where
1:00:14my no was my protection. My no was my
1:00:17fear. My no was my insecurity. My no was
1:00:20my
1:00:22perceived limitations. I've done enough
1:00:24of that. Um
1:00:27I don't even want to say yes. I want to
1:00:30do yes.
1:00:30>> It's great. I just want to do it.
1:00:34So I have a song before we end.
1:00:37It's the old church song. It's been in
1:00:39my head since we got in the car. I
1:00:40actually sang a little bit of it, but
1:00:41you kept talking, so I just stopped.
1:00:44Um,
1:00:46this is the perfect song for this
1:00:49episode.
1:00:53I say yes, Lord, yes to your will and to
1:00:57your way. I say yes, Lord, yes.
1:01:02With my whole heart, I'll obey. When the
1:01:06spirit speaks to me, with my whole
1:01:09heart, I'll agree. And my answer will be
1:01:12yes, Lord. Yes.
1:01:16>> It's beautiful.
1:01:17>> That's the jam right now.
1:01:18>> And may that be the song our heart sings
1:01:23every time.
1:01:23>> Every single time
1:01:26>> he asks.
1:01:29>> Every single time.
1:01:30>> This is the way. And there
1:01:34there's a divine story
1:01:38on the path of the divine. Yes. Mhm.
1:01:40>> And the flesh
1:01:44wants to think we can be the thief on
1:01:47the cross.
1:01:50>> One last. Yes.
1:01:54And I'm good.
1:02:01>> It doesn't work like that.
1:02:04>> It did for the thief and it does from
1:02:06time to time.
1:02:06>> Absolutely. I don't even want to be in
1:02:07that position. But Timmy, what I would
1:02:09say and what I know you would say
1:02:10[laughter]
1:02:12is what the thief missed out on.
1:02:16The point of walking with Jesus isn't to
1:02:20get out of hell.
1:02:21>> That's not correct. That that's that's
1:02:23absolutely correct.
1:02:24>> Yes. Yes. The point of walking with
1:02:27Jesus
1:02:30is to get so close to him
1:02:33that without even realizing it, I'm
1:02:35becoming more like him.
1:02:36>> Just Yeah. This this is the difference
1:02:39between the once and for all
1:02:42sanctification
1:02:46and the thief says thank you.
1:02:47>> That's right.
1:02:49>> And then there is the as long as you
1:02:52live.
1:02:52>> That's right.
1:02:53>> ongoing act.
1:02:54>> Absolutely.
1:02:54>> Of sanctification.
1:02:55>> Oh, absolutely.
1:02:56>> Absolutely correct.
1:02:57>> And this is where the beauty is found.
1:03:00>> That's right.
1:03:01>> In the bloody.
1:03:02>> That's right. Would you just pray as we
1:03:04wrap up? Especially for our friends,
1:03:06Demi,
1:03:08who have received the divine compliment.
1:03:11Now, they're they're probably not seeing
1:03:12it right now as the divine, but they
1:03:14have received a divine compliment
1:03:18by receiving an excruciating request
1:03:21from the Lord.
1:03:22>> Yes. You could have asked anybody for
1:03:24this and you asked me.
1:03:25>> You came to me. You came to me. Would
1:03:29you just pray over our friends,
1:03:30especially the ones who are right at
1:03:33that fork in the road?
1:03:34>> So, Holy Spirit, I thank you so much for
1:03:36my brothers and sisters, for your sons
1:03:38and daughters.
1:03:39Thank you for giving Preston and I
1:03:44this topic. Um,
1:03:48we're not smart enough to come up with
1:03:49this stuff and we never know how you're
1:03:53going to lead us, Holy Spirit. But I
1:03:55want to pray for my brothers and
1:03:56sisters. God, your sons and daughters
1:03:59who have
1:04:01before them an excruciating yes,
1:04:06an allin yes, an all or nothing
1:04:12yes.
1:04:14A death to the flesh.
1:04:18Yes.
1:04:20Holy Spirit, I pray
1:04:25that they would give you a yes
1:04:30that makes
1:04:32death quick.
1:04:36>> The only reason why this is hurting so
1:04:38much
1:04:40is because you're withholding your yes.
1:04:43>> The quicker you say yes,
1:04:45the quicker you die and the closer
1:04:48you'll be.
1:04:51to the purposes and the plans
1:04:54that God has orchestrated for your life.
1:04:58So God, if the yes comes with grief, let
1:05:00him cry.
1:05:02If the yes comes with frustration, let
1:05:04them yell.
1:05:07If the yes comes with sadness,
1:05:11let them
1:05:14sit in it.
1:05:16But at the end, may this Yes.
1:05:21bring about their glorious next
1:05:25for your kingdom
1:05:29in Jesus name.
1:05:31Amen.
1:05:32>> Amen.
1:05:33Amen. Too much fun. Listen to me now.
1:05:38You said yes to Jesus. You had
1:05:41salvation.
1:05:41>> You did.
1:05:44>> You did. Make sure you're saying yes to
1:05:46Jesus today because this is your
1:05:51partnership in the ongoing work of
1:05:54sanctification as the Holy Spirit moves
1:05:57in and through you
1:06:01to make you more like Jesus. This is the
1:06:04way. I know it hurts,
1:06:07but it hurts so good.
1:06:10The bigger the request,
1:06:13the more important
1:06:16it is for you to give the right
1:06:17response. We're praying for you. We've
1:06:20been there.
1:06:22And every yes is worth it.
1:06:24>> It is.
1:06:24>> When God is the one who makes that
1:06:26absolutely it is.
1:06:26>> I love you so much. We love you so much.
1:06:29I cannot wait to sit with you again.
1:06:33Until then, I love you. I'll see you
1:06:36next time.
1:06:40Thanks for joining me for [music] this
1:06:41episode of the Leader Cut. I pray you
1:06:44sense God speak directly and clearly to
1:06:47you through it. Before you leave, would
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