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Ancient Path of Humility - Trust the LORD - The Good ,The BAD, Ugly & Beautiful · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  So the Lord's been working on my heart about realizing the
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  circumstances in life that cause us pain.
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  It's always an act of Him to get deeper inside of our hearts, to
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  show us what's inside of our hearts.
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  The Bible says the issues of life, they flow from the heart.
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  And oftentimes when we experience trouble and trials
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  and tribulations and struggles and all these things, we
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  automatically go to fixing the circumstances that are causing
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  our pain. What is it outside of me that's
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  the problem that I need to stop, that that needs to be abated.
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  Cease and desist these issues, these people, these problems,
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  this, this, all these things outside here that we're going to
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  be able to fix how we feel if we fix these things out here.
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  And while that might work for a season, it doesn't solve the
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  root of the issue. Every time we run up against
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  problems, struggles, stripes, the Lord is showing us something
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  that's inside of our hearts that he's trying to touch, that he's
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  trying to deliver us from a wrong identity.
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  He's trying to make right a shadowy place in our hearts.
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  He's trying to light up something we're holding on to,
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  that we need to let go of, something we're letting go of,
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  that we need to hold on to. But it's, it's rarely ever about
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  the circumstances outside of ourselves.
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  It's always about our hearts. Our God is a very, very intimate
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  God. And intimacy doesn't always feel
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  good. It's not always roses and
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  butterflies and all those woo woo good, good feelings.
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  And it's not sometimes there's tears and brokenness and
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  lamentations and crying yourself to sleep and waking up in tears.
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  Sometimes that's what intimacy is.
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  Sometimes intimacy is showing your darkest, darkest things you
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  believe, and that's the kind of intimacy that the Lord wants to
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  partake with you in. Because in those dark places,
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  when His love comes in, when His goodness comes in, it doesn't
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  matter anymore what the circumstances outside of you
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  are. Something inside of your heart
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  has been touched by His love, and that has a greater impact
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  than than altering the external circumstances of life.
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  Whenever something comes up, whenever something, as they say,
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  triggers you, instead of trying to get that thing outside of you
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  to stop, pick up that thing that is being triggered.
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  Hold it up to the Lord and say, look at this, Jesus.
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  Look at this thing that's coming up in me.
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  Look at this rage that's coming up in me, this bitterness that's
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  coming up at me. Focus on this with me, Lord.
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  I want to. I choose to take my eyes off of
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  what's happening around outside of me.
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  I refuse to give Satan any of my energy, any of my pain, any of
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  my sorrow, any of my frustration.
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  I'm not giving him credit for nothing.
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  I'm like, look at this bundle of bitterness, Jesus.
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  Look at it with me. Tell me what it is.
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  Speak to it man. When we do that and we start
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  seeing that the things that trigger us in our lives are
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  really about us and not about the circumstance or the trigger
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  itself, it revolutionizes your person because you can't live
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  from the outside in. You have to live from the inside
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  out. And it really is self deception
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  to think we live from the outside in.
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  We cannot. We cannot live that way.
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  And so next time some strong emotion comes up, instead of
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  pointing outside of yourself, instead of trying to solve the
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  problem by changing the circumstances, look at it with
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  the Lord. Be honest with Him about it.
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  Tell Him exactly how you feel. He's not easily offended.
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  Ask His love to come in and touch those places.
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  Surrender it to Him. You know it doesn't always
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  change the circumstance, but it does change your heart and
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  little by little, that change of the heart changes your
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  circumstances of life. The issues of life flow from
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  your heart and when your heart changes, the issues in your life
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  change. See, I have found in life over
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  the years that He sows his best seeds in the darkest soil, those
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  ancient paths that build humility into the soul where you
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  really get broken. You get so deeply broken when
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  you let the Lord into those places and follow Him in the
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  day-to-day, moment to moment of your life.
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  Being real honest with Him, really, really honest and giving
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  him every thought and every feeling.
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  Not blaming the enemy, not blaming your spouse, not blaming
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  your Mama, not blaming your kids or your finances or the economy
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  or the woo woo weirdo stuff that's out there.
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  When you start getting in there with the Lord and taking
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  everything that is happening inside of you and giving it to
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  the Lord, all that pain, that is an ancient path of deep
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  humility. Deep humility that cannot.
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  It is incorruptible. It's that place that Jesus's
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  heart is. It's incorruptible because
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  that's what He did. That's who He is.
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  That's who He was when He was here.
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  It's what He demonstrated. It's literally taking the heart
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  of the Lord and living from that place.
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  He sows His richest seeds in the darkest places.
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  It doesn't feel like it when you're going through it.
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  It does not feel fruitful when you're going through it, but
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  trust and believe that if you hold on to the Lord in those
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  dark and dreary and depressing and destitute and desolate
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  places, if you look to Him day by day, little by little you are
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  growing into a mighty oak of righteousness.
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  And the day will come where you will look at where you are.
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  And you'll be like, I don't know how I got over.
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  I don't know how it happened. Because he sews in darkness.
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  Darkness was under his feet. Thunderings and lightnings and
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  hailstones and coals of fire. Which one of those things is
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  pleasant? Which one of those things feels
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  good? None of those, none of those
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  things feel good. OK, but in that spot, probably
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  where some of you are right now, they hold the highest potential
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  for growth. It holds the highest potential
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  for your betterment. It holds the most potential for
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  your deep and unwavering loyalty to the King of Kings.
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  It is our soul that does that work.
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  It is our heart that does that work.
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  That's the that is the the place of his, of his interest, of his
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  being. Where he sews the most is in
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  that broken. He doesn't despise that.
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  He does not despise it. Don't think, oh, I got to get
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  this right so that I can be close to Jesus.
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  I can be a good Christian. No, no, no, no, no.
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  If you're in a dark place, that's OK.
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  Make it a productive dark place by leaning into the Lord and
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  giving him your everything moment by moment.
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  Give it all to him. Don't blame Satan.
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  Don't do don't do that stuff. He doesn't get any credit.
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  He's a he is. He is a open show.
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  We shake our head at him and say wow, this was the one that
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  deceived the world. No, no, no, no, no.
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  All those adversarial circumstances, they are here for
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  your betterment. They are here to drive you into
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  the cross. They are here to take out the
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  the weak places of your foundation.
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  They are here to deliver you, to deliver your heart from having
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  mixed loyalties. It is deliverance.
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  It doesn't feel good, but that's OK.
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  That's OK. You can be honest about those
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  things with him. The path of humility is an
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  ancient path and it comes with lamentation.
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  It comes with trembling and fear and not seeing the whole
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  picture. But that's OK.
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  The Lord never gives up. He's not a quitter.
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  It's us who quits. And if you just hold on, you are
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  going to see miracles. So don't give up.
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  Keep going, keep trusting Him, keep listening to His voice,
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  keep holding on to the hem of His garment, because you will
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  overcome, because He has already overcome.
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  Music. Music.