Peace Under Pressure :: FruitFull (Part 6)

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I get to do this sermon from a place of

walking through a season where God is

really teaching me the fruits of the

spirit all over again like it’s

something that I want to just give

everybody a warning that when you follow

God you never are fully finished with

anything like you know our peace I got

that joy I got no no no no no baby

because in different seasons God will

teach you something brand-new about that

thing again how many people have a

favorite movie how many people have a

favorite movie like think of it some of

them are inappropriate I saw you you

need even raise your hand it says just

like oh but the thing about your

favorite movie is you always see

something new when you see it again and

even people who think they know every

word in every line if you look deeper

you’ll see something that you never saw

again that’s the same thing with the

fruits of the spirits most of us who

were raised in church learned them when

we were younger love joy peace and all

that but it means something totally

different at 10 then it means at 25 and

it means something totally different at

25 than it does even at 30

I don’t know that five-year gap between

25 and 30 it’s a different world how do

I know come about 1031 but I know that

gap is different between 30 and 50 so

those are all the seasoned Saints is

making noise I got some Lauri’s don’ts

in life um so I want you to know

wherever you’re at in your life right

now God wants to teach you something new

about the fruits of the spirit so today

is week 6 of this series we’re calling

fruitful and this is one I’m really

excited about teaching we’re gonna talk

about peace today how many people could

use some more peace in your life in an

area okay um so it’s funny that as I

started to study about peace today I’m

kind of maybe gonna upset some of our

idea of what we think peace is and give

us a biblical perspective of what God

promises peace is gonna be and I want

you to look at this and I want you to

listen to this because if you don’t have

this understanding you may be

disappointed in some things that happen

in life because I don’t know about you

but for me before I studied the

scripture and before I knew

all of the fruits of the spirit that are

listed in Galatians 5:22 love joy peace

all the difference before I knew all of

that what I thought peace was is what

the definition that they put in the

dictionary is which is freedom from

disturbance quiet and tranquility it’s

like what everybody’s didn’t on my

nerves

I say ah I need peace some of y’all have

moms that would okay see some of y’all

are moms okay um I don’t know when I got

stressed out at work or at school I was

like oh no no no no whew saw will saw I

need to get to a peaceful place and

peace I got a couple of pictures because

this is what peace used to look like to

me I want to show you this picture of

peace real quick

a peace for me was like a sunset it was

it was like something that was that was

um near water and something that was

beautiful I want you to get that image

in your mind right now some of you would

love to be on a beach how many people

would love to leave church today and

head to a beach somewhere that would be

peaceful to me um I also thought a

picture of peace for me is the

chick-fil-a sandwich on a Sunday now I

don’t know about you I don’t know what

floats your boat by having a spicy

chick-fil-a sandwich with Swiss cheese a

large swarm fry and does some

chick-fil-a sauce that’s peaceful to me

okay but then when I started walking

with God I got a new image of what peace

look like and I don’t know if you have

this picture but if you could put that

up on the screen this is what peace look

like and you say Pastor Mike why why did

you show me a picture of raging water of

rock and pressure and wind and storm in

the background is because when you zoom

into this picture there’s something you

probably can’t see out there but there’s

a bird that’s resting

in the middle of the storm and until we

find this type of piece everything that

we do in life is a temporary effort to

get something that only God can give see

this bird is not tripping he’s sleep

sleeping this bird is not flapping its

wings and like what’s happened he flew

there knowing that in the midst of all

the pressure and the rage and everything

going on that it could capture good

night sleep so I want to talk to us

today not peace from a standpoint of

tranquillity in everything’s quiet and

everything’s going good peace for some

of y’all is being in a room with your

favorite stuff and and and watching a

movie that’s not peace can I help you

it’s a temporary escape and everything

we do in this life and that this life

has to offer it’s just a temporary

escape can I really help you a temporary

escape is a counterfeit peace my

question is to you is what do you use as

your temporary escape and you call it

peace some of us it’s food some of us

it’s a relationship some of us it’s

validation from other people for some of

us it’s the amount of zeroes that we get

on our check its temporary escape from

what’s really going on and we label it

peace in our life and for many of you

it’s scrolling on social media for

others it’s it’s the clothes that you

wear in a compliment but God told me he

said Michael with these fruits of the

spirit I want to give my people to

upgrade I don’t want them walking around

meeting to impress people I don’t need

them trying to figure out what the

latest thing is and all this other stuff

to have peace I don’t need them to have

a relationship to have

peace I don’t need them to do anything

except get into me cuz I am the Prince

of Peace and until you recognize this

you will begin to try to satisfy a real

need illegitimate Lea everybody has the

need for peace everybody wants peace in

their life but until we recognize that

peace only comes from Jesus we will use

temporary escapes to satisfy our real

need that’s why people have sex in

one-night stands with each other because

they want to just release and get their

mind off of stuff so they have a

temporary moment that produces lasting

consequences that’s why many of you have

moved from state to state oh I’m coming

to your house some of y’all moves more

and go from church to church state to

state job to job you’re looking for

peace and so when you get there

everything is oh my god I love this city

oh my god I love LA oh my god I Love New

York oh I got it until you realize that

that is a temporary escape for what only

can come from Jesus and until you

understand that again I’m driving this

point home because some of you are gonna

go home today and you’re going to want

peace and so you’re gonna turn on the

Kardashians not because the Kardashians

are bad because it makes you not think

about your situation and so you

temporarily escape what’s going some of

y’all go to the movies every week I just

gotta go the movie is to $5 Tuesdays I

have to get there I have to unwind I

have to do something and I’m saying

there’s nothing wrong with that except

if it’s replacing the pace that God is

supposed to fulfill so I’m not coming at

you I’m asking you to evaluate what in

your life is a temporary escape for what

God can actually give you peace in God

beginning to challenge me with that mic

that’s a temporary escape

oh god this is my calling no you do that

because people applaud you for that oh

can we be rich people applaud you for

that and so you do that over and over

because you know people are gonna he

said

stop trying to find peace in them find

peace in me and y’all this took me a

week y’all know I can’t preached unto

you that the Holy Spirit is not cutting

me up on all week so Tuesday I’m sitting

just looking like a sad baby like oh

dang God like that that’s for that and

that’s for that he’s like yeah he said

but what I want you to realize is that

if your peace is found in me I can do

something that can never be taken from

you see people’s arms I’m about to lose

it no you’re about to give it away

nobody can take your piece because it’s

God on the inside but if you choose to

put it to the side to act out of your

flesh you gave it away so when people

say stuff like I can’t I can’t take it

they’re pushing me over the edge I’m

about to lose my cool no you’re about to

give your cool away because the peace of

God is the thing that is unmovable

unshakable and it stays in you and so if

you’re looking for that type of peace

that’s the sunset or a meadow or all

that it’s not going to happen I came to

tell you and I love this because Jesus

tells us I want everybody to turn in

your Bible to John 16 verse 33 and I’m

gonna read the second suit sentence

because it says it just tells us hey

here on earth this is Jesus talking you

will have many trials how many trials

that’s a whole bunch of them you’re

gonna have many trials at school with

your family relationships you’re gonna

have many trials and you’re gonna have

sorrows but take heart because I’ve

overcome the world now I don’t know

about you but if I was a disciple

because that’s who he was talking to and

Jesus called us all over to have this

huddle I’d be kind of frustrated at this

meeting he would be like hey guys I want

to tell you guys something hey in this

life you’re gonna have a whole bunch of

troubles and sorrows it’s all good

though take heart because your boy has

already overcome the world

I got you take heart is that what you

wanted to say

is that what you cost us over here to

tell us I can’t believe he always been

doing it speaking in parables and then

telling us to take heart you just told

us we gonna go through Hale and we’re

supposed to hey I’m about to take a nap

like how would have been that disciple I

would have been the disciple on the side

just talking crazy and at the end of my

life I didn’t even tell us that he

should have just let us go through it

and figure it out but he’s trying to

give us a warning and then Jesus says I

knew you were gonna say that so go back

to the top of verse 33 he said I’ve told

you all of this so that you may have

what’s that word peace I want you to put

I’ve told you this so you can have peace

but not just this temporary thing that

the world is offering where’s the peace

found he said so I’m telling you you’re

gonna have troubles I’m telling you

you’re gonna have relationship breakups

I’m telling you your job is gonna fire

you I’m telling you right now your hair

is not always gonna be laid to the side

you understand you’re gonna have a bald

spot I’m telling you I’m telling you

right now you’re gonna have trials and

sorrows you’re gonna have a child that

gets um has a kid out of wedlock you’re

going to have people lie on you you’re

going yeah I’m telling you right now

you’re gonna be misunderstood and you

try to do something right and your

intentions we’re going to be

misinterpreted and people are gonna

label you I’m telling you right now

you’re gonna have trials and sorrows but

take heart because I’ve already overcome

the entire world and the only way you

can overcome this is if you have

residents and the one who’s overcome all

of it so he said I tell you this cuz I

want you to have peace in me somebody

say peace in Jesus so Pastor Mike what

are you trying to say my first point is

God promises peace not the absence of

pressure and until I figured this out I

was disappointed in God many times god I

thought you were faithful I don’t know

if y’all have relationships like this

with God but me and here we go I thought

you were faithful so why would I go

through this crappy situation if you’re

faithful he said um you read the

contract whoa

you thought when you got saved it puts

you in the world standard of peace where

you have no pressure everything is fine

it’s lilies and than these it’s

everything and he said no no I promised

peace that was my promise but not the

absence of pressure if you don’t hear

anything else I say today pressure does

not mean that you can’t have peace can I

take it a step further pressure is the

only way you can identify if you truly

have peace if everything is good

how do you know that you have peace it’s

when stuff starts moving I remember a

story in the Bible when the disciples

were on the boat with Jesus and they are

professional fishermen’s I want

everybody to understand they’re

professional fishermen so the wind

patterns the waves they know this stuff

now me you get me out there you hear

just a little rock about I’m done I’m

jumping off and I’m swimming back to

shore but these are professional

fishermen but the waves and the wind

were so heavy that they got scared for

their life and they they said where

where Jesus is he not

is he not sure he sleep go wake him

without the die rope and Jesus woke up

with such peace what why are y’all

trippin y’all know I’m on the boat I I

can’t leave until it’s time y’all are

gonna be fine and and he confronted

their faith in the storm cuz it’s the

only way you can know if you truly have

peace if they were unsure they wouldn’t

even been trippin I came to tell

somebody that the storm that you’re in

is not to take you out it’s to identify

where you are no you missed it

the storm that you’re going through some

of the things and the people you’ve been

dealing with it is just there to help

you identify the hell

to issue the children issue the money

issue it’s there to help you identify if

you really have these fruits working in

your life and so I want you to realize

that God promises peace for you if you

stay in him but he doesn’t promise the

absence of pressure so today’s message

if you’re gonna title it I want you to

tell it peace under pressure because I’m

done with somebody coming up here and

tell me you need the fruit of the Spirit

peace Jesus need peace and and what does

that mean cuz when I’m good I don’t need

please cuz I got it but it’s when my

wife starts tripping or the money is

funny and when they denied me access to

something that I thought I was gone

that’s when they cut me off in traffic

I’ll see some of y’all y’all y’all to

save for this one but we see you we see

how you act coming to transformation

church do you understand what I’m saying

it’s when they they they overcharge you

on your bill some of y’all are so ugly

when you call people you can’t see and

you start talking to ma’am you like get

an accent and all kinds of stuff but see

what God is saying is that as a believer

you’re not supposed to have moments of

peace you’re supposed to live in peace

it’s not supposed to be a place where

you go or a place that you run to it’s

supposed to be a place you abide and so

I look at this when we talk about peace

under pressure I brought this weight set

out here because this is a perfect

analogy is that this bar represents our

life many times in our life if we just

could live our life if we could just do

us not bother anybody nobody bother us

it’d be simple

I look at my life and it’s just me it’s

easy I can press this I can go through

this I could do this all day and talk to

you

but it’s when the weights of life it’s

when the pressure that comes to bring me

down and and and this is the thing I

want everybody to see because today’s

message is not extravagant and and long

and elaborate it’s very simple but I

never want you to forgive that you can’t

control what happens around you and many

of us are praying to God asking him why

it happened and he’s saying let me help

you lift it your focus is wrong because

who is going to ask to be laid off of

their job nobody but it happens and

weights of life come on who is going to

ask to have people talking about them at

their church nobody’s gonna ask for that

what it happens he’s going to ask that

their investment go belly-up and they

lose all of their money that they had in

life savings nobody but it’s gonna

happen can I tell you something life

happens the pressure that comes from

like you’re walking through stuff right

now and life has happened you put all of

your eggs in one basket and life has

happened you thought it was gonna happen

like tender we be honest how many people

has life happened to you this year like

in some way life has happened to you you

thought you was gonna be a size six all

your life welcome to 12 life happens

can we be honest and what happens when

the pressure comes on to our life and we

have to wake up every day and lift what

we didn’t put on and so I sit here every

day I gotta go to work again and deal

with these crazy people Lord just give

me strength as I just try to lift the

Lord and what happens is many people

start to lift and they start shaking and

they get it up in church enough to let

people think it’s okay

but when they have to deal with it

they’re shaking and many of us are

buckling under the pressure but God says

if you would allow me to come into your

life I would give you peace under now

watch this this is the crazy thing

because everybody knows about the big

things that are pressures in our life

the big things you know where I can

handle a little bit I can handle that

one relationship problem we have I can

handle I can handle having one bad kid

at least I got one good one and I can

and I can handle it taking me six years

to finish this degree and my family’s

talking about me but I can handle that

pressure but many times as we focus on

the big pressures those aren’t the thing

that make us buckle under the weight

it’s these little pressures see if these

little pressures come into the lot in my

life I was late for work again I

literally just spilled chick-fil-a sauce

all over my car seat you think that’s

funny but that’s the thing that’ll take

you over the edge oh you know you were

on your way to a job interview and

something spilled on your blouse see I’m

not talking about things that are

catastrophic

I’m talking about that one hair won’t go

down y’all know what I’m talking about

the little things that are pressures

pressures of what our family thinks

pressure of being able to make more

money the pressures that come from life

and the thing that you don’t realize is

a bunch of little pressures compounded

it’s the thing that may not look as big

but I can’t lift it what I came to let

you know is that this is your life

so nothing we can do about it you can’t

pray it away you can’t shout it away you

can’t in this like Jesus said it so I

just need everybody to be okay with this

this is Jesus talking in this life you

will have trials sorrows pressure in

this life this is your bar this is your

life you will have this but take heart

now um well I’m gonna take it heart cuz

I can’t lift this by myself and he said

I never meant for you to but you keep

trying to you keep you keep trying to

lift what I have given you help for

doesn’t like I don’t know about that

because when I’m walking through my life

every day I feels like I’m lifting this

stuff on my own it feels like I’m going

through this pressure on my own

it feels like I’m being overpowered by

things that I can’t control you you were

late on the rent payment or one of your

children had a bad report from school

and these pressures are coming and the

enemy is sitting back like there they

are it says that he waits around seeking

who he made the vow er so what would be

the most easy time to come and hurt me I

want you to see this what would be the

most vulnerable moment for you to come

and cause me pain it’s when I am

buckling under the pressure of life and

I said yeah

and I try to hold this you could come

steal whatever you wanted to you could

come punch me in the gut you could come

take whatever you want it to because

even if I tried to defend myself the

weight of life would fall on me and many

believers are living like this hard to

breathe praying I want to believe God

but the pressure of life is weighing on

them and they’re not using their help

that almost took me out but God come Oh

summer now now why did I get up here and

put myself in the ability to be

vulnerable and all this is because

that’s what you look like every day

waking up every day you just struggling

to get it up and you can’t control if

there’s another pressure coming today

and so that’s why many people settle for

counterfeit peace so I’ll just go drink

I’ll just go smoke I’ll just have sex

with these people I’ll just go on

vacation so many people going on

vacations they just so what do you just

always on vacation you might as well

live on vacation and then come back and

have life as your vacation because you

just always but what they’re doing is

they’re searching for peace to escape

the pressure of life but the disciples

knew what this was like I need everybody

to hear me I’m trying to paint a picture

for you the disciples knew what this was

like

because in John chapter 12 13 14 15 16

they’re experiencing some of the worst

pressure they’ve ever experienced up

into this point because Jesus start

having these weird conversations with

them he’s like hey guys um man it’s been

a great run had any guys this has been

good great run where you going I got

some other stuff to do I got to be about

my father’s business and so I’m about to

be leaving you hold a hold up

you’re not going anywhere they said get

behind me saying I got some stuff to do

and I need you to understand I’m trying

to tell you these things so you can have

peace and it’s like oh hey y’all sit

down

chapter 13 I’m gonna wash your feet and

I’m gonna tell you more about it

he gets down and he serves them and he

starts washing their feet means like

yeah I’m I’m about to leave I told y’all

that yesterday didn’t I

I’m about the man I’m gonna go through

some crazy stuff they’re gonna beat me

and actually it’s gonna affect y’all to

like some of y’all gonna die because of

this but I’m about to leave and I’m

about to go and make it right for all of

y’all and everybody who’s gonna come

after y’all and there’s one of y’all

ain’t here

who’s gonna betray me and they sitting

at the table now

the one that’s dipping their bread and

ranch right now Jodie’s I’m just I’m

just running four chapters of the Bible

together for you real quick and then he

says and then he’s like yeah yeah but I

know you guys are tripping cuz I’m about

to leave but I’m gonna promise you the

Holy Spirit who’s gonna be your advocate

and he’s gonna be better than me being

here with you it’s gonna be better that

he’s here with you

and for me I don’t I don’t care who he

said was coming I would be man still

because Jesus I left my business to

follow you like I left these dudes were

professionals they had businesses they

left their families they left everything

and now the hook-up is telling us he’s

leaving y’all know what it’s like to go

somewhere and you’re not really supposed

to be there but you with somebody who

has the hook-up and so you can go into

places and walk into places and do

different things when y’all hook up

tells you he’s leaving what I’m what I’m

supposed to do are they gonna know that

I’m with you or they gonna know and he’s

telling them no no I’m gonna send

another hook up that’s better than me

I’m gonna send the Advocate

and its name is the holy spirit now I

want you to put yourself because maybe

you’ve never thought about it like this

but Jesus as they’ve been walking along

they didn’t have a business plan to what

this was going to be like they just

followed Jesus and he made stuff happen

when they were hungry he took two fish

and five loaves and made a fish fry

he’s leaving that guy’s leaving

oh you mean the dude that when tax

season came around he went to the water

and said pick up that fish the tax

money’s in his mouth he’s leaving you

mean the guy who is our official Airbnb

card holder whenever we go anywhere

somebody just opens a bar and a house or

something for us to stay in where are we

gonna say they were worried about who

was gonna take care of them when Jesus

left so they had pressure in life and

look what happens to them in John

chapter 16 verse 7 it says it’s best for

you that I go away because if I don’t

the Advocate won’t come but if I go away

then I will send him to you see this is

the point I want to make to everybody is

that how do we be able to have peace

under pressure we have to accept the

Advocate and use his help we have to

accept the Advocate and use his help

knowledge you know I’m using bible

scripture but I want to help you

understand this the disciples wanted the

person of Jesus but they really needed

the the promise of Jesus they needed the

Holy Spirit in their lives

somebody same person like this that’s a

lot you why are you telling us we need

the Holy Spirit we know we need the Holy

Spirit in our lives this is what I want

to let you know that the pressure of

life cannot be picked up by anybody but

the Holy Spirit and you could say that

sounds deep in ethereal and and I’m okay

thanks for that Pastor Mike listen to me

what I’m saying to you is you’ll never

find it in money you’ll never find it in

Fame you’ll never find it in a person

you’ll never find it in anything that

you will go life will always weigh you

down I was watching a documentary on

Whitney Houston this past week and

woman had sold over 300 million records

and one of the first people that came on

to talk they said Whitney Houston did

not die of a drug overdose she dropped

she died of a broken heart in life the

pressure that was on her and then it

goes on for an hour and a half to

describe how the pressure of life came

to take her very breath but as believers

we don’t have to settle for them we have

an advocate and we have to use him his

name is the Holy Spirit

I want everybody just say Holy Spirit I

want you to say it like a name just say

Holy Spirit see some of y’all I really

believe the Holy Spirit has had a bad

branding problem cuz he’s called the

Holy Ghost then you know when you’re

you’re introduced as kids to ghost it’s

like that scary and so I wanna just call

them Greg or something like if it was me

I would’ve just be like I’m gonna send

you Greg and Greg’s gonna help you

because when people say the Holy Spirit

and the Holy Ghost

they get all spooky but I want you to

know he’s a person he’s a person that

walks with you when we sing to Jesus

when we praise God and say he’s a good

good father the Holy Spirit actually is

our greatest advocate he’s the one

fighting force he’s the one talking

forth he’s the one that will direct you

in which way to go and you cannot live

this life with peace without the Holy

Spirit try it and tell me how that works

out for you and this is why Jesus is

telling his disciples it’s best for you

that I go because right here when I came

down to earth I took on humanity

divinity took on humanity so that means

I get everything that you get that means

I am only present

I’m not army present I only can be right

here with you I can’t be everywhere I

need to be but if I leave I’ll send

somebody who can be with you everywhere

that can walk and talk with you that can

stand with you when you’re at the point

of decision and you have unrest I can

bring the one who will be your advocate

look at this word advocate because I

want you to see this because

this is something that Jesus knew that

the disciples didn’t know that true

peace is knowing you never have to go

through anything alone and I came to

tell somebody here who feels like

they’re walking through a situation

alone if you’re a believer you’re not

walking through that situation alone the

Holy Spirit is just waiting for you to

ask him to come and intervene in your

situation Pastor Mike that doesn’t make

sense

all you have to do let’s just say Holy

Spirit I need your help in this moment

an advocate is one who pleads the case

of another an intercessor one who

supports or promotes the Greek word for

the Holy Spirit is Parakletos or

Paraclete it’s one who is called

alongside to help especially to come to

one’s a synonyms are a helper a Savior

an aider an assistant see the crazy

thing about it is life is still

happening and I developed a sickness

that they don’t have a cure for and the

ministry I gave my life to just told me

I was fired so now I got to wake up

tomorrow and lift this now y’all saw how

much I struggle

with that last one how many people think

I can lift this one stop line but I have

to because this is the only life I got

and I got to wake up and this is how

people get to the place of suicide

because they can’t lift the pressure of

life I’m trying to help you understand

why many times we go to the things that

we go to I’d rather drink than try to

lift this again I’d rather be on drugs

then try to lift this again I’d rather

be in a career that I don’t like then

experience this pressure but Jesus says

as believers it’s better than I go

because I’m gonna send an advocate can

my advocate the Holy Spirit come out

here real quick Holy Spirit I need you

Holy Spirit I’m calling on it Holy

Spirit I need you in this moment and see

what happens when we get the Holy Spirit

working on our side it’s that he stands

over the situation he has a different

perspective

and that when I have to sit here and I

say oh god I don’t think I can take it

anymore

oh god I think they’re gonna come I try

to lift and I feel the weight but I’m

not holding it up by myself and when I

come down I feel the weight but I have

peace because somebody that is stronger

than me who’s been here before who has

carried much more weight it’s helping me

push it up Oh y’all better help me

preach this right now I do not have to

fear because the Holy Spirit the

Advocate the helper is working with me

and I can say I need you to take a

little more pressure than this because I

can’t hold it Oh y’all better help me I

can’t hold this by myself

[Applause]

and it says he never leaves and he never

forsakes she better never leaves come

back here so watch the reason that God

allows pressure is because even though

the weight was too heavy for me to carry

the part of it that I am feeling is

making me stronger so so you prayers you

pray prayers like this Lord let me be

everything you want me to be you know

how he does that he sins pressure and he

promises that he will give peace under

so what I’m telling everybody out there

right now is you need to accept the Holy

Spirit being the one who walks with you

every day this is not a spooky thing

this is not a scary thing this is

something that will literally save your

life because some of us have messed up

and anybody messes up before so like

we’re not so like when I cheated on my

wife before we got married and it just

puts them some you know not some-some

10-pounder communication issues it’s

just it put some weight on it and then

you know I got in trouble with the law

one time now I’m telling the real

testimonies right now I got in trouble

with the law one time for car insurance

fraud and you know it just makes me

always look at cops differently and just

I got a little pressure when I’m driving

in I flirt with with with the the notion

of lying or manipulating situations like

I still got I still got pressured that

there’s always fighting me all the time

like I’m always I’m a pastor I’m

standing here but I have to always every

day get on my knees and be like God can

you help me not be like I was because

you know I was and I don’t have and

impress your keep coming

and then I have to wake up tomorrow and

I look at the accountant and there’s not

enough money in there to make give me a

happy meal let alone be happy but I

still got to get under that pressure and

this is what real relationship with God

looks like Holy Spirit this is what

prayer looks like Holy Spirit I really

don’t have the strength today I really

don’t know if I can bear this and the

Holy Spirit says I’m your helper I won’t

let this break you I won’t let you fold

under this pressure well I got a test I

don’t know if I’m gonna get it to wish

me next year Holy Spirit says I got you

all right God I’m a lifted one two three

whoa because you’re carrying this Holy

Spirit this feels lighter than the bar

by itself I got help this actually with

all of this weight on me it feels

lighter

[Applause]

now what it feels lighter than me just

having the bar by myself because the

piece that God wants to give you will

past all the understanding of all of

these weights in life that is come he

said I’ll give you peace that makes me

start having confidence when I look at

life good morning doctor go lift this

weight this morning what you mean you

ready Holy Spirit 1 2 3 yeah that looks

fun see there’s a different way to

approach life when you have peace that

passes all understanding there’s a

different approach that you have to life

when you know you have to advocate on

your side Oh y’all better help me in

this place this morning some of you are

dealing with stuff but the Holy Spirit

it’s working on your behalf so my

encouragement to you is don’t push the

Holy Spirit away when you need him don’t

push them away cuz you need him when the

pressures on when the weight is heavy

that’s why first Peter 5:7 says give all

your worries give all your tears to God

for he cares about you something it’s

like man I don’t know about this Holy

Spirit thing this is Jesus talking look

at John 14:26 it says but when the

father sends the Advocate as my

representative that is just for

everybody who’s remedial that is the

Holy Spirit so so our advocate is the

Holy Spirit this is the most beautiful

passage for me he says he will teach you

everything and he will remind you of

everything I’ve told you

do you know how I’m a pastor I didn’t go

to seminary I don’t have a college

degree I have so many strikes I don’t

have a business degree I run a

multi-million dollar corporate company I

don’t have none of that

guess who teaches me everyday the holy

strict I’m not saying that you don’t

need an education and you don’t need I

want you to get every resource that you

can get but Paul went from telling

Christians he literally went from

slaying people to being one of the

greatest orator Sam Wright he didn’t

have a seminary to go to at that moment

he was studied in the world system but

the Holy Spirit taught him what I’m

telling you is there is nothing you

can’t do without the power of the Holy

Spirit you can be a CEO you can be a

business owner you can start a company

and every day you need to have a chief

officer meeting good morning chief Holy

Spirit officer I need you to teach me

today how to run this race how to be in

grace how to deal with these finances

how to talk to this crazy woman who

keeps trying to make me lose my cool but

I won’t because you are in me and you

are the Prince of it says he’ll teach

you everything and it says he’ll remind

you of everything that God saying you

that’s why y’all be like Pastor Mike is

so proficient in the word he knows what

no no when I’m up here preaching to you

the Holy Spirit is reminding me of what

I’ve put in I don’t got all these

scriptures written down and everything

done but when I put it in he says oh

remember that one thing I told you I’ll

remember that video you saw or you

remember he’s reminding me y’all I have

an advantage on everybody who does not

walk with the Holy Spirit because I can

walk into a room and the Holy Spirit

says to me go talk to that guy well that

guy doesn’t look like nobody go talk to

that guy

and when I go talk to that guy I begin

to find out that that guy was the guy I

really needed to know to get to what God

wanted me to have I got an advantage

somebody said I have an advantage and if

you’re not using your advantage don’t

cry when you lose see people are like

why is that believers so blessed why is

because they’re using their advantage I

don’t know any game I’ve ever played if

they give me advantage I’m taking it

what do you mean if you’re gonna give me

ten points to start off with get thank

you

Dennison and God has given every

believer an advantage and his name is

the Holy Spirit he’s the one that’s

gonna bring peace to your life John 1417

says he’s the Holy Spirit this is the

the confidence you can have who leads

you into all truth the Holy Spirit to me

is like Siri or Google whoever you trust

more but when you put directions into a

map even if you go the wrong way they’re

always trying to lead you to the place

that you were supposed to go that’s the

Holy Spirit you messed up recalculating

but what if you turn off the sound what

what if you’re just looking at direction

I know I don’t pulled up on a couple

times it’s like turn left now and I was

like oh oh because I almost missed it

because I was distracted but the Holy

Spirit says if we can talk everyday I’ll

tell you go to work ten minutes early I

don’t go to work ten minutes early why I

gotta go I got a beater cuz you don’t

know who you’re gonna see there and what

God’s gonna connect and and when good

stuff happens and we say stuff like this

something told me can I tell you who

that something is he has a name and his

name is advocate the Paraclete the one

who wants alongside us to help us he is

our helper and he is the Holy Spirit you

want peace get with the Holy Spirit cuz

he leads you into all truth now this

breaks it down for you look at it it

says the world can’t receive him I need

you to realize that when you were

focused on worldly things you cannot

receive

this piece that’s why you’ll spend a

hundred million dollars on chains in a

Bugatti and not what are you what what

are you doing you’re trying to find

something that you’ll never find and it

says because it isn’t looking for him

and doesn’t recognize him but you know

him because he lives with you and watch

this next part and later he will live in

you he was talking to the disciples

before he resurrected so he said the

Holy Spirit is with you in me right now

I’m with you but when I leave and I go

away he’s going to be in you so every

person that receives salvation the Holy

Spirit you get a three for one

transaction

y’all know those infomercials that be

like and if you buy now you can get

three for the price of one you just

don’t get eternity when you ask the Holy

Spirit to come take up residence you get

God you get salvation and you get the

Holy Spirit so pass the mic what do you

want to tell us my last point pursue

peace pursue it how do you have peace

under pressure you pursue it you you you

go towards it I’m gonna give you this

little analogy and I want you to write

this down because it really changed the

way that I begin to think about peace

salvation gives us peace with God every

man is born into sin and he’s fighting

something he needs peace that’s why some

people go to Allah Buddha they go to all

these other things cuz they’re trying to

find peace with God it’s an eight in you

so when you come to know Jesus Christ

through faith Philippians 1 2 says may

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

give you grace and peace those are the

two things we need Romans 5:1 says

therefore since we have been made right

with God in the sight by faith now we

have peace with God because of what

Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us

so salvation gives peace with God but

then listen abiding there that where it

is again staying connected to the

staying a long time not jumping from

church to church not going like staying

planted it gives you the peace of God

see don’t miss it

you get peace with God so now my

eternity is taken care of but now he

wants to give you his peace that’s a

type of piece that could sleep in the

boat while the waves are going he wants

to give you that peace how do I get that

I stay connected to God Isaiah 26:3 says

you will keep in perfect peace all who

trust in you and all whose thoughts are

fixed on you so I said in John 14:27 he

said I’m leaving you with the gift of

peace he said the peace of mind and of

heart that’s where all the battles are

happening in our mind in our heart he

said and the peace I give it’s a gift

and the world can’t give it so don’t be

troubled or don’t be afraid that trips

me out because in the one verse he tells

us in this life you will have trouble

but when you get peace he said don’t

worry about the trouble or don’t be a

faith that’s why we have to use the Holy

Spirit and the last part of that pursuit

pursuit pursuing produces peace like God

salvation produces peace with God and

then us abiding produces the peace of

God but pursuing peace produces peace

like God what do you mean that means I

can have peace with other people that

means I can have peace that I don’t even

know why I’m calming this situation but

but I’m okay

Psalms 34 14 turn away from evil and do

good search for peace what that what

does that look like in your life

that in a situation where it’s much

easier to take anger or frustration it

says search for peace and work to

maintain it I’m trying to give you some

keys right now pursue peace Romans 12:1

do all that you can to live in peace

with everyone know some people passing

might because he you know her everyone

what are you doing to live at peace with

that person who gets on your last nerve

Matthew 5:9 God blesses those who work

for peace for they will be called the

children of God let me give you a

fractals practical step if you want

peace in your life you may have to go

first you may have to forgive and they

didn’t even say nothing you may have you

may have to do something that nobody

even asked you to do you may have to go

first but that’s what peace looks like

by using the Holy Spirit to do the

impossible

see peace is not the absence of

something it’s a godly life inside of

you coming out and powered by the Holy

Spirit God wants you to have peace under

pressure don’t ever look at the pressure

of life as something you can’t handle

because God’s already given you peace

his name is the Holy Spirit so tomorrow

when they’s try to stress you out don’t

talk to them talk to the Holy Spirit

when your kids start tripping don’t oh

my god life is trying to take me out

don’t go to Facebook y’all know what I’m

saying y’all be putting them a little

mad emojis and do not stop believin em

ambiguous comments today’s not the day

what talk to the Holy Spirit if you can

fix your mind on one scripture if you

need peace in your life which all of us

raise our hand and said we do it would

be Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 I want

you to look at this it says don’t worry

about anything

how many have some things that they came

in here that if you started thinking

about it long enough you were worried

about it come on just be honest like you

start worrying about okay I have a

message from God for you

don’t worry about anything instead that

means we have to trade our actions pray

about everything tell god what you mean

and thank him for all he has done thank

him for lifting at every other time

thank you Father God for making me be

able to still be here and see another

day to lift in this life that he said

look once you do that this is the most

awesome verse about peace then you will

experience God’s peace like God which

exceeds anything we can understand

that’s why you can lose a child and be

smiling because the peace of God will

extend exceed what we can understand and

his peace now watch it doesn’t just

exceed it it gives us ATT it gives us a

security system

it says his peace will guard our heart

and guard our minds as you live in

Christ Jesus so what happens when you

use the Holy Spirit is that we get

guards it’s these little bolts right

here that are holding this weight up

when we start using the Holy Spirit if I

didn’t have those things the only place

I could rest that weight was on my own

chest but when we start using the Holy

Spirit we get him and we get something

to lay our burdens on telling you today

if the enemy has been trying to rack you

with life and you don’t know if you can

sit down another day under this pressure

I’m asking you say Holy Spirit I need

you to help me and give me peace in the

middle of this storm and today I’m gonna

be stronger Holy Spirit I can’t lift

this by myself I need your help and he

did it before thank you and he’s gonna

do it

and as long as I call on him and invite

a man he will never let the pressures of

life take me under Father I pray for

every person if you need peace lift your

hands right now

father I pray for every person under the

sound of my voice that today we realize

that you promised peace but not the

absence of pressure today I thank you

that you’re making us stronger and that

we will be able to have peace under

pressure because we have invited the

Holy Spirit to help us lift this life I

come against doubt and fear I come

against hurt come against pain I come

and get stressed father I thank you that

you have given us the Holy Spirit and

that people will be introduced to the

Prince of Peace in Jesus name we agree

amen

can we give God some praise in this

place