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when God creates a disturbance it’s
generally not comfortable it’s generally
not desired it’s generally not preferred
you don’t want it but if you will tune
your ear to listening cuz he’s talking
when he disrupts the natural order of
things then he says you will discover
that you are a part of a
unshakable
kingdom when God
shakes things up disturbs things when
the normal order of the way things you
believe are supposed to go or the way
they’ve always been begins to flip and
flop and twist and tweak he says do not
refuse him who is speaking so when God
disturbs something it’s because he
talking you remember growing up with
your grandma when you were growing up
with your grandma and they first came
out with televisions if you’re old
enough to remember that and you sitting
down watching Mighty Mouse and you
sitting down watching whatever your you
know your favorite cartoon was and then
it started thundering and lightning at
the good part of the cartoon it just
start thundering and lightning when when
you all excited about what you’re
looking at on TV and grandma said turn
the TV off say what turn the TV
off Grandma why I got to turn the TV off
cuz God is talking in other words when
there was disturbance of there it called
for adjustments down here cuz Grandma
said God is talking she ain’t make that
up that’s Hebrews 12 it says when God
shakes the natural disturbance of a
thing is because he wants you to pay
close attention cuz he has something to
say and he knows you won’t listen unless
he mess stuff up flip stuff up chain
stuff
up so when he disturbs the natural order
of a thing do not refuse him who is
talking because God has something to say
have you ever been on an airplane and
there’s turbulence it’s going up and
down and flopping back and forth and you
you now getting a little nervous you
tighten in a seat Bel that’s already
tight you you you grabbing the handles
like that’s going to do something you
you because you have been
Disturbed but you know the feeling you
get when the pilot That You Don’t See
comes over the
loudspeaker and he speaks into the
turbulence and he says well uh we we
we’ve hit some turbulence at 35,000 feet
I’mma go down a few thousand feet to
find us some smooth there this will last
for about 15 to 20 minut minutes do you
know the feeling you get when you just
hear his voice in the midst of the
turbulence calming the uncertainty of
the insecurity that you’re in God will
allow or create turbulence in our life
and in our circumstance in order for us
to pay closer attention cuz now we want
to hear more of what he has to say in
the turbulence that we’re going through
if he wants to move you to a new career
he’ll create turbulence in the career
you’re in if he wants to move you to a
new circumstance he’ll create turbulence
in the circumstance you’re in if he
finds out you love money too much he’ll
start breaking stuff down to take away
your love for money he will create a
turbulence in the situation because he
wants to hear he wants you to hear him a
lot closer than you were previously
listening in fact he’s creating now
worldwide turbulence in case you don’t
know it that’s what Co was all about
it was about worldwide recognition that
there’s stuff out there we can’t handle
can’t answer can’t fix so you better pay
closer attention so when God wants to
make sure that you are more attuned to
listening whether you choose to or not
because he says you can refuse it he
will allow or create turbulence or what
he calls the shaking or the disruption
of the normal activity or the normal
movement of things so rather than
getting mad at GL God when there is
turbulence he says you better listen
more carefully to God when there is
turbulence just like when you hear that
bad weather is coming you know what you
do you pay more attention to the weather
man or weather lady they get listened to
like never before if somebody says where
as a tornado possibly you’re going to be
paying attention cuz turbulence is on
the the way there’s uncertainty on the
way when we had our ice storm a few
weeks ago the weather man the weather
lady got undivided attention we wanted
to listen how bad will it be how long
will it be and the kids were listening
how long we going to stay out of school
everybody
listening because there is turbulence
that is things are outside the natural
order he says God is speaking when there
is
disruption now the good news is God is
still talking you need to worry if he
not
talking okay God is speaking using
circumstance disruption to get our
attention so he can reveal to us and
that’s good news in a bad situation
because he says what he’s doing is he is
creating a
separation he says the removing verse 27
of those things which can be shaken so
he’s getting rid of
something of created things whoa he’s
trying to change something in the
physical to replace it with something in
the spiritual
ah you know why because he sees we’ve
gotten to attach to the
physical as of created things the things
that the five senses partake of
when we get attached illegitimately to
the wrong
Kingdom then he will create a
disturbance Amen to detach
us he does not want
us overly connected to this Kingdom yeah
to this
world we’re supposed to be in it but
we’re not supposed to be tied to it
we’re not supposed to have it as our
ultimate obligation and so disruption is
what he will
bring when a woman is in
labor she’s in her ninth
month pain sets
in but the pain is setting in cuz the
baby wants
out the baby wants out and is serving
notice on the mother you going to want
me
out and I am in the process of I’m in
the process of
separation of leaving the
womb that’s bad news pain but that’s
good news birth cuz the purpose of the
pain is to produce the birth so when God
creates a disturbance it is an
uncomfortable situation designed to
produce something better from the
spiritual realm for our lives so he is
saying you know when you throw up your
stomach is upset it’s upset but you know
throwing up as nasty as it is you
generally feel better after you vomit
you feel better after you regurgitate
because it’s getting rid of something
that is causing a discomfort in you a
disturbance in you so you throw up to
get it out of you there is a separation
that occurs when God creates a
disturbance it’s generally not com able
it’s generally not desired it’s
generally not preferred you don’t want
it but if you will tune your ear to
listening cuz he’s talking when he
disrupts the natural order of things
then he says you will discover that you
are a part of a watch this
unshakable
Kingdom
oh watch this now
I’m going to show you he says why you
can’t be overly Tethered to this world
this culture and this Kingdom and the
reason why you can is I’mma Shake It Up
amen and I’mma show you if you put all
your eggs in this basket you going to be
shook up
too cuz you’re attached you know if
there’s an earthquake on the
ground folks in the plane aren’t shaking
cuz they’re not attached
it’s the things that are attached that
get shaken in an earthquake but what God
wants to do is Lift us up to a new
spiritual reality of a kingdom that’s
not attached so it doesn’t shake when
everything else around you is tow up
from the flow up when everything around
you has been Disturbed it’s shaking it’s
it’s discontinuity and disconnected so
God is allowing the shaking to reveal
the
unshakable kingdom because you’re
listening to his voice a young boy was
on his plane with uh flying
somewhere and um he was uh sitting next
to an older lady and the plane hit some
really bad turbulence and everybody was
screaming on the plane because it was
dropping suddenly and it was just going
from side to side and felt like you’re
going to crash and the kid was just
there he was just there playing he was
just just having a good time and the
older lady was irritated was irritated
that he was so calm when the whole plan
is in disruption she looked at the
little boy she said Son what how can you
be so calm when all this is going on he
looked at the they said CU my daddy is
the
pilot see when you know to whom you are
attached then while everybody else is
going through all of
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this your connection to God’s Kingdom
Purpose
will stabilize you cuz his kingdom up
there can’t be shaken by circumstances
down here it doesn’t mean those
circumstances aren’t real it just means
they’re no longer in control they’re no
longer dictating they’re no longer
calling the shots because it is an
unshakable Kingdom you know when it
rains on the
ocean the rain no matter how hard it
hits can only penetrate the water down
to approximately 25 ft so the rain is
coming from up there and it’s hitting
the water and you’ve seen the
disturbance of rain and wind on water
and it can penetrate 25 or so
feet so what fish
do when it’s raining is go 26 feet in
other words the rain is the indication
it’s time to go
deeper when God disturbs the natural
order of things when your world is
turned upside down when things are in
Discord God is saying time to go
deeper time to go deep disturbance is to
call our attention to time to go
deeper okay so how do you go deeper in
God’s purpose well look at what he say
therefore verse 28 since we receive the
kingdom that cannot be
shaken let us show
gratitude I want you to be
thankful now the
tendency when our world is shaken is to
complain and that’s the natural I don’t
like this I don’t want this I don’t
agree with this you know it’s too
complain
he says let us show gratitude but how
can I show gratitude if I’m in a
disturbance you’re not showing gratitude
for the disturbance you’re showing
gratitude for the
purpose you’re saying Lord I don’t like
this I don’t want this I don’t agree
with this I don’t desire this
but because you
talking and because you have something
to say which means it’s worth hearing I
want to thank you for how you’re going
to use this to take me deeper in my
purpose with you I’m not thanking God
for the problem I’m showing gratitude
for the
purpose God was taking Israel from Egypt
to the promised land the purpose was the
promised land the Wilderness was
development for the promis land he says
I’ll let you get hungry so that you
could see I could feed you I’ll let you
get thirsty so you could see I’m your
provider for your water so yeah I let
you get hungry I let you get tired I let
you get weary I let you get thirsty cuz
I knew you would depend on me more to
have to come through why did I do that
Deuteronomy says so that when you get to
the promised land and when you got
houses that you did not build farms that
you did not develop blessings that you
did not that you should not forget the
Lord your
God so I let you go through a hard time
so that you won’t forget
me