Learn the five keys to changing your perspective in this sermon with Lisa Bevere.
i’m going to talk to you about the
things that i wish i would have known i
would talk to you about the things that
i feel like is key to this season right
now i’m going to have five points which
is pretty amazing because i normally
have no points i usually do something
random so this is this is a banner
moment for you i’m going to have five
points and the first point is
you got to know when you are
you’ve got to know when you are and a
lot of times when i say that people are
like bless her heart she is on jet lag
she meant to say where but i did not
mean to say where i meant to say when
when i came here i experienced something
called a time zone change and i live in
colorado springs which means normally
i’m going to fly through dallas or
chicago to get anywhere i want to go and
i do women’s meetings a lot but i also
do youth conferences a lot i think
they’re kind of like we don’t like thank
you they’re like we don’t want to talk
to our parents but everybody loves their
grandparents they’re like let’s invite a
grandparent to the youth conference so i
was taking my boys and we were all
running as one to dfw airport because
one time we did not run as one and one
of my sons got left on the other side of
the train when he was only seven years
old you talk about mommy trauma the door
is closed you’re like why were you not
holding on to him so i don’t make them
i’m running as one that means we will
all pee on the plane we will not pee
when we get on the line and we ran as
one and then i looked at my stupid phone
remember stupid phones they didn’t
change time zones and i looked at my
stupid phone and i said oh my gosh
we’ve got time to do barbecue
and so we go to dickie’s barbecue and
one of my boys that was smarter than my
phone said mom i thought you said we had
a tight connection i said but we don’t
and so we ate barbecue and i showed up
at the gate and because i’m sicilian i
always think i’m right i’m like y’all
get the wrong city up and they’re like
are you the platinum that misconnected i
said yes i am see i knew where i was
but i didn’t know when i was
and sometimes it is more important to
know when you are than where you are you
and i are alive in a time that is urgent
in a time that is perilous and a time
that is compressed and i can tell you
when we are by acts chapter 2 verse 17
and this is god talking he says this is
what i will do in the last days this is
something we have to do this is
something god’s going to do in the last
days i will pour my spirit on everybody
and cause your sons and daughters to
prophesy your young men will see visions
your old men will experience dreams from
god the holy spirit will come upon all
my servants men and women alike and they
will prophesy
now this is fascinating to me
because i don’t see people prophesying
i see people criticizing
on social media nobody prophesies
everybody criticizes but it takes no
faith
to criticize but you are not on this
earth to criticize you are on this earth
to prophesy you are on this earth to
speak what could be what should be you
are not here to point out what is not
yet you are sons and daughters of heaven
and you need to prophesy which means you
have to be more acquainted with the word
of god
than the word of man you cannot just be
retweeting you actually need to go deep
into the word of god because the word of
god has the power to remake everything
that you and i see and i cannot believe
that this nonsense that we have right
now is the end of the story so this
sicilian grandmother is going to stand
and prophesy until what i see outside
matches what i see inside we have a
chance to prophesy we need to understand
that we are agents of heaven walking the
face of earth
men and women visions and dreams
sometimes people are like well i don’t
think women are supposed to talk
remember how paul said in corinthians
that women were to be silent in the
church
well god says in the last days so i’m
not going to argue with god god says in
the last days i’m going to pour out my
spirit and your sons and your daughters
are going to prophesy and it’s almost
impossible to prophesy if you have to be
silent in the church so we are going to
prophesy because we understand when we
are we are last days people we’re not in
the last day but we are last days people
second thing is
you got to know who you are
you’ve got to know who you are
who you are
and this is such a confused thing right
now
people are trying to find out who they
are
by looking at what they do
or looking at their gender
i want to do something can i get all the
guys to stand up right now just stand to
your feet it’s going to be nice it’s not
going to be weird i promise remember i’m
a mom of men
i just want to say this over the men
because you know our culture right now
is really actually
attacking and demeaning
masculinity
and i just want to say be the man that
god created you to be i want to
celebrate you for being here in the
house of god on a sunday night because
you want to be a better son a better
father a better husband that you want to
know what it is to be a man of god be a
man of god and don’t allow the stigmas
of our culture that has done a broad
brush stroke and cause you toxic to make
you back down from your strengths god
calls you his glory god calls you his
son and we are here to celebrate you
because you are not in the company of
foolish women who think they get their
value by taking it from men we
understand that we get our value from
god so take your value from god and be
everything he created you to be right
now in jesus name
you guys can sit down we do it for the
girls all the time we do the girls so
all color you heard your beautiful
wonderful princesses with a purpose so i
felt like the guys needed to hear
something
in lifetime okay awesome
so you know we we’re trying to figure
out who you are now how many of you are
in here are millennials wave at me
okay all right i love millennials i love
them i birth four of them birth four
millennials my my firstborn almost
didn’t make it but he made i got four
full-on millennials and this is what i
have discovered about millennials
millennials are some of the most
well-educated
well-connected people on the face of the
earth
but they are also
some of the most confused
because they have so
many options
they are paralyzed
you know i’ve been married 37 years 37
years ago i had two choices
you want the christian guy with a job
or the christian guy without a job and
the correct answer is always the
christian guy with a job it was easy for
me
but if i was single now i would have 350
000 different options on instagram and
maybe i would pick one but then i’d be
worried that tomorrow there might be one
that was better for me and so i would
just freeze
but this is another thing i love about
millennials
they actually know
that god has his hand on their life for
something significant so they’ll come up
to me afterwards and i’ll say
i know
that god has this hand on my life for a
purpose
and i’ll say i agree
and they’ll say but i have no idea what
it is
well
i’ll tell you why
two reasons i think
the enemy is working overtime
to distract you
from who you really are he is so busy
showing you who you are not and showing
you who everybody else is kind of
because it’s all fake on instagram he’s
trying to show you who you’re not he’s
doing a constant comparison
what is it that is on your life that is
so terrifying to him
that he is distracting you
and he is minimizing you
and he is keeping you out of the
presence of god
because see you and i do not discover
who we are in the presence of people
we discover who we are in the presence
of god
in those moments of worship when we are
singing and god whispers something to
you and he begins to tell you who you
are you need to actually grab a hold of
it because in the presence of god
that’s who you find out and where you
find out
who you are
i also think millennials don’t know what
they’re called to do
because they’re called to do something
that has never been done before
and when you’re called to do something
that has never been done before you
can’t look at what everybody else is
doing i also think millennials are kind
of like hey guys thank you thank you we
got this now guess what acts 2 17 says
it’s going to be the old and the young
the men and the women the visions and
the dreams what is on you needs to be
helped with what is on me you need the
old and the young we need you to not
make the same mistakes that we already
made we need you to not pay the same
prices i’ve already paid you will have
your own things to pay you need another
generation do not push them aside push
them up let god give them a higher
perspective so that they can begin to
say you need to run straight away
there’s a fast turn you need the older
people in your life
and there is something about the
millennials that says no thank you
you need them there is so much wisdom
there is so much insight there is so
much experience that you should be able
to gain the benefit of
now i’m going to speak as an old person
because i turn 60 next year
yeah it’s true getting the big 6-0 59
june 6. let me tell you something
sometimes i see the young people get up
there
and they’re doing it so well
and i think wait a minute
why is it so easy for them
why do they just get up there
and they’re not sweating
and they’re cute
and everybody’s happy and they have good
music we had we got the joy joy joy joy
i mean like seriously you got to get up
and minister after that i mean like you
had a sacrifice of praise you guys don’t
have to sacrifice we had to sacrifice in
praise
and i’m looking at them i’m like why is
it so easy for them
and i heard the holy spirit say
are you angry because i am
answering your prayers
see i’ve prayed that my children will go
further
but then i don’t like it when it’s easy
so i got to deal with my own heart so
you got to help the older people you got
to say i need you i’m sorry i acted like
i don’t i actually don’t know as much as
i thought i knew and i need to know and
learn from you what i wish i would have
learned
both of my parents are gone and there’s
so many times i want to pick up the
phone and just ask them a question
that i didn’t think to ask in the last
season
identity
when you know when you are
you got to know who you are and this
issue of identity has been a
conversation for a long time matthew 16
i’m going to read it from the message
verses 13-19 it says when jesus arrived
in the villages accessory of philippi he
asked his disciples what are people
saying about who the son of man is they
replied some think he’s john the
baptizer on facebook some say elijah or
jeremiah one of the other prophets on
instagram he pressed them and said how
about you
who do you say i am simon peter said
you’re the christ the messiah the son of
the living god jesus came back and said
god bless you simon son of jonah you
didn’t get that answer out of a john
bevere book or from a stephen furtick
podcast my father in heaven god himself
let you in on this secret of who i
really am and now i’m gonna tell you who
you are
really are
see we all know who we’ve been
but only god knows who we
really are we all know who we are now
but we don’t know who we are becoming
and only god knows who you are becoming
and you will not know who you are
becoming until you have a revelation of
who he really is in the revelation of
who god really is
you find out who you really are but we
have a culture trying to find out who
they are
without a revelation of whose they are
because see when i know whose i am and i
have a revelation of who that person is
he’s not just my savior he is the christ
the messiah the son of the living god
not the dead god the son of the living
god when i have a revelation of all of
that strength then jesus said now i’m
gonna tell you lisa
who you are really are
my mom called me lazy growing up all the
time they called me rebellious i called
me all sorts of things
but see god knew who i really was
and i don’t know what you’ve been called
i don’t know what you’ve done i don’t
know where you are right now today but
god knows who you are
becoming
and most of us are known by a name that
is attached to our history
but god has a name that is attached to
your destiny and i believe that he’s
gonna call you forth by that name that
prophetic name i don’t know if you know
what i’m talking about but the book of
revelation says there is a stone
a white stone that is written with your
real name on it and it’s a name only you
and jesus know and we are alive right
now to grow into that name that’s
engraved in stone
so
go into it
go into it have a revelation of who he
really is and he’s going to show you who
you really are he said you are peter a
rock and this is a rock in which i put
together my church a church so expansive
with energy
that not even the gates of hell will be
able to keep it out
and then this is where late night
marketing got their ideas from it says
and that’s not all you will have
complete and free access to god’s
kingdom keys to open any and every door
no more barriers between heaven and
earth earth and heaven a yes on earth is
a yes in heaven a no on earth is a no in
heaven
who has complete and free access
you will have complete and free access
when you know who you are
you will understand what is at your
disposal
but if you don’t know when you are and
you don’t know who you are you won’t
know what to ask
why did he have to change his name from
simon to peter
simon’s the biblical name why does
column a rock
well it’s found in the meaning of simon
simon means to bend in the direction of
it means read like it also means to
listen
and to hear
peter
means a rock
and god is saying to this generation i
will no longer have you bend in the
direction of what you hear you can no
longer be swayed by every wind of
doctrine i need you to be peter i need
you to be a rock i need you to be
immovable because this is the kind of
church i can build on that is expansive
in energy that not even the gates of
hell will be able to prevail against it
we live in a time period where people
will tell us that truth is a river that
truth changes with time but truth is not
a what truth is a who truth is jesus and
jesus does not change because he does
not change you and i can change that’s
what the bible says the bible says in
the book of micah i am the lord that god
i change not
and then that’s a great thing because
the rest of the verse says lest i
consume you
god says i have set my heart on you i
have loved you with an everlasting love
and i am not going to change my mind
about you
so he is not a moving target
you could have a story i can have a
story but i can’t have a truth and you
have a truth there are things that are
true of like what was true of me
wednesday was i had about this much gray
hair but what is true of me right now
because i got my hair colored i don’t
have any gray hair now in a week i’m
going to have this much gray hair so
true of
changes
but not
truth
we cannot be shaken
but what’s happened is the church has
preached the truth without love
and the truth without love is harsh
so our culture has responded by
preaching love without truth
which is a lie
and this is the challenge of our day
to merge truth
and love
and how you and i merge truth and love
is we live
truth and love
people see it in the way we live
not in what we say we got to know when
we are we are in the days that are
perilous where it says that people will
heap up teachers to themselves that will
tell people what they want to hear
instead of what they need to hear that
is our day so you got to know when you
got to know who and then you got to know
what you got to know what you are now i
have a confession i have a danger gene i
don’t know if it’s a real thing or not
but i i want it to be a real thing
because
i have four sons my husband
golfs and plays tennis i ski
surf hunt had a ninja motorcycle until
one of my boys wrecked it if it can’t
kill you
it’s not fun that’s just the way i look
at it i’m like if you can’t break an arm
it’s not enjoyable so my my husband is
like lisa that’s dangerous so all of our
boys are alive still thankfully but i
love to recreate on the edge of death
and uh last year
we give away books last year we were in
thailand and we come a little early and
we had a chance to go to phuket have you
ever heard of phuket okay it’s like a
lake it looks like a lake and god was
like i’m gonna try something different
i’m just gonna drop bowling balls in the
water that’s what it looks like just a
bunch of islands and we were some
friends and they’re like let’s go to
james bond island i don’t even know it
was the thing so we come up on james
bond island as we realize it’s a tourist
trap we are not pulling in there so
we’re just kind of going around going
around and the little boat driver pulls
into this little teeny beach area and he
said you guys can get out and swim
but i happen to notice
on the other island just across a
channel from us there were these thai
guys free diving they were covered in
tattoos and i thought that looks like
fun and my driver saw me notice and he
said those guys are idiots there is a
dangerous channel between these two
islands i don’t know what happened but
as soon as i heard dangerous and idiots
i made eye contact with my youngest son
and we dove off the boat to swim to the
other island now my son is a gentleman
so he said mom i’ll go first because
there were jellyfish i think they’re
gonna put up a picture of the jellyfish
they were like 10 feet across i’m not
even lying okay but see that’s easy to
see right like it’s those little teeny
ones that gets you so we could see that
so i said yes my fourth born son you go
first into the field of jellyfish and i
will follow you and he’s swimming and in
my brain there’s like a dialogue i’m
swimming behind him and i’m thinking
nobody should tell me that i can’t swim
between islands i used to be on the
swimming team
when i was 18
kind of forgot i was 58 at the time so
now it’s been 40 years and we were doing
great until we hit the current and as
soon as we hit the current arden said
mom i’m going sideways i’m like oh my
gosh
i’m going sideways we’re going to die
but then arden remembered he’s six foot
three and he thought perhaps
this water is shallow put his feet down
and he was able to grab a hold of my arm
and pull me out of the current we come
up on the other side we’re like
i’m yelling at john bring the ball bring
the boat and john just looks at me like
you’re an idiot and he just turns his
back he’s like you almost killed our son
i am not i’m not coming for you
so this gets me in trouble sometimes and
a couple years ago i was invited to
speak in dubai now dubai is not
dangerous unless you like golf which i
don’t or shopping which i don’t so i had
to up the danger factor and i was
leaving the next day and my husband was
saying okay so you’re going to dubai
after you do propel i said yeah and he
said so when you actually start speaking
in dubai you’re leaving on sunday i said
yeah i
i start speaking friday and he said okay
why why are you going so early and i
said ah
did i forget to tell you
i’m just gonna go to iraq for a couple
days first and my husband was like what
i said yeah i’m just gonna i’m just
gonna go to iraq just for like a couple
days and he was like no you’re actually
not you’re not going to wreck these i
can’t believe you’ve hidden this from me
i’m like yeah it’s just it’s just it’s
just okay and he said who are you going
with i said well i’m gonna go by myself
i’m gonna go by myself to iraq but i
won’t be by myself once i get there and
he said okay who are you going to be
with and i said well these people i’m
going to stay in their basement and he
was like how do you know them i said i
direct to message them on instagram so
now john is like
having a fit he’s like i am so mad at
you right now and and so he tried to
change the fight but when you change
your outbound flight you’re in trouble
and so he comes back he’s like i can’t
believe you’ve done this i can’t i mean
he’s like so mad and i said look at me
look at me
i can go to iraq i look like them i will
just wear flowy clothes and be quiet so
i went to iraq and i found out pretty
quick i was useless i don’t speak arabic
i don’t speak kurdish i don’t speak
yazidi so all i did was follow around
the people that did speak those things
and everywhere i went i saw the same
scenario play out
the little girls would all come running
and the grandmas
no little boys
because when isis came through
he had the little boys take off their
shirts
and if they had hair under their arms
they shot them
and if they didn’t
they enlisted them unless they were way
too young to care for them so little
girls
and grandmas
i was with the organization called
preemptivelove
and
on the last day i was there
all the little girls came running out
except for one little girl stayed behind
and she was the same age as my
granddaughter sophia
and so i noticed her and then we were
all sitting in the back of an abandoned
semi-trailer that was now home to 14
people she was in the corner and i said
why is she alone
and jessica said oh
she lost an eye to a cancer tumor
and we’ve not been able to get her a
child size prosthetic eye and so she has
an adult size prosthetic eye and she
can’t close her eyes and it’s covered in
dirt
i said you bring that baby girl over to
me right now we’re going to put up a
picture of her on my lap she’s
absolutely terrified she’s like who is
this crazy american i tried to close her
eye i couldn’t close it
but see what they didn’t know was
that i had lost my right eye
to the exact same cancer tumor that this
little girl had lost her eye to
the exact same age tried to close it i
couldn’t close it i told her i said
i too have lost an eye she put her hands
on my face and she didn’t believe me so
i closed my eyes and she felt one
squishy one was hard y’all can check it
out after service
and
she was like oh my gosh somebody
understands
what i’m going through
then i opened up my ipad
and i showed her my husband
and i showed her my children
and i showed her my grandchildren
and i said sarah
you can be loved
sarah you can have children
sarah
you can be
whoever god tells you to be
and that night when we left i held hands
with her
as i walked out to the car
she was the only person i could think
about that night when i slept in their
basement
i knew i couldn’t bring back her dad
but i knew that i could get back to the
united states of america and get her a
new y
so we’ve got sarah afterwards with her
new eye there she is with her prosthetic
eye
and that’s awesome
but that wasn’t enough so go ahead and
go to the next picture we decided to
move sarah and all of these other girls
and their mothers into another location
where they could all get education
why am i telling you this
see you got to know what you are
you got to know what you are you are an
answer look looking for problems to
solve
i always felt like having one eye
was a problem
like having one eye meant that i would
never get up in front of more than two
people i don’t know if you guys remember
junior high and high school and how mean
people are i grew up being called one
eye
cyclops
monster
i never ever
wanted to do
what god has anointed me to do
but see god isn’t interested in
anointing the areas where you see
yourself strong and him as unnecessary
god is the one who anoints the areas
where you are weak so he can show
himself strong
god is looking for a people who will
face what they fear because when you
face what you fear you become fearless
this is what god is doing he is looking
for a generation of fearless people who
understand what they are the greatest
platform you will ever stand on is not a
hillsong platform as much as i love it
it is my life it is my life because the
way i live in private and the way i live
is more important than what i say from a
stage and so we need to be those people
that understand that everywhere we go
people are looking for the answer that
you carry
you are
carrying the glory of god in an earthen
vessel
and jesus is more than just savior he is
lord he is counselor and we need to be
people who are bold enough to preach all
of the power of the cross
because i want to see all of the crosses
power in operation i want to see people
delivered i want to see people healed i
want to see the power of god evident on
this next generation i want to see a
distinguishing
of the anointing of god on our lives
again i want the fear of god to come
back
on our own lives personally not that
we’re scared of god but that there is
something about us where people know
when they see us that you are not
a member of this earth you are passing
through and there is something
intangible on your life that my broken
life needs to connect with i need the
healing that’s going to come because of
holiness oh i know that’s a scary word
but holiness is not us trying to be good
holiness is about living in such a way
that people know that we are gods
we need to live in such a way that
people look at us and know who we belong
to you got to know what you are you are
a answer looking for problems to solve
next thing is you got to do you got to
write it down
you got to write it down how many of you
ever had god speak to you in the middle
of the night and it’s so profound you’re
like oh my gosh that’s so beautiful and
then you don’t write it down and then
you remember half of it or you remember
that he talked to you and you remember
none of it i sleep with my ipad in my
bed i do i sleep with my pet in my bed
and i type things out and sometimes when
i read them i’m like that’s
crazy menopause woman other times i read
it i’m like i think that might be god i
think that just might be god see
everything
that i’ve ever written
began as a whisper
that i just dared to write down
see there are songs that need to be
written there are books that need to be
written there are inventions that god
wants to speak to you in the night
watches do you know
that when you go to bed your brain
collates all the information you’ve
taken in all day do you know that your
brain is the most significant and and
amazing processor that there’s ever been
that’s why you can go to bed in
something you think it’s right and you
wake up the next morning and it feels
wrong because during the night your
brain has processed not just what you’ve
heard but what you didn’t hear like you
process all of it and so you need to be
sensitive to the holy spirit especially
in our time period where everything is
distracting you god wants to speak to
you in the night watches he wants to
speak to you in the dreams and visions
it is the language of the spirit and
we’re a prophetic people
i want you to start praying every night
before you go to bed god speak to me in
the night watches i give you my dreams i
give you permission to wake me up and
you can say whatever you want to say
create space for but then write it down
write it down habakkuk 21 says i will
take my stand at my watch post and
station myself on the tower and look out
to see what he will say to me and what i
will answer concerning my complaint
do you know that you have a station and
a watch post in the spirit and you need
to stay there you need to take your
stand my husband and i have learned
just by age
that there are a lot of opponents
you just outlast
having done all to stand you stand there
for you don’t give up ground you don’t
say well maybe god doesn’t do that
anymore or maybe that you need to stand
when god has told you something you
stand and you don’t go to the world with
your complaints you don’t go to facebook
you don’t go to twitter you don’t go to
instagram you go to god with your
complaints because god is the one who
has an answer for you and people will
only give you an answer according to our
culture but god will give you an answer
according to the kingdom and because
you’re a prophetic people you need
heaven’s strategies active in your life
so you’re going to write it down you
know this one write the vision and make
it plain
on tablets so he may who run who reads
it for still the vision awaits its
appointed time it hastens to its end it
will not lie if it seems so it always
does
wait for it it will surely come it will
not delay
one generation writes so the next
generation can run
and then my last point is
you need to have the right conversations
with the right people
write conversations
with the right people
i didn’t say same people
because see if i talk to people that
look like me
live like me
think like me
then i’m only talking to myself
and people that talk to themselves for
too long
go crazy we need the young and the old
we need the men and the women we need
the black and the white we need the
hispanic we need the asian we need
everybody we need the sacred and the
people that work to honor god in the
secular we need everybody from every
different
socio-economic bracket at the table
because everybody has a peace and god
wants everybody to bring their peace and
he’s honoring people that are gathering
people of diverse ages and diverse
outlooks at the table
not to argue but to lean in i’m going to
close this in scripture malachi 3 16
says then those whose lives honored god
got together and talked it over so you
could do this actually after service
tonight god saw what they were doing and
he listened in
a book was open to god’s presence and
minutes were taken of the meeting with
the names of the god fears written down
all the names of those who honored god’s
name
i believe that god wants you to have
conversations
that are worthy of notes that god is
going to listen in on conversations that
you have tonight we’re coming into this
season of hosanna palm sunday to jesus
dime let’s have conversations that honor
what we are believing for to happen in
our city let’s have conversations to
honor what we are believing for to
happen in our nation let’s have
conversations that jesus is going to
astound this earth let’s have
conversations that the church would be
one that the same glory and the same
power that jesus walked in would be
evident on his body let’s have those
kind of conversations can you stand to
your feet
i want to pray over you like i prayed
over my sons when they thought i was
just a crazy mom
lift up your hands
father i thank you that this is a
generation of signs and wonders and
miracles father i thank you they’ll see
up close what other generations only saw
in the distance father i thank you that
they’ll have the boldness to speak out
loud what other generations only
whispered father i thank you to lay hold
of with our hands what other generations
only touched in prayer father i think of
their disciples taught of the lord and
great is their peace and undisturbed
composure be glorified in our lives in
jesus name and everybody agrees say
amen and amen