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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Take Action.
00:25 I am Pastor Henderson.
00:26 This is the Lighthouse Church of Houston
00:30 and how good and pleasant it is for us to be together.
00:33 I hope you have been having a fantastic week.
00:37 I pray that for those of you all
00:40 who have been on this journey with us,
00:43 I hope that your life has been improved for the better.
00:48 Do me a favor, make sure that you share this broadcast,
00:54 this link, however you're receiving this,
00:56 make sure you share it with somebody
00:59 who you think would benefit from a conversation.
01:02 Today I'm gonna be talking about an important issue
01:07 that I think fits within the confines
01:09 of your individual life, your relationship life,
01:14 your spiritual life, your parental life.
01:19 And that is that dreaded word that brings so much value
01:24 to our life, but it's so hard to get.
01:28 Today we're gonna be talking about trust.
01:31 Okay, so if you know anybody that has trust issues
01:35 or if you yourself have them,
01:38 I'm asking you to share this link with somebody.
01:42 Perhaps for some of y'all,
01:43 this will be marriage counseling,
01:46 or for somebody this may be a therapy session,
01:49 but I want you to go and reach as far
01:52 and as wide as you can,
01:54 and just start sharing this link
01:56 with as many people as you can,
01:58 or tagging, bringing people in.
02:01 I wanna break the internet as they say,
02:03 or break our own personal internal numbers.
02:06 'Cause I believe that this is a conversation
02:09 that is worth having, that we need to have.
02:13 And sometimes you can't facilitate this conversation
02:16 with the person whose trust you need to regain,
02:19 but allow me to work in proxy with you.
02:23 So I'm gonna give you a few seconds to share this
02:26 with as many people as you can,
02:28 and I'm gonna pray while God shows you
02:30 who you need to be sharing this with.
02:32 God, in the name of Jesus, as we go forward today,
02:36 with this lesson, I pray God that you would bring in
02:40 all who need to partake in this bread and in this wine.
02:44 And I pray God that you would do a new thing
02:47 in our minds, in our hearts, and in our spirits.
02:52 Purge us of all unforgiveness, make us anew,
02:57 give us a fresh and new perspective
03:00 that we might be able to walk in the newness of life.
03:04 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
03:07 Thank you so much.
03:08 I see the numbers are rising.
03:11 Continue to share and bring people in the room.
03:14 Today we're gonna be talking about trust,
03:16 and I'm gonna use a familiar passage of scripture,
03:19 one that most of you will know.
03:21 Those of you all who don't know it, don't feel bad.
03:23 You'll know it by the time we're finished.
03:25 We're in the book of wisdom,
03:26 the book of Proverbs chapter number three,
03:31 and we're gonna start our reading at verse number five.
03:37 It simply says this,
03:39 trust in the Lord with all your heart
03:44 and lean not to your own understanding, verse six,
03:50 in all the ways that you have, acknowledge him,
03:56 and he will direct your path.
03:59 Now let's go back to verse one.
04:01 My son, my daughter, don't forget the law.
04:06 Keep it in your heart.
04:08 He says, for as long as you need to,
04:12 for as long as you can, for the length of days
04:15 and long life and peace, when you keep the word there,
04:18 peace shall be added unto you.
04:22 Anybody could use peace?
04:23 Let not mercy and truth forsake you.
04:28 Bind them around the neck.
04:32 Write them on the tablet of your heart.
04:35 So shall thy find favor and good understanding
04:40 in the sight of God and man, and trust in the Lord.
04:45 Here it is, with all your heart,
04:48 lean not to your own understanding,
04:51 in all thy ways, acknowledge him,
04:55 and he will direct your path.
04:57 Now, I picked up a book the other day,
05:02 and the first three words in the book was,
05:07 "Just trust me."
05:10 Right now, because I know right now,
05:16 without listening to the rest of this conversation,
05:20 most of you are already thinking,
05:22 "What book is it?
05:23 "I gotta have it."
05:24 Well, the book won't do you any good
05:27 until you get the principle
05:29 of what I'm getting ready to talk about.
05:31 So we'll talk about the book later.
05:32 But the first three words of the book was,
05:36 "Just trust me."
05:40 And I know for sure that we all
05:45 have heard those words before.
05:49 You've either heard 'em or you used 'em.
05:53 Just trust me.
05:54 Somebody said to you, "Just trust me.
05:57 "Just trust me."
05:59 And the expectation of the one who promises trust
06:04 expects the person who's receiving the trust
06:11 to say, without a doubt, "Of course.
06:14 "I'll trust you.
06:17 "No doubt about it.
06:18 "I'll trust you."
06:20 By a show of your virtual hand,
06:22 how many of you all have ever been in a situation
06:24 where either you asked for trust
06:27 and you expected it, or someone asked you for trust
06:32 and they automatically expected you to
06:37 automatically and innately say, "Yes, here's my trust."
06:42 But because of how the world is hypersocial
06:49 and doesn't trust you,
06:55 it doesn't come as easy as it used to.
07:00 I remember, and I'm old enough to remember,
07:03 when we used to have a screen door on our house
07:08 and we would leave it unlocked.
07:10 We wouldn't be able to go in and out of it.
07:12 There was this thing that was on the bottom
07:15 of the screen door, and if you moved this little metal piece
07:19 you could actually keep the door open.
07:22 And then I saw, as time changed,
07:25 screen doors became metal barred doors with glass
07:29 and double bolted locks.
07:33 And now you got things that you put under the doorknob.
07:38 And now we got security systems and triple pane windows.
07:43 And it's just, the trust is gone.
07:46 Remember, you used to could do a business deal
07:48 with a handshake.
07:51 Now you gotta have a lawyer just to sign a rental agreement.
07:54 It's just, trust has left the world.
07:58 Right now, trust should literally come in a box
08:03 that when it's open, you have sirens, flashing lights,
08:07 and warning signals because the world
08:12 and most people in it these days,
08:17 even with smiles on our face, with Bibles under our arms,
08:21 with the best of clothes and dress,
08:24 you find it difficult in these days and times
08:28 and in this season to really find trust.
08:32 And I know the answer, I know the answer,
08:35 but how?
08:38 I'm just really, really walking through this
08:42 and I want you to stay with me.
08:42 I know the answer, but how did the world
08:45 get to a place where we can no longer trust each other?
08:50 And I really believe that that distrust
08:56 and lack of trust in each other has actually
08:58 flowed over into a mistrust and lack of trust in God
09:01 and we will talk about how one affects the other.
09:04 But you can surmise, you can surmise
09:09 that it is because the entire human nervous system,
09:15 I'm talking psychologically now,
09:17 the entire human nervous system and our brain
09:20 is hardwired to scan an environment.
09:24 Some of you all do this every day
09:25 and I want you to be honest.
09:27 Your mind is scheduled and trained to scan an environment
09:31 and it is to see one thing and one thing only.
09:35 Is this safe?
09:41 That's what our brain literally does all day long.
09:45 Is this safe?
09:46 Like should I go in this grocery store?
09:49 Should I go into this mall?
09:52 Should I go into this movie theater?
09:54 Should I go into this church?
09:57 Should I go into this relationship?
10:00 Should I stay on this stream?
10:02 Should I listen to this minister?
10:04 Just scanning all day long.
10:08 Can I trust?
10:09 Am I safe?
10:10 And as a result, now as a result of the trauma
10:14 that you have endured as an individual,
10:18 sometimes you are alerted and alarmed
10:22 in an area where there is no trouble, but there is trauma.
10:27 Okay, I want you to hear me.
10:31 And so now we're asking ourself, here it is,
10:37 will I get hurt again?
10:40 I know normally when we ask you to write notes,
10:44 we tell you to write more important things than that,
10:47 but here's the first thing I want you to write down
10:49 if you haven't written this anything yet.
10:51 Just write, will I get hurt again?
10:56 And I want you to put a check next to it
10:58 if that's a question that you ask yourself
11:01 more times than not.
11:02 Will this relationship end up in another heartbreak?
11:10 Will I give myself to a ministry
11:14 that will misuse me or hurt me again?
11:18 Will I be disappointed again?
11:25 And we ask ourselves these questions over and over
11:31 and over.
11:34 And so instead of trusting,
11:38 we seek ways to avoid pain.
11:41 I'm talking to people whose lives
11:45 have become nothing more than a cycle of pain avoidance.
11:51 Like the only thing you're trying to do right now
11:56 is not hurt.
11:58 The only thing you're trying to do right now is not suffer.
12:05 You're not able to really enjoy life.
12:07 You're not really able to advance in life
12:10 because all you do is sit in the current seat
12:14 of understanding and try to avoid pain.
12:17 I'm talking to somebody right now.
12:20 I'm zeroing in right on somebody right now
12:23 because your whole life structure
12:25 is in and around pain avoidance.
12:29 Don't get in too deep over there.
12:32 And that's even the advice you get
12:34 from people you trust.
12:35 If I were you, I wouldn't go in too deep.
12:38 I wouldn't go too fast, slow down.
12:40 Have you ever been told to slow down
12:42 by somebody who's sped in the same lane?
12:45 I can't tell you how many people
12:48 who were over the speed limit in the lane of relationship
12:54 who I've heard tell other people they need to slow down.
12:58 As if the advice is somehow good for them but wasn't good.
13:03 Wasn't good for you.
13:05 Pain avoidance, pain avoidance, pain avoidance.
13:10 Oh, I won't get in a relationship
13:14 but I won't go in too deep, pain avoidance.
13:17 I'm not gonna introduce them to people who I love yet.
13:20 Pain avoidance.
13:21 You know it's a good person.
13:22 You know you're in a good relationship.
13:24 You love 'em, you like 'em.
13:25 They love you, they like you.
13:27 But pain avoidance, pain avoidance, pain avoidance,
13:29 pain avoidance, that's the whole life structure.
13:32 We're actively trusting ourselves to help ourselves
13:37 to avoid pain that we ourselves believe is there
13:43 waiting on us because we're trying to avoid.
13:49 Man, I know I wish I was in your living room
13:51 with you right now.
13:52 We're trying to avoid this other sentence.
13:56 Here's the sentence that we're trying to avoid.
13:58 I need all of your attention.
13:59 If I'm talking to you, I need you to put fire in the chat
14:03 or some kind of sign, praying hands,
14:05 let me know I'm talking to you.
14:07 You're really trying to avoid saying this one thing.
14:11 I didn't see that coming.
14:14 'Cause you think that any pain that you can anticipate
14:20 shows how smart you are.
14:22 Any pain that you can anticipate shows that you still
14:25 on your P's and Q's.
14:27 You just don't wanna get caught off guard
14:29 so you do all of this seeking and scanning
14:32 for pain avoidance just so you don't say,
14:34 I didn't see that coming because you believe
14:36 you can handle any pain that you see coming
14:39 but the fact that you can see all of the pain coming
14:44 is a result of the fact that you anticipated
14:47 the pain coming and you actually felt what you anticipated
14:50 because that's not what life had planned
14:53 but you actually experienced what you expected.
14:56 And it's all because you have trust issues.
15:01 I know we like to think that the other people
15:09 are the issue and sometimes they are
15:11 but you have trust issues.
15:13 And I know you think they took advantage of you
15:17 and they probably did but you still have trust issues.
15:22 And I know that you saw it coming and you knew
15:25 that's how it was gonna end up
15:26 and that is absolutely correct
15:29 and you should not inflict yourself
15:32 or walk into dark dungeons and idiosyncrasies
15:37 that will leave you depressed.
15:38 I agree with all of that but can we just deal
15:40 with the fact that you still may have trust issues?
15:45 No one, and I mean no one, and I mean no one,
15:53 nobody can promise you that they will not hurt you.
15:58 I don't care how good the smile is.
16:02 I don't care how good their hair is.
16:06 I don't care if they were a counselor
16:08 and they have a master's degree in peopleology
16:11 and all of these things that people tell.
16:13 I don't care how great a person is,
16:16 they will eventually hurt you.
16:22 And sometimes it is not betrayal that you experience.
16:27 Woo, I'm about to help somebody in here.
16:33 I'm about to help somebody in this virtual room.
16:37 I'm almost certain that this is a deliverance statement.
16:42 I'm almost certain, I'm almost certain
16:46 that this is a deliverance statement.
16:49 Watch this.
16:50 Sometimes what you experience is not betrayal.
16:57 It's what Dr. Henry Clough calls, listen,
17:04 honest inability, good God Almighty.
17:10 Sometimes what you are experiencing is not betrayal.
17:19 Dishonesty.
17:20 It is not betrayal.
17:23 It is actually honest inability.
17:27 Sometimes the people you are in relationship with
17:32 honestly don't have the ability
17:36 to give you what you need to feel secure.
17:41 They just don't have it.
17:47 Would you ever get rid of a dog that couldn't fly?
17:51 Would you ever get rid of a bird that couldn't bark?
18:00 You see, sometimes our trust issues and trauma
18:10 are based on the apparatus
18:13 that we have expected something out of somebody
18:17 that they never had to offer.
18:18 Lord help.
18:24 It is what we call honest, Dr. Henry Clough calls it,
18:28 honest inability.
18:31 They honestly can't do it.
18:34 And I need you to assess your life and find out,
18:39 are you requiring something from somebody
18:43 that they absolutely don't have the ability to deliver?
18:47 The first time we see distrust in the Bible
18:55 is with Eve.
18:57 In the Bible, when Eve distrusted God, her and Adam,
19:03 and the Bible says that the woman,
19:05 after God told him what not to eat in the garden,
19:08 the Bible says that the woman was convinced.
19:12 She was convinced and she saw the tree that was beautiful
19:19 and its fruit looked delicious,
19:22 and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.
19:25 This is Genesis 3 and 6.
19:27 So she took some of the fruit and she ate it.
19:31 Oh, I'm about to help.
19:35 I wish, I feel like running around right now
19:39 'cause right now you better have your,
19:41 I don't care if it's your Apple Pen or your Bic Pen
19:45 or a fountain pen or your number two pencil,
19:50 you better get something the right width
19:51 or if you're typing notes,
19:52 'cause I'm about to throw some stuff at you right now.
19:54 So Eve distrusted God.
19:57 And so the one thing that she does,
20:04 and this is what all people who have trust issues do.
20:08 When you have trust issues,
20:11 the first thing you become is a planner.
20:13 Everybody just write the planner, P-L-A-N-N-E-R, the planner.
20:18 So one of the things that being let down does
20:23 is it develops the spirit of planning.
20:25 So now you gotta plan everything out
20:28 because you wanna avoid being disappointed.
20:30 So you gotta have a person
20:33 who has everything you've ever prayed about
20:35 because you wanna avoid being disappointed.
20:37 You wanna make sure that you plan.
20:40 But here's the problem.
20:42 When you over-planned as a result,
20:44 and I'm not talking about planners as a result of people
20:47 who are strict in their discipline,
20:50 I'm talking about reactive planners
20:52 who are now planners as a result of trauma and trust issues.
20:56 Now you call it being ready for anything,
21:01 but it's really a definition of control issues.
21:05 So trauma and trust issues
21:09 leads to people who have control issues,
21:12 but we camouflage it with terms like, I just like order,
21:17 and I want organization in my life.
21:20 But sometimes planning is the control,
21:25 I don't like to use the word control freaks
21:27 because people like to,
21:29 this is a super sensitive generation and uber sensitive,
21:32 but it's a word that simply means
21:34 that we make excuses for not being trusting.
21:39 The fact that your father hurt you
21:44 doesn't give you a right to look at me funny.
21:46 Let me turn it around so you can understand it.
21:51 The fact that I've had members that I couldn't trust
21:55 doesn't mean that I should distrust you.
21:58 Eve gave in to the temptation because she had to know.
22:09 She had to know everything.
22:13 And there are so many people in the world
22:15 that are just like Eve.
22:16 They need to be able to figure everything out on their own.
22:23 They need to be able to answer all of the what ifs
22:26 on their own.
22:28 What if it doesn't work?
22:29 What if something happens?
22:31 But focusing, listen, on the unknown
22:36 is nothing more than fear under control.
22:41 And God sent me to tell you that he wants you to release,
22:47 this ain't gonna be easy.
22:48 I can literally end a message right now
22:50 because 90% of y'all won't be able to do
22:52 what I'm saying right now.
22:54 God literally wants you to release your need
22:56 to know everything and to trust him.
22:59 That's why I'm naming this message today, just trust him.
23:02 Just trust me.
23:05 That's why I'm naming this message today, just trust him.
23:09 Just trust me, that's all God is saying.
23:12 Trust me, I didn't ask you to trust your husband.
23:14 I didn't ask you to trust your wife.
23:15 I didn't ask you to trust your employer.
23:17 I didn't ask you to trust law enforcement.
23:19 I didn't ask you to trust the government.
23:21 Just trust me.
23:22 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
23:25 and I'll add all other things under you.
23:27 Just trust me, trust me.
23:29 Trust me that even when you can't trust your boss,
23:31 you can trust me.
23:32 Trust me that even when you can't trust the police,
23:34 you can trust me.
23:35 When you can't trust a fireman, you can trust me.
23:37 When you can't trust the CEO, you can trust me.
23:39 When you can't trust human resources, you can trust me.
23:42 When you can't trust the halls of Congress
23:44 and the Senate and the President,
23:46 it doesn't matter who's in office.
23:47 You can trust in the Lord with all your heart.
23:51 And lean not to your own understanding.
23:54 So, this trustful people become planners.
23:57 And then after you become a planner, you become a knower.
24:00 You gotta know everything.
24:00 Verse 7, verse 7 of our text says,
24:04 "Be not wise in your own eyes, but fear the Lord."
24:11 Be not wise in your own eyes, but fear the Lord.
24:15 Their eyes were wide open.
24:18 Then they realized in our text, as soon as she bit the fruit,
24:24 the Bible says that their eyes were wide open,
24:28 Genesis 3 and 7.
24:29 And they realized that they were naked, okay?
24:34 Now they're rushing to sow fig leaves together
24:39 to hide what they didn't know was there.
24:42 See?
24:44 Oh, man, this is one of the messages
24:47 that could literally take an hour, okay?
24:50 And I know that some of y'all are probably
24:51 gonna type in the chat, "Take an hour, Reverend.
24:54 Take your time."
24:54 But you gotta understand, you got some people on here,
24:56 they like their messages all wrapped up
24:59 in a bundle real quick.
25:00 So, I'm trying to keep it short for the people.
25:02 But I also feel an urge and virtue coming out of me
25:06 that there's some of y'all who are listening to me
25:08 and be like, "I didn't wait my whole life
25:10 to get to a message for it to be over in 25, 30 minutes
25:13 when the breakthrough was just getting ready to happen."
25:15 So, I'm gonna extend it just for a little bit
25:17 because you got the planters, then you have the knowers.
25:20 These are--the Adam and Eve, they didn't even know
25:24 they were naked, but because they had to know everything.
25:28 Now they have to procure a solution for a problem
25:33 that wasn't a problem.
25:35 'Cause being naked five minutes ago wasn't an issue.
25:42 But knowers become responsible for things God never intended
25:47 for them to manage.
25:50 God never intended for them to have to do anything
25:53 about being naked.
25:55 It was their desire to control and know everything
26:00 that now makes them have to come up with a solution
26:03 for something that five minutes ago wasn't a problem.
26:05 My question for you is, are you spending all of your time
26:11 trying to solve situations that if you did not have
26:16 trust issues would not be problems?
26:21 One, write this down, one of the side effects of having
26:27 to know everything is being overwhelmed.
26:33 Call it what you want, stress.
26:37 You can change the word to whatever you want,
26:41 but people who have to know everything and have to be
26:44 in everything, you'll notice those are always the people
26:47 talking about, "I'm tired, I'm overwhelmed."
26:49 That's because you got your nose in God's business.
26:53 Do me a favor, type, text, call somebody, and be rude
26:58 and tell them, "Get your nose out of God's business."
27:03 You don't have the power to handle God's business.
27:06 You don't have the authority to handle God's business.
27:10 You don't have the bandwidth to handle God's business.
27:13 Let God be God.
27:16 You can stop being overwhelmed when you stop tasting
27:21 of trees that are off limits, because when you get
27:24 the knowledge from the tree, you will have to create
27:27 an outfit for the nakedness that would not have been
27:31 a problem without your knowledge of the situation.
27:33 I'm preaching.
27:34 There are some things in life that God intentionally
27:39 wanted you to be blind to, but because you had to know,
27:46 now you have to waste energy on effecting a strategy
27:53 for this new knowledge that you have that you would not
27:57 have had if you didn't just have to know.
27:59 Good God.
28:04 So, you go from being a planter, now you're a knower,
28:09 and what happens next?
28:14 Now you are a hider.
28:17 Verse eight, "Adam, where art thou?"
28:24 We're hiding from you.
28:28 Why are you hiding from me?
28:33 We're naked.
28:34 We're scared.
28:35 Well, who told you you were naked?
28:38 Overwhelmed, hiding.
28:42 How many hiders are watching me today?
28:48 Ooh.
28:50 Hiding from your boss, hiding from your wife,
28:56 hiding from your husband, hiding from your children,
29:00 hiding from your friends.
29:02 That's hiding.
29:04 And I don't mean literally hiding.
29:08 I mean emotionally hiding, psychologically hiding.
29:12 Hiding from God because you don't wanna be exposed,
29:19 hiding from yourself because you're insecure,
29:22 hiding from people because you're jealous,
29:25 and you wouldn't know how good their life was going
29:29 if you wasn't scrolling on the internet five hours a day
29:33 knowing, googling.
29:35 What happened with, just so you would know.
29:46 Who broke up?
29:48 No.
29:48 Watching television?
29:52 No.
29:53 Now you got all of this knowledge,
29:55 and you're reacting to the knowledge
29:58 that is not congruent with your circumstance.
30:01 And now you feel naked.
30:05 And now you feel like you have to solve a problem
30:09 because you saw somebody else's issue,
30:11 and now you gotta put another wall in your life
30:14 to make sure that that devil doesn't end up in your life,
30:18 and now you got all of these walls and locks and doors
30:22 and walls and locks and doors for enemies
30:26 that were not trying to invade your space.
30:28 You're fighting against knowledge, not reality.
30:32 I'm preaching, so now you're hiding.
30:38 Now you don't wanna work in ministry
30:43 because you know too much.
30:44 You ever heard somebody say, "I can't work in church
30:49 "'cause I just know too much."
30:50 Knowledge.
30:53 Knowledge.
30:54 Look at how much knowing is costing.
30:58 I typically, and my wife will tell you this,
31:04 I don't use my brain for things that are not my business.
31:09 I don't have to know anybody's business.
31:13 I don't have to be in on conversations
31:16 that have nothing to do with me.
31:18 I don't like gossip because it's nothing more than knowledge
31:22 and I don't have a solution for it.
31:25 You have to reserve your mind for your business.
31:28 The Bible says, "Think on these things."
31:30 I want you to reserve your mind for higher thoughts.
31:34 You don't have enough brain capacity
31:38 to know who's dating who and who's with who
31:41 and what somebody said and what somebody did.
31:44 You are overwhelmed with knowledge
31:46 and you are having to create solutions
31:48 for problems you can't solve.
31:50 You are not stressed out.
31:52 You are overwhelmed because you are infiltrated
31:57 with knowledge that has nothing to do with you.
32:02 You're knower at all.
32:03 So now you're a planner and you're a knower
32:07 and you're a hider.
32:09 And after you become a hider, you become an answerer.
32:12 Where you at, Adam?
32:15 Got an answer for everything.
32:17 I'm hiding.
32:18 Why are you hiding?
32:19 'Cause I'm naked.
32:20 Why are you naked?
32:22 'Cause this woman you gave me.
32:23 So now you go from being an answerer to a blamer
32:26 because now you got knowledge that wasn't yours
32:29 and it's gotta be somebody else's fault.
32:31 See, this message is life-changing,
32:35 but I'm afraid we're in a generation of people
32:39 who are not looking to change their life.
32:41 They're just looking for life to change.
32:43 That's a difference.
32:45 Most people want life to change.
32:48 God says, "No, you gotta change your life."
32:51 Oh no, I need my situation to change.
32:54 No, if you change, the situation has no choice.
32:57 I am speaking to people who have enough courage to say,
33:00 "God, I have new rhema, I have new knowledge.
33:04 "I don't want my life to change.
33:07 "I gotta change my life."
33:10 He's a blamer.
33:11 The serpent tricked us.
33:14 Well, if you were not interested in what the serpent knew,
33:19 he couldn't have tricked you.
33:20 So is it the serpent's fault for tricking you
33:23 or is it your fault for wanting to know?
33:25 They sought the knowledge.
33:28 They listened to the serpent, got down to his level,
33:35 heard what the serpent had to say,
33:36 and now they go from being the planner to the knower,
33:46 to the hider, to the answerer, to the blamer,
33:51 and here's where most of us are right now, the cursed.
33:55 But because now that Eve and Adam
34:00 had to have all of that knowledge,
34:02 curses are now being dispersed.
34:06 Snake, you crawl on your belly
34:09 for your involvement in this debacle.
34:13 Eve, you will have enmity between you and the snake.
34:18 He will curse your heel
34:20 and you will have pain doing child labor.
34:22 Adam, you're not off the hook.
34:26 You can blame her, but you could have said no.
34:28 You will sweat and you will have to till the ground
34:33 and it will not yield its fruit to you
34:35 and you will have sweat coming from your brow.
34:37 You will have to work so hard
34:39 that you will have a heart attack
34:40 trying to feed your family,
34:42 all because everybody had to know.
34:44 And they had to know because they didn't trust
34:51 the one who says, "I am omniscient.
34:56 "I know everything, so you don't have to."
34:59 So in direct response to the serpent's deception,
35:07 Adam and Eve and their disobedience,
35:10 God pronounces a curse on each party
35:14 in the lack of trust cycle.
35:17 Not only that, let me put more salt on the wound.
35:22 Not only is the snake on its belly,
35:26 not only is the woman screaming during childbirth,
35:29 not only is the man working to till the ground,
35:32 now Cain and Abel have to flee from the garden
35:35 because the curse of knowing too much is generational.
35:39 I bet you never thought that having no faith
35:44 was gonna affect your children.
35:48 I bet you never thought that not trusting the Lord
35:52 with all of your heart
35:53 would be setting your grandchild up for failure.
35:57 I bet you didn't know that this generational curse
36:02 that your family is walking through
36:06 started with somebody.
36:09 Generations before you who didn't trust God.
36:11 I'm speaking to 1,032 people right now
36:15 who's getting ready to take the power back from the enemy,
36:18 and God is about to redeem the time.
36:23 I want you to say, "Lord, revive me, revive me, revive me.
36:26 "I'm gonna trust you even when I can't trust you.
36:30 "I'm gonna trust in the Lord with all of my heart.
36:32 "I'm gonna lean not to my own understanding.
36:35 "I'm gonna leave it up to you.
36:37 "My job, my health, my mind, my marriage, my body, my soul.
36:42 "I'm gonna leave it up to you."
36:44 Somebody just say it out loud.
36:45 I'm gonna leave it up to God.
36:47 You're doing too much.
36:48 You're trying to handle too much.
36:50 You don't have the capacity to do God's job.
36:52 I want you to seek God and let him handle the rest.
36:56 Let your job be in his hand.
36:58 Let your money be in his hands.
37:01 Don't go to that doctor's appointment next week
37:03 stressed out.
37:04 Go knowing that you are taking the blood of the Lord
37:07 in the room with you,
37:09 that he's gonna take care of the doctor.
37:11 You will get the right surgeon.
37:12 You will get the right nurses.
37:14 Trust God to surround you.
37:16 He's not your co-pilot.
37:17 He is the pilot.
37:18 Trust him on the road.
37:20 Trust him in the highways, the byways, and the hedges.
37:23 Trust him in your heart.
37:24 Trust him in your soul.
37:25 Entrust the people you can't trust to him and trust anyway.
37:33 Just trust me.
37:36 That's all he's saying.
37:38 Just trust me.
37:39 Tithe.
37:40 Stop trying to hoard your money and pay your bills.
37:45 If you will trust me, I can ensure your financial security.
37:50 If you trust me, or you can work 60 hours a week
37:57 and still be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
38:01 How has that not trusting him been working out so far?
38:06 Because that's all tithing is.
38:08 It's trusting God.
38:11 It's trusting God that if I give you the 10%,
38:15 you will work the 90.
38:16 I need every tither online to type in the chat.
38:21 I know it works.
38:24 'Cause somebody right now don't believe,
38:26 and I'm gonna give them an opportunity to tithe.
38:28 Once this message is over, they won't believe it.
38:31 Most people will hear this word,
38:33 and they will walk away without sowing a seed.
38:36 That's equivalent to walking into the restaurant
38:39 and eating and not paying the tab.
38:42 This is bread.
38:43 This is life.
38:44 You can't eat and not communicate in exchange.
38:47 Some of you all will do it anyway,
38:49 but I'm speaking to people that if you will respond
38:51 to this word by trusting God in the one area
38:54 that he hasn't been able to get you to trust him yet,
38:56 and that is in the area of tithes and offering,
38:59 if you will trust him in that area today,
39:01 he will open up the windows of heaven
39:04 and pour out on you a blessing
39:07 you won't have a room enough to receive.
39:08 And it won't be because you gave him $20.
39:11 It will be because you gave him trust.
39:13 God helped me in this place today.
39:19 They hear it.
39:22 They hear it.
39:26 God says, "I need you to trust."
39:31 They hear it.
39:31 God says, "Don't hide.
39:32 "Trust."
39:34 Trust in what?
39:38 In the Lord.
39:38 With what?
39:41 All your heart, not your intuition.
39:45 Oh, I just hurt somebody.
39:48 Not your detective skills.
39:51 I just upset somebody.
39:53 Trust in the Lord.
39:55 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
39:58 not your inclinations, not your resolutions,
40:01 not your conclusions.
40:02 Trust in the Lord with all of your heart.
40:06 And watch what he says.
40:07 And lean not to your own understanding.
40:12 He says, "The reason why you can't lean
40:16 "to your own understanding
40:17 "is 'cause you can't always trust your discernment."
40:24 Oh, God.
40:25 I know some people think, "Oh, I just,
40:29 "I got something in me and it don't lead me wrong."
40:31 You a liar.
40:32 It does lead you wrong.
40:35 But wrong is right when it's the conclusion
40:38 you want to make.
40:39 That's why your discernment never leads you wrong
40:43 because your discernment has one job,
40:45 to make you happy.
40:46 I should, ooh, I should get out and run.
40:50 I should run.
40:52 I should run.
40:53 I should run because I just exposed somebody.
40:56 Your discernment always leads you right.
41:01 And the reason your discernment always leads you right
41:05 is because the only person your discernment
41:08 is designed to serve is you.
41:10 So then discernment with your lead becomes discrimination
41:21 because discrimination is when you make decisions
41:26 based on prejudicial circumstances
41:29 geared towards a person that you like.
41:32 So since you like you, you don't have great discernment.
41:36 You actually have great discrimination,
41:39 which is why it always serves you
41:41 because you love yourself so well.
41:43 But your discernment is leading you to dry places
41:47 when trust could lead you to rivers of water.
41:51 I want to ask you a question.
41:53 I want you to look at me in my face.
41:55 How many valleys are you in because you trusted you?
41:59 I know you can blame other people.
42:03 You can blame the mama for not being there
42:06 and working third shift and being asleep
42:10 when you woke up and gone when you went to bed.
42:12 You can blame the daddy 'cause he left you
42:15 and he went and raised his other family
42:17 and all of the stuff that we use, our speech impediments,
42:21 our lack of being able to learn,
42:26 attention deficit disorder, we can blame it all.
42:30 We can blame it all and all of it is an issue
42:34 and it all bears our attention.
42:38 But sometimes it was a lack of trust.
42:47 Sometimes it's dyslexia, sometimes it's dyslexia, yes.
42:50 Sometimes dyslexia gets in the way and I know all about it,
42:54 but sometimes it's trust.
42:57 Sometimes it's a learning disability
43:02 and yes, they are there, they are there.
43:04 I've had one myself, I have one currently,
43:07 but sometimes it's just trust, misplaced trust.
43:13 Misplaced trust, misplaced trust,
43:18 wanting to not be able to trust God,
43:28 trust in our own ways and think that we can figure it out
43:35 because we're so smart 'cause we have a degree,
43:40 but a master doesn't compare to the master.
43:43 A master doesn't compare to the master.
43:49 You will never be educated to a level
43:54 where not trusting God will be a plausible resolution
43:59 to your circumstance.
44:00 He says, "In all your ways, acknowledge him."
44:07 Not you, not me, not your pastor,
44:11 not your Sunday school teacher, not your therapist,
44:15 him, to be instructed by him.
44:20 And when you are instructed by God,
44:26 this is when wisdom comes into effect.
44:29 Wisdom is a higher form of knowledge.
44:35 Proverbs 4 and 7 says, "Wisdom is the principal thing."
44:39 And when you trust in the Lord with all of your heart
44:44 and you lean not to your own understanding
44:48 and in all your ways you acknowledge him
44:52 and he starts to direct your path,
44:54 I decree and declare you're about to start seeing
44:58 crooked ways becoming straight.
45:03 God is literally in the construction business
45:06 and I see him destroying pathways
45:11 and building new ways in your life.
45:16 You're about to walk into the newness of life.
45:20 You're about to walk into new levels of anointing
45:25 and the only change will be trust.
45:31 Trust directed in the right direction.
45:36 Let me end with this final statement of verse 7.
45:39 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
45:42 lean not to your own understanding,
45:44 in all your ways acknowledge him,
45:45 for he will direct your path.
45:46 In verse 7 of Proverbs 3 says,
45:51 "Be not wise in your own eye."
45:56 I can't tell you how dangerous it is
46:01 to be wise to yourself.
46:08 The Bible says in the book of Samuel
46:13 that there was a king named Saul
46:15 who in spite of how he was appointed
46:20 still had the position and because the people asked God
46:23 for him, God obliged their request.
46:26 And Saul would have been king until the day he died,
46:34 but he made one mistake.
46:39 He became big in his own eyes.
46:44 And when you become wise in your own eyes,
46:51 you will look up and you will start losing positions
46:56 that you don't qualify for.
47:00 You will look up and you'll see the hand of God
47:05 being lifted from you.
47:06 You will look up and the grace and the mercy
47:10 that had been afforded to you
47:13 will be like a vapor and it will flee.
47:20 I pray that those of you who are under the sound
47:23 of my voice today will understand the importance
47:28 of not having to know everything,
47:34 but trusting God.
47:40 I speak trust, I pray trust, I decree trust.
47:44 Not in man, not in things, some trust in chariots.
47:50 I want you to trust in the Lord.
47:55 Jesus' name we pray, amen.
47:57 I hope that message was helpful.
47:58 I want you to look it up.
48:01 If you just tuned in and you missed it,
48:03 I want you to go to KeyonHendersonTV
48:05 and just type in, just trust him.
48:09 Just trust him, just trust me.
48:11 Both of those titles will be interchangeable.
48:13 And I want you to have a deeper trust in God.
48:17 This message, just trust me,
48:19 it's God's way of asking you to just lay it all on the line.
48:23 And whatever the outcome is,
48:26 you believe that he is a rewarder of those who trust him.
48:30 Scripture says, "Diligently seek him,
48:32 "but you would not seek him unless you trust him."
48:35 We're gonna give today.
48:36 Now, here's a way you can trust God.
48:37 And this may take a little effort.
48:40 And I'm gonna take about two minutes to do this
48:42 'cause normally we breeze past this.
48:44 I believe that this is a season
48:46 where the financial stability of the kingdom
48:47 is about to hit a new high.
48:50 Watch this, watch this.
48:52 As you start to see things happen in the natural,
48:57 when it goes low, I want you to automatically know
49:00 that there are things in the kingdom
49:02 that are gonna start happening the opposite.
49:06 So as the interest rates in America right now are high,
49:10 they are predicting that they will drop.
49:12 Well, right now, there's a wealth transfer
49:15 that's getting ready to happen.
49:17 Okay?
49:18 I bet you in your city right now,
49:20 the inventory, the inventory for home ownership
49:23 is lower than it's ever been.
49:25 You know why?
49:25 'Cause there's a shift coming.
49:26 And you wanna prepare yourself for the shift.
49:30 You wanna be the lender, not the borrower.
49:32 So as you begin to get yourself ready for the shift,
49:36 one of those ways you can do that is in tithe and offering.
49:39 Where has man robbed me?
49:41 Wherewith hath he done it?
49:42 Tithes and offering.
49:44 There are two things right now that I want you to do.
49:46 Number one, if you are tither and an offeror,
49:48 but you have fallen behind, it may take you some time.
49:52 I want you to go to our website.
49:53 I want you to go to our app.
49:55 They're gonna put instructions on the screen.
49:57 The first thing I want you to do
49:59 is to take care of your tithing obligation.
50:02 What is your tithing obligation?
50:03 God, I am submitting 10% of my annual, weekly,
50:08 however you get paid, daily income,
50:10 bi-weekly, monthly income.
50:14 I'm trusting 10% of that to you
50:17 'cause I need you to bless the 90%
50:19 'cause I have a vision and a dream
50:20 that my 90% can't pay for.
50:22 So I need you to take my 90%
50:24 and I need you to multiply like the two fish
50:26 and the five loaves of bread.
50:28 So if you're a tither and you haven't tithed this week
50:32 because you didn't trust God or you had bills
50:35 and you were afraid and you were hoarding it to yourself,
50:39 I want you to release it right now.
50:40 I want you to trust God with it
50:42 and watch him multiply your two fish and your five loaves.
50:46 Where in have you robbed me?
50:49 Tithes and offering.
50:51 If you're not giving your 10%,
50:53 then you're giving your take action gift
50:55 and you're giving your offering
50:57 and you know what we do with that.
50:58 Right now, I have another plan to help another neighborhood
51:03 to provide a place,
51:05 and we're talking about it with our team
51:06 and I don't wanna let it out before we solidify it,
51:09 but we wanna do something big in a neighborhood
51:12 that was once impoverished
51:13 and we wanna make a way for the children
51:16 of that neighborhood to really, really, really
51:19 have an opportunity to be in a safe environment.
51:21 Now, you don't wanna invest in that first.
51:24 Most people are moved in the heart by children.
51:27 You have to be moved more by God than you are a child.
51:31 You can't trust in the child with all your heart,
51:36 but you can trust in the Lord with all your heart.
51:38 So I want you to do your tithing obligation first
51:41 and those of y'all who have tithed,
51:42 then I want you to go to GiveLify
51:44 and I want you to give your offering
51:45 and it may be a few steps.
51:47 It may not be at the click of a button for you right now.
51:49 Set it up so that it is.
51:51 This may be work for some of you all right now,
51:53 but it is worth the work for the reward
51:56 that is getting ready to come.
51:57 Thank you so much for being here with me on Take Action.
52:00 I'll see you next Tuesday.
52:02 I love you and ain't nothing you can do about it.
52:04 God bless you.
52:04 - Hey, everybody.
52:08 My name is Pastor Kion Henderson.
52:09 I am the founder of an organization called Take Action Now.
52:13 People are always direct messaging me
52:16 and texting me and saying, "Pastor, what are you doing?
52:19 "How can I be a part of what you're doing?"
52:22 And I know everybody doesn't wanna be a part
52:24 of the local church, but what if I told you
52:26 I had a way for you to partner with me
52:28 so that we can affect change throughout the world?
52:31 Hence, Take Action Now,
52:33 a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
52:36 committed to advancing individual agency
52:39 and social progress by protecting, strengthening,
52:43 and uplifting the underserved and disenfranchised
52:46 throughout the world.
52:48 We're doing humanitarian things, teaching entrepreneurism,
52:52 teaching home ownership, and institutional inequities,
52:56 cultural deficits.
52:57 We have our ear to the ground,
52:59 and we need your help to make a difference.
53:02 Whether it is making a sizable donation
53:05 to the estate of a young woman
53:07 who lost her battle with cancer via the internet,
53:10 and we were able to make a difference there,
53:12 or whether it is in a underserved community
53:16 in the Caribbean islands
53:17 where the children were playing amidst rocks and glass,
53:21 and we came in and broke ground recently on a park
53:24 so that athletes and cheerleaders
53:26 and young people in that community
53:28 can have a safe place to stir up the gift inside of them.
53:32 Whether it is paying the utility bills in cold climates
53:36 for seniors, or just helping basketball players
53:40 get the proper uniforms of football players,
53:43 it's just us making a difference.
53:46 Through financial literacy and technological empowerment
53:51 and mentoring services, this is what we do.
53:55 And all I'm asking you to do
53:57 is become a partner with me right now.
53:59 And I want you to go visit takeactionnow.org.
54:03 Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
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