#359 | Happier Church

Alright, so I want to share with you today a message. And it is five ways to tame a lion. And what I believe is that God has given you such a spirit of abundance, such a spirit of drive and determination. And I mean, you know, there's purpose in you. Like, who knows? Like, leave a comment, let me know. You know that there's purpose in you. There's something bigger that wants to get out of you. I just believe that God has breathed into all of us something that drives us forward. There's a dream, there's a goal, there's a desire, there's a purpose. And so many times we keep on ignoring that until we no longer respond to the calling that's in us. And that's how you know you've been tamed. You know you've been tamed. If you no longer respond to that calling, you put it on the shelf and then you just lose touch with it. But I want to share with you today, this is basically, if you're here today, it's because you're probably desiring a happier relationship with God. This is happier church. If you are searching, questioning, deconstructing, wondering, recovering, healing, all of that, and you just desiring a happier relationship with God. That's what we're doing here. So I want to share with you 5 Ways to Tame a lion. Are you ready for this? Number one, this is true, y'. All. This is true. Keep them confused. Keep a lion confused. Did you know, like, I'm sure you've seen like the lion tamers in the zoo, like, pictures of them or videos of them, and they always are holding a stool. Have you ever wondered, like, why are they holding a stool? And they're always holding it with the legs facing out. They have a whip and a stool. And it's because the legs of that stool, there's four legs right on that stool. The legs of the stool keep the lion confused. The lion doesn't know which one of those legs to look at and therefore he gets paralyzed. Now here's what I know about what Satan will try to do in your life. You have an enemy. He's real and he is after you. So we got to know how he's taming you so you can break out of that cage, right? And we have to know this, that if you're confused, you will lose 100% of the time. If you're confused, you lose. So I want to read this to you. This is First Corinthians 14:33. It says, Our God is not a God of confusion. Confusion and disorder, but of peace and order. So anyone here feel a little bit confused? Sometimes you feel like your life is maybe in a state of disorder. You don't know which to get to first. You sometimes feel overwhelmed, you sometimes feel anxious. It's because of confusion. If you don't have a clear path in front of you, you're going to be paralyzed. You're not going to know which one to take. And therefore, you stay in the space spiral of confusion. This is something I want to share with you because as a master life coach, I need you to understand what your brain is doing. And when you're in confusion, that is actually an indulgent emotion. So I want you to think about that. What do I mean by indulgent emotion? If you're in confusion, you are indulging. It's kind of like if, you know, I made a big old pan of chocolate chip cookies and I just, like, ate them all up. I just indulged in it, right? There is an optional path in front of you. There's an optional feeling in front of you. I'm going to call it that, called confusion. So instead of getting clarity and getting direction on where to go, you look at this option of a feeling of confusion. You will choose that. You will indulge in that. You could create clarity. You could actually, if you're feeling in a state of confusion, you could say this. You could say, what is the one clear step I could take right now, today that would lead me forward? And your brain could come up with that, yes or yes? Yes. Your brain could come up with, if I had a clear, clear step to move forward, what would that clear step be? And you could choose that. But we often indulge because we don't want to take action or we question our action. We indulge in confusion, and it leaves us paralyzed. So understand that is one way that the enemy is using, using his power at work against you to keep you confused. If he can keep you confused, you're not going to move forward with your purpose. You're not going to be able to change lives. You're not going to be able to change your own life. And if you stay confused. So that is number one is keep the lion confused. Are you ready for number two? Number two is make the lion need you. Make the lion need you. What do I mean by that? I want you to think about this. If a lion always has a stake every single day, he doesn't have to chase it, and he doesn't have to pursue it, and he doesn't have to feel hungry. Is he gonna leave that safety? Probably not. He will choose the cage over the chase. Listen to me now. A lion will choose the cage over the chase. Why? Because it's convenient? Is comfortable. How many times have we chosen the cage over the chase? And I'm telling you this. If you never like. None of us want to be hungry. None of us want to be uncomfortable. None of us want to feel like we're in a bad place. Like that's normal, that's human. None of us want to feel that way. But I want you to understand something. If you never get to feel. Feel the pangs of hunger, you will never get to experience the exhilaration of the chase. Whoa. What just happened there? I need to. I need to say that again. Who needs. Who needs to hear that again? Listen, if you never feel the pangs of hunger, you will never get to feel the exhilaration of the chase. The you were created to pursue. To pursue your purpose. To chase your dream. To magnify God here on this earth as it is in heaven. That's what you're made for. But the enemy, if he can keep you comfortable, he can keep you caged. And the enemy wants to keep you caged. That is his goal. Understand this because we all want to resist discomfort. No one wants to hit rock bottom because guess what happens at rock bottom. You don't know what happens at rock bottom. You got to face yourself. Oh. You no longer have excuses. You no longer have validation. You no longer have support. It's you and you and who's going to win. Maybe you're both going to just duke it out right there. It's your conscious and your subconscious. It's your intentional. It's your unintentional. You desire something, but something in you is afraid to pursue it. So when you're rock bottom, it's you facing you. And you've got to decide one thing. Are you ready for this one thing? This is all you have to decide. When you hit rock bottom. And when you are uncomfortable and you're facing yourself and you have nothing else to lean on, here's what you get to decide. Am I going to heal? Listen to me, guys. Am I going to heal? Am I going to choose to move forward? Or am I going to stay here and say, yep, I knew it. I'm down for the count. I'm out. I knew it wouldn't happen anyway. That's an option. You can choose that option. But guess what? You're one more win for the. The enemy you're not even a threat for Satan. When you decide I'm out, I'm no good. I can't do this. No. When you hit the discomfort, when you feel the cage in around you, that's when you have to decide. What led me here is not going to be what breaks me out of here. I've got to develop new skill. I've got to get new strategy. I've got to get new mentorship. I've got to get a new plan in place because I don't want to stay here anymore. So one way you are tamed, one way you are tamed is through comfort. We all want something to lean on. I'm telling you right now. All of us were made to lean on something. But when we're trying to lean on ourselves, that's what we that makes us collapse. We're not made to lean on ourselves. We're not made to lean on flesh. We're made out of the image of God. So we're made to lean back on God in these times when we feel caged. Don't be afraid to get out of the cage. Don't be afraid to hit rock bottom. Don't be ashamed when things don't go the way you thought they would go. There's no room in your future, your bright, glorious, amazing future. There is no room for shame. There's no room for doubt. There's no room for fear. So those are some things that we have to heal from. I don't want to feel shame anymore. I don't want to feel guilt. I don't want to feel this bitterness against myself or my past or my family. It's time to heal. It's time to heal and move on. No, Satan. I saw what you did. I saw what you did. You tried to get me comfortable. You tried to feed me that rib eye from food line every day. That thinking I wouldn't make a move out of this cage. No, no, no. I know the hunt is on. I know it's time to pursue my purpose, to chase my dream, to create the manifestation for which I was designed. It's time to do that. That's that drive in you. But that's only the second way. There's a third way, guys, and we got to know this. Guys, the more you know, the schemes, the devil, and yes, it's real. You can say the enemy. You can say Satan. We all know there's something against me. There is something pursuing me. There's something that's trying to keep me down. And it ain't just me. There is some other force out there. And yes, he's real. You have an enemy. His name is Satan. And he has had his target on you since before you were born. Because you got the power of God in you. You've got in you exactly what he wanted from the beginning. He can't have it because so he may as well destroy it. And you. That's what he's after. So understand, you have an enemy. He wants to keep you caged, tamed, so you're out of his way. That's his target. So what is the third way? You ready for this? Make the lion need you. Oh, wait, no, I already said that. Wait, I got to share the verse about it. I love you guys so much. All right. No. Make the lion need you. So, anyone here have a problem with getting comfortable? I want to show you in scripture where this is. You ready for this? It says in Matthew 6, 24, 26. Check this out. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. So let's understand what mammon is. Some people just say, well, that's money, okay? No, it's not. It's deceitful riches. That's what it says right here. Deceitful riches, possessions. And check this out, guys. Lean in. Lean in some. Change your life. What I'm going to tell you right now, whatever is trusted in, that's in scripture. So here you go. Jesus is saying, you cannot serve God in money. What he's saying is, you cannot put your trust in God, in the supernatural and money, the natural. See, there are two resources that we have at all times. There are two commerce systems, if you can imagine. There's the natural commerce system and there's the supernatural commerce system. So the method of exchange, like we exchange dollars for. For things, right? Everyone understands that. Everyone knows what it's like to go shopping at Walmart, grocery store, Amazon. You're exchanging your money for something you deem greater in value. Okay, we understand that. That's the way the natural system works. But there is a supernatural system. Super means above. There is a system that is above the natural system. And the currency of exchange is not money. It is faith. So this is what it looks like. God is saying, are you going to trust in your natural resources or are you going to trust in me, your source? Are you going to trust in what you can see, hear, touch, feel, taste, what you can look at in your bank account, the balance you can see on your credit card statement. Is that what you're going to put your trust in? Or are you going to put your trust me, your source. God calls himself El Shaddai. You know what that means? You don't know what it really means. Like, literally, El Shaddai means. It means the breasted one. Totally. I'm not kidding. I'm not making that up. It means the breasted one. What does that mean? That I am your supply. When you are a nursing mom, you always have a source. You're always ready to go. It's not like you're walking around with, like, a backpack full of milk. It's your body knows how to produce the milk as soon as the need arises in your child. Like, as a nursing mom, I could always tell when my child was about to wake up. I'd be like, yeah, all right. It's about time for the baby to wake up. Milk's coming in. I got enough for the baby about to wake up. Sure enough, the baby start crying, get hungry, and. And guess what? I'm the source for that baby. Now, what God is telling you in that name, El Shaddai, God is saying, I am your source. You don't have to see. The baby could not see milk. He could just see me. So we don't have to see the supply. All we have to see is God, who is the source. And God knows. He's like, as soon as the need arises, I already have. I already have everything to fill that need. So God, in this, God is saying it is easy to tame the lion if the lion always has sufficiency in the natural realm. Always. So if you have that sufficiency already there, you're not going to be hungry enough to go pursue. Now, what does this mean? I want to show you what this looks like in your life. Sometimes in your life, you're looking at what you have, and it's not enough. Anyone know what I'm talking about? It's not enough. Y', all, this is the church. This is the service. This is a community where all of that is welcome. The questioning, the searching, the wondering, the deconstructing, the healing, all of that, it's all welcome here. So I want you to know you can be totally real. Because the last thing I ever want you to feel like you need to do is put on a facade and say everything's okay. Sometimes it's not okay. And sometimes in life you get to a place where your source is not Enough. You're looking at what you have and you're like, I don't see how it can meet the need. That is why in Matthew 6, he's talking about, you can't see serve both. I'm your source or money's your source. But here's the deal where he guides, he provides. So when it doesn't look like enough, we know. Wait. If God called me here, There's a way. There's always a way. Always a way. As many times in my life as I have seen a negative balance. All right, as many times, and there's been several times, somehow I was still okay. I'm talking to somebody today who is looking at a situation. They have a diagnosis from the doctor. They have a bill they can't pay. They have a situation in their family with one of their kids. They're like, holy crap, what is happening? We can't get out of this. This is horrible. No, it's not. Because the God that was there in your past is still the God who is there in your future. He is the God who is there right now, and he's got you. The only way you can get out of that sufficient grasp is if you wiggle your way out and you say, I'm going to do this on my own friend. I know it's tempting. I know it's tempting to say, I'm going to figure this out. I got this. How has that worked out for you? Sometimes it hasn't. That's why I'm telling you, God is your sufficient source. That's right. Lucy just said, God has me. Absolutely. Maybe everyone needs to say that right now. No matter what, God has me. He hasn't gone anywhere. He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. And he's not about to go back on his word. So understand, even in this place where I don't know. I don't even know what I don't know, that God has a wisdom. God has a sufficiency. And he who led me here is not going to leave me here. Can I get an amen? Right. He ain't going to leave me. He's not going anywhere. This has not come a surprise to him, that diagnosis from the doctor, that bill, that has not come as a surprise to my all sufficient source. He's got me now. That's now number three. Okay, here's another way. Here's another way to tame that lion. Ready for this? The lion is raised in captivity. So here's what I understand as a life coach, here's one thing I understand. You are a product of the experience and the exposure that you've gone through as a child. Now, sometimes we experienced unlimited resources. We experienced joy. We experienced someone feeding into us and fueling us with faith. And such a great example. Sometimes we did it. Not all of us did. Okay, so when you are raised with the opinions and the stories and the examples of I can't do it, life is hard. Money is a struggle, health is a struggle, family is a struggle. You got to work hard at that. Marriage, all of the lies. When you experience that and you hear that and that's all you see over and over, guess what? You start to believe becomes the belief, and your belief becomes your behavior, and your behavior becomes your life. So if you're looking at circumstances that you don't like today, you got to look back at the stories you've been telling yourself. I want to share this with you. This is Hebrews 11. Check this out. Listen to it. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the truth, let us strip off. Somebody say strip off and throw aside. So I say, throw aside every encumbrance, unnecessary weight, and that sin which so readily, deathly, cleverly clings to and entangles us. And let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before you. Friend, listen to me. You've got a race that is set before you. You have got a race set before you. Are you going to sit it out? Because I'm gonna tell you a story, y'. All. I was on the basketball team in high school, freshman year, because I'm like, 25ft tall. So I guess my mom was like, oh, you're definitely a basketball player. You can't be that tall and not be a basketball player. Forgetting I had no hand eye coordination. So I'm playing basketball freshman year, and I suck. I'm so bad, y'. All. I'm so bad that I just. I didn't even know what, like, offense from defense. I scored. Actually, I scored two points. I did. My freshman year on the basketball team, I scored two points. It was for the other team. Literally, I'm like, in a basketball game and I didn't want to be playing. I would be like, oh, dear God, I will go to Africa. I will wash feet. I will do whatever I need. Please don't put me in the game. Sure enough, when we started scoring. Hannah, get in. There's a 30 point lead. You can't screw us Up. Yeah, I can. I can actually throw the ball in the wrong basket. That's what I did. So why am I telling you this? Because you have a purpose in you. And those things you don't know can be an encumbrance to you. It can slow you down. Guys, all I had to do was learn how to play basketball. And that's what I did that next summer. I learned how to play basketball. I went to two weeks of basketball camp. I practiced every single morning, and I learned how to play the game. I came back as starting center of our team. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of myself. But why am I telling you this? Because you can sit out of the game. You totally have permission to do that. God can give you this purpose in your life and this dream in your heart. And you can sit, sit it out until you get before him in heaven. He's like, what did you do? What did you do with this amazing gift I gave you with your life? He said, well, I sat on the bench and I got some splinters. Really? You have one go at this. You have one go at this life. You have a race that is set before you, a purpose that drives you forward. Just like that lion. You've got to get out and chase it. But when you're surrounded with all the stories, you start to believe it. So what do we do here, friend? Listen to me. Question everything. Like I said, this is the church right now, Sunday morning. This is the church for people who are questioning and deconstructing and wondering and healing and searching, recovering. You just desire a happier relationship with God. That's why it's happier church. You just desire a happier relationship with God. Does it have to be hard? No. Does it have to be complicated? No. You need a good theology degree to make it complicated. Being in a relationship with God can be the happiest, most joyful, most freeing experience of your life. But if you cling to those old stories and say, well, my mama told me that, and I saw my parents marriage and I saw how we struggle with money and, well, you know, breast cancer just runs in my family. And you know, you can't trust people nowadays and all men are liars, and you start to believe all these lies, guess what? I want you to hear this, friend. I want you to lean in and hear this. Your lies become your life. Why? Why? Because you made those lies true. See, here's. Here's the truth of it. You get to decide what's true. The truth of it. You get to decide what's true. So if all men are liars. Yep, you're right. If cancer just runs in your family, and probably you'll run into it, too. Yep, you're right. If everyone struggle with money and you're gonna be poor, too. Yeah, you're right. Whatever you decide is true for you. Guess what your future does. You ready for this? Are you ready for this? Guess what? Whatever belief you hold, your future says, yes, ma'. Am. Yes, sir. So be it. You are giving orders to your future with every belief you hold. And you can say, well, it's true or it's a lie. No, no, you make it true. How about this? You ready for this? How about we start doubting our doubts? How about we do that? How about we start questioning what we've made true for us? I remember hearing this one person, they. They had a sick little girl, okay? She had caught a cold. She wasn't feeling good. And they had a baby, too. And he said, well, I'll probably stay here with the sick kiddos. And I said, wait, the baby sick, too? He said, no, but he's bound to get it. I said, whoa, honey. Why are you putting that over your child? Why are you speaking that over your child? Why are you speaking sickness over your child? Why are you speaking obesity over your body? Why are you speaking disease over your body? Why are you speaking scarcity over your. Over your bank account? Why are you speaking. Listen to this, guys. This is going to hit somebody. Why are you speaking division over your marriage? Why you're creating it? Your life circumstances are just a product of all the beliefs you've held up to this point. So you want to stay in that cage because guess what? With every lie you believe. Listen to me. With every. Every lie you believe, you put one more bar in that cage, and before long, you're closed up. And Satan loves it. He's got you right where he wants you. You're caged. Can't do it. You can't fulfill your purpose. Guys, how do we break out of that cage? Somebody say it. One bar at a time. One bar at a time. One lie at a time. We questioned what we made true and said, you know what? I'm going to doubt my doubt. I'm going to speak truth, God's truth over that lie. And I'm going to claim something different. Maybe you were raised in captivity, but maybe it's time to be set free. Because guess what? What Christ has made free is free indeed. That is Galatians 5. One Christ has made free. So we are free indeed. What does it Mean with that Christ has made you free. It means you are as free. Listen to this. You are as free as you believe you are in the authority and power you carry through your relationship with God through Jesus. I know that was a lot, but let me, let me break it down. God has given you power over your life to create your life. He has given you authority to call the shots over your life through Jesus. We have all of that. But here's the truth of it. You are only as powerful as you believe you are. You only have as much authority as you believe you have. And when you raise the level of faith, guess what? You raised the power over your life. He made us free. And that Makey, it's not like we're set free. Like, boom, anyone here, like you have a relationship with Jesus. You said yes to Jesus. You walked forward in church and you gave your heart to Christ. You know, you, you probably, you may have done that, may not have done that. But listen, so many times people become Christians and they think, well, why does my life still, still suck? Why am I so miserable? Because one third of you is made right. You are spirit, soul, body. You are a spirit. You have a soul which is your mind, your will, your emotions, and it's all inside a body. You are a three part being. Now, just one party was saved. Your spirit, just one part of you was saved. And so that's why that begins the process. Now Christ makes us free because we get to remake our life. We get to remake our beliefs, we get to remake our thoughts. We get to doubt our doubts and decide what's true for us. We get to do that. So the more you look into God's word for your truth, the more you now can make your old beliefs. New Romans 12, 2 says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Renewing of your mind. What are we doing? We are making ourselves free because we're now questioning those thoughts in our mind and we're renewing them according to what we know is true about God. So guess what? If we believe God is a hard God who's going to punish us, we're going to live in that punishment mentality our whole lives. But, but if we believe God is a loving God who loves us and he is faithful for us and he's fighting for us, guess what? You're going to renew your mind so that now your life is said it happier, is happier church, your life is happier. So that was number three. Number four. You ready for this? I Love our church. I do. Tell me if you like this. Tell me if you like doing church like this. Our happier church. Four not happier than other churches. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying it's for people who desire a happy relationship with God. That's what we're doing here. Okay. I love the church. I love the church. So all faces, facets of it. Love it. So, alright, so number four, how to tame a lion. Don't let them see the horizon. Awesome. Thank you, Lucy. Awesome. Fantastic. Okay. Don't let them see the horizon. That's right, Sue. Doubting your doubts? Yeah, one bird at a time. So the fourth way, don't let a lion see the horizon. Have you ever noticed in the. They don't call them cages in the zoo, they call them enclosures. That's a politically correct word for it, enclosures. So if you ever noticed in the lion enclosure, they always have things like trees and rocks and things of. So obstructing the long range vision of the lion. Because this is what happens when a lion sees the horizon. What do you think they do? What do you think that lion does? When, when it, when it sees the horizon? Tell me what you think it'll do. What would like all of a sudden there's rocks and trees and all of a sudden a lion looks out and sees the horizon. What do you think that lion will do? You tell me. Leave it in the chat. What will they do? Leave the comments on Facebook. Leave it in the chat on ig. What will they do? You tell me. If all of a sudden all the obstructions are gone and now they're looking out and they see long range vision, what will that lion do? Yes. Yes. That lion is going to run for it. That's right. That lion is going to run for it. So one of the strategies on how to tame a lion, don't let them see the horizon. Here's what the enemy will do in your life. He will put so much in your life. Anyone ever feel overwhelmed here? Wave at me, let me know if you have ever felt overwhelmed in your life. Okay. If you have felt overwhelmed in your life. You're frozen, you can't move, you're spiraling. Right? So think about this. The enemy will try to put so much obstruction in front of you that you can't see the horizon. You can't see the vision over your life. And the Bible says, without a vision, we perish. Without a vision, we perish. So new people are coming on. I want to thank you for coming in to Happier church. People who just desire a happier relationship with God. If you're questioning, if you're searching, you're recovering, you're healing, you're deconstructing. This is a church for you. You're just desiring a happy relationship with God. We're talking about how to tame a lion. And one of the ways that the enemy has tamed you is he has prevented you from seeing the long range vision over your life. Check this out. In Second Corinthians 5, 7, it says, we walk by faith and not by sight. Now I'm going to break this down for you because this is so vital that you know this guys. So vital. We walk by faith and not by sight. But we're not designed to go where we cannot see. Have you ever, like, been blindfolded and you're like, wait, what am I running into? And like, you have someone like, guiding you, right? Why does it feel uncomfortable when you're blindfolded? Because you are not designed to walk where you cannot see. Okay? Your eyes are there to tell you where to go, where to walk. Now here's the deal. Check this out. If we walk by faith and not by sight, and then what is our sight? What do we use to help us navigate our path? If we walk by faith and not by sight, here's the deal. We use our vision. Somebody say vision. Somebody put in the chat. Vision. Somebody put in the comments on Facebook. Vision. Vision is not the same as sight. Guys, get this. Vision is not the same as sight. Sight is like I can see the obstacles. I can see what's in front of me. I feel overwhelmed. Vision is. I got a direction right there, baby. I got a direction. I got vision. I can see where I'm going. This is why I'm going to tell you something. If you have pen and paper, write it down. This is important. You will never see it. Well, hold on. Some of you guys aren't ready. Okay? This is big. This is life changing. You will never see it with your eyes open until you can see it with your eyes closed. I gotta run around a bit. I gotta run around a bit. You will never. What? What do you want in your life? Leave it in the chat, leave it in the comments. What do you want in your life? Do you want financial freedom? Do you want more wealth in your life? Do you want more harmony in your family? Do you want more fun in your family? Do you want a hot, sexy marriage? Do you want to have, like, energy in your body and better health? Do you want to have your dream Home. Do you want to have. Do you want to explore the world? What do you want in your life? Put it in there. Let's go. What do you want in your life? Because you will never see it in your life until you see it in your mind. You will never see it with your eyes open. Until you see it with your eyes closed. Guys, I remember. I am. I am living in my dream house right now. I love it. This is my studio at my house. And I'm looking out at the lake. And I know God made this house for me, but here's the deal. When I lived in a 1400 square foot house, all nine of us, because I have seven kids, I would go out on the back porch, our tiny little back porch, and I would imagine. Guys, ready for this? I would imagine that I was looking out at a lake. I would imagine that I was surrounded with this beautiful balcony with plants and trees and. And I could see the swans out on the lake and I could see the geese and. And I could see our boats down there on the dock. Guys, none of that was real. Like, I couldn't touch it. I couldn't, like, physically experience it. I just imagined it. So check this out. When you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can see it with your eyes closed long enough and clear enough, you will see it with your eyes open. Listen, the enemy doesn't want you to see the horizon. He wants to block it. He wants to put obstacles in your past so that all you're looking at is the reasons why not all you're looking at is the things that are stopping you. Not today, friend. Not today. We are moving those obstacles out. The Bible says we can speak to a mountain. It will move from here to there. So right now, the name of Jesus. I speak to whatever mountain is in front of you, whatever block is in front of you, whatever diagnosis, whatever situation, whatever money problem, whatever relationship problem, whatever situation in your family, with your children, whatever it is, I speak to this mountain in the name of Jesus, by the blood of Jesus, be cast out and into hell where you came from. This is not for us. I want you to say amen. Why don't you say amen in the chat, Amen in the comments? Let's go. You have to agree with me. You have to agree that that obstacle is gone. It is cast out. It is gone. It is. It is drowned in the ocean of God's love. It's gone. It is sick. Sent back to hell. Amen. All I can see in front of me is my purpose. My vision, my destiny. Why I am breathing today, why my heart is beating today, why I was created. That's what I'm seeing in front of me. The vision that God has for me. And I'm going there. Who's going there? Why don't you say yes in the comments, yes in the chat. Who is going there? Who's ready to run? Who is out of the cage of lies and you're ready to run the race before you because that is why you are here. Amen. That is why you are here. Praise God. We are doing church today, guys. If you're new here, this is happier church. If you are deconstructing, questioning, recovering, leaning in, whatever it is you just desire happy relationship with God. That's what we're doing here on Sunday mornings. We're so excited you're here. When I say we, I'm talking about me and Jesus. So let me tell you, there's number five. Remember I said five ways to tame a lion. You already know. One, two, three, four. I'm gonna hit you with number five. Who's ready for number five? This is the last one, guys. Five ways. Number five. If the enemy can't keep you caged, listen to me. He's going to try to take you out. If the enemy cannot keep you caged, he's gonna try to take you out. John 10. 10. Listen to me, says the enemy. This is Jesus talking. He says the enemy comes to steal, to kill, to destroy. But I have come that you may have life in abundance to. To the full, till it overflows. Who wants that overflow? Life. I want to. I want to see in the comments so I can agree with you. I want to see in the chat. I want the overflow. Who wants the overflow? With their money, with their energy, with their family, with their. With their destiny, with their home, with the joy. Who wants the overflow? Let me know right now. Whoo. Let's go. Who wants the overflow? You've got to understand, though, the enemy is doing everything in his power to keep you down, keep you caged, get you out. Christy wants the overflow. Lucy wants the overflow. Praise God. Let's go. All right, so check this out, guys. If he can't keep you caged, he'll try to take you out. Jesus says the enemy comes to steal, kill, destroy. I want you to understand that it is a three part process. First, and he's so clever, you got to know how the enemy works first. He tries to steal the truth out of you. He tries to Steal the vision. He tries to steal the desire. He tries to steal the word out of you. Then he tries to kill your desire to kill your purpose. Guys, understand. His goal is to kill you and destroy you. If he can't get you out, he will try to take you out. If he can't get. If he can't get you sitting on the bench, then he will try to take you out of the game. Completely understand this. The only way the enemy can touch you, the only way he can kill you and destroy you and. And hurt your children and hurt your money and hurt your future and hurt your family. The only way he can do that is by first stealing the word out of you. God has planted a dream in you. God has given you a vision over your life. If you know that, say me, just write in the comments, write in the chat me. God has given me a word over my life. He's given me a vision. He's given me a goal. He's given me a purpose. He's given me a reason why I'm here. Now, the only way that Satan can take you out is if he steals what God put in you. So he will try to get in there and steal the word so that you will no longer pursue your purpose. Do you know, in the zoo, check this out. In the zoo, do you know there's a thing called management euthanasia? So here's. Here's what it looks like. If a zoo can't breed a lion or if they can't feed a lion, if they can't afford them, if they can't reproduce, if you can't feed them or breed them, guess what? They kill them. I'm serious. Lion cubs killed. It's called management euthanasia. They have to manage things at the zoo. And if they can't breed them or feed them, they kill them. They call it management euthanasia. And it's a painless death. Guys, I don't think anyone is here for a painless death. Listen to me. You're not here for painless death. You're not here to live a life that is anesthetized and that is buffered and that you're trying to just. Just cushion the pain, you are here to live an extraordinary, abundant, huge, joyful, happier life that comes when you understand what the enemy is trying to do. Every time he tries to sow doubt in you guys, every time he tries to steal your vision, every time he tries to get you, to get you to be afraid, your future, to get you to doubt your dream, to get you to doubt yourself, to get you to doubt your marriage, doubt your health, doubt your finances, doubt. Whatever. Every time, if you fall for that trap, Satan won. He got you out. Now he can kill and destroy everything. Guys, be planted. Be planted. Hold your ground. I know you've heard. Not today, Satan. Sometimes we have to say that on the daily. No, I'm not going to doubt anymore. I'm not going to hold fear anymore. Fear. I'm not going to be confused anymore. Because confusion is indulgence, and I'm not indulging in it. I can see my vision. I can see the horizon. And I want to feel the exhilaration of the chase. Game on. Let's go. Guys, I want to thank you so much. Please let me know, like, DM me on Instagram or. Or, you know, hit me up. Leave a comment. Let me know if you enjoyed this. This is happier church. This is the place. And listen to me, guys. Listen to me. It's for anyone who is questioning or wondering or deconstructing or recovering or healing or searching. No judgment here. You just desire a happier relationship with God. That's what I'm here for, guys, to help you with that. I love you. Mwah. Here's to a happier life. Bye. Bye.