WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 God sees us, not so much for what we've been born with, 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.320 that's the sovereignty of God for sure, 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.960 but what we do with what we've got. 4 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:22.560 We're talking about tips for a maximum impact life. 5 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:25.240 And the last time we talked about the importance 6 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:27.360 and the power of being wholehearted, 7 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:29.480 seeking first the kingdom of God. 8 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:31.560 My thesis is this. 9 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:34.800 The more you line up with God's purposes, 10 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:36.840 spiritually, mentally, emotionally, 11 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.560 relationally, and even physically, 12 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.020 the healthier, more vibrant, 13 00:00:42.020 --> 00:00:46.160 and more resilient your life will become. 14 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:48.840 And the result will be a maximum impact life. 15 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.260 So we talked about being wholehearted, 16 00:00:51.260 --> 00:00:54.060 being all in to God's truth. 17 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:56.680 And then I'm gonna show this diagram again. 18 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:01.680 This shows the nature of who you are, what makes you up. 19 00:01:03.460 --> 00:01:07.700 And I think there's been a tendency in the church, 20 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:10.080 sometimes it just emphasized the spiritual, 21 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:12.780 but as you're looking at this chart, 22 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:14.600 you can see how deficient that is, 23 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:17.020 because really the mental, emotional, 24 00:01:17.020 --> 00:01:18.860 relational, spiritual, physical, 25 00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:21.580 they all are in synergy together. 26 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:25.460 And so I'm talking about, with the tips that I'm giving, 27 00:01:25.460 --> 00:01:27.900 you've gotta be strong, you've gotta be healthy, 28 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:31.020 you've gotta build an immune system in all these areas 29 00:01:31.020 --> 00:01:33.580 to have a maximum impact with your life. 30 00:01:33.580 --> 00:01:36.780 Then I talked about meditation and truth, 31 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:40.820 and the importance of being set free 32 00:01:40.820 --> 00:01:45.140 by living, believing, and acting upon truth in your life. 33 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:47.660 I wanna talk about prayer and journaling, 34 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:49.260 prayer and journaling. 35 00:01:49.260 --> 00:01:51.540 And intimacy with God comes through prayer. 36 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:55.540 Taking to God those needs of our life 37 00:01:55.540 --> 00:01:59.500 are one of the great points of surrender, 38 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:03.220 one of the great points of peace and satisfaction 39 00:02:03.220 --> 00:02:04.340 that we find in our lives. 40 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:07.460 I find it interesting that in Matthew chapter six, 41 00:02:07.460 --> 00:02:09.259 Jesus is talking about worry. 42 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:11.460 Verse 25 of Matthew six, he said, 43 00:02:11.460 --> 00:02:14.140 you worry about this, you worry about that, 44 00:02:14.140 --> 00:02:15.300 worry, worry, worry. 45 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:17.980 And then in verse 33, he says, 46 00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:20.460 seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 47 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:22.980 and all the things that you're worried about 48 00:02:22.980 --> 00:02:23.820 will be added to you. 49 00:02:23.820 --> 00:02:26.860 In other words, God knows that you need those things, 50 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:28.580 and he's gonna take care of those things 51 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:31.220 if you'll keep your priorities straight. 52 00:02:31.220 --> 00:02:34.420 So instead of putting your eyes on your worries, 53 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:35.740 on the things that you need, 54 00:02:35.740 --> 00:02:38.460 put your eyes on the kingdom, 55 00:02:38.460 --> 00:02:42.180 and then God will put his eyes on the things that you need. 56 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:45.020 So the more we line up with the kingdom of God, 57 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:48.020 the more God takes care of those things in our life 58 00:02:48.020 --> 00:02:50.440 and creates a healthy environment for us. 59 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.120 Now, here's what's interesting. 60 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.720 Right after Jesus says that, 61 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:57.040 seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 62 00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:58.880 and all these things shall be added unto you, 63 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:01.320 he talks about prayer. 64 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:05.760 He talks about the need for us to seek him in prayer. 65 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:08.280 He says, ask, and it will be given to you. 66 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.800 Seek, and you will find. 67 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.280 Knock, and the door will be opened to you. 68 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:17.080 So Jesus isn't just saying, seek the kingdom, 69 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.720 don't even think about any of these other things. 70 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:22.480 No, he's saying, as you seek the kingdom, 71 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:26.720 will you come to me and ask for the things that you need? 72 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:29.240 Will you seek me for the things that you need? 73 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.720 Will you knock at the door of what your needs are? 74 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:34.600 And he promises to answer that. 75 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:37.600 In another passage in Matthew 25, 76 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:40.440 Jesus says to everyone who has, 77 00:03:40.440 --> 00:03:42.760 more will be given and he will have an abundance, 78 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:44.160 but from him who has not, 79 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:46.240 even what he has will be taken away. 80 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.840 As a pastor and a counselor and a coach and a leader, 81 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:53.520 I find myself in situations where I look at people's lives 82 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.400 and you see people who are seeking the kingdom first, 83 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.960 crying out to God for the things that they need, 84 00:03:59.960 --> 00:04:01.120 they get richer. 85 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:02.880 I mean, it doesn't seem fair, 86 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:05.360 but they keep getting blessings from God 87 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.080 because they keep taking all their needs to God. 88 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.760 And then I get around other people, 89 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:14.040 oftentimes more wealthy, more talented, 90 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.279 more gifted and more skilled. 91 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.880 And they're losing everything that they have. 92 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:21.880 And they've got way more resources than the other person, 93 00:04:21.880 --> 00:04:23.600 but they don't seek the Lord. 94 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.320 They don't seek the kingdom. 95 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:27.800 They don't ask, they don't seek, they don't knock. 96 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.280 And what happens is their life is shriveling up, 97 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:33.800 just shriveling up because they're dependent 98 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.960 on their own power, their own ingenuity. 99 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:38.480 And believe me, some of these people 100 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:40.000 are really, really smart. 101 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.160 So I'll tell you, for some, it takes a long time, 102 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.920 but when you look at the things that matter, 103 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.800 and that would be the mental and the emotional 104 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.200 and the relational and the spiritual, 105 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:52.240 and even the physical, their life is unhealthy. 106 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.000 That person who's seeking the kingdom 107 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.080 may not have the resources, may not have the skills, 108 00:04:57.080 --> 00:04:59.760 may not even have the wisdom or the knowledge yet, 109 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:01.760 but their life is unhealthy. 110 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.640 getting richer and richer and richer with their lives it's amazing it happens 111 00:05:05.640 --> 00:05:13.400 so guys wait this way I think it works is that I think God sees us not so much 112 00:05:13.400 --> 00:05:18.680 for what we've been born with that's the sovereignty of God for sure but what we 113 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:24.120 do with what we've got it's not what you're born with it's what you do with 114 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:29.760 what you're born with and as we begin to dedicate our lives to the Lord if we 115 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:34.120 dedicate the the tiniest of talents that we have and the skills that we have to 116 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:40.200 the Lord the scriptures seem to indicate that what we've been given if we give it 117 00:05:40.200 --> 00:05:46.040 back to God and we commit ourselves to him he gives us more of what we've been 118 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:53.200 given press down running over with the Jesus says he will have an abundance and 119 00:05:53.200 --> 00:05:59.560 then our earlier talk the last time I talked about Psalm 1 that when you 120 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:06.480 meditate on truth when you meditate on God's law you become like a tree 121 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:13.160 planted by streams of water and we prosper in what we do so I'm telling you 122 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:19.160 folks following the kingdom seeking the kingdom going after God and delighting 123 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.880 in his word is going to cause success it's gonna bring prosperity I mean 124 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:27.440 there's going to be hardship and there's no doubt about it there's also an enemy 125 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:33.040 there's also Satan and demons to attack you and fight against your pursuit of 126 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:37.520 God but listen and think about this logically do you want to be living your 127 00:06:37.520 --> 00:06:43.680 life in your own power in your totally limited by your own knowledge and your 128 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.680 own ingenuity or do you want to become a person of prayer who cries out the gods 129 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:52.600 says Lord I don't have what I need I don't have the wisdom that I need for 130 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:56.880 this project and this thing God would you show me would you guide me waking up 131 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:02.640 every morning spending time in God's Word and prayer and then journaling that 132 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:07.560 writing down what God's saying to you is the key to success in your life as you 133 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.680 grow older and as you grow deeper in the things of the Lord should be causing 134 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:19.280 greater success greater prosperity and greater abundance in your life I'm not 135 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:24.600 talking about not having hardship if you watch my series on bring it on I talk a 136 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:29.560 lot about suffering and hardship matter of fact what the purpose of it is you 137 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.360 should watch that series watch that show that I that I put together because in 138 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:39.480 that presentation I'm talking about where the scriptures speak of count it 139 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.880 all joy when you go through various trials knowing the testing your of your 140 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:48.920 faith produces endurance endurance will have its perfect result that you will be 141 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:55.440 perfect and lacking in nothing so God actually brings hardship into our lives 142 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:01.040 he brings difficulties into our life for that very purpose of perfecting you for 143 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:06.640 greater success and greater prosperity in your life it's amazing what God can do 144 00:08:06.640 --> 00:08:13.000 in that regard well fourthly move on to a fourth tip for a maximum impact life 145 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:20.920 deal with trauma and shame deal with trauma and shame all of us have trauma 146 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:26.280 all of us have shame everybody that I've ever met has it and if they say they 147 00:08:26.280 --> 00:08:30.840 don't have it they've really got it and we all wear masks we all hide stuff and 148 00:08:30.840 --> 00:08:34.400 then there's a good part of that I should say that we don't need to be 149 00:08:34.400 --> 00:08:40.480 sharing all of our stuff with everybody we meet but I will say that until the 150 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:46.200 mask start to come off most the time it's very very difficult to get healed 151 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:53.920 being willing to face our trauma and our shame as hard as it is I mean shame it 152 00:08:53.920 --> 00:09:00.200 sends spiritual tremors up our spiritual body we think about shame the things 153 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:04.440 that we've been traumatized in our life some of us have been traumatized very 154 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:09.080 very deeply with sexual sin some of us have been traumatized less so in other 155 00:09:09.160 --> 00:09:14.080 areas but we all have this trauma and it's sometimes in the sexual areas 156 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:18.480 sometimes it's in the mental areas sometimes it's in I mean even neglect 157 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.120 neglect can be trauma in our lives as well as enmeshment and I think about 158 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.840 enmeshment because I know so many that are enmeshed in relationships where 159 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:37.000 they're only you know nine or ten years old and their mom's an alcoholic and the 160 00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:42.280 father's left the home and guess who becomes the parent the nine-year-old the 161 00:09:42.280 --> 00:09:47.800 kid does and the kids having to tuck his mom into bed and roll her out of bed 162 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:52.120 because of her alcoholism or her drug addiction that's enmeshment and so that 163 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:59.160 that does things to a kid's spirit that affect them later in life we have tragic 164 00:09:59.160 --> 00:10:01.720 events 165 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.160 that can happen to us at a very early age that are super difficult for us to deal with. 166 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:12.480 Well I challenge you to deal with your trauma and your shame by being vulnerable about it with some 167 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.960 with some trusted people in your life. I'm going to talk about that the next time about the 168 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:24.880 importance of some trusted friends, some sanctified relationships that you need in your life because 169 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:31.520 they're just huge in helping us get through trauma and shame. In my life I went through a year of 170 00:10:31.520 --> 00:10:37.440 counseling with a professional counselor to look at some trauma, to look at some shame that was 171 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:43.680 hindering me as a leader and as a pastor and as a husband and as a dad. So we're all growing in 172 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:51.440 those things, men and women, and that's part of the high impact life we can have is dealing with 173 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:57.280 our trauma and our shame in our lives. In our next episode I want to talk about 174 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:05.440 some aspects of how we deal with that trauma as it relates even to our physical bodies 175 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.920 and the importance of staying in shape, the importance of working out, 176 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:14.400 and the importance of getting outside. So until next time, I'll talk to you later.