When The Barrier Is Me | Luke 15:11-32

Self-reflection is the key to breaking personal barriers, as illustrated by the Parable of the Prodigal Son. We explore the impact of self-sabotage, the necessity of confronting difficult feelings, and the importance of recognizing the difference between those who are lost and those who have chosen to leave.

• Exploring the journey of the Prodigal Son and its relevance 
• Understanding the importance of survival in difficult times 
• Realizing that self-imposed barriers can limit personal growth 
• The father's unconditional love as a model for relationships 
• Distinguishing between individuals who are lost versus those who left 
• The dangers of jealousy and the importance of celebrating others 
• The transformative power of self-awareness in breaking barriers

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Transcript

Breaking Barriers

Speaker 1 0:00

And let's get ready to go to the Lord in prayer . Father , we love you , we praise you , we thank you , we celebrate you . God , we give you name . Honor the glory , honor and praise God . Forgive us of our sins , forgive us of our shortcomings . Have your way in this space , like you always do . Oh Lord , thank you , thank you for what you've done thus far , thank you for what you're going to do , and God will be careful to give your name all the glory , honor and praise . It's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray , that the people of God say together amen , amen and amen .

Speaker 1 0:30

This morning , y'all , we continue our journey as a family and a group of believers . As it relates to breaking barriers , I told y'all the goal is to saturate ourselves with breaking barriers . And what do we mean ? I'm really just trying to get everybody that I can , as the Holy Spirit because this is the work of the Holy Spirit to finally break through and do the thing , at least one of the things , if you will , that you will put place in the earth to do . Um , does that make sense ? We all have something that we know that we should have done or should be doing , and we just hadn't quite , uh , tapped into it fully , um yet . And so we're going to break whatever barrier because that's why you hadn't done it . It's not that you're lazy , it's not that you don't want to do it . There's a barrier , and so this is a season of breaking barriers . I want to encourage you all to , if you have identified your barrier , to go ahead and , as we talked about , you know , for those that can make it to the facility , write that barrier on the board , because we are walking by praying for those barriers . I walked by yesterday praying for those barriers and if you're a virtual family member , holler at somebody and somebody will put it on the board for you .

Speaker 1 1:49

But today the lesson comes from Luke 15 chapter , verse 11 through 32 . Luke 15 chapter , verses 11 through 32 . It is a parable that may be familiar to many of you but may not be familiar to everyone , but I'm just excited about what God showed me about barrier breaking . Even in this parable . And Luke 15 chapter , the 11th chapter , luke 15 chapter , verses 11 through 32, . Luke 15 , 11 through 32, . The word of God reads as follows To illustrate the point further , jesus told them this story A man had two sons .

Speaker 1 2:35

The younger son told his father I want my share of your estate now , before you die . So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons . A few days later , this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land , and there he wasted about all his money and wild living . About the time his money ran out , a great famine swept over the land and he began to starve . He persuaded a local farmer to hire him and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs . The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him , but no one gave him anything . When he finally came to his senses , he said to himself At home , even the hired servants have food enough to spare , and here I am dying of hunger . I will go home to my father and say father , I have sinned against both heaven and you and I'm no longer worthy of being called your son . Please take me on as a hired servant . So he returned home to his father and while he was still a long way off , his father saw him coming . Filled with love and compassion , he ran to his son , embraced him , him and kissed him . His son said to him Father , I have sinned against both heaven and you . I am no longer worthy of being called your son . But his father said to his servant Quick , bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him , get the ring for his finger and sandals for his feet and kill the calf we have been fattening . We must celebrate with the feast , for this son of mine was dead and now has returned to life . He was lost , but now he is found .

Speaker 1 4:11

So the party began . Meanwhile the older son was in the field working . When he returned home he heard music and dancing in the house and he asked one of the servants what was going on . Your brother is back , he was told , and your father has killed the fat elf . We are celebrating because of his safe return . The older brother was angry and wouldn't go in . His father came out and begged him , but he replied all these years I've slaved for you and you never once refused to do a single thing . I've slaved for you and you never once refused to do a single thing you told me to do . And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends . Yet this son of yours comes back . After squandering your money on prostitutes . You celebrate by killing the fattened calf . His father said to him look , dear son , you have always stayed by me and everything I have is yours . We have to celebrate this happy day for your brother was dead and has come back to life . He was lost , but now he is found , and I would just like to take a few moments and talk about the subject when the barrier is me , when the barrier is me .

Speaker 1 5:28

What illustration that Jesus gives as he's talking about dealing with losses . Earlier in the chapter he gives some other parables , but when he gets to this one , he's trying to explain how God deals with those that fall , are lost , and how God deals with those that are , that just simply left . You know there's a difference , as it relates to how you deal with somebody that's lost and how you deal with somebody that's left , that left , but we'll get to that in a in a moment . The man had two sons and the youngest son just basically goes to the daddy and say hey , look , I look , I want what's mine . You know , being a Jewish son and entitled to an inheritance , I do not believe it was a violation of the law for a son to ask for his inheritance early and either way , the father agreed to it . Perhaps the young man is just wants to stretch his wings , he wants to go do his own thing . I'm not sure that there's anything inherently bad about that . The father agreed and gave both sons their inheritance . So the son is out .

Speaker 1 6:51

The son left , um , he packed everything and he goes far away to a distant land . And then the bible says that he wasted all his money in wild living . It's always interesting whenever we look at this uh you'll see it later on um , that we always try to project on what wild living looked like , uh , for this , uh , young man , because we think about what we probably would have done in those situation . But after a while of that , while living at the wow of having a having a good time uptown , the text says that his money ran out . And not only did his money ran out run out , a famine came across the land . A famine meaning that there was a most likely drought . A famine meaning that there was a food shortage . Can you imagine being far , far away from home without any money , and then now there's not even a lot of food left in the land , and then he naturally begins to starve , his body begins to decay . We in Western culture we don't really understand starvation unless you've had opportunity to really be around someone , but starvation is a painful way to die .

Speaker 1 8:06

And he's going through starvation . So he has persuaded a farmer to give him a job . And the man gave him an ugly job . But you know , if it's bad enough , you do whatever you got to do to survive . Right , Shout out to the survivors that say listen , sometimes they get bad enough . You know you got to do whatever you got to do to survive , which , if I were giving you points today , that's the first thing that I would remind you of is that sometimes we have to do what we have to do to survive . And so I appreciate the fact that , even though he had made some bad choices , even though it was not looking good , he did not give up .

Speaker 1 8:42

He started to do what he had to do to survive , and I'm so proud of some of you that you did what you had to do to survive . It was not ugly , it was not pretty , it was always not . You know the best , but you are a survivor , right ? You are a overcomer , and we're so proud of that . You did what you had to do to survive . And listen , don't let nobody judge you for what you had to do to survive , right , you know , sometimes we didn't make the best choices , sometimes we had to take the ugly job , but we do what we got to do to survive and he does what he had to do in his moment to survive and as he is out here feeding these hogs , which was a relatively low job , but it's a little bit lower than you may think . But it's a little bit lower than you may think because , assuming that this was a young Jewish man , young Jewish young man , you know Jews , and had no dealings with hooved animals such as pigs , and so it was a nasty animal , a nasty thing , even spiritually and religious , he had to do what he had to do . And I'm not here to you know , I condemn , because that's not what we do . But just being honest , some of us , you know , did some nasty things , even in this , that were nasty not only in the natural thing , but sometimes we did some nasty things that was even nasty to us spiritually , in order to survive . But there's no condemnation in Christ Jesus , and I want to encourage somebody that had forgiven themselves for some nasty things that you did in order to survive . But watch this as he's doing this thing . That's nasty in the natural . He's doing this thing . That's nasty in the spirit .

Speaker 1 10:33

I observed something it says that no one gave him anything . Yeah , that you can relate to this . When it got real bad , nobody gave you anything . It seemed as if you was in isolation . It seems like you were , you know , all by yourself . Can anybody relate to this guy that ever went through something in life , or you've seen somebody go through , and it seems like nobody gave them anything ? And sometimes these points of isolation are really God ordained . I don't believe that they're always that people are hating on you . I don't think it's always that people are looking for your demise First . Most people are not thinking about you like that . But the truth of the matter is , sometimes we have to have these isolated moments where we're feeding the pigs and nobody gives us anything . You know why ? Because verse 17 tells us why . Verse 17 tells us we need these isolated moments when nobody has given us anything . Because there's something that happens when we've gotten real down and out . There's something that happens when we're really um , going , uh , through . We finally see , um , that the barrier is me . When it gets bad enough , you will finally see that the truth of the matter is that the barrier is you .

Speaker 1 11:50

The truth of the matter is , biblically speaking , nobody in the earth has the authority to keep you where you are but you . God has not given anybody that level of control over you . As a matter of fact , if you believe that somebody had that level of control over you , we come against that right now in the name of Jesus . There's enough intercessors here to say if somebody got that kind of control over you , you have to be loosed right now in the name of Jesus . And I'm serious about that , because no man or no woman , no child , nobody should have that type of control over you . That God hadn't given anybody that type of authority . All right , You've given somebody that control , but I , anybody that type of authority ? All right , you've given somebody that control , but I'm trying to tell you you need to take that control back . And so what happens here is now that he's gotten so bad and nobody gave him anything .

Speaker 1 12:44

What happens in verse 17 is the game-changer , and that's when I want to talk to somebody , because what verse 17 does is now , all of a sudden , I can't blame anybody else . Now . All of a sudden , I can't blame anybody else . Now , all of a sudden , I can't point the finger at , uh , anybody else . In verse 17 it gets so bad that he realizes that , uh , it has nothing to do with anybody but his own self . And he says when he finally came to his senses good , god , almighty , if we could ever get the people of God to come to their senses , if we could ever get the people in our family , starting with us , to come to our senses and we stop pointing the finger at everybody else if we could ever get pastors to come to our senses , right , man , if there was one barrier y'all that I could break , we could break . In Jesus' name , over the next 10 or 12 years is that we got to come to our senses

Breaking Barriers Within Ourselves

Speaker 1 13:39

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Speaker 1 13:39

But in order for us to come to our senses , you got to get over yourself . You got to get over you . You got to get over your emotions . You got to get over your feelings . You got to get over what they did . You got to get over what they said . You got to get over the coulda , woulda , shouldas . You got to stop saying if I could turn back the hands of time , right , as long as you stay there , you're going to stay stuck , and that's what the enemy wants you to do to never get over yourself . He always wants you to be in this moping place about I wish , or girl , if I just could , you can . In Jesus name , you , you can . But you have to get over your yourself .

Speaker 1 14:21

And , and I often wonder , why do we struggle so much with just getting over our ourselves ? Why do we do we get in our own way ? Why are we our own biggest stumbling block ? Nobody made the young man ask for the inheritance early . Maybe he wasn't ready for it . Nobody made the young man leave the arc of safety of his home , but he elected to do so . Nobody made the young man go and waste all his money in wild living . Nobody made the young man even though I give him credit for doing something to survive go and do this horrible or this low-level work that was dirty to him , naturally and spiritually . But why do we do this to ourselves ? But , most importantly , because we don't have time to deal with the why .

Speaker 1 15:09

What we got to deal with is that it has to come to an end . If we're going to break some barriers in 2025 , it has to come to an end . Because you got to realize that verse 17 reminds us that nobody has the authority over you that you think that they do , because of the God that resides in you , and so all it requires is us to come to ourself . And when he came to himself , he started to have some realizations . And I believe that's what the holy spirit will do is help us to come to ourselves so you can have some realizations when you come to yourself . You got to have some tough conversations with yourself amen zoom family , amen in the app , amen facebook , your youtube family . When you come to yourself , you'll know you're on your way back because you'll have some tough conversations with yourself and these conversations suddenly stop talking about what other folks are doing . They start suddenly stop talking about what other folks are saying when you are really going through . You have some tough conversations with yourself . He has a tough conversation with himself .

Speaker 1 16:04

He says at home , he said look , even the hired servants , um , uh , have food enough to spare me talking about the folk that's working for his daddy . And he said here I am dying of hunger . It's kind of like sitting there realizing , man , you know what I have an opportunity to ? To be happy . I have an opportunity to get what I've been missing , but , for whatever reason , I had placed it in my mind that , because of the mistakes that I made , that I had to stay where I am . Can I tell somebody that you don't have to stay where you are ? There is nothing that says that you have to stay where you are . The only thing you got to do is go back home . We don't have to stay , as we like to say , busted and disgusted . We don't have to stay depressed . We don't have to stay filled with anxiety . You don't have to stay in a job that you don't like . We got one life y'all .

Speaker 1 17:08

You going to spend your life doing a job that's just miserable to you for 30 years of your life ? Make that make sense . If you live the 80 years , you live the 80 , you got to tell me that you finished spending 30 of 80 years being miserable . Make that make sense when you going to come to yourself . Seriously , I mean I'm serious Now . I'm not promoting walk out your job day , because you know our benevolence fund is not that big , but I'm saying you know , at some point you got to come to yourself and make a way to be who God has called you to do .

Speaker 1 17:39

Can I say something else . That may be controversial for a pastor and I will add context to it , so it's not taken out of context . Since you only have one life , are you going to come to yourself in marriage and just say am I going to stay in a situation that makes me miserable for the rest of my life for the sake of saying I signed a piece of paper that makes sense ? Now again , I'm not telling people to get divorced . I would never speak against what the Bible says . But I'm saying if you're going to stay in this thing , man , you better get it fixed . Or if you're not going to fix it , you might as well go on and do what you're going to do . You know what I'm saying and God will forgive you and you'll move on . But make it make sense , right . Make it make sense to stay there and be miserable . That's what we do . Make it make sense . They say it like the young people say , where they do that at right . What place in the world where people have found peace and happiness do they continue to wake up and do something that makes them miserable over and over and over and over again ?

Speaker 1 18:42

Somebody can say there has to be a plan . Somebody says there has to be a plan . Look at verse 18 . He has a plan . So if you're in a miserable spot , I'm not telling you to just make a half-baked decision , because when you come to yourself , god will give you a Holy Spirit inspired plan . That's all I'm trying to get you to say . When you come to yourself , god will give you a Holy Spirit inspired plan to get to the place where he would have you to be . So look at verse 18 . He has a plan . He said I got a plan .

Speaker 1 19:12

I'm going to go home to my father , right , I'm going to go back to the source and I'm going to say to the father I have sinned against both heaven and you . So he's going to go home , check , he's going to acknowledge his wrongdoing , check . And then he says I'm going to . I'm no longer worthy and called son , please take me on as a hired servant . So he said I'm going to go back to my father , I'm going to acknowledge I made a mess up and I'm going to be humble enough to take whatever position that my father gives me , even if it's not where I was , because , being honest , I'll go back to where I was in a lower status than to stay miserable where I am . I want to talk to him .

Speaker 1 19:50

I tell him misery has to come to an end . When the barrier is , you , at some point you got to have a plan to say this misery has to come to an end . I'm , I'm sorry , I'm just not a person that believes in misery for all your days . I had a person that that that I knew , that stayed in a miserable relationship for 15 years and they said they did it because that was honoring God and that's what God told them to do . I know this ain't the marriage one . I'm just saying I struggle with the fact that you know , when there's a barrier of this such , if you believe that your call is to be miserable , I'm not saying it always is going to be peaceful , it's always going to be joy , it's going to always be rainbows and sunshine , but I'm saying consistent ministry , year after year in a relationship , whatever type of relationship , it is not doing anything that it's supposed to do , it's not honoring God , it's not providing for you , it's just straight misery . When are we going to say you know what ? It's time for us to make a shift .

Speaker 1 20:49

He has a plan , so he has a plan and he goes back home and when he returns home . I want you to see something here when he returns home to his father , while he's still a long way off , his father saw him coming . So we learned from the son that left how to go back home . We learned from the son that left how to we got to get over ourselves . If we're going to break the barrier of ourselves , we have to get over ourselves if we're going to break the barrier of ourselves . He has a plan . He humbles himself and he goes back home . Then he sees the father .

Speaker 1 21:22

Now the father here in the text does nothing wrong , but we can still learn a lot about breaking barriers from the father . From the father , what we see is that he sees his son coming down the road and when he identifies him , his father doesn't judge him , his father doesn't criticize him , his father doesn't question him , his father doesn't say I told you so . His father is filled with love and compassion and he runs to embrace his son and kisses him , and then the son starts to confess the sins that he made , but his father didn't even address the sins . The father addressed that it's time for my son to be reestablished . It's interesting , though , one thing , for the sake of time that I want to point out as it relates to the father . The father never left looking for the son . The father never left looking for the son . The father never left his property , he never left the home looking for the son , but the moment he saw the son coming back home , he met the son where he was .

Speaker 1 22:22

We're still talking about when the barrier is me . When the barrier is me , let me share this with you . When the barrier is me , check this out is me , let me share this with you . When the barrier is me , check this out . We learn from the father that we have to know the difference in people in our lives who are lost and the people in our lives who left . Y'all walking with me , man , I enjoy this one . I probably should have saved it to another time because we can really talk , especially bible study .

Speaker 1 22:49

We got to learn the people in our lives , who , who , um , who who are lost , and there are people in our lives who left . You know there's a difference . The father didn't go chase after his son because his son left . His son elected to go do something else and there are too many of you all that spend too much time chasing people in your life that they're not lost . They left . That's why it's a difference in pastoral care I was talking about this , dr Lynch , years ago and very recently this week that one thing as a pastor , we don't chase people that left .

Overcoming Jealousy and Celebrating Others

Speaker 1 23:28

People ask me all the time so-and-so left , did you call them ? No , because they left . I'm never going to call them because they left . They made a conscious decision to go do something else . But if you get lost , that's different . If you get lost , that means that life happened to you . Right , life can happen to all of us . And if I get lost , if somebody just got caught , you know , hard times came in their life and suddenly they stopped coming to church like they used to , that's somebody that got lost . They lost their job and now they're just in a panic . They got lost . Something happened with their children , their faith got attacked , they got lost and you as an individual have to know the difference between how to treat people that are lost in comparison to that left . Can we be real and be transparent ?

Speaker 1 24:15

Back in my dating world , before God blessed me with the amazing woman of God that we know as Tiffany Holloway Bowers , I , too many years ago , dated somebody . She wasn't lost , she left Real talk , and I spent too much time chasing somebody that left . They weren't lost . She left Real talk , and I spent too much time chasing somebody that left . They weren't lost , they knew their way home . She knew my number didn't change , right , but she elected to do something else . I wonder how many people I'm serving this morning . You chasing somebody . They ain't lost , they left . Ooh-wee , you're wasting your time chasing somebody that's not lost , but they left . I'm going to leave it alone for the sake of time . We , as leaders , we are in a relationship .

Speaker 1 24:58

The barrier is , then , that sometimes the barrier is me , because somebody has left and somebody has left , but I'm treating them like they lost , and now I'm wasting my own time , I'm wasting my own heart , I'm wasting my own energy on somebody that left . They've elected to be where they are . It's tight , but it's right , my sisters and my brothers , but when people are left , when people are lost , we get them out the mud , won't we ? That's it , because that's that's what we do . If you , you got a young adult in your life that's lost , you get them out the mud . You got a senior in your life that's lost , you get them out the mud . You got a senior in your life that's lost . You get them out the mud because that's what Jesus said . He said I'll leave the 99 to go find the one that is lost . But for those of you that's left , it's all love . But if you ever decide to come home , there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus . Finally , we get to the last person and for the sake of time I have to be brief about the last person .

Speaker 1 25:47

So we see the barriers that the first person had the son . We see how the father teaches us how to deal with our barriers as it relates to those that are lost and those that are left . And then the third one . The third one is the most interesting one to me , because the third one is his barrier is that he's jealous and insecure as it relates to the father's relationship with the younger son . He's jealous and insecure as it relates to the father's relationship with the younger son . When the older son , who was in the field working , he heard there was a party going on at the house . So he asked one of the servants , man , what's going on ? And he said man , your daddy ordered we , we're gonna kill the fattest fatted calf . We're gonna have a good barbecue tonight . Because your brother then came back home and we're celebrating that he got back safely and the brother was so over he couldn't get over himself .

Speaker 1 26:44

The brother's barrier was so big that he couldn't celebrate the fact that his , his young brother , had came back from the streets . Isn't that bad that we get to the point in our life where we can't even celebrate what God is doing in somebody else's life . That's bad , ain't it ? We're just so miserable in our own existence that we can't even celebrate what God is doing in somebody else's life . The truth of the matter is we probably all have been there . You didn't want to acknowledge it , but the truth of the matter , if you have a desire within you and it hadn't happened yet , man , somebody else , get it . You got to be careful because on the inside you may feel some type of way . It's that human thing that is part of being alive . So he can't get over himself . He can't even celebrate the fact that his brothers come home . And he started to complain I've worked , I never left , I did everything that you told me to do and you never gave me a young goat for a feast with my friends , he said . Yet when this son of yours don't even acknowledge him as his brother . He comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes . It's interesting , one of the things I used to laugh about back at the the day , um , and evanese evanescent when dr lynch used to point it out . He says amazing that if you look carefully the text early , all it says is that the man was involved in wild living , I said but now the brother , um , it said prostitutes . But I didn't say the man was doing wild . He could have been gambling , as far as we know . He could have been . He could have been snorting powder , as far as we . I don't know what he was doing , but this man is projected because he said if I was out there in them streets , I tell you what I would do . It . I would have did with my money because , uh , that's what was in his heart . He said you celebrate by killing the fatted calf . So finally the father looked at him and said son , you've always stayed with me and everything I have is yours . But we have to celebrate this day , for your brother was dead and he has come back to life . He was lost , but now he is found . For the sake of time , what I want to tell you is because I don't have time to really deal with that third guy , the right way . But I will tell you , don't be that guy Somebody type , don't be that guy . Don't be that guy that you can't get over yourself , so bad that you can't celebrate what God is doing in somebody else's life . Here it is . I'll say it like this because I felt like I kept . I felt I felt like bringing the smoke today , just a little bit . I'm saying this in the most loving way because we breaking barriers and I say this and y'all mean , y'all know I'm telling the truth and I'm done .

Speaker 1 29:02

A barrier for my wife certainly was when she could not have children . It was so great of advice that she got from people that loved her to say , man , you don't have to go to every baby shower , you don't have to uh , participate in all this child stuff , because emotionally she just couldn't handle it . It would break her down every time for a season . But for the barrier , for her to break the barrier , she had to get to the point where she couldn't stay there . Does that make sense ? I couldn't put a time on it . I never even tried , never even said anything , but she had to get to the point where she couldn't stay there . Does that make sense ? I couldn't put a time on it , I never even tried , never even said anything . But she had to get to the point where she could celebrate somebody else having a baby even though she couldn't , otherwise that place would have killed her . Does that make sense ?

Speaker 1 29:43

And I hope I'm not sounding insensitive you got to get to the place where if you are single and you desire to be in a relationship , it's going to be a season where you just can't deal with it . You don't want to talk about marriage at church , you don't want none of that , and that's for a season . But you have to get to the place where you can celebrate somebody else's marriage . You have to get to the place that you can celebrate what you desire in your heart that somebody else have and God has not yet blessed you with . You got to celebrate . You can get to the place in your life where you can celebrate what God is doing over there , even though he's not yet to do it over here . You got to get to the place where you can celebrate that even though I've had significant losses in the area and somebody else has gained in that area . It doesn't happen overnight , but you can't be that guy . Don't be that guy . I'm telling you , don't be that guy . It will kill you .

Speaker 1 30:32

I hope I've shared my story to say I'm not trying to be insensitive to where you are . I'm just trying to tell you don't be that guy , because that guy will never break the barrier , that guy will never get over themselves , that guy will never be . But if you are anybody in the text , be the father and be the young son , because the Lord is saying that as long as you stay over , never get over yourself . You stay in a condition of being lost , but the moment you come to yourself , we celebrate you because you were lost but now you are found . Amazing grace , how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me . I once was lost , but now I'm found , was blind , but now I'm found , was blind , but now I'm seen . I'm two minutes over y'all . Thank y'all for letting me go through that .

Speaker 1 31:17

I probably should have saved it to another time to have more time to talk about it , but I want to go into prayer right now , looking forward to seeing you all . Tonight we're doing our town hall meeting and we're still going to talk about breaking barriers just a little bit , but we're going to share our financial report and all that , so look forward to seeing everybody . Lord , we love you , we praise you , we celebrate you and we thank you . We give your name all the glory , honor and praise God . We ask you to forgive us of our sins , forgive us of our shortcomings , have your way in this space like only you can . God , thank you for what you did over the last 30 minutes and I pray God that something was said that's going to make somebody look in the mirror and say it's time to break the

Navigating Relationships With Wisdom

Speaker 1 31:56

barrier of me .

Speaker 1 31:56

I have to get out . We have to get out of our own way , god . I pray God that something was said that's going to make somebody look at themselves and look at how they're dealing with people that left them in comparison to people that are lost . Let them never treat somebody that's lost like they left , father God , but also never let them treat anybody that's left like they are lost . Give us Holy Spirit wisdom , god , so we know how to govern and treat people in accordance to what your will may be . Thank you , god , for this day . Thank you , god for this journey . I pray peace and blessings over all your sons and daughters . God , we love you , we praise you . It's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray that the people of God say amen , amen , amen , listen , love you all , love you , god bless . Look forward to seeing you later . Have a great rest of the week .