Did you see me going uphill?
The bike was always with the front in the air till the end of the hill
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and I was like "really?!?!?"
This is a completely different bike!...
F*** beast!...
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- We often still live in our own little system of works,
don't we, which is really the source of so much stress.
It's our striving to be accepted by God,
it's our striving to get God's delight
when we're supposed to be working from God's delight.
See Jesus already plowed the field.
(soulful music)
So far we've been looking at things to do
and not do as means of stress relief,
but today I wanna look at something different
which is a place of stress relief.
God has given us a place to go,
it's a place of 24/7 access,
we don't have to RSVP to it, we have a standing invitation,
it's God's getaway, it's a place of R and R with no cost.
And it's the place of God's delight.
That word delight there represents joy
and happiness and peace and satisfaction.
And so today we're gonna look at what and where
that place is, how do we get to the place of God's delight,
and what is in that place anyway.
If you want to know the perfect will of God for our lives,
I think it's best to look back at the creation
before we messed it up with sin.
If you want to see where God wants us
and what He wants us to experience
and what He wants us to enjoy,
we gotta go back to Genesis, back in the garden.
And when you look at Genesis 2,
you might not see it on an initial read through
but there's actually a key in it, there's a word
and I'm gonna show you this word, so make sure
that you're listening closely,
that when you know the meaning of this word
it's going to unpack so much about God's intention for us,
where He wants us to be and what He wants us to experience.
So let me read through starting in Genesis 8
and then I will give you the key
and then we'll unpack it here.
Genesis 2:8 "Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden
in the east, and there He placed the man He had made."
"The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up
from the ground, trees that were beautiful
and produced delicious fruit."
"In the middle of the garden, He placed the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Verse 10: "a river flowed from the land of Eden,
watering the garden and then dividing it
into four branches."
And then it goes on and describes those four branches
and then in verse 15 it picks back up and it says,
"The Lord God placed the man in the garden of Eden
to tend and watch over it."
So what's so significant about that?
Well, it's the word Eden, the word Eden is the key.
That's what God wants to get us back to.
What do you mean, are we supposed to go take a pilgrimage
to the Middle East to try to find Eden and get back there?
No, because Eden is probably under hundreds of feet of mud
from the flood anyway, so we're not gonna find it,
we're not talking about the physical place.
The key is in what Eden represents.
See all Hebrew words, all Hebrew names
whether it's a person or place represent an identity,
represent who that person is, what that person is,
and Eden comes from the root word that means delight.
It means God's delight, which is found
inside of God's presence.
So when you take that key, delight,
and you reread those verses with that in mind,
replacing Eden with His delight,
it really starts to open up God's intentions for us
and what He wants us to experience in our lives today.
Look at this, "The Lord God planted a garden
in His delight, in His presence, and out of His presence,
there He placed the man that He had made."
So we really have to understand something here,
and this might sound simplistic to some of you,
I don't know, but this is foundation for our Christian lives
that first and foremost we were created
for the presence of God.
Everything that we do for God has to come out of that
and be empowered by the presence of God
and be for and out of the delight of God.
What I do in this ministry for God has to be empowered
by God's presence,
otherwise it's all going to just be a burden.
But when it comes out of His delight,
then it'll be satisfying and it can be refreshing.
You were made to be in relationship
with God first and foremost.
If all you do, if all you are is,
I am a friend of God, that is enough.
"Out of His delight," it continues on,
"the Lord made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground,
trees that were beautiful and produced delicious fruit."
God's presence is the source of all good things.
Adam and Eve were sustained by the nourishment
inside of Eden, and we are sustained, our emotions,
our attitudes, our spiritual lives, our physical lives,
we are sustained when we are in the presence of God
because we were made for the presence of God
so everything in life is not gonna be quite right,
it's not gonna feel quite right
if we aren't in that presence, but when we're in there,
I like to say, the presence of God is like an incubator
for the soul, it develops and it grows us.
All good things come out of the presence of God,
but like spending time with a friend,
for better or worse their personality rubs off
on you over time, right?
That's why the Bible says that "bad company corrupts
good character but those who walk with the wise become wise."
I can show you your destiny by looking
at your five closest friends,
because who you hang with is eventually what you become.
Well, when you hang with God, when you spend time
in God's presence, you get His personality,
it starts to rub off on you, you start to look like God,
you start to talk like God, you start to think like God,
you start to walk like God, you get His delicious fruits,
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generous, generosity,
self control, and those are all good things
that come out of the presence of God.
But the next one, I love this one, it says,
"A river flowed from His delight, watering the garden
and then dividing it into four branches."
So God's presence is the source of your refreshment.
When you're in it and you get refreshed,
and you get restored, and you get joy, and you get peace,
then it starts to overflow out of you, break out of you,
split out of you so that you can be a refreshment
to people around you.
Remember my story a couple weeks ago when I was telling you
that I was so busy being involved in things for God
that I neglected time with God and what happened?
I got a really sour, pitiful attitude.
I was mad at everybody, and I was just,
it just wasn't a good thing and somebody who knew me
in those days, she had heard this message then,
and she said, "Yeah Kyle, you're right,
in those days you were really a grouch."
And I was, because I spent so much time
doing, doing, doing, doing, doing,
probably trying to prove myself to God,
trying to get more holy, trying to get more spiritual
that I wasn't enjoying His presence one on one time,
so I wasn't being refreshed so I couldn't be refreshment
to other people around me.
So if you're wondering why people are avoiding you
in your life, (chuckles)
why everything's just so sour all the time,
maybe you just need to ask yourself,
are you getting away with God,
are you getting to God's getaway,
are you really enjoying time with Him,
have you carved out time with Him to do that?
And I promise you, and I'm not,
I don't tell how much you have to do, I don't,
you don't want to create any kind of law
on what you have to do, but I can say
if you will get with God,
your attitude will start to turn around
and you will be surprised how people are suddenly attracted
to you because they enjoy being around you,
because God rubs off on you.
And the last point here, "The Lord God placed the man
in His delight to tend over and watch it."
So in God's presence is purpose, there's something to do,
there's something that God tasks us to do,
it's what we looked at in the first of these messages,
there's a grace zone with gifts and callings
that God has put in you and they're not burdensome
because they come out of His presence,
they're empowered by His presence as I said,
and so you do it with God not just for God,
but God is with you and He does the heavy lifting.
But He entrusted to you, there's something to do,
to watch over it, and to tend to it.
You know, getting to where I am today,
to doing what I'm doing now, I had to try a lot of things.
(chuckles) and I tried a lot of things
out of my own strength, you heard me talk
about how I tried being a elementary Sunday school teacher
and that lasted like two months.
I tried street preaching before, I tried handing out tracts,
none of it worked, but what I do today,
which is satisfying to me, came out of nothing less
but day by day time in God's presence.
Where in that time He shared things with me,
He spoke to me, He comforted me, He encouraged me,
gave me things to share, I found my voice,
I found my passion, I found my purpose
because it came out of the presence of God.
As the story goes, Adam and Eve got evicted from Eden
because they sinned, and I'm not gonna go
into the whole story of the fall here,
(congregation chuckles)
but they couldn't be in the presence of God anymore,
and some people will say, well why couldn't they be
in the presence of God anymore?
Well because God's presence wouldn't be so delightful
if you brought in the very things that are dirty
and stressful and trouble into those things, okay?
So He had to protect His presence.
So outside of their presence, in Genesis 3,
when God is saying, here's what's gonna happen now,
now that you are out of Eden, He says,
"All your life you will struggle to scratch a living
from it, it will grow thorns and thistles,
you will eat of its grains.
By the sweat of your brow, you'll have food."
So stress is what happens
when we are outside of God's presence,
but God was not satisfied with this,
so at least He made temporary solution
by where He put His presence inside of an Ark of a Covenant
and then later inside of a temple,
so at least His presence could be among the people
but they couldn't enjoy it 24/7 like they once did.
And so Jesus came, and Jesus came as God's presence
in the flesh, and with His death on that cross,
His atonement for our sins, He spiritually cleansed us,
and when we became cleansed, we became right again
to be back in 24/7 access to God's presence,
and when He yelled "It is finished,"
from that cross, that temple curtain,
that black curtain the Bible says,
which separated God's people from His presence in the temple
it ripped into two, signifying that the spirit of God,
the presence of God was now moving outside of a temple
built with human hands and now into something better,
a temple of His Holy Spirit,
that God was moving to be inside of His people.
Jesus brings us back to Eden, he brings us back to the place
of God's delight so that we can experience
all those good things, we can experience that refreshment,
we can experience that healing, we can experience that peace
that God asked, that provision that Adam and Eve enjoyed
before sin, we can experience that
because we're cleansed in Christ,
because we have the presence of God
now in us with 24/7 access to it.
That ought to make you shout. (chuckles)
And then Jesus said
that one of the benefits of this presence
would be stress relief.
Where's that in the Bible?
You're all looking at me kind of skeptically.
In Matthew 11:28, "Jesus said, 'Come to me,
all you who are weary and heavy burdened,
all you who are stressed, come to me,
and I will give you rest."
It's refreshment, it's restoration,
it's intermission from work.
I experienced this some time ago,
I was writing my first book and folks understand,
I was 29 years old when I was writing this first book,
okay, I was still wet behind the ears,
and I had to write 200 pages and I had to do it
in three and a half months and I just couldn't stop
all my other responsibilities and focus only on that book,
so I had to add it to the list of everything else
that I was doing, I had taken a mission's trip to India,
I was doing videos, I was writing articles,
so about halfway through it,
it was all just getting to be too much,
and I would wake up in the morning filled with anxiety.
I don't know if I can do this, God,
I don't know if I have enough to say,
this is just too much of a burden.
And God spoke through and broke through in that time
with Jesus's words there and He said, "Come to me, Kyle."
He said, "Come to me, give that stuff to me,
give all your doing for me, give it to me
and let me do it with you."
Somehow in all the burden of the ministry,
I had forgotten that the whole point of this life here,
the whole point of my Christianity was me to spend time
with God and let Him help me with these things,
the Holy Spirit is our comforter.
Jesus wants to take our heavy burdens from us
so that we can experience His rest,
and I made a physical act that day,
I lifted up my hand and I said, "I surrender Lord."
"I give this to you, I can't do it in my own strength,
I need your strength."
And I can't explain how this stuff works, folks,
but it does, and I felt the peace of God come over me,
and I felt the strength, and suddenly I had
the words to say, and I had peace doing it.
And so after that I wanted to study this verse out
a little more and see exactly what was Jesus saying,
especially when he continued on here.
Because the next verse, Matthew 11:29, He says,
"Take my yoke upon you.
let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart,
and you'll find rest for your souls, your mind,
your will, your emotions."
Somebody once called it a vacation for the soul,
and I love that, it's a good image to put into your mind
about what God's presence is.
Jesus says, "For my yoke is easy to bear
and my burden is light."
Well, what is He talking about, yoke?
First of all, understand he's not saying yolk,
he's not talking about the yellow of an egg, okay,
and I had to learn that early on.
Yoke, in Bible times, was a wooden frame
that was put over animals, usually cows or oxen,
it was a tool to help them do a task,
which was pulling a heavy load usually or plowing a field.
But that tool was heavy, which is why the Bible says
that they were supposed to be two animals of equal size,
they had to be equally yoked,
so that the burden of that tool wouldn't crush
and just be so heavy on just one of the animals,
that they could share the weight.
So Jesus is speaking into the people of that time,
who are under the law, under the burden of the law,
you could say that the law was kind of a tool at that time
to help them be accepted and in some kind of a relationship
with God, to atone for their sins,
but then the Pharisees had added
like another 600 more regulations on top of that,
it was all so heavy they couldn't do it on their own,
and that's the whole purpose of Jesus,
He came to do what they couldn't do,
what we couldn't do on our own.
And though we don't live in the law anymore,
we do often still live in our own little system of works,
don't we, which is really the source of so much stress,
it's our striving to be accepted by God,
it's our striving to get God's delight,
when we're supposed to be working from God's delight,
see Jesus already plowed the field,
Jesus already pulled the heavy load,
Jesus already did all the heavy lifting
so that now you can just rest in the delight of His presence
knowing you already are accepted, you are already loved,
you are already chosen, there's nothing that you can do,
and strive, and work, work, work to get any of that stuff
because Jesus has already given it to you.
So yes, there is a yoke, Jesus does give us a yoke,
he says "Take my yoke," as Ephesians 2:10 says,
we were created for good works, there is a work to do,
but that work, as I said earlier, comes
out of the presence of God, it's a purpose and a calling,
giftings that we discover in the presence of God,
and because it's empowered by the presence of God,
it's easy and it's light.
So how do we get there?
Jesus says, "Come to me," how do we get there?
The presence of God is often a vague concept.
What does it mean?
Well first of all, we have to understand
that God's presence isn't something that's far off anymore,
okay, we don't have to beg God, "Lord send your presence."
And I know, there are songs out there, and I get it,
I'm not trying to be critical here, I totally get it,
but when we sing come Holy Spirit,
it's a little bit bad theology
because the Holy Spirit is already in us.
Christ in you, the Bible says, "is the hope of glory."
We just really have to learn how to access it,
how to get into it, I had gifts in me for so many years
that I wasn't enjoying and wasn't fully utilizing
because I didn't know how to access them.
And so God's presence is in us,
and really James 4:8 gives us what we need to do,
it says, "Draw near to God," so that's lean in,
and listen, make time for God,
and I just want to mention this really quickly,
you need to create margin in your life,
to get away with God, some of you are too busy,
and you think that that makes you someone.
Oh, we love to wear our little busy badges,
"Oh I'm just so busy," that's what we talk to people,
"How are you?" "Oh I'm just so busy,"
like that makes you somebody.
No, busyness, you want to talk about yoke?
Busyness really means being under Satan's yoke. (chuckles)
Because if the devil can't get you to sin,
he'll get you to do a bunch of good things
to distract you, make you so busy that you can't spend time
in the refreshment of God's presence,
so you end up doing a bunch of bad things out of that.
Because you get exhausted and you get burned out.
And so, oh we have so much spiritual warfare,
so much stress, and we're resisting the devil,
well you're gonna be resisting some difficultly
all of your life unless you realize
that two thirds of the word resist is rest.
You have to get away with God, you have to have some margin,
maybe the kids are involved in too many sports,
maybe you're involved in too many activities at church,
maybe your nose is in too many things,
and you've got to create time to get away with God,
and as I said I'm not telling you how
and when you have to do, or how much time you have to do it,
the Holy Spirit will reveal that to you,
but you have to create some time.
And then as any of you know who are in relationships,
just one date night every so often isn't good enough
but it's constant communication that builds
that relationship, and with God this is called prayer.
It's constant conversation, which is talking and listening.
1 Thessalonians, it tells us to "pray without ceasing,"
and I think that's just an ongoing dialogue,
I don't think it's locking yourself in your prayer closet
forever because you do have to get out into the world.
But it's as you're going about your day,
it's as you're driving, as you're folding laundry,
as you're working, it's just talking with God
like it's an ongoing conversation on your text message.
"God help me here," "God I need this," "God what do I do,
God," and then creating the margin for you to actually
see and hear God's answers.
God's word brings us into His presence,
like any book that is written appropriately,
one of the best things people like about them
is when they can read it
and feel like the author is right there speaking to them.
Well, God's book here, God's word is so much greater
than that because it's not like He's there, He is there.
God is with you, and so when you're reading His word
it's illuminated by His presence
so it can speak directly to the situations in your life.
Like when I was going through all of that stress
writing that book, that situation
when I was reading God's word,
His word was illuminated for that situation,
because He is with me, He was speaking directly to me.
Psalm 1:2-3, it says, "those who meditate on God's law,
God's word, day and night, they will be
like trees planted by streams of water
which produce much fruit."
That word meditate there, in the Hebrew, is to think
and speak, keep God's word running through your mind
and your mouth at all times, when you speak the word of God,
it brings the benefits of His presence into existence.
So go about your day, you can get into God's delight
by saying, "the joy of the Lord is my strength,"
"the peace of God who surpasses all understanding
guards my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus,"
"I've not been given a spirit of fear
but I have the power of love and I have a sound mind."
And one of the last things that I'll mention here,
and you guys might look at me a little strange
when I say this, but envision God in your circumstances.
See Him, a verse the biblical model of that,
Psalm 16:8, David says, "I keep the Lord always before me,
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."
"Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rests secure."
Peter quoted David, at Pentecost, he said,
"For David says, 'Concerning him, I saw the Lord
always before me.'"
David envisioned God in his circumstance,
and I'm not talking about some sort of goofy
or mystical way of, oh Jesus is my imaginary friend,
and I'm gonna create an image of Him,
but envision the benefits of God's presence,
of what you get when you're in God's presence,
envision Him, and envision those in your circumstances.
I have a friend who has coffee with Jesus,
when he's doing his morning devotionals,
he sets out a second cup of coffee,
and it's not that, like I said,
he thinks Jesus is kind of really sitting there
in the person, but it's a way for him to acknowledge
the space that Jesus does occupy,
because spiritually speaking, Jesus is with us.
And so, it's a tool that helps him experience
the benefits of the presence of God.
The Bible says to think on things of Heaven,
it says in Romans 8:5, "But those who live
according to the Spirit set their minds
on the things of the Spirit."
"To set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace."
So if you're fearful, envision God working out those fears.
If you need healing, envision God in that kind of way.
I envisioned myself putting my burdens into his hands
and that helped me to really experience
the benefits of his presence
because God wants to be experienced.
So outside of God's presence is trouble and toil and stress.
We weren't meant to be there.
Jesus died to bring us back into 24/7 access
to the delight of God's presence.
Anytime and anywhere.
So when you get in there, you make that margin,
you have a constant conversation with Him,
you get in His word, envision Him in your circumstances,
you'll experience the source of all good things
in your life, refreshment, purpose, stress relief,
and you can draw near as simply as saying, "God,let's talk."
Has this helped anybody?
All right, let's pray. (soothing music)
What you just heard me talk about,
enjoying the benefits of God's presence,
but do you know of God's presence is in you?
If you took your last breath today,
do you know if you would spend eternity in God's presence?
If not, I would like to take the opportunity
to pray with you so that you can be at peace with God
and be certain that He's with you now
and that you'll be with Him forever.
Simply say, "Jesus, I am sorry for my sins,
I wanna be cleansed, I wanna be at peace with God,
I want to be in His presence now and forever,
so I ask you to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior,
and help me every day to be more and more like you."
If you've sincerely prayed that prayer,
then the greatest miracle just happened,
you were born again and God put His spirit in you.
You can be certain He'll be with you forever,
and that's the greatest peace.
Now, you can start accessing God's presence anytime.
That happens through prayer, which is just talking to Him,
it doesn't have to be anything formal,
you can talk to God like you'd talk to a friend,
get to know His voice and His heart by reading his Bible
every day, the Gospels are a great place to begin.
I believe this moment marks a new beginning
for your life that will be filled with all the joy, peace
and strength that comes with God's presence.
I celebrate with you, and I know all of Heaven does too.
Do you suffer from feeling anxious,
agitated, irritable or overwhelmed?
If so, you are not alone.
Unfortunately three out of every four Christians admit
to these symptoms of stress, but more important
than physical suffering, stress comes
between our relationship with God,
it hinders obedience to God and it chokes out
the fruits of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
But you don't have to suffer from stress anymore.
In my four part audio series Stress Relievers,
I alert you to the common ways stress sneaks into our lives
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- I opened up the Shut Up, Devil! app many times.
A few months ago, when I was going through severe cancer.
- It has built my faith, it has built my trust.
- In 20 plus years of ministry,
I've battled insecurity at times.
Kyle's ministry spoke life into me at a time
where I almost quit believing in myself.
- I told God that he was stuck with me,
and God told me that He was not stuck with me, I was chosen.
And albeit that night Kyle spoke on being chosen.
- Kyle's ministry does a fantastic job
of encouraging you mid-week.
- And I've really started to understand
that God had a plan and He had a purpose directly for me.
(soulful music)
- But hear this, here's the promise,
being rid of shame does mean
that you're no longer afraid
of what those things mean about you.
It means that you're at peace with God,
it means that you're at peace with yourself
which in time brings you peace with people.
So phew, we've got that part over with now,
now we can get on to the hope,
we can get on to the solution.
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