Weathering The Storm Pt 2

Imperfectly Human: A Transparent Walk With Mr. Daley

[00:00:56] Terrence: [00:00:56] All right. So we welcome you to part two or weathering the storm, I guess slash ship wrecked now

so if you watch them so far, last week, we kind of ended on something that David said about, you know, us being the conduit for God. And then he works through us to then, bless other people, instead of everything coming to us and this kind of hoarding all the blessings for ourselves. And then, um, I kinda mentioned about being shipwrecked.

You know, about God we're to ship wreck our life. Go. We have so many things around us. You have to sometimes strip it down to just him and just allow him to be all we need. And I think with so much in the world right now, For us to aspire to have whether it's houses or money clothes or influence or whatever.

It's always more things want to [00:01:56] add around this. And he got like, man, where the space for me, where am I in all these rooms out of these things that you got going on around you. And so sometimes he has to strip all the way to see you. Hey, you said you follow me. You know, you follow me if you don't have that? If I don't bring that back to you.

So, um, the, uh, so we'll go, we'll go into the questions. Uh, so the first question is why do we allow fear to overcome us in the midst of a storm?

David: [00:02:32] So, um,

If I take us back to what I said when I was describing what a storm means to me,

when we, are in the midst of a storm, we feel we are in the midst of [00:02:56] something bigger than us something more powerful than us. Something that we have no control over. It's like, If you were caught in a tornado, you you've got no way to stop the tornado. You've just, you feel like you just got to sit it out and let the tornado pass.

And sometimes that's where the fear kicks in because you've seen how a tornado can pass through and leave a trail of devastation. And sometimes, let me run with this. Let me run with this T

sometimes it's not even sometimes I think we don't even fear the tornado itself. We fear [00:03:56] the devastation that the tornado is going to leave behind. So. Sometimes we are scared that the storm is going to expose things that we didn't want people to know about. Sometimes we feel like the storm is going to shatter people's perception of us.

Sometimes we feel that we just don't have what it takes to survive the storm.

Sometimes we just fear that, you know, we are going to be overwhelmed. And it's, it's funny because everyone in life puts up a facade at some point. Right. And, you know, when you've got a [00:04:56] facade, a facade it is what it is, isn't it it's, it's not, there's no foundation to a facade. It's just a covering to hide.

What's really behind. And in the midst of a storm, the first thing that's going to be blown away and destroyed is that facade. So our fear is heightened when we know that. This storm is going to expose who I really am. And that's why a lot of us fear the storm.

Terrence: [00:05:31] Yeah. Nah, I had to write them four down. I was about to say, I had to write that down, but man, because there may someone say about that, want to be exposed.

And that's what makes us vulnerable because we won't allow other people around us to kind of [00:05:56] help. But the store will come and then expose really how we really felt about people around us too.

Man. People think I really liked it.

Perception too. I think that keeps a lot of us stuck is how other people would think about us. If we do something or we make a certain choice some of us will really, uh, accept the ship wreck that God is trying to, or whatever the storm is trying to produce in us but the perception,is what keeps us from doing it a lot.

Yeah. So its like Lord I do want to give a lot of this stuff. But man if I start, like, [00:06:56] if I sell my house, I move what are people going to say, they gonna think I'm crazy. Now. All that kind of stuff. and, that's how we, we second guess ourselves and override with God is showing us to do, because if you, if you really walking with God, you gonna look crazy that on a consistent basis.

Stuff that you do and how you move and operate is going to be so foreign to other people its like its just going to come with the territory. So if that's one thing that well you just going to have to embrace that, because they comes.

David: [00:07:30] Yeah.

Terrence: [00:07:37] This is where it was good. And he is like, do that.

So, so yeah, but I do want to kind of go through some of those, but my answer to the question, because I didn't want to, I didn't want to skip over what you said. Cause all that was, [00:07:56] all that was great. I had to come back to some of that, cause that was just good. Uh, I, for me, my angle is we don't know who controls the storm.

So we get caught up in what's going around because we don't, we don't see God in the storm. We see the storm as being separate from God. Right. But then, also just like what you said about being the conduit or conduit. However you say it.

God, God placed what we need inside of us, as long as we can, we stay connected to him. So that's the other part of the faith piece is that as long as we have faith in God, then we shouldn't be afraid of what God created. So God created all of this around the [00:08:56] storm. It got elements of him too. So why should I fear the storm when it's all part of him, but he not, he might go even like, like we said, even if I get ship wrecked,, it's not the storm that's going to kill me.

And that what people got to understand being ship wrecked doesn't mean that you, die, being ship wrecked is that you lost what you didn't need. Yeah. And, and cause even, even, even this morning, I'm not going to any of the scriptures that I had down.

So, uh, let me see. All right. So like this morning I read Matthew 17, 20. That he, and it's amplified whether he answered because of your little faith, your lack of trust and confidence in the power of God, [00:09:56] I assure you in most solemly say to you, if you have living faith, the size of a mustard seed, you will, uh, let's see.

Yeah. You will say to this mountain move from here to there. And if it is Gods will, it will move and nothing will. Uh, what did I do? Okay. Nothing will be impossible. So we all, we all heard about having the faith of the size of a mustard seed, but the piece that we, that I used didn't focus on, I didn't really catch you this morning.

Is this you speaking to whatever is the barrier and saying. You have the, you have the power to tell a mountain to move from here to there if you speak it. So he not saying we gotta have great faith, we gotta have faith plus our word. [00:10:56] So just like, when you talking about, when you say the mountain last week, I was like, Oh,it fit right now, but.

While you were talking at the beginning, the song I told the storm came to me and it's all about, you know, you tell the storm like storm you're not going win and storm. You're not going to defeat me, stall you. So the very thing that you feel like is coming at you guys, or you probably will say like, Nope, you can't come this way.

Like, Nope, not today. Like, Nope. And we all feel like we got that power to say like, Oh, Nope, I'm not going to accept, you know, poverty. I'm not going to accept stuff being taken away from me I'm not going to accept it. Not s...