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Very encouraging. Thank you so much. Well, with that, I want to encourage our speaker for the day, our lead pastor, Shelly Foley.

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She’s going to come bring us the word of God. Let’s welcome her up here.

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Thank you.

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All right. Get situated. I don’t think I need. I feel like I almost don’t need to preach today.

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This entire service has been.

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Exactly what the Lord gave me for today. Like everything. Let’s see if I can actually get this to work. Come on.

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It’s like. It’s like my iPad broke all of a sudden.

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Just do that. Man, it’s been a day of confirmation. We’ll just say that much. He is so good. Ruth. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. So not just the poem. I mean, from the encouragement with Bob Kirk and the songs that Josh and the team brought to Ruth’s poem. Man, it was beautiful. God is speaking to us today and confirming his word, confirming his heart for us.

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And last week was was kind of a hard week. It’s kind of a hard message. Did anybody else feel it but me? I felt it. And then this last week, this week since then has been a hard week. It’s been a hard week. And sometimes I wonder, Lord, man, I don’t want to preach these messages. Then my week gets really hard.

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But maybe it’s God’s preparing me for the week that is to come. That God’s preparing me for the things that he is unfolding before me, and he’s giving us everything that we need. He is so good and he is so faithful. So today we’re going to we’re going to continue in our theme in our series this summer called unhindered.

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And I think most of you have been here for, for for most of this, but we’ve been unpacking some prophetic words that were given to this House. And we’re going to continue in that the heart of the series is with the prophetic. Sometimes we we want to predict what’s happening, and we want God to give us the details and show us how it’s all going to work out.

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And that’s not usually the case. And so with this series, he’s really trying to get us to understand that we’re supposed to prepare our hearts to remain unhindered in our relationship with him, regardless of what comes, regardless of the circumstances around us, regardless of the chaos around us, that we are to be unhindered and remain unhindered in our relationship with him.

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And that’s his most important priority, is closeness with us, closeness with us. So for the first few weeks, I’m just going to do a really quick recap. We talked about what happened when our faith was challenged in the first week. We talked about what causes people to doubt what they know.

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We talked about what can cause people to doubt who they’ve known. When questions come up that we cannot answer, when circumstances are around us that do not make sense.

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The third week, Jeremy brought us a word. He talked about how faith survives when understanding doesn’t come. What if it never comes?

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What word are we standing on? And last week we turned the corner and we asked the question, what hinders the flow of God in our lives?

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And last week we looked at the part of the prophecy that named things like bitterness and resentment and fear and anxiety and isolation.

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Things that can begin to build up on the inside of us. The little things, even not even the big things that the little things, the pieces in which we leave behind. And we don’t surrender fully to Christ. And these things can begin to build up on the inside of us and clogging the pathways that the life of Jesus is supposed to flow through.

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One of our keys from last week, we said what we continually surrender to God. He can transform, but what remains Unserer can become a blockage.

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That can be anything.

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And it brings us to today. So if what remains UN surrendered can begin to hinder the flow, then the hope is, and the truth is, what is brought back to God can be healed, transformed and restored. What is brought back to God? You know that. It’s okay.

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If it wasn’t brought to him already.

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Do you know that he’s inviting us to bring it back to him so that he can heal and he can transform and he can restore? God is so good. He is so good. He doesn’t expose things to condemn us. He exposes things to heal us. And this is something we need to understand, because it’s a process in which we cannot be afraid of.

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had times where I’m like, God, I don’t know if I want you to expose things.

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I don’t know if I want if I want to let you even tell me what’s going on. But we cannot be afraid of God exposing the things inside of us, because it’s not coming from a place of condemnation. It’s not coming from a place of shame, or that you didn’t have it all together. It doesn’t mean that you’re not on the right path.

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It just means that God has a place that he wants to heal, that he wants to restore, that he wants to bring transformation because he wants life to flow. He says it’s it’s fine. You can stay there, but there’s so much more for you if you just let me in. It can’t be a place where we fear him exposing because he doesn’t expose for shame.

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He exposes to heal, and we have to be secure in him as our good father. He is her good father. He loves us unconditionally. All he wants is for us to have more, for us to live in more freedom and more peace, in love and fullness of his mercy and his grace. That’s his heart for his people.

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So this week we are going to be asking the next question how does God restore the flow? How does God restore the flow? So I promise this week is not going to be as heavy of a message as last week, because God is bringing us to a place to receive his goodness and his grace and his mercy, to receive his healing, his transformation, his restoration.

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So to answer this question, I want to bring us back to the the prophecy part of the prophecy that we that we’re going over.

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For so long. Bitterness and resentment and fear, depression and anxiety have been building up within the church and clogging the pathways for transformative, life giving, healing blood of Jesus to flow into the hearts and body of God’s people.

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You see his heart here, right? He’s trying to uncover something because he says he wants the healing blood of Jesus to flow into the hearts and body of God’s people.

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God is shaking his church awake. The masterful surgeon is coming to remove what was clogged has clogged the flow of Jesus’s blood. But this is not something he is doing alone. This is something he is inviting us to do with him.

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And he names him again and says their names are bitterness and resentment and depression and anxiety and fear. And they come with the purpose to isolate and devour.

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But I love it because that’s not where he ends. He goes on and says, so repent and reject the tactics of the devourer, and see the life giving power of the Most High God flow. Yes, yes. See the life giving power of the Most High God flow man. That’s what I want. That is what I want in my life.

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So how do I get there if this is really what I want? God’s challenging us to say I know how where you how you got without it. And if you want to get here, there’s some things that have to happen in between. And if we really want the life giving flow of God to flow in us and through us, we will heed the warnings and the instructions that he’s giving us.

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Because, like I said, he’s giving them from a place of love that father who just wants the best for his kids. Any parent out there, maybe we don’t always get it all right, but we just want the best. We don’t want our kids to go through unnecessary pain. We don’t want them to go through unnecessary brokenness and heartache.

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That’s God. He wants to bring us healing and restoration today.

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See, this prophecy gives us a picture. And it’s not a picture of a judge wanting to condemn. Hear me? Like I said, we’ve got to get it out of our head. That exposing what is going on in our life is a bad and negative thing, because God is not a judge waiting to condemn. He is a masterful surgeon coming to heal what has been clogged.

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You see, God does not restore the flow by telling us to try harder to suppress it. Better to pretend better.

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Or to perform our way into wholeness.

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God restores the flow by healing what is wounded, transforming what has been shaped by those wounds, and restoring what has been hindered. So let’s begin with this first this first point, this first work that the surgeon does. He heals what is wounded. See Psalm 147 three says he heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalm 3418 says, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted.

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He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.

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You see, the first thing we need to see is that God does not stand at a distance from wounded places. He comes near, says the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He’s not afraid of our brokenness. He doesn’t tell us that we need to get it all together before he comes near. He says he is close, that he is the one that comes in and actually physically rescues those who are crushed.

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He comes near to the wounds. He comes near to the brokenness. He heals. He binds. He tends what’s broken, and he rescues what’s crushed. See, God is not harsh with the brokenhearted.

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You know, our instinct with pain is to pull away, right? That’s not God’s instinct. Our instincts is when we hurt, we hide. I’ll just speak for me. When I hurt, I hide.

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When I’m afraid. I protect. When I’m bitter, I harden. You’re not going to do that to me again.

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When I’m anxious, I try to control.

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When I’m becoming isolated, I withdraw.

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Everybody at a distance.

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But Jesus came.

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Not afraid of our pain, not putting distance or pulling away from it. But he came as a physician. He came to heal, not to accuse. Hear me. Jesus came as a physician, not an accuser.

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If we really want to understand the heart of the surgeon, we need to understand what Jesus said his mission was. He said it in Luke four. He said, and he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as a custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read. And they handed him the book of Isaiah.

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And he opened it. And he said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.

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The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and restore the sight to the blind, and to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Come on. And then he closed the book, and he gave it back.

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And then he said this in verse 21, he says, today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. You see, Jesus did not simply announce that he teach that he teaches truth. He announced that he had come to heal the brokenhearted. He announced that he came to bring liberty to the captive. He came to set free those who were oppressed.

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That was his mission. He was not afraid of the pain. He was not afraid of the ugly. He was not afraid of the wounded. He said, I will come near because my assignment is to set it free and to bring healing and restoration and deliverance to my people.

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So when we see this prophecy talking about Jesus being the masterful surgeon, we can’t hear condemnation. We must hear what Jesus is saying, that he was sent to the brokenhearted.

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You see, the surgeon is not the accuser. Jesus exposes to heal.

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The accuser exposes to shame.

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The accuser exposes to condemn, to destroy. But Jesus exposes because life was meant to flow in those places again.

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You see, God is willing to heal.

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But he will not force open what we refuse to surrender.

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God is willing to heal, but he will not force open what we refuse to surrender. So, so important because healing requires surrender. The prophecy said the master surgeon is coming to remove those things that are clogged. But it’s not something he is doing alone. It’s something he’s inviting us into. Now, this doesn’t mean that we perform surgery on ourselves.

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Okay, let me be really clear. God is the surgeon here. God is the one that will take care of it. Okay? It means that we surrender to the one who can perform the work. The healing work belongs to him. But the surrender to that work belongs to us. That’s what he’s inviting us into. He’s saying, I want to heal you, but I.

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I can’t unless you just. You give it to me.

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He does the work, but the surrender belongs to us. Healings. Not a self effort. It’s not. Go to therapy long enough and you’re going to. You’re going to get better. Come on. I’m not saying there’s not a place. There is, but I’m talking about these places that are spiritual. God is the only one that can take care of them.

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It is not self effort, striving or fixing ourselves. Our healing requires us to stop hiding, to stop guarding, to stop protecting what he came to heal. Okay. Hear me? Sometimes the places God wants to heal are the same places we have learned to protect.

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Bitterness can feel like a protection. Like I said, I’m not going to do that to me again. Fear can sometimes feel like responsibility. Anxiety can feel like control. Resentment can feel justified.

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And I don’t know about you, but I don’t usually protect places that are easy. I’ve places that are still tender. Right? Places that I’ve already decided.

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You’re not going to do it to me again.

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And that’s where this really gets real, you guys. That’s where surrender gets real. Not in theory, but when God touches the thing that I’ve been guarding.

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But when we use. But what we use to protect the wound can become a block to the flow. You see, Jesus asked an important question in John five. He said there was a certain man who had an infirmity 38 years. And then in verse six he says, When Jesus came, he saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there in that condition a long time.

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And he said to him, do you want to be made well?

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I always find this interesting. If someone has been sick for 38 years. Do you think you really need to ask them the question? Do you want to be made well?

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But I believe it’s deeper than it sounds because he’s not just asking if the man wants relief. He’s asking if he’s ready for wholeness. There’s a difference. Sometimes we want relief without change.

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See, God’s not interested in treating our symptoms.

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He wants to make us whole. Sometimes we just want the pain to stop.

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We want the confusion to stop. We want the guilt to go away. But we’re still holding on to the patterns that we’ve built around the pain, the patterns that we’ve built our life on. So let me ask you again. Do you want to be made well? Or do you want a prescription for the pain?

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God’s not writing out scripts here. He wants to take care of the source. That is what he is doing. And when he’s asking this man. Do you want to be made well? He said, do you want the fullness and the wholeness that I have to offer you? Because it’s going to go beyond just the physical pain or the emotional pain or the confusion or the guilt that you’re striving and struggling in right now.

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It’s going to be a whole transformation of who you are. That’s what he is interested in. He is interested in wholeness, body, soul, and spirit. Surrender isn’t pretending that the wound didn’t happen. Surrender isn’t pretending that the chaos isn’t there, but it’s bringing it back into the hands of the one who can heal it. Holy. Not just in part, but in fullness.

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Says Lord, I can’t hear myself, but I can stop hiding from you so you can heal me.

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So the first way God restores the flow is to heal what? What is wounded? He comes near. He binds up. He’s the masterful surgeon. And he invites us to surrender those places to him. But God doesn’t stop at healing the wound because some wounds do more than hurt us. They begin to shape us.

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So our second point today is that he transforms what the wounds have shaped.

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What starts as pain can become a pattern in our lives.

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They can begin to shape how we think, how we respond. Fear can shape how I remember, how I respond to things. Bitterness can shape how I remember. Anxiety can shape how I see the future. Resentment can shape how I relate to others.

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And I know for me, this is where this gets pretty uncomfortable, because it’s one thing for me to ask God to to heal something that was hurt in me. But it’s another thing to admit that that that hurt has started to shape me.

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And this is this is the hard place.

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Am I willing to admit that it’s shaped how I respond, that my woundedness has shaped how I respond to people?

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Am I willing to admit that my wound has shaped how I protect myself, what relationships I allow in my life? Who this is. This is where rever means the road here, guys.

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Because sometimes the pattern feels normal.

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Sometimes it feels like wisdom.

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Feels like discernment. It feels like being careful.

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But sometimes what I called wisdom was just fear.

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What I called boundaries was just self-protection.

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And what I called. I’m fine.

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Was really distance.

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I know this is where I need healing. I know this is where I need more transformation. Because restoration can’t just be. Lord, touch my wound, heal my wound. It has to be. Lord, renew what that wound has been forming in me.

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It has to become.

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God, transforming what’s on the inside, disrupting those patterns and bringing them into submission to Christ. Bringing revelation to those places that need transformation.

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Psalm 51 verse ten says, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

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You see, David isn’t just asking God to forgive what he did. Although the previous verses go through that. He’s asking God to create and renew something inside of him, to make upright what had become bent. That’s true transformation. Romans 12 two says, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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This is a scripture a lot of us know. A lot of us say, but here’s the deal. Transformation is a complete change, not behavior modification.

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It’s not just learning religious language. It’s not just looking better on the outside. It’s not just conforming to a church culture. It’s deeper. It’s when God begins to change the way we think, the way we see, the way we discern, the way we live our lives, the way we remember things, the way we respond to things. That’s what full transformation is.

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You see, if fear has been doing the thinking for me, I need more than just reassurance, I need transformation. If resentment has been doing the remembering for me, I need more than time. I need transformation. If anxiety has been interpreting the future, then I need more than just control. I need transformation from God, I need renewal. You see, God restores the flow by renewing the places where fear and resentment and anxiety and pain have been doing the thinking for us.

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And you know what the best and most beautiful part about this is? That transformation always begins with mercy.

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Romans 12 back to verse one says, therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God.

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Renewal doesn’t happen because we beat ourselves into change. Renewal doesn’t happen because we, the shame, finally motivated us enough. The guilt finally got to me. Paul gives us this other starting point. He said, in view of the mercies of God and then the rest follows.

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Before Paul talks about us offering ourselves, he reminds us of mercy. You see, transformation does not begin with guilt. It begins with mercy. Mercy. The mercy of God. Paul doesn’t say behave correctly. So God is pleased with you. Okay, I say that and we all say amen.

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And then.

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We expect it.

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You know, we expect correct behavior so that God can be pleased.

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We expected in our own lives. We expected in those around us. But that is not what God is here for.

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He is here with mercy first. Anything that does not begin with the mercy and the blood of Jesus is just self-serving.

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Makes me feel better. It makes me feel prouder.

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But it has to begin with the mercy of God. Everything else flows from that place. Transformation flows from that place. When it doesn’t begin with mercy, that’s when we get behavior modification. Mercy is what brings about transformation in our lives. It’s mercy. First surrender. Second transformation that follows. That is the order period.

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And this connects us right back that the masterful surgeon is not asking us to surrender because he wants to shame us, but he’s asking us to surrender because mercy is trying to restore us.

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You see, transformation starts with mercy, but it must happen in relationship.

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Transformation happens as we behold him. Second Corinthians three verse 18 says, but we all with unveiled face, beholding as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.

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He doesn’t transfer. We don’t get transformed by staring at the wound.

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We don’t get transformed by obsessing over what’s wrong with us. Why can’t I just get over this? We don’t get transformed by trying harder to be better.

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We’re transformed because of his mercies. That draws us into relationship, where we can sit and behold him. Pastor David spoke about it today. When we can sit and rest in him.

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The longer I stay near him, the more of what has been distorted around me begins to be renewed. The longer I behold him, the more I begin to recognize what looks like him and what doesn’t. This is transformation.

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God heals what is wounded, but he also transforms the wound that has shaped things inside of us.

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Seeing when God begins to heal what’s wounded and transformed, what’s been shaped, something else begins to happen. The flow of the life of Jesus begins to be restored. Begins to return, you know. See? Joy starts to return. Trust starts to return. Tenderness starts to return. Our soul can breathe again.

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God does not only heal and transform, but our third point is he restores what has been hindered.

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See, God heals the wounded. He transforms what? That wound shaped, and then he restores. Restoration is not only the removal of what has been in the way. Restoration is the return of the life giving flow.

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And Psalm 23 David says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He restores my soul. He leads me in the path of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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God restores us to him. He restores my soul to him. Matthew Henry in the commentary of the whole Bible, it is. He does a commentary on the whole Bible. He frames Psalm 23 and he says two things that really struck me. He says, God restores me when I wander and he recovers me when I am sick and revives me when I am faint.

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So and so restores the soul which was ready to depart.

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He restores the soul that was ready to depart.

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You see, restoration isn’t just relief. It’s the shepherd bringing the soul back when it has wandered, reviving it when it’s faint and restoring it to this care, not self restoration, Shepherd restoration. Restoration brings a soul back. To care, to leadership, to direction of the shepherd. You see, restoration does not mean that God pretends that the damage never happened.

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It does not mean that everything goes back exactly the way it was before, but it does mean that the damage does not get the final word. You know, Peter says in first Peter five says, but may the God of all grace, who called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while.

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Perfect, establish and strengthen and settle you. You know, I love this honesty here in this phrase that after you’ve suffered a while. Jesus said it in these in this world you’re going to have troubles. But take heart. I have overcome the world. This is honest. This is real. This is what we are going to go through as humans.

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Okay. This scripture does not pretend that suffering doesn’t happen, but it does not minimize what was lost. But it also says that the God of all grace will restore and strengthen and establish and settle us after the suffering.

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And when the damage feels like it’s maybe touched more than just a moment, it’s touched a maybe a long season.

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When it feels like maybe a whole season of our life has been consumed. Joel gives us a picture of hope. He says, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust have eaten.

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You know, that doesn’t mean that the locust never came.

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But it means that what was consumed is not beyond the ability of God to restore.

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God restores what’s been lost around us, but he also restores what’s been depleted inside of us.

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Psalm 51 verse 12 says, restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your generous spirit. I think it is so important that as we come to the end of this, this message today, that we end with the fact that God wants to restore our joy.

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See David here. He’s not asking to be saved again, but he’s asking for the joy of his salvation to be restored. He’s asking to be upheld by the spirit. That’s not just saying God remove the guilt or remove the pain and saying God, even though there’s stuff going on and the pains been there, still restore my joy because your joy is not dependent on my emotions.

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Your joy is not dependent on my circumstances because your joy is sufficient all by itself, all by itself.

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He can restore our joy. Our hearts cry needs to be restore our willingness. Restore the steadiness that I need. Restore the capacity to want you again. Restore your leadership in my life. You see, this is more than emotions. This joy of restored fellowship that brings us back to the flow of God. You see, when fellowship is restored, the flow is restored.

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And that fellowship is not meant to stop with the me and Jesus. This restoration is not just personal. God restores people, but he also restores a people.

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Lamentations five verse 21 says, turn us back to you, O Lord, and we will be restored. Renew our days as of old. Now, I don’t want to miss this corporate nature here. It doesn’t say, turn me back. It says, turn us back to you, O Lord. You see this prophecy that we’ve been studying? It wasn’t just about my heart being restored.

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And it wasn’t just about your individual hearts being restored. It was about the body of Christ being restored. It was speaking to what has been building up in the church. The bitterness, the fear, the resentment and anxiety. Depression, isolation. Things that don’t just hinder individuals, but hinder families, hinder communities, hinder relationships, hinder the body of Christ. So yes, God restores hearts, but he also restores families and he restores relationships.

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And he restores unity, and he restores trust, and he restores tenderness, and he restores trust. When fear and insecurity took over. Even who.

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He restores love even when there was resentment. Restoration is not personal, is personal, but it is not private.

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Restoration is personal, but it’s not private. When God restores the flow in us, he begins to restore the flow between us.

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Jesus is inviting us back into relationship with him and into relationship with his body.

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Yes, every joint supplies. He’s inviting us into a place where living waters can flow again, freely and unhindered.

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Jesus tells us in John seven says, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as if the Scripture is said, out of the heart will flow rivers of living water. And he spoke this concerning the spirit.

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So we end today focused on Jesus. The master surgeon who comes to restore the flow, the flow of joy, the flow of peace, the flow of healing, the flow of His Spirit in us. Because that is what this whole prophetic word and this whole series that we’ve been doing unhindered is about healed hearts, transformed minds, restored souls, and life flowing again.

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I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to just keep talking about what’s stopping the flow. I want to live an unhindered life where the flow of God, the living waters, flow in me and through me. I don’t want to keep managing what Jesus wants to heal.

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I want to be fully restored and transformed.

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I want Jesus to have access to everything that he wants to heal, everything he wants to renew, everything he wants to restore. And I refuse to be afraid of him exposing that. So, church, let this be our prayer. Lord, restore the flow in us so that the living waters can flow again in men. Church.

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I’m glad you decided to. It was really good.

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You build a pattern around the pain. That’s called religion.

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But why do you need all that when you’re safe?

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Why do you need all that? When he finished the work. Thank you so much, Pastor Shelley. I’m going to listen to that one again. It was. That was really powerful. I hope we carry that with us. If anybody needs to stay back and receive prayer, if there’s things that you’re like, you know, I know the Lord wants to heal me, but I just I don’t know how.

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We have pastors here that would love, love to lead you into that and help connect you. So please remain and and give them access. What do we hear? Sometimes that’s a physical thing of opening up to another human being. So don’t let this word pass by because it was a strong word. All right, well, let me pray for us, and then I’ll dismiss.

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Father, we thank you for your blessing and your word, your grace to us. Thank you, Lord, that there is a way to walk holy in the Holy Spirit that brings wholeness and restoration without bondage, without blockage. We pray, Lord, that you would flow powerfully through us, and that you would give us so much joy the rest of the day, as we are unhindered by the powers of darkness, or by guilt or shame, or any such thing in Jesus name.

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Amen. All right. Well, we’re going to go to fellowship. If you’re visiting, we’ve got food for you in a back table. And so let’s let’s go have fun. Let’s have the joy of the Lord.