Mercy Culture Waco | Pastor Kaily Morrow
2023 | The Year of Dunamis - HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! Honor Mothers and Spiritual Mothers
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Mercy Culture Waco
1020 E Waco Dr, Waco, TX 76704, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
I CAME HERE TO TELL YOU TODAY---- DON’T GROW WEARY!
This is the year of Dunamis, STRENGTHENING AND FORITFYING
You may have felt discouraged this year because Dumanis felt like a shaking. it has caused you to examine your foundations!
I want to encourage you today that the shaking was not bad, but rather good. The shaking revealed lies of the enemy. These lies prevented you from fully receiving Dunamis. It has revealed your weakness! It has actually made you stronger as you identify where you are weak because that is the place where He is made strong!
You may have felt discouraged this year because Dumanis felt like a shaking. it has caused you to examine your foundations!
I want to encourage you today that the shaking was not bad, but rather good. The shaking revealed lies of the enemy. These lies prevented you from fully receiving Dunamis. It has revealed your weakness! It has actually made you stronger as you identify where you are weak because that is the place where He is made strong!
Don’t grow weary in feeling your weakness. This is where the Lord meets you to make you strong!
WACO, DON’T GROW WEARY IN WELL DOING!
I felt the Lord told me to bring an awareness to you that
when you feel like you are growing weary be aware that the enemy wants you to become comfortable with giving up.
when you feel like you are growing weary be aware that the enemy wants you to become comfortable with giving up.
The Lord says, don’t stay comfortable.
I believe this has been a word for MC Waco. It's the way you have pushed through in this hot tent. It's the way you have persevered in serving, in set up and tear down!
I believe this has been a word for MC Waco. It's the way you have pushed through in this hot tent. It's the way you have persevered in serving, in set up and tear down!
COMFORTABLE - a state of physical ease
Difference between being comfortable vs the Lord’s Comfort
The Lord creates a safe place. He prepares a table before us in the midst of our enemies, he is our strong tower where we run and find safety- I’m not talking about the Lord’s comfort. I am talking about the comfortability our flesh searches for.
What is false comfort? Anything that we reach for out of habit, familiarity, impulse, or craving, that does not really bring us full satisfaction.
I believe this is a tactic of the enemy because its subtle.
THIS IS WHAT BEING COMFORTABLE SOUNDS LIKE--
“I don’t know about sharing what I heard the Lord say”
“Someone else can do the thing God has been calling me to do.”
“I don’t feel adequate to fulfill the vision God has been speaking to me.”
“I won’t lean into awkward to built trust. I’ll just sweep it under the rug and it’ll be okay.”
“I would rather be comfortable than stretched.”
“Let me just vent about this instead of actually going to the Lord with it.”
“I don’t know about sharing what I heard the Lord say”
“Someone else can do the thing God has been calling me to do.”
“I don’t feel adequate to fulfill the vision God has been speaking to me.”
“I won’t lean into awkward to built trust. I’ll just sweep it under the rug and it’ll be okay.”
“I would rather be comfortable than stretched.”
“Let me just vent about this instead of actually going to the Lord with it.”
COMFORTABILITY IS THE ENEMY PREPARING YOU FOR YOUR DEATH BED. THE GOAL OF HOSPICE IS TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE.
You have stayed comfortable because you thought you were making space for someone else to run. You thought this was selfless, but it’s really selfish because you thought of your comfortability instead of obeying.
Are you too comfortable?
You may have thought that being comfortable is okay, but when really being comfortable is quitting.
Some of you may have said I won’t quit or give up, but you being comfortable is quitting.
I’ll say it again — it’s an attack of the enemy because it’s subtle.
You may have thought that being comfortable is okay, but when really being comfortable is quitting.
Some of you may have said I won’t quit or give up, but you being comfortable is quitting.
I’ll say it again — it’s an attack of the enemy because it’s subtle.
This is when I know comfortability is knocking at my door - You’ve become more concerned with how you feel than obedience.
The common denominator for comfortability is seeking relief for yourself.
It's more comfortable to scroll on social media than to write.
It's more comfortable to criticize than serve.
It's more comfortable to sleep than to be awake.
It's more comfortable to look away than to speak up.
It’s more comfortable to sit down than to stand.
It’s more comfortable to be numb than process your thoughts.
It's more comfortable to criticize than serve.
It's more comfortable to sleep than to be awake.
It's more comfortable to look away than to speak up.
It’s more comfortable to sit down than to stand.
It’s more comfortable to be numb than process your thoughts.
Why does it give birth to unrighteousness?
The Lord said - because nothing righteous can come from our flesh.
The Lord said - because nothing righteous can come from our flesh.
THE SELFISHNESS OF COMFORTABILITY GIVES BIRTH TO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
BUT THIS IS WHAT JESUS CALLS US TO
IT IS HARD TO BE COMFORTABLE WHEN YOU ARE PICKING UP A CROSS.
DO YOU CHOOSE COMFORT OVER CRUCIFYING YOUR FLESH?
Growth is outside of your comfort zone!
Don’t grow weary!!
Here are some things that require discomfort to grow -
1. Muscles - working out. If you don’t move, you atrophy.
2. Your Brain - Stepping out of your comfort zone with unfamiliar activities is what triggers the rewiring of your brain, which is a concept also known as neuroplasticity. As you age, the synapses in your brain can become inhibited by the natural formation of plaque. When this plaque accumulates, information passes more slowly and neurons die, which eventually leads to memory impairment and disease in old age. Thus, creating as many new pathways between neurons as possible — increasing neuroplasticity — helps ensure that the brain stays sharp and fights the plaque buildup. Improving your own neuroplasticity is the key to enhancing cognitive function and memory, learning more effectively, and ultimately preventing degeneration of your brain.
The truth is, when you follow a routine with the same repetitive habits, your brain eventually gets comfortable and stops stretching, working, and "growing.” Certain neural pathways can actually weaken and then stop working after a while if you don’t challenge your brain, leading to a faster decline in cognitive function.
3. Trees - greenhouse tree - Once they bore fruit, they collapsed because they couldn’t bear the weight of the fruit.
Trees can’t grow without wind! Wind makes their roots grow deeper and stronger.
4. Pregnancy - Mother’s know the discomfort that comes with growing a human inside of you! But they also see the beauty of what they birth!
5. YOU! Daily Encounters - If you don’t find Him you find death.
1. Muscles - working out. If you don’t move, you atrophy.
2. Your Brain - Stepping out of your comfort zone with unfamiliar activities is what triggers the rewiring of your brain, which is a concept also known as neuroplasticity. As you age, the synapses in your brain can become inhibited by the natural formation of plaque. When this plaque accumulates, information passes more slowly and neurons die, which eventually leads to memory impairment and disease in old age. Thus, creating as many new pathways between neurons as possible — increasing neuroplasticity — helps ensure that the brain stays sharp and fights the plaque buildup. Improving your own neuroplasticity is the key to enhancing cognitive function and memory, learning more effectively, and ultimately preventing degeneration of your brain.
The truth is, when you follow a routine with the same repetitive habits, your brain eventually gets comfortable and stops stretching, working, and "growing.” Certain neural pathways can actually weaken and then stop working after a while if you don’t challenge your brain, leading to a faster decline in cognitive function.
3. Trees - greenhouse tree - Once they bore fruit, they collapsed because they couldn’t bear the weight of the fruit.
Trees can’t grow without wind! Wind makes their roots grow deeper and stronger.
4. Pregnancy - Mother’s know the discomfort that comes with growing a human inside of you! But they also see the beauty of what they birth!
5. YOU! Daily Encounters - If you don’t find Him you find death.
HOW DO WE GET OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONE?
Practical Advice: Be disciplined. You deny your flesh.
1. Grow in Daily Personal Encounters!
It is in your daily personal encounters that you come to God as a son or daughter and receive His disciplines!
2. Tell someone how you want to be disciplined! Be held accountable.
-Tell the Lord in your encounters.
-Tell a friend or spouse to hold you accountable!
It is in your daily personal encounters that you come to God as a son or daughter and receive His disciplines!
2. Tell someone how you want to be disciplined! Be held accountable.
-Tell the Lord in your encounters.
-Tell a friend or spouse to hold you accountable!
WE ARE IN A DAY WHEN DISCIPLINE IS CALLED RELIGIOUS WHEN REALLY, IT’S HOLY!
If you don’t know what daily encounters should look like - ask a leader here! Daily encounter guides are on our website.
CHURCH, DON’T GROW WEARY!
THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DISCIPLINE!
THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DISCIPLINE!
Esau grew weary and sought temporary comfort instead of being strengthened to walk in His birth right.
In the year of Dunamis, the Lord is strengthening you to not run to false comforts, but to be strengthened to walk in your birth right— TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE LORD.
The book of Isaiah up to this chapter dealt predominately with the burdens of judgement against disobedient Judah, Israel, and the pagan nations.
Chapter 40 is transitional! It paves the way for the rest of Isaiah. Chapter 40 is where consolation comes from the Lord. Isaiah prophesies of Israel’s return with comfort, peace, deliverance, and the coming of Jesus.
Chapter 40 is transitional! It paves the way for the rest of Isaiah. Chapter 40 is where consolation comes from the Lord. Isaiah prophesies of Israel’s return with comfort, peace, deliverance, and the coming of Jesus.
That word Comfort in the Hebrew :
naw-kham’
means: to be sorry, console oneself, to repent, to regret, comfort, be comforted.
-To repent - to draw a breath forcibly, a pant, a groan.
-To lament or grieve / Repent
-To be comforted of loss - CONSOLED.
naw-kham’
means: to be sorry, console oneself, to repent, to regret, comfort, be comforted.
-To repent - to draw a breath forcibly, a pant, a groan.
-To lament or grieve / Repent
-To be comforted of loss - CONSOLED.
God is declaring Comfort, not in retreating, not to pause and throw in the towel, but in repentance that releases His comfort. He was declaring COMFORT to them in the midst of war - declaring their iniquity has been pardoned!
Whenever God uses words twice, He wants us to pay attention.
“The charge of COMFORT is doubled, Comfort you, comfort you-not because the prophets are unwilling to do it(no, it is the most pleasant part of their work), but because sometimes the souls of God's people refuse to be comforted, and their comforters must repeat things again and again.”
“The charge of COMFORT is doubled, Comfort you, comfort you-not because the prophets are unwilling to do it(no, it is the most pleasant part of their work), but because sometimes the souls of God's people refuse to be comforted, and their comforters must repeat things again and again.”
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT COMFORT IS LISTED TWICE.
QUESTION -
Do you run to comforts that bring temporary relief or do you receive comfort from God?
-Has your weariness caused you to seek comfort in yourself?
-How do you know if you receive comfort from God? You go to Him!
Do you run to comforts that bring temporary relief or do you receive comfort from God?
-Has your weariness caused you to seek comfort in yourself?
-How do you know if you receive comfort from God? You go to Him!
I believe the Lord is drawing us to repent for the selfish comforts we have fled to instead of walking in the comfort - the ease that comes when we walk in obedience.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO SO, YOU WILL BE THE ONES WHO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE LORD IN THE WILDERNESS!!!!!
THE WILDERNESS IS NOT A COMFORTABLE PLACE!!!!!
THE WILDERNESS IS NOT A COMFORTABLE PLACE!!!!!
This is why He sent the COMFORTER, the Holy Spirit!
When you daily encounter the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, he disciplines and strengthens you so you do not grow weary — HE BRINGS YOU THE TRUE COMFORT!
The end result is the glory of the Lord being revealed.
The end result is the glory of the Lord being revealed.
THIS IS THE TENT OF GLORY.
IT REQUIRES YOU TO NOT BE FAMILIAR OR COMFORTABLE IN YOUR SELFISH WAYS, BUT TO BE STRENGTHENED BY WAITING ON HIM.
IT REQUIRES YOU TO NOT BE FAMILIAR OR COMFORTABLE IN YOUR SELFISH WAYS, BUT TO BE STRENGTHENED BY WAITING ON HIM.
Waco, you will not grow weary. You will not stay in comfort zones to appease selfish desires. You will be disciplined and strengthened to prepare the way of the Lord so righteousness will be brought forth!
REPENTANCE FOR THE SELFISHNESS THAT HAS PRODUCED UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
This morning is the morning you will run out of your comfort into His comfort.
The Lord showed me some of you have given up before you’ve even begun.
You said I would rather be comfortable than do that thing God asked.
But he is asking that you would be a part of preparing the way for Him.
This morning is the morning you will run out of your comfort into His comfort.
The Lord showed me some of you have given up before you’ve even begun.
You said I would rather be comfortable than do that thing God asked.
But he is asking that you would be a part of preparing the way for Him.
FREEDOM FROM SELF PRESERVATION -
“The meaning of self-preservation in a relationship indicates that someone is trying to not lose any part of themselves in a relationship.”
FREEDOM FROM NUMBING OUT
RECEIVING TRUE COMFORT
“The meaning of self-preservation in a relationship indicates that someone is trying to not lose any part of themselves in a relationship.”
FREEDOM FROM NUMBING OUT
RECEIVING TRUE COMFORT
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