What he's doing, don't he? Let's go to John chapter 4. And I want to look at something that caught my attention this week. All I've got is a few little notes put in my notes that transfers between my phone and my iPad on notes. And so that's all I've got. But I want us to look at something that caught my attention. And as soon as I said those words, is anybody tired? The Lord just kind of told me to go over here. Sometimes, Brother Brian, you know this as a preacher. I've been preaching a lot of years. Sometimes when you come in prepared for something, there's nothing wrong with that, you ought to be. But sometimes God would rather say just a little thought as to say everything I've prepared. And that's what I think he's wanting to do tonight. I did not plan this, folks. So you just pray for me, okay? Because I want to do you right, and I want to do the Lord right. But the fact that the Lord nudged me tells me this is what I'm supposed to do. So let's look at John chapter four tonight. And I don't know how in the world this will go, but there's a little thought, there's a little phrase here that caught my attention. And I think maybe it'd be a blessing to somebody. John chapter 4, look in verse number 1. If you're there, say Amen. John chapter 4, verse number 1. This is a very, very familiar passage of scripture. We've been talking about it in Sunday school some. The Bible said, When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples. He left Judea and departed again into Galilee, and he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Now here's the phrase. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey. Did you all read that? Jesus. Therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour. We know this whole chapter is about the woman. Jesus is winning this woman at the well. And I've preached 5,000 messages out of this. But when I was reading through this this week, that little phrase jumped out at me. Jesus, verse number six, therefore being wearied with his journey. I don't even have a title. I guess I'm going to preach on what somebody's supposed to do or what to do when you get weary. Jesus is weary and what he does when he's weary I believe would be a good thing for you and I to pattern, don't you? And so let's pray, you pray with me and for me tonight. Father, we love you and we thank you, Lord, for the opportunity to be here tonight. God, now Lord, I'm trying my best to follow you. Lord, I pray that you'd touch me and God, I pray that you'd use me. Lord, speak to our hearts. You know what we need tonight. And Lord, ain't no mistake that, Lord, that you nudge my heart when those words come out my mouth. Lord, you know what you're doing. And so Lord, I pray tonight that you would, Lord, just take your book, God, and you do the preaching through me. And Lord, speak to hearts. God, on a Wednesday night, more than likely, I would say over 90% of everybody here tonight's probably saved, going to heaven, trying to serve you. They wouldn't be here on Wednesday night. Lord, most likely, outside of religion, they would not be here, Lord, unless they really wanted to live for you and loved you. And so, God, I pray tonight, Lord, that you'd speak to those who may be weary, Lord, in well-doing. God, you said, Lord, we will reap. In due season, in due time, Lord, we'll reap if we faint not. But Lord, the reality of this thing is real, that we do get weary at times. And so God, I pray that you'd let me encourage your people tonight for a little while, and Lord, we'll thank you for it. In Jesus' name and for its sake, and all the Lord's people said, Amen and amen. Again, I've got a few little things I have jotted down, but when I read this, the Lord stopped me, and I realized what a miracle that it is that the Son of God has became weary. We understand that the Lord is here, and the Bible said that he must needs go through Samaria. How many of y'all know, I do not believe he went to the well My friend for water, he went to the well for a woman. Can I get a little help? The Lord Jesus knew this Samaritan woman, a Gentile dog, would pass by this way, and so the Bible said that Jesus must needs go through Samaria, but then in verse number six, we find the phrase, and Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. May I say without a doubt, Jesus has been busy about his Father's business. Now listen to me, we're not talking about somebody who's just been out splitting wood all day. Are you listening? We're not talking about somebody that's crawled out from under working on a truck. I know that kind of tired, that's not the kind of tired I'm speaking about tonight. I'm talking about a weariness that you get along the journey. It's not a one-day thing, a two-day thing, a three-week thing, even a three- or four-year thing, but your journey. In reality, my journey started as a little boy. As soon as my mom and daddy took me to the house of God, my journey began. And so through my childhood years, I was on a journey. God prepared my heart to be saved before I got saved. After I got saved, God then prepared me to serve. And so your whole life, you are along a journey. And may I say tonight, no matter what season of life you're in, weariness can come. Matter of fact, I know we all get weary in hard times and in waiting times, but has anybody ever just got weary in the journey when everything wasn't going bad? I mean, everything's been going good for me before, and I'm just weary with the journey. But may I say tonight, it is here that we find that, my friend, the Lamb of God has become weary along the journey. This man has not sinned. This is the Lord Jesus. He can't sin. Can I get a witness? He's not weary because of what he's done wrong. He does know wrong. This man has not slipped. He can't slip. How many of y'all know as human beings we can slip? We can slow the journey. I mean, look at the children of Israel. At their time, they should have went to Canaan in 11 days. It took them 40 years, but they slipped and they sinned and it made their journey longer. And their journey weary, but may I say Jesus didn't slip, yet He's weary along the journey. Jesus didn't see him, yet he's weary along the journey. Not only did Jesus not sin or slip, but can I say he had not swayed. He has been about the Father's business. Can you imagine seeing a man never get off track? How many of y'all just this week, just today, you went a little off track? And thank God for the Holy Ghost. that trot jerks on the steering wheel and guides us back into where we're supposed to be. What I'm trying to do is paint a picture that Jesus has done no wrong. Jesus has not swayed. He's not taken a wrong path or made a bad choice. Jesus has not slipped. He's not quit being faithful. He's done exactly what he's supposed to do from the day he was born. And he sure did not see him yet, Brother Brian. He became weary. along the journey. May I say this is a place where I have found myself, and I know many of you have found yourself somewhere there now. You're simply weary. May I say this tonight? May it be a word of encouragement. How many times when you get weary, does the accuser of the brethren come by and try to beat you down just over the fact that you're weary? Well, you shouldn't. I mean, who are you? Why do you want to quit? Hey, listen, if the Lord can become weary, you better know, honey, you and I will become weary along the journey. Can I say this tonight? Becoming weary along the journey, oftentimes it does not occur because of what you do wrong. That'll be the first lie. that the devil would tell somebody is well if you had done this a little better, things would have worked out better for you. Had you not done that, you wouldn't be in this position. Had you done that, you wouldn't. But listen to me tonight, it is often times when you are legitimately weary along the journey of serving Jesus. It is not because of what you're doing wrong. It is because of what you're doing right. Let this be an encouragement to you. You do not have to beat yourself over the head. That's because it's all your fault. You're trying to serve God. God knew. I'm feeling a little preaching now. God knew what he had to work with when he bought me I know I'm a nothing. I am a Gentile dog. But God knew what I was when he saved me and he called me. He knew what he had to work with. It ain't just my good if I get good. It's God's good no matter if life's good or not. And it is not what we do wrong that brings weariness. It's what we do right. You know why I've backed myself in a closet and in a corner more times than not? I'm tired. I'm tired of results. I'm cuff preaching tonight, so y'all gonna have to help me. I'm preaching just off the cuff. When I get weary, you know what else I do? When I get weary, I get weird. You might as well just help me. Why do you reckon? Everybody on count three say amen. So just so I know you can. One, two, three. Now if you do that the rest of this sermon, it'd help me a whole lot. Did you know Elijah the prophet seen God do more than any of us will ever see him do with our eyes? That joker slayed 450 false prophets of Baal. 450. He prayed and fire fell. And not only licked up the altar and sacrificed in the altar, but he had them go fetch 12 barrels of water. He burned all them up too. I'm talking about a man that's been out there by a brook and cherry and birds are coming. Honey, listen to me. Birds, ravens are lighting on his shoulder and bringing him a steak every morning and bread of an evening. I mean, he's seen things you and I can't fathom. And he got to the place where he became so weary with his journey that he crawled up under a juniper tree and said, Oh, God, I wish you'd just go ahead and take me out of this thing. Ain't nobody left but me. But can I say, right then in that place, the Bible said that God sent him an angel and put him some bread and put him some oil and some water in a cruise and came where he was and sustained him to go another mile. You say, is God done with me? Nope. I wouldn't be looking at you if God was done with you. He done took you out of here. I'm trying to encourage you. You're not the only one to get weary along the journey. Our lovely Savior, who did no wrong, who made no mistakes, who never sinned, swayed, or slipped, got weary along the journey. You're not the only one. See, Elijah believed the lie. He was the only one. How many days do you look in the mirror and say, I'm the only one that has to live this kind of life? I'm the only one that fights these battles. I'm the only one who has this mental problem. I'm the only one who has this marriage problem. I'm the only one who has this money problem. I'm the only one who has, and listen to me, it is that big to you, but you're not alone. what I'm trying to encourage you to do on a Wednesday night, just minding God. Listen to me, y'all can go home and say, that's the worst I ever heard him, but I'm following God, and I don't care what, I care what he thinks. I know it ain't all put together, but it's just what I'm supposed to do. Jesus got weary. I mean, think about this. Jesus got weary along the journey. And I say this is a place we've all found ourselves at, some point or another while serving Jesus Christ. And I say there's been times when you felt like all you're doing is wasting time. You know what you feel like you're doing when you're weary? You feel like you're wasting. How do you know all this? I'm one of you. When I get weary, you know what I feel like I'm doing here? Wasting my time and your time. When I'm tired along the journey and I've had all I can take, I feel like I'm wasting my life. That's how I feel. Maybe not everybody, but I guarantee I'm not the only one. I'm wasting my time. I'm wasting my family's time. I'm wasting my emotional time. I can't emotionally take it. I'm wasting my mental time. I can't mentally take it. I'm wasting spiritual time. I can't spiritually take it no more. But can I say tonight, you are not wasting away when you're waiting on God. You just gotta wait, honey. It's okay to be weary. It's okay to be tired. It's not being weary that's the problem. You get weary. How many of y'all, not just, I'm not just talking sleepy talk right here, listen to me, stay with me. How many of y'all, when you get sleepy tired, get silly? Y'all still on the count of three, everybody say amen. One, two, three. Can y'all please keep doing that? One, two, three. The rest of the sermon, that's all you gotta do. It'll help me and it'll help you. How many of y'all get silly when you get sleepy? You know what you do spiritually when you get tired? You get silly. How do you know? One of you. When you get weary, you get weird. If you're not careful. So what are we doing? I'm just talking to you about what God told me to talk to you about. Brother Shelby and them just walked in. I'm gonna ask y'all a question right out of the gate. Y'all tired? Y'all weary? Help me somebody, y'all weary? That's what I'm talking about tonight. What to do when you get weary. Guess who else got weary? Jesus. John chapter 4, Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey. Along the journey, sat thus on the well. What do we do when we get weary? Can I just explain something? It is not, the problem is not, you need to understand this, because this is what I've had to face through the years when I get tired, I'm just weary spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally. The devil will use my weariness against me as an accusation. You shouldn't be this way. Being tired is not a sin that I can find. Being weary is not a problem that I can find, but it's what you do when you're weary. And nine out of ten times in this Bible when people get weary or they get a little fearful, they get a little, I can't wait, Abraham, Sarah, Elijah, I mean, can I go down the list? Lot. You know why Lot rushed off to Sodom? It ain't just them well-watered plains. He didn't feel like taking the time to figure it all out. Abraham, give him the option to have any of it. But he's got, he knows his herdsmen and Abraham's herdsmen down in the valley throwing pitchforks at one another. And so he looked out and that looked the best. So hey, I'm tired of fighting. He's weary. Chose the wrong place. If you're not careful and you're weary, you'll do the wrong thing. Help me somebody. When you're weary, you'll do the wrong thing. You know it's good not to make a decision when you're weary. You don't know why? You'll hurry it. You'll rush your decision, you'll make the wrong one, then you gotta get stuck with the consequences. You get weird when you get weary. Maybe I should preach that. Times of weariness, many folks will quit. That's where a bunch quit. They get to their limit. By the way, we've all got a limit. But can I tell y'all a little secret? God knows we got a limit. We're dust particles. Did you know that? We were made from the dust of the ground. We're dust. We're not even dirt. We give ourselves too much credit when we say we're dirt. We're not dirt. According to the Bible, we're dust. We were formed from the dust of the ground, and then God, breathing through the nostrils of Adam, the breath of life, he became a living soul, and from there come us. We're dust particles. And may I say, if you're not careful, and you become weary, you'll plum quit because you've hit your limit. Can I give you some information? Just because you've hit your limit don't mean you're done. If you're saved, here's why. Because you ain't doing this by yourself no more. Amen? Come on somebody. I'm glad I'm not in this alone. Somebody sings a song about that and it's a good song. I'm not in this alone tonight. I may be at my limit, but how about this? Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct what? So go ahead and limit out and lean on him. and he'll guide you. If you take a step when you're tired, it'll be the wrong step, but if you'll just quit stepping and start leaning, he'll guide you into the next place you're supposed to go. I gotta look at this text, I got a few notes here. What do you do when you become weary? What did Jesus do when he was weary? First of all, this is my little thoughts, that's all I got, we'll go on. First of all, I wanna say you need to walk where he leads. Look in verse number three. The Bible said he left Judea and departed again into Galilee and he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Did you know there is a reason that he is on this whale and the Bible said he is weary along his journey but he has walked to where God has led him. He had a purpose to go to Samaria. It was not water, it was a woman. Can I say this is not just a place to rest. What you've gotta understand is you've got to continue on. Say, I don't know where to go. Where did God lead you? That's where you go until he leads you somewhere else. And by the way, you gotta clarify nowadays how to make sure to know when God's leading. God's word will line up with God's way. God's word will line up with God's will. God's will will line up with God's word. God's will will line up with God's way. God's way will line up with God's will. And so on and so forth. You've got to know that you know. But can I say, I'm glad I've got a place right now in my life even when I'm weary. and I'm tired and I'm discouraged. Every day I've got an opportunity how to put one foot in front of the other and just walk where God leads me when I'm weary. It goes to Samaria, and I'm gonna tell you something. This little woman in John chapter four who's known as the town prostitute, who's known as the flunky, she's a woman that's had five failed marriages. Jesus is weary, but notice his attitude. He said, I'm tired. But you know what he was more worried about? He was not worried about himself. If he's worried about himself, he'd have just sat down where he was when he got weary. He said, I am weary, but I must need to go through some area. And here's why. There's a woman down there that's going to come looking for water, and I am water. I'm living water. She's gonna come with a barrel and a bucket. She's gonna come with a water pot, but by the time this is over, she'll leave her old cracked water pot at the well, because I'm on, hallelujah, I ain't preaching like I want to, but I'm feeling it like I want to. You know how many times that I wanted to come, and I just came, because it's the last place God told me and led me. And somebody came in and got a drink. Hey man, I'm gonna tell you, when you got saved, that was some hard days, buddy. You didn't come in on a mountain top. We were still cricking and crannying around, and dear God, I tried to leave about a hundred times before you came. God, every day when I'd just get weary, God just said, no. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. See, that wasn't just a name verse, that's been a life verse for me. He maketh me, he maketh me. Say God don't make you do anything. If you're in the fold, he will. He maketh me lie down in green pastures. Say what do you mean? How many of y'alls tried to get out of them? And the Holy Ghost starts beating your ribcage out. You know what he's doing? Making you hide and then go back to the green field. That's what he's done to me for nine and a half years. He maketh me lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me. And so what do you do, preacher, when you're weary? I just keep walking where I've been led. You know what happens? You know how I found joy through the years? Because I didn't feel like going and I didn't even feel like caring. Somebody would come in and Jesus would save their soul. and I'd get a little drink, and I'd say, okay, I can do it. I can do it. You know, sometimes God will dump a bucket of water on you, won't he? Sometimes he just gives you a little cup. If you know if you're dying of thirst, that little sip means just as much to you as that bucket does in that moment. You know, a rich man in hell would have been pleased with just a tip of the finger dipped in water to cool his tongue. Y'all okay tonight? I ain't in no gear. I don't know what I'm doing right now other than trying to follow God. All I'm trying to tell you is Jesus had a need to go. He was led. So I don't know what else to do but what He'd do. He was weary but He kept walking. Amen. He just kept on going. You say, it can't be that simple. Last I checked, in the Bible, when we go before, up my friend, the judgment seat of Christ, here's the words we're going to hear, well done thou good, and faithful servant. You say, Preacher, I'm just worn slim out. I'm weary. I don't know what to do. Hey, can I say the whole world can change, but you've got to walk where you've been led. You've got to do what God's told you to do. If God's called me to be a pastor, I've got to be a pastor. If God wants my daddy to stay at Jackson, he's going to stay at Jackson. If he won't stay, you stay off your nursing home. You've got to drive your stakes down and stay at the blame nursing home. I'm trying to tell you, and then you've got to walk through those devil doors Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday. I've been led to this church. I'm led to my family. I'm led to this church family. What do you do, preacher, when you're weary? I just keep walking where I've been led. It's all I know to do when I'm weary. Very simple, but it's what our Savior done. If there's a pattern to follow, I'd imagine it'd be Him. Walk where He leads you. Number two, wait where He leads you. You don't just walk there, you wait there. Look at verse six. Now, Jacob's whale was there. Jesus, therefore, being aware of his journey, sat. Thus, on the well, and it was about the sixth hour. Can I say, he didn't just walk where he was led, he waited where he was led. You know what we find in our text? The Samaritan woman wasn't waiting on Jesus, Jesus was waiting on her. Did you know God may have you in a season of waiting? And it ain't to do a blame thing for you. If we're waiting, we want God to do something for us, don't we? That ain't the result Jesus got. He was waiting. But he wasn't waiting for God to do something for him. He was waiting because God was gonna use him to do something for her. I'm about to say something and I really mean it, Brother Jeff. When I first started the church, I had these goals and visions and dreams of just changing the world. And I don't think there's anything wrong with a preacher wanting to do that. But as times passed, I've realized not even Jesus changed the world, not because he couldn't. He could still change the world, he's able, but because he's given it to man. It's man's choice. That ain't gonna happen. You know how I got content? And I'm not mastered being weary, by the way, but it's a lot better. But you know one thing that really helped me with being weary, to work through my weariness, is to realize the value of one. I want everybody here to go home and say, our pastor done phenomenal. I can't lie to you. I do. I don't want y'all to think you got a bad preacher. Duh. But what I'm saying is not put on, it's not preacher talk. I really mean this, Mr. David. The Lord knows my heart. I'll answer, the Bible says, for every word. So y'all will know if I'm lying one of these days. I've reached this place. It's not just here, it's everywhere I go. If you go watch the live stream from Kansas, nearly every time, I preach five times in four days, you know what I said? I believe I'm here for one. And I'm fine with that. God flew me all the way across the country for one person, I'm good with that. Because that's where I've got. Because I would rather mine God and reach one Samaritan woman, and a real difference be made, and me have to be weary because of it, than to quit and that one never get a drink from thee well. What are you saying? What do we do? What'd Jesus do? He was weary, he sat thus on the well. Not just any well, the well he walked to because he was led. And now it's the well he waited at because he was led. You know what I'm still doing in a sense? I know we got a good church, don't we? If y'all think I'm satisfied with this, you've lost your mind. I'm thankful. But I know it's not the will of God for it just to be this because he said it's the will of God that his house may be full. And guess what? When we fill up every seat and we gotta put seats out, guess what's gonna be in my heart? We're gonna make more room, get more seats. Right? So please don't misunderstand, I'm very thankful. And if this is all it ever is, it's more than I deserve. But I'm not content. So you know what I'm doing every week? I'm walking. And I get weary. You know, things are a lot better now than they were way back yonder, but I still get weary. Not only am I walking every day of my life, but you know what I'm doing? You can't see it. That's what I'm doing. I'm waiting on some of these kids to grow up and get saved. But I got to stay on my way. Are you listening? God can't save them. You saying God can't save them without you? That ain't what I'm saying. It's just the will of God for me to be their pastor. God don't need me or you or nobody else to save somebody, but it's the will of God that we do this thing together. So I'm waiting at the will. Preacher, don't you know? Oh, I know. There's opportunities. You know, unfortunately, the church world has become a business world. And I would not be very desirable for a lot of business work. But I found through the years that they seem to think that I would be good for business work in the church world. And if I sat there and said it hadn't been a temptation of mine, I would be a bald-faced, two-faced liar. Come on down, we got 15 Dickens. You don't have to do nothing. Pay you a big salary. Whatever home you want, we'll buy it cash money. less than an hour and a half from here. Average salary, starting at $150,000 a year, starting, two or three weeks vacation, vehicles, whatever you want. All you gotta do is show up and preach. God's looking, saying, what are you gonna do? I'm awful weary. That's when that came, by the way, was when all hell had broke loose. And there was 15,000 devils crawling on my back every day. You know what God told me to do? Go back to your well. Whew. I said, God, I'm getting pretty tired. Yeah. But there's a little family from North Carolina that's that's gonna need a place to call home. And another family from North Carolina, we got two, that's gonna need a place to call home. And a freak of nature bodybuilder that needs a punch right in the nose. If I was big enough, I would do it too. You're mowing my grass in millennial rain, don't forget. And a little reject boy from Everett's. And everybody in town said he can't do nothing for God. What are you saying? It's been one at a time. You know how I keep pushing through my weariness? Because I found if I just keep them sitting at my will, here comes another woman. Oh, how many of y'all want to bounce when it gets tough? But I'm just sitting on my whale. Because it's where he told me to walk. It's where he told me to wait. How do we get through weariness? You just got to walk where he leads. You got to wait where he leads. I just got a few of these. Number three, you witness where he leads. I ain't going to preach that one because it kind of falls into the other one. But Jesus tells this woman all about himself. She came getting a drink and he said, look here, if you get a drink from the water of life, you'll never thirst again. She said, how's that? Do you think you're better than Jacob? He said, look here. She said, you sound like somebody, the Messiah. He said, I am the Messiah. She went and tell him. He told her some things. He said, go fetch thy husband. She said, I ain't got no husband. He said, thou hast well said. Thou hast no husband. Thou hast had five husbands. He starts reading her mail. She said, oh boy, you really are the Messiah. She went and got the town, guess what? Bunch of them came down and got in and got saved because Jesus witnessed. Say, I can't do nothing in moments of waiting. You can witness. You can, hey, it goes deeper than being a witness with your mouth. You can witness with your life a lot better than you witness with your lips. You know what somebody needs to see when you're weary? They don't just need to see your witness, they need to see your worship. Don't make me go back and preach on worship because I'll do it in a minute. I'll just give you a whole message on worship and why you ought to worship. Notice what he does. Look at verse 16. I ain't even starting my timer. I have no idea how long I've been going. Look at verse 16. Jesus saith unto her, Go call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith, Thou shalt have no husband. Thou shalt have five husbands. All right, let's bounce on down, sorry. Go down to verse number, no, look at verse 19. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. This is her now. She says, Our father is worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, Believe me, the hour cometh when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship you know not what. We, I need a little help, we know what we worship. for salvations of the Jews. Notice verse 23. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshiper shall worship the Father and Spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is the Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. What do you do when you're weary? You worship. Have you listened to that by chance online, Shelbo? What, about worship yet? I know you're busy, you get time you need to. And often I say that about a sermon, but that's one God gave me and everybody needs to hear it. I'm weary, what do I need to do? By the way, worship's not running the aisles. That's praise. I ain't gonna get it. You can run the aisles when you're weary, but most likely you won't. But you know what you can do? Worship. I'm weary, preacher. I'm at my limit. Well, you're not at his limit. Do you know what you should do every day? Lord, sometimes that's all I get out. And my weariness takes over, and then his arms wrap around me. Come on, somebody. Lord, it's like he hears everything I'm thinking. Because he does. Lord. This is awful ain't it? Do y'all see my post? I'm so scattered. That's why I have to have outlines. I can't preach without an outline. I'm all over the place. I sound like Leroy Dalrymple right now. I preach on everything coming and going tonight. Do y'all see that? I post that big tree, bust all the pieces and I went over there where Elijah seen the earthquake and the wind and the fire and the Lord wasn't under that but it was a still small voice. Is that not the truth? I walked out yesterday morning, looked at that big tree, and the Lord said, hold up. I said, yes, sir. Did you see that? I said, yep. He said, remember what Elijah said? I said, yep. Wasn't in a strong wind. He said, nope, you wasn't, Lord. Still a small voice. I said, that's right, Lord. Still a small voice. He said, but that's how you want me to move. I got a big obstacle, and I need it took out now. But I'm not in the strong wind, I'm the still, small voice. So what is the still, small voice? It don't take it out suddenly, but maybe it leads you around it. Did you know there's an easier way for the children of Israel to get where they was going than through the Red Sea? Go read chapter 13. God made them detour to keep them out of the Philistine war zone. The Philistines were at battle, so God led them around the long way, took them through the Red Sea because they were not ready for war. And then right after that, a couple chapters later, guess what? They get in their own war with Amalek. But in that moment, in that chapter, they weren't ready. So God led them around the long way. You know what God's wanting you to do? He may be taking you around the long way. It's not that he's mad at you, you just ain't ready for something yet. What do I do? What do I do? Worship. Just worship him. God, you know. This don't make no sense to me. I'm telling you this is the only way you're going to make it through and not lose your mind. When you're weary and at your limit and stressed out and anxious and overwhelmed and full of anxiety and I got all of it. Somebody help me. You know what calls me more than anything? I come to the garden alone. Mm, it's helping me just keep humming. Oh, me. And he walks with me and he talks. And he tells me I am his own And the joy we share As we tarry there None other has ever known I'm telling you, brother Brian, that yard we've all been walking around in, if you knew how many laps have been made in that yard, in that little road. I've traveled miles on that road, worshiping. Nobody knows what I'm doing. People drive by, it does not look like I'm having church, but I am. I've walked that road many times. By the way, did you know God likes it if you sing to Him? A lot of people singing for Him, that's the problem. I understand what they're doing. I'm not singing for God. He don't need me singing for Him. He is the song. He is the song. I sing to Him. He likes it. Worship what I do. Preacher, I'm about to lose my mind. Go find you a field somewhere. and get out and say, The Lord giveth, he taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I served him before and I serve him today. Blessed be the name of the Lord. After you get done with that song, say, Lord, I just want to tell you I love you. You know what he does every time? He says, I love you too. I'm longing to see you, Lord. He's whispered this in my soul. You're waiting to see me, but I'm looking right at you. Say, Lord, I can't wait to bow at your feet. We can't fathom what it's going to be like. I'm just trying to worship best I can imagine what that's going to be like. Worship. You know, when Mary busted that alabaster box and the Bible says she known the Lord, she washed his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. Did you know that is probably the greatest picture of worship in the Bible? It's bowing. You know what a woman's hair is called in the Bible? You know what she done? How do I worship? You lay down your glory for his glory. Are you all bored? I'm trying to help you. Worship where he leads and last thing I'm done. You gotta walk where he leads, wait where he leads, witness where he leads, worship where he leads. Work. Work where he leads. The Bible says in verse 25, The woman saith unto him, I know that Zios cometh, which is called Christ. When he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee, am he. And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with a woman. Yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? And the woman then left her water pot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? They went out of the city and came unto him. And in the meanwhile his disciples prayed to him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. And therefore said the disciples, one to another, hath any man brought him all to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. So the Bible outlines itself. You just got to look at it. He walked where he was led. He waited where he was led. He witnessed where he was led. He worshiped where he was led. Now, we see there's a work where he was led. Ain't you gonna eat? He said, my meat is to do the will of my father, and I'm here to do his work. You know why most people get overwhelmed to the point they quit going to church? They forgot how much work the church is supposed to put into their life. This is supposed to be our work. You know the first ones to quit church? The ones that ain't working. Because when you start working, you start seeing the necessity of the work. And it's harder to walk away from something you know requires so much and you're dedicated to. And oh my Lord, what would I do? I can't leave them like that. And this is what God told me to do. It's where God's put me in. If you're not working, you might quit when you get weary. But I'm glad I got work to do. You know, there's been a few Sundays I've came in here because I knew if I didn't that it would mess up y'all having church. Somebody might jump up there, but everybody's gonna worry to death, where's the pack, what's going on? It ain't gonna be good. You know what drove me back? My awareness, my work. And it's not just my work, it's His work that He's dealt to me. You know what I found through the years, Brother Ray? People get weary serving God, one of the first things to go is their labor and their effort and their work. They start backing up and slacking off. That's the worst thing you can do. You know an old man that's 70 and 80 years old and they're still kicking, you know what most of them are doing? And you know what happens when they quit? They die. That's a fact, Jack. They will die and they know it and that's why they'd rather work and get another five or six years than go sit in a recliner or go crappie fishing and take naps and die. You know what you'll do as a Christian if you ain't working? You're done. And these Christians go to church every week that's dead. Not spiritually as in salvation, but spiritually as in your service, spiritually as in your relationship with God, spiritually as in your involvement, spiritually as in your interest, you're dead. If you ain't working, you're existing. You got two kinds of men that'll labor. You got assets and liabilities. That's all you got. You know what I've got in this church? I'm looking at some of y'all, and I can tell you what you were. If you'd ask me, I will not lie to you. I would have to look at you and say, you are a complete liability. Try me. I'm not being arrogant or proud. I will just tell you, you're a major liability. Why? You're not dependable. You lie. You say you're going to show up for work, then you don't. You say, I'm gonna give $4,000 and you don't. We write that down, it ain't just for numbers. We're depending on that for the meeting. Right? Somebody help me. You're a liability. Or, I got a few of these all the time. You're a liability. And you ain't doing nothing. You're not working. Know what you are? Dead. But there's some of y'all, like little honeybees. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Soon as you do, dead. You quit buzzing around, you're going to get a ten and a half upside the head that's going to squash you. You know when you kill a bee? When it lands. Keep on buzzing, bees. I heard a message two nights ago. I had no idea who the preacher was. It was on Facebook live stream. He said, I want to preach on bees tonight. Just the word bee in the Bible, B-E, and there's a few times it's in there. He said, some of y'all is wannabes. He said, I don't wanna be a wannabe. He said, some of y'all is shouldbes. I don't wanna be a shouldbe. And he went through different types of bees. And I say, I wanna be a busy bee. Even when I'm weary, Brother Brian, you know what I gotta do? I gotta keep on in His work. It's not mine, he's given it to me, but it ain't mine, it's his. That's how I deal with things I have to deal with sometimes, because I remind myself, now Lord, this really ain't mine, it's yours, so would you please take care of that? Because I can't. Might have blowed it, might not have. Somebody pumping gas back here, what are we doing? Is it one of mine? Does that not sound like one of them old ladies? Sounds like the one at John Young's store up there, son. I don't even know if I can give an altar call after this, but I'm going to. Are you laughing at me? Get up there. You're about to be a has-been bee, son. I'm about to squash you. Let's stand. I've done my best tonight. I don't know what else to tell y'all to do if you're weary of what Jesus done. Just walk where you've been led. Wait. Witness. Worship. Work. How many of y'all know every storm does come to pass? None of them stay forever. It's going to get brighter. It's going to get better. Maybe you're just going to have to sit down and wait at the well. Jesus got weary. Being weary is not a sin. It's what you do when you're weary. That can mess you up. Father, I've done my best. Bless my efforts in Jesus' name. Amen. Won't you come? If God spoke to you somehow, won't you come? you Yeah. Maybe there's somebody here tonight got testimony, something on your heart. Maybe the Lord did something for you tonight. I don't know. Anybody? Right. Yes. Amen. Yep. Yep. Amen. Amen. Anybody else?