the title of today's talk is uncommon confidence in fact that's why I decided to bring this up because everything in me all the insecure in me wanted to just ignore that and pretend it would didn't happen and hope it would go away and I'm trying to deal with my own insecurity and be a little bit more confident obviously walking through some persecution but trying to be a little bit more confident have you ever uh you ever watched somebody like just live their life and and you watch them and you go man I wish I had
that kind of confidence you ever you ever see somebody who like they suck at singing and they'll grab a karaoke mic in a heartbeat and just go for it and you're like oh my gosh I wish I had that kind of confidence right or somebody who can't dance to save their life and they'll dance in public with no inhibitions and you're like how do you do it that's me by the way I do that yeah embarrasses my wife like crazy you ever see somebody like just going through it in life and and and there's like
a real issue a real problem a real whatever and and like just they got some sort of confidence that you can't figure out what it is and they just attack that issue and you go man I wish I had that in fact I bet if I took this microphone around to every single one of our locations all weekend long there would be thousands and thousands and thousands of us who would go I know what it feels like to wish I had confidence to try and carry myself in a way that other people people will think
I have confidence but to be dying on the inside with insecurity Jesus said it himself in this world you're going to have troubles then he said but take heart because I've overcome those things you're going to face storms and and I love that the the word of God shows us how Jesus faced the hardest storm of his life going to the cross and he ended up actually walking there with confidence in fact Hebrews tells us for the joy set before him he went to the Cross youone tell me he didn't have confidence and and and
I love that that that Dr Luke says that that's not just for Jesus that's for you that's for us we we can do these things we can get a common place where we just get in the presence of God and let him do things in our soul that we can't do on our own we can pray that uncommon prayer God even with everything I'm facing what do you want and then we can pred decide even if it's not my comfort level even if it's not my preference if I think he's calling me my answer is
going to be yes and we see it brought Jesus this crazy kind of confidence that allowed him to go change the world in our eternities in the process and we need this church cuz we're going to face storms and like I said at the very beginning some of you are in them right now when when when the graphic was being created for this teaching series um the one and only Rodrigo sent me the most amazing graphic and it was slightly different than this and it had a wild horse in it and and I went back
to the team and I said um guys can you try a buffalo I just trust me I just try a buffalo and and so they put a buffalo in this graphic and I've waited until this point in the series to tell you why it wasn't by accident and some of you will already know this but Buffalo and cow they they can they can both smell storms but they react to them differently um cows and every other herd animal when they smell or see a storm they run from them Buffalo is the only one who runs
through it a buffalo will turn back and run into the storm and I and I had my my unbelievable assistant do some research this week and she was like Sean is crazy because it's right it's it's how it works all these other animals they actually run away from the storm and and the storm's going this way and so are they and so they end up suffering longer it's crazy and she said the weird thing is Buffalo aren't even that smart they're they're they're just like they're built different like God did something different in their spirit
and for whatever reason they just realized when I see a storm I don't run from it cuz I suffer longer I run through it cuz that's just how I was built and I and I was thinking about that for this series I'm in a small group and we call our small group Fight Club and every time we text each other we put put a little Buffalo Emoji in there we like to remind each other we're challenging each other on a weekly basis we don't run from storms we run through them and church that's who we
are and so I want to speak to somebody right now you're going through it like it's real this is not a hypothetical for you you're going through it somebody you love is going through it if you've put your faith in Jesus God's word said that same spirit that raised him up out of that grave it resides in you and and and and then then then God's word says and that that Spirit he said it's not a spirit of fear it's a spirit of power and love and a sound mind you were built different we don't
run from Storm's church we run through them
