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The Westside Story Moving from Good to God with Lisa Schwarz
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father we come before you in the name of Jesus and we just thank you for the opportunity to gather in your presence
we thank you for the power of unity we thank you Father that your word is very clear that where there is Unity God that
your blessings are commanded in their place in that place it’s not a suggestion it’s a command and so father
we expect today that as we come in one Accord and we begin to receive your word
God we expect that blessings will flow and it’s in the name of Jesus that I
pray amen so most of the time when I’m when I’m preaching a message unless the
pastor gives me a particular topic which he did not today uh usually I just bring to you what I feel like the Lord has
been doing in my life and the things that he’s been revealing in my life and so a lot of the people who are in my
life have been hearing me say this over and over again and I’ve been saying over and over again oh but that thought
process is on the east side of the Jordan not the west side of the Jordan so I’m going to share a little bit more
about you but about that in a minute but I want to share with you um about five six seven weeks ago the
Lord just began to really challenge me in the regular rhythms that I have in my life specifically spiritual disciplines
now I don’t always like to use that word but we’re going to use it because it’s necessary and it’s a necessary act in
our life we have to be disciplined in a lot of the spiritual actions of our life and so I started thinking about you know
reading the word every day and praying every day and these things are not a problem for me you know I have a rhythm like I read the word every day I sit in
scripture every day I pray with God and I’m not saying all that to be arrogant I’m saying that to tell you that even in
that God was saying but I think you can do better like the level of the anointing that you currently walk in the
level of revelation that you currently have you’re very comfortable in that you’ve become very comfortable in the
level of your anointing you’re very comfortable in your routine and if you continue if you decide to continue where
you’re at I will continue to bless you where you are at but if you want to go deeper if you want
to experience more if you believe that there is more if you would press in more if you would
move Beyond some of the things in your life that are just uh every day even
some of the things in your life that are permissible and begin to shift and think into either better or the beneficial
imagine what I could do and so that really challenged me when the spirit said man I love your
anointing and I know you love it I know you’re comfortable with it but but but somehow you’ve gotten comfortable even
at the level that you’re at and I’d like to do even more and so I began to read in uh numbers 32.
now in numbers 32 I’m going to give you a little bit of a history message history teaching here in numbers 32 this
is their second go at the promised land so if you remember in numbers 13 was the
first time when the Israelites uh began I love the rustling of the papers see
there’s Jen not gen Z people in the room that still actually use paper um I’m sorry Keaton I’m messing with
this poor kid um he’s probably gonna turn my mic off here in a minute he’s gonna be like Boop
um so in numbers 13 is the first time they go to enter into the promised land and remember there’s evidence of the
promised land there’s evidence of the promise in the promised land there’s fruit there are things that they can see
but if you recall they chose not to enter into the promised land because of
fear because of of of the big people in the land and they saw themselves as
Grasshoppers and they backed out and and the results of that was that God said
this entire generation is going to die in the wilderness and the Next Generation I’ll give them a second
chance okay so we’re at that second chance in numbers 13. now remember there
were 12 tribes of Israel and it was the 12 tribes they were the 12 sons of Jacob they were going to be
entering into the promised land the Covenant that was given to Abram many years before this is now coming true it
is time we are at the cusp and I want you to read with me in numbers 32 starting in verse 1 it says now the
children of Reuben and the children of God those were two of the 12 tribes they were two of the brothers
they had a very great multitude of livestock and when they saw everybody said they
saw when they saw the land of jaser and the land of Gilead that indeed the region
was a place for livestock the children of God and the children children of GAD
and the children of Reuben again two of The Twelve Tribes came and they spoke to Moses and they and to Eliezer the priest
and to the leaders of the congregation saying I skipped all the names of the people the country which the Lord
defeated before the congregation of Israel is a land for livestock and your
servants meaning us we have livestock we are very successful I’m adding some words here for those of you we are very
successful that’s what we do and this land is great for that now mind you you
have the Jordan River here and you have the East Side depending on I’m trying to do it backwards for you guys you have
the east side that they need to cross over to get to the West Side so they need to cross over the Jordan and the
promised land is on the west side of the Jordan but they’re standing on the east side
they’re on the edge of their promise and they say this therefore they said if we
have found favor in your sight let this land be given to your servants as a
possession do not take us over the Jordan now I teach a class on Monday mornings
and we off we read we always read scripture we always read scripture and often I will ask the class what is the
saddest verse in this entire chapter and I would like to propose that if we read this entire chapter this is
potentially one of the saddest verses because here they are on the edge I want you to get a picture with me that the
Jordan River represents the barrier from the Wilderness to the promise it
represents the barrier let me just put it like this in our lives it represents the barrier from the natural to the
supernatural it’s the I’ve arrived I have come into I
have stepped into the fullness of God so the Jordan represents the border to
their promise it represents the border to their inheritance this was the moment
they had been waiting for the entire Old Testament is God trying
to move his people from the land of lack into the land of promise mind you it
started in the land of promise with the Garden of Eden and man backed away from
the promise stepped into the Wilderness and all throughout the Old Testament we
see God saying but I have a land for you but I have a place for you but I have a
life for you I have a plan for you I have a path for you but I have a purpose
for you and that path it has a it’s a provision that you have not worked for
it has Wells that you have not dug it has fruit that you have not sown
it has an abundance for you look I I really think that in so many places we
operate on the east side of the river and we miss out of the ease of the west
side of the Jordan they had no idea and that was part of the problem is somehow
they had determined that the land where they were at was enough
the land which they could see was good enough I want to remind you in Deuteronomy it
says this about the land where they’re going for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land it is a land with
Brooks it’s a land with streams it’s with land with Deep Springs crushing gushing up into the valleys and Hills
it’s a land with wheat and barley it’s a land with vines and fig trees it’s a land with pomegranates it’s a land with
olive oil it’s a land with honey it’s a land where bread will never be scarce you will never lack for anything a land
where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the Hills but if it’s okay with you
we’d like to settle over here we can see it we can almost smell it
but we’re gonna stay over here we’re going to settle on the east side
and just like the history of their forefathers who would not enter into the promise despite the evidence of fruit we
see this happening again in the second generation in the brothers of Reuben and
God and the half tribe of Manasseh in first John 2 16 it says this for all
that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride
of life is not of the father it is of the world and part of what happened here is they
get caught up in what they can see and they settle for what they can see and I would like to propose to you that
a lot of us have settled on what we can see when the Bible says that eternity
isn’t about what is seen the spirit isn’t about what is seen it’s about the
Unseen it’s not about the temporary it’s about the Eternal that’s what it tells us in Corinthians it tells us that God
is in places that you cannot see but isn’t it true that often we’ll even take
the things we see and say look it must be God well even a sign our comfort zone too
it’s so easy it must be God and I’m not saying that’s not sometimes the case but
what I am saying is sometimes it’s not the case and we have to be willing for it not to be the case and we have to be
willing to say okay is there more for that I have look it would be easy if I’m if I’m gathering room it’s easy for us
to throw them under the bus but if I’m Reuben and God I feel like that makes sense look we’ve got all this
livestock we need lots of land you guys go take that land we’ll stay here we’ll do you a favor we’ll let you have the
abundance and they did not cross over and so they go on and they say Moses
says to them said to the children of God and to the children of Reuben shall your brethren
go to war while you sit here oh well this might be the saddest verse
in this in the chapter maybe I don’t know he says now will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which the Lord has given to him so he’s challenged them and saying okay so you’re just gonna sit
here while you let your brethren go and fight and here’s what’s interesting is they go on in the chapter to say well
you know what we’ll set up our camp here we’ll get our children all kind of nestled in we’ll build our homes all
these things and then we’ll arm ourselves and we’ll go over and we’ll fight with you and we’ll temporarily step in come on
who I mean go we go to church on Sunday but I’m gonna go back to my East Side on Monday
they step into the west side for a moment and say we’re we’re doing our due diligence in the Kingdom because I sent
poor point six percent of my life that’s one hour a week on the west side
doing battle and then I wonder why I’m getting my butt kicked can I say but okay I just
did so sorry rewind my bottom kicked we wonder why we’re getting our bottom kicked Monday through Saturday because
you’re hanging out in the east side so basically they said okay we’ll cross
over and we’ll fight but then we’re coming back to our comfortability we’re coming back to what we’ve become
familiar with we’re coming back to what we can see and like them many of us justify the East Side by going to church
once a week and saying we’re Believers that we’re doing a work in God that we’re settling in the promised land
because I spend 0.6 percent of my life in church come on some of you come on Thursday nights for the men’s good for
you that’s 1.2 percent of your life if you think that is the best God has in
mind for you you’re on the east side because God has something more for you
we experience the supernatural for an hour we Warfare in the spirit while we’re at church we puff our chest up
with pride because we withhold from Gossip while we’re at church we settle our anger while we’re at church we don’t
act a fool while we’re at church but when we go back to our homes we act a fool with our kids we talk nasty to our
husbands we talk about our mother-in-laws we gossip when we’re at work and we wonder why we’re not reaping
the promises of God because you have compromised and you think I can play eenie me I can play the
Hokey Pokey oh that’s a good one I can play the Hokey Pokey with the west side of the Jordan I think it’s funny I love
it I love when I know it’s like say the Hokey Pokey I’m like oh okay
but here’s the deal bottom line Reuben and Gad grabbed a hold of the good land and they missed out on the godland
I’m gonna tell you but we we’ve read a book called good to great it’s one of our probably one of our all-time favorite books and it talks about how
the enemy of greatness is goodness and I’m talking to some mature Believers
in this church so I’m not talking to you about walking away from sin I’m talking about walking away from things that you
have determined are permissible in your life but they have no benefit to your growth
I’m talking about the things you’re like it’s not a big deal if I slip up and cuss here or there
but imagine if you removed those words from your mouth what God would replace it with
so you’re right it’s permissible everything the Bible says out everything is permissible but not everything is
beneficial not everything is going to be a benefit and is going to grow you and if you want to experience the west side
we have to be willing to say okay what are some of the things that are okay I mean they’re not bad it’s not like I’m
like you know uh going out and shooting up meth or I’m not blah blah blah whatever it is
and so we settle just like they did they grabbed a hold of the good land and missed out on the godland and we and
they settled for what they can see they settled for what looked like good enough and in doing so what they said is we’re
going to opt out on the promise we’re gonna opt out on the promise
come on they knew the promise they saw the promise they stepped into the promise
but then they were like oh I’m going to opt out on the promise
beyond that I want you to see that the Jordan River was also the border of protection
what we realize is if we continue to read on in scripture is they are actually on the east side of the Jordan
in the direct path of the Assyrian King so when Assyria comes in to take them in
captive guess who goes first Gad and Reuben why because they didn’t enter in
to the border of protection that God had in mind for them and some of us hang out
here in the land of the permissible and we wonder why the devil is coming after us because you haven’t stepped in to the
glory of the you haven’t stayed in almost I don’t even want to say step in you haven’t stayed in
you haven’t stayed and it was prophesied over me probably three or four years ago I didn’t even understand the prophetic word at the time this guy is super he’s
passed on now but he’s shoot y’all think I’m weird in the spirit like just stand up for a moment I’m going to demonstrate because it’s
just fun like no you faced me I’m I’m gonna be him you’re me I know we don’t look like each other but
we’ll present for a moment okay so when he’s ministering to you he’s like this and the Lord says
and he’s speaking in words and I’m like I have no idea what you’re saying just these like hulky mookie like really
thank you so much well done you did great um he’s speaking in these like hooky
mookie words and so he said to me the Lord says that you are so tucked into the glory and when you reach out and
minister to people your hand comes out of the glory and you touch and you touch and you reach deliver demons and then
the enemy looks but you tuck yourself back in the glory and he can’t find you
foreign when I feel the enemy hot on my heels
I’m like he should not be able to find me if I’m in the glory if I’m on the west side if I’m walking
in the promises of the Lord if I’m tucked in the glory the enemy can be looking around he’s seeing evidence of
something happening on a Friday night at five stones but when he comes he looks and he can’t find
he can’t see it because he can’t see in the glory and so there’s this protection that was
on the west side it was it was in the blessings of our blessings of obedience our blessings of purity
our blessings of righteousness come on you guys this is the protection
that God that’s all all of Deuteronomy 28 these are the blessings that will come upon that will overtake you if you
obey the word of the Lord and and our message of Grace which I
love has sometimes allowed us to live a life that’s permissible
and we come on Sunday mornings and we confess but don’t repent because
confessions on the east side and repentance is on the West Side see confession is I’m gonna come forward and
tell everybody what I did but repentance is and I’m also going to change my ways I’m not going back to the east side we
come on Sunday mornings and we confess but we don’t repent and we wonder why we’re not reaping the fullness of the
promise the glory of the Lord encompassing us when you are sitting on the West Side even when nobody is
looking when your mind is saturated by the thoughts of the West Side not the
thoughts of the devil not the thoughts of hopelessness not the thoughts of frustration not the thoughts of
disappointment not the thoughts of discouragement I’m not saying we don’t think those thoughts but we should not think upon those thoughts you understand
there’s a difference see I can have a thought but that thought doesn’t have to have me and when that thought begins to
have me because I begin to think upon the thought and then I become the thought come on sometimes we become the feeling
and then we embrace the Feeling by making statements like I was angry I felt angry and now I am angry
and we a lot and then next thing you know we’ve moved from the space of Grace and forgiveness and compassion we have
subtly moved from the west side to the east side of the Jordan we cannot
compromise we cannot compromise I wander in this room
if anybody has settled on the east side of the Jordan when God is calling you to the west side let me give you a list of some things
East Side the things that I see West Side the things I can’t see I’m just going to point this is is this
East for you guys yes right well we just pretend like I’m North right so east west
what we know what we don’t know I mean who wants to settle and what you don’t know but they didn’t know what was
in the west side I mean they they had the word they knew what God was telling them but they didn’t know they hadn’t have eyes on it
this is safe come on this is safe over here is Warfare
this is permissible this is beneficial this is natural this is spiritual
Supernatural this is confession this is repentance
this is compromise this is I’m all in
this is Earthly this is Heavenly this is good this is best there’s a message for the next time I
come here I think this is why I must speak on these are your natural senses but over here there’s spiritual senses
this is the Discerning of the Soul come on a lot of people discern things in the soul in church and they say the Discerning Spirits I’m like I don’t
think so and that’s okay but we’ll get you there we want to get you but there’s better it’s more a lot of people
prophesy from their mind and I’m like no that’s okay but I think we can do more there’s a West Side that God has in mind
for us Discerning of the Soul Discerning of the spirit carnal man come on you understand carnal man is the saved man
who still acts natural carnal man Spirit man Soul life Spirit life
managing demons delivered from demons
managing affliction healed
come on we got we gotta want the west side we gotta get hungry for the West Side sloppy we added this Friday night
sloppy messy it’s messy right that’s why we
don’t like it because it’s messy it’s messy logos word
a red I can read a word and I can get knowledge Rhema
it’s revealed it’s aha it’s an understanding it’s the Eyes of My Heart
being opened and being enlightened and I want us to learn how to shift into the
spirit it’s more than just stepping out of sin it’s stepping out of your soul stepping out of your mind stepping out
of your will stepping out of your personality to step into the personality of Jesus come on
I want you to step out of all of those things you understand it’s possible to read the word with your mind
remember the apostles they walked with God when they walked with Jesus on the road to to Emmaus there it is they
walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus and they talked with him and they had no idea who he was
listening to the words of Jesus with no revelation of who he is
it is possible that you’re praying out of emotion and you’ve never learned how to pray in
the spirit it’s possible you’re ministering to people out of emotion
I’m just praying that you feel better oh I just love you and and God wants you he loves you I just oh I pray that you’ll
get some sleep you don’t look good [Laughter] you know I’m not speaking that over you
come on it’s well these are well-intentioned things and if we’re not careful we’ll settle in
that space look one of the things can I just tell you pet peeve I don’t like when I go to a church and it’s like one
person goes forward Nixon’s like everybody comes from like oh they’re all crying I’m like that is just an emotion
Fest somebody lay hands on them or don’t I mean lay hands on them with intention
spiritual intention and teenagers are really good at you go to these youth groups and I do a lot of like youth
events and whatever and like when one kid’s forward and they all start kind of Clutch and next year your drama is my drama and we’re all drumming together
and I’m like this is not good like this is not good but we do that as adults
we come together we’re all praying in the in our soul and nobody’s standing up and saying okay
let’s shift now like I want to hear how you’re feeling I want to hear what you’re thinking but
now let’s shift it now let’s speak into that thing come on that’s spoken like a prophet
where I’m like no we’re going to speak into this thing so look it is possible for me to make
Godly decisions out of my own personal will it’s possible for me to act Godly
but deny the power of God which is what it says in second Timothy three these are a sign of the times that there will
be people who actually have a form of godliness but they deny the power and I wonder if
there are places in our life where we have slept into that I’m we just got to be honest with
ourselves is there a place in my life where I’ve learned what it looks like to be a believer
I’ve learned what it looks like to act compassionately I’ve learned what it looks like to operate with a form of
godliness but in that moment I’m not walking in the power of the spirit I’m denying that
there is a greater power I like to tell people all the time the Holy Spirit can do better than that
oh you’ve learned how to manage your anger that’s great but the Holy Spirit can do better than that you’ve learned
how to act compassionate when you’re somebody’s driving you nuts that’s good
that’s part of the process but it’s not the destination and what happens is we are like okay I
see the destination over there but we’re going to choose to let this be the destination because this is good enough
Paul talks about how he wished he could speak with the Corinthians about spiritual things but he was unable to
because they still lived a carnal lifestyle he said I wish I could talk to you about I can only compare spiritual
things with spiritual things is what he says in chapter two he goes on in chapter three verse one and he says I
wish I could talk to you about the meat of the of the Kingdom but you’re still carnal he’s talking to Believers In this
passage he’s not talking to unbelievers he’s talking to you and I he’s saying I want to talk to you about spiritual
things some of you are like man I want to be talked to I want to experience spiritual things but then I want to go
home and still live my carnal lifestyle and so you look at somebody like me you
look at somebody like Pastor you look at like at somebody like Marvel and you go God I wish I could prophesy like they do
but I still want to do all my things Monday through Saturday you’re gonna have to change some things
in your life you’re gonna have to walk away from same things you’re gonna have to leave if you can’t enter into the west side if you’re still on the east
side there’s got to be some breaking away we wonder why we’re not coming into the kingdom and why we’re not
experiencing this Supernatural so how do we begin this process I was reminded of Acts 20 30 17 sorry Acts chapter 17
verse 30 where it talks about Paul’s actually talking to the philosophers of
Athens and he says to them truly these times of ignorance God overlooked
but now he commands men everywhere to repent and I understand the context of that
verse but I want you to hear it today I want you to hear what God is truly there was a time in your life where I
overlooked your ignorance where I overlooked your permissible things where I overlooked the fact that
you think it’s okay to whatever it is but we are in a new season we are in the
end times there is a rising up that God is looking for and look at when he
speaks an invitation it’s not just to the me and to the Byron and to the Past it’s to his people
and you either respond or you stay on the east side
and so the first thing you need to ask yourself is what do I need to repent of what are not the the big overt sins guys
again we’re all too good for that in here we’ve all figured out how to live a kind of Godly lifestyle right I’m
talking about the things that we have settled in and said this is good this is okay and God’s been like sure yeah you can settle there if you want absolutely
you can go ahead and stay on the east side but you’re going to miss out on all the things on the west side
and so it is possible that there are some things in our lives that God has allowed things that are permissible
that he was asking us inviting us to turn away from today in second Timothy 2 20 it talks about
two kinds of articles that you find in the palace he says the one kind of article is inlaid with silver and gold
the other one is Earthen in its wood and one is brought out for special occasion
and the other one is just used every day and some of us
are just the well it’s just kind of an everyday living I wish I could be brought out in special occasions but I
don’t want to be inlaid with silver and gold or I’m not inlaid with silver or gold he goes on he says but you Timothy
must not see your life and Ministry this way your life and your ministry must not be disgraced for you are to be pure a
pure container of Christ I’m gonna say that again and I’m gonna
say it to you you enter your name
are to be a pure container of Christ on Monday on Tuesday on Wednesday on
Thursday on Friday on Saturday dedicated to The Honorable purpose purposes of
your master prepared for every good work that he gives you to do run as fast as you can from all the
Ambitions and the lusts of the world and chase after the things that are pure
chase after the West Side be as excited about the things of the spirit as you
are about your partying with your friends be as excited about reading the word as you are about watching that
movie come on let’s just be as excited about listening to worship music as you
are rocking it out to the Bee Gees whatever it is I’m trying to keep it real
trying to keep it relevant because we all too good in this room to have the big sins
if there is such a thing in Scripture he goes on and he says he goes on in
second Timothy chapter two he says for every soldier called to active duty must divorce himself
from the distractions of this world so that he can be fully sat so he can
fully satisfy the one who chose him so we say we want to go into new places
in the spirit but are we willing to cross the Jordan what does that mean it means you have to repent
and remember repent doesn’t mean I’m going to come forward and I’m going to confess it don’t come forward and confess something that you know you’re
not going to change pet peeve are you going to change your ways I’ll try no you won’t go sit down
go sit down you either do or you don’t
decide you will make a decision today I’m going to ask everybody to close your eyes we just come up and play for me
and I’m just gonna I’m gonna pray over you guys this passage in Ephesians
and then then I will open the altar I’ll I’ll ask the if you’re on the five-fold to come forward if you’re prepared to
minister if you are a cleansed vessel this morning come on I’m gonna be okay well we we have to work at it too guys we gotta also allow the spirit to search
us to seek us to see if there be any wicked way with us my intercessor always asks me how’s your heart because nobody
wants to drink from a dirty vessel before I Minister every time how’s your heart
have you gone through repentance have you allowed the spirit to search you have you allowed the spirit to ask you
if there’s any spot or any wrinkle any Speck of dust in your heart because nobody wants to drink from a dirty
vessel we want the west side but we’re not willing to leave the east
side and I’m telling you God has a West Side Story in mind for you
Ephesians 1 it says I pray that the light of God will illuminate
the eyes of your imagination flooding you with light
until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling
that is the wealth of God’s glorious inheritance that’s the west side
come on I’m praying that your eyes the eyes of your heart not your mind I’m I’m asking the mind the natural mind to step
back and the spirit mind to come forward I’m asking the natural eye to be closed
and the spirit the the spiritual eye to be opened come on we’re asking the spirit man in
you to come forward to rise up come forward and it goes on and it says that the
wealth of his glorious inheritance that he finds in us his holy ones The
Inheritance the West Side Story you guys is not a place where you’re going it’s
who you are you are the West Side Story you carry the West Side Story you are the
reflection of the West Side Story and it goes on it says I pray that you will continuously continuously not just on
Sundays not just on Friday nights not just on Thursday nights but I pray and
I’m speaking this over you I pray that every person in this room will continuously experience the immeasurable
greatness of God’s power that is a made available to us through his promises
then your life will become an advertisement
for this immense power this is the West Side Story
that your life becomes an advertisement for something greater than just enough
then permissible then what I can see [Music]
where do I start you ask the Lord tell me one thing tell me one thing just tell me one thing
Lord just reveal to me one thing where I’ve settled in the permissible and I need to walk away from it I don’t need
to confess of it I need to walk away from it I need to repent and walk away
walk away some of you in this room have relationships on the east side of the
Jordan and you need to walk away and people in your life
have told you that they’re not bad you’ve even Justified that you’re trying to be a testimony to those people when
in your spirit when I tell your soul to step back and your spirit to come forward in your spirit you know that you
know I’m missing out that this relationship is keeping me from the bigger portions the
immeasurable greatness of the Kingdom some of you in this realm will keep it
real practical you use a language that’s been permissible
and God wants to give you a spiritual language he wants to give you a spiritual tongue
he wants you to speak of spiritual things he wants you to have a spiritual mind he
wants you to grasp a hold of the supernatural
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