Let God Help You Process

• When you go to the cutting  room of your life to evaluate, “Why did that happen? What needs to  happen next? What am I going to do about it? Did you hear what they said?  How am I going to respond to this…?” When you are released from a situation, when you  are between situations, when you are reevaluating situations… When you go into the cutting room,  who is in there with you? The Bible says Peter and John went back to their “own people.”  This is not an ethnic statement.
• This is not a gender statement. This is a statement about the  belief of the people they needed to be around at that moment. I don’t know about you, but when I  process my life, I need to be around believers. “I’ve had enough dumb conversations with doubters, skeptics, and cynics who told me  to tell them off.
• I told them off, and I lost my job, and you still have yours?”  So, the cutting room, as we see it today, is not only about a place but is about the people  who influence you. Isn’t it amazing that they took the raw footage of what had just happened  to them and converted it into a revelation? Did you know the Holy Spirit will help  you do that? To take the raw footage… My favorite movie of all time is a  documentary about a band.
• I will not say the name of the band, because some of  you would criticize me for being worldly, and you would be right. But I love the band,  and I love the documentary. It’s two hours long. I got so obsessed about the documentary,  which is already a movie about a process, that I read a book about the documentary.
• So, now I’m reading something about how something got made that was made to tell how  something else got made. That’s how much I like it. In my reading, I discovered  that for this two-hour documentary, there were over 1,600 hours of footage  captured over the course of two years. So get this. They had to take two years of footage  and make it fit in two hours.