PUSH//12PM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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Let's get into it. Today, last week, we started

this this message, but it will be a series over the next like

month or so. And I, I said this earlier to,

so people can have some context, but my family and I, we're going

to, we're going to be leaving for a month.

We're going to go on a sabbatical.

I used to always think sabbaticals was like for

depression and you're, you're, you're about to quit and you

need to hear from God and see if you still call to ministry and

all those things. But I also found out, as I was

thinking yesterday, that you could also take a break while

you went in. I think we need more people

taking more breaks while you're winning versus when you're

losing. And so I would just like to say

that our family's taking a break because Love Quest is winning.

Love Quest is winning. How is love?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Love Quest is winning.

And how, how do I know it's winning?

Fruit souls are being won. Saints are being matured.

Families are being reconciled. The mission is being

accomplished. A lot of times our metrics are

not biblical metrics. We gauge fruit by other things.

But from what I see, people are getting stronger.

I've seen people walk through these doors that are absolutely

different people for the better. Disciples are being made.

People's prayer lives are getting stronger.

Watch this. The fact that we can leave for a

month says we went in. Yeah.

And I say that last week we started a message.

It was called. Yeah, I know.

I was going to ask you again. Huh.

Huh. Crushed for glory and pressed

for time. OK.

And so I remember, anybody remember last week when we said

that God was doing this double thing, right?

We understand there's always pressing and there's always

crushing. There's wine, there's olives,

there is marking and there is stretching.

There's a season where God is marking you and then there's a

season where God is stretching you.

The marking is, is, is is developing and presenting you

new identity, right? Stretching.

God is increasing capacity for what he's about to birth in your

life. OK.

And this is very important because we're going to step into

this double, this double season because as we're about to talk

about this today and we talked about last week, there has been

an unusual amount of like normally in the past I have went

through a season. And came out of that thing and I

was like, Yep, I'm out of it, it's over, right?

And you create. Some distance before the next

thing happens, but it seems like.

I don't know if I'm by myself, but it seems like it just

haven't let up. Right, dude, I got like. 6 1/2

people, it seemed like it's been a longer time, right?

It's like you might have a low break, but the break is like,

it's like you swimming. You just, that's all you got

time for, right? You celebrate, then it's another

thing you need to brace yourself for.

And I just simply believe that God, the the devil has thrown

his greatest punch. For this season, This season is

coming to an end, OK. And there there will be clear

signs that it's to an end. It there will be clear signs

that it's to an end, OK. And so that was that message.

And we are going to, for the first time, I think we're going

to have two series going on at the same time, 2 series going on

the same time. I will not be here.

But the people that will preach the word are anointed.

Whoever come up here, I promise you they are anointed.

And you will hear them preach from one of those messages, the

one from last week. And today's message is the labor

room groaning for glory, the labor room of destiny.

Right, It's the labour room. Now.

Now understand, we are not in the waiting room.

We are not driving to the hospital.

This is not a false call. We are in the labour room.

Scapulas, not spatulas, but scapulas are out.

Scalpels, I used to call them scapulas.

Amen. Hallelujah, scalpels are out.

The, the, the instruments, that's what we going to call

them. The medical instruments have

been sanitized. They are out the the the the

nurses. Are in and the doctor has his

hands out. I don't know if you know what

that mean, but normally or does he do this?

Does he do this? Not this?

He doesn't do this. OK, my doctor did this, so I

don't know. Maybe he didn't have his

license. Right.

He, he is ready for delivery. Heaven is ready to assist you.

Everything is in place. Maturity has taken place.

OK. The only thing left for you to

do is what Push. Last week we talked about

crushing. We talked about the pressing.

We talked about how oil does not come without pressure and wine

does not come without crushing, and purpose does not come

without process. We establish in this truth that

God will allow pressure when He's intending on producing

something precious, right? I, I, I, I don't know about you,

but I think a part of maturing is you stop settling for mana,

you stop settling for treats, you stop settling for sugar.

A part of maturity is you learn how to wait for the God thing,

right? So when God will allow pressure,

it is him intending on birthing something precious.

Somebody say precious right when the baby come out, it is

precious I'm talking about. Listen, this baby is cross eyed,

fresh out the hospital in the cloth, the little wrapped in the

cloth like a burrito ready to be eaten.

Sleep and people walk in the house.

How something that can't talk got me quiet.

The presence of something precious, the presence that was

a the presence of something that was a mystery for nine months

has finally come out and people cannot wait to see this baby.

It finally gets here and the fragility of that the.

Fragileness of that child has people on pins and needles.

Watch this Watch this Love quest parents Love quest parents Love

quest parents, Love quest parents.

All the parents real quick, all the parents.

What's her? What's her game back there?

What's her name? Vanelli.

Watch this, Watch this, watch this.

Where JT at? Where JT at?

Where JT at? He was watching the playoffs.

Hey, man. All right, all right, Watch

this. Watch this Watch this.

Watch this at church. Watch this guy's ladies stop.

Letting everybody hold your baby.

Watch this. Every leader is not sanitized.

Hallelujah. OK, stop watch this.

You got the parents. My Mama watched who held me

right. My Mama was in the.

Choir. But when I was a little baby,

she wasn't in the choir. You have to guard this thing.

Watch this. You can't let anybody speak into

your life when you about to give birth, OK.

And the and the closer you get to birth, the less voices have

access. And so when you don't know you

about to give birth, it's a very dangerous thing because you let

anybody speak into your life. When God needs, he has put

midwives around, he put doctors, he's put professional prophetic

folks in your life. I need if I got to give birth to

life, I need only people around me that speak in life.

So God will allow pressure when he's intending.

On producing something precious. Watch this The pressure is meant

to cause you to push. This week you move from the

crushing floor to the labor room because some of you thought the

pressure meant something was ending.

But I believe there had to be a dying for there to be a

birthing. Have you ever noticed that

nobody celebrates con contractions in the moment?

No one enjoys labor pains. Nobody claps during the

pressure. But unlike everybody else, every

mother understands something very powerful about labor pains.

You don't push when something is dying.

You push when something is ready to live.

OK, now I do understand this. I do understand.

This that there are parents or or or families that have pushed

out something that did not live. But prophetically speaking,

heaven is not having you push so something can die.

There is no still. Births in this season, the Lord

is about to push something through you that will radically

change your entire bloodline. So for those that are afraid of

birth and afraid because you have been traumatized by

miscarriage, you've been trauma. I'm talking spiritual as well.

Do not be afraid to push this time your push will not be.

In vain. I'm going to say it again.

Do not be afraid to push. Your push in this season will

not be in vain. I know for some of you in this

room, you have experienced moments in your life where

you've pushed, you've worked hard, you've pushed, you pushed,

you pushed, you pushed, you pushed, you pushed you all that

come to a place where, man, what else do I need to do?

What else do I need to show them that I'm ready?

You may have been in that season, but guess what?

God is not trying to push you to show them.

He is trying to push you to reveal Him in.

You to you, this push is not about other people.

This push is about you. And the Lord and what he

promised you before you was formed in your mother's womb.

What God placed in you still has purpose.

Paul says something very interesting.

He looks at suffering very differently.

He. Calls the suffering in the

world. He says all creation is in great

expectation, anticipation and waiting for the manifestation of

the sons and daughters of the Most High.

He looks at suffering and he tells us that the suffering that

you're experiences experiencing is only a great anticipation

that you cannot articulate. I don't know who I'm talking to,

but there has been unusual pressure, there's been unusual

tension, there's been unusual stretching, unusual warfare,

unusual emotional weight. And because you did not

understand the. Process.

You thought it was over, but it ain't.

Heaven sent a different message today.

And right when you thought it was over, right when you thought

it was falling apart, I'm here to tell you it is falling

together. Look at your.

Neighbors say it's falling together.

It's falling together. It's.

Falling together. It is falling together, tell

yourself. I am not falling apart, I am

just in labor. Come on, say that to yourself

with some confidence. You are in labor and the devil

has lied to you and made you think that you couldn't handle

it, made you think that you're overwhelmed, made you think that

you're depressed, made you think all these things and maybe

you're just in labor. See, a parent that is carrying a

baby has to watch their mental health because watch this.

The stress you carry is imparted to the baby you carry.

The stress you carry is imparted to the baby that you're

carrying. Watch this.

The drinks you sipping on is going into the baby's

bloodstream. So the words and the people that

speak into your life, it's going into the baby's bloodstream.

Who's. Speaking into your life in this

season that you are called to give birth, your prayer life is

shifting, your health is shifting, your family is

shifting, your ministry is shifting, and your future is

shifting. I received that.

For myself for sure, because God is preparing.

To reveal sons and daughters once and for all.

Romans 823. If you could turn there with me.

If you don't have it, we'll put it on the screen for you.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning, as in the

pains of childbirth, right up to this present moment.

Boom. Not only so, but we ourselves,

who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we

wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our

bodies. Why do you keep fighting?

Why do you keep pressing? Might it be inside of you?

There's something inside of you that says there's more.

Have you ever looked at yourself and be like, this is not me,

this is not it, It is OK. I don't know who you've been

talking to, but it is OK to not be satisfied with where you are.

You can be content in him, but not be satisfied with where you

are based on what he has said you are.

I don't know about you, but I believe, as I said last week,

there are some places and some things that I know should have

been showed up for some people, they're like, oh.

You're you're, you're just you're you're just being selfish

or no. It's in God's timing.

Sometime that's a lame prayer when you put it off on God

because you don't have enough faith to know and believe that

that thing is supposed. Faith is a substance of things

hoped for, and the evidence of things not saying faith is

saying I got it now. So my posture is saying that I'm

supposed to have it now. I got it now.

So I'm going to act like I have it now.

If I'm believing for my healing, if I got faith in my healing,

guess what? I act like I act like I am what

healed. So I might be weak, but I'm

going to try to get on the bike for even 2 minutes because I am

telling my faith that I am the healed and not the sick.

I am telling my body what the word of God said.

You have to have a corresponding action to.

Your vocabulary, father, help our unbelief.

Creation is groaning for glory. Groaning in this scripture means

internal tension. Internal tension.

I know I'm not by myself. There's a restlessness going on,

and you see it throughout humanity.

Whenever we're restless, we get in trouble.

We make decisions out of season. We let zeal lead our lives, we

let emotions lead our lives, and we end up in situations that

will get us in trouble or 'cause somebody say it's going to cost

you when you move out of God's timing.

So groaning is also deep yearning.

Groaning is spiritual travail. Groaning is pressure that cannot

be fully articulated. Have you ever just cannot

articulate this moment? Watch this.

I know you didn't bitch your lip when you're mad.

Have you ever bitch your lip when you was believing?

Have. You ever bitch your lip because

the enemy has gained some access into your family, into

situations, and to to your finances and to work and you've

been frustrated? Think of the things you get

frustrated about. And think of the things you're

not frustrated about. Maybe some of the things you're

not frustrated about, God is frustrated about.

It's not. God does not care about that.

But the thing you care about is the lesser thing that God cares

about. Creation eagerly awaits here

means this. Strained expectation.

Strained expectation. It means neck stretched forward

like nosy people, right? But but it's this idea of

something is wooing me forward, something is calling me deeper.

Something has me moving forward to the point where I am nosy

about what God is up to it. What what what Jacob is saying.

I will not let you go until you bless me God.

I will not let you go until I arrive where I'm supposed to

arrive in you next. Stretch forward.

Laborers with birth pains have direction.

You're not just in pain for no reason.

Laborers with birth pains have purpose.

There is a purpose behind these contractions.

Laborers with birth. Pangs have outcome.

Laborers with birth pangs have attached promise to them.

The fact that I am having birth pangs is a sign that a blessing,

a promise, is on its way out. Laborers with birth pangs or

something's coming to an end. This is a pain that is coming to

an end. This is a pain that has an

expiration date. This is a pain that has a shelf

life. It is over very soon after

you've suffered for a what, little while.

Well, this is the old saying, hold on just a little while

longer, right? These labor pains means that

something is being evicted. These laborers with birth pains

mean there's some pains of separation.

Think about when a child, there is a a split moment where that

parent is separated from their child because that parent has to

recover. That that parent might have to

get stitched back up, but also that child has to be taken to a

space. To be monitored, protected,

vital signs taken. And so you have to understand

that what you're about to birth will cause some separation.

What you're about to birth is going to cause some isolation at

times. I want to give you 3 pressure

points, 3 pain points, 3 pressure points #1 Pressure is

not always an attack. Please write that down because.

You under pressure don't mean it's the devil.

Pressure is not always an attack.

Here it is. Some pressure is warfare, but

some pressure is simply transition.

Some pressure is transition. Don't mistake contractions for

contradiction, because contractions don't mean the

promise died. Delivery has begun.

Contractions mean delivery has begun.

I'll say it again, I'll say it again for this Pentecostal

church. I'll say it again for this

Pentecostal church. Delivery has begun.

Delivery has begun. What I'm looking for in here,

watch this. I'm looking for a few people

that will take ownership for the season that God has you in

right. What if you took ownership

instead of being a spectator and a Amen Hallelujah.

I agree good word pastor versus really understand the prophetic

implications of that that when God actually do you know how

many people in this world don't know what season they're in when

God gives you a word, don't don't act like if God told you

what was next, you would act different because right now he.

How you want him to tell you what's next and you, some of you

are struggling with him telling you where you are.

God is clarifying the season you're in.

So, so, so, so, so for that Mama who is in labor, there is pain

and there's what excitement. Look, you get.

Vacation, you get. You get.

Time off of work the daddy don't got.

Well, it's different in Canada. Y'all get it?

Y'all get like a year? A year huh?

Sometimes, OK, well, we don't get it.

No time in America. No, no time but but if God came

and said delivery has begun, son, the pain you've experienced

is not delay. The pain you experience is not

about to take you into a worse season.

The pain you're experiencing is not because you're doing

something wrong. Somebody needs to hear that.

What's up? Your mistake is not while while

you're in pain, Your mistake is your mistake.

That's why we got the blood of Jesus.

The pain is ordained, delivery is in session, and what feels

like destruction may actually be divine disruption.

Divine disruption because contract showns.

Are the fruit of construction. Maybe if I say it like that

you'll understand. You'll understand, my friend.

She can God is disturbing what can no longer contain the next

dimension. So if you're not scared, just

say somebody, somebody say disturb me.

Lord, you probably don't really pray that.

That's probably your first time praying that, huh, right?

Crush me, Lord. You probably never prayed that

prayer. Crush me, Lord.

Stretch me, Lord Jesus. We're all shake it out, Baha,

right? You probably never prayed that

prayer. God is disturbing what can no

longer contain where you're going?

That baby that was able to breathe in water is now choking

on water. What you can breathe in the last

dimension, you will not be able to breathe.

You going to choke on it in the next dimension.

So don't be mad when God, you know, put people in your life to

just. You know, help you.

Right. Then it's don't.

Don't be the God. That's the counter bit.

And come on now, you, you on this side, right?

The baby is in some kind of shock immediately has come out.

I would be screaming too, right? You here on earth now.

And sometimes you need pastors and you need a word to say, Hey,

hey, we're in the new dimension now.

You got a ship. You can't do that no more.

You can't pray like that no more.

So we're constantly calling you higher because we're there,

right? You got to mature now.

You, you can't talk like that. You can't sew like that.

You have to rise up. Hello.

We're in a new dimension. You can't hear like that, no?

More God is disturbing. What can no longer contain the

next dimension? What feels like pressure or

crushing may actually be progress.

What if you are making progress? If I'm playing in the playoffs,

guess what guys? It gets harder.

Watch this if I keep. Winning games and go to the next

round. Guess what guys, it gets harder

and my body is more tired. I don't care how much treatment

you get, it gets harder. Watch this.

The further I go, the harder it gets, the lesser people

standing. So if you still in the fight,

Troy, it might be harder, but when you look back, it's less

people standing. Are we in the conference finals?

Ain't that many. It's not that many teams.

Alive no more. So what if you had the mindset

to understand it is a privilege to carry these birth pangs?

Because I'm a lot further than a lot more people watch this.

And then the pros. You get you, you you.

You get money each round you go to.

On top of your check. So there's bonuses to keep going

round after round. Now I'm trying to talk to some

people who are too hard on themselves.

You're here, watch this. What you just experienced has

caused some people to kill themselves.

You lasted another round. Your marriage lasted another

round. What feels like pressure?

Or crushing may actually be progress.

God's making arrangements for arrival.

You've been distanced for disruption.

Come on, somebody you You've been distanced for disruption.

Watch this this pressure #2 you don't push at the start, you six

weeks. Super dramatic.

Can you? Can you?

Can you? Open the door for me real quick,

please. You six weeks, don't you get in

the car all like? This is 6 weeks right?

Because some some people are in seasons and you are more

pregnant than you think you are. Stand up, stop fainting you OK

you six weeks, right? You can still exercise, you can

still go to work. You just found out you pregnant

and you trying to take vacation you.

You 6 weeks. Hallelujah.

You kind of person take off for a month because you think you

pregnant. You don't even know you

pregnant. You think you pregnant.

You're like, Oh my God, I got it.

I might be pregnant. I got to take some vacation.

How much vacation I got? Right.

You're you're not pushing watch this.

You're discovering. Watch this the moment you find

out. If you good, mom, lifestyle

change, Yeah. If you're drinking, you ain't

drinking. You're smoking.

You ain't smoking. You was.

Partying. You might not be partying.

So it's important for me to know when I'm pregnant because

pregnancy requires a lifestyle change it it requires diet

change. I can't watch this.

I can't keep listening to the same word.

Now I'm pregnant. I might not be able to stream

certain people now I'm pregnant. Good word, but for what's in me

might cause abortion because it's fighting against the baby

that's in me. That's what people don't

understand. When you come to church, there's

a word that either impregnates or it nurtures what you pregnant

with. So watch this.

The hospital across the street may not do C sections.

So if I need AC section, I don't care if I got to get in the

helicopter, I need to go where I can get the treatment I need.

So the day of convenient church, I just pick one whatever

clothes. No, you don't any many money MO

church. You don't catch you, you don't.

Push at the start, nobody Pushes in the first month.

Nobody. Nobody.

Some. People don't even know pushing.

Happens when deliveries near pushing.

Happens when delivery is near pushing increased on us because

the time is up on us to give birth.

And hell. I love this for me.

I love this for me. Hell doesn't fight empty people

this hard. What can you watch this?

I need you to tell your neighbor this soon as I tell you what to

say to them, tell them. Stop walking around like you

ain't full of something. Right.

Stop, stop. Stop walking around like you're

not carrying something precious. Stop walking around like you

don't got greater purpose in you.

Stop walking around. Like God has not anointed you.

Stop walking around like God hasn't promised you that you

going to be the best in your field.

Stop walking around like you don't have something valuable

inside of you. Stop walking around like you

ain't love. Stop walking around like you

ain't seen. Stop walking around like you

ain't strong. You know you strong.

Stop walking around. You cannot be.

Reckless with what you're pregnant with.

Help us, Jesus. This church love Quest is

entering a labor room season and we are not just gathering

crowds, but we are birthing disciples, We are birthing

leaders, we are birthing prayer warriors, we are birthing healed

families, we are birthing awakened sons and daughters.

We are birthing revival carriers, and we are birthing

Kingdom builders. Joel 225 Because I believe we're

in a season where God is commanding.

Put them back how you found them.

This is a. Season where the devil is under

arrest and he can no longer keep fooling with you the same way he

was fooling with you, right. You ever have you ever had that

protective neighbor, parent, friend or you ever you ever you

ever get in trouble where you just trying to steal something?

I know nobody does anything bad in here.

Anybody ever tried to steal something you borrowed?

You borrowed without permission. All right, OK.

I like that too. I like that too.

All right. But but but.

Even even if a kid, if you had a kid and they pick up something

they're not supposed to and you parent, you get that look on

your face. Put that back.

Now put that down. Now I'm trying to speak to

somebody's spirit in here who, whatever your oppression,

whatever it has been, has been carrying you.

And God, the Lord of hosts, y'all have y'all forgot the

Lord? This is his year.

God is commanding. Put my sons down.

Here it is. Let my people go.

This is that season why Joel 2 says I will restore and replace

for you. Somebody say he going to do it

for you. The years that dot dot dot dot

dot, I don't know, but we going to take 60 seconds, maybe 120

seconds and we going to fill in the dot dot dot prophetically.

Lord, I thank you for restoring and replacing for my family the

years that the devil has taken, the finances the devil has

taken, the rest that the devil has taken, the peace that the

devil has taken, the health that the devil has taken.

Lord, we thank you that you are restoring.

You are replacing now in the name of Jesus.

Yeah, he's doing it. Put it back now in the name of

Jesus. Restore, replace, restore.

Replace. Restore the health.

Restore peace. Restore my bounce.

Back. Restore my dance.

Restore my joy. Restore my faith.

In the name of Jesus. Restore my patience.

In the name of Jesus. Restore my sense of humor.

In the name of Jesus. Restore my laughter.

In the name of Jesus. Restore, restore, restore.

Somebody shout out. Restore.

Because because one of the things that God does in the

labour room is restore what was lost in previous seasons.

There's a time to die and a time to live.

You've heard this scripture before.

There's a time for death and there's a time for life.

Watch this. There's a time to mourn somebody

say. Been there, done that.

I'm not even talking about mourning like death.

Some of you have mourned places you.

You've mourned where you used to live.

You've mourned friends that you used to have.

You've you've mourned things and you've allowed that mourning to.

But watch this. You had a time.

There was a grace for you to mourn.

But then, can I tell you there's also a time to celebrate?

There's a time to let the Yeah, there's a time to let it go and

begin to celebrate. Because you cannot idolize

mourning. You cannot idolize grief.

What I mean by that, it becomes your excuse.

You cannot idolize your trauma. What do I mean?

It becomes your excuse. Why?

God says I'm going to restore and replace for you.

I love that part because he's committed to do it for me, so

that takes the pressure off of me.

All I got to do is what push. You.

Ever you? Anybody.

I don't know how many people ever had ice cream trucks in

their life? OK, I feel sorry for some of

y'all. Jesus Christ.

OK, how many? Remember the push pop?

The push, the push pop right to put.

OK, so there's some more people have push pops than had ice

cream trucks. OK, OK, so push pop, let me tell

you something. If you don't push the pop.

You ain't going to have ice cream for long.

You can lick the top all you want to, but it's going to come

a time where you going to be all in that little toilet paper

wrapper. That's y'all.

Y'all didn't know that was a toilet paper cardboard?

You can tell you, you can tell who was a little nasty kid.

They're just getting rid of ice cream.

I'm just in the car. No, no, no.

If you don't push the pop, you are you going to lose your joy

real quick. Somebody say push the pop.

I feel like Bill Cosby. Therefore, push the pudding.

No, no, no. No, Why?

Why? Bill Cosby was great.

He was great. He did some stupid stuff.

It's just like there's pastors who preach the Word, but they

make dumb personal decisions. No, I'm not going to throw it

all out. No, I'm not going to do that

right. R Kelly was a great artist, but

he just did some stupid stuff. My wife looking at me like she's

always looking at me. Can't wait till she preach.

Amen. Amen.

What hell stolen seasons God restores in moments.

What hell stolen seasons God restores in moments.

And some of you are about to recover years.

You're about to recover focus. You're about to recover fire.

I don't know some of y'all have you ever been have you ever

noticed your fire kind of went out a little bit?

OK, let me help you This you think fire is just like whoa,

watch out. You used to study more.

You used to read your Bible more.

You used to be hungry to get to church more.

Your fire has went out. But God says I'm about to

restore. Yo, I'm about to give you a

reason to be lit. I'm about to give you a reason

to be lit. Your vision is going to be

restored, your joy is going to be restored.

You are going to recover authority, you are going to

recover your prayer life, and you are going to recover purpose

again. You are going to be realigned

with purpose, not gradually, but suddenly, in the name of Jesus.

This is one of them moments in messages in church where you

kind of like pray throughout the message because there is

birthing happening even now. Cling on to the Word, open your

mouth, pray. I won't feel offended if you

start praying. I wouldn't feel offended if you

start standing up. I wouldn't feel offended if you

came to the altar and kneeled. This is one of these moments

where the Word is happening. God is doing something.

This is not a teaching, this is a releasing and it's for you to

catch it and I encourage you to respond when it hit.

You in your womb. You need to respond.

It's like when I'm when, when, when, when, when our children

kicked and I was around. He did grab my hand.

Keep moving, he kicked. You right, if he was at work all

day, Daddy came home. You go straight to that belly.

Something moving. Watch this when the word hits

your spirit. That's not goosebumps, that's

God. That's heaven kicking inside of

you and watch this. It ain't a time that I seen the

child kick in the womb that the mother ain't walking around like

this. That's kind of.

You get what I'm saying, right? You got, you got to no, no, no.

You got to respond right. You got too many people still

bursting the word. The word hit you in the womb and

you just don't. React you just and then it just.

You look right. You got it.

You have to respond to get the revelation right.

You don't just bring oranges home, you peel them.

So when the word hits your womb, you got to peel it.

You got to bring the layers. Back and you got to sit on it.

Miss point #3 Labor requires. Participation Doctors assist,

right Doctors assist As much as I was my wife's husband with the

with with the giving birth to children.

I couldn't help so I drove her to the hospital where she gets

help and then you take her there to professionals and there's

people there to help bring it safe.

And sometimes if you're worried husband like what you doing to

the doctor. There are people that are there

to help and watch this. You are not called to push by

yourself. Who are your push partners?

Doctors assist, midwives guide, but the mother still has to do

what push. Heaven will partner with you,

but Heaven will not push. For you, so maybe you felt like

God is absent. Maybe he was right there

screaming push. He's not going to push for you,

you have to push. And sometime pushing is not

merely about pushing out is also pushing away from because Romans

826 says the Holy Spirit does not replace your participation.

He comes alongside your burden. You have a burden and he prays

that burden out for you because you don't know how to articulate

it. I said it earlier, you have to

have something to articulate. In order to not be able to

articulate it or you just ain't got nothing to say.

That's not you don't know how to articulate.

It's I have something that's going on on the inside of me and

I just quite can't explain it. But then the Holy Spirit comes

along and the Holy Spirit begins to pray.

I used to. Hear my grandma like groan in

her prayer time. I'm like, great, you know, kids

be worried. They'd be like grandma, what,

you OK and watch this. But I have to stir up a burden.

Can I ask every person in here, what are you burdened about if

you're not praying about your burdens?

And I'm not talking about rent, I'm not talking about a, a, a

vacation. I'm not, I'm talking what are

you actually carrying? I'm not talking about your

burden with your desires. I'm not talking about you burden

for a spouse. What heavenly thing that you are

burdened with do. Do you care that your city don't

know Jesus? Do you care that the enemy is

breaking up your family? We care about all these things

and we wonder why God's not intervening because God does not

waste help. Are you burdened about the city

knowing you? Are you worried about people

being discipled? Are you worried about your

friends losing their mind? What are you burdened about?

Are you worried about that family member that's on their

way to hell and you say you love them and you ain't paused and

stop and talk to them one minute.

Your Mama, your daddy, your uncle, your cousin on the way to

HE double L and you come to church all the time and you see

them going to hell and you will not stop with urgency and say

Mama this ain't good. What are you burdened with?

And the longer you ignore something that is not of God, as

long as you ignore the burdens, you become lukewarm.

You are lukewarm because you do not care about the burdens that

God has impressed upon you. You are allowing the enemy to

manipulate the burdens that God gave you, and now the burden is

being perverted. Watch this, it's only after so

long that God gives you a burden and you don't use it for his

glory that it becomes used for darkness glory.

No Gee the Lord wanted Saul's passion.

Like don't change the passion, just let's change who you taking

your passion out on. Some of y'all are where you are

simply because you have been given a burden by heaven and you

have allowed your own desire and selfishness to to lead it versus

being obedient at a young age or older age.

It does not matter but if time is out.

For you bombarding heaven about your desires, that's not what

the word says. The the word says seek me first.

The word says delight in me and then I'll give you the desires

of your heart. There is something, Troy, there

is something that happens in my desires.

When I put God's Kingdom first, He actually purges and prunes

and matures my desires. And when I put God first, I find

out the things that I idolize don't have me no more.

I don't even want them no more. And the worst thing that you

could do is get something you think you want and a few years

later you don't want to have nothing to do with it.

But now you got kids with it. You wanted it so bad and God

said go for it. The Holy Spirit does not replace

your participation. It's real prayer.

It's not casual conversation with God, right?

When are we going to grow up and actually pray?

You can see it in the room. You can see, you can see it in

the room. And This is why it's important

for people that do have a prayer life to pray out loud in the

church because there's impartation that take place.

Some people, I grew up hearing prayer every day in my

household. Some people don't have never

heard prayer in their home. So whether they like it or not,

if you come to church, you're going to hear us pray because

that's what we do. So you can't be somebody who has

a relationship with God. You know it's faithfulness, but

you're afraid you're in here mumble.

And no, people need to hear you pray because you don't

understand. There's an impartation of

prayer. People need to walk in churches

and see a people that's burdened.

Elder John, here's what scares me.

Elder John, this most Christians not burdened for what Christ is

burdened about. You can see the activities in

churches were casual, like we've lost that old time religion.

Now, they was tripping on some stuff back then, but there was

just something about their they just was burdened.

So what? They was at church for four

hours in one service. They they actually cared about

something. They was tired of slavery.

They was tired of certain things happening.

They were tired of injustice. And so when you're tired of

certain things, you don't turn to the world, you turn to

prayer. So no wonder he says the labor

room. This is actually going to be a

series about prayer. You don't push without prayer.

The crushing is to develop intimacy.

It's so people can see God in you.

Here's what I know that God is about to revisit what seemed to

die in your hands. He is about to breathe in what

seem to be dead places. But I do believe he's speaking

to a people that's fed up with the status quo, that that is

hungry and thirsty for righteousness.

Because right now, the fastest growing church in the world is

the church that's leaving the local church.

The scripture says the very elect will be duped away.

So who's sitting in this room that think you're exempt from

walking away from the church? Watch this.

It is very easy to walk away from the church when most of

your burdens concern your life. You wake up every day, What's on

your agenda, your stuff, what you need God to breakthrough for

your life, for your family, your finances, your business, your

ideas, your dreams. There are different dimensions.

There are dimensions that only open to people that are willing

to push. And I think this kind of started

a few weeks ago when I realized, man.

We we can kind of be. Passive in our prayer life.

And I'm like, just for example, the building awesome vision

night last week or two weeks ago, two weeks ago about the

building yesterday. I must say to see people out

here taking watch this, having a burden to fix their church up,

tear all this rubble and begin to tear this wall down over

here. People in this church.

This wasn't a contractor. This was our people in the

church cleaning up. If you go in that alleyway, the

obstruction that was there is down, is being cleaned up.

That's going to be our little, our little, our little social

alleyway. When we're done with that

vision, it's going to be super cool, but that's what it takes.

People, how much money? How much?

I only only make $5.00 an hour, but how much money we need?

OK, I'm about to put that on my vision wall and I'm going to

carry a burden to see us in this building and I am going to say

God, if I got to work overtime, if I got to sell something,

whatever I got to do, I want to see this church burden that's

bigger than me. You walking around and you

seeing a mother struggling, her father struggling and you can

help them in any kind of way. I don't care if it's giving them

shoes, if it's giving them clothes, if it's giving their

children something, if it's buying the person's meal right

behind you. What are you burdened about that

don't got nothing to do with you, but it has everything to do

is to reveal Jesus. Because I'm, I'm, I'm here to

tell you, yes, you're about to give birth, but what you're

about to give birth to, it's not about you.

There comes a time where you give birth like you looking in

the animal Kingdom, man, some of these animals, they had their

kids and they'd be like, bye. It's not about you.

Whatever God impregnates you with, it is for His glory.

Here's the problem. People leave the labor room too

early. One thing that I can say that I

have learned to do, my wife and I have learned to do in this

season. Have you have you ever been

proud of yourself? No, no, a lot of people.

Don't pause enough to be proud of themselves.

That's major. I don't know if how much I've

ever been proud of myself. But what I am proud about in

this season, over the last however many years, 10 years, 15

years, whatever it may have been, is our family.

We've learned to push and endure, and there there is

something about getting at least stretching past what you've

normally like. Like like like like like.

Make up in your mind. I'm going to see how far I can

push it. The worst that can happen if you

work out hard, you pass. How do you throw up?

But some people are afraid to throw up, so they'll go up to

the line and rest versus like, look, guys, if in the last year

for for 10 years you got to the line and just in this last six

months you just took one step. Watch this guys.

You looking at man, I'm still stuck over here.

No, you're not. Your momentum is going this way.

You are making progress today. You got a foot forward.

All Look, At first I needed help with two feet over the line.

Now all I need to do is lift this one, right?

Watch. It was harder to get this foot

over. This one is a lift.

What if I told you you're right there?

Just lift your foot and step it over.

Your body's already there. Your mind's already there.

Your hope is already there. Can you just can you just lift

it over? I'm prophetically doing this for

myself. Lift it over.

Watch this. Some people are afraid to lift

it over because that mean they got to say bye to there.

You got to commit. You got to commit.

But can I get a few people here that's like, I'm going to commit

to go that extra step this year. I'm I'm going, I'm going to take

that extra step, right? I'm taking that extra step.

I'm I'm going to take the extra Rep, I'm going to take the extra

lap. I'm going to say sorry one more

time. I'm going to forgive one more

time. I am not going to.

If I forgave five times this time, I'm going to do it the

sixth time. I'm not going to keep being

stuck at 5. That's all God asked.

Watch this. It's crazy how he said he

ordered our steps, not our leaps.

He ordered or he didn't order this if that happens.

And that's what we do a lot. He's like, I ordered your steps.

Sometime they're quick steps, sometime they're longer steps,

but they're steps. But we like to rush and we just,

ah, leap. And God didn't order that leap.

He ordered your step. And I just believe that there

are people in this. Room that God wants to reignite

some things watch this. He's also in the business of

bringing people's dreams forth through you because they're

gone. Do you know do you do you know

do you know Troy and Jasmine? Do you know the dream that you

are living in that your parents rather admit to or not wish they

were living? Do you know the revelation that

you hold? Do you know, do you know the

strength and the faith that you have that your parents, when

they look at you, they're like, man, I wish when I was their

age, I was that. Far be proud of yourselves

Natalia W like like John, like Vanelli like you guys.

Can we just all with our jacked up selves, just be proud of

yourself for making it one more day, for deciding to come in the

House of God? Do you know what coming into the

House of God really means? You've already surpassed.

You've already broken some chains.

You've already interrupted some things.

You've already broken some generational curses.

Can you just say thank you, Lord, for the anointing, for the

power to keep going? Is it the bigger burden, the

bigger burden? Just just the bigger burden?

I'm learning. I'm learning to pause and just

be like, OK, watch this there. There has to be a moment in the

labor room. You say thank you, Jesus.

You can't cuss the whole time. There has to be a moment and you

start seeing the push turn into a praise when the baby when,

when the when the nurses is like I, I see it and watch this.

Watch this watch this you. You are messed up when you hear

that baby cry. But watch this the mother

carried and nurtured and protected and pushed to hear the

voice of the newborn. I'm here, lift your hands where

you are. I'm telling you that what's

going to happen within. You when you.

Hear the cry, the first cry of the new dimension, the first cry

of the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow.

God has been doing something internally, but it is

manifestation season. Watch this, watch this.

I want to tell some people ahead of time, when you get there, do

not apologize. Do not apologize.

You do not apologize for what you have to leave behind.

Do not apologize. But when you hear the first cry

of that baby, ask any mother, ask any father, and when?

Heaven hands that baby to you, whatever it may be for some of

you. Heaven's going to hand you a

piece that you've never thought you have again.

For some of you, heaven is going to hand you a song.

You never thought you were right again.

For some of you, heaven is going to hand you finances that is

going to radically change your life and your whole

neighborhood's life. But.

Promise me like the Mama. When she hear the babies cry.

She cries out. She lifts her hands, reaching

for a baby. But prophetically, we're

reaching for our Father and we're saying thank you, God.

Thank you that I didn't quit. Thank you that I didn't give up.

Thank you that I did faint. But you, you, you breathed back

into me, right? How many people in here have

fainted and you got that text message or that phone call from

the pastor or from a friend? And it was And you, how many

people have ever texted this was right on time.

I don't know how you knew it. Watch this.

Heaven tapped on the shoulder and said, send that text.

And they like, I don't know why I sent you that text message,

but I was just being obedient. Have a good day.

And they didn't know you was on your last leg.

They didn't know you was about to drown that bottle.

They didn't know you was about to kill yourself.

They didn't know you was about to take those pills.

They didn't know they didn't know they didn't know.

They didn't know you was about to sabotage everything.

They did not know you was about to fill out those divorce

papers. They did not know you was about

to drive that car off that Cliff.

They did not know. But can you pause for a minute

instead of sitting in the sorrow?

Just thank God that you are here.

This is the soberness of the labour room.

Heaven is invested in us. The birthing is inevitable.

All of creation is anticipating the manifestation of sons and

daughters, which means that all of creation is on tiptoe

awaiting for the manifestation in Revelation of who you are in

Jesus. So you have.

To become, you have to become. This is why the devil want to

take you out. This is why the devil want to

divide you. This is why the devil want to

get you away from your push partners.

Some people aren't friends. They're called to be.

Push partners. There's times where Elder John

will push me. And guess what I got to do?

I got to let him. Come on, let's just sit in this

for a SEC because as you see is coming out, we're coming out.

This is an ascension. This is this is the we've been

on a pilgrimage. We're coming out.

We're going forward. We're we're going higher.

Yeah, that's God is sending help.

Some of you there are rooms, people talking about you around

the conference table. The phone call is coming.

The opportunity is coming. There's nothing wrong with those

desires, but God wants to make sure when He puts you on that

platform. You are not moved by.

People, you are not moved by rejection anymore because the

higher you go, the more rejection you'll experience.

You're not moved by being misunderstood anymore.

All of creation standing on tiptoe, awaiting with great

expectation, heads and necks forward, deep groanings.

'Cause they like Keep going Laura.

Keep going, Laura. Keep going Pastor Daniella.

Keep going, keep going. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Keep going. Keep going, Jasmine.

Keep going, Jasmine. Keep going, Elder John.

Keep going, Malia. Keep going, Sion.

Keep going Lily, Keep going Wes, Keep going.

Keep going. Keep going JT, Keep going.

Breathe. Keep going.

Keep going. NT Keep going.

Elder Roseanne. Keep going.

Effie. Keep going Grace.

Keep going. Keep going, Andrew.

Keep going. Keep going.

Lindsay. Keep going.

Lisa, keep going. Single parent household.

Keep going. Laid off from your job.

Keep going. Failed some tests, Keep going.

Keep taking them. Keep applying.

Keep running. Keep waking up.

Keep standing. Keep forgiving, keep repenting.

Keep going. Love quest Keep going day.

Keep going. Keep going Emma.

Keep going. Keep going Deacons keep going.

Keep believing for your children.

Keep going. Keep.

Praying, be not weary and well doing keep going.

I believe the. Prodigal son's father.

He saw his son coming home. See.

Your mother getting off those drugs.

See. See, See.

See. Your father healed right now.

See. While you're caught up in the in

the mind of heaven, see that cancer dissolve every cancer

cell. Dissolve blood disease.

Dissolve. Whatever we got to change,

that's our push diet. Repent.

Come home, reconcile. That's your push, tithe, give

love. Again, work out.

That's your push. Whatever it is, that's your

push. Holy Spirit can't go to the gym

for you. That's your push.

Holy Spirit can't get you out that relationship.

That's your push. Where do you need to?

Push. You are in the labor room.

Who do you need to repent to? That's your push.

You can't move forward till you repent.

You can't move forward till you sow that thing.

You can't move forward. What is the?

Push and watch this. You got to lay on the Gurney and

let heaven do its job. Lord, we are not letting go

until you bless us. If you believe that with me, can

you just break the just the last break off with just a shout of

praise? A clap of praise?

Give God some praise. Thank you so much for tuning

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