PUSH//9AM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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Let's get into it. Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers that are streaming my

Mama, especially Happy Mama's day.

Nana, I love you and thank you so much for Yeah.

And to all the mothers I was I was sharing in the back that

it's AI think Mother's Day. Well, I mean, I think all

holidays and days we celebrate rather Christmas, Easter, a

birthday or whatever. It's always bittersweet, right?

Because somebody in here is not able to celebrate their mother

in person because they passed away or someone in here doesn't

have a good relationship with their mother.

On the flip side, some some people in here have absolutely

been disrespectful today Mama. And so on the flip side, you,

you aren't appreciative for the mother that is living, let alone

to have people in a room where some people wish they had a

mother to argue with alive. But one thing that I do know is

none of us would be here without a mother.

Nothing, no one can replace a mother.

I pray for myself as a son and as a husband that we learn to

appreciate mothers more while they're living.

Even husbands learning how to appreciate the mother in your

wife. Amen.

I'm glad my I'm glad my wife. Mothers.

Yeah. And one thing I know when I met

you guys, Pastor Julia is I was like, she going to be if she

ain't cool to me, she going to be real good to my kids and our

kids are going to have a fun mom.

And I think that's what they have.

It's weird because I was I'm feeling a first of all, I'm, I

think I'm carrying a word for today, but I also feel that

there are single moms in here. There are Watch this.

There are moms who lost children and you disqualify yourself as a

mom or Mother's Day for you. You have children, but you can't

help but to think about the abortion or the miscarriage.

You can't help to think about those things, but it's Mother's

Day for you as well. And I just want to pause and and

not just make it just another day.

But you are appreciated. You're appreciated for carrying

a a child for several months, for several years.

You are valued. You can't take away mother.

If you have a womb, you, you are a mother.

And I think we have minimized mom to just someone who has a

child and they're currently mothering.

But mothers are more than just having a biological child.

Mothers pray for other people's children.

Mothers take care of other people's children.

Right. Your kids come to my house, they

going to be mothered by Pastor Julia.

And so we got to understand that there's nothing like a mom.

So Adam didn't just need a woman, he needed a mom for the

children that he was called to have.

And so let's make sure we don't get so familiar with our

parents, our mothers, that we don't say thank you.

Some of you might haven't even called your Mama today because

you don't have a good relationship.

What I will tell you this, do not let your mother leave this

earth without saying thank you. I didn't say have a great

relationship and be buddies. Say thank you.

I don't have to be your friend to be grateful for you.

And what God asked of us is to be grateful because our moms

watch. This was a gift to us.

How and why? Because they were asked by God

to carry you and then deliver you.

And they were the vehicle to get you here.

They could have threw you away. They could have did all kinds

of. Things, but they got you here.

And even if you're not able to tell your mother thank you

because she's not here just on earth, period, you could still

be thankful for your mom even if you're not able to say thank

you. But I believe in eternal life.

So even if you said thank you mom now, and she's not in earth,

promise you, she hears you. She probably hears you better

than your neighbor can hear you say it.

And so can we one more time just give God thanks for giving us

all of mom rather. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Aside from moms, there's I believe there's a few special

people in here that's with us today.

This might be your first. This could be your last time

here. But you're here.

If it's your first time here at Lovequest, can you just wave

your hand at me real quick, just so I could say hello?

We got one right here. We got one right here.

Come on, Lovequest. Yeah, we got one right here.

Welcome, Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome.

You are always welcome here. I hope something is said today

that encourages you as you go, whether you come back or not.

Just know you always have a home here.

You always have love here. And this is the Father's house.

This is God's house. And so there's a seat for you.

I don't know if you got your pastry or coffee drink yet.

You, you, you did. If they didn't give you that

voucher yet, you we need to get it to you because our Cafe is

one of the best cafes period. And so enjoy yourself today.

You are loved, you are seen, you are heard and I pray that you

hear something today. Father, we thank you today for

your precious word. We thank you for Jesus Christ.

Lord, here we believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of man, he is

the only begotten Son. He is the first fruit of all

your children. He is the Redeemer of our souls.

And we just pause and say thank you.

He had a mother named Mary that as crazy as it sounded, she

accepted the task of carrying the Savior.

Lord, you've asked moms to do some pretty radical things and

we just thank you. Thank you for putting Mary in

this earth. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for

assisting her in carrying and to labor, and not only to labor but

also stewarding our Savior. So thank you, Father, as your

word goes forth, we come against any error, Holy Spirit, we yield

to you. Quicken our spirits, correct us,

expose, build us, equip us, excite us, prepare us, push us.

We are here today all sons and daughters saying Father we are

ready. Father speak today Holy Spirit

have your way in Jesus name, Amen.

Now, last week I said I was starting off a series.

I think, I said. That and it was what?

Anybody remember what that was? I'm waiting.

I know you guys were all listening.

You guys got all A's this week on it.

Look at your notes. That's what you take them for.

It's OK Crush for Glory, Press for time.

I have decided that will be a series.

I don't know if I've ever done this before, but I don't care.

I don't I don't know if anybody else has ever done that.

I don't really care if they've done it, but we're going to do

it. And today I'm going to kick off

a series as well as so we are going to be doing 2 series

simultaneously. We probably trade off for those

that know. Today is my family's last day

here for a few weeks as we are going to take some time away to

reflect and refresh and hear what God has to say for this

church for the next 5 to 10 years.

We came to Canada 10 years ago. We thought it was one thing then

God gave us vision for Love Quest and we have been really

pushing. We have really been doing our

best to obey God and. I I'll.

I'll. Be, you know, my mother is my

biggest encourager aside from my wife.

And after every sermon, for the most part, on a Sunday, she'll

send me a text. If it's good, if the message is

good and it blesses her, she will text.

But our family came here by faith.

We brought our children here at I think it was 9, No 10, 10-8

and one or nine, seven and one, one of those.

And I realized that our family planted the church.

Our family endured, our children endured the persecution of their

parents. Our our families carried the

weight our families had to get adjusted to.

So it's not just me neither sabbatical, but what I it's my

children, it's my wife, and it's also you need a sabbatical from

me. If I'm going to keep leading,

then you need to miss us. You need to value the leaders

that God sends you. And what I understand is

presence is important, but absence is also.

And I think we often don't understand that familiarity

isn't necessarily bad, but it it it does stunt growth.

And so as we go away, you get a break from us.

If you've been tired of hearing from us, you won't hear from us.

We're going to have a sabbatical.

I used to always think that sabbaticals were for burnout and

depression and anxiety or Are you ready to quit ministry?

But I actually was thinking about this last night.

Troy is I think we need to learn how to take sabbaticals while

we're winning. It's like, don't do what Jordan

did. Don't put that wizard's uniform

on. You know what I'm saying?

Don't like you like and I really feel like love Quest.

I really feel like I am taking the break in the midst of

victory so. Thank you.

For your pushing and your pressing and allowing God to

crush you and enduring wins and the waves.

So I'm not, we're not taking a break because we're defeated.

We're actually taking a break because we need to rest from

winning. Yeah, and we couldn't win

without you. So give your neighbor a hand and

say thank you. And so we will the people, the

reason I mention that is because the people that will be speaking

to you will be speaking from either one of those topics, the

one that I'm about to present to you today and, and, and the one

that we launched last week and, and today, I'm just going to get

straight into the title and it is called the labor.

Room groaning for glory. The the labor room.

The labour room. The reason?

Why we are going to preach 2 messages at the same time is

because if you remember last week we talked about crushing

and pressing often can happen at the same time.

Stretching right and marking. There are seasons that seem so

intense and that's only because there is a double taking place.

And you can believe for double fruit, you can believe for

double, double, but you also got to understand that there is a

double pressure. There's a double.

Seed sown and and so it makes sense.

It just dawned on me. It makes sense to be speaking

because both of these messages are very relevant.

To this moment last week, we talked about the crushing, we

talked about the pressing, we talked about how oil does not

come without pressure, wine does not come without crushing, and

purpose does not come without process.

We establish this truth right here that God will allow

pressure when He's intending on producing something precious.

I don't know about you, but I've had my years of producing trash.

I've had my years of producing things that I only get tired of

once it's produced. I've had my my years of chasing

vain desires and dreams. But when?

God gets a hold of you, and He allows.

Pressure. He is intending on producing

something precious, something of value.

Watch this and something that will keep producing fruit beyond

your lifetime. This week we moved from crushing

floor into the labor room. Somebody say go with me into the

labor room because some of you thought that 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 nobody celebrates contractions in the

moment? No, nobody celebrates

contractions. In the moment, nobody celebrates

contractions. In the moment, nobody enjoys

labor pains. Nobody claps during pressure.

But unlike everybody else, every mother understands something

powerful about labor pains. They understand that you do not

push when something is dying. You push when something is ready

to live. And I know for some people in

this room, naturally pregnancy for you, you have some people

that have pushed out death. It's a real thing and what I

would like to be a sensitive in this, in understanding when I'm

saying you only push out life, I understand the natural reality

of some mothers and some fathers and some parents in this world

you have also pushed. Out an end.

But prophetically speaking, what I do want you to hear from me

today is I'm not minimizing anybody story.

But prophetically, Paul says creation is groaning because

heaven still intends life to come.

Forth So prophetically speaking, I don't care what has died I

don't what I don't care what seems to feel like death Paul

says that the the. Pressure the crushing.

The the discomfort, the death, the groaning.

It is because God is intending to birth something and He.

Is bent on making it come forth. What God placed in you still has

purpose. Yeah, the story is not over.

Heaven is still birthing sons and daughters in the earth.

Hallelujah and I believe. Spiritually, many people in this

room have been feeling unusual pressure, unusual tension,

unusual stretching, unusual warfare, and unusual emotional

weight. If nobody in this room has hit

any one of those for sure I have been in an unusual season.

Nope, not awkward. Unusual.

I'm talking about one of the most unusual seasons in my life.

Me and my wife are in agreement about this.

If we have not agreed about anything in 2026, we have agreed

that this pressure and this crushing and this warfare is

unusual. And if I'm still alive, if I'm

still kicking, if I still got strength, if I'm still

preaching, if I'm still on my post, if I still can laugh, then

no matter the pressure, no matter the crushing, no matter

the unusuality that it is, something must be on the brinks

of breaking through. It, ain't it it?

Watch this because you didn't understand the process.

You thought it was over. You thought it was falling

apart, but heaven sent a different message today.

It is not falling apart, it is falling together.

Yes, Doug, it is falling together.

Have you ever heard it's falling together?

It is working together for what? Good, but not just good.

It is working together for my good.

Somebody say my? Good.

You are not falling apart, Danny.

You. Are just in labor see a lot of

times that like I wasn't I, I was close I, I was at the labor

room, but I wasn't my like my my wife was good and there was some

complications and things going on.

But but, but, but when a woman is in labor, actually in the

table, on the table, it could feel like they in the table,

like they don't look like they got it all together.

They look like they've fallen apart.

OK. And I am not in that position,

nor do I desire to be, but I can only imagine going through some

of the most excruciating pain that I've ever been in.

But I am about to see the most beautiful thing that I've ever

seen. Watch this.

I'm not just about to see it. I'm about to hold it.

Watch this, watch this, Troy. I'm not just about to hold it.

I'm about to take it home with me.

Right, God is not giving me something just to take home.

He's giving me something to nurture and not to just nurture

it, but to raise it up so that it can produce fruit as well.

When I look at my sons and my daughter, I look at something

that started in me that went into mom's womb.

She have she delivered it. They came home with us.

We fed them. Then we we we argue.

With them sometime. Weird.

You didn't know how to talk, you couldn't see when you came out,

but all of a sudden you have formulated words.

You want to talk back, but you are growing into something that

I can take my hands off of. You are going to produce fruit

in your life that's going to benefit me.

Grandchildren, grandchildren going to have children and God

always will birth something through you.

That keeps on birthing. You are not falling apart.

You are in labor. Your prayer life is shifting.

Your capacity is shifting. Your family is shifting.

Your ministry is shifting. Yeah, I say Hallelujah.

Amen. For me, my family.

All my cousins, all my aunties, everybody.

Something is shifting. Your mindset is shifting.

I know mine is. Your mindset is shifting.

A part of taking a break is so you can steward the shift.

I'm not losing no fruit no more. I am not walking backwards.

I'm not taking step backward. I am going to get to where God

has called me to get in. This lifetime, the Father, watch

this. Your future is shifting.

There's some places that you're going to show up to, and you're

going to be so surprised of the fruit that is waiting for you.

Keep going because God is preparing to reveal sons and

daughters in this hour. Romans 8 says this.

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

pains of childbirth, right up. To the present time it says, not

only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruit of the

Spirit grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption.

To sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

There is something within our make up as children of God that

knows this ain't it, this is not it.

Where my marriage is, this ain't it.

Where my children is, this is not it.

Where I'm at in this world, this is not it.

There is something within me that says this is not it.

Paul is writing to believers living under pressure in this

time they they not at a festival where they just eaten watermelon

and fresh squeezed. Juice and and and and sourdough

toast and and and. What are they not now?

This is not a merry time. These are a people under great

pressure. They are they, they are.

They are in a town. They are in a place called Rome

that is full of hostility, cultures dark.

Times are shifting. Heavens are moving.

Persecution is real. Watch this and Paul reframes

suffering. Paul reframes suffering.

He says this creation is not dying.

Creation is laboring. Creation is not dying.

Creation, watch this is waiting. Creation is not dying, Watch

this. Creation is in anticipation.

Creation is groaning for glory. Watch this word groaning,

groaning, internal tension, anybody?

I got like 5 people. I don't care if it's been like

10 years, the last 10 years, internal tension.

What I do know is you might have been going through something for

the last 10 years, but there's been an intensity.

There's almost been like the fire.

Watch this. The furnace has been turned up.

Groaning internal tension and watch this because you have

matured to the point where you can.

Handle the heat a little more. It don't mean the heat ain't

been turnt up. Watch this.

I don't get it twisted because you, because you can handle it,

don't mean it ain't getting hotter.

That is the point. It is getting hotter.

But watch this. You ain't fainting it yet, you

are maturing. You ain't quit yet.

You are maturing. You ain't cussed them out yet at

least. Today you are transforming

groaning. Groaning means deep yearning.

There's a deep yearning. You know when you so mad at

somebody and you got the cuss words ready on your tongue?

Like like watching like any anybody in here got anger issues

yes, you don't even got to answer if some of y'all got

anger issues yes, you do right, but you ever you you ever get so

mad that you just I've never done that in my life.

I just see people do it all the time right.

You do something you can't even get the words out.

You like little kids do it sometime Mike sometime Mike will

be like anybody got a kid that do that?

Sometime they shake. They self mad.

They they so mad they shake. I'm like you doing way too much.

You done Are you are you done like OK, but in their mind it's

something so big and God's just like you done, you done biting

your lip off you you done popping veins.

Are you done throwing a fit? Are you done throwing a tantrum?

Because once you finish, I still have the same request from you,

right? It's like no matter how many

fits you throw, I'm still your daddy.

Like God, you still going to be like that?

Can you pay for this? Can you pay for this field trip

for me? And I should be like.

I think that's what we going to do now when our kids ask for

something. Groaning is just a deep

yearning. It's something I can't express

even on, even though I think I have the words.

Watch this. Words is a form of expression,

but it doesn't always express what I'm trying to say.

Groaning is spiritual travail. Groaning is pressure that cannot

fully be articulated. I don't know.

This season that kind of. I just can't describe it.

I can't. You know, when you just sometime

I just can't. I just shut up When I pray.

Just sometime I say, Terence, shut up.

You don't even, you don't even know what you're talking about

right now. You don't know what to say.

You just Babble into God. And then I'll shut up and God be

like, thank you. Because I'm just talking.

I'm not God is doing something that doesn't require speaking.

It requires pushing. And you've been doing you,

you've, you've been, you've been doing a lot of talking in this

season. And what's required is pushing.

He also says that creation eagerly waits.

This is a this is a this is a good one right here.

Watch this. When it says creation eagerly

waits, it is saying that creation has a strained,

strained expectation. It is strained like I'm popping,

but I'm I'm I'm on tip. That's why I bought 1 version

says I'm on standard. Creation is on tip toes.

I am strained. I I am doing everything I can to

express how desperate I am to step into this next dimension.

Creation eagerly waits. Watch this.

It has the meaning of a neck stretched.

You ever see nosy people? You ever see a nosy person with

a short neck? They they.

They're just like like you can't.

They almost lean all the way over into your business.

Yeah, net stretched forward. That there is something drawing

you forward. There is something wooing

creation. There is something drawing you

to something greater. There is something that is

drawing you to something greater.

That's why watch this. You cannot explain why you won't

give up. It ain't because you strong.

It's because there is something deep within you.

Have you ever just kept showing up?

You like, I don't even know why I got how I got here, why I got

here, why I came back. I don't know why I stepped in

this meeting. I don't know why I'm talking to

you again. I don't know why I'm back at

this church. I don't know why I went to this

job again. But there is something that

won't let you quit because there is something great on the

horizon and God is saying I have to step in.

I'm the one being wooing you next.

Stretch Forward, says laborers with birth pangs.

Labor with birth pangs have direction.

Laborers with birth pain has purpose.

It has outcome. Watch this.

Birth pains are different than hunger pains.

Watch this what I'm talking about.

I can go to sleep on an empty belly.

I can't go to sleep on birth pains.

This that season where you haven't been sleeping

consistently at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, watch and it

get mixed for those that like just got bad sleep and habits

period. It's been getting mixed up in

that you just like, man, I just can't sleep or it's been the

food I've been or I've been traveling.

No, no, no, no, no. There is something in you in

this season, and part of the reason you're restless is

because there's something deep within you that God is trying to

get your attention. He is wooing you.

He will not let you settle down because He is about to settle

it. Birth pains is different than

soreness pains. Watch this.

I can deal with a sore. I can deal with soreness.

Soreness eventually leaves, but birthing pains don't leave till

you what give birth. It's got to come out.

Watch this. Labor pains have an attached

promise. I'm not going through this for

no reason. There is a watch this every

couple. Every you get that you get that

watch this due date. Now our faith will be a lot

stronger if God gave us a due date, but Paul says be not

weary. In well doing for in due season

if you what faint not. Some of you would.

Faint if you knew the date because the due date would have

been 15 years, you know, like, OK, God.

Well, that must not be God. It can't be God if it's. 15

years from now. Some of you think you would

endure if you knew the date. I I believe that most of us

would. Faint if we had the information.

Faith protects you too. Something labor with birth pain

says something is coming to an end.

Something is being evicted. Yeah, I'm having these birth

pains because something got to go.

Something got to go. Birth pangs.

I watch this. It is also pains of preparation.

Have you ever looked at pain as preparation?

I want to give you 3 pressure. Points, pain points, whatever

you want to call it, but three pressure points.

Number one, you ready? Pressure is not always an

attack. Some pressure is warfare, Watch

this. But some pressure is transition.

Stop reading my notes, Michael. Stop reading my notes, Michael.

Take your home. Take your home.

I got to hide my notes from Mike.

I got to do it this way, Mike. Over here like hey net going

forward. You know, help me to see me.

Hey, man. Pressure is not always an

attack. Some pressure is warfare, but

some pressure is simply transition.

I am being opposed because I am making progress.

Come on guys, stop thinking that progress is only able in a

sinless life or in a mistake free life.

No no no no no, watch this. The devil wants you to think

This is why you free from condemnation, so you can realize

progress is possible even when I make mistakes right?

Some pressure is warfare, but some pressure is simply

transition. Don't mistake contractions for

contradiction, because contractions don't mean the

promise died delivery, it means that delivery what has begun.

Contractions mean delivery has begun, and what feels like

destruction may actually be divine disruption.

You think you feeling contractions and you think it's

a contradiction to promise no there.

Is no promise without contractions, because

contractions are the fruit of construction.

Something has been being has been getting built within those

something's been developing in there and now contractions say

we ready. I'm trying to help somebody who

has endured and like last week, you are willing to say enough is

enough. The time is now.

Watch this. I I am about to I am going to

reap for this contraction, but I'm also going to reap from the

season of construction. Nine months.

It can truck watch this nine months of construction and you

think I'm not going to push? Tell me what Mama get to the

last trimester and it's due season and she's sitting there

like, Nah, I'm good water broke. They're like, let's go to the

movies. Nah, water break.

I remember the water you was watch this.

You you know when it's around due season because you got that

bag ready to go. You got that bag ready to go.

You turn husbands turn into public service people.

They, we, the ambulance, we the fire department, we everything.

Watch this. The seat is back ready for her

to get in. Everything is ready.

The car seat is in the back. For when you leave.

You are prepared. No, no, no.

What I remember, we was sitting, she was crisscross applesauce.

We was on the floor in that little studio.

I remember. She's like, Terence, watch this.

Here's the frustration. You, you all, you all.

You also get these. We mentioned it last week.

You get these false alarms. How many people?

This is this is a part of the birth pain.

It's false alarms you, you ever get in that relationship, you

ever get in that friendship, you ever have people sit down with

you and promise you all kind of stuff and then and then you like

where they go. I thought they was going to call

me back. Why did we do that photo shoot?

Why did we do this? Why did we do that?

I thought this was the friend. I thought this was the business

opportunity. False alarms only so the doctor

can say, Yep, you're not ready, go home, watch this, watch this.

You have not stretched to the capacity to give delivery.

Watch this So although you're in pain, you're still safe.

Wait a minute, dog did that. I I know the baby is ready to

come out. He like no.

But you don't have the capacity to deliver because contractions

are the fruit of construction and God is disturbing what can

no longer contain the next dimension.

Do you understand when a baby is in the womb, they breathe in in

water, they come out, they choking on water, they just

enter the new dimension. What what what birth is saying

is I actually grew out of that dimension.

Come on, somebody, I'm here to tell somebody the reason why

you've been in pain because you're growing out of the

dimension you used to be. You're growing out of

relationships, you're growing out of even your own mindset.

You're growing out of insecurities.

You're growing out of things that you've been praying to come

out of. So don't get mad that that

you're in the pain you're in. It's only because you're being

pushed into the new dimension. You can no longer stay in there.

God is disturbing what can no longer contain the next

dimension. What feels like pressure or

crushing may actually be progress.

It may be progress. God's making arrangements for

arrival. Come on, somebody.

God is making arrangements for arrival.

Watch this. And you've been?

Distanced for disruption, Yeah, that's why some of the

separation has happened in relationships.

That's why God has asked. You to walk away from that thing

you really loved and you like I'm not done with it, he said,

but I'm done with it. Did you did you realize you was

in the covenant? So when God is done with it, you

should be done with it. And that's some of our problem.

We still entertain the stuff he done with.

So we're in delay because we not done.

We're in delay because. We're not done.

But the enemy told you you were overwhelmed.

The enemy told you you're overwhelmed.

You put them words in your mouth in this lassie.

I'm so overwhelmed. Some of you even went to the

doctors to let them tell you what's wrong with you.

Doctor, I'm having all these symptoms I think I need.

I think I'm having anxiety. I think I'm depressed.

And then they prescribe you some medicine and that medicine has

side effects and, and now you worse and you gain weight and

you, you, you, you have different side effects that you

can't handle. And now you're in this

whirlwind. You told the wrong person what

you was going through. Enemy told you you're

overwhelmed. You're you're you're breaking.

Some of us right now could look back into a season where we can

say when I turned that corner, where I'm at now is the fruit of

the decision I made a year ago. I don't I don't know about you,

but there's things that I've been in and I'm like, Dang, I

know OK, sometimes you got you don't know you made the wrong

decision till three years later. Watch this.

But we serve a. God, that can make up time,

right? He don't really make up time.

He just put you ahead. He restores.

He don't make up time. He gives you brand new no, no,

you what loss he don't need no, no, no, no, we don't need to go

to the hand me down store. We don't need to go to.

What thrifty we don't need What's the what's your what's

your favorite? What's your favorite store

thrift shop? What's your what's your favorite

thrift shop? What's your favorite thrift

shop? Some of y'all scared to say I

love thrifting. Value Village.

He don't need Value Village. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, No. He can.

When God he is not he, he, he can make it all up.

I love thrifty. You are breaking.

The enemy is like you breaking down this end.

I don't know about you, but I'm not.

I know I'm not by myself. Even as a pastor, as a fasting

man, a praying man, a man that loves, a man that tries to obey

God in every step of the way. Yeah, I've had thoughts of

death. Yeah.

I've stayed up late at night thinking about if this was the

last day. Yeah, I've had some anxiety.

Yeah. Don't think because people are

up here that they no, no, no, no, some folks that's ready to

commit suicide is preaching you sermons.

The enemy, these voices, how it feels, the scripture reframes

the lie. Watch this.

I really pray this bless some of you.

You are dilating for destiny. You are dilating for destiny.

No, no, the reason why you got sent back home is so God can

increase capacity. God's making arrangements for

your arrival. Nobody, nobody .2 Here we go.

You don't push at the start of pregnancy.

I didn't have three of them. I ain't never seen my wife.

First month. Pushing.

You don't push in the beginning. Yeah.

You don't have contractions in the beginning.

You. You excited in the beginning.

You. Like who are we going to keep it

in the oven? We ain't going to tell nobody.

We ain't going to tell nobody till after three months.

We ain't going to tell nobody. But you always tell somebody and

then you tell them. Don't tell nobody.

Keep a secret for me. We pregnant.

Right what what if somebody just told you they was they was a

month and a half pregnant? No, we don't do month and a

half. We do like. 258 weeks pregnant.

I'm 258 weeks pregnant but what have you is this like I'm six

week pregnant and she walking around like this?

Oh. No, no, no, don't start getting

dramatic yet, OK? Like don't push the drama.

Yet, like slow down, OK, you can still go to work or you can

still go to the gym. Like we ain't there yet.

Nobody pushes in the first month.

Watch this. Pushing happens when deliveries.

Near. I'm trying to really encourage

somebody right now to understand the reason.

It's been a stretch, A crush, a. Push is because delivery is

near. Somebody say delivery is near.

Yeah, delivery is near. That should excite a few of you.

Pushing only increase because the time of delivery is upon us.

Somebody say time is upon us. Come on, Somebody say, I think

we in due season. Yeah, the pushing, the

stretching, the crushing has increased because time for

delivery is upon us. You're coming out of that

depression. You're coming out of that

anxiety. You're coming out of oppression.

Time is upon us. Watch this.

Bless somebody. Hell does not fight empty people

this hard. Hell does not fight empty people

this hard. I don't care what you think of

yourself any crazy how you can doubt yourself but you still get

attacked that cause the devil don't doubt you.

The devil don't doubt you. He doesn't fight empty people

this hard. I, I mean, he's just been, he

didn't, he didn't just put his foot on my neck.

He he, he has put his both. Hands around my neck.

He wouldn't he? He not just attacking me,

attacking my family, attacking my friends, he attacking

finances, he attacking, but he he's attacking because he might

be. Aware of something that you just

will not pay attention to? Maybe you're stronger than you

really think you are. Maybe you are that interruption

in your bloodline. Maybe you are wiser than you

really thought. Maybe you didn't get the

diploma, but maybe you are the entrepreneur, the pioneer that

he has called you to be. Hell does not fight empty people

this hard. Like you doing all of that to

stop little old me. OK, I'm going to stop calling

myself little old me cuz clear watch this.

This ain't just the devil, this is all the hell trying to stop

me. There's attacks on the left,

attacks on the right, attacks in front of me, attacks behind me,

attacks in the daytime, attacks in the night, when I go to

sleep, when I wake up, in family and friends, at church, at the

gym. It don't matter that you are

trying to Take Me Out for a reason and I can't help but to

begin to believe that. There's something that God is

trying to push out of me that the world needs, not just my

bloodline, but the world needs. The church is entering a labor

room season. We are not just gathering

crowds, but watch this, we are not just gathering crowds in the

season. We are birthing disciples.

We are birthing leaders. We are birthing prayer warriors.

Man, I met with the prayer team yesterday.

I'm like. Look at the team.

It's growing. It's it's, it's that I'm

listening to people's prayer lives grow people praying the

word people, man, you get Vanessa up here, man, I've I've

walked with Vanessa and I'm like, girl, go on ahead.

She she has stepped in. I have seen people in here with

the enemy having their hand be around your neck and I'm see, I

can see Vanessa, your affect has changed.

You, you're, you're a brand new woman.

You're a bald, wet. You're you.

You are unstoppable. You're healthier, you're whole

and you're, you're free. You're strong.

You're watch this man, I'm telling you.

And there's people that when you just keep going, they don't

matter. Cry, curl up, but show up, keep

going, keep coming. And once you get your prayer

life right, and once you start barking back at the dogs of

hell, and once you start fighting back and once you start

standing, that's what he's afraid of.

I am giving birth in this season.

We're we're birthing healed families in this season.

We, I don't, I don't care who show up, who don't show up.

But what I do know is God has not put this oil on me to waste

my time on people that don't want to go deeper and wider and

higher in the things of God. This is a Kingdom church.

God is calling his church and the gates of hell shall not

prevail. The Kingdom suffers violence and

the violence and take it by force.

It's not no religious ordeal. Souls are dying, families are

dying, kids are without their parents.

And there is a church rising up that know how to pray, that got

a backbone, that know how to rejoice in the midst of sorrow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're birthing awakened sons and

daughters that know how to hear. That know how to discern that's

not easily offended Olympian. Saints, elite Saints, not just

religious, go to church. No, no, no, no.

These little hell, man. No, no.

No, no, Jesus Christ lives. He shed blood for me, He gave

his life for me, and then he had the nerves to get up for me.

We are birthing revival carriers, yeah.

We're birthing revival carriers. We're birthing Kingdom builders.

This isn't a cosmetic church, this is an Apostolic labor that

we're in God. Yes, God is commanding in this

season. Put them back how I found them.

Watch this. Joel 225 says, and I will

restore or replace for you the years that dot dot dot, I don't

know who I'm talking to, but you fill in the blank.

The years that you mess with my relationship, the years that you

mess with my father's health, the years that you took my Mama

from cancer. The years that whatever it may

be for you, God says I will restore and I, I will replace.

For you. For keyword, for you, for you

for for I wish I had ink in my finger for you.

Not the moment, the years, the years, your insecurities.

Stole from you. Because one of the things God

does in a labor. Room is he restores what was

lost in previous seasons there's a.

Time to die and a time to live, right?

There's a time for death and there's a time for life, right?

There's a time to mourn and there's also a time to

celebrate. And I just would like to believe

that we're in a. Season where God is about to put

celebration on overflow. It it's not just going to be by

faith celebration. God's about to give us actual

evidence. Folks ain't going to ask you why

you praising them. They're going to be like, I see

why you praising God. I see why you waited.

I see why you didn't faint. I see why you keep showing up.

Somebody shout out, I see. With hell stolen seasons, God

restores in moments. I I can't.

Imagine it but all the pain the mother goes through soon as they

hold that baby I I could only imagine they forget that that

they all open up and they they they just vulnerable.

They they can't feel their back or nothing.

They just see this baby and they like, oh, I mean I'll.

I don't know if anybody made that noise, but just whatever.

All right? What hell stolen?

Seasons. God restores in moments.

Some of you are about to recover years.

So now here. Some of you are about to recover

years. Some of you are about to recover

focus. Some of you are about to recover

your fire, your vigor, your fervor.

Some of you are about to recover your vision.

Some of you are about to recover your dreams.

Some of you are about to recover your joy.

Some of you are about to recover your authority.

Some of you are about to recover your prayer life.

Some of you are about to recover your purpose.

You are about to recover. We aren't just getting new, we

are getting recovery. Watch this.

And this is a season where it ain't happening gradually.

It's happening suddenly. It's happening suddenly.

It's happening suddenly. The process weeping may endure

for a night, but in the morning joy comes suddenly it is going

to come up on us. And then the third pressure

point is labor requires whoa, participation.

Can I help you? Before we close, labor requires

participation. Watch this Participation Watch

this Doctors assist in the labor, midwives what they guide

in the labor Watch this But the mothers still got a what push

participation. Heaven will partner with you,

but heaven will not push for you.

I don't know if that's good news or bad news for some people.

Watch this. This is why we got push

partners. Right, watch this in the labor

room. I I don't mean to come down

anybody row, but everybody can't come in the labor room.

The the wife be the wife be picking.

And choosing who could come in there.

And some folks you don't even want your Mama in the labor room

for show. Not your in laws.

You don't want nobody in the labor room.

Some of you don't even want your spouse in the room and I feel

you because watch this you do not want to compromise what you

about to push out. You need whoever's in that room

got to help me do one thing push and stay focused on what

pushing. I don't care how tired I am, I

need to what put. My wife pushed for it felt like

months. It was 18 hours, it was almost

like 2 days. They they put the epidural.

She had two. 22222. Things that phrased her up two,

she had epidural, then she had a spinal one.

The first one didn't take. I was like, man, it came out her

back. I was like, I'm scared of her.

She, she over here just. Pushing she like I'm like, who

is this woman? And I remember she was, she was

pushing and pushing and then, well, guess what?

And you rest because you can't push no more.

And then the. Doctor come on and watch this.

You push so much that poop come like the stuff come out.

So don't be mad when in a push season stuff get messy and

stinky. Has anybody experienced

messiness in this season? Like you was trying to do what

God told you and somehow it just got messy.

You like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but we got to get this thing out

in this season. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.

You. Hey, I have made some mistakes

in this season trying to obey God, but but immature trying to

obey God. You thought you heard him and

you made a mistake. Watch this.

Peter got out the boat trying to obey God.

Stop giving him a hard time for sinking because he sank.

It was not a sign he lost faith. He sank in obedience.

So learn how to see when people are trying and they may have

missed God to you. But God says, yeah, yeah, Now I

know I could trust the one that was sinking, pursuing me versus

someone that is critiquing but disobeying me.

At least I got out the boat where you at.

At least I know him a little bit more because he the one that

carried me back in the boat. So you can watch me walk with

Jesus or we can walk with Jesus together, but it's going to get

messy when you're pushing with all your might.

Stuff is going to come out of your mouth.

Say sorry, keep it pushing. You are free from.

Condemnation. But the reason why it has gotten

messy is because you are pushing harder than you ever have.

Watch this. Something's got messy because

you chose not to say something. Somebody say push, heaven will

not push for you. But Romans 826 says that the

Holy Spirit does not replace. Watch this.

It does not say he replaces our participation.

It said He comes alongside our burden and when we can't pray,

he prays through US. He prays, watch this.

He prays through our burden, watch this.

We have to have something to articulate to not to be able to.

We have to have something to articulate in order to not be

able to articulate it. I'll say that again.

You have to have something to articulate in order to not be

able to articulate it. So what?

The Holy Spirit prays through us.

Is what we have to say but can't say it.

Don't think because you can't open your mouth.

You don't got a prayer in you sometime Danny, or sometime, so

sometime whoever you was laid on that pillow and all you could do

is cry and you didn't know the Holy Spirit.

Used your groaning, your tears, your frustration, and you've

been more mad at yourself because you couldn't articulate

yourself. But you do not know that the

intercessor Holy Spirit has took that burden to the Lord for you.

Real prayer is not casual conversation.

Real prayer is labor. Some prayers are soft, but there

are seasons where prayer turns into travail, where your Spirit

says. I cannot stay here anymore.

My family must shift. My children must be saved, this

city must encounter God, and this region must awaken.

I'm looking for some Saints that will stop coming to church.

We. Just a little casual and

actually have a burden. Because there are dimensions

that only open to people willing to push.

If you don't know how to push, you won't see nothing open for

you. Stuff getting handed to you is

not necessarily things opening for you.

Here's what I do know. Daniel prayed one day and

haven't responded immediately. But manifestation took time

because there was resistance. Here it is.

Delay is not denial. You're just in labor and the

danger is here. People, people leave the labor

room too soon. As we come to this close, I want

to encourage somebody that you may have left the labor room too

soon, but there's an open door for you to enter back in today

because you notice you've left the labor room, but you still

have birth pains. You stop praying too soon.

You stop believing too soon. You stop declaring too soon.

You stop standing too stone and watch this.

Those people aboard what was closest to breakthrough.

There are some things in your life that look like they died in

your hands. Can y'all close with me?

There are some things in your life that look like they're died

in your hands. They died on your clock.

They're things that you tried. You've hurt people.

You've let people down. You've started businesses and

things. Things seemingly died.

Relationships seemingly were destroyed.

Opportunities were seemingly blown.

You whip me. Dreams are seemingly over you.

You think you messed it up. And promises and vision and fire

and prayer and hope. But I'm here to encourage a few

people because you kept trusting God.

You like I didn't really trust God up here.

Watch this. You kept showing up.

You kept showing up. Some of you, you kept asking the

questions. Some of you, you kept showing up

and letting them talk about you. Watch this.

You chose to keep loving. You kept trying.

You kept forgiving. You didn't.

You didn't manipulate. You might have.

Gave up on it, but you didn't stay to try and force it.

And I think sometime what you don't realize is what you call

quitting was God forcing a forfeit.

No, no, no, because you would have stayed and tried to

manipulate it and force something and actually kill it.

You have to die to it. You having to die to something.

Is different than you killing something.

And there's some things that I'm here to tell you today because

you didn't give up, because you kept you kept showing up.

Watch this. And because you kept praying

about it. Some things people don't even

know you still pray about. It's the thing that you don't,

you know, you tired of asking people to stand in agreement

with you for. Watch this.

OK, I'm here to tell you one thing that God is about to

revisit what seemed to die in your hands.

Second Kings four, there was a woman, it says she went up and

laid him, her son on the bed of the womb of the of the man of

the man of God. She shut the door up on him and

the Bible says she went out. I want you to notice something,

guys. Her son died, but this is the

same son that came by word. Watch this guys.

She refused to bury her son. She laid them down.

She didn't bury her son. She laid them down.

She shut the door, put him on the same bed, left him in the

same room that the Word brought him to life.

Watch this. She did not bury her son because

her son represented a promise. She laid it in the room,

connected him to the Word. Because Faith knows where to

lay. What cannot, it cannot revive.

Faith knows how to lay things down that it cannot bring back

to life. You thought you quit.

What if I told you it took you faith?

To lay it down what if I told you it actually was faith it

took to walk away what if I. Told you it was actually faith

to not call them back and let things be.

What if I told you it was faith to not bring it up, you thought.

You can convince them there's people in your family, in your

friends circle that watch this you like I.

Know I got a word for them. I want to share a scripture with

them. I want to bring them to church.

I want to invite them. But you stopped inviting them

and you like, I'm giving up on them.

What if I told you what you think is giving up on your

family member is you actually laying it down?

Because sometimes it takes more faith to let it go then the hold

on for it and hope it through. She laid it down, she said.

If God gave it, if God spoke it, God can.

Breathe on it again. God is about to send a fresh

wind by His Spirit into places that looked lifeless.

A lot of times before God blows his wind of promise, the enemy

gets an alert and he sends a wind of discouragement and it's

strong. It's meant to take you out.

It's meant to take you out of. Position for the second wind

that's coming God is about to send a fresh wind by his Spirit

into places that looked lifeless and so you have a word to stand

on Ezekiel 37. Nine come from the four winds O.

Breath and breathe on the slain that.

They may live. Lift your hands right where you

are. You may not fully see it yet,

you you may not even experience the kicking anymore.

And you like, what am I pushing for?

I don't feel life, I don't, I don't experience life.

I don't have nothing to hold on to.

But God says there is kicking. There there is.

Kicking. Some of you may say my hope was

deferred, but there is kicking and God says He is about to

breathe. He is about to send a wind into

the very place that you thought represented death.

And there are some things that are about to be restored in your

life. There are some things that are

about to be raised again in your life.

But I promise you, they're coming back stronger, they're

coming back wiser, they're coming back more beautiful.

You're going to be a better steward.

You're going to be more mature. You're not going to idolize it

anymore. God is about to blow a wind in

your marriage. He's about to blow a wind in

your finances. He is about to do a suddenly

just push. Just push.

And I don't know who you are in here, but if you have felt like

God has been speaking to your womb.

Today, stand to your feet and begin to pray with me and pray

with your neighbor and just open your mouth, just lift your

hands. Right where you.

Are and you can lift your. Voice instruments are went.

They produce wind. But right now we are in the

labour room and I promise you, whatever it is, you will see it

before this year is over. You will see it before this year

is over. You will see your progress.

You will watch this. God is going to put you in

positions that will expose your growth.

God is going to put you in positions that is going to

expose your maturity. Yeah, maturity is coming.

Strength is coming. There are monetary things that

are coming before this year is over.

Everything is shifting in your life.

Everything is shifting in your life.

It has to shift in your life. Yeah, you got to push.

You believe in for health, you might need to change your diet.

Changing your diet is you pushing.

Going to the gym is US pushing. Whatever it is, Heaven will not

go to the gym. Heaven will not grocery shop for

you. Whatever it may be, Heaven will

not apologize for you. Heaven will not forgive for you.

You got to push where you got to push.

The manifestation will be progressive.

The manifestation will be progressive.

Don't. Walk out of here today doing

nothing but believing it's done. You might go home to the same

home. You might go home to people with

the same attitude and that when somebody you walk in that house,

if somebody give you attitude, just say I believe it's done.

Do do not waver anymore. Do do not lose hope anymore.

Stand firm. I'll say it three more times.

Stand firm, stand firm, stand firm.

He said it. He will do it now.

All you got to do is push. All you got to do is show up.

All you got to do is be still. All you got to do is keep your

confession. All you got to do is keep

declaring. All you got to do is keep

showing up. All you got to do is speak life.

Speak, live, speak, live. The bones are already dry.

Speak, live, speak, live, speak, live, speak, live.

What's failure to man could be progress to God.

Keep pushing. The conversation may get heated

when you get home, but guess what?

You're having a conversation. Have the conversation.

Sit in the tension. It's changing.

I promise you it's changing. You got to keep going.

You got to keep doing the reps You got to keep putting in the

reps. I don't care how many shots you

miss. Do the reps A miss is a Rep.

I don't care how heavy it is if you lift it halfway up, halfway

is a wrap. And here it is, here it is, here

it is. Here it is here it is here it is

someone in this room. Your push has been hindered by

comparison. You've experienced fatigue

because you can't keep up to the image of someone else.

You may enter a season where God keep says keep your eyes on me

and you and what I told you about you.

If comparison is a weak spot, do everything you got to do to

remove whatever you're comparing yourself to from in front of

you. Have mentors, have goals, have

vision boards. Don't compare your husband to

another husband. Don't compare your wife to

another wife. Don't compare your business to

where it's at today to somebody else's.

Don't compare your family to another family.

Don't compare your art to another person's art.

In this season, kick comparison out the labor room.

Watch this cause ain't nobody in the hospital birthing the baby

you birthing. Pull, Pull the curtains back.

Close the door. Come on.

Ain't nobody pursing the baby. That's you.

I've been carrying this baby around for nine months.

You aren't allowed in this room. This is my baby.

This is my push. This is my time.

So whoever God has called in your life to help, to be the

doctor, to be the midwife, to be the nurses, you better identify

them and identify them clearly in this season while you're

pushing, you got to leave some people in the waiting room

because after the labor room, guys, it's the recovery room.

So some people just need to know you gave birth and send them

home. We got to get the baby out the

womb. We got to take the baby's vital

signs. We got to get the baby home.

And then it's time to nurture it.

So it can grow what you're giving birth to in this season.

Watch this. It's not your dream.

It's his dream for you. It's bigger than you.

One last time all. Over the room, just lift your

hands. Yeah, it's been hard.

It's been tough. Listen, your pastor have cried

with you. I've had my tears.

I have had my moments considering quitting.

Me and my wife have had our arguments.

I'm telling you guys, it's just worth it.

God is faithful and you will see the fruit of your labor.

You will see the fruit of your push.

You will see the fruit of your diligence.

I want to say thank you for showing up again.

There's not one person in this room that has not quit for a

moment, but you showed up. Now God's about to show out.

It's it's been taking long because he's, he's, you're being

transformed. It's been dark because you've

been growing wings. You're about to fly.

You're about to get to levels you've never seen before.

Enjoy the labor so you can value the baby.

Don't take. The process for granted.

Because if the. Only way to the promised land

was the wilderness. Let's walk through it again.

See, the Lord in the season has been getting out of you the

inkling of desire to even take the shorter route.

You have. You now have wilderness

capacity. You now have Lion's den.

Capacity You can. Write a sermon in the lion's den

You can. Fall asleep in the fiery

furnace. You now have greater capacity.

You're not a chump no more. Watch this.

Your marriage has been under great attack because there's a

marriage ministry in you. You get to the other side of

this. You're going to look across the

table to marriages that are ready to give up and you are

going to have a oil on your marriage that is going to

preserve marriages because you fought.

And you fought, and you fought, and you fought and you fought.

We will see it. We will hear the testimony, no

doubt, No doubt, no doubt. I believe God for you.

I believe God with you. This last thing for somebody,

some, a few of you get out of your own head, get out of your

own head, get out of overthinking.

It just was what it was. It is what it is.

You may not ever get answers. Get out of your head.

They they may never like you. They may never understand you.

Get out of your head. The Lord stands at your heart

today, all of us, and he's knocking.

He wants to come in that labor room with you and we going to

push together. We're going to believe together.

We're going to stand together. We going to be transformed

together. There's so many people moving in

apartments and condos around us that are coming with pain and

suffering and they're going to run into a people who decided to

stay in the labor room and push until something shifted before

this year is out. You will see.

What I'm talking about? If you believe, if you stand

with me, if you know God is faithful, can we just take 60

seconds and just give, give our God just one last praise with a

clap and with a with a shout? Come on, Lord, we thank you.

Lord, we honor you. Come on, Lord, we bless your

name. Lord you are.

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