SAME GOD/9AM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

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Let's get into it. Mighty warrior, great in.

Bible I'll. Say this before I begin.

Just because the Word of God is spoken every Sunday, we assume

every house does not experience a right now word from God.

Do not take the word in this house ever for granted.

Family life has a way of making you and I forget.

Forget what God said. Forget what God did and forget

who God has been to us. Life has a way to make us

forget. Pain makes us forget, delay

makes us forget, and silence will make us forget.

And the danger is not that God has stopped moving.

It is not that God is not present.

It is not that God is not near. It is not that God does not

still heal. It is not that God is not with

us. It is not that God has forgotten

about you or your circumstances, or has he forgotten what he

said. But the danger is you and I have

stopped remembering, Lamentations says.

But this I recall, this I recall and therefore have I hope and

expectation. This I recall.

And because I recall, I have hope and expectation.

It's is because of the Lord's mercy and loving kindness that

we are not consumed. It is because the Lord's mercy

and loving kindness that we are not consumed.

Because His tender compassions fail not.

They are new every morning. Great and abundant is your

stability and faithfulness. This simply means, guys, that

that hope is not automatic. Hope is triggered.

Hope is triggered by recollection.

Hope is triggered by memory. Hope is not automatic.

Hope is something you have to contend for.

Hope is something you have to constantly fight to keep in your

soul. We don't drift into faith.

We recall our way into faith. We recall our way into faith.

Watch this. The mind doesn't just store

moments. The mind does not just store

moments, it prioritize moments. Am I talking to anybody?

Are y'all woke this morning? The mind does not.

It does not store moments, it prioritizes moments.

And if you don't intentionally recall God's faithfulness, your

pain will start preaching louder than your past victories.

Are you with me? Just because you have had

victories does not mean you will always walk from victory.

The God you remember is the God you get.

Am I? Am I talking to any saved

Sanctified. Got up early this morning to

come to church to be changed. The God you remember is the God

you get. What do I mean?

I'm going to put it this way. The God you see is the God you

get. What do I mean?

If you see a Carpenter, expect him to build you something.

If you see a healer, expect him to heal you.

If you see a faithful God, expect Him to be what the God

you see is the God you get. So what you get, do not be

surprised because what you have gotten is what you have sought.

So today talk to you from this topic.

Same God. Watch him do it again.

I know I'm only in here talking to a few people today.

Same God, watch him do it again. Somebody say Same God, watch him

do it again. Come on somebody say same God,

watch him do it again. Your response today when

somebody tell you the issues you going to say same God?

Watch him do it again. Come on, come on, somebody

complain to you today. Say same God.

Watch him do it again. You going to say oh that's so oh

wow, you going through that? Wow, guess what?

Same God, watch him do it again. If he did it before, he could do

it again. Same God right now, same God

back. If he did it for my grandmama,

he could do it for me. If he did it for Abraham, he

could do it for me. If he did it for Elijah, he

could do it for me. If he did it for Lazarus, he

could do it for me. Same God, watch him do it again.

Somebody shout out, Do it again, God.

Do it again, God, one more time, say do it again, God.

God's faithfulness. Is not proven by your current

circumstances or situations. God's faithfulness is anchored

in his unchanging nature, not your ever changing life.

God's faithfulness has nothing to do with how your day going.

God's faithfulness has nothing to do with how people treating

you. God does not have mood swings.

Come on, look at your neighbor. I think you do say to your

neighbor, I think you don't want with mood swing issues.

You don't want with mood swing issues.

Look at your other neighbor, Say I'm praying for you.

I'm. Praying for you.

Yeah, yeah. So I so I started watching.

I started to ask myself, Terrence, what do you recall?

I know you. You might go through things.

No, what? No, what?

What do you recall right? Sometimes it's annoying when you

going through something and you got friends that make you recall

the goodness of God. And right now I just want to be,

I want you to comfort me right now.

I don't want to remember how good God is.

And it funny how your spirit will resist a reminder because

you want to sit. In your present situation, like

you ain't been in this kind of position before and you ain't

saw God move you and change you and transform you and bring you

out and defeat the This ain't the first time I've seen the

devil fatigue. This ain't the first time I have

faced a Jericho. This is not the first time I

have faced a Red Sea. This is not the first time that

my back has been against the wall.

So why am I acting brand new? Why are you acting brand new?

Why are you acting like God ain't did it before?

What do you recall when everything around you looks like

God didn't come through or God is nowhere to be found or God

doesn't seem interested in this this particular this?

Is this the one God going to going to take off work?

This the one God told all the angels this ain't for us?

This the one that God told the angels?

This, this one too big for us? But what do you do when it seems

like angels ain't been dispatched, promises ain't been

released? What does it look like when it

don't feel like revival ain't landed?

Seemingly the pain is His will more than His promise.

What does it look like when it seemed like God has purposely

put me through this valley and then He left me in the valley of

quest? There is one thing that you need

to settle in your spirit today is God has never had a bad track

record. He has never lost a battle.

Watch this and he never will. He never will.

He never will. He never will.

No, he never will. He never will.

You are. You.

You. You.

He, He, he, he, he, he's, he's. Not a God of failure.

He's not a God. That's like, oops.

I forgot I was supposed to bless you.

October 23rd. I forgot your birthday.

I forgot not not one moment where God said it and couldn't

do it. Am I talking to anybody?

It's not one time God said it and He couldn't do it.

He may have said it and you left your position.

You He may have said it and you quit too early.

He may have said it and you forgot, but God has never said

it and didn't do it. I'm here to remind you today.

He's the same God. Watch him do it again.

I'm on one assignment today and that is to remind you of the

Gods you are dealing with. That's my assignment today.

It's to let you know who you dealing with.

Come on now. Now what I do know is before I

tell you who you're dealing with, it ain't nothing new.

I'm not here to bring you a new revelation of who you dealing

with and who you fooling with and who's on your side and who

is watching over His Word to what fulfill it.

He is committed to what He has spoken.

I know the timing may be inconvenient, but His Word is on

time. You got to learn to fall in love

with God's timing and stop pouting while you waiting.

Stop complaining while you waiting.

Understand that if it ain't the promise, it ain't over now.

Sometimes you excited for something, you can't wait to get

it, and you finally get it and the excitement leave after a

while. You save money for it, and after

a while you realize you could have lived without it.

You held your breath for a moment.

And even when God breaks through, it ain't about your

breakthrough. It's still going to be about you

and Him. It's never about what you want.

It's all about Him. Hallelujah.

You are dealing with a God who's never lost a battle, but you are

dealing with the God that when He speaks, chaos has to organize

yourself. Sometimes I think the left sides

are like, you'll notice sometimes when I watch films,

sometimes I'll be on this side a lot.

I'll be on this side a lot because this side seem to be

pulling on me a lot. This side over here feel like I

got to put on a cardigan sweater and sit down and, and, and be

very studious with you. This side I could be a little

ghetto with over here, but Amen. I could, I could, I could code

switch, I could code switch. It's all good, all good, all

good. But when you get some Greek and

Hebrew over here, then don't be mad and be like, what is he

talking about? You are dealing with the God

that went, this is the back of the class.

This is the back of the class Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

They proud of it too. They proud of it too.

They just decide you go to when you want snacks during class.

They pass snacks around and candy around.

Just decide right here that when you're struggling on a test,

they will not share the answer. They don't want to study with

you at all. They like uh, uh, uh, uh, just

decide to tell you get your life together.

They like, I don't know if that's good or bad.

What is that? No, be proud of both sides.

Amen. Be side of be proud of both

sides. Look, you are dealing with the

God that when he speaks, somebody say when he speaks,

when he speaks, chaos has to organize itself.

See, Therefore I can't be the chaos.

No, no, no. Chaos got to organize itself

because order has arrived. You, you are dealing with the

God that when he makes a promise, time can't cancel it.

Can I remind you? Just look at your neighbors, Say

he's just taking a moment to remind us because we get a

little forgetful sometime. You, you are dealing with a God

that when he makes a promise, time cannot cancel it.

Somebody say when it's my time, it's my time, it's my time.

You can't cancel what God has ordered.

You can't, you can't reverse what God has promised.

You can't change God's plans for my life.

You can't close the door that God is open.

You can't open the door that God is shut.

You wonder why I ain't dead yet. Because God has not finished

with me yet. Come on, somebody.

You. You are dealing with the God

that when he opens the door, no system can shut it.

Not no. No system can shut it.

No system, No devil, no principality, no dragon, no

demon, no spirit can shut it. When God has opened it, when

it's open, it is open. You are dealing with the God

that when he decides to move, nothing can delay him.

Come on, who am I talking about? God?

Not you. Who am I talking about?

Whose strength am I talking about?

God's not yours. You.

You are dealing with the God that when you run out, he steps

in as more than enough. Come on somebody shout out he's

more than enough. Come on, if you happy, say he's

more than enough. You are.

You are dealing with the God that when he went, when it looks

dead, he he calls life back into it.

I just, I just, I just believe for some of y'all, it feels like

it's over, but it ain't over it. It feels like it's closed, but

it ain't closed. I believe it feels closed

because it's as wide open as it's ever been before.

And watch this. I believe if you're not careful,

you will make you will. People say this perception is

reality, but I believe in the wrong or in the right season

with God, perception ain't reality.

So be careful moving based on what it perceives to be.

And I'm learning that in this season because I have been

perception driven. And if you are perception

driven, you are emotionally driven.

But we walk by faith and not by sight.

So you have to be able to deal with your perception but move in

God's reality for your life. So when it seems like you

supposed to be saying something, God says it's time to shut up.

But but but but but God, if I don't say nothing then people

will think XY and Zed and God's like let them think because this

is the season when your powerful mouth will get you into some

powerful trouble. Just because you prophetic don't

mean you always prophecy. You are dealing with the God

that when chaos surrounds you, he surrounds your mind.

Come on, say surround me Lord, it may look like I'm surrounded.

When I'm surrounded by you, he may look like I'm surrounded.

When I'm surrounded by you, say he may look like I'm surrounded.

One more time you are dealing with the God that when you don't

see a way, he's already made a way and the way that God makes

for you. Is a not through St. for the

devil yet the the way God makes for you is a trespassing on the

devil he brought. He made a way through the Red

Sea and when the enemy tried to take the same path, the enemy

got swallowed up. So he's not just making a way

for me, he's also putting an end to what it has bound me.

You made a way, you are. Dealing with the God, you don't

see a way. It's not he's going to make a

way, He's already made a way. He's not thinking of a way.

He's already made a way. He's not praying for a way.

He's already made a way. My prayers for a way is not for

him to make a way. My prayers for a way is to see

the way he already made. Somebody say he's already made a

way. Yes, done.

This. This is this.

I recall means to bring something back into active

awareness. Watch this, because Jeremiah in

this moment is not writing from victory.

He's writing from devastation. You're like, wait a minute, I

thought we was reading Lamentations.

Jeremiah He's writing from devastation, not victory.

Jerusalem is in ruins and everything looks like God did

not come through. Yet in the middle of.

Collapse. He reaches into his memory bank

and he says this I recall in the middle of devastation, he says

this I recall. He begins to stir himself up.

He begins to not be focused on what's before him, and he begins

to focus on the God that always has been.

You sound like 2nd Corinthians 10 where it says take every

thought captive. You can't take a thought captive

if you don't bring a memory forth.

I'm not just, I'm not. See, if I just take a thought

captive by itself, I am magnifying the work of the

enemy. But when I take a thought

captive and put it under a memory of God's faithfulness,

then I am subduing it with the word of God.

So in order for me to to to defeat the thoughts in my mind,

I got to stir up my memory bank. Sometimes when we're here

worshiping some of y'all sitting here, mine closed.

You can't fight thoughts with thoughts.

Sorry, that ain't the Bible. Life and death is in the power

of the tongue. Which means it doesn't matter if

death is in my mind as long as I got life in my mouth.

What's in my mind has them to do or come under what I'm speaking

in my mouth. But the problem is that some of

y'all mouths agree with your mind.

As long as we're in this body and in this world, you will have

deaf thoughts. Negative thoughts cross your

mind. But do not give your mouth to

what your mind is saying, if what's what your mind is saying

ain't what God has said. This.

I recall means to bring something back into active

awareness. Active awareness, active

awareness. Forget God come through for me.

Forget God, answer this prayer for me.

But what has he done? Active awareness.

I'm talking about an awareness at almost he almost like he just

did it. Faith is the substance of things

hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

So this means that I actually got to have my memory stirred up

on His goodness and His faithfulness in order to make my

faith strong. Not only does faith come by

hearing the confidence in what I'm believing for or the passage

that confirms what I'm believing for, faith also comes by hearing

what He's done. Because if I don't focus on what

he's done, I won't have expectation for what he can do.

Faith. Faith is not denial of pain.

Watch this. Faith is not denial of pain.

It is the discipline of remembrance.

OK, and we got to do, we got at least like 5 hungry for the word

people in here today. OK, I'm feeding you, I'm feeding

you. Faith is not deniable of pain.

Yeah, that hurt. But it is the discipline of

remembrance. And sometimes when you have

great pain, you got to have great remembering memory.

Oh yeah. Sometimes you stay up at night

not because you stress out, but you staying up at night to keep

stress away by way of remembering.

So I'm up all night remembering. I don't care if I'm praying, I

don't care if I'm writing in journal, I don't care if I got

to worship music. But I'm not going to sit here

allowing my mind to be plagued on what is when I have record of

a good God, come on. Does anybody got record of a

good God? Come on.

But why? Why would I allow the enemy in

my flesh to paralyze me with thoughts of things that God has

defeated? Why would I keep my mind on

losers? Why would I keep my mind on

loss? Why would I keep my mind on pain

when by His stripes I am the healed?

Now this is a discipline. Faith is a discipline.

Standing is a discipline. Memory is not just reflection.

Memory is direction. Because whatever you rehearse in

your mind eventually shapes what you believe about God.

What you rehearsing? Watch this.

You've been rehearsing what they did to you, but you haven't been

worth rehearsing what God's done for you.

So now you making the person that has hurt you your God.

Oh yeah, you are they your God? You.

You've been rehearsing what they've done more than what God

has done. You've been rehearsing what the

enemy has done more than you've rehearsed what the blood has

done. Hallelujah.

So what you don't realize is that by you focusing on loss and

pain, you are also saying by not saying that God's not able,

you're also saying that I am not the healed.

Because you keep on relating, watch this.

Whatever you relate to, you become.

You keep on relating to affliction.

You keep on relating to sickness.

Whatever you rehearse in your mind eventually shapes what you

believe about God. Great is your faithfulness.

Say it with me. Great is your faithfulness

morning by morning. Great is your faithfulness.

You realize Jeremiah didn't remember how great his situation

was? Or his devastation.

He didn't remember how great his progress was, or his lack

thereof. Or how great his feelings was.

He said great is your faithfulness.

Yeah, I feel the pain, duh. You need to tell yourself duh

sometime. I'm not about to say it, but I

feel it. Duh.

I'm hurting. Duh.

I have anxiety. Duh.

I do not have to give my mouth to it.

Watch this, Watch this. I do not even have to give my

facial expressions to it. Oh, let me play against

somebody. Who?

Walking on the floor limping and acting like they hurt.

Hey, watch this. If I'm limping and I'm like, ah,

if I'm a coach, I'm pulling you out, 'cause you get I'm going at

you. You give me you, you are the

weakest link right now. Ain't it crazy how when you when

you when you ignore, I'm like, duh, I just twisted my ankle.

I don't got to. You can't be a winner while you

want attention. You can't want attention and win

at the same time. Winners get attention.

And this is how we walk through through life.

We want somebody to say what's wrong?

How you doing? You OK?

1st it's like, OK, before I walk out the house, duh, I'm broken

right now. I'm crushed right now, I'm

hurting right now. But, but if I'm going to lace

them up and step on the floor, I'm, I'm ready to go.

I, I got my treatment like an athlete.

My treatment in the morning is prayer.

I, I didn't, I didn't allow the Holy Ghost to take my ankles

right, right. The, the, the, the, the angels

have massaged my sore muscles. The word of God has stretched me

out. So when I walk out the house,

ain't no uh, uh, because I'm a witness that Jesus, he'll make a

difference in your life. I'm a witness that Jesus, he'll

make a difference in your life. I'm a witness.

That Jesus, you'll make a difference in your life.

I'm awareness that Jesus, you'll make a difference in your life.

What's this? What's this?

What's this? Greatest is faithfulness.

Somehow we think we always got to broadcast.

What's wrong? So sometimes we think we always

like watch this though, like the only route to getting better is

complaining. Well, if I don't tell somebody

something wrong, then I won't get the help I need.

How many times have you told somebody what was wrong and they

couldn't help you? Have you ever told somebody

what's wrong and they made it worse?

Have you ever been like, why did I even say something to you?

Great is your faithfulness. Watch this.

Watch this Troy. God's silence sometimes is a

better word than somebody's wisdom.

Put that on Instagram. God's silence is sometimes

better than somebody's wisdom. I'm going to say it again.

Y'all say it with me. God's silence is sometimes

better than somebody's wisdom. Sometimes people wisdom work for

them in another season in their context, but their wisdom ain't

going to work. OK, that worked for your

marriage. That ain't going to work for my

marriage. Faithfulness is covenant

language faithfulness. Is reliability faithfulness Is

steadiness. God is steady, God is reliable.

Faithfulness is loyalty to a promise.

Somebody say faithfulness. Faithfulness is covenant,

consistency, faithfulness. God is not faithful because your

life is going right. God is faithful because he had

something to say. God's faithful over what he

said. He's not faithful because of how

you feel. He's faithful over what he said.

And here's the beautiful part I love is before I arrived at my

jacked up circumstance, He already sent a word to it.

Can I help somebody this morning?

Watch this. The devil wasn't the only one

waiting for me. There was a word waiting for me.

Hallelujah, faithfulness. How do I stay anchored in His

faithfulness when life feels inconsistent?

I think that's a question that everyone should be asking.

How do I stay anchored in His faithfulness when life feels

inconsistency? Keyword is feels.

Get out your feelings. Look, this, this is the truth of

the matter. It don't matter how much I

preach this today, somebody this week going to live all in their

feelings. It's crazy.

It's crazy. You got me up here sweating.

You got me up here preaching hard, got me up all night.

You got me praying for you to go out here this week and live the

same and then got the nerves to bombard heaven and say God,

where are you? He right here in his word.

He giving you medicine today. He giving you the gospel pills.

How do I stay anchored in His faithfulness?

3 anchors of God's faithfulness to remember He is faithful to

His word. Asking God to show His

faithfulness outside of you living in His word, outside of

you trusting His word is absolutely insanity.

He is faithful to His word. Watch this and his angels assist

His word, not your emotions. Yeah, you might have some homie

angels up there like God, just let me help this one time.

Like my sisters, my homies is down there hurting.

God let me help and God ain't even answering him.

He's saying you know what it is. Last time you listened to some

words that wasn't mine and half a year and a quarter 1/4 of your

homies got kicked out. So from now on listen to my

words, not their emotions because it was emotions that got

us all here. He is faithful to his word.

God is not a man that he should what lie.

Hallelujah #2. Put it up if he said it, sorry

if he said it, if he said it, if he said it, if he said it, it

will survive the season. OK, OK, here it is.

Let's put words together. He says that you will be

fruitful in every season. Watch this.

You are not fruitful in every season because you're faithful.

You are fruitful in every season because he's faithful in every

season. And the way to be fruitful in

every season is to be faithful to his word.

That is faithful in every season.

If he said it, it survives seasons #2 he is faithful

through generations. He keeps covenant and mercy for

1000 generations. He is faithful to generations.

That's why I can say if he did it before, he could do it again.

When he spoke to my grandma, when he spoke to my Mama, when

he spoke to my grandpa, when he spoke to my great great great

greats, do it again. If I can find record of His

faithfulness, I can snatch His faithfulness into my situation.

He is faithful through generations you guys.

So you are next slide walking in promises that started before

you. So He is not just committed to

the word that He spoke to you. Watch this.

What God is saying to you ain't new.

He is committed to bring it through you, but He spoke your

generations before you. Watch this.

Every promise to you was a generation for your bloodline.

God got to get something through you today so several generations

down the line can be where He called them to be, right?

The mailman ain't delivering his mail to my house.

The mailman picked up my mail, delivered it to me, and

depending on what's in that envelope, it impacts my whole

household. Can God deliver something to you

to deliver to another generation?

Yeah. Your, your, your, your current

struggle is not the full story. Can I help somebody today?

Your current struggle is not the full story.

Somebody say turn the page, please.

You know, if you like me, I, I sometime when I'm reading with

PJ, which we don't read a lot together because she reads

faster than me. But if we're sharing a book

together, she, she's ready to turn the page and I'm just on

the first paragraph. I'm on the first paragraph and

the first paragraph is a short paragraph, but I get stuck.

That's how I read. I got to keep reading over and

over. I don't turn the page until I

comprehend a little bit. KPJ is sitting there like she

waiting at a stop sign and she's like, are you, are you, are you

done? Can we go forward, please?

Right. The same way when we watch

movies, we'll be 30 minutes in, I'll be like, wait a minute,

what was, what's he saying, 'cause I just like big picture

stuff. I like big picture stuff.

So I don't like watching movies. You got to pay attention.

Like I got to watch those kind of movies at 9:00 in the morning

when I'm real when I'm at Elite comprehension.

OK, but this is how some of us we still stuck on paragraph one.

God didn't turn the page and he like if you just turn the page,

you'll realize that you've matured.

Some of y'all stuck on old man feelings versus stepping into

new man realities. Hallelujah.

No, no, no, I dare you to to make a decision today to not

respond the same way you used to respond.

The reason why you don't mind responding the way you respond

and is because the way you're responding is familiar to you

and you love that level of comfort, although you don't like

the reality of that circumstance.

So instead of stepping into the unfamiliar, which is the more

mature you? You're like, Nah, let me sit

here a little bit because I'll be OK.

Watch this because I've been here before.

I've been in this dysfunction before.

I've been in this level of paralysis before, so it's

comfortable. I don't mind.

When I step out here, I'm like, whoa, I lose control.

I don't know what's going on. But what if I told you where you

lose control is your safest place to be Your current

struggle. It is not the full story.

Your, your, your, your next slide.

Please. He is faithful even when you're

not. Hallelujah.

That's where you should have shouted because some of y'all

know you unfaithful. And he said were you unfaithful?

He still is. He Elder Don.

I like this because he's still filling the gaps.

I'm sorry, it's a die ability, but we can, we can make that

word work. But I ain't got no time right

now to give you the definition of die ability.

It means disability. OK?

Your disability is not God's inability.

Yes. Where where you are insufficient

does not mean God is insufficient, Right?

So you can't get caught up on where you missed it because

where you missed it, he made it. I love looking at people that

act like they ain't missed it, but even crazier, you can't get

excited. Over.

Where you missed it, He made it up.

Like I've learned to praise God for filling in the gaps that I

was unable to fill. I said, So when you really

remember the goodness of God, you ain't got time to meditate

on what's not and what hurts and what's disappointing because

where I was disabled, where I was dysfunctional, where I quit,

where I couldn't take another step, he took the other step for

me. Where I was 20%, he was 80%.

He made-up the difference. Where I couldn't encourage

myself, he encouraged me. Your God's consistency is not

dependent on your perfection. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. Your your God's consistency is

not dependent on your faithfulness.

I mean on your perfection. His faithfulness is not just

something. Faithfulness is not just

something God does is something he covers you with.

We running out of time use what I got.

But it's not just something he does, guys.

His faithfulness is something he covers us with.

OK, what are you talking about? PT Pastor T Tara Holmes,

whatever you want to call me. When When?

When God wants to make his faithfulness visible, he pours

out oil. You thought your anointing was

all about your gift. You didn't realize that your

anointing is the way he covers you.

If I wasn't here today, what bothers me today would Take Me

Out today. But because I'm in my anointing

today, my anointing is got me preoccupied helping you.

And while I'm helping you, he covering me.

It's why it's dangerous when you choose not to walk in your

anointing. Because the oil is not just for

your gift. The oil protects you.

OK, you think I'm lying. You prepare a table before me in

the presence of my. I love this.

He did not say he prepares a table before my enemies.

The table is not for my enemies to sit at.

There is not a seat for my enemies, but it's in the

presence of my enemies so they, so they can see who's sitting

with me. Yeah.

So I would encourage somebody else to say today to sit down at

the table, enemies not invited. You prepare a table before me in

the presence of my enemies bosses.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

And you anoint me to sing. No, no no.

You anoint my head, You anoint my mind.

This is why I can't leave my post y'all.

Y'all think this post is just for me to have a word for you?

But whenever I step into my post, I step into the wings of

the Almighty. And we know what Psalm 91 say.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You annoy my hair with oil. Day, my brimming cup runs over a

day. Watch this.

He prepares a table in the presence of tension.

So if you, if you if, yeah, if you're looking for a table on

the beach, you're not going to find one.

God's not sitting at that table. Guess, guess what the Shadrach,

Meshach and Abednego did? There was a table in the

furnace. Yeah, there was no table outside

the furnace. Some of y'all got to understand

if you really want to sit with Jesus.

You got to you got to watch this.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego chose to go in the furnace.

They had options. There's a table intention.

A table intention. Watch this.

Enemies are watching, Pressure is present, opposition is real.

And somebody shout out. And yet a table intention.

And yet all is flowing. No, no, I don't.

I don't care what's going on with me, Jasmine.

I don't care what's going on with me.

I don't care what's going on with you.

The point is, are you going to let what's going on with you

stop you from getting to where oil is flowing?

Oil never flows where complaining is flowing.

Oil never flows where victim mentality is flowing.

Oil never flows where pride is flowing.

Oil never flows where excuses are flowing.

He prepares the table in the presence of my enemies.

He sets the table before me, for me and for him.

Oil was used in that day for consecration, for protection,

for healing, and for honor. God does not wait for the fight

to end to anoint you. He anoints you in front of what

came against you. That's why you got that's why

you can say this oil costs anybody.

Watch this. You running from the fight and

want this oil? No, I got this oil because I

stayed in the fight. Watch this.

I didn't just sit in. I mean, I didn't just stay in

the fight. I sat in the fight, I sat at the

table and believed God. God is actively.

So this is for somebody that will allow this word to

encourage them that God is actively covering me while I sit

in the presence of pressure. He anoints my head so I don't

lose my mind. Yeah, oil was rubbed on the

sheep's head, so those bugs, those flies would stay away.

If the flies got into their head, they would beat their head

against the fence to try to get the flies out.

And some of y'all beating your head because you ain't accepting

the oil and you got flies of lies in your mind.

Watch this. It's going to be bloody either

way. It's going to be the blood of

Jesus, or it's going to be blood from you beating your head on

the fence because you won't focus on the oil that Jesus has

poured over your mind. Because only a faithful God

keeps covering you, keeps restoring you, and keeps

choosing you. Only a faithful God.

I don't deserve this. I've made mistakes, I've quit,

and you just keep pouring. Oil never runs out to the

obedient. Yeah, oil never runs out.

He keeps restoring me. Some of y'all don't even want to

be restored. You just want to stay there.

He keeps choosing you. He didn't change his plans for

you. Watch this.

The anointing is evidence that I'm in process, not evidence

I've arrived. If I've arrived, I don't need

oil. Next experience, we're going to

break into this oil and we're going to watch God pour His

presence out in a fresh way. Because if you want the oil to

keep pouring, you have to be willing to stay under pressure.

You don't like that part, huh? I want you to understand that

oil did not fall from trees. There's no oil without pressing

there. There's no there's.

There's no oil without crushing. There's no there's there's no

diamonds without fire. Everybody want a diamond.

Everybody want anointing. Everybody want they life

blessed. Nobody want crushing.

What if I told you that? What if I told you that the

crushing is part of the good news?

That just right over your head, the crushing is a part of the

good news. You cannot walk in resurrection

without walking and crushing. The crushing is part of the good

news. Watch this.

When are you going to start looking at the crushing as a

privilege? Jesus said it this way.

I'm paraphrasing, but I'm accurate.

Share my cross. Oh nobody, Nobody got problems

with resurrection power. Use me, Lord, when Lord says

absolutely, but I can't use you. You don't get to go around the

cross. None of us got saved because

Jesus went around the cross, just like the children of Israel

tried to go around the wilderness.

There's no way she can walk in the greatness that God has

called you to without sharing his crushing.

What if I told you what you're going through is a privilege?

Stop avoiding it and stop going through it like God.

I guess so versus like, wow, you would allow me to share the

cross with you? Or do we?

You just got a bunch of cross leeches.

You just want to be saved. You don't want to be a witness.

I love, I love the revelation of the old Saint.

When they say what a privilege we have in Jesus, then they say

over the 40s glory divide. They're of salvation, purchased

by God, born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

This is my story. This is my soul raising my

Savior. Hold the day long.

This is my story Glory. This is my soul praising my

Savior all the day. Lord Father, we thank you for

the privilege that we have in Jesus.

We cannot be cross bearers without being cross sharers.

So we thank you for the privilege to go through this

season, whatever it may be, in each individual's life with you.

Your, your, your, your scripture says hello.

I am with you always. So I am not carrying this cross

by myself. I am carrying it with the King

of King and the Lord of Lords. So I thank you, Lord, that

you're in it with us. May we have revelation that

you're with in it with us. May we, may we understand

there's another in the fire. Come on.

There's another in the fire. There's another in the fire.

He's in the lion's den. He didn't just open the sea.

He's walking across the sea with us.

No man shall be lost. No man shall be lost.

No man shall be lost. No family member shall be lost.

No brother, no sister shall be lost.

No mother or father shall be lost.

No uncle, no, no, no, no niece, no nephew, no auntie shall be

lost. In the name of Jesus.

We declare a household salvation in the name of Jesus, not not

merely household church attendance, but household

healing, household wholeness, household peace, household joy,

household faith, household hope, household kindness, household

household shallow. Nothing missing, nothing broken,

but wholeness in every area. This is my story, this is my

song. That's what I decree.

Not one shall be lost. Not one shall be lost.

I don't care what it looks like, what the enemy has meant for

evil, God is using it for good. Yeah, it may be bad right now,

but let me remind you, He's working everything together.

Everything, everything together for good.

Yeah, he's turning it around. He's turning it around.

He's turning it around. It may take 10 years, but guess

what? I can guarantee he's turning it

around. We call families home.

We call Co workers home. We call teammates home.

We call government officials home.

We call in laws home, step parents home, cousins home, Co

workers home, neighbors home. We call them home.

I just declare it's already done.

And because it's already done, I just owe you praise.

I just owe you honor. I just owe you glory.

It's your praise that forever be on my lips forever.

I make a decision right now that I'm going to use my mouth for

your glory right now. And I and and there's a few

people in here that that that really mean it.

You didn't just come to church. You, you came and picked up a

weapon. And then there's some people

that just came to church because you Christian, but there's some

sons and daughters in here that's going to take the next

two minutes with me and you going remind yourself, you going

to remember of the goodness of God.

There's some of you that have been in car accidents.

There's some of you that should have been deported.

There's some of you that have been homeless before.

There's some of you that have been on the brinks of suicide.

There's some of you that have attempted suicide, but you still

here. There's some of you that have

had cancer diagnosed, but the last time you went they said I

can't see nothing. And then there's some of you

that are currently in a situation, but you are going to

speak. As though that you're not.

You're going to speak what God says.

You're going to speak into your sickness.

You're going to speak into matter of fact.

Forgive me, Lord, it is not your sickness.

It is sickness. I do not claim sickness for this

body because this body is the temple of a living God.

Some of you are have dealt with being on prescribed medication

for anxiety, for depression. But I do not find in the Bible

nowhere where it declares their sons and daughters are

depressed. I do fine where it says you are

the healed and not the sick. I do find where He puts rivers

in deserts. I do fine where he multiplies

bread and fish, I do multiple. I do.

I do remind myself that He is a provider for all my needs

according to His riches in glory.

This is why you need to read the word so you just not confessing

emotions. You're not just confessing

desires. Watch this.

Angels aren't dispatched for your desires.

They're dispatched because of what the words say.

So we're going to take the next two minutes.

And for those that are, you know, unashamed that that don't

mind giving the Holy Ghost their mouth, giving, giving, giving

the word. Their mouth?

Cool, That's cool. But there's some of you who are

going to be like, that's not my nature.

Yeah, losing is an easier. And for some of you, it's

uncomfortable to confess. That's a problem because you

don't mind complaining. But it's not what I feel like.

It's not what I think. What does he say?

And if you don't know your word, you can start off with this

word. Great is your faithfulness.

And you can say that for two minutes.

I promise you it works. But for the next two minutes,

we're going to run that run that run the devil out of every area

of our lives. We going to run every lie out of

every area of our lie our lives, and we are going to remind

ourselves and we're going to speak loud enough for our

neighbors to hear and we are going to stir up encouragement

in this room for the next two minutes.

If you don't mind, go right ahead and remind yourself and

put God in remembrance of His merits.

Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

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