THROUGH//9AM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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Let's get into it. Now I'm going to do something

really quickly. I'm going to be, I'm going to

be, I got I got a couple directions I want to go.

And as I'm up here, I need you to pray for me.

But I think, I think I know which direction we have to go.

But tonight we have what we call perfected and it's for our

leaders, those that serve in our church and it's been phenomenal

perfected. So maturing is where we just

pour into our leaders, get on one accord and we are preparing

for what God has for us. But tonight I'm gonna open it up

to whoever wants to come because the the option I'm not going to

take this morning, I will take tonight.

I think it is a life saving poor that's going to happen tonight.

It was going to it is going to be a conversation around not

only family matters, but friends matter.

Tonight I'm going to help every last one of you get clarity on

relationships. We are to love everybody, but

not everybody has the same access.

And what I realized is we are asking friends to be coverings.

We're asking coverings to be friends.

We're expecting pastors to replace our parent that wasn't

there. And we have this, this, this,

this. One area I will, I would say is

probably Troy that is the least discipled in the church and that

is friendships. It starts as a little kid when

you see you ever, if you're a parent, your kids ever come home

and, and, and and say, I want to hang out with my friends.

And have you ever had to tell your children that they're that

That's not your friend. Oh, OK.

You, you, you got kids that play video games these days.

They're online with their friends.

They never seen a face. They online with their friends

in church. Not everybody is called to the

same level. Watch this even in church

everybody don't get the same access.

And this is Bible. Jesus had a, a a a portion of

his life that was for the masses.

Then he had a portion to the 144.

Then he had a portion to the 12. Then there was a portion to

three watch this covenant relationships is for heart

revelation. Watch this not everybody should

know what's happening in your heart.

One of the greatest mistakes I've ever made as a human and a

leader is I share too much because what you don't

understand the. People who are not called to

your heart will use your heart against you one day.

Not everybody's called to understand what you're

struggling with or even know what you're struggling with.

There are several levels or contexts Is that we got to learn

to put our relationships, not our friendships because not

everybody's a friend. We're called to love everybody.

I will. I promise you y'all that got

like 10 friends and everybody is sis and everybody is bro and

everybody is homies and everybody watch this.

Only a few people come to your house and watch this.

There's people that have been to my house ain't never been in my

bedroom. If you've ever seen my bedroom,

you special. Not everybody can handle the

access you give them. I believe that this is one of

the most vital conversations and messages.

Or I promise you, before this year is over, you will not be

where you thought God was or where God promised you you

should be. Most of us in here.

Are where we are because of the relationships we have or we had.

Bible tells us very clearly. I'll give you one scripture

really quickly because relationships are not random.

They are formational. Relationships form you who you

work with forms you who you listen to forms you.

Relationships form you. Watch this promise.

I'm not going to preach on this right now.

He says the key scripture that would be become wise by walking

with the wise. He didn't say wise people will

teach you or give you wisdom. He say you will become wise by

hanging out with wise. Watch this and when you hang out

with wise and foolish, foolish will compromise wise.

He said hang out with the fools and watch your life fall to

pieces. I'm also going to deal with

tonight. How do you deal with

relationships that you didn't ask for because you was born

into like your Mama or your sister?

Watch this profound scripture. Jesus says my mom and my brother

is who does my father's will. Oh, you even have to have

boundaries with your. Own blood.

There are people called to you that as you get older, watch

this, you will watch it. You will be closer to certain

people you're called to than people in your own family

because of purpose, because your family, your family raised you.

Watch this. Your relationships form you.

I I like I I guarantee you you ain't got nothing better to do

tonight then to come and get delivered from Some of the

brokenness you have is because you had no guardwells or no

boundaries. You put all relationships in one

bucket. When you got lonely you called

whoever was available. It wasn't even a friend you

wanted to go out with, but the one you wanted to go out with

wasn't available. Are we going to get healthy?

We're going to get help. Because who you hang out with

can steal purpose. They watch this.

Who you hang out with is voices. OK, so this morning I have no

slides for you. OK, I was.

I had the opportunity. You see my beautiful wife over

here? Thank you.

You, you, you guys, you guys, I was sharing with some people,

I'm going to be a little vulnerable, OK, because I'm, I

don't have no slides. So I don't got to, I don't have

no slides. I I got a word I don't got no

slides right now. I'm learning is right.

So there's some stuff I used to share up here that I can't share

no more because it could be used against you, right?

Vulnerability cost you something.

So that'd be very wise of what I share.

I will say this, almost the last two years, my wife and I for the

most part have lived separate. We haven't been separated.

We we've lived separate. Watch this for purpose and a lot

of people don't understand that for us to move to Calgary and

live in two places, the cost of that and a lot of times it costs

what the last wind blew away because a lot of people watch

this. Most people in here didn't

detect that when that woman leaves the house or when I leave

the house and that woman stays, the two people that are called

to leave this house are separated immediately.

Warfare is activated. So in a season, instead of

people critiquing, they didn't understand that the Richmond,

the leaders of this house have been under attack.

Watch this. Jesus was sent into the LED into

the wilderness by the Holy Ghost and the devil was given to him

to try him. So, so, so.

The warfare was ordained as much as the separation was ordained.

But how many mature believers is like we got to fast and pray

more for our pastors because maybe some of the stuff, some of

the stuff we critique and may be coming.

Because they're trying to figure right the their, their ship is

rocking. So we that season ended

yesterday. Yeah, I think, I think we can.

I think we can cry now because that was two of the hardest

years of our lives. Sometime because the attack was

so heavy, I said y'all got to fly home because I just need

somebody to I need a hug. I need to see my children.

I need I need you right now. We've been married almost 22

years, 23 years and we've never been asked to live separate.

Thank you for those that prayed for us, not preyed on us.

Thank you for those that watched our kids and and helped in areas

and understood the weight of us being called to another country,

then God asking us to live separate and then try to do

ministry and fly all over the place to also do ministry our

son. And then there's other pieces

that some of y'all know that at the same time warring for

another child. A lot of times people don't

understand that you're being used to attack us while we're

wounded because we get up here and we're trying to help you

with your wounds. So you don't even know we're

helping you with your wounds while we're wounded.

And this is not pity part. This is a testimony.

Because the devil watch this. Because all that the devil threw

at us, guess what? Our marriage is stronger.

Watch this. Hold on.

Let me finish. Watch this.

All that the devil tried to throw at us.

Our son ended all Canadian. Yeah.

Thank you for your prayers. He's on his way to contend for a

championship. He finished the top the the the

number three guard in the country.

Watch this. Those that wonder why we do

basketball. What what when you got a kid on

the team and you got you got a bunch of people in the stands

just cheering for that little kid.

You don't understand how a kid is like, whoa, this is my church

I'm playing for forget my school.

This is my church I'm out here balling for, right?

Finished got his degree. So, so, so I'm just the while

the enemy has tried, right? The mission was accomplished.

We gave, we gave the landlord his little little, little little

stinky apartment. But but I'm sorry, he tried.

He tried to do landlord things on this yesterday and take some

more money and all that stuff. Anyway, I'm just being

transparent. I'm just being transparent.

OK, That was quick. That was quick.

But we left it better than he gave it to us.

Malachi said he went and he went to go lock the door.

He went, he went, he did his last walkthrough just to make

sure we didn't leave anything. He's like, man, I tear it up,

teared up when God asks you to go somewhere.

For a purpose. Or he's not he's not he's not

like when he asked Jesus and Mary and and Joseph when he

asked Joseph, they had a dream and he didn't say go back home.

You often think that there's a day you going to go back to

where you were came from and you get sent to get sent to keep

getting sent to get sent. And so thank you.

I've had people people don't know.

I've had a couple people in the beginning fly out there to watch

our kids so we can be here. Thank you, Andrew.

Thank you. You know who you are.

Thank you, Grace. This is all ministry.

This is what the Kingdom is about.

If I can't share this stuff with you, I'm not pastoring you

because I'll give you some theological, exegetical,

hermeneutical expositions. I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm

not, I'm, I'm coming. I'm coming.

I'm coming. I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm

coming. I'm coming, right?

I'm, I'm not that to me. That's not the grace alone.

Just to come up here and teach you.

We got that. But but, but true leadership

says follow me. So when I'm sharing with you,

I'm saying follow me. I understand the struggles.

I've been married going on 23 years.

I've been a father for almost 21 years.

So I get to stand up here today as a legit, not just leader, but

a father, a husband who didn't hug.

We didn't have the husband and wife and father through some

stuff. I'm driving home from Calgary

and we almost didn't make it just because it was snowing at

the top. It was beginning as icy and we

was just like, and then we had to rent an extra car and so we

were separate. And so instead of being able to

trade off, we both have to drive the whole time.

But I got a chance to to pray and worship.

And what I'm about to share with you is just kind of slapped me

in the face because I'm like. God.

So I'm being a good husband. I think I'm being a good.

I'm not looking at her like, am I like, no, I'm not looking for

validation. I'm just trying to be cute right

now, OK, I'm, I'm I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm faithful over your your

people. I, I believe I've passed love,

love tests. I've I'm I'm standing.

And there's so much I got yesterday, but one thing I got

is permission to be like, Jesus came to show us how to be human,

not be God, but because he we think he tries to make, he came

to make us be like God. We're not honest with God, with

how we feel. The issue is not that I'm angry.

He like tell me that the issue is not I'm not scared.

He's like give me that. The issue is not I'm not

worried, but he's like give me that.

But the issue is not that I don't have financial issues.

He's like, but give me that. And then on the other side, put

in your mouth who I am in that situation.

So you scared, but God did not give me the spirit of fear.

That's faith. You're dealing with financial

issues, but my God shall supply all of my needs.

Of course, you got a doctor's report, but I am the healed and

not the sick. Faith does not say I'm not sick.

Faith says although the doctors say I'm sick, my God says I am

healed. So I get a chance to get in the

car and I'm like, man, that was, I was, I was listening the word

and I was worshipping and I was just like, I'm scared.

I'm worried. I've been my body's telling me.

God's like, yeah, there there we go.

Your faith ain't authenticated if you in denial of your

reality. Because the point is that I

realize my humanity, but the blessing is what God wants me to

get to is that I need thee. David talked about his

brokenness, his fears, his downtroddenness.

But God, you don't really have a prayer life if it's just faith

or if it's just emotions. And I'm like, man, right?

Because I'm looking back, I'm leaving a place, I'm leaving

relationships and families we built with and pouring.

And then I'm coming back and I'm driving.

I have this time and I'm like, what's going on?

And then God gave myself permission to say I am mad as

hell at the devil. Watch this.

We get passive when we we think giving it to God is passive.

Is is is what he's asking us to do.

No, he's asking us to join him in warfare.

Pay back as he is, but throwing the stone is mines.

So I'm like, I believe that the enemy's been slowly deferring

hope and if you are honest, there's areas in your life you

are frustrated because you have been waiting for God to

breakthrough. Watch this.

But your prayer life has not matched the intensity of the

attack that was the conviction yesterday is that I have been

trusting God, but my posture has relaxed.

Matthew 20. 640 put it up please.

We're going to get a light. Y'all going to work real good

today? I didn't do your homework.

We're going back to the old school.

Back to the old school. Matthew 2640 today.

Is the message is going to be called through through somebody

shout out through just one more hour.

What watch this. I realized Troy that I know how

to pray too. Yeah, lot of us pray too.

Yeah, if I'm honest as a pastor and I think I, I can relate to a

lot of people in here, I pray because I should some ways I

pray because I'm supposed to, because that's what Christians

do. Watch this can can I be

vulnerable? You can, you can throw the stone

back. It's totally fine.

I'm going to give you a stone to throw or you could put it down.

But I realize that I don't often pray because I'm burdened to

pray. I know some people that pray

because they burden to pray and there's a mantle to pray.

So I'm not saying you got to be like Elder John, Elder Roseanne

and some of the other prayer warriors.

I'm a praying man. Watch this because praying

without ceasing is praying upon prompting, so I'm in constant

community. Praying is the.

Kind of Kingdom prayer that God is calling us to is not so much

about your 30 minutes in the morning.

It's about your 24/7 availability.

Can He prompt you whenever he want to to get His word from

heaven through you on earth? A prompting living available

living available. What I realized is we don't know

how to pray to prevail this. Generation for sure.

I'm talking about the kind of praying that I don't know who's

had these grandmamas or Mamas that it seemed like they always

praying they on their knees praying when the last time we

got on our knees and prayed, we cute with it we.

ABS. With it, we say what other

people say with it we pray when we in trouble with it.

But if I'm honest, watch this EJ, I'm mad we not over there

yet. This message ain't about there.

This message there is an example of like we believe in.

But when watch it, you can be believing, but not Warren.

Watch this. Our money is caught up

somewhere. We just sometimes think that

delay is because God's holding something back or the devil's

holding something back. Watch this other part of the

message. Just one more hour.

Where'd you get that from, Preacher?

Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane and they're falling

asleep when they should be warring.

And what if I told you, some of you pray to the last hour, but

not through the last hour? You got weary, you got tired,

warfare intensified. And my question is, it seems

like the enemy knows more about what's on the other side than we

do. Watch this.

Here's what I feel. The enemy knows something that

you are not aware of. Now maybe I'm the only one in

here. But I can say that warfare has

intensified in my household, in my life like never before.

Watch this. God's dealing with me

differently, but watch this. The message is no longer

breakthroughs coming. That's what he tells.

Watch this. That is a milk prophecy.

That's what elementary ears want to hear.

Meat prophecy is about your maturity, not your blessing.

When God start talking to you about your character, He is

saying, now I can talk to you without you.

You are ready for me to talk about you, not about what I can

get to you. I'm mad at the enemy messing

with my kids. I'm mad that I'm not where I

thought I would be. See.

See, there's that, there's that there, there, there's that.

I heard a preacher say the other day, he said, where's the

where's the auntie that used to get mad at a common cold?

Miss my mom and them used to pray against a cold.

I'm talking about pray. What is it going to take you to

get a burden and a urgency to pray through what you watch?

This no is yours. Rather it's your family health.

Rather it's your mental health. Rather it is your peace.

Some of you have way too much resolve with the status quo, but

the status quo ain't what God promised.

But you have come. Watch this.

The fact that you have come to a calm about your present state

lets you know that hope has been deferred.

And I'm here to light a fire. And a few of us, starting with

me, watch this. I got faith and I pray, but

there is a level of prayer that will never get that.

Watch this. There is a level of prayer that

is required to reach the heights.

God has called us to Watch this. You won't see your healing until

you war for your healing, right? You got to match the enemy's

energy. And I know I'm not the only one

that have not been under a consistent attack of the enemy.

Rather, it's been my children, my finances, my purpose, my

health. I, I'm, I don't know if I'm the

only one that's been questioning God.

Is this you God? God, did I make a mistake

somewhere? God, why is this happening to

me? God, I thought that door was

going to be open. God, why they picking on me?

All I tried to do is love people.

God, why am I being misunderstood?

God, why is my children acting up?

No, you promise healing, so I'm not letting go until you heal

me. You promised household

salvation. I'm not going to stop till

everybody in my house is saved. And, and it was promised that

there would be a revival of prayer in this house.

But we have not pushed for that revival.

We have not sacrificed. No.

We got a few people who came to this church, prayer warriors,

but where God is calling us to watch this, we will not get in

that building. Watch this money won't get us in

that building. Prayer will because what our

budget is way bigger than what we need to get in.

I'm not trying to just get money to get in.

What about after it's going to be more expensive to after we

get in than trying to get in. Matthew 2640 and he came to the

disciples and found them sleeping.

I remember in youth ministry a long time ago, I preached a

message called Sleeping on the battlefield to some kids.

But Oh well, I released it. They was getting some food and

I'm saying kids thank me to today sometime you preach

forward and and he came to the disciples and found them

sleeping and said to Peter, what are you so utterly unable to

stay awake Then can I get a chair?

No, not yours. Some of us, this has been us and

I knew when I do this, I need you to be honest with yourself.

I'm telling you, for me, I pray all the time.

I talk to God all the time. I'm a man of faith, but I

realize that I'm entering a new dimension, which requires a new

posture like like you could pray like this for so long and this

posture of prayer is going to get you so far.

But at some point you got to. It's like when your kids acting

up for what you sitting on the couch and your kids just think

you so relaxed, they can talk or you'll keep you on the phone and

your kid is thinking they can talk to you crazy because you're

on the phone and you're like, wait, come here, what you say.

And if their kids got if your kids got sense, they like

nothing. Yeah, watch this.

When you get that posture and that tone, that's what the

enemy's going to say back to you.

What you, what you say, what you trying to do to my what you

trying to do to my family? Nothing.

He he don't, he wants this, this prayer life, this prayer life.

You can declare and decree in this posture, this posture.

There's something I mentioned this what?

And then when, when is it going to get like, we're in this hour

where it's like, no, no, no, no, it's it's like, I don't know.

I know, I know a lot of us ain't been in rough neighborhoods and

stuff like, but it comes to a point where it's like what?

What? What?

Some places like we need some prayer warriors in here.

That's like, you not going to mess with my family, you not

going come on, not not on my watch.

No, we got to tie up the hair, take off the shoes.

What we doing? What we doing?

What are we doing? We got to match the energy.

What are we doing? You mess with my children, what

are we doing? And what I believe is this

region has been able to to be pumped.

And I believe that the that the enemy has ran into a people that

cannot be pumped. That's why you here 'cause you

ain't no pump. You not no pushover, You not no

coward. You not a punk.

My Mama didn't raise no punk. My weapons is not against

people, so I'm not beefing up against nobody.

But I'm tired of the devil. I think what God has been doing

is he hasn't been exposing the problem.

He, he, he exposed the generational patterns.

Now we got to go bust it. We got to go break it.

We got to devour, we got to match the enemy's energy.

What's this? Jesus didn't ask them for a

lifetime. He didn't ask them for a week.

He didn't even ask them to pray all night.

He said can you just pray for one hour?

And they couldn't do it. The difference between standing

with Jesus and sleeping through a critical moment was one hour.

Standing with Jesus and sleeping was one hour, prophetically

speaking. Guys, what God is asking us to

do in this hour, it requires an intensity, A consecration, A

sacrifice that may feel like forever in the beginning.

The request can feel like forever.

But because the request feels like it forever or the demand

feels like forever does not mean it's going to last forever.

But God is looking for some miles and some postures and some

vessels to do something that will have generational

implications. What if the gap between where

you are and what God promised is not yours?

What if it's not more prophecy you need?

What if it's not more revelation?

This is what I'm saying, God. God, I got enough word.

What I mean is, God, you just spoke to this house.

You've given me clarity. You've given me direction.

You've given me seed to sow You've given me good friends.

You've given us good leaders. You've given us more than enough

vision. What is it?

What if there's one more hour? He's asking you to push you?

You've been pregnant, I know, for nine months.

But if you're going to get this baby out, you're going to have

to push through it, don't you? You, you, you've been walking

around like this for nine months, but watch this.

Delivery. Don't come because you carry

delivery. Come because you push.

And we watch this. We've been requesting, not

pushing. We've been declaring, but not

pushing. Somebody say through it.

Watch this. Many believers know how to pray

but not know how to stay. You know how to get on your

knees for a moment, but you don't know how to stay on your

knees and because of that, watch it.

Breakthrough is not released to those who start praying, but

it's released to those who to who refuse to stop.

Breakthrough does not come to the starters, it comes to those

who refuse to stop praying. Most people don't miss their

breakthrough because God said no.

They miss it because they stopped at the last hour.

God did not say no, you may have stopped at the last hour.

Watch this. Be not weary and well doing for

in due season if you faint not, bless the Lord we learn.

Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not.

He gave us this message 2 weeks ago.

Watch this. Remembrance is fuel to your

prayer life. Remember, it's His fuel to your

prayer life. If he did it before, he could do

it again. It's not, it's not, it's not a

sin to remember the benefits. He tells us to remember all the

benefits. Where did God pull you out?

Where did God break you through? Who did God breakthrough?

Who do you know that God has blessed?

If He did it for them, He could do it for you.

Do not drift into spiritual amnesia.

David understood that remembrance is not reflection.

Remembrance is fuel. He rehearsed who forgives God,

who heals Rafa, who redeems who? Who restores God because David

knew if I remember right, I will pray right.

Who am I talking to today? Don't.

Don't wait till the end. God is stirring up a revival of

intercession in those who will make their womb available in

this hour. When you forget, you fall

asleep, and when you remember, you stay awake.

Remembrance fuels a vibrant prayer life.

I have never pondered on the goodness of God and it did not

lead to praise. It did not lead to prayer.

It did not lead. I have never pondered on the

goodness of God without it leading to intimacy.

What do you do? Here's here's the biggest thing

EJI found one word that I've been experiencing.

I think some of y'all watch this.

When I say this one word, if it hits your Holy Ghost, I, I, I

need you to, to, to, to maybe stand not for me, but this is

this, this these next few minutes got to be responding

because the Lord is trying to breakthrough because he's

calling on intercessors. He's calling on seers.

He's calling for prophetic voices.

The prophetic voice is under attack.

This is why we hear Jezebel, Jezebel, Jezebel, Jezebel,

Jezebel everywhere. Forget Jezebel.

What the goal is, is to silence the prophetic.

Say God, what is it on my drive? He said.

You've been experiencing resistance.

It's been resistance. God, I've been doing what you

been telling me to do. I know I got vision.

I know I'm loving my family the best way.

I know how to even have a dad in my life to show me how to do

this God. And I'm not comparing myself to

my dad, but I know God that I know that I am.

I am. I am pushing towards the son or

the daughter that you've called me to be God, but there seems

like there is something that does not want me to get to the

other side. There's something that does not

want your daughter or your son to get it right.

There's something that that watch this.

You've been praying for your husband and it seems like he's

not getting through. You've been praying for your

wife and it seems like it's not getting through.

It seems like you're you're taking steps forward in your

relationships and your family and your and your finances, but

it seems like you just can't breakthrough.

There's things you thought it was over, but you just can't get

through. I'm not just trying to get to

the point of better. I am trying to become another

man. I am trying to, he said, be

transformed, not experience transformation, but be

transformed resistance. There has been resistance and

sitting in that posture cannot deal with resistance.

What do you do when you feel resistance?

Now watch this. You don't got to keep, you can

keep listening, but you can begin praying right where you

are. You can get on your knees and

what what God is breaking something forth.

What do you do when you feel resistance?

You got enough prophecies, you've sown enough seeds, you've

loved, you've purged, you've you've, you've stayed still.

You've you've been a peacemaker. You've you've you've served.

But there's God. What about my promise you gave

me? What about the son you promised?

What about the spouse you promised?

What about the breakthrough for my children you promised?

What about the wealth you promised?

What about the finances you promised?

I'm working on my character. I'm not the same man.

I'm not the same woman. I've made amends with that bad

relationship. I've repented to my mother.

I've repented to my father. God, I've really been trying to

do this thing right. But every time I turn left,

there's a closed door. Every time I turn right, there's

a closed door. I think I'm doing good.

And then all of a sudden I'm misunderstood.

God, the resistance is real. Why the resistance?

He's trying to defer hope. He's trying to defer hope.

And we understood, understand hope.

Deferred makes the heart sick. I thought I was done with those

thoughts. I thought I was done with porn.

I thought I was done with those habits.

Watch this Paul. Paul don't get whole without

writing letters to the church. What I mean by that, Paul

serving the church all the days of his life was how he stayed

from where he came from. And what I'm telling you is

there's, there are there you, you can't just turn that off.

You just can't close the laptop on that.

You got to close the laptop and turn that energy into what God

has called you to, because if you don't hurry up and use that

zeal, use that passion, use that addiction for the goodness and

the glory of God, you will go back and it will be 7 times

worse. It's not a word issue.

You got word but resistance. What happens when you're

praying? It feels like nothing's moving.

Come on, you can pray right where you are.

You're praying and nothing moving.

It seems like you're praying and it seems like finances are

getting better. Watch this.

And you're stewarding your finances, you're sewing, you're

saving, but it seems like something else keep coming up.

Something else keep breaking. Somebody else keep on

disappointing you. Somebody else walks out on you.

Somebody else talks about you. Somebody else persecutes you.

Somebody else dies. Somebody else gets sick.

God, when will it end? You're praying and nothing moves

and you're believing and it feels like something is blocked.

Trying to talk sense into that family member and it seems like

the enemy just got his thumbs in their ear.

And you know what God said, but you don't see it yet.

All right? This is the same frustration

that we see with many men and women of God in the Bible.

Here's what it comes to, guys. Here's what it comes to Lily.

I'm not settling for crumbs when He promised me the whole loaf.

I'm I'm not. I'm not.

I'm not settling for sprinkles when He promised me showers.

I'm not settling for healing when He promised me wholeness.

I'm not settling for manna when he promised the land that flows

with milk and honey. I'm not settling.

Truth is, I'm fed up. And it's not until you get fed

up. I'm talking about the type of

fed up that make you change some patterns in your life.

I'm talking about the Fed up that make you fast.

I'm talking about the Fed up that leads you into a time of

consecration and sanctification whether the church calls a fast

or not. No watch this because I I got a

tendency to be passive. Watch this watch this you're

going to Detroit it you're going to enjoy this somebody I got a

tendency to interest right being in God's rest can get a little

violent sometime, but but I'm not not going to even bother

today because I'm in his rest and I know he has Avengers.

This is we got all the scriptures watch this but you

can declare all day but don't pay no price.

You know how many people declare and decree but don't fast?

It didn't say these type come out by declaring these kind come

out by what fasting and praying. I got a tendency to get comfy in

churchy routines and think that because I come to church,

because I serve, and because I soul breakthrough has to come.

You can sit down, you can sit down, you can sit down or you

can stand up, whatever you want to do.

I'm sensing a different energy in this season.

I'm sensing a devil that's like, if you're going to let me take

it, I'm going to take it. If you're going to let me

distract you, I'm going to distract you.

Watch this and watch this. The devil don't have to do

nothing because I realized, watch this.

The devil and what's distracting me are two different things.

Watch this. Some of y'all are where you are

because you're distracted, not because of demons.

Watch this. You don't need, you do not need

deliverance. You need to put your phone down.

Watch this when you scroll, especially when you scroll and

you follow certain people, even those you follow keep you

company. The people you follow have a

voice. So it's not just the people you

are in proximity with, it's also the people you give access to.

I sense for me, and I don't know about for you, but I sense the

enemy has elevated his attack. I sense me and my wife said,

man, the enemy is trying to really take us out.

You, you know, when you're thinking about man, is my time

up? Is am I, am I Lord, did I make

the right decision? Lord?

Did I like you, actually supposed to get to that point.

That's the point you should get to faithfulness don't lead to

just just feel good. Whoa, no faithfulness will lead

you to questioning you. You got to have some rest stops

and rest stops sometime come with questioning because you

before you go to the next dimension, watch this.

You got to know that you know that you know that you know that

you know that you know because the pressure watch the higher

you go, the higher you go. I didn't even know this was a

thing. We was watching something and

what what is it called? The, the, the kid that I didn't

even know anything, the kid that fell out the airplane because he

was up in the what's it called? Come on, help me.

The stowaway. I didn't even know.

People do that as a means of suicide or to try to get places.

They go up in the stowaway where the wheel comes up.

And immediately as you start to take off, the air gets thinner

and thinner and it gets colder and colder.

And the higher you go, you immediately begin to pass out.

And there's this one kid. He was just splattered in the

middle of the street. They're like how he got there.

They couldn't find nobody that did it.

The kid was running away from his dad.

He went and got on a plane in the stowaway.

And when the wheels, when the wheels released to come down, he

fell out. Watch this same plane.

Watch this. He passed out and people above

him was in a place where they could be that high and still

live right And some of y'all think you supposed to live and

be blessed because you around people that's blessed.

Watch this. But here, here, here, watch

this. I can safely say this.

Not everybody in this room breathe in the same air.

Not everybody in this room here in the same gospel, not

everybody in this room over the last several years have heard

God prophesied the same way. They didn't take the Word the

same way. Not everybody see their pastors

the same way. Not everybody see the person

next to them the same way. Not everybody breathing the same

air. There are some people here who

are going to walk out and live, however they going to live.

There's some people in here have already sensed the activation of

prayer in their life and conviction that they know they

should have been going deeper in the things of God.

There's, there's, there's used to be miners who would dig and

dig and dig and stop, sell the land to someone and who they

sold it to dug a little further. And they're the ones who

struggle. You want to find out one day

that the thing you stopped at somebody got the blessing from.

I'm telling you guys, we are so close.

Go to Luke 11/1. Luke 11/1.

He he was praying in a certain place and when he stopped, one

of his disciples said to him, Lord, come on, somebody say it

with me. Teach us to pray.

Teach us how to pray. Here's the crazy part, guys.

They were a part of Jewish customs.

They knew how to pray. That's what they did follow me.

They prayed. So they weren't asking teach me

how to pray the way we have been praying.

They they looked at Jesus and was like, wait a minute.

When you pray, demons start running.

When when you pray, blind eyes are open.

When you pray, provision is multiplied.

When you pray, when you pray, the dead are raised.

There is something about how you pray that when we pray.

And This is why it was so much jealousy because Jesus got

results. He was not just going through

the motions. The demons understood his

posture. Watch this.

I'll probably get ahead of myself, but Luke 11/1, He gives

them a formula of how to pray. We're going to get here in a

second. Luke 18, He gives them a parable

of how how to pray, like the posture of prayer.

Watch this. Luke 18.

He gives them the standard of prayer.

But then at the cross they fell asleep.

They were taught, they were shown, and under pressure they

fell asleep. Oh, ain't that like the

believers? You can sit here every Sunday

and get good word but under pressure it's like the stowaway

oxygen get taken from you and the word has no breath in your

life. You forget and that's what

happens when you your brain gets attacked.

You start forgetting the enemy's after your mind.

So you stop focusing on what God said and you start focusing on

how it feels. Watch this.

You can have a prayer life and still not have a powerful life

if you was honest with yourself. Do you see power in your life?

And when I say power, man, I ain't even talking about.

Let's not even talk about demons right now.

Let's not even talk about delivering folks and healing the

sick. Let's not even talk about that.

Let's just talk about just some daily stuff when people get on

your nerves. Let's talk about a little

resistance. They didn't ask for power.

They asked for the source of power.

Please hear me. Many of us want power, but we

don't want to do it like Jesus. There's no burden, so there's no

breakthrough. I would say at least half of us

in here have a boring prayer life.

That's not a God problem, that's not a your church problem

because we offer prayer, not only prayer, but we also offer

teaching you how to pray. We have people readily available

to help you with your prayer life.

A dull prayer life produces A dull spiritual life.

Luke 11/1. He gives them structure, but He

does not stop there because structure without persistence

still produces powerless lives. He gives them the standard.

Luke 18 He was praying in a certain place.

When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, Lord no,

no no no 1181 let let Luke 18 verse one also.

Jesus told them a parable to affect that they ought.

Here it is. Remember 11 earlier he just gave

our father, which he gave you an outline.

He gave you a structure to pray. Now he's giving you a standard.

He told them a parable to affect that they ought always to how,

how often always to pray and not to turn coward, faint, loose

heart and give up. He said in a certain city there

was a judge who neither reverenced and feared God nor

respected or considered man a judge.

He didn't fear God. He wasn't a man of God.

He was a judge. And there was a widow in that

city who kept on coming, kept coming to him saying, protect

and defend and give me justice against my adversary.

And for a time he would not. For a time he would not, for a

time he would not. But later he said to himself,

watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this.

He said to himself, Though I have neither reverence or fear

for God, nor respect or consideration for man, this is a

this is a nasty man. Watch this yet, because this

widow continues to bother me. OK, am I talking to a few people

in here right now? Watch this I don't got no

respect for their God I don't got no respect for man.

I don't have no, I'm cold, but because this woman keeps

bothering me. Pause.

God is showing us a principle that if a unjust man, if she

can, if her persistence can breakthrough to a unjust man,

what would your persistence do to a just God's heart.

He says, because she continues to bother me, I will defend and

protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance

and wear me out by her continual coming, or at last she come and

rail on me, or assault me or strangle me.

Let me help this woman. Wait a minute this sounds who's

giving this parable and he is given a parable teaching them

how to pray the posture of prayer.

OK I got so convicted when I read this a few times a week

I'll tell my son we going to do XYZ and until it happens.

Hey dad when can I get on the game son?

DoH. OK.

Dang. 5 minutes. Hey, dad, when is it?

OK? OK.

Hey, hey, Dad, Dad, Dad. Is there anything I can help you

with right now? OK, you.

You said I can get on the game. When?

When? Oh, oh, son, just me.

I'm not God. There's something in me, Noel,

that says let me get this boy the game because he is getting

on my last nerves. I'm not saying God, God don't

have he don't he don't he's not impatient, so he doesn't get

there. But for me, the way he's those

kids wear you out. Are we going to go get ice

cream? Are we going to go to

Disneyland? Are we going?

If you said it, then you have given them the right to ask.

The problem is not the asking. God, you said that healing is

mine. You said that my entire house

shall be saved. God, you, didn't you tell me to

come to this bit? Didn't you say you will provide

all my needs according to your riches and glory?

Lord, didn't you say you'll save my husband?

Didn't you say you'll save my daughter?

Didn't you say you'll save my son?

Lord, didn't you say this city shall know you?

God, come on. This is your son.

This is your son who's talking. You said it.

I believe it. You said it.

It is done. Come on.

Pray right where you are. Pray right where you are.

He said it. Forget all other stuff.

What did God promise? Be not weary.

Be not weary. You said it, God, you said it.

I know you gave me the family that you gave me.

Lord, I know you said it. You saved me so you can save my

brother. You save me so you can save my

sister. You save me so you can save my

Mama. You save me so you can save my

daddy. Lord, not one person in my

house. She'll be lost to the pit of

hell. We command the enemy to take his

hands off of our family. Take your hands off of our

children. Take your hands off of our

finances. Take your hands off this city.

You said it. You said it.

You said it. You said it, watch what he said.

If my people who are called by my name, he's looking for

intercessors. Come on.

Don't forget, don't forget, don't forget.

Watch this because you, You forgot.

He said it. You creating Ishmaels.

You forgot He said it. A bad memory creates Ishmaels.

Be not weary. Who am I talking to?

Be patient. Keep believing for your

children. Keep believing for your

finances. Keep believing for your health.

Keep believing, keep believing. You don't got to come in here

today acting like you got it all together.

It's OK to say I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad I'm mad.

Thought I would be further watch this.

I didn't just think I would be further.

Further is his will. I'm not The further is not just

my desire, further is is we'll watch this.

But even if if it's my desire, He told me he will give me the

desires of my heart if I delight in him.

So if you've been delighting in him, you have a right to believe

for your desires. You said it God.

You said it, God. Mama didn't raise no punks.

God didn't create no punks. Demons were literally

intimidated by the presence of Jesus.

And who's inside of you? Jesus, it's time for you to get

your posture fixed. It's time for you to give your

voice back to what you've been believing for.

I know it's been a long time, but we will not be like the

children of Israel and begin to make idols because we're

fainting, because we're hopeless.

I pray right now that your hope is stirred up.

He tells Timothy. Stir up your faith.

Come on. When you pray in your heavenly

prayer language, it builds up your most holy faith.

Come on. I will not give up.

I will not quit. I will not faint.

I don't want to go back to Egypt.

I come too far. I've come too far.

I will not go back to the bondage of fear.

I've come too far. I will not let the enemy steal

my voice. I've come too far.

You that know that there's a prophetic anointing on your

life, begin to prophecy speak over those tripons.

May this be an Ezekiel moment. If you believe these bones can

live, begin to speak life to them.

If you believe your brother is coming to Jesus, speak life to

them. If you believe your Mama shall

be healed, speak life to them. You said it, so I believe it.

I believe it. So I say it.

You said it. I believe it.

I believe it. So I say it.

You said it, so I believe it. I believe it, so I say it.

Come on. My settling days are over.

I can be in the rest of God without settling for less than

what God has promised me. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can be in the rest of God

without accepting less than God. I can be in the rest of God

without settling for less than God, without settling less than

Rapha, without settling less for Jehovah Belperazine, without

selling less for Rohai, without settling less for so much summer

off the Lord of hosts. I can be in your rest without

settling for less. Come on.

Where's my intercessors? Where's my intercessors?

Where's my intercessors? We're praying through it.

We're praying through the fire. We're praying through the den.

We're praying through the Red Sea.

We're praying through the tombs. We're praying through.

We're praying through. Come on.

The sound of warriors praying. For we wrestle not against flesh

and blood. The weapons of our warfare are

not carnal. Come on, we're going to push.

We're going to push. Come on, we're going to push.

We're believing for revival and prayer.

New wine and prayer, new wine and prayer, new wine skins for

prayer. Set us on fire, Jesus.

Set us on fire, Jesus. Set us on fire, Jesus.

We will crash out. We will cry out.

I am, I am, I am unashamed of what I'm about to say.

The Bible says the fervent and effectual prayers.

Watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this.

Some of you will be like, no, you're trying to move us into

emotional. No, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

Watch this. Stop demonizing emotions.

Who gave them to you? Who perverted them?

Yeah. No, no, no, no.

When he tells him to stir up his faith.

You can't stir up faith without emotions.

But it's when you give your the word to your emotions.

Some of y'all watch this, watch this.

Some of y'all, if we sat here for one hour, you will stay

right in your seat. And when I say stay in your

seat, I'm not talking about sitting.

You can sit and still be effectual.

What I'm saying is this is not a time for you to think about what

you're going through. This is a time to war and see

yourself out of it. Watch this, watch this.

Where's the chair? Where's the chair?

Where's the chair? Here's this is called making

disciples. Sorry.

Not, not, not. This is not a picture of people

sitting. So if you're sitting, don't

think I'm talking about you because you could be doing this.

Yeah. Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah.

Right there, There's there's a stirring.

You don't get to work like this. You don't get a high school

diploma like this. What I'm looking at is a

generation that don't know how to stir.

Well, I see a generation that's like God, come do it.

What are you looking for? Open your mouth.

Where's your Bible? Are you praying the word right

now? Don't tell me 1000% of the

people in this room have passion and you use it for some stuff.

Watch this. Some of you use your passion to

scroll. Let somebody mess with you,

you'll cuss them out. Let somebody break your heart.

You'll, you'll, you'll, you'll cry.

What about crying because the enemy has stolen long enough?

What about getting up and walking around?

And if you got a problem, what what about changing your

posture? What about if I asked you to

raise your hand? Have you ever been passionate

about something? Everybody would raise their

hand. What did that moment look like?

Has somebody ever ticked you off?

Anybody that has ever been ticked off before by something

or someone? Raise your hand, please.

OK, watch this. Anybody can you?

You are forgiven. Anybody ever lift, raise their

voice at somebody or something? Raise your hand.

OK, watch this. Really.

Anybody ever told somebody off, raise your hand where that's at?

Where's that energy? Oh, so you let the enemy use

your energy for his purpose? But God's like Saul.

Give me that passion. Let me hold that passion.

What if you made a choice, right?

Watch this and right now as I'm talking your imagination,

whatever's in between you giving your passion to God, you need to

deal with that because it's I guarantee it's fear, it's

insecurity, it's on it's distance because I don't want

to. Yeah, but when you cuss that

person out, did you say? I don't want to.

No, you gave your body, you gave your mind, you gave your words,

you gave your tongue, and you hurt somebody.

Now God is saying give me that same voice, that same passion,

right? You wasn't somebody, somebody

broke broke your heart and hurt you.

You wasn't sitting down like while you do that, you MDM

there. No, you was like, I can see some

of y'all. I know I can see your attitude.

I know, I know some of y'all got a lot of y'all.

All of y'all got bad attitudes on the other side.

All I'm saying is today, I believe something can shift in

your life and my life. And in this city, if you just

gave God like 30% of that passion that you gave that

person or that situation or the nights you cried yourself to

sleep and you allowed yourself to go there because watch this,

There's a whole city that needs some dogs in prayer.

Come on, there's family members that need some some dogs in

prayer. I'm not telling you to to to run

around and make animal noises. I'm not telling you to be weird,

but I am telling you if you don't know how to pray, get the

word of God. John 316 For God so loved the

world that he gave his only begotten Son, and whosoever

believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

I believe in God. I know I'm saved.

I am the redeemed of the Lord right?

I know, I know though I'm struggling in this area.

My God shall supply all my knee. I know I'm the healed and not

the sick. I know that I'm the head and not

the tail. If you don't know how to watch

this, when you're done with your words, use His so so so you can

go if you want to look. I was trying to do something in

through prayer, and we won't get there.

Your family won't get there. I don't know about you, but I'm

by myself who's been believing for some stuff.

Shouldn't it be? Shouldn't it be different by

now, Troy? Shouldn't it be different by

now, Danny? Shouldn't it be different right

now? Shouldn't your family member Ben

have come to Christ? Shouldn't your daddy have been

treating your Mama right? Shouldn't your finance have

been, you've saved like, like there's too many holes in my

basket. Like, like, shouldn't it be

right by now? Shouldn't your child be good

right now? Shouldn't you be free right now?

You, you was, you was free for three months, four months, five

months, three years. And how you get back there?

Why? No, there's resistance.

The enemy knows something that you might not be aware of.

And the enemy, I think he understands that he's on his

last straw with you. Come on.

Yeah. The enemy knows that you and

your father will be reconciled. The enemy knows that your

brother is coming to Jesus. The enemy knows that you're

about to be free from addiction. The enemy knows.

The enemy knows we're about to go into this building.

Come on. The enemy knows.

He knows. Come on, begin to pray.

Open your mouth. Hallelujah.

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