Family Matters//9AM// Pastor Terrance Richmond

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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some tea, and get ready to receive.

Let's get into it. Though the wind blows and the

waves crash, your remnant will remain rooted, growing strong as

oaks of righteousness. Distinguished, anointed.

Built for such a time as this. Yeah.

It's OK for somebody to say I'm built for such a time as this.

Lord, I thank you that you are equipping families.

Not not merely marriages, but you're equipping family, sons

and daughters. Yeah.

To be interruptions in the bloodline, to identify the

tricks of the enemy that has been plaguing bloodlines for

centuries. But today we say it comes to an

end. I declare over you.

You are the new beginning in your bloodline.

You're you're not just an interruption, but you're doing.

God is doing a new thing in you and through you.

Lord, we thank you for healing from your Word and Father, as

you transform us through the renewing of our minds, we will

give you the glory with our lives.

We thank you for it in Jesus. Mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty,

mighty, mighty name. Amen.

Amen. Sound like a few people was

ready to fight this morning. It's never too early to have a

good fight. Yeah, I love it.

You know, we get up some. Some people get up really early

to go to work every day and I don't know how you get up.

How do do anybody get up without trying to like get themselves

up? Like anybody got a routine to

get themselves up like coffee or you just want to stay sleepy all

day? So you, you OK, Do I do I have a

few people that like take a cold shower or a cold plunge or

something or or like, OK any, any Christians pray when you

first wake up? OK, A few of us say, man, that's

fine. That's fine.

Like do you listen to music when you wake up?

Wow, you guys are boring. Like what is going on here?

Like what are we doing? So you don't like get ready and

watch this. You do not get ready to go into

the world armed. You have something in you that

the world don't have in it and you don't sharpen your sword

before you wake up. I mean like when you when you

get up, you don't like do whatever it takes to make sure

when I step into my workplace, everything changes.

Not because I'm super, but he, he that is within me is greater

than he that is in the world. You do know you got to wake up

and stir yourself up like God this, don't you know what I'm

saying? Like you to be lit, You got to

stir it up. OK, Let me, let me, let me reach

some of y'all where I know you've been.

And if you haven't been here, I'm I'm done today.

Anybody ever went out at night for a good time?

I understand where I'm at. I understand.

OK, Help me. Jesus.

Amen. Do you get, do you do anything

to get yourself ready to go out to dinner or to the club or

something? Like do you stir yourself up?

Do you turn like when you get ready to go out on a date or go

out to dinner? Do you like turn on music and

why you doing your like like the ladies that do do makeup?

Like do you listen to music? Because that's a long time to

just be staring at yourself. What?

Right. Turn on some music and like, oh,

OK, OK, we going. Yeah, No, no, no.

OK. This is, this is what, this is

what praise and worship is. You are stirring yourself up.

Now. There's layers to it, right?

The more mature you are, you stir yourself up on the way to

church. So when watch this, so when you

come into the building, you bring a different atmosphere

with you. You, you step in ready to

contribute. And so that's what we do is

it's, it's early, it's really early and it's really cold.

That's why this morning I was, I was so tired.

I went to bed, I don't know, 4:30.

It's been a long weekend and it's been a very fruitful

weekend. And I remember going to bed

around 4, I don't know, three, what time we like 330.

And I normally I got to get up at 5:00, but I was like, it was

so you know, when it's so late, you like, I got to get up early

and do something. So I might as well do it now.

So I was trying to study. I had one eye.

I don't know what kind of message y'all going to get today

because I had one eye open, but but I was trying to.

I went to bed 330 or whatever or something like that and got up,

had to get up 6630 whatever time it was and nice shower and then

cold plunge. I'm like I got to help myself

get up. Look at your neighbors, say you

got to learn to help yourself. Look at somebody else, say your

soul needs help. Now really quickly before I get

into today's message, we started a Series A few weeks ago called

What Family Matters. And then a nice little plug

tonight will be Marriage Matters.

And so I'm excited for our marriages that we are going to

be pouring into. Come on, give it up for our

marriages. And so the first one we kicked

off was phenomenal. Those that are married, those

that are dating and considering marriage, those that are

engaged, this is for you singles.

I promise we're going to do something for you now.

Singles are serving the married couples.

No one married is serving. All the singles are serving.

And the singles crushed it last time.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I, I, I hate that label like

singles is a label like male and female singles and date is like

no, no, no, no, like no, no, no, like I think singles is, is a

powerful thing. OK, but culture makes you feel

like you're missing out on life if you're not sleeping, you

know, doing stuff. But so I want to see you tonight

if you are. But if you playing around in

your relationship, tonight's not for you.

Like no, we're not playing around.

OK. This is for people who really

take Covenant seriously and want to grow in that.

But a couple Wednesdays ago, I started off with kind of my

little personal formula to help me guide me and I thought it was

good to share with you. And there's just three 3-3

pieces of it's, it's a framework as we speak that we want to work

in #1 anybody remember? Yeah, don't look at the.

It might come on the screen, it might not.

Do anybody remember #2 and #3 that's what I'm talking about.

Expose is to. Expose is to bring into the

light what has been influencing in the dark.

After this week I'm no longer going to do this.

You should have it by now. If not go listen to message.

But I I do want people to be able to have some framework to

work in. I realise where I'm at and, and

I know where I'm from, man, you can preach and impart and it's

not always good because sometimes people just take what

you say and they just get emotional, whatever.

But there's a there, there are certain places in the world

that's more receptive to the word and they just trust God.

It doesn't mean they're foolish or ignorant.

We do encourage people to go read the word for yourself, Go

Fact Check whatever you want to do.

But but but there there there has to come a time where you can

walk in the service and actually receive and respond, not be so

intellectual with the word because the word is spirit.

But what I do understand is we're we're in a region and in a

place that that not it's not your fault.

It watch this. You were born into it.

You were born into a place that is over systematic.

You don't need that many seasons to get a license.

In one sense, there are amazing systems in this country, in this

province that the world can benefit from.

But some stuff is over systems, right?

Where I'm from, you, you, you take the test.

If you're too young, you get a permit.

But then when you turn a certain age, you pass the test, you got

your license. We don't need the a, you know,

the ABCDEFG, all of that. OK.

And and with that you train up a people, right?

Even in immigration, it's it's, it's a very thorough job in, in

which on some aspects is very good because you get some, you

get smart people come into this country, right, which is good

and seems safe. But you have to be careful how

you're being trained because when you're trying to approach

God with the same intellectualism that is required

for you to even be accepted in this country or to prove

yourself as immigrants or refugees or whatever the case

may be. You approach God with just head.

And some of y'all walk out of here without revelation because

I didn't break it down for you. In a way you understand it, not

understanding that the Word is Spirit and it can be imparted to

you if you catch what God is trying to say in your spirit and

then you carry it home and then you sit with it later or Monday

or Tuesday and you become a Berean.

He will break it down and bring understanding, but some of you

can't receive unless you understand.

Show me where that's at in the Bible, where God worked that

way. Abraham, leave, you're going to

go somewhere where I'll tell you about it later.

Just go, pack your family up. Go.

But God and God brought revelation as he went.

So we want to expose, to bring light to what's been

influencing. Watch this.

I find that some people in here, you are so intelligent and you

so stressed out. How's that working for you?

You so smart, so depressed, you so careful.

You read well, you read fast. You know so much, you're so

anxious. How's your intelligence helping

your peace? If peace was intelligence, the

more people would have it. But peace is a presence, and

it's governed by a revelation and a covenant.

And some of us watch this. I'm going to say it to you and

let it hit it wherever it hits. You've been stressed out too

long. Watch this stressed out.

I'm not saying you have some good days but but your peace

goes like this. I'm preaching already to some

people. I don't know about you, but I

come to church to hear this stuff.

God talk to me, come down my Rd. expose my my stressed outness,

my control issues control control it don't go my way.

Somebody don't call back. My piece is out the window or

I'm constantly trying to hold on to it.

That's not peace. If you constantly trying to hold

on to it. You trying to hold on for hold

on to something that's been given to you for free.

Amen. Somebody say the enemy can't

take my peace. All right, those that's been

here, you know it. If you want to know it's

exposed, it's equipped, it's excite.

Want to move on? Today's message, Part 3 for me

in, in, in Family matters is interrupting the ripple.

Last week we understood that there is a ripple effect that

happens and we expose some patterns.

Last week's message, Anybody remember what the title was?

Dang, it ain't my fault. What's this?

I'm not going to park there. But boy, did God give you a word

for you, For you. He preached it to me.

It ain't my fault. Now, if you are going to

interrupt stuff in your bloodline, you can't forget the

root. You can't forget what he

equipped you with last week, right?

And This is why sometime I am burdened to do review, review,

review, review. Why?

Because we forget, we forget, we forget and so we can't move on.

But then I have to actually be free from doing that because you

have to be responsible as the student and the receiver, and I

have to be responsible as the deliverer of this word.

And so today is interrupting the ripple.

We looked at David. We looked at his sons, and we

looked at no, there's a lot of patterns that aren't your fault.

You inherited them. But what we walked away

understanding is it might not be your fault, but now it is your

responsibility. What you refuse to confront, God

will allow to fracture. We heard this word fracture last

week. Fracture is not destruction but

fracture. A fracture can be a inlet for

germs and toxicity to enter and before you know it watch this.

Some of you have unbroken patterns which produced

fractures and now you got germs. Now you have watched this

keyword you have been infected. Some people watch this.

Another word for infected is like offense, easily offended or

easily infected. Not not just affected, infected

because you have open wounds that we are sometimes ignorant

of. Yes.

Not your fault you inherited family patterns, but now you've

grown. It is your responsibility to

change it here it is, or pass it on to the next generation.

Watch this. You don't need kids to pass

patterns on to the next generation.

You got to pass it on to somebody.

Somebody say you got to pass it on.

It's ain't my fault. You did not choose your last

name. You did not design your

childhood. You did not script your

exposures. It may not be my fault, but it

is my what watch. This responsibility is where

interruption begins. Come on, write it down.

Responsibility is where interruption begins.

If you don't take responsibility, you can't start

interrupting. Watch this, as long as your

finger is like that, you stuck because the person you pointing

at can't change the pattern. Hallelujah, Help me.

Jesus, man, I took response. Somebody asked me a question

last night about being a father when I didn't have a father.

And how did I learn that blueprint?

And I'm like, man, I had to. I couldn't become the father

that I didn't have until I changed the patterns that I

inherited from an absent father. Do you know you can you can

inherit patterns from absence. I learned what it was like to

not have a man around. Do you know what patterns those

create? It's not just what's present.

It's what you supposed to have that you don't have.

What you refuse to confront. You have to get this what you

confuse, what you refuse to confront, God will allow to

fracture. Here's a simple we we spoke

about the prodigal son. He did not confront greed.

He did not confront Mammon. He did not confront the orphan

spirit. So God allowed him to fracture.

And then he came to himself. What did he do?

Take responsibility. Watch this Ezekiel 18.

The parents ate green apples. The children got the stomach

ache. Anybody ever say Mama I'm mad at

you or that daddy I'm mad at you or some of y'all in here that

told your parents you hate them or if you didn't say it, you

thought it? Watch this.

The parents ate green apples. The children got the stomach

ache. Verse 4 says the one who sins is

the one who will die. The one who sins is the one who

will die. Somebody say that with me, the

one who sins is the one who will die.

So although watch this, the parent ate the green apple.

This is in scripture. The parents drank, the drank,

the parents committed adultery. The parents sold drugs.

The parents did something that opened mental illness into the

bloodline. The parents ate green.

The parents performed domestic violence.

The parents was abusive. The parents now how many?

Every generations, you can go back.

I don't know it's your bloodline, but the parents ate

the green apples. The children got the stomach

ache. Can I say that there's some

things that that adults did before I was even born, But when

I was born, I got the belly ache, right?

You, you, you, you, you have babies born addicts because

their parents do drugs while they're in the womb.

How fair is that, that I come out addicted because you didn't

break the pattern? That's the same way it works.

So the environment and the culture you was raised in,

somebody around here got a bellyache.

Anybody can that is not it has some bellyaches from stuff

you've inherited that your Mama did, that your daddy did, that

your auntie did, that your cousins did or the babysitter

you was left with did, right? Because because it was when I

grew up, it was a village that raised a child.

Somebody say the village. So it's not just your parents,

but it's also your community. Let's go deeper because Canada

represents the got the whole world here.

Some of y'all may have been born in Canada, but you got some

tribal patterns. Some of you have have

Christianity, but in the way your hair in your, your

heritage, your culture did it. You have you have some African

patterns, you have some Asian patterns, you have some Italian

patterns and we walk around and you'd be like, oh, I'm Italian.

We crazy. Oh, why watch this?

I hate when people that ain't of my ethnicity say this because

yeah, some ways it's true, but it works for everybody.

We own black people time. I hate when we say it.

It's absolutely ignorant because it's like black people are only

people late. That's so stupid.

But watch this. We inherited that language and

you and I inherit stereotypes. And every time you speak a

stereotype, you reinforce it in the mind.

So there's some people you walking in this earth and you

see a certain people rather it's their skin, rather it's some

somebody, somebody was here. She's so sweet.

I understood little grandma. Little grandma told her grandson

and he's he's a serving heritage church.

This grandma came and it was so cute later sent me a picture

they was watching the sermon again and and he's like I'm

sitting here with grandma re watching the sermon.

She told me she didn't even know you was the pastor when you got

up until you start preaching. So I much rather her think I'm a

thug, but when I open my mouth, be like he an anointed thug.

He anointed thug. I'll be anointed thug all day.

And and she wasn't she she wasn't, but she she I, I think I

that day I just wasn't feeling it.

I I wore I think I wore a tuk or a beanie.

I'll call beanie. I wore a beanie and I I forget

what I was wearing, but I didn't look like a pastor anytime.

Elder John, come here real quick.

I don't know where you're going, but that's OK.

Come here real quick. Elder Brett, come here real

quick. I need you guys to walk up here

real quick. Watch this, Watch this, watch

this, this crazy. And I want you to be honest to

yourself, OK? You see me, Elder John and Elder

Brett walking in the mall? I want you to just repeat for

you. You don't even say nothing.

I want you to just think real quick.

OK? Where?

Where are you putting us? Hold on, hold on.

Right. Watch this.

Some of y'all gonna think I'm in trouble somewhere, especially if

I'm walking between them. He's like, I'm sorry brother.

Listen, watch this. So we often tease sometime

because we'll go somewhere, we'll go to a meeting, a

leadership meeting or something and automatically you gonna

think one of them, the pastor at best, I'm the youth pastor.

That's crazy. Watch this, watch this.

And and you accept that thinking.

Watch this. It don't go nowhere.

It just pops up when convenient. But you don't know how that

mindset robs you from going deeper in relationships.

You're called to watch this. There are people since I've been

pastoring watch this. You will not admit it because

you can't tap into it because you also think racism or you

think prejudice looks a certain way.

Let me tell you racism is not calling somebody the N word,

just like not being racist is. You got a friend of color.

OK, watch this. It is easy for people to walk

out of here and not connect because of they've never been

LED or told what to do or held accountable by a person of

color. Oh, we don't want to talk about

that, right? Because we, there's a lot of

churches, we can't have these type of conversations.

But who's willing to check it? Because guess what?

It ain't my fault racism is in me.

And watch this, my people can be as racist as the people they

call in racist. And a lot of times you like I'm

not racist. Well let's check your grandpa.

Let's check your parents. Did you have any colored people

come in your house growing up? If you went and looked, if you

went and looked at your Mama or your grandpa's bookshelf, what

do all the authors look like? So then if I'm only learning

from people that look like me, I only got a context that's like

me. Then whenever I lead, I only

know how to lead like me. So when are we going to address

that within ourselves? So when God plucked me out of

back home, guess what? I had to deal with fears and

insecurities before I moved here.

Look at my wife. We've had these conversations.

How do you raise two kids? Three kids Forgot that.

I didn't forget that little man. 3 kids.

Hey, man, I'm done. I'm done.

I'm done. Hey, man, how do you raise 3

kids? I don't know what I didn't

forget, right? How do you do that in that home,

right? There's easy.

It's easy for a biracial couple to stay married.

Never had these conversations. You better have these

conversations. If you going to send your kids

out there to live in this world when they're not going to be

this enough and they're not going to be that, you better

deal with that. Watch this.

And if you watch this, it's never been a time my wife and I

have actually talked about it and it hasn't been tension.

So you don't know that it's an issue until you start talking

about it. Some of y'all just mixed.

But you, you know, deep down inside you got questions because

you look that different. Some of y'all your hair is a

certain way and you just you, you think it's confidence.

But but just because you've developed, I don't care.

Don't mean you got confidence. What I'm saying is you can get

through life and get all the way to heaven and be fine, but never

manifesting into the, the, the complete person God has called

you to be. So there comes a time where you

got to actually dig deep and look within yourself and have

these conversations and ask these questions.

My parents, my kids did not ask me and their Mama to get

together. I don't know if my kids wish

that their parents was a different ethnicity.

I don't know that, but for me to think that they don't walk in

this world when my son is a black man who is walking through

the airport with his Italian Mama, Does he have questions?

Right. Well, 11 can I can I, can I just

go somewhere for with you? Me and me and my wife went to

Chicago and I remember walking down what was the what's the

community Hyde Park. Now I love my wife and I, I I'm

a public affection person, all that I don't, I don't really

care. But I remember walking through

Chicago and every store I went in, the black girls would look

at me a certain way. But I also remember feeling a

certain way walking down the street and seeing 98% black

folk. The one thing I felt was like,

man, when riots and things broke out and injustices broke out and

my people unified around these injustices, I am so far removed.

Am I really? Am I ass black because I didn't

fight some of the fights they had to fight, Although I still

have a fight that I fight. And I remember there was times I

would walk in and it was not even intentional.

But I'll go in the store and I'll just walk, walk ahead.

For me, it wasn't a a, a, a, an A shame thing.

I'm sitting here really having a moment, an identity moment with

myself. Like I am really removed from

us. And I remember having a

conversation because of how it made her feel as well.

So now I got to explain, babe, I wasn't a shape.

I'm like, I help. I grabbed your hand and it

wasn't just holding a hand. And it was she felt the tension

and I'm like, whoa, there's something in there that I need

to address. There's times where me and my

wife will go through it or she didn't listen how I wanted her

to listen, or she'll reject a piece of art or something like

that. And I have to deal with like

when my wife tells me no or we trying to raise our kids

together and there's a way she would do it and she might

protect it. You know, when you, when you got

kids, the Mama will protect and the daddy will protect them

sometime. And then when one protect you,

like don't do that to me. Then the next time you do it to

them. And it's crazy, household's

crazy. But then I have to deal with

these thoughts. I'm like all my life people that

look like you've been trying to shut me down.

So now I got to resist #1 She ain't the enemy #2 I can't have.

But that reflex comes up and you hear the enemy talking like, no,

she don't want the best for you. No, she just somebody.

Well, and then you go down this trail like she don't even

understand your story. She don't even understand that

she doing this. This is the real human

experience. God deals with racism in the

Bible. God deals with prejudice in the

Bible. Watch this.

God deals with the orphan in the Bible.

Why am I sharing this? Because I grew up in a people

and to this day are you married within your own kind.

What do I do with that? This is real stuff.

Are you a sellout and you see all the narratives in social

media and to walk around and ignore that and be like that

don't bother me that don't that don't impact our marriage.

That's absolute ignorance for a person that want to be all that

God has called them to be. You don't ignore that stuff.

You take that head on. Yeah, that's in me because I

inherited that thinking because I was born not too far removed

from slavery, not too far removed from a grandmama.

That every day, baby, you better talk like this.

You better look like this. You better clean yourself up

because this is the only way you're going to have a chance.

My grandmama. We be in the we be in the

backroom and I'll be talking and my grandma will be like, lower

your voice, honey. They can hear us.

I'm like, who can hear us? Who who can hear us?

But that you raised in a House of fear, raised in a House of

insecurity, raised in a House of a spirit of abandonment and you

went to church. But watch this, those who grew

up in church, you growing up pastors kids does not mean watch

this. You probably grew up with more

issues. Stop thinking because you was

raised in church and you was raised by pastors.

You didn't inherit no nasty stuff.

I don't know who this is helping, but if I was in your

seat, it'd be helping me right now because a lot of times we

are so surfaced when it comes to this thing and God's like, no, I

care about where you. I'm the one put you in that

country. I'm the one gave you those

parents. I know the complexities that was

in your household and I'm using them to frame you.

How dare you ignore them. When you are making a cake, if

you follow the ingredients, you don't ignore 1.

You know every ingredient that's watch this, all of that.

The molestation is a part of you don't avoid.

I don't know who I'm telling do not avoid it.

Let them dig it up. If you was abandoned understand

that feel that don't know No, I'm I'm over it.

No bitterness is a numbing agent.

This one even part of the this morning, but I think it's like 2

people in here that might be being helped.

This was a proverb that was inherited.

This proverb says we inherited this.

We we are stuck with this and this is just how our family is.

How many people, if you honest, have just come to the point

where you like, this is just how our family is.

Yeah, two people. That's good.

Yeah. But every time you say this is

how our family is, you are saying this is who I am.

You're just like, this is our family.

You're also saying this is me versus like, thank you, God, for

revealing this about my family. I'm about to interrupt it.

Through your spirit, the proverb became watch.

This became a shield and excuse disguised as theology.

They actually was making this excuse man.

My mom and them did this. My grandma and them.

It's been like this for generations that watch this.

They disobeyed you God. They rebelled against you God.

In other words, you can be eating some of the fruit of your

parents disobedience. If you could be born in the

wealth, you can be born into poverty, and if you can be born

into poverty, you can be born into bad thinking.

You can be born into adulterous spirit.

You can be born into sexual immorality.

You just don't got that sexual addiction for no reason.

Some of you just dealing with you like, oh, this just this

just it's what it is. I just like porn or I just like

I like I just I just feel this way.

No, no, no, no. If you just accept this is this

is me versus this ain't my fault, but I'm about to take

responsibility. Watch this.

This ain't mine. Here it is.

Here's a prophetic moment that the Saul puts on his armor on

David. David got a revelation.

David wasn't like this uncomfortable.

David wasn't like this too big. David was like, this is not

mines, it is yours. So I'm about watch this.

I'm about to give it back and you do what you want to do with

it. So Mama, I'm giving this back to

you. If you want to be bitter, then

you be bitter. But I'm not putting on bitter no

more bitter don't look good on me.

Come on, somebody say bitter don't look good on me.

Depression don't look good on me.

Come on, anxiety don't look good on me.

Come on, say anger don't fit well on me, addiction don't fit

well on me. This don't fit.

Here's some of our proverbs today.

My dad was like this men and our family struggle.

We've always had divorce. This is just how we are.

Disease runs in my family. It's it's coming up disease.

How many how many people that have some disease, some cancer,

some run in your family and you just accept it, man, watch this.

And you live in fear that it don't get on you versus facing

it be like Nah, Nah, Nah today. You know, diabetes, you're not

coming here. Cancer, breast cancer, you're

not coming over here. No, no, no, being a mental

illness, you're not. I don't care how far it ran.

It ran into a different type of person today.

It ran into the wrong 1 today. Come on, I'm talking about some

people are like not going to accept it.

You are not only running or or getting rid of it and making

sure it doesn't touch you, but you are you have been put right

in the middle so that it doesn't touch another person in your

bloodline. Come on, somebody say that was

in the past. We were never protected.

Dysfunction is who we are. Those are proverbs.

Those are elephants in the room. Somebody say.

But God confronts this mindset. He confronts this mindset.

Watch here. He does not deny consequence,

but he does deny inevitability. What he's saying is, remember

earlier, those that sin die. He's not saying that there's not

fruit from your actions, but he's also saying it is not

inevitable that you live with that fruit.

You don't automatically live in this fruit because they did

something. He interrupts this.

You are not spiritually stuck because of your parents, but you

are accountable for what you continue.

Am I talk to you? You're not you're you're not

stuck because of your parents, but you are accountable for what

you continue. This is important here.

This is not denial of generational influence.

It is denial of generational inevitability.

You got to get this because cancer has one rapid in your

bloodline. It does not mean that it is

inevitable that you are going to get it because there was abuse

in your family. It does not automatically mean

you just got the abuse gene. If the son continues the the

father's rebellion, here it is. He inherits his consequence.

That's what you got to get. Write it down.

Remember, if the son, if the daughter continues the father's

or the mother's rebellion, he or she inherits its consequence.

Watch this. There's not just family

patterns. There's also family fruit.

Family Feud has family fruit. If the sun turns, here it is the

other side of that. If the son or daughter turns, he

or she breaks the chain. Come on.

That's, that's, that's, that's where like 5 of you get excited

because here he, he is saying if you turn from the pattern, you

break the pattern. I'm, I'm looking for some people

who are willing to break the pattern, like break the pattern

today, make a decision to break the pattern.

It stops with me. Where you were raised may

explain your struggle, but it does not justify your surrender.

That's that's why I couldn't just be like, man, I was raised

here. And This is why I am like, I

love certain things that I, certain things that I, that I

grew up in and around, but some of it is absolute strongholds.

I go back home and I got friends who got that same mindset and

you got that mindset. They get stuck in those same

patterns and they're wondering why this and that is happening.

It's not what's this? It's not because of the

government. There are some systematic stuff

going on. OK, not ignoring that.

See, it's not either or. It's both right in the world,

not of it. So there's some things happening

in the world, yes, but there's also some things that are in my

control to break. You watch this.

There's no government that controls me.

No government you. You can tell me to go home.

Watch this. The Canada, all of the Canada

can tell the Richmond to pack up and go home.

You're not wanted here. Guess what?

It does not change who I am or my destiny.

You send me somewhere packing. I'm going to plant a church.

I'm going to do ministry. I'm going to make disciples.

I'm going to still be a husband. I'm still going to be a father.

It does not change me. So it doesn't matter if you put

me in the fiery furnace. Don't matter if you put me in

the lion's den. You will meet my God.

I don't care if it's your parents.

You take the keys back. You inherited the environment.

You still choose the alignment. How long you going to hold on?

I was raised around this. I was raised here.

I was, I was raised like this. I, I, I don't what?

You still choose the alignment. You you may have inherited

proximity to sin, but you did not inherit exemption from

obedience. Am I talking to anybody in here

today? You.

You, You. Yeah, sure.

You grew up around drugs. You grew up around.

You grew up around these things, But you still have a

responsibility to obey God. So many of us in here are asking

God to change the situation, change them, change my

surroundings. He's like, what's going on

around you have nothing to do with what I want to do within

you. You may have inherited exposure

to dysfunction. Hallelujah.

You did not inherit permission to continue it.

Watch this. Some dysfunction is cute.

That's why it's dangerous, right?

That that you, you see it all the time, that little girl or

that little boy. That's that's kind of doing and

it's cute. We share that kind of Instagram

stuff with little kids. It's like acting grown.

It's so cute when we see the little kids and AI make them

cuss and stuff. We'll share it and we'll even if

you don't share it publicly because you don't want people to

see that you like it, you share it in the private DMS.

But we don't understand how detrimental that kid.

What the what, what what's being set up?

Watch this. Ratchet is cute when you 5.

Yeah, Ratchet is cute when you 5 but when you 45?

But man, I didn't get a word about it till I was 45.

How hard is it now? Some of y'all sitting in here.

It was cute when you was young. Now you're being confronted with

the fact that responsibility is on you.

Not your Mama, it's on you. Not your brother, not your

daddy. You can no longer look back and

be like, that's a picture of who I am and that's why who I No,

no, no. Why not?

Right now, you ain't got peace because you are choosing not to

have peace. You have not taken

responsibility over your freedom.

That's why you're not free. Your last name explains your

exposure. It is not excuse your decisions.

Somebody say family matters, right, right, right.

You look at this little picture right here at the bottom in the

corner. Like like like all of us go

through this process like where are you going to decide to take

responsibility? Are you going to wait till you

are you going to wait till then? Where are you?

Where are you going to do some of y'all right about right right

around here like man, I kind of wish I would have just right

around here. I didn't have dad all the way up

to now, but I think you get what I'm saying.

Like like I told somebody, I, I, I sent my dad the book, my book

came my dad, your son released the book.

You know what my dad did? It wasn't like and I saw the

little bubbles and guess what's in that text right right now

still. And as I was sharing last night,

I was looking to be hurt, but I'm not.

And I'm not saying I'm not. It wasn't time I was saying I

was not because I was avoided. But I'm actually healed because

I am loved and I am loud in the Father to to love me.

I don't have an orphan spirit anymore.

I'm not hung up on how my dad treat me.

My my worth does not come from my biological parent affirming

me, right? I'm along the process now.

I'm along the process. I know who I am and I've allowed

God to love me. I've also allowed other father

figures to love me. I've allowed the other mother

figures to love me. I have allowed other mentors to

love me. I have let love in.

You have confined love to a person that has abandoned you

versus love being the father and letting love in.

God says this. The soul who wins shall die.

That's what he says, right? Here's translation for you.

The ripple stops with you. The one who sins dies.

So guess what you should stop doing?

Break the pattern because some of us, as bad as we don't want

to be like our parents. If you was honest right now, you

ever see some of your parents in you?

Oh, nobody want to admit it. Some.

Yeah, as bad as you don't want to admit it.

There's sometimes that parent or that grandparent or that auntie

come up and you, like, watch this or you enjoy that part

about you. But when they do it, you hate

it. It's OK.

When you do it, you put another name on it.

But when they do it, they're arrogant.

When you do it, it's confidence. When they say it, it's

inconsiderate. When you say it, it's

revelation. OK, Holy Spirit coming up some

downs, some some roads, it's some miles.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like we got to we got to pay

attention, man. There's some stuff where I hate

when my I hate when my wife do. But some of the some of the

times like she'll be like, oh, that that was, that was Nana

right there. That was Nana.

I know Nana why I love Nana. Nana is a whole, a whole gift

basket. She is Nana.

I love, I love Nana and Nana might be watching right now.

Listen, there's some things about Nana that even Nana don't

like, right? And when you start protecting

your dysfunction, you super unhealthy, but to have some

people in your life to be like, don't do that.

And you, you like you, right? I'm working.

I'm I'm really working on it. And then don't stop.

Stop saying God working on me. You've been saying that too

long, guys. He he got a God ain't working on

you that long on that one part. No, that's an excuse.

No, get this religious language out of here.

You know, God's still working on me.

It's it's five years now. God looking real unfaithful

right now. Second Samuel 12 says now we're

going to get those that won't be here in the second experience.

You'll get Part 2. Last week I opened this message

up. So if he wasn't here, I opened

it up at 12. So Part 1 of this was last week

at 12. So go listen to it.

And then today, if you're not here at 12, I'll be doing Part 2

of this now. Therefore, the sword shall never

depart. How many people remember that

scripture last week? The sword, even even if you

don't remember, just say Amen. I remember.

The sword shall never depart from your house.

David went buck wild. He should have been on an

assignment and he just thought he could delegate and stay home

and take a nap. And then we went on the patio.

Decide to drink some matcha lavender, matcha oat milk, wasp

honey, I don't know. While he's up on the on the on

the on the roof, he's stretching.

He looks across and he see a fine one and he tells his boy

go, go, go, go tell Eric, come here real quick.

Everybody gone Go tell her real quick.

Somebody say real quick. Yeah, real quick will cost you

generations, right? Real quick will fracture your

marriage. Just let me, let me just let me

just tell like, like have you ever something ever just flew

out your mouth real fast and then it messed up the whole

week? Yeah, real 'cause somebody say

real quick, real quick can cost you a long time.

I just hate to believe that man, Troy, like, like one piece of

fruit got us here like a bite. Like EJ really like a bite got

us here, watch this. And it was a bite.

It wasn't like God was saying that's the only tree.

He's like, man, this. You got a whole orchard.

Watch this. Watch this.

Y'all, It ain't never been picked from.

You're the first one to eat off all these trees, so you don't

even got to let me hurry up for all all the heathers Take the

truth. No, it wasn't even a rush for

nothing, right? Watch this.

And it wasn't the fall yet, so it wasn't even like it was

perfect. It was lush.

It was like, man, man, I bought this mango yesterday.

They was like people, it's from Peru.

It was $13 for this mango, but it was huge.

Woo. I I bought 1 one, but it was

from Peru and they're like everybody come in and they just

rush and grab. I want to meet the people who

buy a dozen of these these mangoes.

But my kids, I wanted to treat them.

I want to treat them now watch this.

Some of y'all's acting crazy over a mango that cost $13.

Watch this. Have you have you ever bought a

smoothie? Have you ever bought a a fresh a

fresh pressed juice Lem dollars? So this is the pure mango from

Peru. It makes you talk like that when

you eat it. So it was just a treat I was

bringing home for my kids. I was like, they like mangoes.

I'm not going to get the little little one.

Once you see the, the, the, the one from Peru, you don't want

the one, you know what I'm saying?

From Surrey. You don't want the bang out from

Surrey. What right.

This is, it's, it's like once you get in the promised land,

you don't want to just keep eating mana, right?

I'm just like, OK, so I bought 1 and brought it home.

They devoured it. And then I went back to the

grocery store to get something else.

And then I was like, it was like, you know, you want me?

I was like, I know I want you. I was like, all right, come on,

you come home with me. What are we talking about right

now? What are we talking about right

now, man? That's church, man.

I'm like, man, Hallelujah. What?

Father, in the name of Jesus, we come humbly before you today.

Oh my God, how did we get on? Mangoes, huh?

Real quick. See.

See real quick and you all the way over here.

Hey man, that was my illustration.

I knew what I was talking about. I mean there's a lot been said

this morning. I'm just saying and I was about

to go back to and David said no, I just ain't even the time

perfect place to stop. I'm like, yeah, this is we're

going to end with laughter because somebody needs that.

Some people didn't grow up in a house where laughing was pure.

Sometime laughing was to avoid pain.

Sometime laughing was all you had to survive.

Comedy is built off pain. But the Bible says laughter in

his purest form is medicine. And I for me, I also don't mind.

I feel like this is the gospel. This is talking about a mango

like Jesus. His parables was always they're

parables because he takes a common thing to communicate

Kingdom value, Kingdom message. And for me, I'm like, if I

can't, if I'm not living it, if I don't see the word working in

my life, I shouldn't be standing up here.

If I can't preach from my life, then I, I, I, I don't really, my

anointing don't work like that, right?

Because I'm not a pure teacher like that.

There's an Apostolic grace and God will function in a diverse

ways. And if you've been here long

enough, you've seen it. But.

What I understand about Apostolic ministry is they lead

with vulnerability. Paul says follow me, I'm letting

you in my life. So in some places you're going

to get this expository message, planned joke, a planned

illustration, more of an Apostolic prophetic way.

You're going to it's, it's like, no, no, no, no, this message is

preaching to me. I'm preaching it to you.

God is preaching through me and I have to lead vulnerable.

That's just, that's just the grace of my life.

Some people would not dare let you in on some of their, their,

their, their insufficiencies or some of their racial hang ups or

or like, but, but, but, but isn't that what Jesus did?

He told you, man, I don't got nowhere to lay my head.

Jesus talked about being persecuted.

Jesus, he cried, he, he, he lived.

Paul talked about his chains. He talked about when he wrote

letters, go read his letters. He is vulnerable.

He he doesn't mind saying, man, I want to be with you.

All right now I'm writing this letter.

So when I come and see you, man, I pray that you guys are in

faith. Like it's vulnerability.

And I feel like in this time what the world is looking for.

This is why we listen to some of the music we listen to because

somebody relate to us. But a lot of times with worldly

music, it can relate with you, but it can't redeem you.

It leaves you at connection, not transformation.

And there are some ripples that we all are dealing with. 1000%

of us in here are dealing with these ripples today and how we

lead and, and God is so cool because he'll put you in a

situation that will expose you and you just got to stab.

And I will tell you he's not calling you to an unsafe place.

Although initially while he's exposing you, it can feel

unsafe, but God will always surround you with people that

will handle you with the right tension.

Sometime it can be rough. It can be correction with

correction is not a spanking, it's not a whooping.

Correction is alignment. So I'm here for you today to

tell you that God is interested in your bloodline, not just your

today. He's bigger than your today.

He's interested in the things that your Mama wasn't healed

from. Because whatever she wasn't

healed from, I promise you, you got some of the remnant of that.

He's interested in future generations before you have

kids. He's interested in your marriage

before you get married. He's interested in your career

before you get in your career. So Father, today we just

surrender as your children on this sacrifice Sunday.

Father, as we bring our gifts and we partake in communion,

Lord, we remember you. You are generational God.

You are the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Word you had centuries planned out to get our Savior here in

the earth. Word you're planning so long

term, but I thank God you're the God that start and finish your

Alpha and Omega. You started it, you will finish

it. You will see it to its end and

what I've come to learn is your end is an expected end.

It is victory. When it's all said and done.

My last name will not have defeat connected to it.

It will have victorious connected to it.

We thank you that greater is he as within me then he that is in

the world. Lord, we surrender our traumas

to you today. Yeah, Lord, we don't bury them

anymore. We, we we uproot the trauma now.

We uproot it now. But we confront the lies.

We, we confront that little girl or that little boy who was not a

affirmed or who was cussed out so much every day, who was

called out their name by their parents or their that abusive

uncle or Lord who had to watch their father drink himself to

sleep. Lord, we, we confront that now.

We do not, we, we do not brush that under the rug.

We do not bury that. We we we confront that little

kid who cried out because mom and daddy had an unhealthy

relationship with ministry. You confront that kid who missed

out on their childhood because they had to raise their little

siblings because mom or dad was always gone.

That child who had to protect their siblings because mom or

dad was always angry. That little kid who just

couldn't seem to take a test or sit in the classroom.

Their mind was racing. Who had dreams to go to college

but didn't have the sit still, the wherewithal, the finances,

whatever it may be because of what they grew up in.

Lord God, there's some dreams that they have accepted will not

come true. But I'm here to breathe on that

dream and let you know that your dreams do not have a deadline,

that those God-given dreams, as long as you're breathing, can

still come to pass. And maybe it's a dream that

you're meant to start and pull into your bloodline that the

next generation will steward and take it further than you ever

could. Holy Spirit, we ask for healing

today. We asked for complete healing.

Not just like, oh, OK, that's cool.

We've, we've gotten to a functional relationship.

No, we, we don't want to just be functional.

We won't be free. Indeed, functional has

loopholes. No, we, we, we, we RIP off all

the loopholes that the enemy can use in our lives.

By the authority of the blood of Jesus, we send those fears, the

fruit, the fruit, the fruit, those insecurities.

Put them under our feet. We dig a little deeper in that

route. That route is rejection.

That route may be abandonment. Restore our dance.

Restore our laugh. Here it is for someone.

Restore our innocence. You're the God that restores.

You're the God that reconciles. Come on, Smiley.

Someone stole your innocence, young lady, young man.

But God says the Father says you're still innocent to me.

You're my child. Some of you wonder why Mom, why

Dad wasn't there to protect me when that happened.

Or some of you take it further, why Mom and Dad didn't believe

me when I said that happened to me.

Why they didn't defend me. We're going to get into that

next experience. How David's anger was not

enough. David needed to respond, but

instead he was silent. And sometimes justice needs to

be executed. And there's some of you in here.

You have been victims of injustice in your own home.

You've been taken advantage of. You've been mistreated.

You have been overlooked. You have been underestimated.

Your voice haven't meant much. You've had to fight to be heard.

But through you, God is ready to put an end to that root ever

producing fruit in your bloodline again going if that's

you standing on behalf of your family, just lift your hands

right where you are and you might you might be raising your

hand for sure because all of us can can see ourselves as a

victim. We've all been sideswiped by

trauma. But today I'm not just raising

my hand because I was victimized or I inherited these patterns.

But today I'm also raising my hand as a vow, saying I will

also be the last one that these patterns take advantage of God.

You're doing a new thing through these families.

You're doing a new thing through these sons and daughters.

We silence the whispers of these lies that have plagued our

minds. And maybe some lies are not

often, but they are consistent. I don't care if the lie comes up

once a year, it's consistent once a year.

Just like your birthday comes up once a year, it's consistent.

No, no, no, that lie cannot live in your bloodline or your mind.

Another day we take authority over it.

Now in the name of Jesus, we plead the blood of Jesus over

your mind. Right now, in the name of Jesus,

we speak to that little boy, that little girl, and we say

rise up, it is your time. You are beautiful.

You are fearfully and wonderfully made son and

daughter. You are smart, you are

intelligent. You are seen.

You are heard. Yeah, David was abandoning that.

He, he wasn't called upon to be anointed.

He wasn't thought about to be anointed.

But the man of God said, yeah, none of these fine, tall,

handsome, strong men are the ones that God has sent me for.

God himself said, Nope, none of them count.

I'm here to tell you, you're walking in a season where God is

going to send the right man and the right woman to see you, to

anoint you, to call you out in the name of Jesus.

And I will leave you with this. Some of the absence was

protection, not merely abandonment.

God was also keeping you from some stuff.

The Lord is cleaning His name up in your bloodline.

What you and I have been through has not been a good reflection

on his name. He's cleaning his name up in

your bloodline. Watch this.

For his name's sake, He's about to do it.

Come on, somebody. For his name's sake, He's about

to do it. For his name's sake.

He's about to free you from his name's sake.

He's about to break that poverty for his name's sake.

He's about to heal your father, heal your mother, for his name's

sake. He's breaking addiction for his

name's sake. It is for his name's sake.

It is for his name's sake. He is about to heal your womb

from Baroness. It is for his name's sake.

Somebody say for his name's sake.

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