UNLEASHED-(9AM) 11.16.25 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the

church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

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It's go time. Let's get into it.

Come on. Give your neighbor a high 5.

Say he's here right now. Come on, look at.

Somebody else and say he's here right now.

Hey man, you can be seated, just look at the person next to you

say God is here, but I'm here too.

And you sit next to a real 1 Father in the name of Jesus.

Come on, if, if you don't mind, just can we just take the next

two minutes to lift up the name of Jesus?

Come on, let's, let's, let's get our minds fixed.

Let's get our hearts fixed. Let's call on the name of Jesus.

Those that are believing for something magnificent by the

hands of Jesus today. Let's, let's lift our voice.

If you need a comforter, he's here right now.

He's here right now. Come on, we magnify your name,

Lord God. We lift you up today, Lord God.

Come on back, somebody say there's power in the name of

Jesus. Father, we bless your name this

morning and we thank you. We adore you.

We honor you. Yeah, something about the name

Jesus. The blood of Jesus still works.

If anybody was ever wondering. The blood of Jesus still works.

If anybody was wondering, the name of Jesus still works.

Well, over the last few weeks, Lord, have your way.

Have your way. Lord Jesus, come on, say Holy

Spirit, minister deep into my soul today.

Come on, say I cannot leave this place with something shifting

within me. We come against error both

speaking and hearing. Holy Spirit have your way over

the last few weeks there's there's been some God's been

speaking very clear and giving us clarity and direction and

it's very clear this the the time that we are in in the world

but also in love quest and came back from Atlanta and then right

away he just begins to pour in a new way as we all continue to

grow and evolve and mature and be perfected.

We started talking about help my unbelief.

How many people remember that I encourage you to go and listen

to it help my unbelief and we talked about the H to the

Grizzos. It was hunger, it was honesty,

it was humility. We, we, we talked about how I

know every person in here believes, but also every person

in here has an area in their lives where they struggle with

belief. And we need to attack that area

like an elite athlete wants to leave.

No part of his or her body conditioned.

But when it comes to our soul, it's like, as long as I got this

going for my life, I'm cool. But the Bible said it's the

small foxes that spoil the vine. It's the areas that you leave

unattended that's going to take everything that you attended to

because you fail to work on your belief in every area of your

life. Somebody say every area.

Somebody say help my unbelief. And then I think it was last

week, I forget when it was, but it was like a virgin wasn't

talking about Madonna, his song. We were talking about the 10

virgins. And we were talking about the

time that we're in. You are going to see as the wind

is blowing, you're going to see who has extra oil and you're

going to see who just had enough oil.

One thing we left out when we were talking about the 10

virgins is is the five said I got oil.

I can't share mine. You should have had yours

because we both had the same word.

We both here for the same thing. And I got extra and I don't know

if I got enough for myself. Somebody say I don't know if I

got enough for myself right. That is stewarding the oil, but

also they went into the party and they what shut the door that

says that there is a season that is coming is is the enemy is

going to try to drain your oil out and and see when you pour

and necessary and necessary places where God calls you to

pour. There's always going to be a

multiplication of that oil. It is not God's fault.

We're pouring oil, energy, time, resources into bad ground.

But then it says they went inside and closed the door,

which means that there's a we're in a season that you have to be

OK like Noah was when God shut the door.

You have to be OK with those that weren't prepared for the

moment you were prepared for, OK, because you can be spending

oil trying to bring people along who just ran out of oil.

OK. And then we went on and we

talked about we all here that was so powerful.

And we'll we'll pick back up there again in the near future.

And then Wednesday, somebody say Wednesday, if you can make it

this Wednesday, we are going to pick back up on Latter Day

Saints LADDER. How many people have to listen

to that again this week? Yeah, it's it's blessed me and

it's talking the difference between a season and a

dimension. And we're in a time where we're

not looking for a new season, nor is God dealing with a new

season. He is taking his church to a new

dimension and people who just are looking for a new season

like breakthroughs and, and and new money and, and promotions.

You're looking for an external shift, right versus a dimension.

God does something, you become a new person, right?

So we we're more concerned about.

Our, Our, our, our, our. Prosperity, our promotions and

we are not realizing that in this time.

God has to upgrade you, not what's around you.

If he can't upgrade you, he can't upgrade what's around you.

Somebody say I'm the priority in this season.

Today, before we get into the text, hear me out.

God cannot ride on what's still tied up by fear, trauma, and

performance. I didn't grow up with options.

Let me just ask you this real quick.

Can y'all just, can y'all just bear with me today?

Y'all good all right? I didn't grow up with options in

Oakland, CA. I had to become everything I

could just to survive and increase my chances to be

successful. I had to be a hustler at times.

I had to be an athlete. I had to be an artist.

I had to be a protector. I had to be a performer.

And where I. Grew up.

The price of failure was an embarrassment.

It was death, it was jail, it was prison, it was disappearing.

And to this day, we still have friends and family still stuck

in the same place. So I learned to adjust survival.

Skills and performance shaped how I made it through life.

Some things worked, some things didn't, some things beneficial,

some things not. I realized in that I developed

people pleasing skills, but roots of the fruit was the fear

of man follow me. I became whatever I needed to

be, to not be abandoned again or to not experience failure.

But there's here's the truth, you can leave an environment,

but the environment doesn't leave you.

The yeast that made the bread also made a bed.

I made it out, I made it all the way to Canada.

But some of the survival, the performing and the people

pleasing skills did not make it out of me.

Can I talk about me for a second in hopes to help you?

I found myself leading people who didn't know from the culture

I came from. I didn't know the culture, they

didn't know my story. I didn't know their story.

Or did people know or understand my scars?

And instead of standing in my identity and authenticity, I

started performing again, leading and living from need

instead of my Kingdom name, image and likeness.

I found myself in a country where all I had which is enough

was my family, but desperately wanted somebody to understand

us. Trying to win a people while

losing me. Trying not to disappoint.

Trying to prove I deserve to be in the rooms God put me in

question. Well, I was lost and he found

me. Why have I not yet found me?

I was building a life that wasn't sustainable.

And I heard God say, son, that's scaffolding that kept you alive.

Those skills, that performing the survival skills kept you

alive. The talents kept you alive in

rough seasons. The sports kept you out the

streets. The art kept you out of prison.

It kept you alive. You had seasonal talents.

You had seasonal needs to protect yourself.

But it's not what's going to carry you into your destiny.

Scaffolding is temporary. It's not the house, it's what

God lets you build around yourself until identity is

strong enough to stand. Some of what once held you up is

now holding you back. Some of what used to hold you up

is now the very thing holding you back.

That's why the scripture says new wine can't be poured into

old wine skins. Hustling was scaffolding.

Performing was scaffolding. People pleasing was scaffolding.

Fear of disappointing was scaffolding.

Survival skills were scaffolding.

Salesman mentality was scaffolding.

And God says you're safe now, you don't need that anymore.

Take it down so I can reveal the real structure.

I just want to help a few people today that want to be set free.

I talked to my wife the other day in a very deep conversation

which pricked my heart and something jumped out which led

me to this conversation today. And we were talking about a lot.

A lot of what was going on, it was growth in our relate, in our

conversations. We talked about things that

would start arguments back in the day.

But it's a new dimension and we are stepping into the piece that

has been allotted to us for this dimension.

So we're no longer that man. We had some really good deep

conversations and I had some some opportunity to reflect on

some of the depths of my the, the we we've been.

At this. For 18 years, we have not yet

went into our promised land. We have not yet gotten relief.

We have not yet. We have been going and I can go

down the timeline. We, we, we, we've launched out

to Oakland, CA. Then we learned some things.

We have to go back. Then we came to Canada and then

we, we, we, we, we. God had one thing planned and

within months it changed. And then we started up a Bible

study and we went to New West. He wouldn't let us get

comfortable there. We went to Strathcona, He

wouldn't let us get comfortable there.

We went to beds and we wouldn't let us get comfortable there.

And then it was COVID and then we got into a building and we're

not comfortable there. And so when you talk about

Abraham, when you talk about a land that I will show you, when

you talk about trying to know God because he is trying to get

me to undo and unknown some of the old me.

OK, so 18 years waiting 18 years learning, 18 years falling 18

years trying to get this people trying to get this stuff out of

me so I can go to the next dimension.

You can go to the next dimension.

And he's letting me know that there was, although some good

things that that there was some things that if I didn't grow up

in, I wouldn't have made it this far in another country.

But there's also some yeast in there that I took along with me

that will not allow me nor you to go to the next dimension if

we don't pause and let him identify it in US and then lay

down and let him get rid of it. So we had this conversation and

some of, you know, the season we're in, some of you've been in

these seasons before. It's not new.

New people, New Times, new, new, new contexts.

But my wife said, Honey, Chick-fil-A don't make tacos,

and they don't apologize for it either.

If you want tacos, go down the street.

But here we do chicken. Even if we did a special Taco,

guess what we going to put in it?

Chicken. Somebody say we do chicken.

This is very plain. This is very clear analogy.

We do chicken in all your life you have tried watch this Canada

does not have a cuisine. Canada is a place that tries to

be all things for all people and it seeps into the church and we

try to make. So when you trying to build an

all nations community, guess what happens?

You fall into what's been easy for me to become all things, to

not just catch all people but please all people.

So now it's not fishing anymore. If you're not careful, you can

get into manipulation. You can get into all these

different areas whenever you're not living in your true

authentic self. The moment you start making

tacos and all y'all have ever done was chicken.

Watch this. You're trying to make tacos for

a few people. I said girl stop talking let me

take some notes real quick. And I felt God say, son, stop

apologizing for not being what people want.

Stop changing your menu trying to keep customers I never

assigned. If they want tacos.

Now mind you, I'm not even talking about the current I'm

talking about. All.

These years that I'm finally coming to a point in my life and

This is why God brought will take Abraham away.

It's these tests. It's this when I'm telling you

perfecting and maturing. I'm not just giving you a

message I mastered and you come to this place and he's like,

you're losing. Yourself trying to help others

find themselves, but at the cost of your true self.

So then you end up envying other people's transformation while

you lay on your pillow wondering when yours going to show up.

And honestly, that's always been the hard part for me as a son,

as a husband, as a person, as a leader, because abandonment and

neglect and insecurities. And fear.

They've been narrating my story since childhood.

Letting people choose anything other than me used to feel like

rejection. So I tried to do what Paul said.

Become all things to all people. But I twisted it.

I became everything for everyone, only to discover all.

People don't want all of me. Some people want the gift but

not the grit, the talent but not the testimony.

What I do or what you do, but not who you are.

Because you do know you come with flaws.

You do know you're in process. You do know to get to to walk

with me and to see who God made me to be.

You're going to have to deal with some of my falling and

failure and not knowing how to do certain things.

Now, as I'm talking about me, I'm talking at least 75% of the

room about you, he says. Stop adding items.

He says. Son, you're not Chick-fil-A

trying to add tacos. Stop adding items to your

identity just to avoid being abandoned.

Be who I called you unapologetically and some of you

guys walked in today tied walked in tied to what you had to be.

But today you're walking out as who you were created to be.

You survive by becoming many things, but you'll step into

destiny by becoming the one thing.

Look, look, I'm not just talking about this.

See, I've talked about preaching and pastoring and being a rapper

and my, my creative side. And when is that going to end?

Is there room for both? And man, there's room for

everything. I've done it all my life.

You can do all kinds of stuff, but when does it come when you

like? God's called me, He's a master,

therefore he's called me to master whatever He has called me

to do and to be. And the people we turn on TV

watching, they have become singular focus.

And then all the extra stuff finds its place instead of

trying to do everything and find a place for who you uniquely

are. Somebody say he's just getting

older. Somebody say he's maturing.

You survived by becoming many things if it wasn't.

For sports, I'd be for sure and dead or in jail.

Sports took me to college. You see how God can use gifts

that you have for a season to transition you, right?

If my family couldn't afford college, so I wouldn't have got

a college degree without a scholarship.

I wouldn't have got college experience without a ball in my

hand. I'm more than that.

At the same time, you have to understand there's a time to let

go of certain things because God's purpose for it is over.

Oh, I feel some grief in here right now.

Because the the fact that you, the fact that I have trouble

letting certain things I'm very good at go speaks to, it's an

idol and speaks to where I may have unbelief in that on the

other side of laying it down, can God, will God, will I be

happy? Will I be enough for people?

How am I going to reach them without me doing music?

How am I going to reach them without wearing that?

How am I going to get there if I don't do this or if I don't do

that? Yeah, there was a grace to be

tied in your last season, but now there is a grace to be

united in this one. The Lord says to us today, I

cannot ride on what refuses to be released

loose. I need release.

What do you do when scaffolding has turned into chains?

What once served you in survival cannot lead you into purpose?

What do you do when something that was used to keep you to to,

to build with? There's people in here without

my music, gift and talent and anointing, I wouldn't have ever

met. There's there's music, gifts and

talents that that that I carry that our worship team needed.

At a time as we were building but not.

I'm just using the example. How has God shifted me in this

year? Now the pieces are in place for

others to carry the music map in in in certain ways.

Or are we just going to do everything till the wheels fall

off? What do you do when scaffolding

turns in to chains? Scaffolding is a temporary

structure that supports construction until the permanent

structure can stand on its own. Once the building is complete,

the scaffolding must come down, not because it was useless, but

because its purpose is finished. Maybe your chains were once

scaffolding. We're fasting.

Some of us we're fasting. See here it is.

It doesn't matter if you ate chips.

It doesn't matter if you ate a burger on a veg a vegan day.

Watch this. Here we are.

New dimension requires different types of fasting.

Watch this rather. Is this not the fast which I

choose to undo the bonds of wickedness, to tear the pieces,

the ropes of the yolk, to let the oppressed go free and break

apart every enslaving yoke? I wonder how many people have

said this is the fast. It don't matter if I if I if I

have a cheat. What's a cheat day?

What is what is good every day? If after the fast you still got

chains on? The fast he's calling is that

you get free, not that you get free from meat.

But that you get free and this is what I love every so ain't

not one person in here that can look at me and say I ain't got

no. Chance.

I heard him when you walked in. Heard him last night.

That's why we got this message now one person in here cannot

look deep within their soul. Invite the Holy Spirit and the

word in and say reveal to me I got some stuff in me.

You ain't nobody in here. This is what last week was.

We all here. Every person in here has

something and God says every bondage, every chain.

I showed up today desiring to break.

This is the fast he's calling. This is the fast that is going

to thrust us into the next dimension.

This is the fast somebody say. Loose watch this now whenever I

sit in a word like this and I see a theme, I start preparing

myself for freedom. I don't listen to a message like

this like. Oh awesome, no Holy Spirit talk

to me. Because by the time it's time to

respond, even even response, see here's here's He can deliver

before the message is over. He is not just breaking what

holds you, He's also removing what hides you.

Anytime today you can really respond how it hits your soul.

He is not just breaking what holds you, but he's also

removing what hides you. How many people know they are

good things you do and put on, but it hides the new you KNEW it

hides you. Here's our scripture.

Go into the village Yonder as you go in, you will find a

donkey's colt, Tide, on which no man has ever yet set.

Loose it and bring it here. Loose it and bring it here.

Loose it and bring it here. Watch this.

Untie it, then bring it to me. If anybody asks you why are you

untying it, you shall say this because the Lord.

Come on, say it with me. The Lord has the need of it.

Come on, somebody say it with me.

The Lord has need of it. I need to be united, not because

I'm ready, but because He needs me right now.

I know you can tolerate your chains.

I know you don't mind your chains.

I know you move kind of swiftly in your chains.

I know you cute in your chains. But it ain't this time around.

It ain't about you and your chains.

It's about he needs you and the way he needs you is chain less.

Come on, let's talk. All these years God been dealing

with me, excepting me, using me with chains on.

All these years you've been up here singing with chains on.

All these years you've been ushering with chains on, some of

y'all on camera with chains on, some of y'all in production with

chains on. You playing drums with chains

on. Let's call it out.

Everybody elders got chains on. Everybody in here got chains on.

So His grace is sufficient. He has allowed you to wear your

chains long enough, right? Long enough.

And now he's saying I have need of you.

So the chains got to go. But the chains are in me and

your way where I'm taking you. We don't need no change to get

caught up on nothing. So don't walk in here like you

got it all together, including me.

No, he has allowed you to have that attitude.

He's allowed you to complain, he's allowed you to gossip, he's

allowed you to lie, he's allowed you to cheat and still use you.

And he's like, OK, I've allowed you to walk that long with me in

your chains. I'm coming for you now.

I have need of you. Somebody say he has need of me

today. Message is called unleashed from

not time to glory time From not time to glory time Unleashed

from not time to glory time. Whenever God has a need, He

breaks you from what you thought you needed.

Come on. If He needs it, I need it.

If He needs it gone, I need it gone.

If He needs it on, I need it on. If He needs me to stay, I need

to stay. If He needs me to go, I need to

go. We enter the Scripture at a time

where Jesus on his way to Jerusalem, he came nearer to

Beth, Beth and Bethany, and these are border villages.

And this is a time. Watch this.

This moment prophetically represents transition before

triumph. It represents transition before

triumph. This is the beginning of Passion

Week. And so he says, I'm about to go

to glory. I need a donkey.

I don't need I wait. I put glory on the donkey.

I don't need to be the donkey to be glorious.

OK, somebody say transition. The transition before triumph is

a moment of lucid. We see in one instance Jesus

cleans out the temple. It's the transition before

triumph. The cult we see was untrained,

ordinary, yet somebody shout out, yet yet reserved, yet

reserved. The condition that this donkey

was in. It was tied up.

It was bound. It was restricted, had

restricted potential. I'm going to talk about me.

I got restricted potential. There's so much I can do so much

God has asked me to do, but there's certain things that I am

doing that that that robbed me from doing what he's what I can

do, right? There's things that you.

Do you do it good? But there's other things.

If you stop doing the good thing, you can do it great.

The condition. Restricted potential, yet

somebody say yet Remember Remember this word, yet it means

there's one meaning of not so far we like lately you haven't

made it so far yet the the actions continues or just the

one I like in spite. Of I like, in spite of, yet

waiting. Watch this.

The donkey's tied up, the donkey's bound.

The donkey has restricted potential, yet still waiting,

waiting to be used, waiting to be ridden, waiting to serve the

instructions that was given. Untie it, release it, and break

the restrictions. Untie it, release it.

Break the restrictions, untie release, break the restrictions,

untie somebody, say, untie somebody, say release somebody

say. Break the restrictions one more

time, untie release, break the restrictions and why the Lord

has need of you. It was a day when we saw big

mouth and Elder John would, would, would say the Lord has

need of you. The Lord has need of you.

I can't move past this point. We watch this.

I, I, I, I lived in a point where I was concerned with

everybody that had need of me and I did my best to respond to

who had need of me. Ignoring the one who has need of

me, who will never walk out, who will never reject, who will

never never, never, never never He has need of.

This is something that we scroll all day for.

This is something you're looking for a spouse for because you are

looking to be what needed. I'm here to tell you, well stop

looking. The Lord has need of you.

Come on, tell your neighbors, say look no further.

The Lord has need of you. The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of you. This makes me happy that after

all that I have the stupid stuff I've done, the Lord still has

need of me. That that makes me happy that as

many times as I failed, the Lord said I still got need of you.

Right, it's all my stupid days, the Lord still, I woke up this

morning and the Lord said, I have need of you as many times

as I failed as many times. If I hurt people, the Lord said

I still have need of you. Your sin cannot stop me needing

you. I have need of you.

Somebody shout out he has need of me.

The Lord has need of it because divine purpose overrides human

possession. We'll get there.

Don't forget the donkey had an owner, but when the Master

called, the divine overrode the possession that the owner had.

So it don't matter what's been holding you for the past.

Understand this Josh, It doesn't matter what's been holding you

or possessing you. When the Lord says he has need

of you, it's time to be loosed. Watch this.

When the Lord has need of you, he's going to send someone to

you to untie you by the anointing to let you know the

Lord has need of you. You want to know why I'm

preaching this message of losing today?

Because the Lord has need of you.

Look at your neighbors. Say the Lord has need of you.

Watch this. This donkey represents a few

things. Watch this.

The donkey, it's tied in the village.

This, this represents we've been and prophetically represents.

We've been potentially locked inside the village of pain and

performance caused by some degree of trauma.

I went back when we had our conversation, I was going back

and I was like, I think the hardest part is because we talk

about man, will we ever plant in Oakland?

Will we ever? And I'm like.

Had some tears. It was, it was a deep moment.

I was like, God got me in a place where I can't go back

home. I can, but when I go back home,

I'm not the same T, but a lot of them the same them.

Then he brought me in a country where culturally we're totally

different. Some people will club us all

together and they think they think African and African

American the same. Ask a African.

So you think, right, We, we have this infatuation with missions

and Africans. Most of the black churches,

people say we're a black church, we're not a black church and

that's it. I'm not denying black church.

I know what a black church is. I grew up in what this ain't a

black church, you it ain't a black church because a black

pastor leads the church. This is not a black church.

I grew up and trust me, if black, if this was a black

church, we wouldn't have some of the issues we have in this

church, right? In black churches, we stay in

the center of the ring and we box it out, and then we go up in

the choir and sing together. We raise our families in the

same church to this day. I can go back.

The Deacon, been there for 60 years.

This ain't that. We fought together, we cried

together. We sin together, then we worship

together. We saw each other.

We knew each other's generational issues.

When you look at one family, you'd be like that.

That yeah, you can't, you can't talk to that family.

That family is this or that. This is not that.

So what we're trying to accomplish here is we're trying

to accomplish something that's rare and it it trying to

accomplish a all nations where we don't here.

Here's why you don't get all nations is because when you walk

by one group talking, you like, oh, that's wrong.

No, but that's their nation. That's how they talk.

That's how they get along. And then you take one nation and

say that's the culture of the church.

You know, the culture of the church is like Canada.

It gives everybody from all over the world an opportunity.

So then we create a space where I don't demonize your little

nation. I step in and ask questions.

Or if you try to bring your nation over here, whether it's

teasing or clowning, you bring your nation over here.

You can be like in my nation, we don't do that.

I didn't grow up talking about, I didn't grow up doing that.

I didn't grow up talking like that.

I didn't grow up dressing like that.

So then we lean into each other and then we adjust.

Called Gizelle a nickname. She said don't call me that.

I said never again, right, if but but she didn't say OK, no,

no, no, she communicated where I'm from.

We don't talk like we don't do that.

So then I adjust and then guess what?

We're still here and had no problem since, right?

We still here that that that's the challenge.

See, then you come here. I can't go back there.

I can. But God brought me in a place

where I'm so different than my homies and it's almost like I

don't. I was telling my wife that

almost filled the other job. I don't belong nowhere.

Here's the reality. Here's here's authenticity.

I don't belong nowhere. I said yes to God.

He got me in the middle of the sea.

I if I swim back, it ain't number familiarity and the

prophet cannot. Perform you Jesus same thing.

He had to go. But then where you've called me,

I'm so different and I'm struggling to figure out what

that is. So now I'm talking to my wife.

I'm like, man, sometimes, you know, and we talked about more.

I'm going to share that with you.

If you're in that place, it's vulnerable instead of you, you,

you cry. You want people to be like, ah,

let me get to know that part of you and then let me get to know

that part of you. And I don't really like that

part, but that's OK. We're caught.

We're covenant, right? We're, we're in covenant.

If my, if my left ankle hurt, but I still got to play the

game, my right foot. Don't be like, man, you got me

out here limping. No, we go out my right foot, say

I'm going to give you strength for your weak ankle.

Because we're a body. We strengthen each other's

weaknesses. So then we see the untied part.

This is the call to release and unveil authenticity today.

Authenticity, right? You you get Effie up here, she

can just make a whole album of heavy metal and give it to you.

Everybody. If ever I love when she does, I

will run. She rocks out and she's just you

get to a place where she's shaking and she's shaking right

then. You, you get large, you get

Nicole and they can bring us some, some Afro style and they

can bring us different flavor right there.

There's it's like, no, no, no, we want your authenticity, but

we will dig in there and activate whatever's authentic.

So there's a season where we're all discovering authenticity.

And in the midst of discovering authenticity, you might see some

ugly stuff come out the bag. But praise God, we had a church

ugly. Got a safe place to be ugly and

then we have Lord has need of it.

This is God's time and God's need, not yours.

Watch this. This is God's need, Laura.

This is God's need, joy. This is God's need.

Get out of the way because God has need of you.

God needs you to stay. God needs you to stand.

God needs you to have the tough conversation.

God needs you to sew. God has need of you.

Then there's the ride to glory. We carry the presence of the

king into culture. This is why we need to be.

Loosed. The donkey also represents the

believer whose gifts, calling and identity has been tied up by

fear, lies, confusion and disappointment.

Isn't anybody just temporary? Just just a witness check.

Anybody been here before? I know we got some courageous

people out here. They like they, they 1000%

authentic self. They.

I get it. That's amazing.

I'm trying to get where you at. Today I may have walked in tied

up, but today I'm walking out as the virgin heaven dreamed of,

before earth ever wounded me. And some of this might sound

like I'm talking to myself, because I am.

I am. Today I may have walked in tied

up, but today I'm walking out as the virgin heaven dreamed of

before earth ever, ever wounded me.

Today I may have walked in tied up, but today I'm walking out

wrapped in revelation, fortified in identity, and carrying a

glory that's been waiting for me longer than I knew my own name,

Somebody say today. Today I may have walked in tied

up, but today I'm walking out loose, lifted and launched into

a new dimension of grace and glory.

Somebody say today? Somebody said they're about to

find out. Unleashing isn't just freedom,

it's fulfillment. Can I talk to you for a few

minutes? Unleashing isn't just freedom,

it's fulfillment. Watch this.

When you hold back your freedom, you hold back a word from coming

to pass. Unleashing isn't just freedom,

it's fulfillment. Your freedom has been spoken

before. You got broken.

Watch this. That rope wasn't punishment.

That rope was prophecy. That, that valley, that that

tough time, that, that, that moment in your life, those

moments in your life, No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Have you ever thought that maybe I'm not being punished?

Maybe I'm walking in prophecy? Maybe the enemy knows the

authentic self of me. So he is trying to get me to go

and be an inauthentic version of myself.

So watch this. Zechariah 9 is the prophecy of

this scripture we read today. So Jesus and this donkey was

talked about before Jesus ever put on flesh.

What if I told you what you're walking through was talked about

before you ever came out of your mother's womb?

What if I told you that the enemy knows exactly what God has

called you to do and to be, and where to go?

Zechariah 9. Rejoice greatly.

O daughter of Zion, shout aloud. O daughter of Jerusalem, behold,

your King comes to you. He is uncompromisingly just, and

having salvation triumphant. And Victoria's patient, me lowly

and riding on a donkey. All these, these, these Kingdom

words, then riding on a donkey. But Jesus says I only do what I

see the Father do. In other words, I saw this

donkey in Zechariah, so I couldn't take another way to the

cross. There was no other car, there

was no other ride for me. The moment watch this, the

moment I choose a stallion, I compromise the word.

And how many times because pressure and trouble comes, we

switch the means to which God has called us to get to where

He's called us in this season. God has need of you.

I know it don't feel good, but God needs you there.

God needs you in that tight spot.

God needs you under pressure because He has divinity inside

of you and prophecy inside of you that is ready to come to

pass. Watch He do it with a donkey.

What's he doing with a donkey now?

Now, sometimes you see some scripts on here.

I'm just talking to myself when I'm studying.

Why'd he do it with a donkey, Terence?

Why'd he do it with a donkey? I'm the donkey.

If you haven't figured that out today, you're the donkey.

And I just encouraged myself why?

The Lord said, why'd he do it with a donkey?

Why'd? He do it with a donkey.

Why'd he do it with a fool? Not because Jesus think you're a

fool, just because others think you're a fool.

Watch he do it with the uneducated.

Watch He do it with the murderer.

You see how Jesus leans into people's failures?

He, your failure, made Jesus come down from heaven.

He wants your failure. Your frailties caused him to

draw near to you, not run from you.

Watch he do it with a donkey. Watch this.

This donkey always got a seat for Jesus.

I'm just talking to myself. I'm just talking to myself.

This donkey always got a seat for Jesus.

While they laugh, he's losing and lifting.

While they mock, he's molding and making.

And while they gossip, he's gracing and guiding.

God wants to ride the donkey that is willing to be loosed

today. What's this?

What's this? Moses felt unqualified, yet

remember that word. Yet God said, I'll speak through

you. David, a shepherd boy,

overlooked until God said, Anoint him.

That ain't who I'm looking for. Anoint that little boy in the

back. You didn't even bring him to the

party. Go find him.

I know it ain't no, no, no these seven, ain't it?

Go get me that other one. The Samaritan woman

misunderstood. Yet somebody say yes yet used to

reach her city and you gifted but tied by fear, performance,

people pleasing trauma or cultural misunderstanding.

Somebody shout out yet yet God is about to take what's been

tied and use it for his next ride in Jesus name.

He's about to take what's been tied, use it for his next ride,

his next move, his next revival. Why hasn't revival landed?

You think maybe he's saying get united.

You don't need a new season, you need a new freedom.

No, you, you stop, stop, stop using new seasons as your

freedom. You need a new freedom.

There was a time we were graced to be tied up, but now there's a

grace upon us to be united, unleashed and unveiled.

Somebody say united, unleashed and unveiled.

When Jesus saw her condition, he called her to him like he did

the donkey and greatly laid his hands on her.

Then he said, Dear woman, you are free.

You are free. You are free.

I am free. I have released you.

I love this right here, Danny. I've released you, not for a

season. I've released you not for a

moment. I've released you not in one

place or another. I have released you forever.

I have released you forever from this crippling spirit.

Instantly she stood straight. She was pissed over for 18 years

and all it took was a word. Guess what Jesus spoke to her.

The word release you forever from this crippling spirit and

instantly this is just what I hear is instantly right, but she

wants it instantly. She's not sitting in church

acting like she got it all together.

Watch this. She's not saying like like like

like like Pharaoh, one more night with the frogs.

I can, I can deal with this. I can handle this.

I can live with this. This ain't that bad.

Be loose from even that good thing, because that good thing

has now become your idol. I love this.

You are free. I release you forever.

I love this because I watch this.

EJ. I don't think in this moment he

announced she's free. She felt free.

Like right now some of you are reading the word and you're

understanding it from here. You don't prophetically see and

believe that the chains have fallen.

I don't need to be out of the furnace to be free.

I don't need to be out of the lion's den to be free.

We remember all this connects. Remember Paul and Silas in

prison. I don't need to not have chains

on to be free. So Jesus comes to her as she is

bent over and says you are free. Watch this, watch this, watch

this. It did not say they release.

You. The demons don't got the keys.

When the master shows up he has the master key.

I release you forever. Discomforts me because it's not

PT you free once they accept you you free.

Once you stop sinning you free. Once you get a better job you

free once you got a spouse you you free once you get a new

church you you free once he says I release you.

See, some of y'all have given y'all keys to so many different

entities that you can't even hear the master key say you're

free. See, when other people got your

keys, they can let you out of prison, but they can also put

you back in. When Jesus sets you free, you

free in deed. So I've come to understand this

is the freedom I want. I need Jesus to unlock my cage.

You may have been tied up, messed up, fed up.

In need of the devil to let up. You may have been bent down and

shut down. You may have threw in the tile.

Watch this But the tide is turning.

The the, the tide is turning so, so, so practical, but it's so

prophetic. The tide is turning.

The tide, the tide is turning. It's turning around for the

tide. The tide is heading into a new

dimension. The tide is being loosed as we

speak. The tide is going from glory to

glory. The tide is being set free.

The tide is getting stronger. The tide is getting wiser.

The tide is getting more strategic.

The tide. The tide is standing straight

up, not bent over. The tide is finding their voice.

The tide, The tide is turning. The tide is turning.

Somebody say the tide is turning.

No, for good. For God selected deliberately

chose what in the world is foolish to put the wise to

shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.

And God also selected deliberately what in the world

is low born and insignificant and branded and treated with

contempt even the things that are nothing?

That he might, He might, He might, It's all about Him He

might depose. And bring to nothing the things

that are, the things that are, he said.

I'm looking for what people call foolish.

I look for what people doubt, so don't shrink back because people

doubt you. But I cannot take into the

promised land your chained self, your inauthentic self, so that

no mortal. Man, oh, This is why you got me

in the middle of nowhere not knowing what's going on.

This is why he got me looking foolish.

You know, almost four years. Yeah.

We getting in the building. Like some people hear it.

It's like we getting in the building.

Let them think what they want. We getting in the building.

Nope. Get.

I know you want to curl up. I know you want to go run.

I want. I know you want to go hide.

I know it's hard. Just like Jeremiah.

He wanted to shut up, but he said it's like.

Fire my bones. I can't shut up right.

Let them, let them. Let them watch this.

I'm preparing the table. So get back up there and say the

same thing. Look foolish.

Look foolish. Not many people want to look

foolish. That's why many are called.

Few are chosen. Look foolish.

Sound foolish. Sound questionable.

Look, look it. Let kick you up.

Get back up there. Get get what it's like.

It's like it's like where I grew up.

It's like somebody, somebody beat you up or something.

Your mom or your daddy take you back.

Be like, you going to fight him? Where you at?

You're like, no, ma, you're like, Nope, we ain't going

nowhere. Get in there.

Nope. Get in there.

Right, because Mama, Mama for Mama.

It ain't about winning the fight.

Mama. No, he bigger.

It's a principle here. It's David and Goliath.

Look foolish. Goliath's like, right?

What you got? My fist is bigger than your

stones. But David said, man, I've been

in that backfield. I know God.

You don't need an evolution. You need a revelation.

God ain't asking you to become something new.

He's revealing what He's already put in you.

God wants to use what's ordinary and what's overlooked and tied

up and use it for His extraordinary glory.

Let His revelation be the source of your evolution.

We don't need evolution. That's your might and your

power. We need revelation.

That's his spirit, and when his spirit gets on what's ordinary,

it becomes extraordinary like. Acts. 4 Now when they saw the

boldness and unfettered eloquence of Peter and John and

perceive that they were unlearned and untrained in the

school's common men with no educational advantages, they

marveled and they recognized that they have been with the

Lord. Maybe God is trying to get you

to put all that extra stuff down so people can see the Lord is

with you. And I was reading that scripture

and I and I wrote what I, what I heard and I so, So what you

uneducated? So what you failed?

So what, you're divorced? So what?

You don't think you're a good parent?

So what? You don't have that much money.

So what you Can't Sing? Is it you Can't Sing that good

or did God call you the same? What is it that you have been

trying to hide, cover up because you're afraid everybody cannot

handle your donkeys, everybody can't handle your chains, but

then when God just exposed your chains and just by being human.

You, you, you, you, just you, you, you just let mess out.

What do you do? Be your authentic self in

succeeding and in failing. Jesus does not pick Stallions

status, He picks donkeys service.

When the Lord says he has need of you, it is divine

intentionality and divine intervention.

God isn't desperate, he's deliberate.

He doesn't need you because he's missing something, He needs you

because he made you for something.

You are not a leftover or an afterthought.

You were held in stables dimensions so you could be

released to Glory's dimension. This donkey is tied up, it has

an owner. It's never been ridden before.

You've not been this way before. And then you are sitting there,

never been ridden before, never going this way before.

Because there was a day that God divinely designed to say.

I need you. I'm going to send somebody to

untie you. You weren't tied up to be

forgotten. You were tied up to be prepared.

Only kings prepare donkeys for Kingdom purpose.

If you go back to first kings, you see Solomon hops on his

father's donkey for a royal ride.

Donkey in the Eastern and Hebrew tradition meant peaceful rule.

Horses symbolized war. Donkeys symbolize

reconciliation. If you want to restore your

bloodline, you got to get back to your authentic.

Self for a king to ride a donkey into Jerusalem proclaimed, I

came not to conquer by force, but to establish peace.

A never ridden animal was considered sacred for royal or

divine purposes. Never written eyes have not

seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered the heart

of men. Then it goes on and says its

owner said to them, Why are you untying that cult?

Watch it and they said the Lord has need of it and they brought

watch this the owner they're untying and then the owner says

what y'all doing? What are y'all doing?

Watch this obedience despite confusion.

When the king needs a ride, it's time to go.

I got to be where the word needs me, not where people.

Picture me I'm. Going to say that one more time.

Got to be where the word needs me, not where people picture me.

Expect misunderstanding when God is calling you to a new

dimension. Divine.

Need Trump's human permission? Make sure it's divine.

I had to do this disclaimer right.

Make sure it's divine, not dysfunctional.

Disorientation. You're moving, but not well.

You're acting, but you're not anchored.

Be careful to not see the donkey as the problem when it might

just be the prophet. We'll close here.

Be careful to not see the donkey as the problem when the donkey

might just be the prophet speaking for the Lord.

We got a few Bible readers in here.

God sometimes uses foolish things to focus foolish people.

For your own time, you can go read Numbers 22.

Be careful to not see the donkey as the problem when it might

just be the prophet. Next experience we're going to

dive in it, but here it is. This donkey was used.

Balaam This donkey was used because the donkey saw the

Angel, so he tried to get Balaam's attention.

One way he wouldn't listen, he tried to get his attention.

Another way he wouldn't listen but watch the grace of God.

Because the Angel kept repositioning himself.

The Angel kept repositioning himself.

The Angel, the messenger kept repositioning himself.

OK, maybe we try it this way. And then lastly, the donkey.

And then Vaalam struck him. And watch this.

The Lord allowed the donkey to talk the donkey.

'S like, bro ain't never acted like this, so might some Might I

be trying to get your attention? Might this foolishness come to

disrupt rhythms that God don't need no more, language that God

don't need no more? Maybe the donkey?

Has showed up to redirect you. Be careful that what you may

seem foolish, or you might discredit, or you might call the

donkey, or you may question it. If God sent the donkey.

The foolish 1. The uneducated 1.

The non traditional one just may be the prophet that God sent.

Maybe where we're going requires the unfamiliar to speak into our

lives, the foolish things. I'm here today to, to, to, to

challenge all of us. What do we need to be loosed?

From I remember after I told my wife, oh, I got this, I got this

revelation and she said don't make any decisions right now

because in my mind right away I'm like, OK, this is me

personally, not church wide me. I want to.

I want to continue to be who God has called me to be.

So I'm like God. What?

Whatever you want, I'll lay it down.

Whatever you don't need me to have, I'll lay it down.

But Wisdom says I'll call Julie the pastor.

Julia Wisdom, let it sit. So this word isn't just for you,

but I will not miss what God has.

I will not miss it, insufficiencies and all.

But when God reveals something and says I need that with the

quickness, we lay it down. Sometimes we think we need to be

unleashed from demons. Everything's demonic.

That's the only thing we need to be united from now.

That donkey wasn't a demon, it was a servant.

The donkey was a servant, unwritten.

Maybe what's holding you back is not a demon.

Maybe it's some things that God is like, I don't need you to be

that no more. And if I do, let me

recontextualize it. Remember I stepped into in June

2007, some of you heard this, just when I radically put down a

lot of things that was holding me back.

And then I stepped into ministry and I remember I was doing music

right before that, secular music.

But what got me into music wasn't like I was born to be a

rapper. It was just, I hung around

artists. It was cultural, just like I

picked up a ball. It was cultural and there's

things and doors that God has used.

And then I remember I said yes to the Lord and he said, put the

music down now, put it down a year later or so.

He said, pick it back up. I'm going to use it, right?

And it was re. It was recontextualized in my

life. Some of us in here, we have

dreams that have turned into idols.

And God says, while you're waiting for that thing, whatever

it may be, I have need of you. I know you want the industry to

have need of you, but I have need of you.

I know you want a woman or a man to have need of you, but I have

need of you. While you're waiting for others

to have need of you, the Lords come in today and say I have

need of you. And I've come to find out that

when I decide to become united for God's needs, He just has

this really cool way to restore the joy that what I laid down

brought me. Come.

On Hallelujah. We think that's the only thing

that can bring us that level of satisfaction.

But might I tell you today whatever, God, Well, I don't

even want to say that because he said, yeah, you're right.

He said I'm not replacing what you lay down.

I'm upgrading your desires. So for you that.

Need some untying. And some of you, your, your,

your tie, your, your, your ropes have come from waiting for

something that been taken forever to show up.

You waiting for somebody to change, to have joy.

You waiting for something to show up to have peace.

You waiting for this? Are you waiting for that?

Some of you, the way you wait is bondage.

But today I'm going to pray a simple prayer.

Very simple prayer. We're going to close and I just

believe we don't have to have like like last Sunday, 2nd

experience, man, wow, how the Spirit broke out in that way.

But we don't need to be tossing and turning and snotting on the

mats and all of that to be like, oh, Jesus showed up.

No, he told the woman, you free. She stood up and was like, thank

you Sir. Right.

When are you going to believe? When will you not need a show?

Father, in the name of Jesus, we come out of every place we were

tied to, every post of fear, every rope of rejection, every

knot of trauma and performance. And unworthiness.

Today we release it in the name of Jesus.

We cast every care, we untie every burden.

We break every silent agreement we've made with shame.

Lord, you said the Lord has need of us, so today we say you can

have the real me, not the edited version of me, not the scared

version of me, not the performing version of me, the

authentic me, the anointed me and the chosen version of me.

Break the chains of people pleasing, break the chains of

comparison, break the chains of abandonment and break the chains

of not enough. Break the chains that kept us

surviving when we when you've called us to walk in purpose.

The scaffolding of old identity is coming down now.

In the name of Jesus, reveal the structure of who I actually AM.

I renounce every lie that that said I had to be everything to

be accepted. I renounce the fear of letting

people walk away. I renounce the pressure to

perform for love when you already chose me today.

God, unleash me, untie me, undo me, unmask me.

Reveal the sons and daughters in this room.

Reveal your children today. Reveal the assignment.

Reveal the glory on my back even when I don't feel it yet.

I'm going to read a line and I need you to say break it.

Every chain that tied me to who I used to be.

Every lie that told me I wasn't enough.

Every fear that kept me performing.

Every voice that tried to define me.

We'll do that again. We, we, we want, we want to say

this with some faith, not casualty.

This is not like, you know what I mean?

This is not like. Like like you know, school where

we just recite this is not a recital.

Now the only people that need to speak is those that that that

really want to be free and really want to be unleashed.

But if you already there, you can stand in faith for those who

are not in Jesus name. Every chain that tied me to who

I used to be. Every lie that told me I wasn't

enough. Every fear that kept me

performing. Every, every voice that tried to

define me. Lift your hands.

I am no longer tied to trauma. I am no longer tied to fear.

I am no longer tied to survival. I am no longer tied to people's

approval. I am free.

I am chosen. I am needed.

I am anointed. I am called.

I am released. I am the vessel God rides in on.

The Lord has need of my voice. The Lord has need of my story.

The Lord has need of my scars. The Lord has need of my

authenticity. The Lord has need of me.

The Lord has need of you today. The Lord has need of you today.

It is done. It is finished it as well.

Lord, I believe it and Lord, I receive it.

Walk in your freedom today. Walk in your authority today.

I encourage some of you to stand.

Stand under the. Pressure.

Stand under the confusion. Stand the Lord has need of you.

Your best days are ahead of you. Your best days are ahead of you.

Come on, give your neighbor next to your high 5 and say be free

in the name of Jesus. Come on, look.

At somebody else say be free in the name of Jesus.

And then once we close, look at somebody that didn't want to

give you a high 5 and say I still love you and I'm praying

for you. In Jesus mighty name, in Jesus

mighty name, in Jesus mighty name.

Well, that's it, That's all. What's on there?

No, that's good. We'll be here this Wednesday.

I encourage you to come out. It is a prophetic word that is

being released in this house, and I encourage you to come out.

If you can't make it, stream in. If you can't stream in, listen

to it the days after. And God is speaking and He's

instructing. Lord, we thank you that we are

loosed from every chain, every day of our lives.

Now, Holy Spirit, we need the fruit, we need your patience, we

need yourself discipline, we need your kindness, we need your

love, we need your peace. So cultivate your fruit that we

may be disciplined enough to walk in our freedom.

We choose to believe, we choose peace, we choose joy, we choose

love, we choose hope, We choose faith, we choose patience, we

choose perseverance. Holy Spirit, we cannot do this

without you, so we thank you, wind blow, wind blow, wind blow,

wind blow, that we may be found on a firm foundation in Jesus

name. Have a wonderful day.

We're out of time, but we are not out of belief.

Until next time, get your love fixed man.

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