Help My Unbelief - (9AM) 11.2.25 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Help my you can be seated. Help my unbelief.

Can I do a quick review? Real quick?

Quick review. Quick review, No Amen.

Quick review, really quickly. If you remember something that

I'm about to read, just say Amen.

There will always be the cycle of blessing and breaking thorns

and triumph in the ministry of perfecting sons and daughters.

Amen. There's always going to be this

tension we have to live in between blessing and breaking

thorns and triumph in the ministry of perfecting or

maturing. Sons and daughters, remember

this scripture, John 629. Jesus replied.

This is the work, say somebody say this is the work that God

asked. Of you, this is the ministry,

this is the purpose, This is why it is all happening.

It is that you and I do what you and I do what.

This is the work. This is why God does what He

does. This is why God allows.

What He allows is that God's goodness should.

Lead to greater belief that he is the one that he is on the

throne, that he is a lot. Your life, the work that God is

doing in your life should speak to people that God is good and

he's alive so that not only you believe but they believe.

Got that. Got that.

Say only believe Mark 530. 6 says do not be afraid, only keep

on believing in me. Watch this and in my power.

Yeah, I know some of you say you believe in God, but do you

believe in this power or have you just accepted it is what it

is? Have you just accepted you was

born in the poverty or your relationship is just going to be

what it's going to be? Or or, or I just got a potty

mouth or, or or my kid just going to be sick or I'm just

going to be sick or my marriage is just going to be dusty or do

you believe? In the power that if he woke up,

woke you up this morning, watch this.

Somebody, somebody get this. If he woke you up this morning,

his power is invested in your life.

Come on, somebody say I'm here so he must about to do

something. Somebody say keep on believing,

keep on believing. Watch this, remember this.

Have mercy on us and help us. This has been our foundational

scripture. Have mercy on us and help us if

you can. If you can.

I just see Jesus how I would have responded.

Like what? What you mean if I can?

Jesus asked. He said anything is possible.

Somebody tell me what anything mean?

Anything. Somebody say everything, right?

Anything is everything and everything is anything and

anything is always. Watch that Anything just ain't

anything. If it's anything, it's anything

always. It ain't just anything two days

a week. When God say any, maybe yo

anything is a couple days a week, but God's anything is

24/7. God's anything is past, present

and future. So when God say anything, he

means always. Somebody say anything?

Always. Somebody say always anything.

Watch this. Anything is possible if a person

believes so. Anything is always and always.

Is anything to whoever believes always in anything he says he

could do? Watch this.

Watch this. Anything is always and always is

anything. To whom ever believes anything

he can do always. Yeah.

See, See, he goes on and he says I do believe, but help my

unbelief. Here's what he's saying.

He is saying that I believe you, but not always.

I believe you, but not in anything.

Am I helping somebody this morning?

Am I helping somebody? I don't.

I I believe, but I need you to help me in the areas I don't

believe. And what we've learned over the

last few weeks is you need to stop acting so Christian and act

like your faith work in every area of your life.

Stop acting like you believe in everything.

No, no, no, no. There's some things you believe

in more than you do others. And sometimes some of the stuff

we believe in is crazy compared to what we choose not to

believe. Look, if, if, if somebody can

build an airplane and then and God can put that brain in

somebody, then my marriage can be fixed, right?

Because the idea of the plane is gravity ain't having its way.

How can I preach to somebody that's warning the God, God,

Revelation, spirit of Revelation right now, gravity ain't having

his way. So if gravity ain't going to

have its way on the airplane, why should it have its way in

your marriage? Why should it have its way in

your health? Why should it have its way in

your mindset? See, there's some things, watch

this. There's some things you don't

even believe for you just put it on God and be like God.

Go ahead, you, you could do it. Watch this.

Here's how we put it. God, if you want it to work, let

it work. That ain't even proper praying.

Mary says if it be if, if, if it's your word.

In other words, if your words say it can work, guess what, it

can work. Anything is possible always.

But the question is, do you believe always and do you

believe in anything he say He could do?

See the power of the belief is not I'm just believing because

there's a lot of worldly things we all believe in.

Like we don't even question it. We don't question who the chef

is in the back. We don't question who the pilot

is in the front. Some of y'all watch this.

You don't really have no high requirements for who you date.

They need to be killed. You not really put no pressure

on them to find out the deep deep things.

And then you surprised when it come out later after you didn't

have sex or after you married. Why are you surprised?

How you going to be mad that they didn't volunteer

information you just believed. Watch this, watch this.

You ready? Some of y'all believe in

people's potential more than you believe in God's evidence.

Can I come to this side? Can I come to this side?

Can I come to this side? That's two chips in a bowl of

dip right there. You believe in that, that you

believe in that boy's potential more than you believe in Jesus.

Evidence. That's somebody say that's crazy

right there. That's that emoji when the

brains blew out. Think about what you put your

belief in, right? Belief carries power, Belief

carries energy. And look at where you're

spending your energy, right? Like, like, like, like you ain't

prove nothing to me, got my guy. My girl, you ain't prove nothing

to me. And then you mad when a job want

to do a background check you don't really want no job.

They doing their job. What if you applied that

principle to your life? How far would you be and how

less hurt would you be if you did background checks, right?

There's people that go to this church.

You ain't even looked at the website.

I can go to our website and let me tell you, you're going to

find everything you need to know about this church.

I promise you. Because when we made this, when

I made all the information, I wanted to make sure before

anybody came and wasted their time, they knew everything we

believed. We didn't just put a cool vision

up there for you. Go look at what we believe.

Do a background check. Some of you have investigated

Jesus and it's still not enough. OK, I got to move on.

I got to move on. Say I believe but help my

unbelief. Oh, this is going to be a good

day. Why you didn't repeat that.

Amen. God, watch this.

This is what we've been saying. This is a few things.

I I I've revised a few things that I've been saying God this

is all he's saying help my unbelief.

God I believe, but there's some areas my belief is just a mess

and I struggle believing. Can can I get a Hey man, if

that's not you. If that's not you though, if

that's not this is me talking OK, but I know some of y'all in

here talking. I don't got it all together and

I am tired of acting like I do. When are some of y'all going to

get tired of acting like you got it together?

Do you got anybody in your life you could talk to and say my

faith is struggling? Watch this.

To be honest, sometimes it's easier to just let me be than

ask me to believe. You know when God just come up

on you and just ask you to do something you like for real God,

like I don't have you ever told have you ever told God in your

spirit? I don't feel like it.

All right, watch this whenever the pastor or a leader that's

represents the Lord asks you to do something and you say I don't

feel like it. Guess what, if they were doing

the work of the Lord, you told God you didn't feel like it.

Were you ever in your heart God, God challenged you on something.

He brought a situation in your life and you like, I don't feel

like believing if it worked at work, God, God brought you a job

opportunity and you like, well, if it's mine is mine, but I

don't feel like going to the interview today.

He he be then to ask me to believe.

And that's how I feel sometime like I just want to be.

I'm be trying to just want to be like I don't want to believe for

that. I don't want to believe for

this. I don't, I don't want to have to

see because belief takes accountability and

responsibility and effort and it takes patience and endurance.

I, I, I can't afford. There's too many things in my

life I cannot afford to stop believing.

Because the day I stop believing is the day the enemy gains a few

more yards in my watch. This not in my life, but in my

progress. Right there there.

Look, anytime you choose to believe, there's always

progress. Watch this.

Progress happens underground first.

Progress happens in the invisible realm first.

So I'm here to encourage somebody.

If you believe in it, don't matter what you can or cannot

see. All right, I got to keep going.

Just because my faith is weak does not give me a license to be

emotionally irresponsible. Like today, I don't feel like

believing. So you know you're going to get

this work. Mess with me today if you want

to, right? Watch this.

Do you understand that belief in faith, your attitude has a lot

to do with belief and faith working.

Because the entire Kingdom, every principle in the Kingdom,

is birthed out of love. So watch this.

The fruit of the spirit is love. There's no plural there.

And then every other fruit comes out of the fruit of love.

So here it is the way. Watch this.

Love is the fuel to my endurance or my long-suffering.

This is why while you're waiting, the enemy wants you to

get offended. Watch because offense sucks the

fuel out of your in your, your, your, your long-suffering.

OK, OK, keep it going. Just because my faith is weak

does not give me the a license to be emotionally irresponsible.

Watch this. Today's goal.

Today's goal is to get my and your faith fired up.

Say fired up. Another word for fired up is

activated. Somebody say activated.

Today's goal is to get my faith fired up, to get my faith

flowing down and to get my faith flourishing wide right.

I I want river faith, not well faith.

I, I want river faith. I want faith that impacts people

around me. I want faith that goes into

nations that I'm not even my feet not even in right now,

right? I want my faith to impact

generations. So today's goal is to get my

faith fired up, flowing down and flourishing wide.

You with me. All right, let's pray this

prayer. Lord, help me believe in every

area. May I never get weary in the

well doing of believing. Watch this.

Belief comes by choice. Faith comes by hearing they're

heads and tails of the same coin, right?

Faith. Faith puts the legs, it puts the

work, it puts the action to my belief.

Watch this. I can believe.

I can believe laying down. I can't really have faith laying

down. I got to actually do something

about what I believe. You believe in Jesus.

Everybody would say not everybody but a lot of you would

say yeah, OK, what you doing about that belief in Jesus?

Are you doing what he asks you to do?

And if you not, the question is do you believe them?

The reason why I forgive my spouse is because I believe what

Jesus say, not because I believe what her say.

You get what I'm saying. See, some of y'all only do God

things if people are acting godly.

No, no, no, I do God things because God do God things to me.

So I'm forgiving you because he forgave me, not because you're

forgivable. All right, I'm just trying to

help some bitter person in here today.

Hallelujah. Lord help me believe in every

area. May I never, ever, ever get

weary in the well doing of believing.

Hallelujah. Watch this.

Here's the thought today. Here's the thought today.

Don't, don't, don't brush. The last couple weeks we've been

talking about this unbelief. Last Wednesday we talked about

huh, yeah, Abraham and Sarah. Whoa, it was so good.

And Wednesday we going to pick back up on Abraham and Sarah,

but I got kind of arrested by this other story that was

similar. OK, as we're talking about our

unbelief, let's look at God patterns and how he responds to

certain actions. There's some consistency from

old to new and how God responds and relates to his children and

how his children should relate to him.

Watch this as the wind blows and as the oil pours in this season

and as the power surges. Remember this, the oil is

cheapened. Next slide, the oil is cheapened

and power is short circuited where preference and fear is

elevated. We got to get out of this

preferential Christian. Oh, I, I go to one church and I

respond this way because they more like me.

And then I come to this church and I kind of struggle

responding because I didn't grow up like that or right.

We have preferences, therefore we're asking God or a church for

preferential treatment. And the oil is cheapened and

power is short circuited where preference and fear watch this

is elevated. I'm not saying preference is not

experienced in your heart or fear is not in your heart, but

where you elevated, where you elevate your fear, where you

elevate your insecurities and where you elevate your

preference. The oil on your life is

cheapened and the power is short circuited.

Watch this y'all remember to say you, if you got this, just in

general, you got this so we can move on.

OK, here we go. Let's pick up here about this

time next year. Elijah said you will hold a sun

in your arms. Watch her response.

No my Lord, she objected. You should shoot him my woman.

Now mind you, in the 1st 7 verses, Elijah just comes from

this this this powerful miracle that had to do with flour.

And some oil, right? And then we keep he he Then God

tells him to go on. And we have that.

We have this encounter where we see Elijah doing his God thing

and this woman, this Shudamite woman and her husband in the way

of something they didn't ever think would happen, ever think

they need it or ever thought God saw them fit to carry it.

Watch this. He says about this time next

year Elijah said you will hold a son.

Somebody say hold a son in your arms.

He get into the mama's heart right here.

You going to hold a son in your arms?

She shouts out no, she objected. Please man of God, don't mislead

your servant. Watch this.

This isn't Once again we saw we saw Sarah laugh right?

We see Mary and how she respond about getting pregnant with

Jesus. Here's the shoot of mine woman.

She is not rejecting Jesus but her hope has been deferred.

Watch this. And she has found comfort and

peace after her hope has been deferred for so long.

So what she's saying here, don't mislead me.

Do not make me believe for this. Do not stir up my faith, Andrew.

Do not ask me. She understands.

For this promise to come to pass, she has to activate her

faith so she realizes this is the impossible and she knows the

scripture, although it ain't written yet that anybody that

believes right. She understands belief is the

requirement for the impossible and she like I'm good Sir, watch

this. Don't mislead your servant, but

the woman I love how I just went from her to but the woman became

pregnant. Hey, when God ready to move, he

ready to move, OK? But the woman became pregnant

and the next year about that same time she gave birth to her

son just as Elijah had told her. Be careful ignoring what the man

of God tells you going to happen and when it happens you

surprised. God tells us this part is

important. Just as Elijah told her, just as

the messenger of God told her, just as the man of God warned

her. Watch this, whether you want it

or not. If God said it's coming, it's

coming, whether you like it or not.

If God said it's coming, get over it and get ready.

Watch this. You got to learn to learn how to

carry the burden as much as you want to carry the blessing.

Watch this and if you really understood God, you would

understand every burden he gives you is the blessing.

None of his blessing comes without a burden.

That's why he says, take my yoke upon you, right?

My yoke is easy. My burden is what lie.

Your burden is heavy. The stuff you worried about and

caring about and getting into is heavy.

Watch this Watch this. I love this.

I love this. Watch this.

This is my intro because we go from verse 17 all the way to

verse 2817 to 2817 to 28. Watch this.

She said, did I ask you for a son?

She got a low attitude right now.

She got a low attitude. Somebody say rightful Lisa,

right? It's not just she had a baby,

but she had a son. And in that time, what a son

meant that came with even greater responsibility.

But the but the fact that God brought her a son meant that God

had some generational plans for the bloodline.

Did I ask you for a son, Sir? She said, my Lord, she wasn't

talking to Jesus, she was talking to Elijah.

She said, did I ask you for a son, my Lord?

She said did not tell you. Don't raise my hopes on if you

can live through this moment while you're believing, you will

see it on the other side. Watch this.

It's not belief until you reach the point of hopelessness.

But keep on believing. There comes a time in your

belief where you're going to have to make a decision to keep

believing. It's not believe in boom

promise. No, it's believe all hell break

out. Believe it get worse sometime

believe right the help walk out on you.

Believe however long it takes it, however it looks.

Believe. Don't don't raise my hopes.

See you see this. Help my unbelief.

Don't raise my hopes like I've been good.

I've been, I've been good. Watch, watch this.

I've learned how to go without blank.

But what if you've just got settled in learning how to live

without? Then God brings it to you.

Are you ready for that? Might that be the whole idea

that you discover God wanted for you versus it's your desire?

I need to know what God want. Don't raise my hopes, Lord,

watch this. You may not like what God's

doing now, but keep believing you'll like what's next.

Him I talk to anybody this morning.

You may not like what God's doing now, but keep believing

you'll love what's next. Faith isn't finished when things

die. Faith is proven in the waiting

and the returning. Come on, talk to me, somebody.

Faith isn't finished when things die.

Faith is proven in the waiting. Faith is proven in the

returning. Somebody say father help my

unbelief. Watch this.

Now we're going to start and bring some context.

One day Elijah went to shoot him and a well to do woman was there

who urged him to stay for a meal.

Watch this. Elijah leaves a woman of poverty

and now he here. Here's something about to happen

with a woman of wealth. Because God provides on every

level, right? One woman, she just needs, she

just needed some provision for a few things in her household.

Watch this. This woman got everything and

thinks she don't need nothing else.

Watch this. Who urged him to stay for a

meal? So whenever he came by, he

stopped there to eat. He stopped there to eat.

He stopped there to eat. God will always provide for his

servants. Watch this.

She was wealthy, she was influential, and she was well

respected. She was wealthy, she was

influential and she was well respected.

She had folks, she had resources, she had power.

She had no needs. So she thought, she said to her

husband, I know that this man who often comes our way is a

holy man. Say she had discernment, she

recognized the holy man and she recognized good ground.

She recognized good ground. So she said let's make a small

room on the roof. So let's make a small room on

the roof and put it, put in a bed and a table, a chair and a

lamp for him. You see this, you see this, you

see this. She goes to her husband.

She says this man comes here pretty often and he passes

through. He's a man of God.

I understand. Watch this that in the ancient

Israel hospitality that providing a room for someone

with sacred duty, it expressed covenant, it expressed loyalty

and reverence towards God's messages.

Watch this, it expressed covenant.

So when she made room for the man of God, she entered covenant

with the man of God. This is very important.

She didn't just say, oh, that's my past.

No, no, no, no. She created space for him.

So she entered covenant. She created room in her life for

the man of God to rest and it expressed covenant.

Somebody say covenant, watch it. Then he can stay here or stay

there whenever he comes to US. Watch this say whatever there it

is say always. So she didn't just make pull him

out a little cushion for the night.

She made a room for his call. You got to get this.

You got to get this. You got to get this.

Say, watch this, watch this, say see when God gives you an

opportunity to sew for a future need.

All she doing is being generous and she like we going to create

a room. Watch this.

One day when Elijah came he went up to his room and lay down

there. She built Elijah room.

Watch this. This is very important principle

that you need to get for today when you make a room.

And when she made a room for the man of God, it signified long

term commitment, not an overnight stay and honor towards

God's presence. She understood she wasn't making

room merely for a man, she was making room for a man who

carried God's presence, but it signified long term commitment.

So we see these two words, commitment and covenant.

Watch this. Some of y'all don't realize how

much you need your pastors beyond Sunday.

Whatever church you go to, watch this verse 12.

He said to his servant Ghazi, call the shooter Mike.

So he called her and she stood before him.

Elijah said to him, tell her you have gone to all this trouble

for us. Watch this.

She's pulling on the anointing. Are you here?

She's pulling on the anointing. Now the man of God says, man,

you've been so generous. Watch this.

Now what can we do for you? Now?

She's calling, causing the man of God to go within himself and

pull on his resources, which come from the Lord.

Come on, come on. Can we speak on behalf to the

King, On your behalf to the king or the commander?

This is very important to you guys of the army.

He's trying to figure out a way to bless her, because watch

this. She has everything.

So. So what can we do for you when

you don't need nothing? So you think, watch this, she

replied. I have a home among my people,

my own people. Watch this.

She has an opportunity to be upgraded.

She has no need for upgrade, so she thinks.

But watch her humility, she said, I don't need anything.

I'm good where I'm at. I have a home among my people.

I'm well liked, influential. I'm well loved.

I have purpose. OK, she says this May I

paraphrase. I'm good, I'm content.

Follow me. I'm good.

I'm content. I'm good, I'm content, Watch

this. The moment God brought me not

just a pastor, but a man and woman of God in my life that was

custom for who I was. I realized I wasn't as good as I

thought because clearly God put somebody on a mission to pull

something out of me. I have no need or have no clue

that I need watch this. She says I'm good, I'm content.

Why she says this? I have nothing else I'm

believing for. Be careful the day you stop

believing. Not only be careful what you

believe in for, but be careful the day you arrive and you like

I'm good, got my job, got my, got my spouse, got my car

financially free, got my church home, like I'm good.

The work of God is to believe. So let get watch this.

When you stop believing, expect some work to come since your

belief is unemployed. God about to God, God is about

to employ your unbelief. OK, watch this faith without

works. In other words, faith without a

job is dead. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK watch

this verse 14. What?

What can be done for her? What can be done for her?

Elijah asked. See, she ain't got no needs,

Geheza said. She has no son.

She has no son and her husband is old.

What's this? God?

I know it's inconvenient, but God just trying to bless you.

God trying to bring you something you gave up on.

What's this? She has no son and her husband

is old. Then Elisha said, call her.

So he called her and she stood in the doorway.

And then we picked up on about this time next year and she

said, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't play with me.

You. You see, when it was about all

that she had in her comfort, she was like, I'm good.

I just want to be a blessing to you.

I just want to serve. I'm good.

Man of God struck a nerve, fear got stirred up, anxiety got

stirred up. She said do not mislead your

serving. And we read before where she

said don't give my hopes up. Watch this.

Here we go. What do you do when you're good

with what you have and where you are?

And God says wait, but there's more.

What? What do you do?

Watch this. And you don't get to choose the

blessing. Watch this.

What do you do when the God you say you trust disrupts the

rhythm you proud you built? Can I talk to you today, this

good Sunday shining morning before it start raining?

What do you do when the gods you say you trust disrupt the rhythm

you proud you built? Chica BA Bakashi, watch this.

What if the disruption you're avoiding is the deliverance

you've been awaiting? Oh, man, what if the disruption

you're avoiding is the deliverance you've been

awaiting? Second Kings 40, I mean, Second

Kings 420, says after the servant had lifted him up and

carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap.

And we'll get to that in a second.

Until noon. He sat on her lap and then he

died. Watch, watch this.

She had time to hold the promise.

She had time to fall in love with the promise.

Then he died. And you see, when God blesses

you with something, be careful how tight you hold it because

there's a day you're going to have to lay it down.

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

What do you do? Here it is, EJ.

What do you do when Ephesians 320 turns into Proverbs 1312?

Ephesians 320 is exceeding abundantly above all that we can

ask, hope, think, or imagine. Proverbs 1312 is hope Deferred

makes the harp sick. What happened when the exceeding

abundantly above all that we can ask for, think for desire, for

it comes in our life. And then that same promise is

the very thing that causes my hope to be deferred.

When promises die, emotions take the will.

Emotions will always attempt to lead our faith when promise and

clarity tarries. Verse 17.

But the woman became pregnant. We got that.

Verse 18 Here we go. The child grew and one day he

went out to his father who was with the Reapers.

Watch this. He was out there with his

father, big enough to work. He said to his father, My head,

my head, my head, my head. His father told the servant,

Carry him to his Mama. He just got a headache or he was

like that boy, just he just, he just he performing, he don't

want to work. What's this?

Carry him to his Mama after the servant had lifted him up and

carried him. Watch this.

Oh, I just saw this. I just saw this.

But I also can see how the father was like this.

Her problem. She the one got a word from from

from the man of God, like we both was good.

I'm old, you see, they said he old.

He old. I'm old.

I ain't got time for all this. So send it back to her, right.

Be careful who you get in covenant with.

Can they handle the unexpected blessings of your life right?

Watch this. My mom, my, my wife met me in

the club. I wasn't talking about preaching

pastor in Canada or nothing. Amen.

Praise God, he, he is good. He works all things together.

But guess what? This was not in the the picture.

But thank God that there's something in her that can handle

the unexpected blessing. Watch it.

He says the boy sat on her lap until noon and then he died.

She went up and laid him. Watch this.

She went up and laid him on the bed.

Watch this of the man of God. Remember long term commitment

covenant. This is almost like when when

Peter lent his boat to Jesus for a season.

You might be sewing, not knowing the very thing you sewing is the

bed for your miracle. She she went up and she laid him

on the bed of the man of God. Then watch this, she shut the

door on the devil, watch this, watch this.

Then shut the door. And when I watch this, Denny,

watch this. She put the dead thing in the

room and shut the door and walked away.

It's going to be exciting. It's going to be exciting.

It's going to be exciting. Then shut the door and went out.

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

She didn't allow frustration and disappointment to bury her

promise. She just laid it down.

Watch it. She did not bury the promise.

She just laid it down. Somebody say lay it down.

Watch this. She didn't prepare for a

memorial. She prepared for a miracle.

I'm trying to help somebody in here.

She prepared for a miracle way too often.

Soon as it don't go right for you.

You have a memorial because you had a bad day.

Well, how did I have a memorial, Pastor?

With what came out of your mouth, you cursed it.

You buried it instead of speaking life to the dry bones.

You get what I'm saying? She did not have.

She did not prepare for a memorial.

She prepared for a miracle. Here it is now my belief got to

work. Unbelief can say it's over, but

your actions can say not today. Some somebody just say not

today. Watch this.

She put the dead thing in the same place the promise was first

spoken. See on I'm coming for you today,

girl. She put the dead thing in the

same place the promise was first spoken.

Watch this. She took the dead thing back to

the Word. Watch this. 2nd Corinthians 10.

Take every word, everything that comes against the word of God.

Carry it captive. Watch this right.

She put the dead thing in the same place the promise was first

spoken. This is why we Stewart the

prophetic word here. It's because no matter how weary

we may feel, the word keeps us going, right?

The the, the spoken word of God is the defibrillator to a weary

heart, right? It don't matter if it takes four

years for the building next year.

If God said it, it's coming to pass.

Come on, it's coming to pass. Watch this.

Faith isn't pretending it didn't die.

It's just decided to lay it where it can live.

Am I talking to somebody? Whoa.

Faith is not pretending it didn't die.

You're right. It's not going my way.

You're right. I'm broke.

And you, you right. I lost my mind.

You right. I am grieving.

You right. You right.

You right. You right.

But I will not lay it in the grave.

I will lay it where it can live. Somebody say put it back where

he spoke it. She goes on.

She called her husband and said please send me one of the

servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and

return. Look, where's she going?

She was like you didn't came in my life.

I'm not just laying you in the prophet's room.

I'm going back watch this. I'm going back to the place

faith originated right? Because I didn't ask for this

anyway. So let me go get the man of God.

Watch this. This is why you got a partner.

You need purpose partners. Some of y'all ain't got nobody

in your phone except the pastor and I don't even know how you

got his phone number to call when you get in trouble.

Like you don't need your best friend if your best friend ain't

best friends with God. Because what I'm trying to

believe for right now goes beyond our relationship.

And if I don't get the man of God or the word of God, then our

relationship, you might lose a friend.

We got too many convenient friends.

Then we got covenant friends. Watch this.

Why go to him today? Why watch her husband?

Watch her husband watch her husband.

She trying to do things decently and in order.

She say why go to him today? Today is the best day to

believe. He says it's not the new moon or

the Sabbath. Somebody say so.

She said watch what she say. Watch what she say.

That's all right. She said watch this.

You got to tell when people speak out to you, Nicole, this

is your new words today. That's all right.

I don't even know why I told you that's OK.

You, you, you would not understand because God, that's

my I repent for sharing with you what God said with me.

Can you, can you just repent today for sharing with people

that can't handle the spoken word of God?

Come on, Father, I repent today for sharing the Word of God with

immature ears. Not ready ears say that's all

right, that's all right, that's all right.

Watch this. I might not never share nothing

else with you again. That's all right.

Watch this. When the blessing you didn't

want or ask for dies, can you still fight for it to live?

That's a question. Watch this because this is the

moment where she could say, I didn't ask for this in the first

place. So now I can get I'm, I'm

grieving because I fell in love with this little boy, but now I

can get back to how life was. Watch this.

Now I can go back to Egypt. Egypt had provision in it.

Egypt was comfortable. It got comfortable, but God

said, no, no, no, no, you need to go through this wilderness.

So let me set you free so you can go into what your unrenewed

mind will will see as bondage. Watch this, watch this.

Because they thought freedom was just getting out of Egypt.

You think if you get delivered tonight, that's freedom.

The Bible says if the truth sets you free not a worship night

after that demon go guess what you got to get that truth.

TRUUUF watch this. When the blessing you didn't

want or ask for dies, can you still fight for it to live?

Because watch this because now the promise is an assignment.

You thought it was a son. God gave you an assignment.

I don't know who watching right now, but maybe you should

realize that burden right now that you carry in is an

assignment because now the promise is an assignment.

God, he's licked. He's licked like that.

Now watch this. Now you got something to believe

for you didn't even know you needed this assignment.

You didn't even know you needed this 4.

Years to wait for that building. Watch this If I never had that

assignment, I would not be perfected like I am.

Watch this. One translation says she said it

is well. Another translation said it will

be all right. Say she talking crazy right now.

Somebody say her son is dead right now.

Watch this. Although her heart was failing,

her tongue was facing. Although her, her heart was

failing her. Her tongue was faithing.

Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing.

Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing.

Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing.

Watch this. She wasn't in denial.

She was declaring and decreeing under duress.

Sometimes your tongue has to lead your heart back to faith.

Can I help? Can I help you believe?

Like you need some people to deny to, to to say you tripping,

right? I like it.

Is it faith if everybody around you is like, let's go.

Oh, absolutely it's going to happen.

No, I I need to hear somebody doubt me.

Right. A good faith check is when

people say you crazy for believing that.

If I was you, I wouldn't do that.

Say thank you for confirmation. Watch this.

You can't always trust your mood, but you can tame your

mouth. Come on, come on.

You can't always trust your mood, but you can tame your

mouth. Tell yourself, tame your mouth.

Tame your mouth, Right. She Moody right now.

Wouldn't you be? I go from being cool, having a

kid. The kid sits on my lap with a

headache. I'm I'm, I'm.

I'm rocking him. And then he dies on me.

What I'm going through all kinds of feelings now I go to my

husband and tell him to prepare me a ride, call a Uber.

He like not right now. I'm like, boy, please, I got to

go right because it's urgent. Watch this.

Be careful when the enemy gets you in conversations when you

should be prophesying. Be careful when the enemy trying

to get you in conversations and explain.

This ain't the season to explain yourself.

This is a prophetic season right now.

This is a prophetic season. Watch this.

So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.

When she, when he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to

his servant, he's like, look, look, look, there's the shooter

Mike. So clearly he went on.

He went on, did his thing and then she ran and found him.

He said, look, look there she go run to meet her and ask her, are

you all right? Is, is your husband all right?

Is your child all right? He like something's going on.

Is she all right? Right.

Is she all right? Everything is all right, she

said to Kahezai. She she.

I ain't come for you, Kahezai. Thanks for caring.

I'm good. She like I'm good.

I could just see her right now. He just like, is everything OK?

And she like, yeah, I'm good. And she just keeps on pushing.

Watch this. When she reached the man of God,

though, she took hold of his feet.

Sound like the woman with the issue of blood.

When she saw the man of God, she came fully surrendered and

humbled because she knew he was packing something for her.

She took hold of his feet. Gaheizai came over.

Watch this. Remember, the room represented

commitment and covenant. Watch this.

She didn't know she was going to need this moment.

She thought she was being generous.

She took hold of his feet. Gaheizai came over to push her

away. Come on them boys are always

hating that, that sound like Jesus disciples.

But the man of God said leave her alone.

That sound like Jesus. Elijah was the type of Christ.

Elijah was the type of Christ. Watch this, leave her alone.

She is in bitter distress. This is very important.

This is very important, but the Lord has hidden it from me and

has not told me why. Sometimes you believe you, you

want a word, but God is hiding that word from the messenger so

he can reveal it to you. Because what he gots to say got

to come from his mouth directly in you, right?

Some of this stuff is you, you you have to seek his face.

And so the man of God says, I don't know what's going on.

Why, Wait a minute, you God told you I'm about to have a child,

but he ain't going to tell you I lost my child?

The Lord, watch this. If the Lord told him what

happened, she would not have had to seek him out.

The mystery produced the pursuit.

That's the word He said. I don't hide it from you to to.

I hide it to reveal it. Watch this.

She gets into the man of God's presence.

Remember, it's a type of Christ in in the shadow, a shadow in

type of Christ. Watch this.

In his presence, you can push past the barriers of your pain.

Rafa can carry your pain, but not if you want to coddle your

pain. He can carry your pain, but not

if you want to coddle it. Watch this.

Faith is faith. Facades crumble in the face of

heartbreak. So you can, you can, you can

hide all you want to, but when that heartbreak come, the true

you watch this and the undealt with you and the unrenewed mind

of you will be revealed. And some of you are walking in a

season and you are a hot mess because for a while you've been

acting like you got it all together.

Because that thing or that he or that she was in your life Now

your life is a wreck because the thing then died.

But the Bible says when you find me, you'll find you.

Did I ask you for a son? My Lord, remember that she said

I didn't ask for this pain. Didn't I tell you don't raise my

hopes? Elijah said to Geheza.

I tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand

and run. Got all that little extra robe?

Tuck it, brother. It's urgent right now.

Watch this. Some of y'all want a miracle,

but you just chilling. Some of y'all want to change

marriage, but you just chilling about it.

You're not hungry, you don't want to change.

You throw up some little old prayers and you just like God if

you want it to work. What do you mean?

It's his will. He don't got to say nothing else

to you. He don't need to promise you

nothing. You just throw your little

prayers up. You won't come to prayer on the

weekend. You don't come to midweek

service. You're not doing the extra stuff

that that that says I'm hungry. And so sometimes God got to put

something in your life or take some out your life that will

produce urgency because you're just chilling about your

salvation. Tuck your cloak.

Don't greet anyone you meet. Watch this When I'm believing

for a miracle, my conversations decrease.

Not everybody can have my time when I'm believing.

And if anyone greets you, do not answer.

What does he say? That's not of God.

What are you talking about? My son is dead.

I don't got time to talk about what you want to talk about.

And if I leak out my pain to you, you might not handle it.

So I need to hold on to my pain and turn it into faith and hope

and belief. And if I share it, I'm going to

share it to somebody that's going to ignite my son back to

life and ignite my hope back to life.

So he says, lay my staff, my staff on the boy's face.

But the child's mother said, as surely as the Lord lives as you

live, I will not leave. So he got up and followed her.

The Hazai went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but

there was no sound or response. He put the staff, he took the

man of God's staff, put it on his face, but there was no life.

So geheza, I went back to meet Elijah.

And for you, your dream catcher won't work.

It's going to come a time where them rocks ain't going ain't

going to talk back to you. And if they do, they're going to

speak confusion. There's we're in a season where

only the presence of God will be the authenticated power that

works. The staff is symbolic authority

and it didn't work. The staff was a form of

godliness. Them crystals is a form of

godliness. You know, genealogy is a form.

It ain't it ain't the real thing.

So Gehazai went up, went ahead and laid the staff on the boy's

face. But there was an Gehazai met

him. He won't awake.

The staff represents symbolic authority.

And when Elijah reached the house, say when Elijah reached

the house, remember type of Christ foreshadowing the

presence of God is now in the place.

There was the boy lying dead on his couch.

He went in and he shut the door on the two of them.

Not even the Mama was in there, not even his servant.

And he prayed to the Lord, he shut the door.

Make sure all the doors are closed.

When you're believing for something, watch it.

He got on the bed and he laid on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to

eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on

him, the boy's body grew warm. Come on, Lord Spirit of

Revelation, you like? Oh, that's weird.

He laying on the boy. You are missing the prophetic

implications here. This is a shadow and a type.

Watch. Watch this.

Elijah turned away and walked back and forth in the room, and

then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more.

The boy sneezed 7 times. Somebody say it's finished.

Whatever the spirit of death had to come out of that boy 7 times

means completion and opened his eyes.

The Presence which is actual authority and actual anointing.

We can only experience the life of Christ to the degree we are

willing to live in contact with Him.

Watch this. If you let him over shadow you

alive, you go. Elijah was overshadowing the

boy. What presence is overshadowing

you? Fear, anxiety, worry.

Mammon, what's overshadowing you?

You would say this, if I never had the son, I wouldn't have

ever had this problem that that sounds about right, but watch

this. But if I never had the son, I

wouldn't have ever known the father.

The problem I tried to avoid led me to the promise that filled a

void. I didn't know I was trying to

replace my belief with comforts and God had better plans.

I didn't know I was trying to replace my belief with hopes God

had better plans that came in the form of greater pain.

I was replacing my comfort or my, my, my, my, my belief with

comfort and that's what a lot of us are doing.

If I get a job, I don't got to believe for this.

If I get more money, I don't got to believe for that.

If I get a house, and that's the problem with this region, some

places in this region you don't want for nothing.

Vancouver, you like I got this money.

I don't. I don't.

What I really need God for church.

Faith isn't the absence of unbelief, it's the presence of a

decisive dedication to move on God's Word despite unbelief.

You can cry and kick on the way to your miracle, but don't stop

believing. Somebody say don't stop

believing. Watch this her relationship.

She went from reliance to reverence to relationship.

Unbelief, who may this bless your soul?

Unbelief may write a few chapters, but God has pinned the

end of the story. Come on, lift your hands up

right where you are. God will always restore the

seeds He plant. Unbelief may have written a few

chapters in your life, but God has pinned the last chapter.

Faith, lift your hands, does not deny death.

It defies its finality. Come on.

And even for you, if you have something that you need to come

alive right now, you can stand to your feet, you can bow, you

can do whatever it is. But faith doesn't deny death.

It defies its finality. It defies its finality.

If he said it, I don't care if it's dormant right now.

Prepare yourself. And for some of you, you've been

in this season where it feels like nothing is moving.

But what if I told you your transformation is the thing

that's moving in your life? Come on.

So when the promise shows up. And when he breathes on it and

we going to get to it in the next experience, this young boy

is brought back to life. Don't be mad because you.

Tasted it and then it went dead. The question is when it

resurrects, Are you ready for it?

Because maybe watch this. Maybe God brought it into your

life to show you it's yours. To tell you what he can do.

But the moment it died, maybe God is saying you not as ready

as you thought. I'm not taking it.

I'm preparing you to steward it. So whoever I'm talking to, I

speak to your spirit. Now, whatever God has promised

you, if it has been life, if it has been healing, if it has been

your family restored, if it has been great provision, if it has

been freedom from mental illness, whatever it may be, if

you heard God say it, I don't care if you have not saw it, my

words for you today is get ready because it's about to resurrect.

Come on, get ready because it's about to resurrect it.

It might be. It might be a business.

Get ready, it's about to resurrect.

It might be a strategy. Watch this.

It might be a book. You may have lost the child.

I don't know what it is, but do not faint.

It's about to resurrect. It may be a career that

seemingly died, but get ready, it's about to resurrect if you

get that phone call today. Have you done the work to handle

that $1,000,000 contract? Have you done the work to handle

that Boaz that God is going to reveal you to?

Can you handle that family that God's about to restore?

Can you handle that husband that's about to be on fire for

Jesus while you've been complaining?

Can you handle their transformation?

Come on, lift your voice. Is this about to resurrect?

It's about to resurrect you at home, it's about to resurrect.

Come on, your hope is about to resurrect.

Your faith is about to resurrect.

Come on, your joy is about to resurrect.

The calling on your life is about to resurrect.

Watch this. The opportunities are about to

resurrect. The money is about to resurrect.

The healing is about to resurrect.

The wholeness is about to resurrect.

Your relationship with your children is about to resurrect.

The relationship with your spouse is about to resurrect.

Come on. God's not done with you yet.

God is not done with you yet. God is not done with your

business. He just has some things to

handle inside of you because you are His business.

So get ready for Him to stir up ideas for the business that you

was ready to lay down. It's about to resurrect.

This is why you got to be careful.

Rushing into your Ishmael. Though the vision may tarry, it

will come to pass at its appointed time.

Come on the. Career is about to resurrect.

May you be impregnated with faith that it's about to

resurrect. And there are some things that

watch this will stay in the tomb, but I hear in this hour

God is calling Lazarus back out of the tomb.

Come on, what's your Lazarus? What's your Lazarus?

What's your Lazarus? It's about to resurrect in Jesus

name. Let it be.

Watch this. There's some relationships

that's about to resurrect. Let it be this time you get in

that relationship. Be who God's called you to be in

that relationship because it's about to resurrect and maybe

you're in a season where the thing just died.

Let it be in Jesus name. In Jesus name, Come on, say I

received it three times and give God some praise.

I'll receive it. I'll receive it, I'll receive

it. Come on, give God some praise.

Give God some praise. Come on, give God some praise.

It's about to resurrect. Come on, it's about to

resurrect. I'm speaking that over myself.

T it's about to resurrect. Julia, if you watching it's

about to resurrect. Richmond family.

If you watching it's about to resurrect.

Yes, it's about to resurrect. Come on, speak into it.

That career is about to resurrect.

That opportunity is about to resurrect.

Father is about to resurrect. Love quest is about to

resurrect. The building is about to

resurrect. It's about to resurrect.

It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect.

It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect.

It's about to resurrect. Your relationship with your

parents is about to resurrect. Come on.

Your health is about to resurrect.

Maybe, maybe you healthy, but you got a sick parent.

I dare you to declare over your father or over your mother's

health. It's about to resurrect.

Your health is about to resurrect.

Your sanity is about to resurrect.

It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect.

Look, look, look, look. All the generous people.

You know where to give. If you want to give, you can

give. You know where in a Remnant

campaign, Watch this. The building is about to

resurrect. There's people who gave up on

this community, but this community is about to resurrect.

Watch this man I felt a couple weeks ago I I felt I felt I was

at the end of my rope, but man, I went to a man of God and there

was some impartation that took place and I'm here to announce

to myself that the anointing on my life has resurrected.

Watch this and it's greater. Watch this.

Nothing that God resurrects comes back the.

Same. So get ready for greater,

greater strength. Come on, greater anointing.

Come on. Greater wisdom, greater ideas,

greater opportunities. It's about to resurrect and it's

going to be greater. Watch this.

It's time to go. I don't want to give you no

announcements. No, I don't want to give you no

announcements. If you want to know what's going

on, we got an information table out there in the tent.

You can follow us on Instagram. But I feel like for some people

there's a praise in them and I'm not about to do this little

administration stuff. I'm going to leave you with

this. Watch this.

We are out of time, but God is not out of resurrection power.

Until next time. Thank you to all you first time

attendees, but until next time, get your love fixed, man,

because it's about to resurrect and it's coming back greater.

Somebody shout out it's about to resurrect.

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

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