Help My Unbelief - Dynasty Wednesday 10.22.25 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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The father instantly cried out. I do believe, but help me

overcome my unbelief. The father instantly cried out.

I do believe. Somebody shout out.

I do believe, he said. But help me overcome my

unbelief. The amplified classic says it

this way. At once the father of the boy

gave an eager, piercing, inarticulate cry with tears.

And he said, Lord, I believe somebody shout out I believe.

He says constantly help my weakness of faith say I believe,

but a little louder say I believe but help my unbelief.

Tonight just talk to you from this topic of help my unbelief.

To start off, there's three areas I feel like if we are

going to receive help for our own belief, we need the HS to

the grizzle. So somebody say H to the

grizzle. OK, Number one, you need hunger.

A lot of people say they want help but aren't hungry for help.

OK, I need I I need a hunger and thirst for help.

I need a hunger and a thirst for help.

Look, I painfully need to mature.

That's my posture is I don't just need help out of a

situation because here's the truth is some of us sometimes.

Need help to stay in it and not run from it.

Somebody just say help me stay in it.

Come on, say help me stay in the tension.

Watch this. Help me where I don't have

understanding. If you're not afraid to say

that, go ahead. I painfully need to stay in it.

Somebody say painfully #2 I need honesty.

I, I got problems and I need help.

Lot of people want help for some stuff and that ain't the area

they need help in, right? Right.

I I need help with my root system, not my fruits.

OK? I got problems and I need help,

and nine times out of 10 I don't need you to help me where I'm

at. I need you to help me in the

area that got me here. Am I talking to anybody?

Help. See a lot of times therapists

will get the fruit of what's going on but we not honest about

how did I get in this stupid situation in the 1st place?

How did I get broke? How did I get my heart broken

again for the fifth time? How did I get in this situation?

Somebody say I need help, bad look at your neighbor, just want

one eye and say you do too but I didn't want to tell you that but

you do too. Number one, you have to hunger

for help #2 you got to have honesty.

You got to be honest that you need help and #3 humility to

receive help. I'll humility is saying I'll

remain hungry and honest in the process.

How many people understand real change is a long process right?

Sometimes I need seasons of help because the person that helped

me when a cycle started is burnt out and helping me when the

cycle about to. End so I need some in the season

help. Am I talking to anybody?

I need some end of season help. I don't need burnt out help when

God's about to break me out. I need end of season help like

I'm right there and you sitting here like again, no, I don't

need again. I need I need fresh perspective

in a old problem that I have because God is right there.

Somebody shout out Fresh hope. You give me just a tiny bit more

volume, just just this on me, because my voice is my voice is

tied. God, this is this is kind of

I've been to this place and let let me just go over this real

quick. I don't want to rush past it ate

still a grizzle #1 hunger. I painfully need to mature.

That's that's my posture. If it ain't, you need to mature.

Because we don't have a problem knowing who else need to grow

up. The issue is, is you know what?

I don't care if you grow up or not.

Because I painfully need to grow up and every ounce of energy

that I have, I need to invest it in my change.

Somebody shout out hunger #2 honesty, I got problems.

Watch this. Watch this.

Do not amplify somebody else's problems, but minimize yours.

I got for real problems. I got a bad, really bad

attitude. Not a bad attitude when no, I

got a bad attitude. I got a foul mouth, whatever the

case may be. It's not I got a foul mouth.

When somebody push my butt, you know I got a foul mouth.

What period? Somebody say period and #3

humility. I'll remain hungry and honest.

So I need to add honesty to my hunger.

If I can't be honest, then I'm not.

Humble. Yeah, write that down.

If I cannot be honest, I cannot be humble, because if I am

dishonest, watch this dishonesty is a form of pride.

OK, Sometimes you're in this place.

God, I believe. What did he say?

I believe? Here it is.

I want to catch a few things here because we've seen this

scripture over and over and over and over and over.

Then we thought it was a scripture about him not

believing. No, no, no, no, no, no, He said.

I believe but I need help with my unbelief.

Follow it God I believe, but there's some areas I'm just a

mess, I don't got it all together.

Or have I figured it out? Father help my unbelief.

God, I believe, but there's some areas I'm just a mess.

I don't got it all together nor do I have it figured out.

So Father help my unbelief. In other words, I might have

belief in one area but unbelief in another.

So I can't just be like, I believe in Jesus.

What, what, what area? You believe he died in rows?

Do you believe he's a healer? Do you believe he's a provider?

Do you believe He can save your marriage?

In other words, God wants us to believe in every area of our

lives, not just some areas of our lives.

And what I have realized in this last season of 4/5. 6.

Years or whatever it is, is that God?

I do believe you, but there's some areas I may not.

So let me humble myself and say God, although you are blessing

me, although you are maturing me, although you are promoting

me. Maybe I have a hidden issue in

my life and maybe I don't believe you as much as I

thought. I'm just going to preach to

myself, maybe I don't believe you as much as I.

Maybe I believe you a lot in one area, but when it comes to this

area, maybe I believe you for a certain period of time.

But when stuff start taking too long, my belief gets exposed.

And sometime God don't mind you waiting so he can expose your

lack of belief in an area because you might go to the next

season thinking you believe God and when that big storm come,

you're going to find out you didn't believe him in the 1st

place. So he is kind and he is gracious

to say I know you ready to go. But your belief is based on

sight. Where we going?

You can't believe because you can see.

You can't believe because you can feel it.

You can't believe because they like you.

Where we going? I need you in this season to

practice not seeing. And how am I going to practice

not seeing? First I got to admit I can't see

1st I got to admit that I do not believe in this area.

Pull the signs and wonders away. Do I believe, pull the the faith

talkers from around me do I believe and I am understanding

in this season why we are waiting.

Look, look, look, look, look, we're not not in that building

because we not doing something. We not in that building because

there's things out of our control.

So I'm not sitting here thinking, oh crap, what else do

we? We need a lot of money, but what

else do we need to do? Why we didn't turn that

paperwork in. We didn't do no, no, no, no, no,

no. Pay attention and stop getting

antsy and understand sometime you are a part of divine delay

and learn to understand that it is a blessing because God is

keeping you from something. Now I need you to go through

this wilderness. Yes it's longer but if I take

you shorter you going to faint quicker.

So you want to faint faster or you want to develop under

pressure longer? Watch this.

You got to start desiring better.

For your faith. You got to love yourself enough

to know you are wait. You are worth being waited for.

See the issue is we want to arrive somewhere quick.

We want people to know us quick. We want people to see our

anointing quick. What God is trying to finish in

you. Is worth the wait.

Watch this Fruits ain't never spoiled because you wait.

Watch it. God, I believe, but there's some

areas I'm just a mess. I, I I don't got it all together

nor have I figured it out. So can we look at this scripture

in some context? He says I believe, but I need

you to help my unbelief. Let's go back up to verse 16.

Jesus and his buddy Peter, James and John just comes off this

mountain of transfiguration. They have an encounter.

Somebody say encounter, come on encounter.

They come off of this encounter. These three disciples walking

with Jesus. And and Jesus comes off the

mountain and and no sooner he come out of a glorious time.

Watch this. What is all this arguing about?

Jesus asked one of the men in the.

Crowd spoke up and said, Teacher, I brought my son so you

could heal him. I brought my son so you could

heal him. I brought my son so you can heal

him. Let me break it for you.

I came to. Church so I can get help.

I came to counseling so I could get help.

I prayed so I could get deliverance.

Jesus, I brought my son so you could what heal him.

I came to Jesus so he could what heal me.

Watch this. But he comes down and instead of

his son being healed in Jesus hearing about disciples who are

demonstrating what they saw their rabbis show them and teach

them. He see, he sees what argue in I

brought my son so you could heal him.

Watch this. He is possessed by an evil

spirit that won't let him talk, and whenever this spirit seizes

him, it throws him violently to the ground.

Then he foams at the mouth and grinds.

His teeth and becomes rigid so I asked your disciples to cast out

the evil spirit. Everybody read that next line

with me. I asked your disciples to cast

out the evil spirit, but they they.

Couldn't do it, so Jesus takes 3 on a little field trip with him.

He leaves 9 and whoever they disciple and and nobody could

perform a miracle. Watch this for today.

There are things that we keep bringing Jesus that he has

anointed you to handle. Watch this and how the anointing

is compromised is we get caught up arguing over stuff that don't

got nothing to do with the possessed, with the lame, with

the sick, with the blind and at the whole at this time families

remain in bondage because disciples is arguing.

Watch this. As much as we want to point to

Jesus, please do. But there are things in these

last days that will not happen without His disciples walking in

the anointing that He has given us.

There are friends and family that will go to hell if His

disciples do not witness to them.

There's a whole city that will remain cold on the way to hell

if his disciples that he has anointed do not do the work.

See. But they couldn't, though, watch

this. They couldn't one more time say

they couldn't do it. They could.

He empowered them. He empowered them with his

anointing to cast out demons healed is sick.

He like I'm going to take these three with me.

We about to go up here and we're going to have a conversation go

see a few things and you guys are more than equipped to handle

whatever comes your way because I am with you.

Watch this Jesus said to them. You faithless people, you

faithless people, you, you lack of belief, you faithless people.

Now I have the room to believe. He wasn't just talking about his

12. He's also talking about the

people that's connected that have seen because it's not just

the elder job, the clergy job. It's anybody who knows Jesus who

walks with Jesus. He has anointed filled with His

Holy Spirit and have put power upon you to if a if a sick

person comes, if a lame person comes, there is faith that

should be had that this person if I'm the only one around.

And I know Jesus, his anointing's on me then then,

then there's a belief and a faith in me that should says you

faithless people watch this. How?

Long. Must I be with you?

He's letting you know. He we see it throughout.

He's leaving, but the ministry should go on.

He's saying, look, if you don't see me around, healing is still

available. You don't, you don't.

You don't if, if I go for a walk, I can't go on a walk

without the devil showing up and turning everything upside down.

He says, how long must I be with you?

How long must I put up with you? Watch this.

Bring the boy to me. But watch this Bring the boy to

me is not saying I know y'all couldn't do it.

Bring the boy to me is since y'all didn't or since y'all

can't since y'all don't believe right?

Bring the boy to me. So they brought the boy.

Watch this. But when the evil spirit saw

Jesus, it threw the child into OK, here we go.

When the evil spirit saw Jesus, it wasn't a physical demon, it

was a evil spirit saw Jesus. And that evil spirit was on the

scene with his disciples. Why are they seeing disciples

without Jesus? So they don't see Jesus till

Jesus show up. Now watch this here.

We are New Testament believers and we got the Holy Ghost in us.

So anytime you show up somewhere they should, demons should see

Jesus. They brought the boy.

But when the evil spirit saw Jesus, he saw something

different. He saw faith.

He saw a son. Watch this.

It threw the child into a violent convulsion and he fell

to the ground, rithering and foaming at the mouth.

Watch this. Watch this.

Police pay attention. Freedom and deliverance and

revival is not often the immediate result of the presence

of Jesus. Because watch this, the demons

saw Jesus and his response wasn't leave the boy alone, his

response was to cause chaos. See, some people get to running

when chaos. Breaks out not realizing Jesus

just showed up. That's why chaos broke out.

See Jesus chaos broke. He was born in a Manger.

See, they looking for this big glorious arrival of Jesus, and

they missed him. And some people miss Revival

because they thought Revival wasn't connected to Chaos.

So, so, so, so, so, so. But when the evil spirit saw

Jesus, it threw the When the evil spirit saw Jesus, it threw

the child into a violent convulsion.

Why is that the response? Why not when you see Jesus,

demon, why you just don't leave? Because you know what time it

is. Can the believer see that

sometimes when chaos may break out is when Jesus might be most

present? OK, put me in the fiery.

Furnace. It was a fourth one in there.

Watch this, If I'm not mistaken, Bible readers, they opened the

door. The response to Jesus getting in

the fire wasn't the door opened, they was walking around the fire

and the King opened the door. If he had not opened the door,

how long would Jesus had to stay in there with him?

Remember what you said earlier? I need help to stay in this

thing. He fell to the ground with the

ring. Freedom and deliverance and

revival is not often the immediate result of the presence

of Jesus. Some would hear me saying that

revival doesn't happen when Jesus is present.

That's not what I said. Read it right.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom available.

It don't mean everybody free, it just means freedom is present.

You get what I'm saying? Freedom.

Is present like Peter. The Angel came, took the

handcuffs off of him, Peter sitting there still.

Freedom was present. Peter needed to get a little

compelled to get out of the prison.

He was so comfortable in the prison, he didn't realize his

change was broken. He was keeping himself in the

prison. Watch this Freedom deliverance.

Revival is not often the immediate result of the presence

of Jesus. We say revival is landed.

Yeah, landed. But we don't want revival to

just land. We wanted to spread.

Revival can land. But is revival in you?

It could be in this room, but it can be great worship, but is it

in you? It could be great word, but is

it in you? Right.

And a lot of times we don't see a move because God is still

trying to get in. How long has this been

happening? Jesus asked the boy's father.

He replied since he was a little boy, Since he was a little boy,

the spirit often throws him into the fire or into water trying to

kill him. Have mercy on us and help us if

you can. Somebody say if you can.

Now watch this. Watch this since he was a little

boy. And I would like to relate this

to every person in here, starting with me.

Since I was a little boy, the enemy or the spirit has tried to

throw me into stuff. I don't know about you, but for

sure me. I didn't got thrown into some

hot messes. Some stuff I chose and some

stuff I'm like, how did I get into this?

Because there are spirits that have been hanging on to my life

since I was born that have been throwing me.

It may have not been a fire, but it could.

It might as well have been trying to kill him.

Since you was born. The enemy's been trying to kill

you. Have mercy if you can, Jesus say

what you mean. I would like to believe that

Jesus got a high pitched voice at this point.

What you mean if I can, Jesus asks.

Anything is possible if a person believes.

Somebody say help my unbelief one more time.

Help my unbelief anything is. Possible.

If a person shouted out, come on, anything is possible.

If a person believes, the impossible is possible.

If a person believes not. If Jesus believe.

If you believe anything is possible.

The father instantly cried out, Shouted out.

This side is real loud. Shout it out.

I do believe. I just need like three or three

to five people that, that, that I'm trying to help somebody

right now, not throw all they belief out, right, Because

there's some areas my belief is stronger than yours.

And if you start belief comparing, you disqualify where

you do believe. And if we all really got in each

other's life, there's some areas you believe more than I believe.

I'm here to tell somebody hold on to what and where you do

believe while the other areas of your life, it catches up in the

area of belief. This is why we need to be around

each other because everybody measure a belief is is greater

than then somebody's in some area.

Somebody shout out help my unbelief freedom deliverance

revival is not often the immediate result of the presence

of Jesus. Watch this.

There's a grace to keep you while you wait and he shapes.

See sometime T Roy they they wonder that it's it's we

question if he's present based on signs we see.

Here's mature faith. He's present because I'm alive.

He's present because I showed up witty.

How do I ever question his presence when he lives in me?

There's a grace to keep you while you wait and he shapes.

Matthew 14 says this When evening came, the disciples came

to him. Watch this and said this is a

remote and barren place. His here, His here, His

disciples go again, this is a remote and barren place.

Watch this and the day is now over.

So not only is it barren, ain't no stores open for for us to

even make something happen. No food insight, no stores, all

the restaurants closed and there's no natural habitat for

any anything. To be, to, to grow.

So they saw no possibilities. But what did we just read?

Anything is possible for those that what believe.

So, so it's evening time, it's a remote and barren place.

It's it's far out. It's like being somewhere

stranded on the Coca Hola that is that accurate, like Coca Hola

at night time right now. OK, remote and barren place and

the day is now over. Send the throngs away into the

villages to buy food for themselves.

Watch Jesus response. Jesus said they do not need to

go away so he sees something totally different.

They got all the facts. No faith.

Jesus say no, they do not need to go away.

These faith arguments, Jesus is happening what they do not need

to go away. I heard a man of God say this

the other day. He says immature disciples are

always trying to send the problem away, right?

Because if the problem, if I don't, if the problem goes away,

I don't have to deal with the impossible.

Right, right. If, if, if, if something seems

impossible, might the last thing you have not tried is believing.

Watch this. You can try everything and still

not believe Jesus. To be honest, a lot of times

we're avoiding believing Jesus because believing Jesus requires

accountability. It requires change.

There's no way around it. If I could believe Jesus and

boom, he changes my results right away, I probably would

believe Jesus. But how long do I avoid

believing Jesus? Because I.

Know what it costs. They do not need to go away,

right? And So what happens is we often

get into making it happen versus waiting for him to make it

happen. You give them something to eat.

Watch this, he said. You give them something to eat.

What's this? Don't stop eliminating yourself

out of the equation of transformation in your city.

You give them something to eat. Watch this Jesus understands

where their mindset is. He understands they lack faith

and he still says you, you. I know you don't believe it can

happen. But I'm still giving you the

challenge. See, you thought that your lack

of faith was going to get Jesus to skip you.

You thought your lack of belief was going to get Jesus to pick

the next person in line. Watch this, he says.

They said to him, we have nothing here but 5 loaves and

two fishes. Somebody say Jesus is waiting

for your. Excuses to stop?

Right. They didn't say we, we, we got

nothing but 5 loaves and two fish.

But we got Jesus, right? Because you can't say Jesus and

nothing but in the same sentence, unless there's nothing

but the blood you, you can't say we got Jesus.

But no, no, no, no. All I need is Jesus, period,

Point blank. Watch this.

Watch this. Ain't this familiar?

Bring them here to me. Jesus always got to deal with

it. OK, fine.

You, you, you still bring them here to me.

Bring them to me. Watch this.

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass.

Somebody say order. He ordered the crowds to recline

on the grass. And he took the five loaves and

the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks.

Somebody say thanks, he blessed it.

Somebody say he blessed it, he broke the loaves and handed the

pieces to the disciples. Watch it.

He blessed it, then he broke it, then he distributed it.

OK, watch this. I'm gonna go back to, I'm gonna

go back to, to, to a statement that I gave you there.

There's, there's freedom. And deliverance and revival is

not often the immediate result of the presence of Jesus.

There's a grace to keep you while you wait and he shakes.

Watch this. The immediate result is not

always freedom. It's not always deliverance and

it's not always. Look, Jesus been dealing with

you with that demon all this time.

You don't think he can go a few more months with you and the

demon? Jesus is not in a rush because

he he knows an immediate deliverance is only going to get

you so far. And if you rushing for an

immediate deliverance, an exorcism versus exercising the

word, He wants you to hunger and thirst him.

Not an exorcism. Jesus, know that seven times

stronger is on the line. Watch this, Watch this.

What did he say when he said he said he ordered him?

Watch this. Here's what often happens when

he comes on the scene. He blesses it.

If you go back and look at Lazarus, he showed up and he

said he started praising the Lord.

What bro can you? He did and he stinketh.

Now you want to have a praise party?

First thing he did was he blessed it there.

There's a cultivation. Before you see the fullness of

your freedom, you have to cultivate Thanksgiving.

You, you watch this. You have to learn how to bless

what ain't enough. You got to learn how to be

grateful for your insufficiencies.

Watch. He gave thanks.

He blessed it. Watch this.

Then he broke it. Now, now, now.

I need to cultivate a lifestyle of Thanksgiving to keep me

through the breaking. Because until you not ready for

distribution, until the blessing and the breaking, and then

there's the distribution. OK, David, you anointed to be

king. What happened?

But you still got to go back. Tend them sheep.

Go scoop that poop. Go on, tend to them sheep.

Although I bless you, I need you to develop a rhythm of gratitude

for your not enough season. Develop a rhythm of gratitude in

your I can't see it season. Develop a rhythm of attitude in

your It don't make sense season. And then he handed the pieces to

the disciples, and the disciples gave.

Them to the people. I'm here to tell a few of y'all,

you're not ready for distribution until you bless the

Lord at all times and you start resisting the breaking.

See, I need, I need, I need, I need to develop the rhythm of

gratitude. So when I'm being broken, I

still think he's good. I don't.

I don't get offended when I'm being broken.

I don't get offended when things aren't going my way.

I understand that I am in a situation where I don't have

control, where I don't understand all the time.

I understand that is my breaking season.

God is breaking me down, right? Breaking you is not always about

making you sad. Sometimes it's making you OK not

having control. Breaking is not all about this

like beating. You see how you you think

breaking enslave mentality You you think he has a whip and he's

breaking your spirit. No, he's building you up.

So everything that gets in the way of you looking like him

sounding like him, right? It it, it has to be broken.

Off of you. So, So you think breaking is

punishing when in all actuality, breaking is a part of the

blessing? What?

No, no, no, I'm not going to let you take that stove.

And since you got a habit of stealing candy all the time, I'm

going to have to break your sweet tooth.

You you're not getting a whooping or you're not getting

sugar taken out the house because you're a bad person.

You're a kid. You don't understand the dangers

of your habit, so I got to break it.

You don't understand the dangers of me coming into your crib and

picking you up every time you cry, so I'm going to have to let

you go nights and seasons where I let you cry and be offended

and think I'm not a good, good father because I let you cry too

long. You see, you see, there will

always be the cycle of blessing and breaking thorns and triumph

in the ministry of perfecting sons and daughters.

There will always be the cycle of blessing and breaking, psycho

blessing and breaking psycho thorns and triumph in the

ministry of perfecting sons and daughters.

Watch this. David was anointed and then he

had to return the tending. Lazarus was sick.

He died and he rotted. Then he resurrected widow woman

down to crumbs, then up to overflow.

Jesus persecuted, beaten, crucified and rose to glory.

The ministry of the breaking. Get that on your tongue.

The Ministry of the Breaking is designed to cultivate and

produce the Ministry of the Anointing.

There is no anointing without a breaking.

You want oil, but no breaking. You want power, but no breaking.

You want a ministry, but no breaking.

He says Take my yoke upon you. Carry my burdens their light,

because you have my yoke. What's my yoke?

My anointing, the ministry of the breaking is designed to

cultivate and produce the ministry of the anointing.

What's this? John 6 says this.

Then they they asked him, what must we do to do the works God

requires? Watch this.

Don't you like this? Do the do.

That's how much we just want to do, because we want to do the

do. Instead of glory to glory, we

want to do the do. What must we do to do?

We just want to do all the time. Lord we we how many people know?

Even if he let you do don't mean he using you.

So if you have minimized doing to being used, you're being

played. You you never want to develop a

rhythm of doing as evidence God is using you.

Then they asked him, what must we do to do the works God

requires? Watch this, Jesus answered.

The work of God is this to believe you, you.

You want to be so busy doing you got hard enough time believing.

The work of God is this. To believe The work of God is

this, to believe, The work of God is this.

Watch this. The reason I do everything I do

is hopefully you believe, but you just want me to keep on

doing so we gonna have to pause right here because you ain't got

enough belief and you want me to do bigger and bigger and bigger

and your belief ain't matching my doing.

I brought you out of nowhere, that should equate to you what?

Believing I saved your marriage, that should equate to what?

You believing. I woke you up this morning, that

should equate to you believing I broke the spirit of addiction,

That should equate to you believing.

You tried to kill yourself, but I kept you alive, that should

equate to believing. When is my goodness going to

equate to believing? That's why I woke you up this

morning hoping you believe. That's why I said you last

night, hoping you believe. The breaking is for believing

The breaking is for believing the breaking is for believing.

The breaking is not for promotion.

The breaking is for believing. Promotion is inevitable for

belief. This is why I say seek my

Kingdom first. All these other things, No, no,

no. You got to be concerned if you

get to the mountaintop without believing.

You got to be concerned if you get that, that, that, that

promotion. And it didn't take no belief.

If you arrive and doubt with your seed, then he said watch

this, watch this, watch this. Then he said to Thomas, reach

out your finger hill and see my hands reach out your finger

hill. Come on over here and put out

your hand. Watch this and place it in my

side. Watch this.

Sorry, sorry. Reach out and put out your hand

and place it in my side. Do not be faithless and

incredulous, but stop your unbelief.

Watch this, he said. Stop your unbelief.

Whoa, that's huge. You stop your unbelief.

Faith comes by hearing unbelief comes by.

Stop it, stop it. Somebody shout out.

Stop it now, but stop your unbelief and shout it out.

Believe. Watch this.

Thomas answered him. My Lord, my God, that sounds

like some of them. My God, the hole is in your

hand. My God, he really think he just

had an encounter but instead of getting a blessing he just got

rebuked. Watch it.

This is a rebuke, not a blessing.

It is more of a rebuke than it is.

He found out that Jesus was telling the truth.

Some of y'all think because some of y'all don't realize.

Watch it. That evidence is sometime a

rebuke, sometime when God shows up and because you begged and

you were scared, it was a rebuke, it was not a blessing,

and you walk away having the blessing and without like, like,

like here. Peter fell to his face when

Jesus blessed him with all them fish and said, Lord, I am so

unworthy. We celebrate the stuff more than

we do conviction that we didn't believe.

So we just happy in a relationship with somebody just

giving us stuff, then being convicted that wasn't.

Faith that got it to us. It was a pacifier.

I mean, I don't want a pacifier. Blessing.

Watch this, Watch this because you have seen me, Thomas.

You. You do You do you.

Now believe I almost hear him like OK, is that good enough for

you since I gave it to you. You good.

You wanted it you you needed it. You.

You just made OK here, now are you happy?

See, you were so desperate for God to do the thing that he

knows even when it shows up. Now, are you happy?

You thought that was going to solve your your problem, huh?

Watch it, Watch this, he says. Blessed and happy and to be

envied are those who have never seen me and yet have believed

and adhered to and trusted and relied on me.

You see this hero, blessed and happy and to be envied are those

who ain't never seen the breakthrough.

Ain't Cain, but you believed. They hurt you but you believed.

They lied, but you believed. There is no sign of blessing and

promotion and and change. But you believe and yet have

believed. And you adhered to and trusted

and relied on me. Watch this.

No greater belief than belief when you don't see.

But I just choose to believe. I choose to believe God.

Is in it. No, no, I I don't know when they

didn't told us when they told us one day didn't they like oh now

the spring. OK blessed oath.

If if Can you imagine if my faith and my belief was based on

timelines man gave me watch this.

If you believe God, you'll be less disappointed.

Watch it. Watch it.

And yet have believed Watch this What happens when it don't make

sense? Question What happens when it

don't make make sense? Watch this.

When it don't make sense, be careful making it make sense.

Be careful making it make sense. Oh, this is wisdom right here.

When it don't make sense, be careful making it make sense.

Shaka Khan, I've been there. When it don't make sense, be

careful. Trust in your sights.

Watch this When it is sightless. We need stillness.

Right. I can't see my way.

I need to be still. Watch it.

Follow me. Follow me.

Follow me. Watch this.

Watch this. Watch this.

Watch this. Whoa.

This is going to bless you. If it don't, Oh well, it blessed

me. Watch this.

Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to them walking on the lake.

What I want you to see what that say in yellow.

Jesus went out to them. Somebody say that with me.

Jesus went out to them little louder.

Jesus went out. This is going to bless your soul

because it bless mine. OK Shortly before dawn Jesus

went out to them Jesus one more time.

Jesus went out to them walking on the lake.

He just took a unconventional route.

OK hitting it away. He didn't take a car, donkey or

nothing. He just, I'm just going, I can't

wait for no Uber. I'm just going to walk on this

water real quick. Watch this When the disciples

saw him walking on the lake, the disciples what saw him walking

on the lake, they were what terrified.

Somebody say terrified one more time.

Say terrified one more time say terrified.

It's a dose they said and cried out in what fear.

Somebody say cried out in fear. One more time say cried out in

fear. Watch this, say prayed in fear,

say worshipped in fear. OK, watch this, watch this.

But Jesus immediately said to them.

Jesus immediately said to them, while they were crying out

worshiping, praying in fear, watch this.

He said, take courage, talk to me.

So what did he say? What did he say?

One more time, everybody, He said what it is, I don't be

afraid. Somebody say, period.

What did Jesus say? Take courage.

Those were Jesus's words. Watch this, Peter says.

If it's you, I ain't never saw this before.

Peter is putting in a request like Thomas did.

Watch this. Peter replied.

If it's you tell me to come to you on the water, watch this.

Jesus said come. He didn't say come on the water

now cool. Just just, just just say Jesus

said come on the water, watch this, Peter said.

Jesus told Peter and all the guys in the boat, he said take

courage. In other words, watch this.

Let's go back. Let's go back.

I'm getting all antsy. Is the watch.

This watch this watch What does this say in yellow?

Jesus went out to them. Jesus was on the way to them.

Jesus was on the way to them. Jesus was on.

Jesus was on the way to them. Waiting takes courage and a lot

of us start moving and shuffling because things are breaking out.

Things seem chaotic, but God has never been more present at Love

Quest. Then listen, The enemy wants to

break chaos out because he knows the word is about to come to

pass. Watch this, watch this.

Jesus went out to them. Jesus was on the way to them and

he tells them what? Take courage.

That wasn't good enough for Peter.

He needed Jesus to double down instead of taking courage.

He prayed a prayer or made a request out of fear.

Oh God, he said, come watch this, watch this, watch this.

Then Peter got down out of the boat.

Peter got down out of the boat. Peter got down out of the boat,

walked on the water, came toward Jesus.

But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink,

cried out, Lord, save me. Watch it.

I know Jesus believed I've been human in a while and I've been

on water. Jesus knew this brother wasn't

going to make it. You better get this picture

because you got to get out of this type of relationship with

Jesus when he will. Or I heard his voice, but

sometime you hear his voice so he can show you this ain't the

way. So he will say, come on.

You think it's a you think because, he said, come on, it

was a blessing, but you're about to go through a season just to

find out this was your way, this was your.

Timing. Then Peter got him in.

But when he saw the wind, when he saw the wind, he was afraid.

Watch this fear creeps in when you know you don't step out on

faith. Right, he's in feet.

He got out of the boat. On on, on, on on.

Fear. Just because God gives you a

sign, it does not mean you got faith immediately Jesus reached

out his. Hand and caught him you you have

watch what do you say you a little faith.

Watch this. You didn't see we focused on the

sinking. Jesus is saying you didn't.

When I told you to take courage, you couldn't wait.

You you couldn't sit. I was on my way.

You couldn't just wait. So now you trying to make me

perform a miracle in front of all these witnesses?

Because you want a movie, You want all these types.

No, no, no. He say, he say you little faith.

Why did you doubt when I told you to take courage?

Why did you need another sign? Watch this, watch this, watch

this. Stepping into the impossible

doesn't just doesn't just require great faith, but it

requires great hearing. This is super important.

Stepping into the impossible doesn't just require great

faith, but great hearing. Watch this.

I am about to bless you guys right now.

Jesus is going to bless you more.

Watch this. Great hearing is the difference

between exercise faith and executed faith.

What do I mean? Look, take it, take it from me.

I have exercised my faith and sometimes in exercising my

faith, I didn't execute. We have to get into executed

faith, meaning we have to be more precise in hearing because

look, God will use your five years of wondering, but you

don't have to have five years of wondering.

And a lot of times we are just super happy when God turned it

around or he's working everything for my good.

No, I don't need some things to be worked for my good.

I just need to be still and and walk in the good, not have him

have to turn it around all the time.

So great hearing is the difference between exercise

faith. Peter had exercise faith.

He's like, tell me to come. OK.

Oh, OK. I didn't believe.

My bad. That's why I'm thinking because

I didn't really step out on the word.

I stepped out on a response from God.

That was a that was a reply. You know how you reply to

somebody? Peter said.

Hey, if that's you holler at your boy.

He was like, OK, reply, that's me, come.

Anytime Jesus is responding to your fear and frustrations, it's

a reminder he is Savior. No, but watch what I'm telling

you. Watch, watch this.

Listen. Anytime Jesus responds to your

fear and your frustration, he has to remind you He's Savior.

Peter needed Savior. Watch this.

Anytime Jesus is responding to your faith and fervor, it's a

reminder He's Lord. Peace King.

I'll end it here. Most blessed is the man who

believes in, trust in, and relies on the Lord, and whose

hope and confidence the Lord is. For he or she shall be like a

tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the

river, and it shall not see and fear when heat comes right.

It shall not be moved, but its leaf shall be green.

It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought,

nor shall it cease yielding fruits.

Now you would think after that scripture is some more about

your belief, but watch this. The heart is deceitful above all

things. You, you think you believe it.

You think Jesus is calling you out because he wants you to

really walk on water, but he's at he's saying come on out so I

can expose your lack of faith that I was on my way.

I was on my way, but you got anxious and you needed me to

perform some tricks and magic. So if it's really you, tell me

to come. All right, come on.

No, I'll do this. I I walk on water.

That's not where you belong. Peter didn't even count the

cost. He didn't realize Jesus as the

ego asked Jesus to to bring him into the impossible.

I don't need that test. Just sit my butt in the boat and

wait because he's on the way, Love quest, He's on the way.

Come on, lift your hands. He's on the way.

Come on, Father, we thank you. Just begin to open your mouth.

Come on. We need believe.

Help my unbelief. I don't want to be anxious.

I don't want to be anxious in my weariness.

I don't want to be hasty in my weariness.

Lord, God, help us take courage while we wait.

Help us be still when it's unclear.

Come on, help my unbelief. Come on, help my unbelief.

I realize, Lord, sometimes my fear.

Takes the place of your voice. Sometime I think it's you, but

it's my fear talking, it's my doubt talking, it's my

insecurity talking. Lord, the last thing you said

was wait right here. I'm on the way tonight.

We believe God, we believe God. Come on Saints, we believe God.

We will wait right here with great patience, great endurance.

Lord God, we will let patience have it's perfect work.

So in the end, we will lack nothing.

Lord God, forgive us where we've been impatient.

Forgive us where we've been hasty.

Forgive us where we've been in a rush.

Forgive us where we did not have courage while waiting.

Come on, Courage to wait. Courage to wait.

It takes courage to wait because while you wait, you might got to

fight a little bit. While you wait, it may look

doubtful. While you wait, you might not

see no signs of nothing. It may be droughts, it may be

barren, everything may be closed.

The sun is coming down. But the Lord says to you, Love

quest tonight, take courage in the waiting.

Take courage in the waiting. Take courage in the waiting.

Friends may come while you're waiting.

But take courage. Friends may go while you're

waiting. But take courage.

Take courage. Take courage.

Take courage. Come on.

Take courage. Tonight, I'm taking courage.

Take courage, take courage. Take courage.

Take courage. Take courage, Take courage.

Sometimes I realize my impatience made me think.

I can see I made sense out of a situation.

Instead of being still, I made sense.

I made it work for my sense. I made it work for my

understanding. Be careful manipulating

yourself. The heart is deceitful.

I've been there and I've done that and there's times he's

still working it out. And I thank God for the

humility, the ability to hear stay in a posture of God.

I need help you asking me to do the impossible.

Pastoring is an impossible task. Feeding the sheep till he return

is an it is a supernatural job. At times you're trying to make

sense out of it. Be careful convincing yourself.

Convince yourself that the best thing you can do is wait on the

Lord. He knows best that Scripture

goes on to say. He knows the heart.

He tries the heart. The weight is not about the

thing. The weight is not about the

promised land. The weight is about us becoming

sons and daughters who have the mind of Christ who bear His

glory. The weight is not about a job.

The weight is not about a spouse.

Be careful asking the question, Lord, if that's you.

Be careful, Lord, we thank you in this hour for patience.

We thank you in this hour for great faith, the gift of great

faith. We thank you, Father, that our

waiting will be a great witness. People are watching how we wait,

and then how we wait is how we talk.

It's how we look, It's how we love.

It's how we move. It's how we sit still.

It's how we pray. It's how we endure in our

worship. You're waiting.

Could be your greatest witness in this season.

So Lord, we thank you that while we wait, people see us get

stronger. While we wait, people see us get

wiser. While we wait, people see our

love game get stronger. While we wait, people see our

hope gets deeper and more anchored.

Lord, thank you, We will not be moved.

We will stand still. We will stand firm.

We will get through the ribbon together in the name of Jesus.

We thank you for it now in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. Come on, if you've been blessed,

if you've been in power tonight, come on, give God some praise.

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