Perfecting: In and For the Wild (Elder John Swain Jr.) // LUSH (Pastor Terrance Richmond) 9.7.2025 - 12PM

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Powerful morning this morning and the first experience and I I

believe there's some overflow and just want to I'm going to

move a little different today. I'm going to share something

really quickly just to get our minds and hearts in position and

then EJ is going to come up here and share and then we're going

to sing a little bit. Then I'm going to come up in and

share. We're in a very particular hour

of, of the world and the Kingdom of heaven.

I, I kind of look at it like this, but can a, a, a JT, can I

ask justice? Come up here real quick.

Come here, come here real quick. Come on, buddy, come here, come

here. So we're in an hour, we're in an

hour like, like God, God is really cool.

He'll let us like dress ourselves right.

He'll let us kind of make our own decisions and things of that

nature. But there's a, there's a time

where God gets very picky about our lives and very intentional

about our lives. And it kind of looks like this

is the hour I get where God is looking for sons and daughters

that will approach him with innocence and a pureness of

heart and desire for the Father's touch, right.

And it and it's kind of looks like this where the kid buttoned

up his own shirt. But then God comes in and it's a

season of details. He just right.

You ever have your parent tie your shoes?

You know how to tie your shoes, but they come and fix it for you

and he all right, all right, love you, boy, Go go bye.

More than that, or if you've ever seen you've ever like a kid

will poop on themselves and you're changing their diaper and

they're fighting you from getting the poop off of them.

We're in a very deep, a very specific hour, and not one

person in this house is smart enough, intelligent enough,

spiritual enough to overcome what God warns us about in the

last days. Without him and in, in the

fullness and the full counsel of His Word, there is going to be a

intellectual pride that rises up in the church, not merely the

world, the church. The Bible warns us that the very

elect, believers, leaders, people that was on fire, the

very elect in the last days will turn away.

There's levels to turning away. One is fully turning away from

the faith #2 there is a level of turning away where you have

tasted the pure truth, the holy truth, and nothing but the

truth. But as your journey goes, you

begin to mix truth. There's a third layer that you

begin. You don't walk away from the

faith, but your heart waxes cold and you become lukewarm.

You become independent. You become a doer of your own

thing, right? God has put the local church in

place for a reason, and he has given us gifts.

Somebody say gifts. He hasn't just given us men,

He's given us gifts. And the gifts he gave us, He

gave us 5. And those 5 gifts were for the

perfecting or the maturing of the Saints.

OK. He's given us the gifts.

He's given us the armor. And so today I believe the Lord

is speaking in a special way. I believe that all of us hear

differently. Holy Spirit helps us all here,

what God is saying in this moment, but we all have

different lenses, we have different contexts, we have

different processes of hearing. But what I do know is there's a

way that God talks to all of us that the average ear cannot

catch. Like like your ears cannot.

This is he doesn't. We're not hearing the same way.

So I'm gonna read a couple scriptures just to kind of set

the atmosphere in the sense of how your posture should be.

These are scriptures about posture.

OK, Psalm 24. Can you throw that up there

really quickly? And then I'm gonna put my phone

away. You just go through.

Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord or who

shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a

pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood, pride,

or ego, or what or or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully, he

shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the

God of His salvation. This is the generation

description. Watch this of those who seek

Him, who inquire of Him, who inquire for Him, and make

necessity of Him. Let me help you.

You cannot require, inquire, or make of necessity God without

making necessity of his entire council.

We don't. We don't pick and choose.

It's the entire council. It's the entire It's his blood,

it's his spirit, it's His Word, it's his name, it's his image,

it's his likeness, it's his fruit, it's his character, it's

his gift, It's all of him. OK.

And he said that it's going to be a group of people that seek

his face. OK, somebody say seek his face.

Next Scripture. No, no, no.

The other scriptures I gave you from this morning, Matthew 1617.

He tells Peter, flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but

it was my Father in heaven, or the Holy Spirit revealed this to

you, say revelation. And then in Zechariah 4/6 it

says not by might nor by power, but by your spirit, not by

might, not by ability, not by status, not by intelligence, not

by power, but by your spirit. There, there is a, there is

levels of receiving hearing intellect, but there is a level

that God speaks that you can only receive and only hear by

spirit. And those that are around you

are at the same frequency. Ephesians 117 hears the prayer

for today. Pray always that the God of our

Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that he may grant you a

spirit of wisdom. OK, I want to be careful with

this not wisdom there. The wisdom Solomon asked for was

to handle the affairs of the day.

Lord, how do I deal with this team?

How do I deal with this money? How do I deal?

It was practical wisdom that God says Any man that asked for

wisdom, he shows no partiality. He will give you wisdom how to

handle things. Then the Spirit of wisdom is God

Himself, His mind, which you cannot tear apart from the full

counsel of His Word. It is the Spirit of wisdom here.

It is. This wisdom requires revelation.

The way this is coupled is like the gift of tongues and the gift

of interpretation. You need both because together

they are prophecy, the spirit of wisdom and revelation, of

insight into mysteries and secrets in the deep and intimate

knowledge of Him. By having the eyes of my heart,

not the eyes of what my eyes can see, the eyes of my heart

flooded with light so that you can know and understand the hope

to which He has called you. You see the progression.

There is this encounter, then there's this knowing.

There's not this knowing to encounter.

There's this walking in the light, there is this walking

with Jesus. There is knowing his nature and

there is receiving the fullness of what he says we need.

What He has for us goes back to the five He says, so that you

may know and understand the hope to which has called He has

called you, and how rich He is, His glorious inheritance in the

Saints, and so that you can know and understand what is the

immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His

power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working

of His mighty strength today. My prayer is that you hear

beyond your intellect and you hear beyond your ability to

digest it how you digest daily information.

We're in a time the, the, the, the reason why I would say my

grandparents, great grandparents, their faith was so

strong. They didn't have as many

distractions. They didn't have as many voices.

They didn't have have as many resources.

They didn't have many options. There was a group of people, all

they had was Jesus. They, they couldn't call nobody.

They, they had to know Jesus right now.

They couldn't text, they couldn't do anything.

All they had was Jesus. There's parts of this earth

where the people, all they have is Jesus for us.

Jesus is not Northern American. They they, I was talking to the

team in the back, the privilege that North American Christianity

feels or has. Like there are people who will

walk five hours and beg the speaker to preach for five hours

only to walk back for five more hours in extreme heat, no shoes

to burn all that energy and only be able to eat very little.

Us, we in church too long. We're in a rush to get back in

our air conditioned cars, to go to an air conditioned house or

to sit down at some nice restaurant and eat some real

good food and and sleep. And the followers of Christ in

this city and in this country look a little bit different than

those who only have Jesus. And if not Jesus, their lives

are done. Paul writes letters from prison

with shackles on his wrist. We're in a time, guys, where we

have to be able to see clearly like never before.

We're in a time where we actually need the gifts that God

has called us to. I need my wife for wife things.

I need my pastor for pastor things.

I need my Mama for Mama things. I love how God gave me a Mama,

He gave me a pastor, He gave me a wife, He gave me kids, He gave

me elders and everybody plays a role in my life.

I don't got 2 wives, I don't got 2 pastors.

Be careful what you make your independent journey.

The things that God uses examples of, let's pay

attention, let's hear what Elder John, what God has to say, what

the Spirit of God has to say through this prophet.

I don't think we've ever done this before where he he, he took

some time to preach. I'm took take some time, but I

want you to understand there is a double anointing that is

speaking today and God is trying to really get something through.

I didn't know what he was going to preach about.

He didn't know what I was going to preach about.

He didn't know he was preaching until 15 minutes before service.

I ask that you, dear Lord, help us, help us this morning.

Let us have hearts of repentance.

Let us have eyes to see, let us have ears to hear.

In Jesus name, Amen. EJ.

Amen, Amen. That's worthy of a handclap.

And and again, Pastor, I thank you for the opportunity.

You know, it's, it's not often there's only very few people who

can say I play with greats. It's good that we got greats in

this house and I appreciate the opportunity to play with greats.

Thank you, Pastor, for giving me the opportunity to play with

you. As we share this word today.

The the context I want to give is perfecting the Saints.

We've been talking about that through Lush and things like

that. My title to anchor your thoughts

about what I'm talking about today is maturing, the maturing

for the wild and in the wild, Perfecting means to mature and

there's places you mature that are not in the wild.

That's for the wild, but you have to also mature in the wild.

That's one of the reasons I gave this picture here of this busy

intersection, because perfecting isn't always that thing you set

aside to do. It's something you have to learn

how to do even as you go, and so it takes a different skill, a

different approach. I want to start with the

Scripture of the foundation the pastors shared.

I'm going to share it with us again, Ephesians 4 verse,

starting in verse 11, it says this.

And he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some

pastors and teachers Speaking of Jesus for the perfecting of the

Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of

the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of

the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.

Unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the

fullness of Christ. That henceforth meaning from

this time forward be no more children.

The idea is that once you move on, you don't go back to being a

child, that you don't go back to milk, that you don't go

backwards. It's not.

Jesus didn't build us backwards. That's why our eyes are in the

front, our ears are faced forward.

We walk this way, we're built to move forward, that henceforth be

no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every

wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness of

men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

And I read the rest of this verse in the King James Version.

I also have it in NIV. I'm gonna go straight to the NIV

version. So instead speaking the truth in

love, we will grow to become in every respect.

The purpose of the perfecting in the body is to help you learn

how to speak the truth in love. We will grow to become in every

respect the mature body of Him who is the head that is Christ.

From Him the whole body joined and held together, but every

supporting ligament grows and built itself up in love as each

part does its work. We are part of a body.

We not as so disassociated from the head and never will be.

Now I want to focus a little bit on this verse 11.

And he said he gave some apostles, some prophets, some

evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of

the Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of

the body of Christ. Now, I think it's important to

understand you can have these giftings and work outside the

church, but it's important to understand the primary purpose

of these giftings was for the church, for the local body, for

the perfecting of people in this context.

OK, then those perfected people go out into other contexts, and

then that perfection shines and that's what draws.

It doesn't say for the perfecting of the Saint.

It says for the perfecting of the Saints.

You cannot be fully perfected on your own.

You cannot. It's not an independent study.

It's not I got I can do this on my own and by myself.

There's a perfection that comes within the context of us as a

community that you will never realize.

And when you find yourself trying to perfect yourself

outside of the context of the body, what happens is you are

you are changed. But when you come back to the

body, the bodies change and you don't fit the same way you used

to. And not because it wasn't

designed for you to fit. There was a place, but there's

some perfecting that comes only within the context of the body.

It doesn't say and I wouldn't you ready this if if if the

child is growing and their head is being perfected faster than

their body. One part perfecting apart from

the full context of the body usually say let's go to the

doctor. I don't know why your head is

bigger than the rest of your body.

That's an indication of a problem.

I don't know why your leg is bigger than the rest of the

body. That's an indication of the

problem of a problem. When there's an attempt to

perfect one piece on its own by itself apart from the context of

the body, it's usually an indication of a lack of health

within the context of the body. Perfecting is not an individual

work. As I said, it doesn't say also

for the perfecting of the Saints faith.

You can put the blank in there. It says for the perfecting of

the Saints, not of the Saints faith, not of the Saints hope,

not even of the Saints love. It's for the perfecting of the

Saint for the you. It's not for what you do.

That requires a different investment.

I can study and do things but not give myself to what I'm

doing. I can hide behind intelligence,

hide behind accolade, an accomplishment, and not give

myself to what I'm doing. But that's perfecting the craft,

not perfecting me, perfecting my performance, not perfecting me.

I'll say it this way, from Genesis, that's perfecting my

fig leaf, not perfecting me. You can perfect a lot of stuff,

but not perfect you. The perfecting of the Saints.

What these gifts are designed to do is perfect you, perfect us,

and perfect us collectively. Why is it important for us to be

together collectively? So I like American football.

Amen. Amen.

Myself, y'all too slow, Amen. I like American football.

And usually when they talk about football, they talk about

positions. There's a quarterback room where

all the quarterbacks are. There's a running back room

where all the running backs are. Why?

Because when I'm perfecting in the context of a team, I can

look at other people who like me and see, you mean you go through

this too? You mean I'm not the only one?

You mean I got context to ask questions and then understand

what happens. And usually in the quarterback

room as a quarterback coach, he's one of the people disciple

in the quarterbacks. So if the quarterback got a

question, sure I can ask my Co quarterback, but they don't run

the team. I can ask the quarterback coach

as a different context and for me to try to only listen to my

Co quarterbacks but not my quarterback coach.

I am really short circuiting my development and therefore really

hurting the team. It doesn't say for the

perfecting of the Saints faith, it's just for the perfecting of

the Saints. Perfecting is a relational soul,

inner man, posture, character, affection, identity, a being

sonship matter first and foremost.

God is after your identity in your in your heart.

That's what he's looking for first and foremost.

That's where the perfection is coming within the household of

faith, within the context of the body he's giving you.

It's about this. This is stuff you can't always

touch and feel, but you can sense when it's there.

OK, sometimes I don't. How does a doctor know that you

got a that you, that you sick? What's 1 of the things they do?

They look for symptoms, right? What's 1 of the ways you look

for symptoms? They'll touch your forehead.

How can you? How can I touch your forehead to

see if you got a fever if you're not close enough for me to

touch? Now you can go on Google,

diagnose yourself. Where is that going to lead you

to questions? See.

Think about Google. Is Google not going to give you

hope that you're going to live when you get to your diagnosis?

But when you look, when you go to the doctor, the context and

then you get your diagnosis there, what happens is that

doctor says, I understand this, I've seen this, I've got hope

for you as we're diagnosing. That gives you peace and rest to

be able to receive your healing. Perfecting is a relational

matter. It's a heart posture.

It's not about how much you hear or not hear.

It's about a heart posture. It's a heart matter.

It's the internal thing God is after.

Now discipleship is a strategy for perfecting the Saints and

discipleship begins with the Word.

The question is this, are you willing to let the Word disciple

you first and foremost? Pastor's already mentioned that.

Are you letting the full counsel of the Word disciple you, All of

the Word disciple you? The easy parts, the hard parts

you skip over the hard parts. I don't understand that.

Let me get to what I enjoy now. The Word is not is the Bible,

but it's also the messages that come forth from the platform and

what's heard and spoken on Wednesdays or Tuesdays or

whenever we gather together. All of that is the word of God.

Are you willing to submit to that?

Let that disciple you. Are you willing to say God?

If you said it, then I'm under it.

There's another aspect of the word of God too, is the

prophetic word to the house. God will send the prophetic

word, gets back to the gifts. Send the prophetic word to the

house. A word of warning, a word of

comfort, a word of exhortation, all for the purpose of edifying

you. Now, I will tell you this, if

you're not in the house, you don't hear the prophetic words.

You can read the Bible for the written word.

You can look online maybe for the messages and sometimes

capture the prophetic words. But to be in the atmosphere when

the word is given hit different to say, I was in the stadium

when Jordan did the flute game. Hit different than say, I saw it

on YouTube, the prophetic words in the house.

I want to read a prophetic word here.

Are you willing to submit to this?

That's the word given in our house.

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

He is equipping because the harvest is about to storm in.

He is cleaning His house because the wind is about to blow.

It is His grace and it is His mercy that He is giving His

children time to turn around. Before the Savior stepped out,

there stepped out. There was a warning in the

wilderness, and that warning was repent, for the Kingdom of

heaven is at hand. God is gracious to warn, to

compel, to send a Clarion call before the wind blows.

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

The call costs. He is perfecting because the

wind is about to blow. The power of God's Word is meant

to bring about transformation. He is perfecting because the

wind is about to blow. There's been a warning about

being too busy. There's been warning about who

you're getting in covenant with. There's been warning about some

of the tricks of the enemy in 2025.

Why? Because the wind is about to

blow. We get so focused on harvest

time, we don't focus on routine time.

The dangers about compelling you about the promise is you begin

to get hyper promise and think anything good that comes is

promised because this is the year.

Not knowing this loud voice about promise on the flip side

is a warning to brace yourself because the wind is about to

blow. So in these convos, there's

going to be a stirring of the gifts.

God is shifting your seasons, He is disturbing your rhythms, He

is silence in your comforts, He is transplanting your desires,

and He is releasing you to your pride.

He does not free you from your pride.

You do that, but He will, when it's time, release you to your

pride. This is about to be a dusty

season. God owes no one an explanation.

We're in a season where you have to be OK making decisions

without an explanation. We're in a season where the

wind's going to blow and you got to be ready to go.

Well, God speaks. Be quick to obey.

If you misstep, be quick to repent.

He has prepared you for the day of the wind.

If the wind takes you out, it's because you didn't take the

quipping season seriously. This is a season to be very

careful, to be distracted by contentious conversations,

battles, unnecessary weight, unnecessary quarrels,

unnecessary arguments. In this season, there's an

anointing to make peace and be empowered.

Without closure. An explanation will not heal

you. An explanation will not get rid

of your insecurities. An explanation will not make you

trust somebody. This is a season where God is

going to do the healing and you need to take that passion and

that energy and that love and put it towards God but also show

the same love that He showed you to people.

But I'm telling you, waiting for an explanation and closure is

going to rob you of necessary energy that you need for the

divine moment. We are stepping in.

You don't need closure. The wind's about to blow.

The wind's about to blow. He's equipping you because the

wind is about to blow. Like fishing in this season, God

is throwing His net into the sea of Saints, and as the wind is

blowing, the net's going to come out the water.

Is God's love bait enough? Is His word bait enough for you

to repent? Are you willing to let that word

disciple you had someone shared, had an experience with them,

walked through an experience, they came up to me.

We're good, we're good, relationship was good, but they

carried that prophetic word and they said I got to come up and

talk to you. He said I got I need to need to

repent, need to apologize. Why?

Because as I looked at that word, I can see God was telling

me something and I just ran past that in my, my, my, my

conversation with you. Are you willing to let that word

also disciple you before the person comes?

Because those that are disciple you individually are carrying

the written word, carrying the message of the word, carrying

the prophetic word. And if you're not going to

listen to that word, as Jesus said, even if someone raised

from the dead came back and talked to your brothers, you're

not going to listen to them if the word ain't enough for you.

The purpose of perfecting is the plant, not the fruit.

It's to mature the plant. It's not to get mature fruit.

An apple tree is not trying to produce apples, it's trying to

produce more apple trees, and the seeds of the tree happen to

be in the fruit. God is after us, maturing us not

for the fruit, but so that we can produce more of the kind of

disciples that He's making in us.

The purpose of perfecting is not to overtly reach the lost, but

to create a mature body so loving and united with the

Father and each other that the world is compelled to ask, what

must I do to experience this? Perfecting is focus on the body,

not out ministry. He didn't say I'm perfecting the

Saints for the ministry to the lost.

I'm perfecting the Saints for the ministry to the body.

So if there's any perfecting, you owe the body that

perfecting. You owe the body that ministry

and the there's a universal body, but there's a local body.

God plugs you in too. How dare you take your

perfecting and put it on, folks. Ain't part of your body.

Well, that was the purpose for the perfecting.

It's not that you don't reach other people, but when your

priority is lost. When I'm giving everyone outside

my home my warm hellos, but I give my wife a cold shoulder and

a distance, I got to twist it. If I got a warm water, warm

hello, she ought to get it. Not much.

Not the people I work with perfecting his processes as

well. Suffering is the beginning of

maturing the hope. Suffering is one of the

processes of perfecting you, maturing you in hope.

Romans 5 says this. Therefore, I'm gonna go to

Romans the second part, verse 3. Not only so, talk about the

grace and the glory of God we've given, but not only so, we'll be

glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces

perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope.

And hope does not put us to shame because God's love has

been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who's

been given unto us. Suffering leads to a perfected

hope, perfected suffering. And God joins us in our

community with people to help us walk through that perfected

suffering. He sent them out two by two.

He didn't send them out one by one to go out.

Usually what you have is also a process to maturing.

It helps you to know right from wrong and understand

righteousness. Hebrews 5 says this. 11 but we

have much to say about this. But it's hard to make it clear

to you because you no longer try to understand.

One time you did try to understand, but now you no

longer try to understand. You no longer try.

In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers.

You need someone to teach you elementary truths of God's Word

all over again. You need milk, not solid food.

Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not

acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.

So righteousness, understanding your righteousness, is meat, not

milk. There's a quality of getting

beyond the milk. You need to do perfecting beyond

the milk. To even understand some of the

fullness of what God has beside the food is for the mature who

by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good

from evil. So while you're on the milk, you

work in your milk and then work in your milk.

Then you understand how to discern good from evil.

Then you understand how to discern the different kinds of

things. It's what you use, what God is

doing. If you're not using the Bible,

if you're not using the messages preached, if you're not using

the prophetic words given, then when you come to me for

discipleship, you ain't got no understanding of good and evil.

So I'm gonna have to just feed you with a bottle now.

And that's not where God attended you to be.

If you understand the context of this scripture as well.

I'm a read out of Amplified Classic.

Concerning this, we have much to say, which is hard to explain

since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and

sluggish, even slothful and achieving spiritual insight.

These are choices that have been made, but even though by this

time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need

someone to teach you over again the very first principles of

God's Word. You have come to eat milk, not

solid food. This is what I got as I was

meditating on this more. See what God is saying is this

is the Benjamin Button scripture.

If you know the movie Benjamin Button, it starts with a guy

who's old and over the course of the movie he ages backwards, OK,

He gets younger and younger and younger.

What the scripture is saying. You can start out with the

understanding, get the place of maturity.

And because you stop trying to understand, you stop fighting

for unity. You stop fighting with the

context of the people you have with you because you choose to

get sluggish and slothful about engaging the Word of God, coming

in with complacency rather than reverence, You can find yourself

going backwards into being a childlike state to the point we

got to begin all over again. And that's a difficult place to

be when there's so much work for us to do.

And you know the great thing that God wants to show you some

things that only the mature can see.

So God has to sometimes wait to show you the joys of what He's

created and what He desires in ministry within your body and

for your life because you keep wanting to go back to the bottle

again. God is calling us to maturity,

which means He's calling us to perfecting which He's calling us

to do the hard work of engaging and listening to what He's

saying. Let's pray.

Father, we thank you for your word.

We thank you, we have ears to hear.

We thank you, Lord God, that in hearing your Word, we're

choosing to do it with an open heart.

The Bible declares as the word was preached, their hearts were

open. Father, our hearts have been

open to receive. We're not trying to understand

it before we receive it. We're not trying to judge it

before we receive it. We're not trying to cancel out

weight of measure before we receive it.

God, we're trusting that you're putting a word in our heart to

transform our lives. So transform away.

God, we give you liberty to go into any place, anywhere.

Take that word. God is searched.

God, there are places where we don't even know what's going on.

We don't even know how wise to explain why we do what we do.

But we thank you, Lord, that in doing that, you are bringing

freedom. And we don't need no

explanation. We're giving you the opportunity

to work in our hearts according to your grace, according to your

pace and your rhythm. We give you praise and glory for

this Father in Jesus mighty name, Amen.

Ephesians 4. That's where EJ left off, or

started off, shall I say. He gave us apostles, prophets,

teachers, evangelists, pastors. There is no perfecting.

If there's just one working in our life, say it again.

The body is in the shape it's in.

It's because we've acknowledged, honored, sat under, and really

only had space for teachers and pastors.

There is no full maturing without all 5 gifts active in

our lives. Let me say it one more time.

He gave apostles, He gave prophets, He gave teachers, He

gave evangelists, He gave pastors as gifts.

These can all be also be called Ascension gifts.

As he was ascending, he released to his church these gifts.

It's very important. There are my wife, my mom, my

dad, my friends. Iron sharpens iron.

That's what the body does. That's what affiliation does,

that's what friendships do, and that's what certain

relationships do. The only gifts that were given

to bring me to perfection, perfecting shall I say maturing

apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists.

Now we would all say we love Jesus.

What you have to understand is these 5 gifts are 5

manifestations of Jesus's mantels.

So you cannot say you love Jesus but resist the gifts he put in

your life. Watch this.

This would be this is what some of us would say we want.

What if God did this right? Because a lot of sorry, a lot of

people would say I have his word.

That's all I need. You're just like me.

If that's the case, why did he send gifts?

Why didn't he just do this now? Live your life because that's

all you need. Sobering.

Is that all we need in that form right there is all we need is

our app is all we need is our own devotional time.

Right. There are people in your life

that sharpen you. There are people in your life

that mature. You actually have the

responsibility by God assigned to you.

OK, here's here's what we have to see.

You can keep it. Here's what we have to see.

How many people love going to the doctor?

Nobody. How many people love going to

the dentist? We love the results of being

fixed in these places. How many people love sitting on

the surgery table taking some medicine from a doctor?

We don't know. He just got a certificate and

you have signed a piece of paper to say give me drugs, I'm gonna

fall asleep and I'm going to lay my life down for you to cut me

open. You will do anything to save

your physical body. But are you willing to lay down

the same way you lay down for a doctor?

How many people know there's fake money out there and there's

fake certificates on walls and I don't want to get cut open by

honorary Dr. Here's what we understand.

EJ alluded to this. This thing right here has been

weaponized by pride. As long as I got this, I don't

need you. Now be a Berean.

What we mistake here, the Bereans weren't people who were

full of pride. They were stewards.

There's some. So when you hear from EJ, what

he read was a prophetic word that was released in this house.

But we are saying, if we're saying that this, this is the

final authority, but watch this, You are living epistles.

You are an actual word when perfected Bible calls us living

epistles. There's many that won't ever

read this but will talk to you. Jesus word became what flesh.

There is the logos word and there is what Rhema word?

What is Rhema word? Over 50% of the believers in

this room don't know. So let me ask you, how do you

hear God then? He gave us gifts and this is

something we need to be in. Read your Bible.

Please do not believe me, don't believe EJ, Read your Bible, OK?

But do not let this make you independent of the help he sent

you. I think God's, he got God's

powerful enough to have saved us without the word becoming flesh.

From day one, God has been sending us leaders.

What? What happened to the children of

Israel because they was too impatient and didn't want to

listen to Moses, right? It's very important.

Why am I, why am I harping on this?

Because there is a part in Ephesians 4, remember?

I just want to say for the record, please read your word.

OK Study your word. You have a Direct Line with God.

The Old Testament days is over. You get to you get to God

through Jesus, not through me, not through him.

Read your words. Study your word to show yourself

approved you please go be a student of this word, but not to

become the excuse of why you do not like to follow or listen.

Watch this. Here's the part my heart was so

heavy over there. Here's the part.

There's the maturing and then it says until we all come into the

unity. You know what breaks God's heart

the most is that even in this room, there's division and we

are so fixed on our way. But this right with growing up

is this 5 gifts who God put in the earth to unify the body to

properly right How many how many food groups is right?

We should on our plate should look like what?

Like we should have veggies and we should have protein and we

should right? What if you just ate right?

You got the carbs. Come on, talk to me loud because

I don't know. I don't know carbs, protein,

vegetables, right. There's this well-rounded you

need what right, huh. They keeps right.

So so so here's look, folks are like, Oh yeah, I forgot that on

my plate. OK, right.

Russ, this watch this, watch this.

So for your body, for your physical body, you need these

food gifts to actually have to, to, to try and get you need to

exercise and things that but for optimal help, there's there's

also you can't just exercise and not eat right.

You can't just eat right, not exercise.

So why did God use body? Why he calls us a body?

Well, there's there's also gifts he gave us so that our spiritual

lives and our soul can thrive. I need the apostle in the land.

We need the prophet in the land and we need the apostle and

prophet to work together. We we need the T.

All you information junkies need more than teacher.

All you codependent people need more than a pastor.

You you need a spurring. The pastor isn't necessarily

gifted and anointed to get the body back in order.

The evangelist isn't meant to counsel every day.

That's the pastor, the shepherd, he tends to the sheep.

The evangelist is meant to go and gather, bring them home, not

start your own ministry, right? Every gift has a purpose.

Every gift has a purpose. And a lot of times if you're not

careful, you will build your own All Star team and you might just

surround yourself with five pastors.

You you might have 555 Christian gifts around you, but it's only

two of the gifts really speaking in your life.

Here's what you got to understand.

And all 5 gifts don't see this different in error.

They see it different in application.

Matthew saw it different, Mark saw it different, Luke had a

different account. It's the, we these, these 5

gifts have a different account. And so when we're only seeing

one side of it, when we're only being patched up and banded up

and getting Vaseline on our cuts and we just stay there with

bandages on us. When we only be been won and

evangelized and we just want to hear about Jesus and what the

cross did for us right in the latter days.

There's going to be a strong apostle and prophet gift in the

earth. And it is your job to have eyes

to see. Here's the warning.

And many will go from teacher to teacher to scratch their little

inch. Send Timothy.

Check it out. So he encourages Timothy to

preach in season out of season. Now you got to pull the

scripture up now. You got to pull it up now.

Because I will say the apostles and the prophets in the last

days is going to get great persecution because what the

devil doesn't want is the church back in order.

Because what order leads to is actual peace.

You did know that the whole purpose of Jesus coming is to

restore peace. It wasn't to to blow your life

up. It wasn't to promote you.

It wasn't so you can get all these cool things in life.

It was actually so you can have his peace.

He said, I'll tell you all these things so you can have my peace.

Can you put that up, please? And This is why I understand

that in this last hour many will not answer the call.

Watch this, you will do great things.

Watch it that God can use. But there will be many people

who will tiptoe around the call on their lives.

For for for the time is coming. Now can we go to herald?

I like saying herald verse 2. I think it is.

Is it for verse four? Oh, there we go, Herald and

preach the word. Keep your sense.

Watch this, watch this, watch this.

This is this is this is what gives me rest.

And this is what disturbs other people.

PT, you doing too much, EJ, why are you raising your voice?

Why are you in my business? Why are you doing this?

Keep your sense of urgency. Wait a minute.

Who is he talking to? Oh, he's only talking to

pastors. He's only talking to people in

the pulpit. No Saints.

Keep your sense of urgency. Stand by.

Oh, he wants me on call. He he's like, oh you ain't got

always got time to understand. Sometimes y'all just need to be

able to say hey son, let's go right.

How many people does God got on call?

Stand by, be at hand, and be ready.

Whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable,

watch this. Whether it is convenient or

inconvenient, whether it is welcome or on, whether people

receive you or not. The enemy is after your urgency.

Jeremiah said it like this, JT God, these folks out here ain't

listening. These folks mocking me.

I'm being hurt by friends. I'm being hurt by family.

Folks, turn it, he says. God, are you going to do

something? Because I'm ready to give up.

Watch this. But it's like fire.

Shut up in my bones. The enemy wants to put your fire

out so you can have friends. The enemy wants you around

lukewarm. The enemy don't want you with

passion and urgency and, and, and the ability to block the

wind that came to put the fire out.

The enemy wants you around damp wood, he said.

But keep the urgency. Go back.

Keep the urgency. Watch this.

No, no, no, stay there. This is good and I am weary of

enduring and holding it in. So he's like, look, I'm I'm, I'm

this sucks. I got to, I got to I got to be

isolated. It sucks that I got to get

persecuted. It sucks that I got to be the

hater. It sucks, but what's in me

overrides the suck, so I can't shut my mouth.

I can't stop. The real believer is supposed to

be disruptive to the carnal life, right?

There is nothing comfortable about the Word of God.

The word of God says go to your enemies and bless them.

The Word of God says forgive your enemies.

The word of God, it's nothing comfortable.

He says, face your fears, love those who don't love you, bless

those who don't bless you. What's this?

Go back the urgency in the church.

Watch it Timothy, please pass that he says you as preacher of

the word are to show people any crazy how obedient people get

frowned upon by believers. It's just like Christian rappers

get persecuted by Christians because they out there doing

what God told them to do and it's crazy how obedient men and

women of God, the ones that actually will just tell you how

Jesus said it, that will challenge us.

They tripping. A Christian mother or Christian

father that is holding the standard in their household is

tripping. A wife that is holding the

standard towards her husband is tripping.

A husband that got a wife that's filled with the Holy Ghost and

say babe I can't promote your pride.

I can't support your pride. You wrong in this situation it's

tripping. A prophet that is obeying God

and giving the people the word is tripping.

Here's what y'all watch this. How much time you think the

children of Israel had to go through the Red Sea when Moses

stuck his? Did they have time to process

it? Wait, wait, wait.

Thank you God for sending Moses right.

What What some of y'all be like? Well, what you doing?

OK, let me find out what the stick mean.

Laura, can you interpret what the stick mean in his hand?

You would have looked and you'd be like, no, no, no, that ain't

the way that watch this. You would have looked at the Red

Sea and said that's deception. That's a trap, that water for

show. Watch this, watch this, watch

this, watch this, he says. Show people in what way their

lives are wrong and convince them.

Convince them. But that man, I don't want to do

that no more. I don't want to try to convince

those that don't want to be convinced or I don't want to

convince those who convince with themselves, right?

But then I'm not being obedient and then I'm not just called to

convince those that's easy. And we'll listen to everything.

All those those are you guys are the rewards of the labor to have

the people who make it easy to lead.

But then you're not just called to those, You're called to

everybody that you called to. Jesus was called to Judas.

Judas didn't know he was Judas. Peter didn't know he was going

to be denying Peter. What Jesus did and what did

Jesus do before denial and betrayal warned them?

They like, I don't know who he talking about.

That ain't me. And then that, that, that, that

crow, that cock crow, however you put it, the, the crow made

the noise, the rooster crowed. And then Peter was like, oh,

the, the pressure, the wind blew and Peter got to deny it, but

watch it. The wind had to blow in order

for Peter to know that betrayal was in his soul.

Judas had to experience the wind in order to realize that, oh

crap, I'm the one. The wind has to blow, not just

for harvest, but it's an unveiling of the true who you

are, the true motives of all of us, even me.

And here's the crazy part. I actually need the wind, the

blow, because I understand. I don't know me as well as God.

I understand that there's parts of me that I don't see, but EJ

see and sometime when I don't listen to EJ, the wind just got

a blow. Sometime the the the wind blows

through E JS breath. That's that's wind.

So he sends a word PT you're tripping.

Pride comes before the No, it doesn't.

Come on, we growing today. We, we growing today.

That's what the devil want to do is get the word twisted.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It comes before destruction.

There's grace before destruction.

Pride does not come before the fall.

A hottie spirit comes before the fall.

And then grace picks you up, 'cause you can get back up when

you what, fall, but you can't get back up once you've been

destroyed. So then here comes God.

He allows your haughty spirit. You think you know it all.

You don't need no leader. You don't need no counsel.

You think they hate, No, you think they tripping.

And he's like, you know what? Now it's time to shut up because

you've obeyed my word. What's this?

And then he lets you fall. And then here's what the pride

does. I'll be all right.

I'll do it again. I'm going to be good.

It's almost like the fall wasn't enough.

So you, you get back up. Almost like I could take that

fall, right? And watch this.

I want to make sure people stay listening.

This message is not about you. This message is for you.

Ain't about you. So don't allow offense to get in

your heart and stop you from hearing what God is saying to

you today because you ain't the only one stubborn.

You ain't the only one that got blind spots.

I got blind spots. I got stubborn spots.

This word is for the body. So I rebuke the enemy in the

name of Jesus. Get under my feet.

But if you go to any church across the world, the days and

times we are in, if you find Apostolic nature in a church.

And the beautiful thing I love about this church is because,

man, we didn't laugh together. We didn't talked about milk.

We we didn't eat, we didn't eat cereal to get like you never

saying we didn't. We didn't talked about all the

soft stuff we didn't talked about.

And then I love it because the full counsel of the word.

There's times where he comes and it just it just goes straight to

the we ain't not playing word says and convince them.

Rebuking, correcting, warning, urging, encouraging, being

unflagging and inexhaustible. Don't let this task wear you

out. Be patient in teaching for the

time is coming. Somebody say the time is here

when people will not tolerate sound and wholesome instruction.

We arguing over doctrine. God's trying to give Rhema

instruction. But watch this having ears

itching for something pleasing and gratifying.

They will gather to themselves one IG page, one YouTube page

like and describe after another, one coffee meeting after another

to a considerable number chosen to satisfy their own liking and

to foster. Watch this, the errors they hold

and they will turn aside from hearing the truth.

Watch this and wander. Wandering starts in the heart.

It then impacts your affect. I know who's wandering in the

church. Your affect has changed.

It's clockwork. Why do sometimes God have these

conversations? Because sheep are at risk.

I, I got some friends who, who just, they didn't ask for it,

but but I guess God bless them with a farm.

It's not they farm, but they got to manage it.

And so they got 1000 chickens now and a bunch of sheep and,

and God is really preaching to them because when you ask non

farmers and, and, and non shepherds to tend to sheep, you

lose 2 in about a month. And if you go ask them about the

revelation of shepherding, not everybody's called to be a

shepherd. So be careful who you try to

make your shepherd because the assigned shepherds to us have a

grace and capacity to handle us. I'm still being pastored as a

pastor, say. They'll turn aside and they'll

wander off into myths and man made fictions all built around

the world. As for you, be calm, cool,

steady, Accept and suffer unflinching, unflinchingly every

hardship. Do the work of an evangelist.

In other words, you're always winning souls.

Fully perform, fully perform all the duties of your ministry.

I got to hop on a flight to Calgary in a couple days because

I have to fully perform all the duties of my ministry.

The ministry isn't this one thing over here.

The ministry is the call inside of me.

And I got the capacity to go and, and pastor and priest and,

and, and tend to the flock in in Calgary called my wife and my

children. And then there's capacity to

come in here and, and, and, and tend to you.

And then there's the worship team and then there whatever he

calls, whether it's one-on-one. But we short circuit it because

we think that our ministry is connected to our careers.

It's connected to our talent. It's connected to our ability,

Your gift, your talent, two different things.

Your purpose is different than your gift and your talent.

And we rob God because we make ourselves have this little bitty

capacity instead of no, I'm fully here today.

I'm fully here today, fully here.

Last night I was dumb tired. I was meant to so tired.

And this morning I do. You know when you go to bed and

you think you set your alarm? No, I'm not talking about the

ones that sleep through the alarm.

Two different things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You forget to set it, but you, the phone was in your hand and

you just fell asleep and you swore and you looked at your

phone and, and you, you kind of know the, the, how bright the

sun is that it's past like, that ain't 6:00 AM light.

That's 730 lights, right? So that happened to me this

morning and I wake up 40 minutes before my my, my, my ride picks

me up. Watch this, watch this.

I'm going to share something. Just say pastor, be vulnerable,

be vulnerable. Watch this.

So I miss my study time. Wow, so much judgement, right?

Watch, watch this, watch this, you see how you have made

walking with God and your ministry all about you preparing

the message versus living on call.

So when you walk with God and you live on call, you are

available for any assignment anytime.

Somebody say the power of the anointing.

The anointing does not excuse you from preparation, but

preparation starts way before the night before a sermon is

preached. And that's the problem.

Some of you, you, you prepare for an assignment.

You don't prepare for life, right?

You don't prepare for him to pour through you.

You prepare for that 30 minutes. You're asked to preach because

you don't want to look stupid. Preparing not to look stupid is

different, right? That's like playing not to lose.

Watch this Matthew 13. We read this morning about

Darnell. Anybody here about Darnell?

Anybody know about Darnell? Darnell is is this type of

wheats right? Go Mark, go go there again real

quick, real quick, real quick, real quick.

The Lord just speaking to us today.

Watch this, watch this, watch this Matthew.

But while while he he was like, he was like God.

We the Kingdom is like go, but go, go where Kingdom is like

another parable. He set forth before them saying

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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

Yeah, yeah. But I'm I'm looking for the for

the what you have, he will take remember that one, huh.

That's in there. That's in the same passage,

correct? That let's, let's let's no, no,

no, no, no, no, no. I'm looking for for something

else. Remember what, what, what you

have the ears to hear, eyes to see.

That was where did that go? I'm just this is a test.

This is where the students was. Did y'all take notes?

Ears to hear, eyes to see. It was yes.

It was referencing Isaiah. Where'd you go?

Huh. No, no, no, no.

It was from the Gospels. It was referencing Isaiah.

Sorry. Huh.

Who? Yes.

Why is this disappeared out of my I guess Satan stole the word

after church. Amen.

OK, Huh, it was. Text it to them.

All right, I'm going to read this for whoever has spiritual

knowledge to him. No.

OK, You there. Go back to Darnell.

OK. Not yet.

We're going to go there next. OK.

Don't let me forget another parable.

He sat forth before them saying the Kingdom of heaven.

The king. Somebody say the Kingdom of

heaven, he's trying to give us insight to how the Kingdom of

heaven operates is like a man who sold seed in his field,

right? God has put he has sold us into

this earth. He has sold us into people's

lives. But while he was sleeping, his

enemy came and sold also Darnell weeds resembling somebody say

resemble. Oh, good wisdom, good

information resembling as truth, right?

Somebody say resemble like like a imitation Gucci purse

resembles what a real one until that till the wind blows and

authentication, right? Like if you got some really good

dentures, they they resemble healthy teeth until you get

excited and they start coming out of your mouth.

You get what I'm saying, right? Somebody say resemble, right?

How many people have ever got into some stuff that resembled

the Promise, right? I got, I got AI, got AI got AI

got a girl's name on my chest. I'm not with her no more because

at the time she resembled the Promise.

She was an amazing idea. Yeah, my wife know about this

right here. But I remember when I when I

first got my wife, I used to I used I used to just it's on my

left side, right. It's on my left side.

So I remember whenever if when I whenever I had my try have my

shirt, well, I didn't like take my shirt off, but whenever I had

my shirt off, I just pull up on her on this side.

So she didn't see this side. See.

Yeah, right. Now this was before tattoos is

like really, really dope. Like really good.

So the, the blessing was was the, the, the, the ink kind of

blended into my dark skin. Right, right.

Hallelujah. Somebody say Hallelujah.

Yeah, Hallelujah in Jesus name. Now, now my daughter is a

hilarious like our family, we love joking.

We clown each other right? So the girls the girls name on

here is Naomi. So so my daughter one day said,

hey babe, not babe, but dad, instead of getting surgery, you

could just add roof on your chest.

I'm like, all right, just add in Ruth.

Wow. Right, the the things, the

things that we will do because it resembles, right?

Resemblance is meant to draw you, but resemblance can't keep

you, right? You, you see somebody that got

some real Jordans and you, you, you just.

And only time can reveal authentication.

Gee, watch this, he said. By what?

While he was sleeping, his enemy came and sold weeds resembling

weeds. Oh, This is why we need

apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, why we need the whole

council. I used to walk in church like,

like, like, Lord, speak to me like.

I want you to expose me, God, do it nicely, but expose me.

But but how many people on their way to churches like God?

I don't care if if I got to battle shame or embarrassment,

but I actually don't want to stay hidden, right?

This is the prayer of David. Lord, I hide your word.

Right. Expose me, God, I, I, I need a

word. When I go to hear Elder John,

I'm sitting knowing that he's a gift sent by God.

God put a word in his heart and I need Elder John to preach the

word boldly. I don't need him to preach it

softly. I don't need him to preach it

tip it on toes. I need it to cut because I can't

walk out here in this world and be unsure.

I don't want to hide another day.

I don't want to be in offense another day.

I don't want to overlook repenting another day.

I need to straighten up today. I need things to be right today.

Today I'm not going to sleep with the frogs another night.

And oh, how quick we are willing to put off reconciliation and

repentance and live with bitterness and live with offense

and live with sin. We're So when you're comfortable

with it, that's a bad place to be, especially with the ones

you're called to walk with, he says next next verse.

So when plants when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the

Darnell Darnell popped up. Mind you, God didn't put that in

the ground. That farmer didn't sow bad seed.

His servants knew, right? Love, questions, word and

encounters. And this is a church.

We're trying to figure out what God's doing.

So we're willing to do crazy stuff and unconventional stuff.

No Sundays for a month, just we going to do church every day.

We're going to fast for 40 days. We going we going to fast in the

in the first year of COVID until COVID till they let us go back

to normal. All right, this is going too

long. No more fast long long enough,

long enough. Lord is well pleased.

He's pleased. Hallelujah folks come to church

super skinny looking at PT light.

If I show y'all some pictures of back in the day, Oh my God, Lord

help us watch this. And the servants of the owner

came to him and said, Yo, did you not sow good seed in the

field? Didn't how how Darnell get up in

here practical. What?

What what wasn't Wasn't she at airy service?

Didn't she come to Wednesdays? Didn't didn't she serve?

How's she? Still anxious?

You've been rooted in? Why are you still insecure?

Haven't God been good to you? Heaven.

Didn't he wake you up? Didn't he?

Didn't he pull you out? That last situation?

How are you back? He said Enemy does not.

Enemy has done this. Not God, Not your brother and

sister, he says the servant said to him, then do you want us to

go and weed them out? This is this is as you leaders

grow understanding that by the time God has a man or woman of

God come and address something, they've had this conversation.

By the time God is voicing things like this where he's, it

feels like he's pulling weeds out of heart now, it's because

it's harvest time. But he says no, no, no, no, no,

don't pull him out less, less. In gathering the wild weeds, you

root up the true wheat along with it.

So there's times where you got to be aware of harvest that has

come and folks can't be punished because others are acting a fool

in the spirit. So there's some stuff you cannot

address because the stuff you want to address, the new folks

and the new harvest that God has sent, he they like.

But I ain't did nothing wrong. I'm hungry.

I want to be LED. So why are you spending time

talking about those that don't want to be LED when there's

people here that want to be LED? So God's like, no, no, no, no,

you can't address it till it's harvest time.

So the ones that are new, the harvest is the pace, not the

pacemakers. The pacesetters got to get

rooted. So this is good news for the new

harvest and the pacesetters and the ones in the prophetic word

where God said you're going to be surprised who who who walks

away and you're going to be surprised who stays harvest

time. There's about to be a revealing

of those pacesetters, those new the new harvest and you go see

folks, give it time. You go give it time, give it

time. You can put this in our

prophetic book, type it. There are going to be sons and

daughters of the house who within the next year you will

not see them again. Let the wind blow.

You will not see them again. You'll see them again out there

or whatever, but you will not see them again.

Darnell is going to choke the word out of their hearts.

Deception will come. How do I know?

Not just because I'm up here. No, God's been warning us for a

while. You're going to start seeing

people who was on fire get lukewarm quick.

You're going to start looking at people in their eyes, and you're

going to be like, man, that's not the same person I knew.

This, this, this is when Apostolic and prophetic grace

hits the earth. You're going to start hearing

more conversations like this in the church, and it's going to be

less about a popular series that keeps you coming.

And it's going to be more about what is God saying right now,

today, He's trying to get his house in order, not trying to

put makeup on. His bride says let him grow

together, God. But why grow together?

Because we build relationships together.

You mean to tell me I'm going to grow together with somebody?

And then you going, it's going to be a time where you call them

away. My heart ain't ready for that.

In season, out of season, it's all works together.

Old Testament, New Testament, in the last days, there will be

doctrine of demons. It will be great deception.

It'll be electable, drawn away. This is why we're in a season

where the fear of God has to be the priority.

Healing has to be the priority. Getting free has to be the

priority. And I'm talking about freedom to

the depths that God wants to deal with has to be the

priority. Jesus has to be the priority.

His church has to be the priority because He's coming.

Watch what he says. Let them grow together and at

harvest time, I will say to the reapers, the harvesters gather

the Darnell first. So if we can't even get the

fruit until we deal with the. So when you see God dealing with

stuff aggressively, it's almost like he's poking a fight.

He's not, he's wedding. Don't get offended with that.

Check your heart and decide to be be a part of what God has

called you to be a part of because here it is for the

perfecting of the Saints until the the we're tossed no longer

to and fro. Root it and we are in the unity.

Who's contending for unity? Let's put let's put our stones

down, let's put our opinions down and let's talk about love.

Can we walk together? Can we walk together?

And what I do know is in this season, the people that that are

being purged, it is not because the Lord, it's his will.

That's not what the prophetic word said.

There has been some seasons where we've seen purging and it

was God uprooting some some some some demonic stuff, some, some

some spirits people were hosting.

But then there's times where purging happens because of

deception and offense, not because of God.

So he will leap. I think he, he read this word

earlier. He said in this season when the

wind blows, he is also going to release you to your pride, To me

man, I will go to the Lord. And I'm like, Lord, please, if I

am, if if I'm dealing with pride, I repent, I lay it down,

then I'll go to EJ, I'll go to grace, I'll go to whoever and

I'm like, I'm sorry and I'm contending for love.

I'm contending for the body. There is no family without tough

conversations. There is no family without

accountability. Y'all saw justice walk up here

earlier? If you could have saw his eyes,

wide eyed and mystified. No pride, no ego, no notepad.

Just like what do you want cow like.

And This is why it's important that you find who God has called

you to and them to you so that you can be free from always

resisting. You can't you can't grow that

way. There has to be people in your

life that they can instruct you. And you say, OK, right.

The fearful heard that like, no, I ain't going to I ain't going

to EJ not going to tell me something.

It's going to be that easy. And I'm just going to be like,

yes, Sir. Hey, hey, Lord, can I follow

you? But before I follow you, can I

go bury my dad? You want to follow me or you

want to bury your dad, right? He's drawn A distinction.

And talking about the urgency, do you really want to follow

him? And in some people's mind,

you're like, yeah, I want to follow him, Not you guys.

He gave some apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists,

they're all under shepherds, they're all under evangelists,

they're all under, they're under representatives.

I would not be here if I didn't have leaders that I followed.

Here's what I did know and understood that God is really

big enough. Watch this, that if I get in the

fiery furnace, or if I am following abuse out of a pure

heart of not the fear of man, but obeying who God divinely

sent me, God will protect me from the hurt and He will heal

me. Sometimes it's not.

Do I trust you? Sometimes my lack of trusting

you represents my lack of trust in God because I don't trust God

sent you to me and this is not me.

This is wherever you may go. You may be a visitor here when

you go back to your church and you, that person that just sit

in the pews and you just come for a word and leave.

You don't have no rootedness. You don't have no connection.

You just come and get fed. You just eat, eat, eat, eat,

eat, eat. And some of you don't eat, eat,

eat. You just I don't like that.

I don't like that. That's for my uncle.

That's not a word for me. Where you take it off the plate,

put it in a Ziploc bag and freeze it

so it's harvest time. And I will say this, I need

every last one of you. I'm I'm let me tell you

something. I don't just need my pastor.

I actually need y'all to fulfill the call on my life.

I need EJ to be a great husband. I mean, I need EJ in my life to

be for me to be a great husband, right?

My wife needs Elder Roseanne. I'm not so up here where I'm

like I'm, I'm the pet man. I actually really need y'all.

God gave me a vision long time ago and he came here.

I didn't know none of y'all you might have the vision he gave me

in 2008 might have he had my family leave everything we know

to meet you to just share a vision with you that your gifts

and talents can be a part of and that we do this thing together

and impact the city and impact culture.

Do you think I'm just here and it's just about me and all that

know You know you think you got a part in my life and in my call

and you don't think I got a part in your life and you'll call you

don't body. You don't think this finger

needs a you don't think this hand need a wrist?

Try that one. You don't think this back need a

spine body? I can tell you I actually need

every last one of y'all, even the ones I don't know.

I need you. The Father needs you.

We actually need each other. We can make each other's calls.

Hell, we can make it hard to be LED.

We we can make people that are called in our lives chase us.

But it but John the Baptist voice was only given a little

while. I want you to see this.

We'll end on the one Scripture, please eyes to see right where

we started, John the Baptist. God gave people an opportunity

to really hear. So he sent this man John to yell

repent, and then the brother gets locked up.

He ain't mad at Jesus. You're not going to come visit

me. Do you understand him?

Visiting him would have been out of order.

John didn't realize he was a living epistle.

That's what you got to understand.

You're a word. Put in the earth, people.

Read your life, hopefully. See Jesus.

Watch this and then Jesus comes and then watch how Jesus talks

to people. There's a time where he'll send

John the Baptist and just make it plain, hey, repent, turn a

king is coming, the wind is about to blow and then you'll

get Jesus. Watch this.

He he replied to them to you. No.

Can you go verse before it's TPT Right TPT.

Then his disciples approached Jesus and asked, Why do you

always speak to people in these hard to understand parables?

You mean Jesus ain't gonna make it plain?

Watch this, he explained. Let me explain.

You've been given the intimate experience of insight into the

hidden truths and mysteries of the realm of Heaven's Kingdom.

But they have not for everyone who listens with an open,

teachable heart. No teachable He sent What

teachers so he still he was a teacher, he was an apostle, he

was a pat, he was a shepherd, he was he was an evangelist.

He was all 5 teachable heart. Even the understanding that they

think resemble they have will be taken from them.

That's why. See, here's the difference.

I want you to be. I want you to understand this

powerful logos. Atheists have read this, but it

meant nothing to them. Watch it what he is telling you.

You might remember what he says, but the life that was on the

words will be taken. I mean, he can remember a

scripture, but it's not until a specific context happens that

that scripture comes alive. God is asking us to guard the

revelation, not the mere passage.

He's asking you to guard what comes off the page into your

heart. He said what you think you

understand that's even will be taken.

That's why I teach the people using parables because they

think they're looking for truth, yet because their hearts are

unteachable. How many know that people who

are unteachable think they're what teachable?

Amen. You guys can preach y'all

preaching. I have thoughts.

I was teachable but didn't know that I had a stubborn heart

because although I would listen to you, I would pick what I

wanted to hear, that's not teachable.

OK? When I go to college and I sign

up to play for a team because this the school I'm supposed to

go to, I don't get to go into the gym and tell the coach what

we doing. No, we're not running lines

today, Sir. OK, I'll do lines, but I'm going

to jog. No, I don't need to shoot my

jump shot already. Good.

How many things in our lives will walk in and and and and and

just align right? I remember going into one nice

restaurant. It was like, Sir, no hats.

What I'm about to pay you isn't my I didn't like any hat.

My hat go with my fin. But guess what I did?

I took my hat off because I wanted to eat there.

None of us have a a problem conforming.

We choose what we'll conform to. They never watch this because of

an unteachable heart. They never discover it, although

they will listen to me watch it. They never fully perceive the

message I speak. They don't understand a thing I

say. They look at, They look sorry

and pretend to see, but the eyes of their what hearts are closed,

their minds are dull and slow. Remember he was talking about

meats and milk. Dull and slow to perceive.

Their ears are plugged and are hard of hearing and they have

deliberately shut their eyes to the truth.

Otherwise they would open their eyes to see and open their ears

to hear and open their minds to understand.

Then they would turn to me and let me instantly heal them.

Whoa, wait a minute, God plan for Jesus to die in the midst of

all these people being lost. So how is He present today,

helping our eyes open? Apostle, prophet, pastors,

teachers, evangelists, For the record, please study yourself to

be approved. But let me say this, when you

start tearing pages out the Bible, you're not seeking truth.

Let's read this part of go back to Scriptures, since the

prophecy of Isaiah describes them perfectly, although they

listen carefully to everything I speak.

How did he say they listen? Come on, How did they say they

listen? Yeah, right.

That's good, right? You hear that in church?

That's good. That's good.

They listen carefully to everything I speak.

They don't understand a thing I say.

He said what he's telling you. It's not about the farmer.

It's not literally about that seed.

Do you know what the seed represents?

Do you know what the farmer represents?

Do you understand what Darnell represents?

He's saying it's like a farmer because the unders he can't just

talk to us about the Kingdom without coming down to what we

understand. But he's coming to our level of

understanding, hopefully to bring us to his level of

understanding. So when I am getting counsel

from of someone, when it comes to biblical counsel, I cannot

receive it from a just practical level.

Watch this, this part crazy. They look and pretend to see,

but the eyes of their hearts are closed, their minds are dull,

slow to perceive, and their ears are plugged and are hard of

hearing, and they have deliberately shut their eyes to

the truth. Otherwise they would open their

eyes to see and the ends was then they would turn to me.

Then there's this group of people who actually pursue him

for understanding and watch what he tells them.

Watch what he tells him he says, but your eyes are privileged for

they see. It sounds like what he told

Thomas. Thomas he he gave.

He's like, all right, Thomas, you need to see to have faith.

You need to see. I'll show you, he said.

The ones that really got faith is those that don't need to see.

I don't always need a sign. That's what faith is for.

And when we walk together, sometimes I got to trust you,

right? That's in their marriage.

My wife leads a lot that don't make me less a man.

No, I need her to leave. There are certain things that

she see I don't see and I can't be like, well no, you're a

woman, let me go fact checked it.

Let me go, let me go. No, she filled with the Holy

Ghost. I trust God put her in my life.

That's the beautiful part, he says.

Delighted are your eyes for they are open to hear.

I loved it. I talked about this Wednesday,

he said. Delighted are your ears for it.

No. Last two Wednesdays or last

Sunday, it was when you when it's hard for you to see, it

impacts how you hear. There's a couple folks in here

when they like Effie. I think Effie told me one time

she didn't have her glasses. She is like PT what you say and

I can't I think what what I think was Jewel too.

I think it was Jewel too. I was thinking that a rehearsal,

she had her glasses on and she was like PTI don't know why I

can't hear you because I ain't got my glasses on, huh?

Like what my eyes got to do with my hearing though, right?

Shouldn't you do this if you can't hear, why are you doing

this? Should you be doing this?

I can't hear you, PT, but why when it's hard to eat?

Why when it's hard to hear you? Try to see

the eyes of our hearts. I challenge you today, starting

with me, to humble yourself. And really desire to see and

hear from the Lord. I got one word last night or

this morning, I don't remember, but it was in the last 24 hours

is the Lord said tell my people it's time to respond.

There's a call to the reconciliation of peace.

Avoidance, tolerance, and passivity is not peace.

The peace of God is found only in the rest of God, and the

peace of God is when striving ceases, the love of God reigns,

and the full counsel of God's Word becomes final authority.

True peace does not exist outside of order being

established. Perfecting is God's way to

restore order in our lives. Order is not.

At 6:00 AM, I'm gonna get up and pray.

At 7:00 AM, I'm going to do this.

At 8:00 AM, I'm going to do this.

No, order is what it was. In the garden.

It was you and Him. It was peace, undisturbed.

Perfecting is God's way to restore order.

Order is God's way to restore peace. close with Second

Thessalonians 316. This is the promise.

Watch this, Watch this please. Manna not manna.

Mammon has nothing to do with the promise.

Material things, OK, the promise is not tied up in things that

will be left when you leave. If that ain't the promise, then

what is? Because every day what we are

working our butts off for is monetary blessing.

Watch this now. May the Lord of peace himself

grant you His peace. So if it's his peace, there must

be another peace, right? His peace, the peace.

The world didn't give you the peace.

The job didn't give you the peace.

Financial security didn't give you the peace of His Kingdom At

all times. How many times, all times, and

in all ways? How many ways?

Always, under all circumstances, How many circumstances?

All circumstances, under all conditions, how many conditions?

All conditions. Whatever comes, somebody say.

Whatever comes somebody say, bring it on.

In other words, there is nothing that can disturb the peace of

God. You want to talk about promise?

Is that what she's striving after?

If you're striving for God's peace, You Can Dance with God.

If you're striving for God's peace, You Can Dance with God,

He said The Lord be what you are.

Lift your hands. Lift your hands.

May the peace of God be your number one desire.

He is the Prince of Peace. May Jesus be enough for you in

this hour. May you be satisfied with Jesus

and Jesus alone. May you have eyes to see the

village, the tribe, the family, the friends, you're the business

partners that God has put in your life.

In this hour. Wind blow, you can open your

mouths and begin to pray. If the Word has spoken to you in

any way, begin. Begin to let it take root.

Wind blow, Holy Spirit exposed in our hearts exposed blind

spots. Lord, we repent today.

Lord, we turn today. Lord, we bow down today.

Lord, we cast our crowns today. We cast our talents today.

We cast our our gifts today. Lord, we cast our families at

your feet. We cast our businesses at your

feet. We cast our ministries at your

feet. Lord God, come on.

Open your mouth, Saints. Mature us today, Lord God.

Mature us today, Lord God. Mature us today, Lord God, Come

on. What the devil has put together,

let no man put asunder. What God has put together, let

no man put asunder. What God has put together, let

no man put asunder. What God put together, let no

man divide, Let no man tear apart, Let no man divide, Let no

man split up. What God has put together, What

God has brought into our lives, let not one of us take it away.

Which you have brought us, holy Lord God.

Which you have brought us holy. Come on.

Open your mouth, Saints. Come on.

Open your mouth, Saints. Come on.

Brett, I need you to come up here and pray.

Come on. This is going to be a moment of

intercession. A moment of intercession.

Come on. Lift your hands.

Just just. We can ask for the fear of God

to be. We need the fear of God in our

lives. There's such a powerful song out

there in the earth. There's something about spirit

and wisdom, Spirit, and we need to fear such a power.

Forget the we were singing it earlier.

I don't think we've released that song in our house, but I

believe that's the cry. I believe that's the cry that

the church has to get on. It has to be you.

You got a desire to fear of God. You can't be afraid of

correction. You can't be afraid of checking.

If we're going to be a holy people, we're going to have to

be a purged people. The Bible says He always is

purging continuously urgent. God is not playing around.

He has lost children walking the earth.

He is not playing around. What if you was a mother and

father and you lost your child? How much would you play around?

It is serious. It may not be your child, but it

is God's child. It may not be your son or

daughter, but it is God's son and daughter.

He is not playing in this hour. We need the fear of God.

I see the tale of a defeated serpent leaving the garden.

Now. If this is you, there is

deliverance in this moment for you.

Confusion, a spirit of confusion, not like, ah, what

kind of ice cream I want. I don't know if I want a

chocolate or I'm talking about you can acknowledge it's a

spiritual thing. Confusion, like high level

confusion. Like the Bible says, when I want

to do good, evil is always present.

Double minded. You experience resistance to do

what you know what's right, so you don't do what's right.

Lord wants to free you right now even from decision fatigue.

You just don't. You just put off making

decisions whether it's fear rather it's insecurity rather

you're just burnt out from making decisions.

But there's a spirit that has called caused us watch this not

to see or hear, even though we have the discipline of

listening. It's funny how he says they

listen intently, they listen carefully, they take notes.

But what he was trying to say through what you wrote, you're

not getting that Bible talks about a deaf, DEAF spirit.

Your inner man is not hearing. Some would say antennas are

cross. It's kind of like the world.

Good is evil now and evil is good.

If you experience that conflict in your soul, you're going to go

into whatever they're going to sing.

And you don't need to walk up here.

We don't need to lay hands on you.

Your hunger and thirst combined with your faith will free you.

What I realized is there is a desperation to be free in order

to get free. And not everybody want to be

free. They just like the idea of it.

So you'll find him saying, well, what do you?

What do you want? Do you really want to be free?

If you do, then you there's a desperation that you can stir

up. You can have a fed up this You

ever get mad at something and then you keep looking at it and

talking about it and you get madder?

Yeah. You fueled your own anger.

All you had was a seed of anger. That anger grew because you kept

on feeding it. So guess what you can do right

now? You can You can feed your faith.

You can feed your frustration with how things are, your family

being attacked. You can be frustrated with that,

the enemy constantly stealing from you, relationships,

cowardice, lie, whatever it may be.

Are you going to be frustrated about it and do something about

it? Or are you just going to be

like, hey God, take this from me.

Well, it seems like you comfortable holding it.

Holy frustration. I'm talking about a frustration

that caused the Father to send his son to die.

God wasn't up there like man, why y'all keep sinning?

For God so loved the world that he offered his best.

So you might be one of those people in here, but what are you

going to offer this moment? Are you going to offer your

pride? Are you going to offer your

fear? Are you going?

What are you going to offer? What are you going to lay down?

And then guess what about freedom.

It's not like you just pop up and then the enemy gone forever.

Guess what you have to go out there and do.

You're going to have to stand on the word to keep your freedom

and mature. Because here's the truth about

it. Even right now, in your

conflict, through the blood of Jesus, you are free.

So we go into this next song knowing we're free, but there

has to be an urgency to make things right.

I would never let a day go by where me and the elders or me

and my wife or like that's just, we had art.

I'm just going to withhold it. I'm just lying.

It's the past. No, get that crap out our soul.

So you deal with severe confusion.

You find yourself always confused.

You find yourself with, you know, kind of always falling for

the enemy's lies, like accuser to brethren or he twists words.

And I know that the enemy's after mental health in these

last days. If that's you, man, you got to

do something. You're going to either raise

your hands, you're going to bow, you're going to kneel, not

asking you to come forward. What I'm asking you to do is I'm

asking you to enter in because you've been called to have peace

that transcends all understanding.

You've been called to enter into his rest.

And do not be desperate in vain believe God has done the work

and now let's walk in and the wind is blowing.

God wants to loose you from this Python, this this this this

entanglement of Leviathan, this this this thing that comes to

the Bible, says it this way that that the word gets choked and it

becomes not fruitful. So you heard it, he took notes

and after a while that word has no more life.

Therefore you're not producing if that's you, man, if you just

been feeling attacked in your mind, this is this is the

moment. And for those that are newer or

whatever you may say, what is what is he doing over there?

And why aren't we? Why didn't we just close?

I'm I'm listening. We, we, we gather for God, not

for inspiration. We gather for him and there's

people in this room hurting. And so we'll sing, we'll pray

and we'll go. But I, I believe if the, if the

chain breaker is in here, for one thing, he's not a topical

trained tank breaker. If, if he's here, he might be

announcing one thing. So your faith can be connected

to the word. But if the chain breaker is in

here, the chain breaker is in here.

So if you hungry or thirsty, don't nobody got to know what

you, but God knows what you're struggling with.

God knows what's tormenting you. You can go and have pray right

now. God knows, God knows, our Father

knows. So we'll take these next few

moments and let's not go into this week the same.

Come on, go ahead and begin to open your mouth and I want you

to deal with this specific thing.

This is not a general moment. This is a specific thing.

Lord, take it away. Lord, take it away.

Lord. Lord, take it away.

Lord, I lay it down, now take it away.

Lord, I lay down pride now take it away.

Lord, I lay down ignorance, now take it away.

Lord, I lay down double mindedness, now take it away.

Lord, I lay down doubt and unbelief, now take it away.

Lord, I lay down fear, now take it away.

For you did not give me the spirit of fear, but of power,

love, and a sound mind, Lord, I lay down my illness, take it

away, Lord. I lay down division, take it

away, Lord. I lay down a murmuring spirit

now take it away, Lord. I lay down procrastination, take

it away, Lord. I lay down addiction, take it

away, Lord. I lay down divorce, take it

away, Lord. I lay down my trauma, take it

away. Molestation, take it away.

Abuse Take it away. Lord, I lay down.

The excuses. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. I lay down.

Manipulation Take it away. I lay down.

Blind eyes. Take it away.

I lay down. Deaf ears.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away, Take it away. I lay down a lion tongue.

Take it away. I lay down promiscuity.

Take it away. I lay down sexual perversion.

Take it away, Lord God. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away.

Take it away. Take it away, God, take it away.

Take it away. Take it away, take it away.

I lay down every idol in the name of Jesus.

Take it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lord says some of you don't see this as a chain, but old good

things, Old good things, right? I was thinking about the

reindeer's antlers. They get new antlers every year

and this one thing that served them for a season, good thing

now becomes a dangerous thing, an old thing.

And it gets real bloody with how they get rid of them.

It looks like they're beating their heads and but what they're

fighting for is the new, they're making room for the new.

And I know, I know you used to see me with the MO always, and I

know it's going to look crazy for a while without my antlers.

But when my new antlers show up, I got new power, I got new

strength. Break every chain.

Come on, lift your hands up. Watch this.

Not everything that God takes is bad.

It just may not be necessary to have.

See. See, we don't consider what He

needs, we only consider what we need.

But what if God is saying what I am taking is in my way?

You can live with it. I can't live with it.

So now those antlers become something that provides

provision for communities who find those antlers.

Right skin that's shed from certain reptiles become a way of

provision. So what's old to someone else

now becomes new for someone else.

My prayer today, my greatest prayer.

I think a part of that word you gave as well.

Wow, I was sitting there. I forgot that that that word

came through your your boy. And I was listening to the word

and I'm like, man, OK, that's good.

But then he says closure, closure, closure in this season

will cause delay. The need foreclosure will cause

delay. There's sometimes that if I go

back home, I haven't seen somebody for years and we end up

seeing each other at a conference and I forgot and they

come up and they'd be like, man, I apologize for that one time

that remember I did well, OK, I will.

I'll forgive you. I don't remember when you

talking about the news here, The news not

coming. It's here.

The winds not about to blow. It's blowing when the harvest is

not coming. It's upon us.

Monetary harvest has a way of surprising you.

I want you to notice the harvest of your new man.

I want you to see this week when somebody come at you sideways, I

want you to pay attention to your response and your response

of peace is going to surprise you.

But when you realize your response is different, I want

you to say the harvest is here. Remember it's not behavior

modification. So your peace is not you saying

I'm not tripping off of that. Your piece is like, I'm looking

at that. Yeah, you get on my nerves, but

I'm not going to be. I'm not going to allow my soul

to get in tangled to that mess. Peace, the peace of God, does

not come from avoidance. No, it comes through going

through that, that storm. It comes from going through

facing that giant, getting in that furnace, getting in that

lion's den. But I will trust you, Lord, even

if He don't get you out. I pray this will be a week of

mending divine relationships. I pray this will be a week of

repentance. Remember, repentance always

leads to fruitfulness and so I pray this will be a week where

you find yourself repenting and you find people repented.

You will see repentance in the hearts of men.

I pray this will be a very prosperous week, soul

prospering. I pray in the name of Jesus and

declare over you and this room that you shall live and not die.

No, no, no, you shall not just be alive.

You shall live. You shall live and not die.

You shall live alive, you shall come alive, you shall live

alive, you shall live the abundant life.

For the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.

But I have come that you might have life to the full in

abundance. Fill it overflow.

I declare this week you will experience life to the full in

abundance till it overflows. Get ready for unexpected phone

calls, unexpected opportunities, unexpected financial

breakthrough, unexpected permits, unexpected

relationships. This will be the week that the

double Ripper will flood your life in the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus, life, life, life, you shall live.

You shall not just be alive, you shall live.

You shall not just exist, you shall live.

You shall not just survive, but you shall live.

You shall not just barely hang on.

I declare that your testimony is changing.

When somebody say how you doing you not go say barely hanging

on, you go say I'm living to the full till it overflows.

I got life to offer. I'm not barely hanging on.

I got life to offer. I got life overflowing.

I got joy overflowing. I got peace overflowing.

I got faith overflowing. I got hope overflowing.

My barely hanging on days is over.

My barely making it days is over.

I'm coming out of my pit. I'm coming out of my sorrow.

I'm coming out of my depression. I'm coming out of my

hopelessness. My poor me days is over.

This is my fearfully and wonderfully made days.

This is my more than a conqueror days.

This is my you can't disturb my peace days.

You can't have my hope days. You can't have my faith days.

You can't have my love days. You can't have my joy days.

These are the days of Elijah, the days of power, these are the

days, these are the days, these are the days, these are the

days, these are the days. These are the days where I will

see a Dixon broken off of my father right now in Jesus name.

These are the days that sexual immorality would not tear my

family apart no more. These are the days, these are

the days, these are the days, these are the days.

The Lord says these are the days.

Look for it expected. The Lord's going to ask you this

question very soon. What do you see?

The wind's going to blow. And then you're going to get

that strange question. The Lord's going to say, what do

you see, Anna? OK, OK, OK.

You'll see. See.

It Wasn't He saw wrong that that first inspection was to show his

eyes were changing right when the when the mucus is in your

eyes, when you went from blind to see the first time you see

you don't see clear there's build up.

The good news is, as you can see, you're going to see color

again. You're going to have better

views and God's going to say, what do you see?

Watch this. You're going to sit down.

It's going to happen like this. You're going to be sitting with

your dad. We're that family member that

you had art with. Watch, Effie.

You're going to be sitting with your dad.

When you're sitting at dinner, you're going to the Lord's going

to say, what do you see? You, you're not going to see

your father. You're going to see your

father's son. You somebody going, you going,

you going, somebody. You're going to be sitting at

dinner before the year over. You're going to be sitting at

dinner, breakfast, lunch with somebody who raped you or

molested. You're a family member.

The Lord's going to say, What do you see?

See what you see is an indication of what's in your

heart. And because now you're going to

see son instead of a instead of offender, you're going to see

son instead of sex offender. You're going to know your

heart's being changed. Some of you are going to see

your baby daddy and y'all can't get along for nothing.

And you or your baby Mama, you and me on the phone, the Lord's

going to say, what do you see? And it's going to break your

heart in such a good way. Some of you, one day, you going

to look at me or you going to look at PJ or you going to look

at the elders. And the Lord's going to say,

what do you see? And for the first time you going

to say, that's my pastor. I remember the first day I

looked at my pastor who I thought was just another man

that helped me or replace my daddy or help me with my daddy

issues that I remember today, I said, that's my shepherd.

Do you know when God shifted that perspective, the healing

that took place in my heart when I had proper perspective when I

saw my wife one day I remember looking at my wife and Lord

said, what do you see? And I said, father, I see your

daughter, not my chef, not my wife.

She was your daughter before she was my wife.

Get it in order that parents you mad at they were God's father,

that I mean God's God's son or daughter before they was your

parents. When you can see them who they

were in the garden, then that's creating a highway for God to

that sibling that you just don't get along with Lord's asking you

right now. Look again, that barren sea that

you used to fish in, the Lord says, drop the net again because

the wind's blowing. And so God's taken away how you

saw before. Watch, watch this, watch this,

watch this. Today you're going to go look in

the mirror and Anna, the Lord's going to say, who do you see?

And for the first time, you're going to see a daughter worthy.

You're going to see a son worthy.

You're not going to look in the mirror.

And when God says who do you see?

You hear? What do you see?

And because you've been hearing what do you see, it's giving you

permission to answer. Through failures, through hurt,

through trauma. I see a hurt girl.

I see my daughter without a father.

I see. Right.

You've been seeing a victim. Can you give yourself permission

to see what God sees? The wind is blowing, the climate

is changing, the soil is turning, the seasons are

changing. Watch this.

The cycles are breaking, the Father is speaking, and then

this season the wind is from the Lord of hosts.

Stay out of the way because he is fighting for you.

Don't think because he called you to show up to the battle,

He's asked you to fight the battle.

The battle is not yours, it is the Lord's.

If if I had to put this harvest into one word, if I had to label

this season, it would be in this one word victory.

It's not job promotion, It's victory.

It's not healing, it's victory. It's not wife or husband.

It's victory. It is not a job opportunity.

It is not money. It is not moving.

It is victory. So show it to the battle with a

praise, show up to the battle with the worship, show up to the

battle with an offering, because the battle has been won.

To show up to the battle. Let it go, let it fall, let them

go, let it fall. The wind blowing for everybody.

The wind is blowing for the saved and the unsaved.

The wind is blowing for your husband.

The wind is blowing for your what I'm talking about to to the

married people right now. You don't have to fight with

your spouse no more. The wind is blowing and the wind

is not just blowing for you, but the wind is blowing for your

entire household. In the Bible it says that the

spirit of death was going to pass by every door.

I'm here to tell you and prophecy that the spirit of life

is the past about to pass by every household.

The spirit of life is about to take place in your house.

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

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