LUSH - 8.31.2025 - 9AM (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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The wind blowing. When the wind blows it, it does

bring dust and it brings things that weren't there, but also the

wind uncovers stuff. So while we are expecting a wind

of blessing in that wind, we are also going to find ourselves

only left with what God has approved.

And so while we are expecting, while it's go time, while it is

harvest time and all these amazing things.

Jubilee, I I can't really get out of my spirit for the last

almost two years that we need to be standing as if we're standing

on holy ground and really actually believe that we should

have approached this year with fear and trembling.

We should have approached this year not in fear of the devil or

fear of of man or fear of failure, but in the fear of

trembling, of cautious caution to the wind.

Like God has been speaking for a while and he has been alerting

our church, right? We heard about what happened in

Minneapolis and May God bless that church and those families.

We also seen few weeks back similar thing happened in

Seattle. And the worst thing is when the

wind blows, we become like, where'd that come from?

It's like or a, a tornado or hurricane warning and you

sitting there after the hurricane, like where did that

come from? Well, you heard the sirens, you

heard the bells, you, you even saw your neighbors running in

the house getting rooted. And then you came out and you

and everything got beat up. It's not about the purging.

It's don't be surprised with what you're left with.

I'm going to say it again. Don't be surprised with what you

left with. Similar word was spoken by the

prophetess when she came in here.

She said don't be surprised who make it and who don't.

I am super excited to know for a fact that I'm going to make it,

that I'm going to be standing not this is past.

I'm going to make it to heaven. That's been dealt with like

that's been decided. I'm talking about I'm actually

going to stand and be able to handle the winds and avoid the

distractions and like a really good distraction.

Watch this. A really good distraction should

have you for a while. Like a good distraction.

It's not a distraction if you expose it immediately.

That's a temptation. It, it tempted you, but you know

what I'm saying? But like when you when, when you

pull up the it's like here it is here.

Here's a good distract. Here's here's a good one.

If you ever been I'm, I'm not the only one who's been to a

club or been in a, in a place, a party, whatever.

And then I'm dancing with somebody and then the lights

come on at the end of the night and I'm like, whoa, buddy, why

you why you didn't give me an opportunity to to walk out

before the lights came on? Because this whole last hour I

thought I was dancing with something that was amazing and

beautiful. And then the lights came on and

like, what the heck? And that's probably because she

or whatever was turned around half the time.

If you ever been to a club, like a real club, like you get what

I'm saying? I guess I'm the only one.

I I'm glad I could tell my testimony.

So some of y'all still bound but that's OK.

And then the lights come on and you like whoa.

But by this time you probably gave this person your phone

number during that dance and now you do you wish you can go in

their pocket and now it's in their phone.

You got to take their phone and but somebody say it's too late

now. Now you got to deal with them

calling. And so when the wind blows,

there will be time of blessing. But also blessing is exposure.

When the Lord just exposed you, somebody say that's a blessing.

And so the perfecting, the why of the perfecting is because the

wind's about to blow. Strong wind, strong, strong,

strong wind like you've never felt before.

So much happening at one time. It's going to have your head

spinning, right? I leave a beautiful wedding the

other day, go straight to the airport.

So much happening at one time. And then me and the boys, we

slept for two hours last night and get to crazy LAX and we just

landed about 55 minutes ago, hour ago.

So I got my airplane clothes on. So don't mind me.

Be like, what's going on with PT?

Do we need to pray for them? Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. 12 o'clock 12:00 But I wrestled, right?

EJ was ready. We see people don't understand

like this happens in the world. You think about people, they

they go, they go on tour or they do business.

People commute to France from San Francisco.

Hey, babe, I'll be right back. I'm going to go do business.

We got a deal to do. We got a meeting in France.

Well, you can zoom. No, we need to be in person

because I got to seal this deal, right?

Call this call your post is your post my promise.

The blood of my promise pumps at my post.

So I got to look at OK, I might not be here for these days in

these days. OK, well, I got to be I got to

be here. I know my understand this isn't

this isn't about convenience. This isn't about sleep.

This isn't about what I feel like, it's about what God needs

you. But only the perfected live on

call, right? The the immature, the elementary

need call backs and wait a minute.

Let me pray about it. Let me No, no, no.

The perfected live on call, the perfected adjust schedules for

call. And then you have people EJ

ready. Try call EJ up here right now.

Are you ready? I'm like, no, I got to answer

the call. You're always answering the

call. It's not a one time deal.

You carry your cross vaguely. And so let's see what happens

this morning. The wind blows where it wills,

And though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it

comes from nor where it is going.

Say nobody knows, right? The wind blows where it wills,

it does what it want to do. And though you hear its sound,

yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is

going. We, we have been getting a word

from the wind. Though you hear it sound, you

don't know when it's going to come.

We've been talking about harvest time.

We've been talking. That's the thing about faith.

You could be declaring some for 10 years.

And people you think you crazy and they like, OK, we'll see.

It ain't came yet. They don't see the fruit

underground, they only looking for above ground fruit.

Write that down. There is a such thing as

underground fruit. Amen.

Now look, you have to be faithful over the word of the

wind. I read it.

The wind blows where it wills, and though you hear its sound,

yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is

going. So it is with everyone who is

born of the Spirit, right? A meteorologist thank God for

their education, but but they don't necessarily know when that

wind bout to blow. But the moment they get

indication and they see evidence, they begin to alert

everybody because everybody needs a fair shot at getting

what ready right You on an airplane, they say keep your

seat belt on. Why?

For unexpected what turbulence See, keep your seat belt on.

How many times have you seen believers us in this room

disobey that we just walking around the plane.

We don't we put our headphones on while they going through

instructions. Then the day your plane end up

in the water, you like what they say, you looking at your

neighbor and you like looking at what they doing and it's like

no, no, no, you should have brought your own or you should

have listened to the instructions yourself.

Yeah, you should have took notes yourself.

Even your wife notes can't help you or your husband's or your

friends. Somebody say Numa.

So when we're talking about the wind, we're talking about the

breath or wind, the spirit or life force, the vital force or

breath of life that gives rise to consciousness.

Sensation and thought we went over this on Wednesday if you

weren't here it's on it's on YouTube.

You can go watch it. We won't spend time here, but

when he's talking about this wind blowing, you also can see

this word in Genesis 1 or Genesis 2 and Genesis 2 says

this then the Lord God form somebody say form.

He formed man from the dust of of the ground and breathe into

his nostrils the breath or spirit of life.

And man became a living being who breathed into US God

himself, life himself, victory himself, strength himself, peace

himself, courage himself, Wisdom himself blew his life into us,

but he formed us. He formed this vessel out of the

what dust? Don't underestimate the dust in

your life, What God can do with the dust in your life, what God

can do with the dust in your life, what God can do with the

dirt in your life, what God can do with what you would walk

over. When God breathes on something,

it don't matter how long it's been dead.

It don't matter how long it's been counted out.

Once God get to blow in, it's up from there.

Somebody say it's up from there. I feel a staring spirit in here

this morning. A staring spirit.

Amen formed mean it implies A deliberate shaping and molding

process like a Potter rather than creation from nothing.

We went over this last week. God is not looking for a new

thing from you. He is looking to form you out of

what has already been and what is already happening in your

life. You.

Need to move to a new city? You need a new partner, You need

new opportunities. God don't need nothing new to do

what he said he will do. And so he formed.

And as we talk about the perfecting of the Saints, the

perfecting of the Saints, the perfecting of the Saints, we are

talking about a life that is hit by the purging and molding hands

of the Father. Not a punishing God, not a

judging God. What you're going through is not

God judging you because you sinned.

You'll sin already move God's hand.

He don't, you'll sin. Don't move him like that.

Can I anybody, anybody hear what I'm saying?

Your sin, your sin has moved God's hand once and for all

through a man named Jesus Christ.

His blood has cleansed it once and for all.

So you sin and don't move God. They don't rush God or slow God

down. Your sin is not forcing God's

hand at all. Your sin is forcing you to have

to make some decisions quicker than you expected to, or your

sin is inconveniencing you. It's not inconveniencing God at

all. God can be no more inconvenience

than giving His only begotten Son because we messed up.

Genesis 1. Watch this.

The earth was completely formless.

Somebody say formless. Somebody say formless, some of

us have been in a life where it seems like our life is not

taking shape. We're bringing all this stuff

together, right? You're just doing things, trying

things, taking opportunities. You know what God said?

Maybe you don't know what God said, you forgot what he said,

but there seem like your life is not taking shape.

Have you ever heard of that statement?

Things aren't taking shape or things are starting to take

shape. You've heard of that before?

Just like 3 people. Hey, man, OK, The earth was

completely formless and empty. Anybody ever felt empty before?

Went through an empty season, Felt like nothing was happening.

Felt felt like you were in a season that meant nothing.

Anybody ever been? OK, let me help you.

One thing there is not one season you've been through that

does not matter to God, OK? Number one, there is not one

season that you've been through that God is not trying to use.

Not one season, not one season in your life.

This is a part of the perfecting.

God is not just trying to mature you so you could just make

disciples. No, he's trying to mature you in

the perfecting. He's taking what tried to kill

you and he's you see that he's taking the ingredients of your

failure, partnering them with your successes, partnering your

your misunderstandings, your, your frustrations, your

mistakes, your Boo boos. And he is trying to partner them

with your successes, your achievements.

He's trying to take your ignorance with your knowledge.

He's trying to bring it all together, molding.

He's forming something out of the negative things in your

life. But if you refuse the forming,

you also have went through things in vain.

So why you going to go through all you've been through and then

tell God to keep his hands off of you?

You tripping, look at your neighbors say you really

tripping. You really tripping, right?

Why are you going to put all the cake ingredients in the bowl and

don't mix it up? And then why are you going to

mix it up and don't put it in the oven?

And then why are you going to put it in the oven?

Don't pull it out. And then why are you going to

pull it out and not slice it? And why are you going to slice

it and don't share it? And then why are you not going

to share it and then testify about how good it is?

You see the process, God trying to get you all the way to

testimony like that was that was good.

We kicked some devils, but we overcame something.

It ain't so bad what I went through now because I have

gotten to the victory side of it.

Trying to get to the testimony part.

I could talk about I've been in the club, That's the testimony

part, but I couldn't talk about I've been in the club when I was

in the club because the club was kicking my butt.

The weed was kicking my butt. The the sex outside of marriage

was kicking my butt, The alcohol was kicking my mud, the swearing

was kicking my butt, The sneaky spirit was kicking my butt, The

lion was kicking my butt. I couldn't testify because then

I would be a what? Hippocrate.

But when you when you see God start, when you feel that

tension between your lifestyle, you feel you feel you dying and

you still it listen, you still wrestling for you to stay alive.

You got all kind of reasons and excuses of why it's OK to be

stinky, bad mouthed and attitudy.

You got to because you're fighting and you've been

exposed. God has put you around people

and put you in places where now it it's not getting tolerated.

There's a space for it, but you can't stay there.

And one of the greatest places you can be find yourself is when

you are around a people that won't let you stay there.

Or won't let you get away with that man, the day you are around

people that support you being out of alignment, support you

not having accountable support, you being sneaky that day.

That is a dangerous place. Because if you're found there

when the wind blows you and your little homies, your support

group is going to get blew away. And guess who going to be

standing there? The people who who ain't going

to tell you I told you, but the ones who God put in your life.

To say this is where it all stops and as long as you want to

throw a tantrum, right? You come to a point, but I'm not

I'm not I'm not I'm not giving in to my kid throwing a tantrum.

I I remember my mom when she had spanked me, but then they'd come

a point. But she like when you done.

I still be your mom. I'll be right here.

And then after a while, know where the kid won't.

They want you to come argue with them, pull them through the

store, pick them up, and then they come a point where they

like right here. Here it is, is is God going to

let you cry yourself to sleep? And it ain't nothing worse like

crying yourself to sleep and then waking up like what

happened to me, exhausted muscles is you like what

happened last night. That demon got in you.

That's what happened last night. I threw tantrums like he like I

was like the kid in the Bible. He's like Lord.

He keep throwing himself on the fire.

I used to just throw myself around.

It was dangerous. My mom had my mom pulled over on

the freeway a few times. I remember my Mama pulled she if

you watch him, I remember it is it was traumatizing for me, but

I'm sure it was traumatizing for her trying to drive down the

highway and this kid is back there just like acting a fool

screaming. She pulled over on the side of

the freeway, got out the car, hopped in the back seat.

Like boy, if you don't shit your ass.

Right, because it comes a point, it comes a point where God got

to get in the back seat because now you're a danger to others.

Right when when God have to strong arm you, it's no longer

about who you being hurt, you hurting yourself, you're now

dangering others with your decision making.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

The earth was completely formless and empty, with nothing

but darkness draped over the deep.

God's Spirit hovered over the face of the waters.

Want you to see this? Formless, empty, nothing but

darkness. God's spirit hovered over the

face of the waters. God's what?

Spirits say. Uh oh, Something about to

happen. He's hovering.

He's hovering, right? Right.

Not many believers see when God's hovering, when the spirit

is hovering, right? When he's hovering, he's getting

ready to move. He's he's nesting.

He's, he's resting, OK, He's hovering.

Watch this over darkness and emptiness and formlessness.

Watch this. And then God announced, God

announced, God announced, right? Remember of the scripture we

read, and you, although you hear it sound, you do not know where

and when it's coming, right? And then God announced sound.

Somebody say sound. Then God spoke.

Let there be light. There is no refreshing without

light first coming on. There there is no promise

without light first coming on when God is about to move.

There is a heightened there is there is a Clarion call

happening. There is a heightened.

He sends his prophets to make announcements because he trying

to get your lights on. He's trying to make you aware of

his coming. Let there be lights and light

burst forth, or when I see God announced, I see His Word and

His Spirit, and then light burst.

There is no bursting without breath.

You see the Spirit of God, you see the Word of God, and then

you see Him move. You see, you see Jesus here.

Where's Jesus? In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Then it goes down and said he was the light.

We see right here, we see Father, we see Son, we see Holy

Ghost. So God's heightened word, the

Father's heightened touch in the midst of darkness, gross

darkness. And then God says.

I'm trying to get you ready man, and I got to break you down.

I got to allow you to be broken down like this.

Watch this. Listen, if if you read verse one

it said and God created and then the next verse said it was

formless. God don't make nothing empty.

He don't make nothing formless. He don't make nothing.

He said God created and a lot of people, a lot of theologians

will say or argue between verse one and verse 2, just like

between one verse and another verse.

Jesus popped from 3013 to 30. We saw that last week.

So between verse one and verse 2, this is where the enemy fell

and a third of the angels, this is where he fell.

However you slice it from verse one, God created.

Then in verse 2, formless dark. Then in verse 3, God speaks.

He's speaking. Watch this.

When complaining begins, contending stops, somebody say

that's a waste of breath. You can't complain and fight at

the same time. You're complaining is fuel for

the enemy's plans. Try your hardest moving forward

to complain less in your life when you when complaining begins

contending stops. You see that?

Let's say that together when containing Yeah, my my bad, my

bad. One more time.

I I I messed up, I messed up 123 go when complaining begins.

Watch this. Complaining is a leader.

If you are not careful, complaining number one will

change your perspective. It will take it from it will

cause you to see something good, and when you complaining about

it, it'll turn into something against you.

Complaining leads people away from truth.

Watch this. Complaining leads people away

from the power of God. Complaining and murmuring is so

bad it robs generations from seeing the promise.

That's one thing we, we, we, we know how to do.

We know how to complain. Watch this.

So we're moving into, right, that the breadth part of this

message is really a prophetic release.

That that happened last week is really just giving you a why

behind the equipping, a why behind the equipping.

When complaining begins, watch this.

Contending stops. In other words, in order to be

perfected, your part is contending.

Your part is contending. We said this two years ago.

However long the hardest part of your year was going to be the

what? See, we remember that, but how

many people it? What's crazy is all of us have a

different perspective of our life and how we doing.

This is why we need others. Not everybody, but just a few

others to have another take on our life.

If I got the only take, or if I've surrounded my people.

If I'm surrounded by people who agree with my take or if you're

not careful. Watch this.

You have gathered around you, contending words for your life.

You got a group of people you really love and they're advising

you one way. And you got a group of people

you really love and they're advising you one way.

And if you're not in the right place or if your desires are too

strong, you're going to lead towards the support and

complaining will assist in you leading towards fleshly

decisions, right? I won't.

I won't work there. I won't work there.

I won't there. I won't watch this.

Say my name. Say my name, say my name.

Come on. Come on, Grace, help me out.

I saw you starting to sing it. What's the other part?

All right. Yo, you singing it, girl?

All right. Say my name.

Say my name. Somebody say say my name.

Say my name. Say my name.

Say my name, say my name. All right.

She she got she put her neck into her.

She didn't forgot all about worship.

Say my name, say my name, say my name.

Everybody say that 123. Yeah, some of you guys are

saying that suspiciously like like what is he having me say

this for? Right.

And if you're new here, you might think this is like a a

cult chant or something we do here at Lovequest.

This is not a a chant that we do say my name, say my name, say my

name. Now one would read this and

think that this is me rightness and I'm about to tell you that

Jesus is it's all about the name of Jesus and it is and Jesus is

telling you today to just focus on his name.

And when doubt comes and negativity comes and when you

want to complain, say my wife, say my name.

That's that's kind of what did we can work it that way, but

that's not what this is today. That is not what this is today.

We're going to look at a man that we've seen over history and

we're going to see what perfecting could look like in a

moment or a season. During the night, Jacob arose,

woke up his two wives. OK, that's a part of his

problem. He got two of them.

Hey, that's the part of it. You got two of them.

Say one too many. Now, now, now, some might ask

why, but he has a second wife because he was tricked into his

first wife, right? That brother worked 14 years for

the 1 he wanted, right? That that's a whole nother

sermon for some of you. That brother was perfected,

right, because he had a promise. And then some people will take

the Leah because you just want one.

You just want something. So you take Leah and that's and

then you mad that that he pulled, he pulled that patch off

one day. You saw one eye.

You like I ain't want nobody with one eye Yeah, but that that

that one I don't get revealed till I After I do that that one

glaring thing you got to look at all the rest of your life.

His two maidservants and eleven sons and had them cross the Ford

of Dabak River. He sent them across along with

everything he had. He sent this he sent them away,

say sent them away, say time for some alone time.

And Jacob was left all alone. Then suddenly out of nowhere,

the wind right there, there's a certain like, why?

Why couldn't the wind come when I was my, I had my 2 wives, you

know what I'm saying? I had, I had my peoples around

me. I had, I had my support group

around me left all alone. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man

appeared and wrestled with him until Daybreak.

Some say this is like like a human man, part man, part

amazing, part man, part Angel. Some people say no, this was

God, but no, it couldn't be God because there ain't nobody going

to wrestle. You know how strong God is.

And some people say this was literally a man.

This is an angelic presence. This was a present sent by God

rather a man in the flesh. However you want to slice it,

this was a divine appointment to send Jacob into a wrestling

match that would change his life.

Mind you, prior to this, Jacob has had dreams.

He has had words spoken over him and his bloodline.

So he is not just wrestling because he did something wrong.

He is not written. No, he is wrestling for a word

that was spoken over his life. Look, I don't care how cute you

are, you not worth losing the word that was spoken on my life.

Right, friends, business partners, all these one question

you got to discern the answer to is are you called to contend

with me for what God has said about my bloodline?

Right. You, you, you, you picking

wrestling partners? Yeah.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man appeared and wrestled with him

until Daybreak. Somebody say until say.

The wrestling got a deadline. When the man saw that he was not

winning. Who's the man that's not

winning? No, it ain't.

Come on, read the word. Read the word.

That was a good try though, When the man saw that he was not

winning. This was the assignment that was

sent to perfect this man, Jacob the man, the angelic force.

The Angel saw he was not winning.

He struck Jacob's hip and knocked it out of joint, leaving

it wrenched as he continued to wrestle with him.

So no matter what beating you take, you're required to keep

wrestling. The The fact that I'm being

attacked can be a direct result from my ground.

I'm gaining because I'm experiencing a moment, a pain.

It does not mean that I have lost ground.

What I'm experiencing could be a direct result from my victory,

right? This is what you got to

understand is that most of the devil shots are cheap shots.

It is because he is already defeated and he wants to strike

you with such a blow that you think it's no way, no, no how,

no way in hell I'm going to be able to come out of this.

But you went in it out of it. You went in it victorious.

You went in it with wisdom to get out.

You went in it to to taste and experience the victory that has

already been won. He struck Jacob's hip, leaving

it wrenched as he continued to wrestle with him.

Here's what the vision, the the, the picture I'm getting, it is

say Jacob kept wrestling with him.

But I believe the way this is written is Jacob kept wrestling

with him because the Angel kept wrestling with him.

What do I mean by that? Jacob just got his.

I want to tend to this. I want to tend to my pain.

But you keep wrestling with me though.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you to get off me.

I'm going to complain, I'm going to pouch, I'm going to cry.

I'm going to try to tend to this or I'm going to learn how to

play hurt. So devil you want to keep

messing with me and my family, then I don't care what I'm going

through. I'm just going to keep

wrestling. As long as you messing with me.

As long as this little demon keep poking his head, I'm going

to keep wrestling. If if the devil got assignment,

I got anointing. Yeah, I got anointing for every

assignment. It don't matter what's going on.

And way too many people. All the enemy got to do is step

on your baby toe and you out. The man asked him, Watch this,

what is your name? And in shock of realization,

whispering, he said Jacob Supplanter, Schemer, Trickster.

Slendler, you remember he wandered his brother.

You're you're you're you see, you're what?

What's this? Jacob?

This is a test. What's your name?

What's your name? It's so many believers still

would answer guilty. Shane behind Linder.

I mean Borrower. Sorry.

My name is beneath My name is not good enough.

My name is poverty. My name is lonely and rather it

comes out of your mouth. Look, look, look at the choices

you make. You speak to what you think Your

name is My. My name is impatient.

My name. My name is broke.

My, My. My name is what?

My name is trauma. My name is drama.

Watch what he says. He says your name shall be

called no more. Jacob.

What? What am I?

The point of perfecting is to change everything.

The point of perfecting is to realign, I promise.

But Israel, look what his name is, contender with God.

For you have contended and have power with God.

And one translation says you have wrestled with God and with

man. You wrestled with God, you

wrestled with God. God called you to go through the

wilderness and you wrestled Abraham.

Go, go, go, go kill your son. And then he says, now I know

because no matter what, Abraham wrestled with his flesh.

Nope, I'm not going to kill my son.

That don't even make sense. Abraham had very logical reasons

to not go through, but he wrestled against his flesh, and

he said God's word will have the last sake.

What did God say? For you have contended and have

power with God and with men, and you have prevailed.

Then Jacob asked him, Tell me, I pray you.

What in contrast is your name? Since I'm since since you want

to know my name, what's your name?

Since we just wrestled, what's your name?

But he said, Why is it that you ask my name?

The Angel of God declared a blessing on Jacob there, and

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, the face of God

perfecting. Should lead you to the face of

God, not to complain it. It is so that we can see

clearer, so we can have better views saying for I have seen

God's face, seen God face to face.

Wait a minute. No, I just wrestled.

I just came out of a season that almost killed me.

I just came through a valley. Look what Jacob said.

I just seen the face of God. Oh, you mean to tell me that

what I went through was to reveal God's faith?

Not a watch this, not a worship song, not merely quoting a

scripture. It was me hanging in there and

seeing that God was everything that he said.

And then he showed his face to me because I showed my faith in

him. See, here's the true question.

Yeah, it's hard. And instead of complaining, the

question that you need to answer.

But is it worth seeing God's face the the the Father that

saved you? Is it worth seeing his face?

I know you want to see his hand saying, for I have seen God face

to face and my life is spared and not snatched away.

Perfecting requires some wrestling with yourself and not

many people. We want to expedite this

process. We want to get this part of the

season over with quick and you know how people are self or not

self ordained. What is it called when somebody

self-proclaimed? Whatever.

Some some of us in here are self-proclaimed.

Ready. Yeah.

Go and write that one down. Have I proclaimed to myself I'm

ready for blank. I remember a long time ago I

thought I was ready for marriage.

No. Where'd she go?

Left with a tattoo. Left with a With a?

With a. Bruise on my chest.

What how many things have you gotten into because you was

like, I'm ready, I'm ready for ministry, I'm ready to lead, I'm

ready to be the example. I'm ready to say follow me.

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

And then you get in and then you like, oh, that was

self-proclaimed. I left God out of that one.

And the unfortunate part is God's like, cool, you think

you're ready. Go for it.

I'll be here after you throw your tantrum.

Watch this. And he passed Pineal or Pineal.

The sun rose upon him, and he was limping because of his

thigh. Wait a minute.

I went through all that. You ain't going to take the limp

away. You ain't going to take the

scars away. For what?

Right now he going to go back. Can you and me?

He going to go back and they're going to be like, what happened

to you, Jacob? What happened to who that went

over some of y'all here right? He going to go back to his

friends and his family with a lip.

He didn't come, he didn't leave them with a lip right Sometime

God need to pull you away from stuff.

So when you return, you going to return for those people who

worried about returning, you going to return.

But when you return, you going to have a scar, you're going to

have a limp, you're going to have a testimony.

You're going to have new strength.

I may come out limping, but I'm going to come out lush.

I'm going to come out lush. I'm the part of the perfecting

is to bring me to a state of fruitfulness that I never run

out. James One, let it have.

It's perfect work. So in the end you lack nothing,

right? Jacob's like I've been wrestling

this long. I'm not letting go like hear

that. He's like I'm going to get

something out of my fight. I didn't make it through all of

this just to come here and just let go, man.

Do you know what God has promised me and my family long

time ago? And I've seen seeds of it and

some fruit of it. But it's OK when you actually

realize this ain't that, it this manner, this ain't that.

It's OK. That's not being entitled,

that's not being selfish, that's not being ungrateful to know.

And some of you need to know when this ain't that, you know,

when it's that. But here's the thing.

Sometimes you may think, you know, because it kind of looked

like it, kind of feel like it, kind of smell like it.

But Jacob's like, no, we're going to keep wrestling.

Some of y'all need to tap in and realize that all that you've

been through finish the fight in.

OK, you came here and I tell Troy, Troy and his family moved

here all the way from all the way.

I'm like you. What'd you come out with?

Will you come out here, bro? Not to anybody that moved here

or made some moves in your life to be here.

You quit jobs. You, you.

You left school. You for what?

To be regular, to say yes and no to regular stuff like the enemy

would love for you to lay down a sacrifice but don't reap from it

because you want to be regular and normal.

You make you sowed an abnormal seed but you only expecting a

normal harvest. What's wrong with you?

You gave up all of that and I didn't move to Canada and leave

everything that I know from the sun to family to friends to

opportunities, to just come here and be regular.

You got to be crazy. Think about it.

Some of y'all gave up some stuff and you're about to you're about

to just let go and settle for mana.

You're just like Lord, just provide for this regular need.

He's like go to work. Just provide for this regular

need. No, no, let me listen.

Sometimes you got to have this attitude when, when a when, when

a when a harvest show up, you got to be able to look at it and

be like that. Don't that don't match the seed.

A few people got that, that that don't match what I've sown.

No, I take it, I'm blessed, I'm grateful, but that ain't it.

That ain't it. Somebody, just a couple people

say that's not it because some people don't even feel like,

some people think you like ungrateful when you say that,

but you're really not. You're really not that.

That's not it. Like Jesus made all kind of

sacrifices, but he knew the cross was the sacrifice, right?

The woman came for some crumbs, but she, she came, she's like,

I'll take the crumbs, but that ain't what I came for.

I came for my daughter to be healed.

Some of y'all like, oh, I got crumbs out the hands of Jesus

and you like OK. And Jesus like OK, bye.

You got crumbs and you're over here dead.

I got crumbs from Jesus. I got crumbs from Jesus knowing

Jesus is like wow and now you out there selling Jesus as the

crumb provider and you got folks that don't follow Jesus and got

what crumbs what you showing them?

Some of you have come through too much to get ready to get

rooted in crumbs. See, the thing about crumbs is

when you fall in love with crumbs, you just keep collecting

crumbs. Trying to get a loaf do.

You know how long it takes for? You know how many crumbs you

need to get a loaf of bread? You falling in love with crumbs?

You settling. That's what impatience will have

you do. I just seen it.

I will tell y'all right now. This building has a lot of

purpose in our life. You you had, if you weren't here

a few years ago and, and and saw the vision about the epicenter,

like here's what it is. God gave us the vision and then

he gave blessed us with a building and we can be like,

well, the vision you gave us, Sir, this is not it.

Now look, the vision he gave us, we might not be the people, but

it don't mean like like the next generation needs me to confess

what God said. I got to keep that dream, that

promise alive for the next generation.

Now I think I'm going to see the epicenter.

I'm going to see it. I'm going to see it in the land.

I'm going to see that thing. But when we get this building

over here and this building and all of them together, I'm still

like, that ain't it? And I'm very grateful for for

here she goodbye settling for them crumbs.

This was not just any wrestling match.

God is perfecting the work of the ministry.

Watch this, which is the work of the harvest, which is the work

of your birthright. The work of the ministry, it's

the wind Souls make disciples. It's the ministry of

reconciliation. God bringing his sons and

daughters home, reconnecting them to their birthright,

reconnecting that. That's the work of the ministry.

The work of the ministry is the work of God's harvest.

But what you're contending for is not just any wrestle.

Next experience, we're going to look at a different character

and we're going to look at Peter and it's perfecting.

We see Jacob with a wrestle of perfection and then you just see

Peter dare to be perfected. There's a wrestle and then Peter

dares to be perfected And, and, and and the way I see it is I

think Peter had water in his mouth.

I think Peter was panicking. I think, I think Peter, Peter

was splicy splashing. And I need you to understand.

I heard this the other day and I've heard it a few times but

I've had a couple people that didn't have their glasses on and

they say what not. I don't know why when I can't

see, I can't hear and I want to take a closer look at Peter and

what got him out the boat was his hearing and he asked to hear

because he couldn't what see. And when he got out the boat, we

look at he kept he took his eyes off of Jesus.

He couldn't see him. He stopped listening and I want

to look at what, what, what what would have kept him hearing.

He he didn't just he. What got Jesus talking was Peter

talking. And I like that I wrote it like

this. Peter took his eyes off the

voice of Jesus. A.

Lot of you misunderstand the word because you don't know

God's voice and this is where the enemy gets us is we got way

too many. Voices in our lives.

The Bible says in Job or is the second crime, I forget what it

is, but God said what you doing here, talking to the enemy,

talking to the devil, talking to Satan, what you doing up here?

He showed up amongst other angels and God said what you

doing here? He showed up in the midst of

other voices and when you have aligned yourself with the voices

or the few voices that God has put in your life, here's what

you got to be aware of other voices getting loud.

You should not put everybody's voice on the same volume.

You, you got to be a good engineer of the sound in your

life. You got to learn how to mix the

voices. I just want to take a look at

Peter and how he was perfected. Father, we thank you for your

word. We thank you for your

perfecting. We thank you for your hand to

mold us, to keep us. We thank you for your love.

Thank you for your relentless love.

Lord God, you are good and your mercy endures forever.

Lord, I thank you that we will be a people that's not caught

off guard. We are a people that as your

wind blows, Father, we will discover that there is fruit

remaining. But Lord, do what you have to

do. Blow on what you have to blow

on, so that everything that is left in our life is pleasing to

Your sight. Holy Spirit, lead us and guide

us in this hour. We need Your presence, we need

your wisdom, we need Your guidance, we need your leading.

For You are good, You are faithful, You are a comforter,

you are standby, you are teacher, you are intercessor,

you are peace, you are joy. Lord, thank you, we will forever

give you the praise in Jesus name Amen.

If you've got anything, just give God a praise one time.

Come on, y'all can do better than that.

Come on, give God some praise. Thank you so much for tuning in

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