Dynasty Wednesdays - "Lush" (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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

I. Read a couple scriptures to you.

John 38 amplified Classic. The wind blows, it breathes

where it will. Somebody say where it wills, say

where it wills one more time. 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 of the Spirit. The wind blows where it wills.

Though you hear it sound, yet you neither know where it comes

from nor. Where it is going acts.

To 2. When suddenly there came a

sound. Let me start at 1.

And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all

assembled together in one place. When suddenly there came a sound

from heaven, like the rushing of a violent Tempest blast.

A wind came out of nowhere, in other words, and it filled the

whole house in which they were sitting.

I reverse 1A little backwards. They were all assembled together

in one place. When the day of Pentecost hath

fully kept, come fully come, fully come someone say a

measure, When suddenly there came a sound from heaven, like

the rushing of a violent Tempest blast.

Ezekiel 37. 37 and 9 Then said He to me, Prophecy to the breath

and spirit, Son of man, and say to the breath and spirit.

Thus says the Lord of Lord God, come from the four winds, O

breath and spirit, and breathe up on the slain, that they may

live. So I prophesied as He commanded

me, and the breath and spirit or the wind came into the bones,

and they lived and stood up there feat an exceedingly great

host. Read it one more time.

Then he said to me, Prophecy to the winds, say to the breath and

spirit. Thus says the Lord God, come

from the four winds, come from the north, come from the South,

come from the east, come from the West.

O breath in spirit, and breathe upon these slain, that they may

shout it out. Live prophecy that what is dead

may live prophecy. But he didn't say prophesied to

the bones. He said prophecy to that which

is going to bring the dead back to life.

He said speak to the wind. Sounds like what Jesus did on

the sea. Sounds like he has given us

authority. To prophecy command, place a

demand on the wind or on the Spirit of life to come and

transform our lives. There is so much authority in

each one of us that walk with the Lord.

Follow the Lord led by the Spirit and are willing vessels

to let the breath of life live and flow through you.

Lord said prophecy, which means Ezekiel has a choice.

He can say, God, I don't think you see these bombs.

We're looking at hopelessness. No chance in hell these bones is

coming back to prophecy. No, no chance in hell that this

city, this community, this alley, this block is going to

look. No chance in hell this marriage

can be turned prophecy. No, no chance in hell my

children can make it through. No chance in hell this four

stage can't. No prophecy, no chance in hell

the budget will be met, the money will come in, the laborers

will Prophecy. I see how bad it prophesied.

Stop complaining prophecy. Ain't no way I can bounce back

from this trauma. It is how bad I've been hurt,

how bad I've been betrayed, how bad my husband treats me, how

far gone me and my spouse. And prophecy.

You believe God or you don't prophecy.

So we're going to take a few minutes before we get in this

word and we are going to prophecy so that as the Holy

Spirit comes in here tonight that there is transformation.

You have to move from just listeners of the word to

partakers of the word. There is life changing spirit,

wind and breath in the word. And my prayer tonight as that

every dead place in your body, it will experience the wind of

God and you will come alive. Prophecy He is perfecting.

Because the wind is about to blow, he is equipping.

Because the harvest is about to storm in, he is perfecting.

Because the wind is about to blow, he is cleaning his house.

Because the wind is about to blow.

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

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

there was a warning in the wilderness, and that warning was

repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Yeah, before the bones got up in the valley, there was a word

that went forth. God is gracious to warn, to

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

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

The call of God separated Abraham from his family.

The call of God separated Jesus from his family.

The call of God separated Paul from his family.

The call of God separated Paul from his family, and Matthew 10

tells us that he comes to cut 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 warning to not get too busy.

There's been warning about being careful who you getting covenant

with. There's been warning about some

of the. Tricks of the Enemy in 2025.

Why? Because the wind is about to

blow. And a lot of times we do not, we

get so focused on harvest time, we don't focus on root time,

rooting time, rooting time, rooting time.

So the dangers about about about compelling you and prophesying

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 that this loud voice

about promise on the flip side of it is a warning to brace

yourself because the wind is about to blow.

So in these conversations, there is going to be a stirring of the

gifts. God is shifting your seasons, He

is disturbing your rhythms, He is silencing your comforts.

He is transplanting your desires, and He is releasing

you. Watch it to your pride.

No, He does not free you from your pride.

You do that, but He will. When it's time, He will release

you to your pride. Father, may we have ears to hear

today. May we have eyes to see today.

Clean hands, pure heart, Holy Spirit activate we left off.

On Lush, the perfecting of the Saints and Somebody say

perfecting, somebody say maturing, somebody say grow up

OK. And what we have to understand

is God is called. This is a very crucial moment.

In the world and in the history of the world and the church, it

is it. This is what you might call a

defining moment for some of us, a turning point in history.

This is a time where we see generals leaving the earth,

mantels being thrown back down or being left on the earth, and

a new crop of apostles and prophets and teachers and

pastors and evangelists are being raised up.

They're called the remnant. I like to say it this way, God

always have a people in his back pocket.

God will never. It may look dark, it may look

wild, it may look crazy, it may look hopeless, but God always

has a flask of Saints filled, ready to go, ready to rock,

ready to obey. The, the, the.

There are many that are called and there are few that are

chosen. Some of you, you are being

healed from your fear of man for the call your, your freedom from

fear of man is to not make you independent of man.

We need each other. The enemy want to pervert you

pervert the fact that you have to be free from the fear of man.

And he wants to produce an independent spirit in you to

make you think you don't need no, no man, nobody.

He's raising up a people. He's raising up a tribe.

He's anointing his people. For such a time, I realize that

you can throw a net all you want to in the ocean, but you are

only going to leave with the fish that got in the net.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah. So those that God is calling in

this hour, realize that you are not called to everybody.

You are not anointed for everybody.

And you have to be OK with the fish who are called to you and

realize they're called to you. You can't save everybody.

If you save in everybody, I promise you, you're distracted.

I realize that. He say we are fishers of men.

How many fishermen go out and catch the whole ocean?

Right, right, right. And what I realize when I look

at Jesus, he like I only got time and I only got capacity for

12 to save the world, I just need 12.

To carry this thing on, I only need 12.

But I also can't share certain parts of my life with but one to

three. The call is costly and I got I

think God wants to show some of us, especially those who feel

like it's either we we here's a buzzword now marketplace

ministry and some people have loud marketplace ministry to be

their excuse to not be committed to the local church in the name

of Jesus. Watch this When Paul left

Athens, he travelled to Corinth. Where he met a Jewish man named

Aquila who was originally from northeastern Turkey.

He and his wife Priscilla had recently immigrated from Italy

to Corinth because Emperor Claudius had expelled all the.

Jews. From.

Rome, watch this since Paul and Aquila were both shouted out

tent makers by what trade? Talk to me.

We go. We somebody going to get a

little bit of freedom tonight. Paul, not Saul.

So Saul is on the other side now.

He's what Paul and Aquila were both what tent makers by what

trade? Paul moved in with them.

He didn't move in with Priscilla, he moved in with them

and they became what business partners watch it every Sabbath

day. Paul spoke openly in the city.

He preached, he teached to both Jews, non Jews, attempting to

persuade them to believe the message.

Jesus do I see? Talent and call Paul used tent

making. To fund call and if you continue

on after his ministry began to get so explosive, it is believed

that then this is where we see churches beginning to partner

with him. But in the beginning of call,

Paul had an entrepreneurial trade.

God didn't say, oh, you're anointed, you're an apostle, so

you can't. Work.

He didn't say this is season, you got to work and pay bills

and call got to wait, quite frankly, his promotion to get

free and liberated from his trade.

Is how he. Was faithful over the tension of

doing both and so for some of you who are like God or in this

season, are you calling me to do one or the both?

You, you, you ain't paid no oil dues to be released from one or

the other. So if you're married or

whatever, you got call on your life.

Sure. Trust me, I did it.

I did it. I felt call, call, call.

I get a job and I'm like, Nah, I'm called.

So I don't need the work. I can't work.

I need time for call. But then family suffered on

foolishness. There is faith, there is

foolishness and there is presumption.

Paul was a tent maker on the Sabbath day.

Paul preached marketplace ministry, but the potency of his

marketplace ministry was based on his rootedness in the house.

There is room for both. There is capacity, but capacity

comes after obedience. Capacity don't come before to

pay you to be obedient. No, no, there is no capacity

exchange for obedience. You obey because you love God.

You don't obey because he gave you an increase in your hard

drive and now you like God. I'll go because now I can handle

more. No, you got to go when you can't

handle it. So.

So when you start handling it, you know why you handling it?

Only because of God. Take my yoke.

It's easy. Look at him.

Look at Paul. Look at Paul building tents.

Right. It's like then Brian was drafted

to the NBA by trade, by talent, by skill.

But on the road trips, he led Bible studies.

In offseason, he had an evangelistic mantle.

So in the offseason, he did revivals.

He leveraged his influence for the sake of the Kingdom.

Paul leveraged his skills to work for the Kingdom.

As we saw last week, a gift is a key that opens doors to bring us

into the presence of great men. We saw this last week.

Your gift will make room for you.

Right. Right.

Look, discipleship is impossible between me and Troy.

If me and Troy didn't have music in common.

Me and Troy met doing a trade, a skill, a talent.

It was something, if you ask him a part of the reason he was

there, because they was paying. Yeah, we've done some stuff for

free. But it ain't never free you.

If you got your mind right, you are getting compensated.

But we met. Music brought us together.

It was the medium. And then as we begin to

Priscilla and Aquila and and and Paul had tents in common.

It brought them together. Paul moved in a crib.

What brought them together? Their marketplace commonality,

their gifts, their talents. And this is the dangerous part.

You come to church and God brings you together for call.

But a lot of times what people can do for you gets in the way

of why you are called together. And so now before you know it,

it's good that we can hire people and work within and give

people jobs and we can talk creative ideas.

But man, the moment you forget that what what God brought you

together and a part of what brought us together was our

commonalities. And a lot of times it is the

very thing that brought us together that gets in the way of

why we walk together. We can walk together later.

Discipleship. Soul winning.

How do you fish? How do you fish?

How do you fish? How do you fish?

You put something in the water that the fish like.

Am I wrong? Am I right?

You put something in the water that the fish like.

How do you think God brings people in our lives?

He'll put somebody in your life that's doing something or got

something that you like or you need.

But the problem is you have allowed the need to be the

priority, the need being fulfilled, and you have become

an opportunistic St. And and and you have sat down on

why we come together. We're a body right?

What like we're by he? He uses our commonalities.

To bring us together. Think about it, when you're

dating, when you're finding somebody, you don't.

I mean, look, no, no, no, no. You found a commonality.

Hey, what you like, where you go to school.

And then the moment you find out you got something in common with

somebody, the commonality makes you like them more.

Oh, you like Disney? Oh, my God, I've been.

It is the commonalities that keep a conversation rolling.

And the goal is to use our, our commonalities to bring us

together. But then God brings a common, a

purpose driven commonality that keeps us together.

And way too many believers get brought together, but don't stay

together. Like God said, let no man put

asunder what I've brought together.

That, that, that is something that is used in, in, in

marriage, in weddings. Well, what do you think this is

the bride of Christ. God brought us together.

I, I, I could probably say that a lot of people will say I found

my church home. You don't necessarily look at

the people in your church home. How intricately we are knit.

Together and by This is why He demands us to gather together

because there is something in each one of us that God has

brought together. And when we actually abide

together, there's a work that he can do with us.

And that's why you got to understand if God is working

everything together for our good, what the enemy means for

our evil, then men, if you got the maturity to work through the

differences and get to the other side, then you will begin to see

the glory of the body. But way too often in this

culture, the moment we hit differences, the moment them

enemy lies, he plays off our hurts, our pains, we either

leave or we put up a wall and begin to critique.

So it doesn't matter because you come here all the time that

we're walking together. We just gather together.

And So what the enemy loves, He likes for us to keep our

differences at a distance and secret, right?

We're not in the middle of the ring.

We're in the corner and we come in and we get whatever we can

get. But what God has meant for us to

get require roots. Let me help you.

You don't grow roots without dying.

So you might be someone, you might be a seed planted at Love

Quest, but you are on the surface of the soil and then

here it is. Watch it, watch it.

Don't, don't watch it. Anyone who is truly rooted, we

call them cliquish. No, no, no.

That's what the world calls cliques.

And there are cliques in church, but they're also in church

called tribes. They're also in church.

A group of people who decide to actually be rooted and go deeper

and go beyond the surface and share their fears, their

weaknesses, also talk about their differences.

And they in the middle of the ring and they're fighting for

unity, they're fighting for love.

They're contending for the faith.

Many people are in their corners and they're throwing rocks at

the center of the ring and you are not getting in the middle.

No matter how messy it is, no matter how dirty it is, no

matter how long it take, no matter how much people poke at

you. I'm going to fight because I'm

called to contend for the faith. There there's no one that I'm

close with in this community that we have not had some very

hard conversation, brutal conversations, cry together,

laugh together, repent it to each.

Other and then on the other side of it, where there's no

vulnerability, there's no intimacy, there's no

vulnerability. Intimacy is not a sexual word is

in to me. See right so talents and gifts

brought us together under God's purpose.

Lower level talent is lower level or lower dimensional gifts

that undergird our dominant gift to bring support and balance.

Watch this. We read this last week, but I

want to read it one more time. Your talents are not the same as

your spiritual gifts. Skills are usually inherited,

passed down from generation to generation.

Natural talents can develop with practice.

Watch this. Spiritual gifts are received,

not developed. Spiritual gifts are complete

gifts, batteries included. Acts 1A says when the Spirit

comes up on you, you shall receive power, ability,

efficiency and might. Not because I developed

efficiency or ability or might. It's because the Holy Spirit is

up on me and that's what He brings.

That's what He. Adds to my life, and then you go

and look at the spiritual gifts, he says.

Now if I give, if I make somebody in charge of the gifts.

Then that'll be a hot mess. I distribute the gifts as I

please. Had somebody have a conversation

with them yesterday or the other day about the spiritual gifts

and the burden of the gift that they sense on their lives.

And I said the beautiful part about the gifts that are on your

lives, man, you can read about it and all that, but not many

people know what to do with the burden of the call.

You think the burden of the call mean if I got a gift of healing

on my life, then that mean anybody I see sick lay hands on

them. Anybody I see sick pray for and

let them hear me pray. And that's not the case.

I, I, I believe God, all nine gifts can flow through me

because I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't idolize one.

Neither do I just want one. I want the main. 1.

Right. I want love and here, here it is

is You have many people that say my ministry is this gift, but

that gift is the holy. Spirit's Ministry.

And so I'll see sometimes, man, we'll be flowing and there'll be

altar calls and there'll be prophetic words, and then

there'll be like weeks and sometimes months.

They're like, man, we haven't had that kind of encounter in a

while. Or God hasn't used me in this

way or used me in that way. And it's not like I'm thinking

about this the whole time, but I'm just like thinking about it.

Like I know he's used me this way, this way, this way, this

way, that way, then sometime he just has me preaching and

teaching and church over. But why do we press in the

worship? Why do we extend a little bit

longer? Because he may want to do

something and it is me yielding to him, asking him within my

spirit, Lord, is it anything you would have at this moment?

OK, cool, you finished. Awesome, done.

Because the spirit is like the wind.

The problem with the wind is when the winds show up, are you

available? This is why you got to be

mature, because you can't just be caught up loosey goosey in

the grocery store. If the winds show up, Are you

ready? Are Are you ready for the spirit

to move up on you? Like I don't want to have a the

the the the. Gift of the Spirit of prophecy

and then I'm in the locker room or at a ball game and somebody

is injured and and sick, but that that ain't Lord.

Can you get somebody in the gym that?

Got the gift to heal it. No, I'm just ready.

However, you need to use me today wherever I go.

Wind blow. And we got way too many people.

It's like this my ministry. This is the ministry.

And you go to your grave with this is the ministry you could

have been a whole lot more effective when that ministry

wasn't popping. Here's another ministry could

have been popping and another gift could have been popping and

another gift could have popped been popping.

Maybe you didn't have the gift of tongues used in that

sanctuary, but. He used the gift of

interpretations because we're a body.

So you say natural talents can develop with practice.

Spiritual gifts are received, not developed.

They come complete they they are unexpected surprises you can't

earn or deserve. God chooses watch it.

Your faith can be developed. Risk in REST are priorities to

grow in our lives. We are responsible to grow our

faith, but you cannot watch it grow your faith without risk.

And a lot of times you are trying to pick the right thing,

the right move, and you're too afraid to get out the boat

because you think you going to drown.

Or what if I don't walk on water?

No, but you won't know. Sometimes the way you hear God

is you got to step out to hear him say not that way.

The issue is not whether you can hear him or not.

It's can he course correct in your life and you respond

quickly. I realized that in my life, God

being pliable in his hands, He has trained me or I have allowed

him to, however you want to put it that whenever he speaks, I am

not afraid to quickly adjust and I'm not afraid to be wrong and

I'm not afraid to make a mess. But over 50% of the people we.

You are afraid to get messy. That's not a kid.

In the moment you put fear. In your kids from making a mess.

Now I'm talking about little kids, right?

I'm not talking about when you, you know, I mean like 12 and you

like doing stupid messes like you doing stupid stuff like you

can't be just be breaking stuff and throwing stuff.

Baseballs in the house and like crazy stuff.

I'm talking about when you put a little kid, you see him, you put

paint in the hand, you see how they eat, You see I got a bump.

I got a busted head right here because I took a risk.

I got a burn on my chest at one years old because I took a risk.

I was a kid. I didn't know no better.

I didn't know that that was really hot.

My Mama told me it was hot, but I didn't really know it was hot

until I pulled that hot grease down.

Like oh, how many times you think I pulled hot grease down

after that? No, see, what you don't

understand is that's perfecting. Can you take a risk?

So you can be perfected instead of being like Oh no, that's too

heavy. What if you put everything into

it to only find out, man, maybe I need to.

Maybe the reason I can't watch it, maybe the reason I can't

lift it is not because it's too heavy, is because I got a bad

posture, so now I need to go try.

So somebody, sometimes God is asking you to come out on the

sea because he's just trying to correct your posture.

He, he's not even trying to make you walk on water.

He just trying to get you to correct your posture.

Risk. Watch this.

When we grow in spiritual maturity, God increases our

gifts and capacity straight up. You be faithful over a little.

Ain't it crazy? The stuff we do take risks with?

Watch this. How many people fly?

That's a risk. You just hop on there, don't

know who the pilot is. You don't even know if one is in

there. You believe whatever voice come

over to the loudspeaker. Hi, this is your captain today.

You like, oh, praise God, somebody is in the cockpit.

No, anybody could get on the mic.

This is your captain, right? Terrorists.

Terrorists sit their little butt down and you get in the air.

Then it's a wrap, right? This is your cat and you just

automatically, you just hop on air.

You go on cruises and go out in the middle of the seat.

You, you do all kinds of stuff. Ain't it crazy the stuff we take

risk on? How many people didn't drank

alcohol risk. How many people did drugs risk?

How many people have had unprotected sex risk.

How many people have watched porn?

Risk, risk. You take risk every day.

Driving is more dangerous than flying.

How many people drove today? Risk.

How many people let somebody drive them today?

Super risk. Somebody say risk.

We take risk all the time, but how will we know?

How will we grow in our faith if we don't take risk?

And then you got way too many people OK not being advanced in

what God has called them to watch it.

And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with

wisdom and the grace. The favor and spiritual blessing

of God was appointing, the anointing was upon him.

The grace not, not, not, not not the undeserved.

There there's two types of grace.

There is the undeserved, there is the grace of salvation, and

then there is the empowering presence of God, a grace gift

upon your life to fulfill the purposes of God on your life.

The grace, the favor and spiritual blessing of God was up

on him. Watch it verse 42 and when he

was 12, somebody shout out 12. They went up as was their

custom. Somebody say custom Jewish so so

they were obedient to the culture to the custom the

ceremonial customs they were this is important for where

we're about to go. They were they were faithful to

the customs OK, verse 51 and we went down with them right.

This is after. His parents come looking for

him. I mean, you know that story,

right? Come looking for him.

And they get all the way home and they come back.

Where the boy at? He like what you mean where I've

been, you know I've been, which you lose to.

They should have known what he do, what's on him.

It is Jewish custom. His young men know the Torah.

And if they're really good at it, they're also preparing to be

rabbis. Teacher, teacher, teacher.

How old did the Bible say he was?

12? Somebody say 12 he like.

What you mean where I've been? You knew before I was in your

belly. You knew.

Came out of your belly. You knew.

You ran with me. You know what's up.

You know what's on my life. You protected it.

Now I'm 12, somebody say now I'm 12.

You trying to say where you at, where you've been, who you're

with? And he went down with them.

He's like, all right, all right, let's go, let's go, you right,

you, right, you, My parents, although I'm Jesus and I'm your

Savior, I'm a child right now and the Word says that I better

obey and honor. Watch this and he was habitually

obedient to to them. See, this is what we got to

understand. They weren't merely his

biological parents. This is the Savior.

They were his spiritual parents, especially his daddy, because

Jesus didn't come up out of him. You are his spiritual Father for

real. Amen.

Right. They they they are.

Watching over Jesus and they're watching over the Savior.

But this is a little boy, this is human.

This is the word became flesh. They couldn't be like, oh, he

the word, he going to be OK. Like this is very right.

We don't think about these things.

Oh, that's Jesus. That's God.

What we need to worry about God for we got we better go back and

get God God out here tripping. I want you, I want you to, but I

want you to look at the the layers to this because they are

literally watching over the word.

They're not letting the word get away from them.

OK, OK, Jesus himself needed covering.

Jesus himself was accountable to the delegated authorities in his

life. Jesus himself obeyed Word even

when it came to his death. What are you talking about?

Look, and his mother kept closely kept and closely and

persistently guarded all these things in our heart.

Why? Why watch this Mystic?

525252 And because of his obedience and because of the the

covering of his village. And Jesus increased in what

wisdom in broad and full understanding.

Watch this and stature and years and in favor with God.

And when what man? Jesus increased in wisdom?

Oh, the Word increased in wisdom.

The Savior increased in wisdom as long as he was in this world,

although not of it, He needed to increase in with.

And if Jesus needed to increase in wisdom, then what do you

think we need to do in broad and full understanding?

And in what stature? His inner man, His posture, His

influence and years and in favor with God and man.

If Jesus couldn't use the excuse, he was Jesus.

You can't use the excuse you were saying.

Oh, I'm saying I'm a Christian and what does the word say?

Oh, that's that's my tradition. So what does the word say?

Oh, that's how. I'm used to doing it.

OK So what does the word say? Watch this verse chapter 3 verse

23. Same Luke.

Jesus himself when he began his ministry was about 3030 years of

age. Wait a minute, how do I wait

that how we go from 12 to 30 in one chapter?

Because somebody say slow down. OK, what what we have to pay

attention to is this is that there is no record of Jesus walk

from infancy to 12 pops on. They see him in the temple 12 to

3030 to 33 ministry grave to sky.

There's these hidden years of his life.

So I got to take I got I I got to I got to look at based on the

nature of God and based on certain situations in the word,

what might he been doing? So we go back that it was his

custom. Remember we say his family went

up as custom, so it's also fair to assume as custom he is in his

word to know the Torah. That's why he find found himself

in them scrolls. He found himself OK, but also he

was being raised looking forward to being a rabbi.

Watch this. But it was also known that

rabbis only shared scripture based on what they were taught.

They were reading the scroll and they were taught what their

rabbi taught them. Jesus was one of the only rabbis

that not only taught, but he gave his interpretation of it.

And that's a part of the reason why they wanted to kill him is

because he came with Revelation. OK, OK, OK, watch this.

Matthew put up. Matthew really quick.

Matthew 729. Real quick, real quick, real

quick, real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick.

Matthew 729 for he was teaching as one who had and and was

authority. He didn't just have authority,

he was authority and not as did the scribes.

He was raised to be 1, but he had another call on his life and

he came with revelation. Watch this.

He came with spirits and with truth.

So the reason they wanted to kill him is because they

couldn't understand his interpretation of the scriptures

and they would say that's blasphemy.

So we will often find them trying to find him going against

the word, the law, and he came to establish his Kingdom.

So on these latter days, boy, you better have eyes to see and

you better have a humble heart and you better be rooted in the

Kingdom because guess what? It's going to be a whole lot of

stuff that that that that some of you may not understand,

especially in the blind spots of your flesh.

And when God sends apostles, when he sends prophets, you just

might miss them just like the. People who used to teach about

them, how they teach about them, they didn't see them.

So just because you read your Bible don't mean you see Jesus.

Just because you come to church don't mean you follow Christ.

So we go back to the warning of this great falling away.

How you going to fall away? And we're not talking about you

just just straight up denouncing Christ.

How you go from hot to cold, hot to warm lukewarm.

How you going to let church hurt steal your voice?

How you going to let the busyness of your life cause you

to sit on your car falling away lukewarm, passive.

And then now you're getting older and you're like, oh God, I

wish I would have. No, no, no, you don't got to

wish. You would have just heed to his

voice. So then we go into the apostles

and they wanted to persecute them.

Why? Wait a minute, they didn't go to

the same schools as us. But we can tell they've been

with that man. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait. Paul.

I know. Jesus, I know.

But who? Is you.

I hear you saying his name, but the but the but the but the

evidence in your tracks don't look like you following him.

I see Jesus footsteps over there.

I see you over here, you watching Jesus now following

Jesus you, you, you right, you you want to be a Jason just in

case the storm come. Hey, Jesus, I'm I'm with you,

I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm in line.

You know, you know little kids when they when they little and

they, they doing stupid stuff and then you turn around,

they're like. Right, we're going to have

Saints in the last days then just cruising and chilling you.

I'm here, Jesus here and guess what the Bible said?

I never knew you. What are you talking about?

You think my relationship is always keeping account of you?

It's like I got to always take roll, like I got to all, here's

what roll call. Here's what you do when you make

Jesus call, roll over and over. You always got to hear His call.

How many times you got to remind you, You called.

How'd you even lose the focus on the call?

You got prophetic words. Your parents told you, some of

you in here. Man, you have gotten so many

prophetic words spoken over your life.

And let me tell you something, prophecy just don't come to

pass. Like, like if prophecy just came

to pass, like Jesus had to go through it.

John, you got to baptize me, buddy.

No, I got to go on this cross. So you actually got to do your

part because prophecy is birthed from covenant.

It takes 2 right? When you go to the altar, one

says I do. If the other one doesn't, we

have not agreement, we have not marriage, right?

What happens if you go to a wedding and one person say I do

and the other one don't? Wait, watch this, watch this but

but they said yes, so why? Why are you judging them on

there? I do.

How many of you in here say, yes, you got Jesus at the altar

still just he been said I do and he.

What, what, what, what's been going on here?

So he's studying, but also what was what was known is that they

would study that Torah, but as they got older they would pick

up their father's trade and work at it full time.

Who else was a Carpenter father? If you look at scripture, Jesus

dad also passed, hence have to cross.

Hey, take care of my mother. He's a young man.

He left before his Mama, no dad, so he was also taking care of

his Mama and his younger siblings.

What was going on between infancy 12 and 12 and 30?

Because the Gospels is not there to tell us about the biological

life of Jesus and what he did and what he ate.

And like, yes, some of that is sprinkled in there, but this was

to record his death, his resurrection, his birth.

This was to record prophecy. This was to confirm.

What Isaiah said. So through the Holy Ghost, we

get the chance to really look at might Number one.

What was going on was parenting. No, I'll parent.

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

No, because isn't God's calling. What is the revival all about?

Sons and daughters knowing how to be parented, come be on here.

Got daddy issues, parent issues. Some of the very scars you hold

came from your parents. So then when we get in church,

we no you preach to me. That's all you is.

Give me small groups, that's all you is.

Don't come to me talking about no covering, no spiritual this

spiritual that. No, my Pat, no.

Your name, Terrence. Your name, your name Julia, your

name John, your name, your name Rich your, your name.

You know we all the same. So did orders stop after Jesus?

Jesus was not over being parent. Because the parenting is way

more than just putting food on your table.

It's about covering and protecting the gift on your

life. No, I got a word.

This baby is given to me. I got to protect not just the

human, I got to protect the divine inside the human.

Watch this number. 2 Did you ever think that why we didn't

see a lot of his life is because he was being perfected The

unseen years overlook the years. Oh, that's just the Carpenter

boy. That's that's just oh, I don't

find in scripture Jesus was rushing.

I don't I don't find them thirsty, desperate.

He was tending to the family business, he was learning, he

was being educated. And then you see a lot of

Kingdom minded cultures in this country and you.

See why they have. Several generations in one

house, their kids can play hoop, but their parents aren't pushing

that because they're going to hand off the family trade.

North America, we don't we're not raised Kingdom No 18 get up

out of here start and every generation starting a new trade,

starting a new. Business starting a new purpose,

starting a new dream, starting a new idea, starting a new

philosophy, starting a new new, new, new, new, new.

And we're no longer passing on, right?

Mary. Mary was supposed all the

prophets in the Old Testament. What they were doing is they

were given the word. Next prophet, next prophet, next

generation, next generation. If you handle the word right,

handle the word right, next generation the word becomes

flesh. And he comes, and he gets things

in order, and he restores the Kingdom, and he takes the keys

back, and the Holy Spirit comes, and he tells us to make

disciples. Here's making disciples.

Teach them from generation, just the family business, OK, We

won't pass it to the next generation.

Malachite, Malachite, here you go, Malachite grandkids, here

you go, Malia, here you go. Here you go.

He was like, oh, here's ten ways to be wealthy.

Here's ten ways to do this. Here's what you don't do in

marriage. Here's what you do in sex.

And here's what you do with this.

We passing on. We not passing on family

business, We passing on desires, We passing on philosophies, we

passing on trauma. We passing on hurt.

What Jesus went to do is he went to reconnect us back to the

Word. Jesus I by the Spirit of God, I

know what was going on in the lost years.

Same thing that was going on in David in the backfield.

Jesus was killing his lions and his bears, and that's why when

he came out, all it took was three years.

That's why it only took David one stone efficient ability and

might because he didn't mind the perfecting.

He honored those that was given charge over him, although he was

God. He was parented, he was

perfected #3 in those years he was being postured.

How did Jesus, as a human being anointed, stand against all that

persecution? Oh, Judas, it hurts, but I've

been perfected for Judas. I've been perfected, Paul, Paul,

I've been perfected to go without and to have abundance.

I've been perfected. But also watch it.

Jesus is also living our prophecy.

And here's what a lot of you need to get.

There is a word over your life. If ain't nobody prophesied over

you, the word has. Before I formed you in your

mother's womb, I knew you. I ordained you, I consecrated

you, I anointed you. God's not perfecting nothing.

He's perfecting what he put in you.

He's the Potter. He's shaping the clay.

Everyone in here carries a different gift, or I'm going to

put it this way, a different presence.

All right, Shereen, walk in here.

She carry her presents. She's not going to walk in here

and you're going to be like, hey, Lily, No, no, no, no.

That's present when she walk out of here.

She takes her presents right from from her her stature, from

her posture, from from her smell, from her hair, from

whatever there's from from her laugh, from her smile, from from

her negativity or her positivity.

We all carry presents. But we all also carry presents,

PRESENTS, gifts, and. Here's what it should look like.

And all the elders cast their crowns.

What would happen? If 75% of us was aware of our

presence, which is overshadowed by His presence, and He has.

Put in US presence. When we come in here, we lay

them down at the altar by releasing them so that the wind

of God. Can blow on all of our

offerings, all of our gifts in one room.

Not everybody come in here knowing they have a present to

cast down. You think the only people with

presents are the people who come on this platform or serve at a

post. So what you wait for is you wait

for a team to come out, tell you to stand up, lift your hands,

sat down. You didn't know that you can

walk through that tent. You got a presence on you.

You got presents in you and you can come in here and lay it down

and you can start worship before the worship team come out.

Perfecting God's perfecting the Saints and it's my job and it's

it's others that are called in these five fold ministry gifts

to equip you. Stir on, stir up the gift, call

you out all all the things, call you based on Paul here.

Paul, he ain't have time for lower call.

He said. I press towards the mark of the

high call, high call, high call, high call, high call, high call,

high call, high call, high call, high call.

And I found out when you focus on high call, high call, high

call, high call, then then the low stuff actually don't become

as desirable. How can he handle writing

letters with shackles on his hands?

High call, high call, high call, high call.

You so focused on the high call writing the letters?

Are you focused on the souls? Are his imaginations Is on

seeing people's soul set free, not the shackles on his wrists?

High call, high call, high call, high call.

Some of you have settled for acknowledging God, but you

constantly focused on low, call low, call low, call low, call

low, call low. Gifts, low talent, just talents,

gifts, abilities. So I need to go to school so I

can get this piece of paper to support my gift, not support

call. How, how?

How would your major and minor selection?

Go in college if you went into selecting knowing call see

because if I got a diploma that support my call.

Then I might, I might only get 100,000 a year, maybe 80,000 a

year. But based on, because I'm in my

call and based on the stewardship of my call and based

on the education I have about my call, that gift, the diploma,

the gift, the diploma is going to make room for me.

And then I'm going to find favor with God and with who, man.

So I might make on paper 70 grand a year, but all the favor

and all the resources that come my way because the anointing is

a magnet for Kingdom purpose. He brings the resources.

In the world, money make room for you and there's so many

gifts in this room, so many presents that God has put in you

in this. Room.

That in this season, the winds blowing, that's why he's

perfecting. So what I told them is you, I

was talking to somebody who feels they have a strong

evangelist call on their life and the gift of healing.

So we're talking, he's like, ma'am, I'm need service sometime

and I'll see you and blah, blah. And I was like, do you know that

that gift is the Holy Spirit? Sometime the gift is activate

the burden. He's like, what do you do when

you have a burden? And you see.

Do you know sometime the burden is to activate prayer?

The Bible says that that Jesus was moved with compassion.

It was his compassion. It was his burden that then we

see people healed. Some people want healing but

don't have burden. The anointing flows through

burden. My yoke is easy anointing.

My burden is light yoke destroying burden, removing

power of the anointing. And I said, do you know all the

gifts that are in the room, all the presents that are in the

room, Maybe the burden comes up on you because you want to see

somebody healed. God then moves through your

intercession in the room. And then because we're praying

room, he might then move up on me, Elder John, whoever's

speaking. And then God begins to then

activate another gift called prophecy or the gift of wisdom

or the gift of knowledge. And then, oh, it's somebody in

this room that is dealing with XY and Z, but nobody knows that

that word was activated by the person with the gift of

healing's burden. Yeah.

And then we begin to call things out.

And then maybe God will say, hey, come down here, There's few

people dealing with XY and Z. We're going to pray for you.

Don't nobody know that that move was activated by a vessel who

had the gift of healing on them? But what we want?

Is if I got the gift, I'll lay the hands.

You don't realize you're a vessel, you're a vehicle, you

carry water. You ain't the water.

But what happens, though, is I find on the flip side, there's

burdens in the room every Sunday.

But what? About the other presents that's

just swallowed up by insecurity, that's just kind of like, Oh

well, pastor got it or and the best she got it.

Look at her and the best so anointed.

Oh, I want to be bold like no, she may be bold because she.

Used. She used her.

Shy, right? And he said, Jesus, he increased

in wisdom. Well, if you can increase in

wisdom, guess what else you can increase in courage?

I heard, I heard it was a, it was a pro athlete said man, I

wasn't all this. I wasn't always a competitor

like this. I wasn't always a dog.

There's a, there's a lot of NBA players, NFL players who

whatever kind of players, NHL, whatever that, that started off

super insecure and the opportunity that they got then

they were faithful over the opportunity.

And before you know it, confidence grows because all of

a sudden you find out. Wait a minute.

I can hang on this level. Wait a minute.

I'm actually better than them. Wait a minute.

You're actually afraid of me? You're.

I intimidate you. You.

You. You, you.

There's a day got to come where you see that.

Wait a minute. The enemy don't want you to find

out he is intimidated by you based on what you're like.

Demons don't want you to find out that they are already a

defeated foe. Come on enemy don't want the

revelation to come in that by the stripes of Jesus Christ I am

the healed and not the sick. He doesn't want you to know

you're more than a con. He don't want he don't mind you

reading it, but he does not want you to get it in here.

Read all day, go to church all day, have the Bible app all day.

But if it does not get in your inner man, if the Word is not

anchored by the revelation of the love of God, all the word

going to do is fall off your ears.

Your faith is going to be frustrated, you're going to be

mad at God. And all you can show up with is

this list of God, I did this and God, I was raised in a pastor's

house and God, I've been in church all my life.

So what probably shouldn't run down the list of how long you

you've been in church, but you still stuck.

You're better off just being a new convert talking about you're

stuck. But.

Every person in here that has received Jesus Christ as their

Lord and Savior, there is something unique in you, there

is something powerful in you, and there is something He

desires to blow his wind and get it through you.

And I just believe it's about to be a dusty season.

The wind's about to blow, makeup about to come off, wigs about to

blow off, eyelash is about to come off, right?

God is saying I don't need all this extra stuff.

I put something in you and that's all I need to work

through. That's all I need to bring

salvation to the world. That's all I need to bring

healing. That's all I need to bring

wisdom. I have put something inside of

you that if you just allow the wind of my life to blow into

you, man, we will see revival. We will see salvation.

We will see the salvation of the Lord.

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