Dynasty Wednesdays - 8.13.2025 "Lush" (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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

I'd love to be a part of a house that is spirit filled, faith

filled, fruit filled, love filled in Jesus name.

I'm going to say that again, you don't got to you don't got to

really holler back. I just love to be a part of a

house that is spirit filled. Anybody ever been a?

Part of a. Place that's not spirit filled.

It's OK to say that you've been to some places that's not spirit

filled. But I am happy beyond words can

explain to be in a place where the spirit is alive and he has

his way. Amen.

You can I you know, I I want to activate you right now.

You can play some guitar that sounds beautiful during this

time. You don't.

You ain't got to let them dominate the sound.

Starting beef on the worship team.

Stringed instruments are anointed when you know how to

play them. I appeal to you, therefore don't

put up the slides yet. I appeal to you, therefore,

brethren, and beg of you in view of all.

You you 'cause you still got to direct.

Oh. Amen.

Beg of you, in view of all the mercies of God, watch this, We

just say finished singing the song and I, I love it and we

sing a lot of songs about making us a sacrifice.

He says that you make a decisive dedication.

Romans 12/1. Amplified Classic.

You. Make a decisive dedication of

your bodies. You make a decisive dedication

of your bodies presenting all. Of your members and faculties as

a living sacrifice, Holy. Devoted, consecrated, well

pleasing to God, watch this. That's at least what you can do

your reasonable rational intelligence service and.

Spiritual worship. What's spiritual about

dedicating my body? Ain't that physical?

How was dedicating my physical spiritual?

Here's what we do understand is that we are spirit.

We possess a soul. We live in a body.

I'll say it like. This because I don't want to get

off track for the message tonight.

But all three work together, just like Father, Son, and Holy

Ghost. If we are going to truly live as

a living sacrifice, He's come for all three parts of us.

Amen. I am the true Vine and my father

is the vine dresser. We have begun day.

I am the true Vine and my father is the vine.

Dresser every branch in me that does not bear fruit.

I just, I just encourage you to go to the Lord about what fruits

He's talking about. So you don't think you're

fruitful when you're not because all fruit ain't good fruit.

And as I've learned from my beautiful wife, all fruit ain't

in season. Just because it's on sale.

Got a bag of grapes the other day and they taste like they in

season. I have had grapes out of season

or different fruit out of season.

It is missing its sweetness. It's an inconsistent batch and

So what you have to understand is if you are going to live as a

living sacrifice, you have to also reason efficiently, or

shall I say diagnose yourself efficiently.

I will tell believers you cannot diagnose yourself efficiently

without letting the Holy Spirit be the doctor and do the X-ray.

Self checks alone are dangerous, especially when you're not

honest with yourself. Every branch.

Last week we had an A. Let's pick up where we left off.

What does every mean? You still have an A?

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and

every what does every mean? Every branch that continues to

bear fruit he repeatedly prunes. He don't let up on pruning.

He is consistently pruning. I love this because an

unfruitful branch lose connection with God.

A fruitful branch, although being pruned repeatedly, is

always engaged with God. Watch this.

They always experience the hand of God.

Here, here, last one, last one. If God is repeatedly pruning,

He's always repeatedly tending to me.

Oh, God's going to help some people tonight.

He man, it feels. Can I just pause for a minute

and tell you how good it feels to have the revelation that He's

always tending to me? So that it will bear more fruit.

Who or what is it? Huh?

Huh. No, not every branch.

What are y'all reading or? Come on, Come on, we got clergy

just yelling stuff out. What y'all doing?

There we go. The.

It will bear more fruit is not every branch, but that's what

people think because I'm saying right here it is the one that

does not bear fruit is connected.

That's what you think you you don't read this.

You read this as I'm disconnected to God.

I think what's worse is that you connected to the body, but you

don't. Got no blood flow into that part

of the body because you ain't functioning in your joints like

you're not you're you're you're here all the time, but your

motives is different. Your hearing is different,

right? You're at a distance, you're not

rooted. Bible says that one kind of

ground they fall away after a while after a while can be 3

years. Why do they fall away?

Because they had no real roots. So if they didn't have real

roots, they must have had not real roots or shallow roots,

right? Or convince themselves they were

rooted because they were serving, right?

Doing church things, right? Watch this, watch this, watch

this. I'm about to shake up the tree a

little bit. I'm about to shake up the tree a

little bit, right? Connected, let me, let me do it

this way. I'm going to testify so nobody

feel attacked. Somebody came to me today and I

had a very great conversation with one of the ways they, they

were in the midst of repentance for some things and doing some

blessing and all these things. And one of the things they said,

I realized that I, you know, I, I rebelled a bit.

I got to rebuild your spirit a little bit, blah, blah, blah.

But I'm faithful, always been faithful, right?

Faithful people use their faithfulness as an excuse for

many ungodly things. Watch this, watch this.

And that person said, I bought a notebook because one of the ways

I want to honor you as my pastor is you've asked us to take

notes. The small.

Fox spoiled the vine. You got this.

Why? And I've asked people to take

notes multiple times. Maybe if this is my pastor, if I

believe he's after my good, if I believe the, the, the the Spirit

speaks to him, then if he says take notes, I should be like I

received that, like I receive a prophetic word about my family.

What if God was saying your breakthrough was going to come

through your obedience to note taking?

I I was it was it was it Kenneth Hagan?

I forget who it was. Somebody came and they.

There was rival night and he asked.

It was the point in the service where he asked everybody to

stand up and do something, turn around and turn around.

End of the night came somebody I believe, correct me if I'm

wrong. End of the night came and

somebody asked him to pray for healing and he said, well God

gave me the instructions that everybody that was here for

healing tonight to tell them to stand up and turn around.

Here's the self entitlement. Well if God is God, he should

heal me whenever I want healing. It shouldn't.

It shouldn't come upon. You mean to tell me no, you

didn't miss your healing, but you can miss a moment.

Right. Have you ever missed the bus?

It didn't mean what? No more buses coming?

You just missed that one. Simple instructions, he didn't

say. Take notes and write every word.

Connected to the vine and some of us may think connected to

Jesus, but not his body. But why would God gives give us?

Instruction how? Why would God give us like like

something as intricate as the body?

Hey, hey, can you help me, Pastor Daniela, that the body

actually has systems that make it work proper.

And if certain things ain't working proper, you ain't

healthy. Even if you feel good

every branch in me that does not bear fruit, what does that say?

Every branch in me you didn't say.

Every branch disconnected from me.

Every branch in me that's not bearing fruit, he takes away.

In every branch that continues to bear fruit, he repeatedly

prunes or he repeatedly perfects, so that it will bear

more fruit, even richer and finer fruit.

You are already clean because of the word which I have given you,

the teachings which I have discussed with you.

Watch this. You are already washed, just

like you are already holy. You are already consecrated.

You are already set apart. Well, if I'm already, then why

do I need to keep on doing the the things?

The fact that we don't do the things shows we don't have a

revelation that we already. If I'm already holy, all I do

need to do is learn how to be. Who I am is already set.

The standard is set. I was born fruitful in Him, but

I have to do these things so fruitful can come out of me.

Hidden fruit is not a witness. I'm trying.

Come on, you. Come on.

Just tell yourself you already washed we.

Start this conversation lust. I don't know about you, but I've

been super blessed, Elder John. I was I was look, I was I was

thinking about this today and and from Genesis.

OK, I don't want to rush over the fact that perfection and

perfected and perfecting and perfect are all a part of the

same family. Can't say that I'm going back to

the garden, but I'm going to show up imperfected.

The goal of getting back to the garden is getting back to the

status in which Adam was before he got dirty, before he fell.

I would like to say that when we.

When it's all said and done, heaven sounds like it's going to

be a perfect place. No talk to me.

No think about it. Go ahead, think about it.

Adam no sin sound sound perfect unless God created imperfect

because the Bible I read it says that he looked at it and it was

very good. Yeah.

And then it says that the that that that why did Jesus have to

be? Why did the sacrifice have to be

perfect if imperfect was sufficient?

So I'm also not going to so when Jesus says tells that woman to

walk away and don't sin no more. Wait a minute, Jesus.

Jesus only lived that life. He's pointing to something.

No, in this world we will not be perfect.

Where we're heading back to it will be perfect.

It won't have no darkness. It will be no, no sin.

It will be no death. It will be no tears.

It will it won't be none of that.

It will be nothing but good. We will be in the presence of

the perfect one in our perfect bodies.

That's what the Bibles are, glorified bodies.

And then the perfect one now lives in this body, the perfect

one. Anybody want to argue right now,

is Jesus perfect or he's not what you think?

What makes him perfect? He was without sin.

So if if sin imperfected us, then what happens when sin is

dealt with? We're what we're made perfect.

OK, well, what do we believe our whole faith is built on what

happened to sin? It was handled OK.

So as long as we're here, we that's why we got to cross back

over. If we believe death was

defeated, if you believe that sin was handled, then then

perfect is in you through the perfect one.

So the things that God is asking us to do is actually really.

Fair. It's just impossible without

him, because if if if, if I'm if I'm tracking right.

Adam perfect man, Eve, perfect man.

Sin came, they fell imperfect. Now watch this.

Watch this. If you was to sum up the whole

Bible in one statement, word, or motive by God, here's what it is

the entire journey. From beginning to end, God has

been perfecting His people, and to do it once and for all, the

perfect one came. OK.

All right. What what's all this for?

PT 'cause I just found me another key.

I just simplified the Bible in one word.

This all he up to, this what your Valley's for, this what you

going through hard times for. This this what you got to

experience the cross for because from the day man fail, he's been

trying to perfect us to get us back to perfect.

So there are some things that you can overcome and just be,

and there's some stuff you you can stop trying to overcome

because you're more than a what does more than a conqueror mean

is that thing don't bother me no more.

I am so far from even being tempted by more than a

conqueror. I'm not even tempted by it no

more. I'm going to say I'm not tempted

by it no more. I have more than conquered

partying, smoking and drinking. I I'm not tempted no more.

I don't look at it and it's beneath me.

I don't need counsel about it. I don't need hey hey, hey,

please help me because I came so close to you, not in your more

than conqueror yet. As I was preparing, I was like,

man, we're in a world where, man, it could be so much more

popular to talk about like relationships and talk about,

you know, financial increase and, you know, all the things

that we want and desire to help you on your day-to-day life and,

you know. Like very practical things about

family and and then he, he's like son.

The Apostolic grace will always 'cause people to focus on me,

period. Watch this.

We've read that he said the high calling, the perfecting only

comes to equip you for high calling.

It doesn't come for relationship goals.

The high calling watch it, he tells us in Isaiah 60 to get up,

arise shine from get up from that prostrated, prostrated

means face down. In other words, get up from

looking at low living, get up from being focused on this

lowlife, get up from being being get up from the the lesser life

and begin to live a never. The high calling is the

nevertheless life. Stop worried about this and

worried about that and worried about them and worried about

that. Then he says.

Fix your eyes on me and I'll give you perfect What peace you

look at the perfect 1 to get perfect peace.

Ephesians one I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus

Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and

revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate

insight into the true knowledge of him.

For we know the Father through the Son.

We know the Father through the Son.

We know the Father through the Son.

And I pray that the eyes of your heart, the very center and core

of your being, May. Be enlightened and flooded with

light by the Holy Spirit, so that you.

Will know and cherish I don't want to run over no right here's

what no is like you didn't even think about your chair might be

broke. You just knew it was going to

hold you up see you ready for this when you enter into this

place. I actually don't even have to

think about obedience. I don't have to think about who

I am I don't have to think about if this will work I don't have

to think about will God come through.

I don't have to think about if I'm called I don't have to think

about if I'm anointed I don't have to think about if God is

thinking of me. I don't have to think about if I

can make it. I don't have to think about it

because my I have been enlightened.

I have been. Flooded with light by the Holy

Spirit. I love this image.

It's because when someone is, Have you ever looked at a

floodlight for how long? Not long.

So what he's telling you is there's a measure of depth in

Him that will cause you to not be able to have to see.

It is some stuff. I'm just walking with Jesus and

he's just doing it. I just believe you, God, because

I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that I

know that I know that I know that I know.

And this knowing goes beyond knowing the Greek and Hebrew

'cause there's a whole lot of scholars, biblical scholars,

that don't know. They've been enlightened, but

not enlightened. And cherish the hope, the divine

guarantee, somebody say guarantee the confident

expectation. Somebody say confident

expectation, not a shaken expectation.

It is a confident expectation to which he has somebody say called

you. So everything we just read right

there, he called you to. He called you to He called you

to walk in his life, knowing him on earth as it is in heaven,

knowing unshakeable, unshakeable to reign the riches of his

glorious inheritance. Watch this so that.

You. You.

You. You.

Will know without a shadow of doubt.

Walk in, embrace the riches of his glorious inheritance in the

Saints, God's people, and so that you will begin to know what

the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his

active, active, active spiritual power watch.

This is in US. Oh, there, there, there that

buck go though. Who believe, who believe, they

say, who wondering who's wondering who believe?

These are in accordance with the working of his mighty strength.

Watch this enlightened, enlightened.

Somebody say enlightened. It implies a total shift.

I I, I like this. I like this.

I like this, I like this. I got this older Bible that I

got when I in that 2007 period in my life and I was looking

through it today and it's tore up.

It's tore up. And it just took.

Me. Back to that time in my life

where I made the decision. Decisive dedication.

And I got a wife over there that's a great witness.

You can bring her to the stand anytime you want.

But it was a play, that moment in 2007.

Remember, I was already in him. I grew up in church, went to

church a bunch. And then 2007, I could not

resist anymore answering the call.

Some of you think you answered the call because you serve.

Serving a position in church isn't necessarily.

The call, you're fulfilling a need.

Rather, I pastor at this church or somewhere else.

Or if I don't pastor, I'm called.

If if I don't pastor, I'm not out of my call.

And so much of our understanding of call is connected to our

ability, and then your ability is wrapped up in your identity.

And to be enlightened means a total shift from minimized,

capped out earthly perspective to a broader heavenly

perspective, allowing one to grasp the profound implications

of faith and God's promises. It's about seeing beyond the

surface and understanding the deeper spiritual realities of

light Man. This is all we talk about.

Watch this. Anybody remember heavenly

realities? These are all scriptures we talk

about and now we're here, and the perfect thing is to lead us

to live in this heavenly reality.

Watch this daily. It's about putting the mantle on

and wearing and owning everything that comes with the

mantle. Get your hands off the mantle.

Stop trying to control the mantle.

And I'm talking about there's some of you in here that, that,

that you, you, you ain't even afraid to to dig into what the

call on your life is. Yeah, some of you as pastor,

Yeah, yeah, some of you, God put a word in you and you are called

to be a minister of the gospel, which everybody is.

But you are called to preach the gospel in more than just on your

everyday life. You are called to be a part of

the clergy, called to be a part of an Apostolic team where you

teach, where you preach the gospel.

Some of you need to be, you know, No, no.

Everybody should do the work of an evangelist.

Everybody should win souls. But there are some people who

are called. To be an evangelist.

The way you talk, the way you inspire people, the way you care

about the fish, the way you care about being strategic about

catching you. You go to God and say, God give

me. Wisdom on how to reach that soul

pastor, you care about the people so much and when you're

When that gift is not used in context, you can have unhealthy

pastoral habits and it comes strictly the way reason you love

so hard or even maybe you are codependent.

Some of that is because you got a pastoral call, but the devil

turns it into something else. And it's OK, you care about

those people, but as long. As you are pastoring outside of

putting on the cloak, then it can be manipulated and you can

do more damage to the body and in the world than you can for

good. Let me let me help you.

There is no just general call where you could just treat the

call of God casual. You can't just walk around, be

carrying something and don't have no aim, don't have no

teaching, don't have no accountability, don't have no

mentorship. Then we had a prophet come up in

here, a prophet S and one of the questions before I don't mind

God sending a prophet to our house that ain't a member of our

house. And he, He or she.

Comes to this house and say they have a word from God, but you

ain't about to get no microphone.

Before we asked a couple questions.

Number one, what church you go to?

It was like, you know, I don't got no church.

God got me out on the road. Will you just stay on the road

or you just come get rooted before you just start releasing

words? It's not control when we asking

people to do things in order, it's order.

Show me a Bible with no order and it ain't the Bible.

Jesus was all about order. So you got people that want to

walk around and give people a word in the house but don't want

to be submitted in the house. So so so oh so the Holy Ghost

using you, but you don't want to fall in the line the Holy Ghost

put in place. Talk to me about how that it

don't it don't mean you might have a word.

But what's that thing inside of you that don't want to lay your

gift down for the body? That's why we went over last

week, and we'll keep this before you.

Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers govern,

guide, gather, guard, and ground.

How many people understand everything about the government

like the. World's government.

Does anybody ever understood everything about the government?

No. Come talk to me.

Anybody ever understood everything about the government?

So how you going to? Understand everything about

God's government then, right, Right.

So when we looking at a governing house or a governing

body, OK, you're not necessarily going to understand how God

moves because he's governing. He he's governing.

Governing looks different than guarding.

Most of the time when I see guarding, I know what I'm

guarding people from and what I'm guarding for.

When I'm teaching, there's very, there's specifics.

I'm grounding you. So there has to be understanding

or there's no grounding, right? If we're in the last days, then

the first is being restored. Bible says in first Corinthians,

first apostles first, second prophets, third teachers, then

workers of miracles. You want to see why we don't see

miracles in a way that we should, but we see them overseas

and stuff, man overseas. Go over there.

There's a lot more churches set up, more like Kingdom, a lot of

honor, lot of order and they doing it with 10s of thousands

of people. Why are we not saying miracles

like that? Like Miracles is supposed to be

for revival nights and even those don't have miracles.

We just, we just fell out in the spirit Christians that are super

healthy and don't need too much material and we and we just fell

out. Whoa.

And we just high Christians you chasing encounters.

But but that ain't even how the church was birthed.

The church was birthed ministering to those that was

not following Jesus through signs and wonders.

When you find a region where all 5 gifts are activated, they are

acknowledged and they are honored, you will see a region

that is unstoppable. He gave these gifts.

Why? We learned his intention was the

perfecting. Somebody say perfecting and the

full equals Somebody say well what does fool mean?

Right. If you ever rented, have you

ever rented a car before? You ever rented a car and you

supposed to return it on what full have you ever returned it

under? Full.

It cost you. It cost you more than if you

would have just stopped and got it filled up.

It costs you because when you don't return the field, part of

you paying for the fuel, but also you're paying for somebody

that have to go do something that's unnecessary if you would

have did your. Part the perfecting, the

maturing, the growing up and the full equipping of the Saints.

We found this out. You guys all got a a last week.

Who who's the Saints? Us.

Me. His consecrated people that that

they here it is here. It is that they who is they?

The Saints and who's the Saints, Right, right, right.

I'm up here, right. I'm one of the five.

I'm one of the five, OK? I'm one of the five.

Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back.

I'm, I'm up in here, OK, I'm up in here.

So up in here, everybody up in here.

Was he is called to do what go, go, go, go, go.

He gave those gifts to do what the maturing and full equipping

of the US's and me's right, and who's the US's and me's Now I

know somebody's going to be like PT you're a St. too.

I am. But go back, go back, go back,

go back, go back. But in this house, God is

ordained me and other people to do it up in here, up in here, we

up in here, we up in here, right?

That's I, I didn't ask for it. I just obeyed, OK.

And I love it it it has an S. So this house ain't just going

to be 1 pastor, 1 evangelist, 1 teacher.

No, God is going to send an equipping.

Let me tell you something. This is, this is, look, I, I

love, I love movie church. I love, I love showing up.

I, I get the idea. But that's evangelism.

That's evangelism. But you can't tell me if you, I

don't care if you got 300 people in your church.

That ain't another teacher. It ain't another pastor.

It ain't somebody else that can go go up on that platform and do

the thing, huh? But there's because the house,

the the the lead gift is not there.

Then there's no activation of the rest.

Watch what? Watch this Watch this Watch this

Watch this. And his intention?

Was to mature, mature mature, mature, grow up, challenge,

shake up. Fully equipping other Saints.

Who's the Saints? One more time, Extra credit.

Extra credit. Who's you?

Me. Us.

Them. Y'all, My neighbor.

Watch this, Watch this, watch this.

Equip you that they, they, they, they should do the work.

Now watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch

this. Good grounds might think their

job is to make coffee and pastries, but depending on who

barista in and who's serving the coffee, if they're not aware of

the call on a life, they stop at making coffee.

Versus understanding that as I am dealing with customers, I can

do the work. I'm anointed to do the work of

the ministry. So there might be a word up on

me to share. There might be a creative way I

could teach something, right? The work is not necessarily the

position. OK, why did I have to call Elder

John out? Ain't he an elder?

Ain't that enough? No, he's an elder in this house

for a specific reason. But I would make a huge mistake

not setting the mantle of profit that is on his life through God,

through Jesus, through the Holy Spirit revealing to me and

acknowledging it, activating it and honoring it and coming

before the people, no matter what you think.

And we are setting a prophet in this house because that's what

he said. He set these gifts.

But he can be like, man, I'm not no prophet.

I'm an elder. Well, you're not an elder,

you're John. Well, you're not John, you're a

son want more than a son? I'm a husband.

See how that work? Which one he male he son he

profit. What is he he light skinned.

What right? What is he right?

When we get down to it, What is he see all these things are

things that God. Fearfully and wonderfully made

him as to assist the call. Right, you, you cute, but you're

not called to be sexy, right? Right.

You're not called to be sexy, but God could use your cute for

the sake of the ministry. OK, God can use my tall God.

God uses intentionally my skin. I'm not, I don't.

I don't look at all man. I was just I was born in the

black community. No, no, no, no, Everybody was

born at the specific time that God ordained in the family he

ordained. That's in the book of Acts in

the region you was you are in. You can call it a mistake all

you want, but God makes none for the perfecting.

So if God decided to make me and put me in this body, well, he

going to use this skin. What the enemy want to do is to

get me ashamed of it. If God gave me a sense of humor,

I can't let you mute. Me because God's going to use

that, but I'm going to get to that in a minute.

Gifts, talents and all that cool stuff.

It's going to bless you. It's going to bless you.

Watch this that it might develop.

Some of you in here, you have stopped at showing up and

serving in a ministry and then when somebody come your way.

And start that maturing. You're like, I don't really have

no time. I don't really, no, you don't

have time to do stuff and do more stuff and do more stuff.

You don't have time for more task and you think someone's

calling you for more task, not understanding that the task

creates proximity. Proximity creates time and time

around the anointing that needs to be imparted is what?

OK, Ask Elisha. Ask Naomi and Ruth.

Why? Why Elisha?

Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, I could go back over here and I could go back over there.

But there's something on your life that I need to be around.

So I ain't going nowhere. Wherever you go, I'm going.

No, no, no, I'm here. You stopping?

I'm stopping. You start running.

I'm running. And today, man, ain't nobody

chasing after no man. Sure, OK, if you're a Bible

reader, show me where God didn't use nobody.

He had to use somebody so much that he had to send his son to

be a body. So some can be saved.

Somebody. Somebody saved you.

Some human saved you. Yeah.

And to this day, God is still sending men and women with

something that He has put inside of them just for you.

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

No, no, no, no, no, no, follow me as I follow Christ.

And the moment you discover I'm not following Christ, stop

following me. Find somebody that's following

Christ, he says. Real, really mature

completeness. Y'all remember Ephesians 4?

Read on Sunday. And you do.

I got 10 people, if you remember that.

Cool. The rest of y'all that wasn't

here. You just got to go listen to the

message. I got to move right along.

Watch. This.

We did, yeah. We read all the Ephesians and we

talked about apathy, right? Then we talked about spiritual

apathy, Lukewarmness. You remember that, right?

Lukewarmness. Has always been in and and it's

a part. It has been a part of the church

revelations. We see the church in Laodicea,

they're rebuked because they were neither hot or cold, but

they were what? Lukewarm?

The Church of Ephesus neglected. They'll get it, They'll get it.

The Church of Ephesus is warned about losing their first love

and needing to repent and return to their initial passion for

God. Here we are.

This has always been in the DNA of the church and in the book of

Hebrews highlights the importance of not neglecting

spiritual growth and actively pursuing a deeper relationship

with God. God warns us of being lukewarm.

He warns us of making our love or or making idols out of

others. And neglecting our first love

and keeping Him first. And then he warns us to not

abandon spiritual growth and actively pursue a deeper

relationship with God. He tells the body to get

creative about spurring each other on.

Right. We are supposed to be active.

That's why I can't hang out with lukewarm people, at least by

myself. I need people hot around me and

lukewarm people because I got to, I got to, I got to make sure

I don't fall into any of this and to act like you are exempt

from this or to ignore when God is sending a warning to this.

We can't be lukewarm, spew you out or fruitlessness, he says.

I'll take it away. So whether you're spewed out or

pruned off, whether you're lukewarm or you're not fruitful,

and what the enemy wants you to do is be so busy focused on

monetary fruitfulness and achievements to show men so you

can get men's approval. And many of us make decisions

based on somebody approving us, not God.

We want accolades that, well, if my name is connected to this and

this and this person and it's this whole the world is, we can

get the same shirt. No, probably not from Walmart,

but you throw a little polo on the shirt.

And automatically people think you got something in your pocket

because you're wearing polo. So you got a whole world that

want name brand. And I'm like, I can't spend 500

on a plain T-shirt because the tag got Gucci on it.

I'll spend, you know, a little something that reigning champ.

$40.50 dollars, 60 bucks, maybe 70 bucks for a nice you know, I

can see color again T-shirt. They'd be selling them in, in,

in, over, in, in Surrey. Watch this Ephesians 420.

But you did not so learn Christ. In other words, you didn't learn

this from T If you really heard the word, assuming that you have

really heard the word, assuming that you have really heard from

the Holy Ghost, you ain't learned that lukewarm stuff from

anointed teaching. You ain't learned that from

anointed leadership. You ain't learned that from

Jesus. You ain't learned complacency.

You ain't learned fear, for God did not give us the spirit of

fear. Where did you learn?

Where did we learn this lukewarm, complacent, passive

church? Where did we learn?

In the Bible? Show me in the Bible, even the

apostle said it is not fair that I should be studying so I can

preach, so I can come serve food.

So we going activate some people to do that so we can do what we

call to do. And when everybody is doing what

they call to do, as faithful as they call to do it, then the

body grows and is strengthened and nobody gets missed.

Yeah, yeah. Burnout ain't going to happen.

Burnout happens a lot because the toe ain't getting the the

toe tired because the the toe tired of carrying the weight.

The big toe should carry, right? The big toe would go out and eat

burgers with the baby toe. We don't want to carry no

weight, right? We will socialize.

We will do community groups way quicker then we'll pick up that

cross of our neighbors. We we'll we'll community group

all day. We'll minister to people all day

on our own, but we won't come up under the equipping in a humble

manner. We won't ask questions that

reveal right. We'll sit and get fed, but we

won't come and ask questions and humble ourselves and say, I

really don't know this, but this is a new way of me doing things.

Can you can you give me understanding?

Right. It's like I'm about to, I'm

about to go get this word. Please go home and make sure

what we preach in is sound based on the word, not based on your

opinion, not based on your. Fear not based on your church

hurt based on the. The the, the word, go, go check

it out. But a lot of time we get fed, we

interpret what we need and we use it for our ministry.

It's great. But when I look at the word,

there's a connection that the church has and there's an order.

And here's the thing, you are not always them.

What I mean by that, our job is to equip you so that you're

equipping them and then when they're equipped, they're going

to have them, they're equipping. So don't think that you always

are here. It is a student you technically.

Are but it's this fear of you're not just going to put me in

student mode all the time. Well, I'm in student mode all

the time. Jesus was in student mode.

It's a healthy system. As much as we stay student, we

also remain teacher. We're all called to make

disciples. The Perfecting Based on

Ephesians 2423. The perfecting starts with the

stripping. Strip yourself.

I love that word. It's aggressive.

It speaks to urgency. There's some of you in right

now. You.

You don't need another meeting. You don't need another

conversation. Strip yourself.

You know how powerful walking with God is, is you can actually

make a decisive decision tonight and actually walk in it like

like like in in June 2007, you asked the greatest, one of the

greatest witnesses in my life, like when I made that decision

like, like I made the decision in June of 2007 and I haven't

turned back ever since in that moment, right, I believe, I

believe, I believe the Lord has told me to tell you guys that

even if you make a date tonight, when you going to make a

decision to walk away from whatever, at least make the

date. But when the date show up, honor

it. You know how people make dates

to get married. You can make a date tonight,

right now. Now, let me tell you, I made a

date and then I almost didn't make it to that date.

It was a close call. I had the audacity to make a

deal with God when he said now, when God say now, he mean now.

And I had some shows booked and I was like, Lord, I got a band.

I don't want to take money off the table because I take money

off the table. I'll take food off the table.

So these last three shows, man car broke down.

All kind of crazy stuff happened.

I barely, barely made it, but I made it.

But I made a date. I heard the call.

And I didn't. Play with it.

And from that month, here's what Here's what happened.

Answering the call, the first step was I dove head first into

discovering what walking in that call meant for my life.

Out of that obedience, God took me to a man of God that rooted

me in faith, taught me all about faith like I've never known

before, and He taught me all about soul winning.

Doctor Godot, I owe him everything when it comes to the

importance of soul winning and the importance of faith

teaching. Part of my Bible being so jacked

up is because the way he taught back then, you know, iPad, he

got iPad now. But man, man, you had your Bible

out. He was a Word of Faith.

You had your Bible out. You had your highlighter out.

He turned with me to you hear number pages.

Turning in the church students. And I said under my wife said

under that word, under that ministry, my wife got filled

with the Holy Ghost. I mean, remember, remember, I

grew up in church. I got filled with the Holy Ghost

in 2007. I got my heavenly prayer

language. I had an encounter and got some

deliverance. And I dove in that word.

I dove in that word. And I was.

Willing to sit in that church under that word, under that

leadership until he had the man of God that was designed to,

that had something that I needed.

I had to be perfected. He said, hey, we need you over

here in the youth ministry. I didn't go to that church to be

a youth pastor. We need you over there in the

youth ministry. Absolutely, Sir.

Not one time did he ever have to check on me.

Once we took it like it was our own.

Was it hard? Yeah, But I I didn't have no say

of what my call was. I said yes.

And I understood that that man, that woman, that family, those

leaders had something in them that I needed or God wouldn't

have brought me there. And so I.

Surrendered under that and I submitted under that.

My wife did and he taught me how to be a husband and he talked.

And a part of my servant is what gave me proximity, because a

part of that servant got me to sit at the table and get

intricate wisdom from the man, not knowing I'll be in Canada

building from the ground. Up.

I saw how he dealt with people. I saw how he dealt with

persecution. I saw how he dealt with people

lying. I saw how he dealt with a man

stealing $1,000,000 from him. I saw how he sold into his

enemies. I saw how he loved his children,

saw how he loved his wife. I saw how he climbed.

Help this church climb out of crazy debt when the economy.

Shifted. I watched and I watched and then

I got the audacity to think I was ready for my own ministry

and boy was that a hard lesson. But the grace of God took me to

another house. I wasn't.

I was OK with walking away from the church that we planted.

That church had my Mama in it. That church had my auntie in it.

That church had my best friend in it.

That church had some other folks in it.

And then I noticed that the church was being.

Purged. I said God, what is this?

He said. Now I know, and immediately we

got up about that YMCA, but before I left, I remember a lady

in our church, Miss Paley, she said when you go to Oakland, you

go visit Bishop Carl Smith. I didn't do it the whole year,

but at that moment when things got purged, I went to the house

and I sat hungry by myself. Hungry.

And I was sitting there and I was doing what?

Taking notes. The Bishop looked over in the

middle of his in his message said Hey son.

You a pastor? I said yes, Sir.

He said I knew it. He said come see me after

church. Went up to him After church.

He came out of his office. I waited on him, came up, shook

my hand. He said where you from?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, I went to the doctor.

G's church. I'm out of here, man.

I know you're down there. Come see me at our other campus

on Monday. I go to the campus.

First thing he did was walk me to the church bookstore.

First book he put in my hand he had the book was called The

shift from from Pastoral to Apostolic.

God had me sitting for a season to understand faith, understand

who I was in God, understand the promises of God, understand that

whole world, understand teaching the gospel.

Then he took me under another anointing and I sat there for

four years and he had He ordained me to be an elder.

He asked me to be over the youth ministry.

And we served and I'll tell you this, in that time, my wife

wasn't even feeling that church like that.

She loved it. But but but there was something

God had there for me. He gave me that book by by John

Eckhart. And I was like, and that season

God was showing me the mantle and I dove so deep in that

thing. And then I remember reading

because I was hungry for a spiritual father.

I was hungry for covering. I was hungry and my soul began

to long for the relationship I had with Doctor G.

And I remember sending them in, seeing them in a conference.

I remember my friends I had to I wasn't even able to go back and

do certain things because we walked away prematurely.

We thought that the anointing we said under I was ready now

didn't understand the power of what was going on because of

what I was under. That's Bible to go look at it

and I remember I was reading this book like Lord and I.

Understood. I had some unhealthy

expectations from these pastors in my life.

And for once I understood I was expecting them to respond to me

how long my biological father to and I didn't realize that they

were there for my spiritual journey, not my biological

trauma. And once I got context right, I

could receive right. And I remember reading this book

called rooted. I think it was by Pastor Banning

from Jesus culture and man, I read through that book and I'm

glad I don't read books from front to back all the time.

I read the chapters where I need, I need, I need to read the

season man. OK, I don't have no pride like

well, I just finished. The mother book, Nah, give me

the chapter that's going to help me today and went to this

chapter and out of all that, that book wasn't even talking

about spiritual fathers. But I found this spot my wife

had went to the store, pick up the kids and it talked about

covering. I remember being in the living

room and I fell on my face and repented to God.

Doctor G blessed us to go. He would never tell us not to

go. But I had to repent for pride,

orphan spirit, rebellion, and that whole time that I was gone

from Calvary, I was coming to Canada.

After four years of being at this church, this other church

being equipped, the Lord said it's time to go back.

What? Go back and long story.

Short I went back and I remember seeing Doctor G at a conference

and I said, Sir, I'm coming back home.

He's like, good. He's a little bitter because of

what we meant to that house and all that He shared in our lives.

I thought I was called to go and save Oakland.

God used it. God honored it.

That's how I know you can still be out of order, and God will

use it and He will teach you, and He will equip you in your

rebellion. Right, God has a way to make

what your rebellion look like. You hurting and I swore I did.

I had all the reasons. And I remember going back to

Calvary and I remember he was like, I'm not going to let you

be over youth, but you can help my son out.

I was like man, I remember about 10 months in, it was time me and

my wife made the decision because we were made to offer

come to Canada and I'll tell you we struggled in that season of

our lives because of a decision I was making.

But one thing that always is and always will be is I wasn't

afraid to miss God. Trying to find.

God I made quick. U turns quick.

And I remember we talked and it was like, yeah, we feel called

to Canada. We prayed.

And we both agreed if we go to Doctor G and he says, Nope, we

ain't going. I know that's that's just not

this generation, right? We hear from God.

Ain't nobody going to tell me I ain't heard from God.

He didn't tell me and he wasn't telling us.

We didn't hear from God. But we had entrusted him with

our lives in leadership and we went and he was like, it is

time. It is time you guys are ready.

That country needs you guys and I'm proud to see you guys.

Off to Canada, few months in, everything changed.

God, what do you want? Us.

We met the Swains. Elder John.

Don't know. I'm weary because I've been.

I've been searching for a while and now I'm in another country

with my family. My one year old, my 8 year old,

my 10 year old. Elder John, his answer when I'm

asking him for guidance. You should do.

Whatever you think going to lead you to know the Lord the most.

Thanks buddy. Because it wasn't just love

Quest in our mind, it was also being pastor of another church

potentially. We applied.

It was in Dawson Creek. Hallelujah.

And I got bits of bits of wisdom and I do music and things.

I remember getting a piece of wisdom from someone and they

were like, culture goes from the inner city out.

You'll have more impact on British Columbia by being where

culture is derived from than going out and trying to

establish it there. These little pieces, I'm leaning

in, I'm listening, and we decided to start a love quest.

And many of you heard that story.

Few people. And here we are.

We go to New West, Elder said. They're going to give us a try,

they're going to help us out, and we go to Strathcona and

we're still pursuing God and we go now we're here.

The last four years, almost half of our existence in this country

has been waiting on this building, but this building,

Strathcona. Closed doors, the coldness of

some of the church folks in this country, all none of that

determines my call. But all of it perfects me.

And the moment that any one of these journeys stops, I could

have walked through it. COVID was the perfect time.

Perfect. Perfect time to go back home.

It's. Two years in man, let's go back

to Cali, right? And every now and then God will

call again. Not like call again, but remind

you, you called. I haven't forgotten your call.

You would see him with Moses. You would see him with Abraham,

and he'll send an Angel. He'll send signs, and then he'll

pop up and say something and he'll go away.

And I believe this is a moment where some of you have heard the

call on your life. You know, it's a call on your

life beyond just being a Christian, beyond just setting

up chairs. Some of you were born into it,

and the enemy has done so much to discourage you, to water down

the call. No, the call is a thing.

It's not this passive thing. Somebody needs your.

I do. I don't know why I spent time

telling you that long story, but I just know.

I knew when I was a young boy, the way I would look at the

pastors and the preachers and my friends would look at Michael

Jordan. I was looking at Bishop such and

such. And I loved Doctor King and I

loved how how how social leaders brought people together and

advocates and spoke for people. And so when I got to college, I

was like, I want to be a psychologist and a public

speaker. And I found out that's pretty

much a pastor, right? You start putting, you start,

you start making your call secular.

And I think it's very dangerous to not identify call first so

that you can pick major and minor.

You might not discover call in major and minor, but you could

probably save money if you understood call and then picked

the last part of my little story.

I remember that. I think this is to help a couple

people. I remember I was frustrated.

Assigned to play professional baseball out of high school.

Spent some time being an assistant mascot for the

Warriors for one for a partial year.

I worked out in their facilities.

I was around pro ball players. I played against pro ball

players and did very well. And I'm like, God, why didn't

you send me the help to lead me and guide me?

Why was I always on these journeys by myself?

My mom, my grandmother supported me.

They were in the stands. But I'm sitting here fathering

this guy's fathering these kids and I'm like, man, if I had half

of this to have someone pay attention to me and protect me.

And when I'm getting ready to make a dumb decision, they're

there to give me wisdom every day without me running them away

because I'm huffing and puffing because I don't want to hear it

no more. And I remember I almost worked

myself up to be mad at God because I was, you know, I

worked that gap. I worked at Foot Locker, I

worked at the movies, I worked at Taco Bell.

I was just searching for purpose and I remember God so kindly

said what did you were you naturally in, tuned in, engaged

with, passionate about? And loved when you were little.

Like what did you look up to? And I remember.

Sitting there on my own watching Martin Luther King

documentaries. Micah's age, I remember saying.

Doctor Martin Luther King writing my own speech, my own

little freestyle rap for the citywide Black History Month

thing. I remember watching these shows

about leaders. I remember sitting there as a

little boy. I made my Mama stay at church

until the pastor was leaving. That's where I've learned after

church, having meetings with people in the office and when I

walk out, nobody. Else is here.

I grew up seeing it and I remember in that moment God

said, remember your heart used to burn when you saw the pastor

walk out the his office and walk up to the pulpit.

So that's why I understand when the little kids come up and run

up to me and shake my hand and, and, and they come in here with

a, with a suit jacket on with a tie.

And they and they parents tell me they want to be a pastor.

I understand that and when you as a parent see.

That that's God because they can look up, they can come here with

a baseball bat and be like, I want to be a baseball player.

And in that moment, Lord says. Son, you were called to do this,

and ever since that moment, I had clarity and peace that I was

called. I wasn't striving to do.

And there's some of you in here. I was about to take you to Noah.

Noah was called to make an ark because he was the one found

righteous. Noah had a call, but Noah also

had a few people that was permitted to go with them.

Noah was anointed for a purpose, Noah was gifted for a purpose,

and Noah was talented for a purpose.

And there's people in here you have lost your way because the

world through life, you just kind of, I've had to work

because I have to make ends meet.

Oh, I got hurt, so I went this way.

Or when I went to school, I was influenced by this, so I went

that way. I did drugs, so I went that way.

Can you get back to when you were pure and innocent and not

fearful? What?

What was that thing? What was that thing?

I remember sitting in Taco Bell or a restaurant and my stomach

used to turn as a little kid watching humans eat.

That were by themselves. There was this compassion I had

for humanity as a little boy and.

If you pay close enough tension, you see it in different types of

kids when they're little in their pure state.

What is it? What have you gotten away from?

Where in your life were you functioning in call but you

fail, or you got discouraged or you got disappointed?

Where was that? You need to repent tonight and

return because the body needs you.

So what? You didn't get attention?

So what? You didn't get paid for it?

So what? They, they, they didn't like

you. So what?

They teased you. So what?

They didn't value your gift? So what?

They fired you? So what?

The call is still on you. Oh, I got married and and my

spouse don't. It's hard having kids and it's

stop making family an excuse. God ain't put your call on pause

till your kids move out. Yeah.

Who are you? You could put those questions

up, please. You start with the gifts really

quickly and I want you to take pictures.

I mentioned this Sunday and even now be praying there's some of

you, man, you, you here it is. Some of you are functioning your

gifts ready for this. Watch this, watch this.

Now I want everybody stop writing.

Stop writing. And then we go right.

Some of you Your insecurity kills your gift.

You hide. You've hidden, you make excuses,

you don't mind serving wherever you need me, I'm there.

But the way you look at your gift, the way you have allowed

your insecurity to make you see yourself.

That's. Something you've allowed, and

maybe it started somewhere where somebody hurt you or didn't

accept you, but the day of putting your call in somebody

else's hands that have moved on and probably don't even know

they hurt you. Like your your gift?

Should cause you your call should cause you a little bit to

be shook in your boots like I can't do this exactly getting in

you don't need it's before that is gift talent.

And I'm really trying to talk to the depths of some of your soul

because some of us are so calloused.

Like you hear me, but you don't hear me because you have

operated for so long just serving, but not from call.

Just it's what you do. I grew up in church, man.

I grew up in church and I've seen it.

It's so many faithful people in here.

What are no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no?

No, no, Before that it's it's the definition of gifts,

talents, anointing, da da da da. Come on.

Come on. That boy Noah was given orders.

Yep, start at what? What?

One thing that boy Noah was given orders.

EJ at 500. He had kids.

The Bible says that the flood came around 600.

It is recorded that it took about 70, almost 75 or so years

for him to build. 5075 years somewhere in there one say 100

year to build this ark. He's building with no rain

insight. He's building with people

doubting him and thinking he crazy what's happening.

He's building family, walking away.

He's being perfected right? What's the one thing God has

called you to? And it's OK to write it down and

say I don't know. But what I warn you of is do not

play stupid. What's the one thing God has

called you to #2 what are three gifts and talents you have to

use? OK.

I'll explain next slide. Who's the tribe he's gave you to

trip with? Noah.

You are the one righteous man. I have called you to be a savior

to humanity. And here's a gift, a talent, and

an anointing I'm going to give you.

You're going to build an ark. I'm going to anoint you to

preach the gospel or preach. I'm going to anoint you to

prophecy you. Are going to preach every day on

that while you're building you're going to tell people what

I said you're going to tell people that I'm coming you're

going to tell people that one day God is going to.

Clean this mess up. Sin has entered the earth and

God is about to preserve the earth.

Watch this. And God says you're going to

build it like this. He gave them days.

He gave them time. And he said the only people you

are to take is your wife, your sons, their wives.

The people who you not call to is a danger to the call.

Watch this. I told somebody this the other

day, a friend. And your tribe is two different

things. I got friends back home that I

don't talk to all the time. But when we pick up the phone

and talk, we pick up right where we left off.

My tribe, Yeah. I miss you if you're not at the

game. My tribe from the tribe.

If I can't be in Calgary, I'll say, hey, can you go be with my

son? My tribe is something different.

There might be some friends that in a season God will cause me to

walk away from, but my tribe, God might be calling me to fight

with and contend for a relationship.

Who's the tribe he's gave you the trip with?

He gave them a boarding strategy.

OK. And then next.

Where are you graced to stand? What I've come to find out is

the anointing is to help me exist in the impossible.

I'm going to say it again. The anointing is given to help

me exist in the impossible. Because what's impossible with

God? I mean, what's impossible to

man, it is possible with the anointing.

Watch this, watch this, Here you go.

The calling imparts identity and confidence to operate in the

anointing that God places upon us.

Somebody say the calling, it imparts identity.

When I left the church I grew up in, God took me to a church to

impart identity at the church I grew up in.

It was phenomenal. But all I knew was I was saved.

I knew I was a Christian. It was it was my salvation

Church. The next church God took me to,

it was my calling. Church.

It's where identity was imparted and confidence to operate in the

anointing that God placed upon my life, right?

God says, hey, go find the prophets.

When you get around the prophets, you'll begin to

prophecy. So here's a hint on some of your

calls where He sent you to hang out.

That's what I understood. I don't come with an independent

spirit. I understand where God is

calling me. There's an anointing there

that's called to fall on me. Well, I looked this for example,

right, for example, right. This young lady right here at a

Beth, she came here first time she ever came to church in

language. She tried to act like she she

walked. She walked like this.

Now she walked like this. What happened?

There was something in her from birth, but it wasn't until she

got in a certain atmosphere around a certain tribe that she

allowed to activate that we we didn't.

We've had conversations. PT does it really take all of

that? No, it's not about taking all of

that, right? He takes you from this smaller

place and one way of doing things.

He puts you in a different atmosphere and you're really

trying to hold on to what you know, but you don't know the new

you, right? So he puts you around these

people because there's something wrong your tribe that once you

get around them, well, you prophesied courageous, bold,

unapologetic. Oh, I didn't know.

I can do. All of this.

Oh my God, is she doing all the stuff you activated?

She's teaching people, she's pushing past fears.

She's holding people accountable, learning how to

walk that line between love and and and irritation and a

counterfeit man. It's a beautiful thing, but her

hunger and what she sacrificed and what she laid down and some

of the dreams she thought she had, and then she got a new

desire transplant in our church. This body would not be the same

without her functioning properly.

And I can go on and on down the line.

And you see the enemy try to pick people off and Nah, the

race is is is is not given to the swift, those who endure next

slide. The anointing is a special

endowment of enabling power that gives you the ability to

complete your assignment. The anointing is to complete the

assignment. I can't wait to talk about this

building next door. I cannot wait to talk about what

these last four years have been about.

I cannot wait to. Share.

The stuff that God is saying stand son.

I know it don't make sense to most of the people but stand.

I know you look silly, but. Stand.

I know it don't make no sense. It's better off to tear the

building down and start from scratch.

Don't make no sense. You don't own the building where

you put all that money in there for what are you?

The people are not going to understand.

It's OK Stand. What is he doing perfecting?

I'm anointed to stand in the silly.

It gives you the ability to complete the assignment once you

are in front of these great men. I'm anointed to stand in front

of people who build big buildings for a living.

And I ain't. I barely even built a Lego

building. I ain't built.

I built nothing. But I'm anointed and the

anointing can take you way further than education can.

The anointing will allow you to get educated in areas that you

because the anointing comes to educate you for call not not for

mere intellect. Next slide, the anointing Watch

this. Is to help.

Some of you, a gift is a key that opens doors to bring us

into the presence of great men. Watch this.

This brother right here is gifted at the keys.

Play other stuff he might be gifted to, right?

Gifted Somebody say gifted. Every definition I'm giving you

are different, OK? The gift is a key that will

bring him before great men. The danger is when you get

before great men, you don't know the call.

And that's why we often get led to idolizing great men versus

serving great men and women through the call of on our

lives. So a gift is a key.

It opens. And then lastly, the talent,

watch this. The talent is lower level or

lower dimensional gifts that undergird our dominant gift to

bring support and balance. You see the slide, take a

picture of this one, not this one.

Watch this talent. This is very important, Troy.

This is very important, Dylan. This is very important.

You guys, your talents are not the same as your spiritual

gifts. Skills are usually inherited,

passed down from generations to generation.

Natural talents can develop with practice.

Spiritual gifts are received, not developed.

Right. My children, all of them are

athletic by DNA, and then they're around family and

culture that's athletic and talented.

And that's why you see some cultures more talented,

stronger, taller, shorter, healthier than others.

You inherit talents, you inherit gifts sometimes, but.

Natural talents can be developed with practice with spiritual

gifts are received, not developed complete gifts.

Batteries included unexpected surprises.

You can't earn or deserve. God chooses when God places His

gifts on you. Batteries are included.

His gifts come with the anointing.

His gifts come with power. I wasn't a preacher or a

teacher, but. When I said yes to the call, he

is put a gift. I was not a a building builder.

I was not a project manager. There's projects in my life I

can barely manage my album like, but when it comes to managing

God's house and he's teaching, there's an anointing.

I'm sitting there and I'm like, I got to go meet with the

engineer. I don't know nothing the

engineer like, but I'm going to go meet with him because what I

got on me can be the difference with him signing the papers or

not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The contractor knows more about the process than I do.

But if the contractor was good enough based on his gifts and

talents and skills, it would have got the paper signed.

So I need to show up to the contractor and to the engineer,

and I'm going to show my smile, my anointing.

I'm going to talk to you. And I'm going to say, man, come

on, you're going to have to sign this.

We've been waiting four years and God's people is ready.

He's like, OK, don't work, don't work.

Don't worry. We gonna sign it.

This sign, we gonna sign it. And that's why the engineer

signed off on the paper the other day.

I don't I don't I don't know what the some of this stuff.

I don't know what it what that mean.

I don't know what it mean, but I but God then puts here is I'm

anointed to lead people. So then he knows I'm a builder.

Look some some folks don't even know this EE role EJ.

Norbert's not here, right? Norbert's next door right now.

Nice Norbert, Before Norbert ever came to this church with

his family, Norbert and our current contractors was the two

people we were choosing from to do our project.

God told me to other people, take the other people and they

have been the blessing we need. Norbert ends up coming by later

and making this church his church home and bringing his old

family. Watch this, watch this, watch

this, watch this, watch this, watch this.

If Norberg, sure God could do whatever, but Norbert, God said

no, I need Norbert's soul first Watch this, watch this.

And now Norbert and his team is a part of the through the ribbon

part. So he didn't start with us, but

he got a church home and he got family saved and now he going to

be a part of the finishing God's house.

And now he over there right now because we get we doing some

stuff, we doing some stuff and he over there right now and he

got his team and God is building his house.

You don't got to know everything.

You don't got to make sense. I, I don't know how the kids

going to do this. I don't, I don't know how in 3

1/2 weeks. My kid about to go back to

school and my wife going to go here and then we, it's an

important year and we got to be here and we got to be there.

But the church supposed to open and we get in the building in

October and I need to be here for this.

I don't know how it's going to be, but he didn't tell me to

pray about like that. He told me to pray for daily

bread. Lord, what do you need me to do

today? There's an anointing for today's

task, right? And there's rest in that.

Who are you? Sabotaging your call with full

of excuses. You busy working?

Awesome, you still got a call. You don't just love people, you

don't just care for people. You don't.

You don't just have people calling you for wisdom and you

always helping people. What is that?

God has put a gift up on you. His gift, His person, special

endowment. Get serious about your call

because there's pastors in this house, there's teachers in this

house, God's sending apostles to this house.

There's evangelists in this house, there's teachers,

there's, there's, there's, there's, there's so many gifts

in this house. And when we have the gifts set

in the house, we're going to see the working of miracles.

Who are you? If that's you, you don't need to

stand. You don't need to raise your

hand, but we're going to take the next two minutes for you.

First of all, there's some people in here that need to

repent. I will say it the way it is

because God said I will throw up if you lukewarm, I'll throw up.

So he already using gross stuff, right?

I am saying because I have to. It is disgusting how you have

let hurt calls you to minimize the anointing on your life.

It is disgusting how you have allowed family members who have

walked in a call you might be called to or just say the

ministry in general and you've allowed that or the enemy to

cause you to be like God. And some of you in here, I hear

it so clearly. You've said God, you don't even

need to use me. That is disgusting to your

father that he would call his child and you would look at him

and say I'm cool if you don't use me.

It's been frustrating. It don't look how you think it

should look, but where we're heading, you got to grow up.

There's a call on your life, stop making excuses.

And you got to be skillful if he's blessed you to be in a

family and grow up in a community and a culture with

natural gifts and talents. How dare you sit on your gift

and just oh, I can hear music, or I could just play music or I,

I just naturally love to do this.

Or I, I can write. I'm a good writer.

I did good in. English.

Maybe you're a prophet and God's called you to write books, not

stand on a platform. Maybe you got to write books

about what God is saying today. Maybe, maybe maybe maybe your

teacher. I don't know what it is, but

where I started, I didn't have a definition.

I just had a call and I said yes.

And when I do, and I don't know who you are tonight, but I felt

it when Annabeth was singing earlier, right before I came up,

that there's some people we need to repent and take this moment

seriously because there's some people not being helped because

you have watered down your call. And you gifted and you talented,

and you just take it for granted.

What if God? Took it and gave it to somebody

else. You know how it is.

You give away something that you thought you didn't want.

When you see them wear it, you like, wait a minute, give me

that shirt back. You take the next two minutes.

And between you and God, you start with repenting.

And if you need to write stuff down, whatever.

But I'm here to tell you that if you can hear today, it is your.

Time God is calling his sons and daughters home.

The prodigal son did not go home just to go home.

The prodigal son said I'm about to go back home in my father's

house and I'm about to serve. Sons and daughters coming home

is not just people missing from church, it's also some of you

getting back in your rightful position and just.

Start with total surrender. Lord, here I am.

I don't know what it looks like, I forgot, but Lord, shine your

light. On the mantels that you put on

me, here it is, Timothy. Stir up the gift.

Take these next few moments and allow the Holy Spirit to stir up

the gift. He'll bring definition as you

go. I'm still learning.

Ero Noah was doing the same thing every day for over 50

years. Some of you are frustrated

because you've been doing the same thing.

It all sound crazy until the flood comes and when people

around you see that ark get lifted up and you start selling

away. No need to be confused about the

call anymore. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Stop running. Stop running.

Stop running. Stop running.

Surrender. Yes, Lord.

Yes Lord. Yes Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Whoever this is for you can the

anointing is capacity. It gives you capacity.

What is God purging out of your life?

What is God calling you to? Just take the next step.

Just take the next step. You're yes today.

God's next step for you could be man, I need you to clean up your

diet. Yeah, that's a part of call

'cause he needs you to be healthy, serving his people.

Yes, Lord. Well, PJ and I, we love you guys

to the bottom of our hearts. And we want to see you and God's

people perfected, complete. And I'll tell you this when

talent and gifts, anointing and call are all working together,

there's no greater fulfillment. Yes, Lord, that's what he's been

maturing you for. So he can get you to the Yes

Lord. The perfecting is when He takes

you from yes to I Do be careful in this season how you are

hearing. God the devil wants to take you

out of environments that are perfecting you and put you in

environments that are going to make you dull.

I've been there when I've been excited and I've been new and

I'm coming alive and I love my church.

And then I hear this call and I thought it was and.

A lot of times God could be calling you today for later.

He could show you a promise today that's we're down there

be. Careful.

How you hear in this season because the worst thing you

could do. Is press pause on the perfecting

thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus.

I want every keyboard player to play under the anointing every

single singer play under the anointing every musician to play

under the anointing every. Usher to serve under the

anointing. Hospitality under the anointing.

I don't want us to be so position oriented that we don't

understand the call. The purpose.

Why do we endure? Because of the call?

Why do we persevere? Because of the call?

Why do we love people because of the call?

Why do we forgive because of the call?

Why would we take the the unpopular route because of the

call? Why do we go through the

wilderness instead of the short route?

Because of the call. The call.

The call is where the anointing is.

The call is where provision is the call is where peace is the

call. Say yes, children of God, yes

Lord. Gideon was perfected.

Mary was perfected. Elijah was perfected.

Elijah was perfected. Ruth was perfected.

Naomi was perfected. Paul was perfected.

Timothy was perfected. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

perfected, James perfected. Stephen was perfected.

Mary was perfected, Moses was perfected from the front to the

back. Let us make men in our image and

in our likeness. Pick up your cross, carry it

daily. Ambassadors of Christ call to

the ministry of reconciliation. How can they hear the gospel

unless someone be sent? How can they be saved?

Preach the gospel, teach the gospel, share the gospel, win

souls, make disciples. Heal the sick.

The work of the ministry cast out demons.

The work of the ministry prophesied the work of the

ministry the work. It's not merely the work of

programs for Sunday, but it's the work of day-to-day ministry.

Marriage, the work of the ministry.

Parenting, the work of the ministry.

Kings, the work of the ministry. Athletes, you have the work of

the ministry. Baristas, there's the work of

the ministry. Wherever God calls you, there's

the work of the ministry. Rise up, soldiers, rise up.

Saints. Be perfected, be equipped, be

complete in him that you may know, be rooted in.

Love that you may know. May your inner man be

enlightened that you may know. This is your time, This is your

season to carry the image and the likeness of your Savior, to

walk in the power of the Holy Ghost, to rise up as sons and

daughters. This is your time and this is

our season. Sure, the bumper crop is coming,

but even greater than the bumper crop is the fruit of the Spirit

being up on your life. You will have joy.

You will have peace. You will know how to have

long-suffering. You know you will know how to

stand in the midst of adversity and persecution.

You can make it through that rough thing.

You can. You can that very thing you're

going through right now. God is saying, can you let my

life shine? That's the work of the ministry.

Can you love your enemies? That's the work of the ministry.

Can you skillfully win someone, lead someone to me?

That's the work of the ministry. And God is restoring mantels in

your bloodline. I'll say it one more time.

God is restoring mantels in your bloodline.

So I declare double for your trouble.

The mantle your father laid down you are anointed to pick up.

God has a finishing assignment for your father.

He has a finishing assignment for your father.

But you are going to carry that mantle through the ribbon for

your family. Hallelujah.

There is no mantle in your bloodline that will be lost.

You will raise children to carry their mantle.

You will raise your children to raise their children to carry

their mantle. Before Jesus returns, your

bloodline will be completely restored.

Run your. Leg of the race.

I cannot wait to hear the testimonies.

I cannot wait to hear from some of you eager people as God has

stirred you up saying I'm ready. I can't wait till you go Bug.

Elder Roseanne and Elder John, Elder Brett, Elder Stacy, you

just whoever you talk to. I cannot wait to hear the I'm

readies, but even more than hear it, I cannot wait to see the

soldiers marching, cannot wait to hear the stories of what God

is doing in people's hearts. And This is why the temptation

to take your talent to wherever you can get big time paychecks

and you can get on bigger platforms and we prostitute our

gifts and that's not what it's called to do.

You are gifts in God's hands that He uses to build His

church. So I come against manipulation.

I come against the devourer of gifts and talents and calls that

you will not be moved by greener grass.

But you will hear clear who's meant to go in the ark with you,

and you won't add and you won't take away.

But it's time. It's urgent.

Not only the body, but the world needs you.

They need you all of creation, standing on tiptoe waiting for

you to grow up, waiting for your coming out party.

And I declare before this year is out, you will be rooted in

your. I do.

May the wavering cease and the fruitfulness increase.

Let your yes be yes, yeah, no be no.

And Lord, your servant submits to you, your children.

Ready standing at attention to hear what the Father has for

them. Lord, impart your heart, impart

your burdens, and the one thing we ask, just as Moses, if you do

not go with us, we not going. We need your presence, so we

submit our lives to you, our gifts to you, our talents.

We cast our crowns at your feet and we say Lord use whatever and

whenever we just want you, nothing else in Jesus name,

Amen. Look at your neighbor and just

say don't play with this. We need.

The fear of the Lord. Thank you so much for tuning

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