Born to be Wild - 7.20.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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

I love that analogy because you're in a season where God

don't need you to know the path. Some of us are where we are

because we always need control. We always need to know.

It says he ordered our steps, and you've been trying to order

your own steps. And Lord says blindness in this

season will prosper you. Yeah.

Having to know will hinder you. Yeah.

Can't follow the world because they for sure don't know and I

love it to where even the people that you would think know don't

know Mama in this season don't know.

Guess what I might not know stuff and it's not about your

way. It's his way.

And I think today starting this morning and I encourage you to

go back to I'm on I'm on. I encourage you to go back to

listen to this morning's experience.

If you can study it right now, it's I promise you the Holy

Spirit will speak to you what we're going to continue on this

afternoon. But I really believe that God is

trying to bring some clarity some I also think God's trying

to bring some validity to your previous or current struggles

and wrestles validity. What do you mean validity?

God's going to use it while you trying to throw it away.

God's going to use it. God needs it.

What if I told you the struggles you've been going through?

God actually needs it right from where we're going as a church.

He needs us to wait for building permits.

He needs us to look like it's lacking the building and never

over. He need we going to have skin in

the game on the other side. We really we really yes, God,

but we really built something as a church and so be blessed this

afternoon and let's see where God takes us.

But for those that want to go deeper, we got to go deeper.

Now let me tell you for all the heady people this you going to

miss it? I'll tell you, I will prophecy

right now. You going to miss it.

You're going to miss it. If you just want you want you

want it like you want it or you, you're going to sit there and

chew on every single line that's spoken.

And no, this is this is one of those you just got to receive

it. Go home and study the word.

But you just got to you got to be in a place where you like

Lord, just just rock me because keep it real.

Some of y'all in here killing yourselves because you just got

to be in control. You got to know everything,

every step and it just don't work that way with God.

You just got to be OK taking steps, not knowing.

And so I'm praying for you today that you will get what God has

for you, because I tell you, just from this morning, I'm

already blessed. So I cannot wait to hear what

God's about to preach. I'm not about to announce

another preacher. I'm a preach, but I don't, you

know. And so, yeah, give first of all,

or second of all, or last of all, before you take your seat,

give your neighbors around you a round of applause for being

here. Now, now I want you to look back

at your neighbor really quickly. Really quickly, everybody, I

want you to look back at your neighbor and I really want you

to look at them and say that was super lame.

I deserve a way better hand clap than that.

You better. You can take your seat.

It's this yellow light. Keep blinking.

It's just dead, huh? All right.

Handheld today. We about to preach.

Hey, man, bear with me. Can we give it up for Noel?

He does a brilliant job. Many people don't notice, many

people don't know how hard it is to do sound in a place full of

concrete. And he makes it work.

So can't wait to get in to our place.

But I am super grateful for where I'm at.

We started a conversation called church and not a church in the

wild, but it was church in the wild, but it was born to be

wild. Having to remind the church

there is nothing comfortable about following Jesus.

Absolutely nothing. All right, There is nothing

comfortable about following Jesus.

Only peace there is, is knowing that he's with us, finding peace

in a blessing. Finding peace in a person is not

the same as finding peace with Jesus.

Amen. And I understand that I was born

to be wild. I was born to walk by faith and

not by sight. When I when I read Hebrews 11

about the heroes of the faith, it's all wild stories.

It's all people who let go of control and totally abandoned

themselves and follow the of the Father.

And hence we find all these amazing stories.

We've we build our faith on any crazy how you can build your

faith on wildness but not be wild.

You can build your faith on faith, but not have faith and,

and some of our Christianity don't look nothing like the

people we build our faith off of.

And yes, we build it on Jesus, but all these stories that the

Lord told us to look at as it as we discover his nature, it's

almost like we're trying to find that character that exemplifies

our stuckness. Like, but we, we get mad when

God then takes it down to 300 and then it's like, whoa, we

can, I'm like Gideon. I don't have as much help as I

need. But then we got to go still

fight like Gideon. That's the part we don't like,

right? We like God.

Well, if the battle's yours, the battle's yours.

He was like, but you still got to show up.

We want to be like God, the battle's yours, but we don't

want to have to show up, right? We want God, the God that split

the sea, but we don't want to be the people that walk across

right. We want, we want the story of

the woman with the issue of blood.

We don't want to risk our our image.

We don't want to risk our lives to walk and touch the hem of his

garment like we want the results of the miracles, but we don't

want the faith and the sacrifice that these stories took right.

We we want the blessing of Abraham, but we don't want the

sack. We don't want to put down Isaac,

right? We want everybody.

We want all the fruit. We want resurrection power, but

we don't want to carry our cross.

And it's this constant tension that we keep walking in.

And it's like, man, if we don't have faith in the wild, if we

don't understand what the wild is all about, it has been used.

It was used a couple weeks ago because we were going out to the

wild. We were going out to the club,

we was going to Hollywood Wood Theatre, we was going to the

basketball game. We, we were going into the world

that we live in. We, we live in the wild.

We was created in the wild. Oh well, the earth was without

form and it was void, full of darkness.

And then God created in the wild.

Wow. Adam was placed in the garden

with a bunch of giraffes and zebras and gazelles and apes and

gorillas and all kinds of stuff. He was born in the wild.

Yeah. Paul, who wrote most of our

letters in the New Testament. The brother was knocked off and

he was blinded. He went from murdering people to

preaching to the people he murdered with somebody say wild

and we can go all the way down to the miracles.

Jesus spitting on people, eyes wild, right?

Lunatics being delivered wild. Legions of demons coming out,

jumping in the pigs, pigs running into the water.

Wild, right? You give me a story.

There's no not wild stories in the Bible.

Show me from heaven to earth like man, angels with eyeballs

on the wings. Wild, like we read the wildest

book in the world, but we somehow want the comforts of

this world. We want to be cozy, we want to

be comfortable. We mad at God because he didn't

do what we wanted to do, but I don't really want to serve a God

that I could tell him what to do and he do it.

That's crazy. I can't even tell my kids what

to do and I'm going to tell God what to do.

So that's why we get pastors and we like, OK, well, I can't tell

God what to do, but I can tell his servants what to do.

And if they don't do what I would, if they don't preach and

they don't let us out of service at the time we want to, then we

going to complain and we going to leave.

Show me that in the Bible, like Jesus preached for hours with

with with no worship teams, he just start preaching just dry.

Just preaching in the heat wasn't no roast, wasn't no

dinner wasn't no dinner, no honey little fishy sardines like

these people, but they was arrows that like show me in the

Bible, please, anybody show me where it was just like, oh, you,

you going to go down in this famine land and then this bird

going to feed you ain't Noah. Yep, Noah.

Just you and your family get you get your family and you're going

to get 2 of each animal, male and female, because one day it's

going to be the storm. It's going to be a flood.

I'm about to wipe out the whole universe.

Yep. Chose you.

You the only one that's going to survive.

So build the ark, though I'm not building it.

You know this guy didn't build it.

That's wild too. Forget the flood.

And then you going to ask me to build this?

This ship and people walking by every day.

Hey, what Noah doing? They laughing at me.

They mocking me now I can't get mad.

Y'all about to keep on laughing at me?

Watch, one day you going to need me now I got to walk in love.

That's wild. 2 fish, 5 loaves, water to wine.

Like you know what's crazy? I'm telling you these stories

right now and your entire faith, you supposedly believe all this

crazy stuff happened. Is that what's wrong with the

church? We actually don't believe in

modern day power, so we so stuck on historical evidence that we

will dare not live a life of faith so God can create new

stories in our time. Where's those people?

Is there anybody in this room that's willing to look at this

situation as a modern day testimony?

God is cooking and you going to make your mind up today and be

like, you know what you know I want to be like Mary open to the

wind behind. I'm wondering people I need the

screen too, so don't be looking at me like you don't need the

screen. Amen.

I want to be like you're who's him right.

We say how many people ever sang that song before?

Yeah, most of y'all in here. You didn't know you singing it

because you was reading it and you don't remember that you were

singing it because it ain't in your heart.

You was just reading it, right? Got you.

But you read these, these songs. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord.

Open the eyes of my heart. Watch this.

I wanna see you. I wanna see you.

Do you know what actually seeing God would lead you to like?

Like if I was just to be biblically honest, some of y'all

don't look like you've ever seen God because you can't possibly

see God and stay the same. What's the next word?

For what? Right, right.

I wish the song just kind of went like poor ultra power in

love so we can live alive, right?

The song say poor ultra power of love.

So we can keep singing while we poor ultra power of love while

we sing, right? It's it's like we go sing and

adore you, but not withhold you not, not like clearing you into

our situation, not like, like, like, like pour out your power

and love. So when I want to cuss somebody

out, what comes out of me is your power in love, right?

Is all superficial. It's all talk.

You really. We really didn't know that.

We signed up to reflect him, not just adore him, because we do

that all day. We got many worship nights, We

got people eloquently preaching to you.

But then what's the point of gathering if we're not going to

go out and let our light shine? I'm here to let you know that

the Promised Land was a wilderness too.

So if you ever think you're going to get out the wilderness

and enter a promised land without struggle, you are

fooled. There is no struggle less

destination. There is a place where you

mature and your your your eyes can see color again and you

begin to see struggle different. You begin to see problems the

way he sees them. You begin to see people the way

he sees them. You begin to see your spouse the

way he's your children, the way failure the way he sees it.

The point of encounter is to take your beauty, your ashes for

His beauty, Take your eyes for His eyes, take your poverty for

His will, Take your anger, take your rage, take your issues,

take your sin, and put on His glory.

That's the point of encounter. That's the point of getting in

His word. The point of getting in his word

is not so you can have more knowledge of him.

It is so you can be more like Him in every area of your life.

Wild, adventurous. It's it's, that's where the

freedom is. You know, when that parent is

like, and a kid over there being wild in the sandbox and at the,

at the play yard and they riding a bike, the parent is always

wanting to be like you notice how the kid always figures it

out. You notice when they finally

fall and scar their legs, they didn't die.

And that's when you learn your reaction.

They kind of react off your reaction.

So when you want God to panic, he's not panicking because he

wants you to look at him and not be a panicker, right?

I don't, I really don't think Jesus was like sleeping in the

boat. I think Jesus was just resting.

There's no way the boat can be full of water.

Like like from, from what I've seen on TV when you're in like a

real storm, like deadliest catch, I'm not sleeping.

I don't I, I, he was human. Yes, he was God, but he was

human. You think Jesus was really

sleep? Or was he resting and holding a

posture that he desired his disciples to learn to hold when

he's not in the boat? Like, does he always got to

answer or will you listen today? So when he's seemingly not there

tomorrow, you just reflect the posture he showed you.

That's why Hebrews 12/1 through two tells us to, you know, when

we're in this race. Just look at his example, mirror

his example. How he handled pressure, how he

handled loneliness, how he handled stress, how he handled

singleness, how he handled being around the opposite sex, But,

but, but, but, but, but, not giving him the temptation.

How did he handle lack? How did he handle betrayal?

How he handled their stories all there?

How did he handle his ministry? How did he handle his Mama?

How did he handle his enemies? How did he, how did he do it?

It's right there. What are we reading?

This is not Doctor Seuss. It's not a rhyme.

It's not. This is our our life is in the

Word. The Word became flesh, so the

flesh can become the Word. We are living epistles.

We are a people on earth as it is in heaven, full of the Holy

Ghost, so that those that don't have eyes to see him can see us.

And when they see us, they should see him.

The Promised Land, Wilderness. There's, there's, there's,

there's, there's. There was Egypt and then there

was the wilderness. They could have went the

shortcut. But might I tell you today the

shortcut would never grow you how God intended you.

Yeah. And then he went from the

wilderness to the promised land. But there was a whole lot

thousands of people didn't get to the promised land that was

promised to get in the promised land because they started

complaining. They took their eyes off the

Lord. They start building idols.

And that's the temptation that some of us in here right now.

Right now you are in because what waiting on the Lord?

The temptation in waiting is idol ship you, you like while

I'm waiting, God wouldn't mind if I just get in get involved in

this over here. How long can you hold your

posture of singleness? How can you hold your how long

can you hold your posture in a tumultuous marriage?

I'm talking about hold the posture.

I'm not talking about tolerating.

I'm talking about hold the posture of his image.

I'm talking about remaining faithful.

Be as passionate, as fervent on fire as you was when you when

you when you first came into the Lord and when you answered the

call. And like, like keep the posture.

Don't, don't don't because it's traffic on the highway.

You like I'm gonna get off the freeway right here.

I I know a quicker way. And did you notice everybody?

Do you know there's a lot of people got off the highway and

now the back street you chose is got traffic right from here.

Some of y'all know still on the train and you ain't never drove

nothing or whatever, but that don't matter.

OK, do you know what I'm saying? I've, I've done that before.

I've gotten off the freeway and I've learned that sometimes

I've, I've, I've switched my mind sometime I'm like, the

Lord's protecting me. I need to slow down somebody

zoom in front of me instead of flipping them off.

I'm like, whoa, you're protecting me, right?

And we look at traffic, we look at we look at brake lights as

God hindering us, slowing us up. And then you get in your mind,

if I don't do it now, if I don't do it now, if I don't get kids

now, if I don't get married now, if I don't get get start to be,

if I don't do whatever now, it just ain't going to happen.

I asked this question earlier this morning.

I don't think I'm the only one. I know I'm not the only one

because there are some people who answer the question this

morning that's here. So I at least got y'all.

But I know I'm making progress. Jti see the fruit of my labor

and our labor, my family's labor.

There's so many amazing testimonies happened in my life.

I'm maturing, I'm growing, I I'm getting closer to the Lord, but

what I'm finding out is there still this like I'm still

experiencing fatigue, weariness. I'm tired now I'm not sharing

this with you to be like poor me.

I'm about and then at the end of the message, I'm going to tell

you I'm going on a sabbatical. This ain't that message, not at

all. I'm so pumped up about the call,

like I'm in this thing, but I am letting you know to paint a

picture here for where we're about to go, that as I'm walking

with the Lord you, you can't disqualify fruits because

Darnell is around. Some of y'all don't know who

Darnell is because there's wolves in the garden, because

there's bad things happening around you, because there's not

steady momentum or things not popping as fast as you want, or

some of us in here, we are so blessed.

But it ain't, that ain't happening yet, right?

It'd be like, it'd be like me complaining.

Well, there's electrical in there, but I just want to hurry

up and get in the building, right?

There's progress and some of you can't see progress because you

ain't saw it yet. Like like like my marriage ain't

turned around yet. But keep your eyes on the growth

and progress that is happening. Can you celebrate the baby

steps? So I'm, I'm in this place where

look, man, it's so much. I could just be like, I could

just vomit. The process God has had, I would

say God has had me in an Apostolic process, right?

He, he, Paul put it this way, I've learned to do.

I've learned to be be content and lack as well as much.

In other words, God doesn't change in either.

So I don't change in either. My identity is not wrapped up in

a season. A season does not have authority

over my life. Seasons present me opportunity

to grow, right? Seasons aren't determining

factors of my success. Even if I fail in a season,

depending on how I handle the failure, I could turn that

season around for my good. Quite frankly, God says

everything I am using for your good man.

I'm can I be? I'm tired like I get it.

Let me come up here. Remnant campaign.

We remnant compel like we don't want to do that all the time.

I guess tiring getting up, asking people using faith words.

It's good ground 3464 hundredfold.

God's gonna black you right? Like it's like a you're giving

or you're not. But even if you're giving, man,

this is a long race. We've been in here for like like

like like it would be for you. We're almost done with our first

lease and there's some other stuff in the background.

We can't talk about really cool opportunities potentially, but

we can't talk about potential. Can't build my faith on

potential. Now faith is it ain't now faith

might be, but being at the forefront and stuff I can't talk

about stuff I can't complain about because I'm at the

forefront. There's conversations we having

there there. There's stuff we got to deal

with. There's stuff we got to move

around. There's it.

Is this like in the people you get man, I gave OK, four years

y'all 4/4 4 cold, hot concrete mop, people coming, people going

warfare and the one thing that I'm so excited about is the main

thing is always stay the main thing.

Watch this, watch this. If I was focused on the building

and not the fruit that's happening in the garage, I

wouldn't even leave town. I'd go see my kid.

I got all this stuff to manage. My son need me, my wife need me,

my daughter need me. Like yeah, some of y'all need me

and elders. It's like all these things that

handle. But it's like what keeps me

going, enjoying that in the fruit.

Like we are so fruitful. People are getting ordained,

people are getting stronger and wiser.

Vision is being casted and carried and it's it's amazing.

It's amazing. Can you get that mic?

It's amazing. But in my in your regular life,

are you looking at the progress? But also are you willing to feel

and see and taste the storm? Can you for one moment today

just acknowledge although there's progress, man, there's

some fear, there's some heaviness rather that be I

haven't seen my my spouse come to Jesus.

I haven't seen my my Mama come to Jesus.

I'm still battling sickness, although I'm growing in the

things of the Lord. My marriage is being attacked,

although I am being transformed. I don't got enough money for

this and that man, my bills is over my head.

Like, can you just for a minute acknowledge that, understand

that that's real? Because sometime when you are so

in faith, you think faith means you don't have permission to be

weary. AM I?

Am I talking to a couple people? I ain't never went red where my

faith exempts me from being vulnerable.

My faith exempts me. I don't got faith.

If I got lack, if I don't got enough money for this, that mean

I ain't doing something right in the Lord.

If my marriage who I'm having to help some married people out

because my marriage ain't quite going the way it is, that means

I'm God's not pleased with me. Some people would be like man,

because they they've taken four years for them to get in the

building. They must be doing something

wrong. The only thing the children

Israel was doing wrong was complaining.

God said this about to take a while.

God said there was there is a quick route.

There is somebody or two people or three people that can write

one check and it's done. But when you get over to the

promised land, you're going to need more money.

The goal is there. There's not this end goal.

There's not this like, let's breakthrough here and once we

get here, then all of this is over and I'm just looking for

the people today. That's like, it's been a while.

I've been wrestling, I've been keeping face, I've been

fighting, I've been doing my best.

I've been, I've been praying, I've been giving, I've been

fasting or trying to fast. I've been like, I've been doing

better, like I my family is better.

I've been trying to do this and I've been trying to do that.

I am aware of my issues. Before I would have too much

pride to admit that this was me. But now, the step of admission,

that's a step I used to deny or not take no responsibility.

Now I take responsibility, right?

There's so much growth that is happening in this house.

So on one end, you can be the person who's just like, whoa,

God's doing it. So you're a hyper faith in the

sense that you can't pause and acknowledge that you got some

burdens that's really weighing you down and you're tired of

even you ready. You ready for this?

For some leaders, I'm tired of even standing in the gap for

people, right? That's crazy, huh?

You don't hear that over the pulpit, huh?

You know when you get tired of helping people that don't want

to be helped, you like, but I want to be helped, but you ain't

listening to none of the wisdom. But then now I'm tired because

God's saying let them go. So now my pastoral heart is

grieving because I got to depart from some folks because my

season in that space is no more. So it's not just heavy like on

some person, it's heavy for as as a shepherd, you're also

carrying the burdens of other people's lives, but you also

carry the burden of being graced to not help them.

OK You thought that pastors for to help everybody in the church

No show me where Jesus did. I found a lot of people he

helped was people that really pursued him.

He ignored people he walked past blind men and it wasn't until

blind man got desperate enough to say Jesus I need help.

I don't just want to talk to Jesus.

This is why I often Jesus like what do you want?

Because some of y'all asking for something that you ain't even

ready to have. You say you want freedom, but

how are you going to walk in that freedom?

Some of y'all, the Lord will break the chain.

Matter of fact, some of y'all got them, broke the chains and

you wouldn't put them right back on.

But that blind man, that woman with the issue of blood, they

pursued and they're saying no, no, no, here here's my proof.

I'm taking off the robe that identified me as a legal beggar

because I am not going. What steps are you willing to

take that will prove you not going back right?

Because some of you here's here's what some of you do.

You're asking for freedom, but you're leaving a crack in the

door. See that is why God sometimes it

extend it extend the lease on your bondage because you you

what are what's before you get free.

What steps are you willing to take to show you not going to go

back? Sometime that's getting out of

certain relationships, sometime that's that's developing new

habits before you get walking the grace of the new thing.

Look at Jesus's life and he had a life where it seems like he

was in constant need of his father.

And as I said this morning, it what it looks like is we need

God until we don't, right? You can tell people that's in a

season because boy, they at the prayer meeting, they at the date

fast and they they giving they giving a Tony a loom, whatever

they can get you trying to get out of this season.

And then you could tell when they got promoted, they they not

kneeling at the altar no more. They they twirl in and they and

then you see them kind of fade away.

And then you see when they come back this time they saw a shame

within. They're not coming to the altar.

They sit in the back because you, you thought you thought the

new job was the breakthrough. You didn't know the greatest

breakthrough you can have is a mind change.

I can see color again. That's the greatest breakthrough

because when the job leave or when I get tired of the thing I

prayed for, don't answer this, but how many times you prayed

for a spouse, got the spouse, and then you're like, Oh my God,

you can't take prayer back. No receipts, no returns, no

return policy, right? You prayed, I believe everybody

in here at one point. You pray for the spouse you got

and then you ain't don't lie. You ain't don't lie to me.

I ain't going to even look at you.

You know, there's times when you like God.

Can we do this over again? Or you pray for that new

Bugatti. Or you pray for that job and

have you? Let's do this.

I can look at you on this. Have anybody ever prayed for a

job, got the job and you got tired of it?

Yeah, All right. If anybody ever prayed for

anything and then your mind changed about it later, All

right. Why we pray so much about

temporary stuff? We here, here we go.

Most of our prayers is fix it prayers.

Bandage it up prayers. I'm lonely in this season so I I

want this thing you some of y'all think y'all ready for this

Boo thing? But it's only because your

loneliness has sent you into search.

It's not because you treated your singleness like a call.

So we ran this morning. Peter went out to the deep.

Jesus told him to push his boat out to the deep Peter, and Jesus

did it. I want you to see this.

He says, Master, we told all night exhaustingly, somebody say

exhausted, say somebody say at the end of myself, he said and

caught nothing. I don't know about you, but I

can be honest. I got to be transparent.

One thing I learned a few months back is the Apostolic ministry

is LED through vulnerability. I used to always wonder why I've

been telling my wife over there be like, don't say that.

And then I'll be like, say that and our calls could be

different. But there's a burden on me to be

vulnerable. Paul says follow me as I follow

Christ. My life is open.

There's a level of vulnerability.

And I can tell you right now, I am.

It's weird, but I know the tension, the divine tension.

I am, I am the strongest I've ever been.

But it's the first time I feel weary in ministry.

No, not weary in a way where I am about to be burnt out, so far

from burnt out. See, I understand the tension.

Some people think it's the extremes.

Some people think they tire. So I mean, no, I need to go on a

sabbatical. No, man, I've been around.

I, I've take time like I'm actually really good.

I'm healthy. I'm, you know what I'm saying?

I, I take my vitamins, my greens, my AG ones, like I'm

good. But when I'm saying I'm

exhausted is I am tired of me trying to figure it out like

here, here it is, here it is hero.

Here's my exhausted. The Bible says after you've done

all you can do, see, see what gives me strength is because I'm

confident that I've done all that I could do.

And if you honest, if you do all you can do, you're going to be

fatigued. That's why he said do all you

can do. Then I'll step in.

Right here it is. Jesus went into the garden.

He's like, can this cup pass? He asked Christ, can this, can

this cup pass? He's doing.

He's done all he could do. He's sacrificed.

He's fulfilled the word. Now it's time to go to the

cross. Now it's time for him to stop

swinging. It's time.

It was times where it wasn't time for him to stop.

Here it is. And they were trying to kill

him. And what did he do?

Run. What do you do when you're in a

season where God says stop running, stop swinging, stop

striking, It's time to let, If it's time for Judas to come kiss

you, you got to be still. I know that's for some of

y'all's, some of y'all's. Just see, Jesus came to a point

where he did all that he could do at that point, which we're

getting into today. This is the season for you to do

no more but surrender. Jesus ran.

He avoided them killing him. He said I he discerned them

killing them and he just disappeared.

Judas. He wasn't called to disappear

from, He was called to embrace Judas.

Let's keep going. Watch this.

They caught nothing. The greatest harvest will only

be found in the deep. I'm here to tell you there is a

harvest for you that you're about to step in, but it will

only be walked into by going deeper.

So then I heard that this morning and and, and, and a sign

of life changing harvest is when the currents of life seem to be

pulling you into the deep. So So what I understand about

the current is as you rest, like the worst thing you do in the

current, all you nice little ocean swimmers let me know is,

is wrestle with the current correct?

Is it the Anabaptist right Lake lake, You know what I'm saying

is this to wrestle with the current.

And there comes a time where you just got to Lord Jesus, please

bring get me back to the that's the season we're in.

I'm talking to the people who've done all they could do.

That's the season we're in here. It is.

I asked the Lord. I said where if that's the

season I'm in that you're calling me deeper because I, I

think I'm pretty, I, I go pretty deep like I'm, but that's where

you mess up when you think that your, your, your little

sanctified self. You do all the Christian things

like I read the word, I do this, I do that.

It's like the rich ruler. I do this, I do that, I do, how

much deeper can I get? And then the Lord says, sell all

of it. Oh, you mean deeper?

You see what I'm saying? It's right there in the Bible

every. There's a lot of people who just

come to this point. OK, you wealthy, you've done

this, you've done that, you've done this.

Great. You have not arrived.

You got your doctorate. You're you're, you're, you're a

theologian. You get your podcast is this and

your your marriage is this. And you finally got the building

you wanted. You finally got the money you

wanted. And then you're like, at this

point in your life, OK, God like, but I'm still feeling like

there's more. What what am I not doing?

What's deeper? Jesus told the rich ruler, well,

sell it. We ain't heard from homie again

and there might be some people in here.

We ain't going to hear from you again, right?

And then there's people like Mary.

He says deeper is can you carry the Savior, Peter?

We saw his response. He said they don't make sense.

I'm tired. I'm exhausted, Sir.

So if you want to go out into the deep, cool, I'll roll you

out there. As your word says, this is that

season right now. No, I'm not looking for a new

word. This is the word.

The word is as your word says and some of y'all God is asking

you to just stand on the word He gave you a few years ago and

once and for all just stand on that word.

Stop looking for a new word. That word right there.

Watch this where and what's deeper?

Where and what's this just blows my mind.

It blows my mind. It blows my mind before service

last this morning. It'll blow my mind.

This service where and what's deeper?

I'm giving you clarity. OK, I like to say this, you're

not going to Google it. You're not going to find it on

somebody else's podcast, sermon or book.

This is this is pulled down just for you.

OK, here's some clarity for you. OK, You're you're, you're,

you're in your heart right now. God, I will go deeper.

I'm ready, I'm ready, I am so ready.

God life changing questions lead to life changing harvest and I

got my answer, he said. We toiled all night exhaustingly

and caught nothing. Watch this deeper starts with an

empty boat. I got another slide for you.

I got another slide for you deeper.

What would have happened if Peter came with kind of like 1/2

a net of fish in his mind he would have been like I got, I

caught, I got my catch for the day.

You see some of y'all got is like no, no, I can't, I can't.

Have you mistaken promised land for mana in this season?

Because Peter would have got his little fish.

He'd even been like, man, that was a good day.

He had to show up to Jesus with nothing in his boat and all he

could offer Jesus was his empty boat.

And look what Jesus did with his empty boat.

He didn't just This is a generational harvest.

This is a harvest that is going to cause you to ask for help,

right, Right. Like, like I, I won't bring me

the budget because we got people to hire.

Like, we don't need help. The vision's too big.

So he pushes out and there's the hall that's almost about to sink

his boat. He goes from nothing in his boat

to almost having a sinking boat. Here it is.

But he's wise because he knew hoarding the hall would sink his

boat. But this next season, the

harvest is so big and so, so, so rich.

You must share. And this is the part of what

Jesus has been doing in your life over these last few years,

is he's been getting rid of boats that you're not supposed

to share with. OK, All right, All right, right.

You've been wanting to stay connected, You know, on the

lake. Sometimes they'll connect to the

boats and they. No, no, no.

This harvest, some people, guys like.

No, no, no, no. Let they both just go and let

them be offended because what I'm about to bring in your life.

Yes. Sometimes we're not in positions

because we did something wrong. Sometimes we're affiliated with

wrongdoers. Right.

I had a buddy back in the day, every time we went out to the

club, he start a fight. Now at some point I'm stupid so

I had to stop hanging and going to the club with him.

We only hung out my house or hung out when he did not drink

because every time we drink and every time we went out, he would

start a fight with somebody. Some of y'all are where y'all

are because who you connected to.

But in this season, some some of y'all connected to people that

you just you, you got to you, you, you just got to go with it

until you die, they die or until Jesus come back.

It is this is what it is. Hallelujah.

You, you stuck in that one. So you might as well start

figuring out how to make the best of it.

Amen, Amen. All right, all right, Some of

y'all didn't have that thought in your head.

Lord, if something happened to him, I wouldn't mind.

Like, however we got to deal with this God like, yeah, yeah,

yeah. Let's deal with the thoughts.

Let's deal with the thoughts, right?

Let's deal with the thoughts, right?

Because because we want the thorn to go, because we think if

the thorn is removed, watch it. We think if the thorn is

removed, then the pain goes away.

But actually, no, not having a thorn brings more pain because

the thorn is the very thing that causes you to need God.

Because some of y'all don't know how to need God without pain.

Did did y'all hear what I just said?

Some of y'all don't know how to need God without pain or without

a thorn in your side. Watch this.

Here it is. Watch this day.

Watch this day T Watch this Deeper starts with an empty

bowl. Here's what the Lord says in the

season. Sometimes the greatest offering

you can offer God is nothing. Watch it an empty you.

The Lord says, man, you have come to this place of exhaustion

because I needed an empty boat. I needed an empty you for what

I'm about to do. So I've graced you for the last

several years to exhaust all your opinions, all your options.

I've graced you to try things and be like Nope, that didn't

work. Nope, they not the reason.

Nope, they not the fault. Nope.

I've, I've I've graced you for a season to blame your trauma,

what they did to you when you was young.

I've graced you for a season. Now lay all that at the altar.

Stop trying to put band aids on. I've graced you for a season to

desire closure. Has closure happened for some of

you? Do you have the answers you

wanted? I'm here to tell you the Lord

says man, I've allowed you to reach a point of exhaustion and

some of y'all came here today in your mind you like I am tired PT

Can I get a few honest people in here?

Can I get an honest a few honest people to just like really feel

that I'm tired like I'm still here.

I'm I'm still good like, but if, if, if you going to give me some

permission to be honest right now, I'm I'm tired.

My soul is tired. I'm confused that I don't know

to go right, don't want to go. And I've been wrestling trying

to get answers and I've been wrestling trying to get

blueprints and I've been wrestling trying to get strategy

and I've been wrestling trying to get this person to

understand. And I've been wrestling to try

to meet these bills and I've been whatever it is for you.

I've been wondering when the bleeding don't stop in my

marriage, in my family. I'm just tired.

And then one minute is good and then the next minute, oh, this

pops back up again. I thought I was healed.

I thought I was delivered. Maybe the oil didn't work at the

revival. I thought when Natalie came and

we prayed for all the women that the change was broken, what

happened? It feel like the change is back

home. Thought I was making progress.

It feel like I took one step forward, 2 steps back.

You know how you'd be confessing that over yourself instead of

just one step forward? Why are you counting the two

steps back? Why just I took one step

forward, Pause. Oh, I took another step forward

instead of 1 and then 2, so I guess I just got 1 positive

step. No, no, one pause.

You just been damned to you saying right, you just been

dancing and you ain't made no progress because in your mind

you don't see progress because you took one step forward and

how many back 2 steps back instead of 1.

Pause, learn, education, patience, fruit of the spirit

being cultivated. Stubbornness is dying, pride is

dying. Oh God, open the door and say

because he ordered myself God don't order backward steps.

God, don't order backward steps. God don't order backward steps

and he say step again. No, that's another step.

I don't care if I'm I don't care if I'm standing here for three

years. I'm making progress.

You ready? And some of y'all don't see your

own progress. That's why you can't see others.

Some of y'all so hard on yourself.

You so hard on other people. Some of y'all don't like

yourself, so you can't like nobody else.

No man, I'm one step and learn man.

This one step boy, you have a praise party on this one step.

No, it ain't No 2 steps. What is 2 steps backwards?

No, that sounds like Lot's wife. No, no, no, no.

My feet is, you know what I'm saying?

Watch this then Jesus like the I got to go.

I got it JT we got it. We got to learn, we got to we

got to just accept that the wilderness is a part of the

promise. Watch this then Jesus full of

come on, full of and what controlled by the Holy Ghost.

He full of the Holy Ghost controlled so he full of the

Spirit and the obedient to the Spirit.

Look, he returned from the Jordan and was led in by the

Holy Spirit. Watch it.

Wait a minute. I thought when I got baptized,

went down in the Jordan. You thought, 'cause you flew to

Israel, you holy? No, I've been to the holy

nation. No, your prayer rag don't make

you holy because you got anointing oil in your purse

don't make you holy. Look, Jesus got baptized.

He, the brother got baptized. He's a good dude.

He got baptized, got out the water, got a word of

affirmation. You are my son, who I am well

pleased, full of the Holy Ghost, controlled by the Holy Ghost,

and the Holy Ghost leads him into the wilderness.

What there's only two seasons, either God is developing your

testimony or displaying your testimony right.

Sometime they go side by side, but you always in one of those

seasons and Jesus has been developed.

You've been being developed and God wants to to to display what

his his goodness has done in your life.

Now watch this. He goes into the wilderness 40

days where he was tempted. You mean the Holy Ghost led me

into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil?

And he ate nothing during those days?

Well, here it is. He went deeper.

He went like this too. Shall pass.

No, no, no, no. He went deeper and he ate

nothing for 40 days and when they were completed, he was

what? Like all of us?

Somebody said hungry. Some of y'all be hungry after 40

hours. Watch this, watch this.

To be tempted by the devil is to be proven by God.

I must be proven to be prospered.

God will always prepare you before prospering you, but you

got to see preparation as prospering.

What's this? To be tempted by the devil is to

be proven by God. Never tempted, never tested by

God, always proven. And when the devil here it is,

we go forward. And when the devil we go, we go

down like Jesus goes through the wilderness.

And watch this. I want y'all to see this.

And when the devil had ended every temptation, watch what the

Bible says when the devil ended all the cycles he had.

Oh, so you mean to tell me the devil has an end time?

You mean the devil? He's trying to get me caught up

in cycles. So when he walks away, the cycle

is running my life, not the devil, right?

You, you get out of this one thing you like.

Oh, different person, but same stuff keep coming up, right?

You still got them buttons on your shirt, right?

You notice how you got the same buttons, just different person

pushing them? Keep temporarily Here it is and

just give you some insight. The devil temporary left Jesus

alone because he had to. You see what I'm saying?

You you going to get out of the Wheelers, You're going to move

on to the promised land and for a time you're going to

experience some woo woo. It's why you can't buy be

identified by seasons or what you think is success or what you

think is fruit. You can't be identified by that,

because if you don't learn to be be good in lack and be good in

abundance, then when the devil come back around again, he says

that is he stood off from him. Watch it, watch what he does

until a more opportune time. You know y'all be like, Oh the

devil that I'm I'm free. There's like free indeed and

then there's the devil leaving you alone for a little bit

because sometime when the devil mess with you, he knows that he

risk exposing his traps. So sometime it's best to leave

you alone because guess what, he might blow his cover.

So let me stop messing with you and make you think life is all

good and now you like maybe this relationship like like I used to

smoke, right. I don't know if anybody ever had

a bad trip on on on a drug or something.

And, and, and, and that's when you was like, God, if you just

let me stay alive, I'm never going to do this again.

And you throw away all the weed wrappers and you throw away the

bong and you throw away whatever it is some of y'all crack or

heroin, whatever you did, you throw away the needles, you

throw away the alcohol bottles. And it because you had a bad

trip. And then you like few days later

you like it didn't kill me. So you just worried about not

being killed. You, you just, you just don't

mind suffering. And once you find out the thing

didn't kill you, instead of ending the cycle, you just you

like maybe, maybe I could live and still be blind and still be

and still mess with this porn a little bit and still be abusive

and still, maybe I could because he didn't kill me.

It's just like, you know, the Christians that's like, can, can

you, can you still drink and be saved?

Right. We, we, we trying to figure out

how we could still be. He said he'd wait for another

opportune time and favorable time and he'd come on back.

Watch this. And then Jesus came out of the

wilderness full of and under the power of the Holy Spirit.

And then his ministry began. There's anointing in the

wilderness. I said there's anointing in the

wilderness, right? I forget the name of the how the

song go, but it's like you don't know the cost.

You don't know the price I paid you, you, you.

You really think I'm about to just give this to you?

You think you could just this could be imparted and is yours

by affiliation. What very few people want to go

through the process, many people want the benefits.

The harvest begins where the hardest ends.

The harvest begins where the hardest ends.

You got to get to the end. You got to get to the end.

The greatest harvest is the anointing and the favor of the

Lord. That's the greatest harvest the

the heart. The greatest harvest is not a

car. The greatest harvest is not a

spouse. The greatest harvest is this

presence of God and the favor of the Lord on your life, wherever,

whenever. It is harvest time.

We are wooed into the wild of the divine.

This is what I do know. Oh, I'm about to start my

ministry. How do I know I'm about to start

my ministry? Because I'm in the wilderness.

It's harvest time. How do I know that?

Because I'm in the wilderness. There's there's something in me

that needs to be cultivated to handle what's about to come.

I'm about to come into it only gets Wilder.

The first wild here it is is unwind.

It is the unwilding. I'll explain.

The second wild is the beholding.

What, what I find in my my little young life is that

there's a there's a season of time where where God is just

unwilding me. He's, he's getting the wild tea

out, he getting the, the party tea out.

He getting, he getting the fornicator out.

He's, he's just, I have to, I, there's some work I got to do

right? You know how you was the one.

It wasn't the devil that took you in the club.

It was you. It wasn't the devil that made

you sleep with her. It was you.

The devil didn't pull your pants down.

You did. The devil didn't roll the weed

up for you. He you did.

Can you take some ownership? It was you.

It ain't the devil. So there's a time in my when I

finally said yes, Lord, there was some things.

As much as I wanted His help, there was some things that I

needed to do in my own strength and will.

Yes, His grace was there, but then there's this.

After you've done all that you can do, then he comes in and you

begin to step into some seasons where the more you just try to

wrestle with the current, you get exhausted.

And I'm speaking to some of you. You have done, I know it don't

look like it, but to you, your to to God, your efforts really

have counted. I was saying that to a few

people. Your efforts really have because

he looks at the heart. So you've been looking at your

efforts and your slip backs and your slip UPS as like all like

here it is this how you've been looking at it.

God got to start over. God got to start over with me.

So let me just stay here long enough because I don't want to

have to keep making God start over.

What what was start where he's eternal?

What where are you starting from that that that ain't what he do.

And I just want to encourage somebody in here you are even

about to experience harvest for hanging on like like you got to

hear what I'm saying. There's some there's some

hanging on blessings that you need to understand.

There's some that's biblical. It's in the Bible.

Here it is. Watch this.

The woman with the issue of blood, she spent all that she

had when she touched Jesus, the first thing he said to her

wasn't why you didn't try me at first.

So her being healed and made whole wasn't based on all the

years that she walked with Jesus.

She spent all this time doing it her way and at the moment of her

touching Jesus, He makes her whole.

He didn't give her partial because she gave Him partial.

Where's your faith today? Coming to the end of me so I can

come into the image of He. Watch this.

I know that the king of Egypt won't let you go unless forced

to. OK, Let's land this plane.

Here. You.

There you go. EJ.

Let's land this plane. I know that the Kingdom, the

king of Egypt won't let you go unless forced to.

That's an underline right there. Unless forced to.

This is how I know. JT, We're in the seat there.

Are you ready? Ready.

Ready for this Lily, stop thinking that your life, you

you, you, you so powerful that you messing stuff up ready

there, there. There are some forces that's

holding on to your bloodline that if God don't deal with

them, they won't be dealt with. So so so stop thinking of

yourself. So there is some there is some

forces you've inherited but but but for a few of y'all the

battles you've been dealing with is inherited battles.

You just got caught up in a bloodline of some mess.

This is where we at. I'm trying to bring some clarity

to you because in this season you trying to wrestle and you

trying to fight the current you going to mess some stuff up.

This is the season where the Lord just says show up and

worship. Watch it unless forced to.

So I'll intervene and hit Egypt where it hurts.

This is not only recompense season.

This is this. This is vengeance season.

This is this is the right, right.

Understandable. Oh, my miracles will send them

reeling. Here it is.

I saw this today, he said in another translation.

He said my wonders. Oh, he wasn't talking about

healing Moses. He wasn't talking about healing

Israel. It's the children of Israel.

He said the plagues was a miracle.

Yeah, E Hastings ain't going to get cleaned up until the miracle

of principalities get pushed back, right?

Those are forces that them people are uncapable of fight

like. Like it can't happen.

Us feet handing out sandwiches ain't going to break chains, so

we need to feed people. At the same time, there needs to

be a people that is contending and warring in the heavens

because there's some battles that's just not as mere almost.

Stop cussing. You ready?

This ain't a renewing your mind battle.

This is a letting go and let God battle some of y'all.

Your biggest, your biggest wrestle in this season is you

letting go and trust in God. It's a trust issue, not a chain

issue. So he says after which they'll

be glad to send you off. Watch this.

I love these words. I'll see to it.

I'll see to it. God said I'll see you see.

So when somebody say I'll see to it, no, no, no, when somebody's

like sometime I'm here and there's a few people here and

they will ask the question who's locking up elders?

They'd be like, we got it. In other words, I'll see to it.

Well, if somebody say I'll see to it, I don't need to see to

it. And that's been some of y'all

probably you've been trying to see to it.

Here's the season. Be free.

God's about to see to it. OK, God's about to see to it.

God's about to see to it with your wife.

He's about to see to it with your husband.

He's about to see to it with your finance.

He's about to see to it with your kids.

He's about to see to it with that contract.

He is about to see to it that this people get a hearty send

off by the Egyptians. When you leave, you won't leave

empty handed when you come out of this season.

This ain't a season where it's about to change.

Just breaking. Do you bout to walk out of this

prison cell with with a harvest of strength, a harvest of hope,

a heart like like like a heart forget the harvest of abundance

and this and that. No, a harvest of faith, a heart.

You bout to walk out with a harvest of wisdom because the

goal in this season is to never go back.

Each woman will ask the neighbor, watch it and any guest

in her house for objects of silver and gold and jewelry and

extra clothes. I want you to see this.

There's promise in Egypt. There's harvest in Egypt.

Don't just think Egypt is all about bondage.

You better be glad you didn't kill yourself.

You didn't turn to the bottle. You still here?

I'm still, I'm still in the land of the living, although I'm in

the land of Egypt like I'm still alive.

I still got a chance. I'm still here.

And God is making sure that my stewardship over the oppressor,

it's not just being faithful over what God gives you, it's

also being faithful over what you got caught up in.

They labored 400 some years. They was faithful here to forget

the Egyptians. They were faithful over another

man's. And he says, y'all not about to

leave this land that you labored in empty handed.

You'll put these silk, the silver and gold and extra

clothes on your sons and daughters.

Oh, you'll clean the Egyptians out.

Oh, the the oppressor got to pay.

You didn't mess with the wrong family.

You didn't mess with the wrong church.

You didn't mess with the wrong man.

You didn't mess with the wrong son.

You didn't mess with the wrong one.

Here it is. You need a word like this.

And he can repeat this because in Genesis 15, this was a

promise he gave Abraham. God will see to it.

Watch it now, see the Abraham notice your descendants will

live in as outsiders in a land not theirs.

They'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years.

Then I'll punish their slaves. Slave masters.

Your offsprings will March out of there loaded with plunder.

See what what's on the line. JT is not just what God told you

is what he told your great grandmama, is what he told you.

Daddy, we're not about to just walk into any harvest.

This is something that God has been promised and He's been

looking for a generation to bring it into.

I'm here to tell somebody. You are situated for

generational harvest. You are sick.

You got enough revelation. You got the right people around

you. God has been waiting for you,

said this, this, here you go, that Exodus 12, watch this.

And here's the promise coming to pass.

This Israelites had already done what Moses had told them.

So they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold things and

clothing. And God saw to it, God saw to

it. God saw to it that the Egyptians

like the people. And so he made their enemies be

at peace with them. So he readily gave them what

they asked for. Oh yes, they picked those

Egyptians clean. Look at God talking smack.

I'm taking back what the devil, the devil thought he was.

No, no, no, no. This is back pay.

It's back pay. It's back pay.

And that's why we can't we. This is back pay.

Now this is what you got to do. You got to be bold enough.

God, watch this. God said ask the oppressors.

Although you made friends in the oppressors land, ask them for

some silver and gold. It is.

It's not unbiblical to say this season that I've been in that I

don't pull something out of it. Come on, come on.

Why is God asking me to make a memorial in this place where I

almost died? Why is God saying build a

memorial in this place where I wanted to kill myself?

This is for somebody. God is applying pressure on your

oppressor. This harvest will have God's

name all over it. I want you to hear it.

The power of the release in this season is stronger than the

power of bondage of the bondage ready.

You're serving while in bondage prepared you to survive while in

transition. You're serving while in bondage

prepared you to survive while entering.

You see it? Egypt.

Wilderness we even got to promise Your faithfulness here

gave you skin in the game. So while I take you in this long

route through the wilderness, in transition, you can make it.

Your stewardship while in bondage prepared you to be

shareholders in the promise. By the time you walk in this

man, it ain't going to be no doubt.

This is mines. It's not something that's going

to come in my just through my hands.

This is going to be a harvest that stays in my bloodline till

Jesus come back. The wild is a place of

transition. I'm going from captivity to

adventure. Yeah, I can see color again.

The wilderness is adventure. I was in bondage when I was in

the club. Like that's real.

But now I'm going on this ride, this love quest.

Here it is. Watch this.

This going to help somebody. Maybe one person, maybe 2, maybe

5. But burnout occurs when

adventure ends, when you start walking with God through the

through the wilderness and through the through the valleys

of the shack, when you just start walking with God on this

love quest, on this ride. That's where burnout ends.

There is joy in the yes, famine. But God said he bringing me

through the famine. God said so in that dry land,

hang in there, somebody. I know it's heavy.

I know it's hard, but I want to. I'm challenging you.

And now here's what I'm going to do.

God speaks. I'm going to start all over

again. Watch this, watch this.

I love this. I'm taking.

Here's how God hears God's plan to start all over again.

I'm taking her, the bride, his children, you, me, us.

I'm taking them back out into the wilderness where we had our

first date. You met God in the wilderness.

Where was you when he found you? You was Wilding out when he

found you. So He's like the way you

responded to me, where I found you, I'm taking you back there.

That's why you've been getting stripped down to the first

encounter. God.

God desires how wide eyed and mystified may we be, just like a

child. Remember that day?

Like, are we going to go back where we first met when you were

in awe, and me before you got kids, before you got that job?

Before you discovered you was talented and anointed, before

you got a position at a church, before you got hair on your legs

and before you got a mustache, before you got all cute, before

you got your 6 pack. I'm on, Let's go back there.

I loved you when you had love handles.

I you know what I'm saying? I just, I just, he said.

I'll court her. I'll give her bouquets of roses.

I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into acres of hope.

She'll respond like she did as a young girl.

Here's going to be the test for you when you get to the other

side of this season. Can you still delight in Him?

Am I right or wrong? EJ The Bible, one of his.

I think one of the Father's biggest concerns echoed

throughout the the Old Testament and throughout the Bible is when

you get there, just don't forget me, Remember Me.

You don't have to keep going back.

Just keep Him in remembrance. The part of tithe, the part of

giving, the part of coming to church, part of witnessing, it's

just keeping God in the center of it all.

She'll respond like she did. The God of the Hebrews sent me

to you with these, this message. Watch it.

Here he is. Why did he give them silver and

gold in Egypt before he took them through the wilderness?

The wilderness is all about your worship.

The wilderness is not about your provision.

See that three times back-to-back Release my people.

Here's why. So they can worship me.

We're in the wilderness. Here it is, Chapter 8.

Isaiah 8 · chapter mention

Release my people so that they can worship me.

And if you refuse Pharaoh to release them, I'm warning you,

I'll hit the whole country with frogs.

Release my people so they can worship me again.

And if you refuse, watch it to release them and continue to

hold on to them. I'm giving you fair warning.

I got that kind of confidence in this season when I was when I

was when I was reading this, y'all, I was thinking about next

door. I was thinking about the, the,

the, the, the provision the enemy might have his hands on.

I was thinking about that philistine spirit that's

covering up the whales. And I just kind of got AI just

took my father's words and put them in my mouth.

And I'm giving you fair warning, enemy over these next few

months, you better take your hands on because if you don't

release here it is. If you don't release my

children, if you don't release my marriage, that kind of faith,

that kind of off about your prayer life, it it's not about

Lord, take the thorn out, it's devil.

If you don't let it go, you going to pay for messing with my

family? Ah, come on, you don't take your

money off my finer, You don't take your money off my children.

You don't take your money off our building permits.

You don't take your money off of this strategy, this business God

gave me. If you that, that you got to

come to that point because God's at that point for you.

I'll give you 2 things you could chew on this week and remember

we're just passing through. But what?

The wilderness, the wild, the struggle, the press is for

number one in the wilderness it is.

So God is to reveal himself. You're saying about your stuff.

God is trying to reveal himself #2 in the wilderness, God is

trying to revive you. The wilderness is all about

revival. Promise is on the other side of

revival. To reveal himself #2 to revive

you #3 is to restore what has been stolen.

What is that song we used to sing?

I think about Danny all the time.

I just remembered we used to stand on the I mean, well, we

out of there anyway. Used to stand on the pews at

Strapcona. We just keep it tender.

Yeah, one more. Restore what has been stolen.

Speak peace to every storm. It is to restore the wilderness

he's restoring. So watch this, watch this, bring

it down, watch this. They've been captive for 400

years, 40 some years you don't think you actually need.

If we would have took the short route, there's some stuff that

wouldn't have been renewed. You're just trying to get to

destinations. You ain't trying to see what the

process is doing in you. So when you get to the

destination, what's going to be out of you?

Because if you don't go through the wilderness, then Egypt going

to be with you in the promise. The wilderness is to cleanse me.

I've been in this stinky bondage for 400 something years.

You don't think we need some time, right?

I've been raised in this family to think a certain way.

You don't think before I have kids I need to get this Egypt

out of me tell you I just want to have kids?

No, Can you get what you was raised up in out of you before

you go bring kids into it #4 the wilderness is about renewing

covenant. He loves us, don't play it but

he loves us. Oh how he loves us like he loves

us like and if you get in and understand real love it take

time. Take your time like real love

take time. Y'all just fall in love?

No, some of the greatest marriage stories we hear was

just like man, we were just friends and we looked at each

other one day and was like, yo, you think of you think of what

I'm thinking? Oh, you normally like the good

stuff. Ain't just like hey, you

attractive we should go out you fine.

Like we got stuff in common. Like right now, we both just got

out of relationship. We both broke in.

We both like ice cream. We both we both what?

It ain't just like man, I'm I'm a friend of God.

Like I see you when I see you. Oh, like what's up?

OK, We it's just like, what's the what's this?

You don't even like God's trying to renew some stuff and he

trying to get Egypt out of you. And as much as you don't want to

be a cheat like a parent was, if you ain't careful and don't deal

with your pain from family brokenness, then you don't

understand what will be activated in your marriage,

right? Some stuff stays dormant until

it gets in the proper atmosphere to be activated.

So no, it wasn't just your mama's self.

It wasn't just your daddy's stuff.

It's in the bloodline. And if you don't do the work to

forgive those that hurt you #5 the wilderness is to release you

from the old, right? How many times, EJ?

What's that like? We might as well just go back.

What do you mean there? There's got to be another

option. Why was it so easy for them to

think about going back? Because Egypt was still in them.

They were still, you might be out of Egypt, but you still in

covenant with Egypt. That's them soul ties, but you

want to know why God's like fighting for your singleness and

you think people just trying to keep you.

You need to somehow that's just the whack, like the weird life

that boy, you better understand how free you is.

It's just it's just like, no, when I when I man, I'm trying

to. I don't know why I'm always man

when I step to the if I could do certain things over again.

Like I wish I could have presented Julia a better man at

the altar. A healed man.

So for five years I wasn't giving her my bondage and

expecting her to be my savior because quite frankly, it wasn't

her fault. But the moment I got in the role

of trying to be her man, it exposed how jacked up I was.

And God don't need you to date to see how jacked up you are.

I just believe that God is trying to find some people

willing to just sometimes you got to go without what your

peers and your family had so you can clean the bloodline.

So you want to get you ready, You want to get abortion out of

your bloodline. Maybe you just need to not have

sex and make that vow for your bloodline.

Maybe. Maybe you want to get alcoholism

out of your bloodline. Maybe you got to be the person

that don't have no drinks, not even a sip.

Oh, all of a sudden you, the manager, you don't drink as bad

as your daddy did. So all is.

Yeah, but your son might. Every generation has

generational responsibilities. What Moses told the people I am

led to tell you today, don't be afraid, stand firm, watch God do

his work of salvation for you today.

This is the part you got to be excited about.

Take a good look and you I have been feeling this thing.

I've been walking with the elder snooze and stuff and and, and

I'm like for the first time in my life, I'm not running from my

insufficiency. I'm not running from my lack.

I'm not running from, from, from, from because God is so

crafty because he's like, I can't run because I got other

people counting on my stand before I can run for self

because it was just a single decision.

It was just going to affect me. But man, there's there.

I'm finally looking at it, I'm finally feeling exposed how how

it feels to be exposed, how it feels to have conversations, to

be like I don't have it, how it feel.

I can't provide it, I can't give you this.

I can't like it. But but God says look at what he

told them. Take a good look.

I don't think God wanted them to be afraid standing at the at the

ocean, at the Red Sea, looking. I think he wanted them to turn

around and look at the Egyptians so he they can just say bye.

I don't don't, don't be afraid 'cause they they coming at you.

Don't be afraid when God says look at the lack.

Look at look at your bank account.

Look at your jacked up kids. No, no, no, don't.

Here it is. Don't disown your child because

they chose to walk a homosexual life.

Oh, did he just go there? Yeah.

See, because what we want to do is take our eyes off of it till

it appears the way we want it. Don't, Don't, don't, don't.

No. Look at it.

Feel it. What does the embarrassment feel

like? What?

Don't run from it. Don't try to put no fig leaves

on. Feel it.

Look at it today. Not to idle it, idolize it.

Look at the condition of your marriage today.

There's a time I made a decision in my marriage and I like I

couldn't get to better until I felt how bad it was minus the

temptation to run from it. Because what happens is, is when

you look at it, there's something that God does on the

inside that gives you the power to take ownership and be willing

to do whatever He leads you to do to make it right.

If you want His help, you're going to have to do it His way.

And I said, OK, I got to put the weed down.

I got to put this down. I got to put the way I talk

down. I got to let go of certain

friends. I got to let, I got to take some

space from certain things. Because without looking at it,

you won't read. You won't get back what you

need. What is the party seat without

me looking at? What are you walking through

that you just close your eyes and you hope just go away and

you wake up tomorrow and you feel the heaviness again.

What do you do when you wake up tomorrow and you you go to bed

praying for more money in the bank account but you wake up and

it ain't none there. Actually, it's another bill

asking for more to go out. What do you do when you wake up

in that marriage that you, you, you, you, you wake up next to

the person you really not liking right now and you just like, oh,

how did we get here? What, what is what like?

What is it in your life that today God is saying take one

last look because a part of this harvest is you'll never see it.

It may be a year, it may be 3 months, it may be one week, it

may be five years, but the way you are, what you were

experiencing today, you'll never going to see them again.

God will fight the battle for you.

This is very important. Here it is, here it is and you

keep your mouth shut the season when God says you've done,

you've praised, you've worshiped, you've complained you

I've graced you to just be a mess in this season.

Be keep your mouth shut doesn't mean don't say nothing.

It does mean only speak life. Only speak what the word says.

Only speak what God says about your situation.

Leave the outcome up to Him. You're not going to change them

by yelling at them. You're not going to.

No, no, no. You can't get a another job fast

enough to fill the bank account quick enough to pay the bills

you need to pay today. You're not going to change them

as fast as you want to change. You might not see Daddy come to

Jesus for another year. Keep your mouth shut.

Love them. Speak life over it, pray over

it, prophecy over it, keep standing, be not weary and well

doing. Keep sowing, keep showing up,

keep praising God, don't change your playlist, keep listening to

that worship song. You tired of God and I and this

morning I just yelled out, do it God.

When God graces you to feel it, see it did y'all?

Did y'all read the thing? Don't place it on the screen.

Hallelujah. I'm sorry, Deborah.

Do it, God. No, go ahead.

You know what's crazy because I was about to ask y'all just go

ahead and put it on the screen anyway.

You just go ahead and put it on. See you was led by the Lord.

I was, I was, I was just delayed.

OK, put it up there when God great, it might not be in full

because this was a note just for me.

Hence don't place it on the screen, but when God race graces

you to fill it, He graces you to see it, almost as if he is

saying look again, fill it one more time.

When you've seen progress but once again feeling pressure,

you've seen momentum, but you're hearing mocking.

God is saying fill it, see it, taste it, because you will never

be down this road again. And then he says just stick out

your rod, speak the word of God and let the word work for you,

understand, stick it. He said, Moses, this don't make

no sense. But in this I just need you've

walked as far as you can walk. You've come to the shoreline,

stick out your rod and see the salvation of the Lord and the

Red Sea split Thousands of people run, walk.

I can see a few people yelling at the Egyptians.

I'm good, I'm with y'all. I want to go with y'all.

There's some people who trusted God and the Egyptians pursued

them. And for a while God will let the

Egyptians pursue you. Stay on your heels so you could

keep going. I don't know who this word is

for today, but I could tell you it was for me, some clear

instructions for me. It ain't all clear.

I don't got all it. But that's the whole point is I

have clear instructions. I have reinforced confidence

that even if I've messed up, even if I have made a mistake

somewhere along the line in this season, it is mistakes that God

still desires to use. He can't use my mistakes and

punish me for my mistakes. He's working it for good.

That's why He don't need my 2 steps back.

So whoever you are today, you are going to lean on the Holy

Spirit in this season like you never have before.

You're going to press into your local church like you never have

before. You're going to soul like you

never have before. You're going to fast like you

never have before. Whatever it is God is saying,

just me and you in the season. Vengeance is mines.

Hand the kids over to the Lord. Hand the spouse over to the

Lord. Just lift your hands right where

you are. EJI would love you if you don't

mind, Sir, I would love you to pray into today's word because I

really feel like the bus is pulling off and there's just

this, come on up, there's a. I get it.

It's easy to be discouraged and a part of the wavering of the

Saint, the falling away, the waxing, the heart waxing cold.

Some of you men are really trying the best you know how,

the best you know how. And I just want to encourage you

that that all counts. There is no step backwards that

you've taken. There's no mistake.

There's no slip up that is holding God back or holding you

back. If anything is your thinking,

it's you, you having a mind of condemnation and thinking that

delay is punishment and delay is not punishment.

Delay is cultivation. Remember the Word, He's

releasing it because you're ready and you're ready because

He made you ready. You can be ready with flaws.

I know you don't have the strength.

Tell me you've been trying to find strength to forgive.

No, no, no. Instead of trying to find

strength to forgive, let the let the love of God flood your

heart. Love will push out bitterness.

Just align your tongue with love.

And I feel it, man. I feel weariness in the room If

for there's a few of you that can admit it, man, I'm tired.

I don't want to get out of bed. I don't.

And I'm not even talking about depression.

I'm talking about just a weary soul.

You just tired. You're tired of grinding you,

you just, you just like God, if I could just get a financial

break, if I could just get a break, if somebody could just

see me and discover me or God, why it seem like they're moving

ahead. Like you just tired of trying.

You're tired of people misunderstanding, you're tired

of, of, of putting in applications and no one's hiring

you. You're tired.

You're just tired. And whether you're online or

you're here, man, I'm here to tell you that God sees your

efforts. There's a harvest for hanging in

there. You got to hear it.

This is not a season for the harvest of perfection.

I don't know if there's a harvest for perfection, but man,

if you could just rise up and grab a hold.

Just allow the Holy Spirit to blow a fresh wind in your life.

Stop playing about the things that God stop delaying.

Stop making excuses God. For some of you, God ain't

changed his mind about what he's asked of you.

So for some of you, going deeper is in your obedience to just

walk forward in what God has called you to do.

Some of you going deeper is just letting it rest tomorrow.

You're not about to argue. You don't even got no strength

to argue. Y'all not going to see eye to

eye. Y'all can't see period.

You're not going to get them to understand for some of you, they

cannot be what you need them to because they were never healed

before they met you. You were they remedy.

Sorry, but now you got to lead the way and let God be your Lord

through your example. Watch what God does and I'm here

to tell some of you, you are going to see an accelerated

breakthrough and and realistically, it's not a

suddenly, because we're counting the, the, the, the season that

you've been just toiling in it. Some people is going to be like,

whoa, how did that turn around so quick?

And you're going to be like, if you knew how long this marriage,

if you knew how long this lack, if you knew how long I've been

in this situation. It's been five years.

Your realignment will not be in vain this week.

When you find yourself trying to make something happen, stop.

Pause. There's joy in The Cave.

There's joy in the cell. There's joy in the obscurity.

There is joy in the mundane. There is joy.

There is greatness in the repetition of faithfulness.

There is joy. I know it's boring.

I know it's. Yeah, man.

We keep doing the same thing and we keep showing up.

We kept man. There is joy.

Stay the course. Be encouraged.

The Lord sees you. He has counted you.

He has accounted for you. He is here for you.

He loves you. He's working it all together

now. Align your heart with His.

Just give him the glory and give Him the praise.

I pray for fresh wind. I pray for fresh fire.

I pray for renewed strength. I pray for resuscitated purpose,

resuscitated vision. Resuscitate their joy, Lord God,

for ministry, for their jobs. Wherever you are asking them to

just stand and endure, Lord, I pray that there is a peace upon

them to do so. Restore their prayer lives.

Meet them where they are. Lord, God and Lord as a

community, we lay this building at the altar.

This is your house. We are your people.

You are our source and we thank you in advance for everything

that we need to finish this house.

You will and you have provided move on someone's heart, on some

people's heart. And Lord, I thank you that all

the needs are met. Thank you that there is no debt.

Lord, God, I thank you in the name of Jesus that we find favor

with our contractors, we find favor with the city, we find

favor with developers. Lord, I know that this, this,

this, this project is starting off smaller.

But Lord, I know you have great things for us.

So we stay under while you cultivate us and equip us and

prepare us. Thank you for patience.

Thank you this week for favor. Thank you this week that you

make you. You bring peace between our

enemies and they be at peace with us.

Thank you. We cast all of our cares upon

you for you care for us. We thank you as we are out in

the wild, as we are out in the marketplace, that we are forever

mindful of your presence that is upon us.

We are forever mindful of the testimony that you have given us

and we will be sure to be courageous and bold to share it

with all that you. You have ordered us to share it

with. Break the spirit of worry,

concern, anxiety, depression, fear, timidity broken in the

name of Jesus, and may your love feel the cracks in our lives

flood our souls today. And lastly, we command the

Devourer to take your hands off of what is ours.

In the name of Jesus. We bind the devourer in the name

of Jesus, and we say loose the harvest now in the name of Jesus

we say loose our portion now in the name of Jesus, loose

generosity. Now in the name of Jesus we

break the spirit of poverty and we loose generosity.

Now in the name of Jesus we bind the spirit of rebellion, and we

loose the spirit of obedience. Now in the name of Jesus we bind

the spirit of an orphan spirit, and we loose the spirit of

sonship in the name of Jesus, and we thank you for it.

It is done. It is done.

It is done. It is done.

And we say do it, Lord. Do it, Lord.

Do it, Lord. Do it, Lord.

Bring in the budget, Lord. Not just for this corporate

body, but for every address here.

Lord, God, you are the one that plays vision in our bellies.

Lord, you've given us families. You've given U.S. jobs.

You've given us dreams. You've given us strategies.

You've given us built up, built up a business strategies.

Lord, we say bring in the budget now, in the name of Jesus.

Give us eyes to see the relationships you've called us

to expose the snares of the enemy.

In the name of Jesus, we thank you for it.

We thank you. We thank you, thank you.

Thank you. We'll have some updates this

week about building next door. We're just waiting instead of

great place. We are waiting for the city to

sign off on things. Walked in yesterday.

There's insulation on the floor, not in the walls yet, but on the

floor because we are preparing and we have our last leg, our

last leg of the race to finish. Contractors told us we should be

in there by October if things stay on track financially as

well as with their contract. They, I believe they apologize

because there was some delay on their end with contractors,

tradesmen and things of that nature.

And so, but I also thank God for his timing.

But I will say, if you have any ability to be generous in this

last hour as we try to finish, have finishing faith, you know

where to give, you know how to give.

And even when we get in the building, we go on have to keep

on giving. But we will be in a position to

bring in revenue because we're going to fix this place.

So we fix next door, next door. And we'll be able to bring in

revenue from renting out space and doing activities and

different things through the week and grant money.

And there's all kinds of things we're going to do in this

community. But my tender compel to you is

let's put our foot on the devil's neck with our generosity

and let's finish the job. The work that did stop and was

going to stop. We've they finished that work,

the finances that came in finished that portion of the

job. So thank you, thank you, thank

you, thank you, thank you. And now we're getting to this

last leg and we've come too far to stop now.

And so just be praying as we have meetings with city and we

have meetings with engineers and you know, people can come in and

look at the licensing or or the the structures and be like, you

guys need to do this over again. Let's just pray for favor with

the city. And we will be in there in

October before it start raining. No, no, no, no, really cold, no,

no patio heaters, none of that. Get out and come get behind me

patio heater in the name of Jesus.

Hey man, stand to your feet. We have some announcements to

give, but just go follow us on Instagram.

Also, thank everybody that came out to Hollywood Theater.

I hope you enjoyed your time for the mocktails and we will be

returning there. There's some announcements we'll

have over the next week about a few Church in the wild

opportunities. We have some basketball

tournaments. We have music festival next

weekend that we're a part of again.

We just booked Gilton Co, which is in Gas Town for yeah, we got

some stuff that we're going to do in Toronto, so it's some cool

stuff. We got a basketball tournament

in Seattle that's going to be crazy with some NBA players and

it's going to be some really dope stuff.

Church in the wild, that's what we doing.

We Wilding out. And so thank you Father.

We thank you for this time. We thank you for this day.

We thank you for your love. We thank you for your joy.

And we just declare what you have done within us today, it

will produce. We're not turning back.

We're not afraid to look at what we're coming out of.

We just declare victory over it all.

May this be a week of progression, noticeable

progression only steps forward, no steps backwards.

We'll forever thank you. Thank you for all the givers

today. Thank you as they sow their

seeds into this finishing work that Lord you provide for them

to finish the things that's in their personal lives rather that

be strength, rather that be relationships rather that be

healing. Whatever it may be, we thank you

for a thunderous harvest in our giving in the name of Jesus.

See you guys on Wednesday night, all of you.

I see you Wednesday night. Till next time, you know what it

is. Get your love fixed.

We need the fear of the Lord. Thank you so much for tuning

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