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Cry Out (9am) - 6.1.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Love Quest International Church

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea and get ready to receive.

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

  9. Come on one more time and say I'll believe.

  10. Look at your neighbors. Say do you believe?

  11. Look at your other neighbors. Say you sit you sitting next to

  12. a believer, so watch out. I believe I'm sitting in a room

  13. full of people that believe God can do anything at any time.

  14. Come on, say anything at any time.

  15. Father, we just thank you that you are the God of the

  16. impossible and we say thank you for what you're doing in our

  17. hearts right now. Put up Luke 2432 Father, we just

  18. thank you today that you do something within.

  19. If you do something within, we can handle whatever without do

  20. something within our hearts today.

  21. Bible, Bible, kind of Bible says that out of the abundance of the

  22. heart, the mouth cries out. So everybody in here crying out

  23. for something. It just depends on what's in

  24. your heart abundantly. Just really quick.

  25. This is a scripture that is, it just gives a picture of what I'm

  26. believing God is doing right now and what I believe He wants to

  27. do for those that are willing to let him in.

  28. If you haven't already. Luke, didn't I say Luke 24?

  29. Amen. Pray for day.

  30. Yeah, the specific, not the pro presenter team day.

  31. Amen. Luke 2432.

  32. I'm believing for your, for for for for some of y'all.

  33. Today I stuttered because I was going to say I'm believing for

  34. all of y'all. But what I do find out is you

  35. don't really believe for people who don't want to change.

  36. They made their mind up like I'm not going to, I'm not going to

  37. direct my faith to I pray for you.

  38. But when someone knows better and chooses to do the opposite,

  39. what am I believing for? Only thing I can believe for is

  40. that you decide to turn and and what that simply means is unless

  41. you allow the word to bring you to repentance, you can't reap

  42. the promises from it. You can't get promised from the

  43. word before repentance. If the word doesn't grip your

  44. heart, don't look for it to fill your pockets, right?

  45. Stop using the word and trying to use God and religion to save

  46. you from stuff and bring stuff into your life.

  47. This is not that religion. You don't need religion to

  48. prosper. You don't need Jesus to fulfill

  49. monetary desires more than you need him to fill the voids in

  50. your life. And I believe 100% of you in

  51. here, all of us, all of us are carrying something that the Lord

  52. is right now. Just saying, drop it.

  53. It's too heavy for you, not too heavy for him.

  54. Every day we carry something. Every day.

  55. The test is, are you going to let it go?

  56. All right, Luke, OK, I'm I'm I'm really trying to waste spend

  57. some time. There we go.

  58. They said to one another, you know, Jesus returns, he

  59. resurrects he they're walking down they walking down King

  60. George and they. Said to one another.

  61. We're we're not, we're not. Our hearts greatly moved.

  62. Somebody say moved? Somebody shout moved and

  63. burning. Somebody shout burning within us

  64. while he was talking with us on the road and as he opened and

  65. explained to us the sense of the scriptures.

  66. Everyone is on a road today. Our roads met.

  67. Not everyone is on the road listening to Jesus.

  68. I do believe everyone talking. Everybody got something to say

  69. to God, but it says they were listening and they caught fire

  70. from listening. Now the posture of their heart

  71. lets me know that they were first of all #1 grateful to see

  72. him #2 They were attentive, They just.

  73. Didn't come to church to hear a inspirational word.

  74. Or they were. They had the posture of convict

  75. me. They had the posture.

  76. Of expose me. They had to posture us, speak

  77. right to my heart. They had the posture of Lord,

  78. break me, I will let you break me.

  79. It wasn't, it wasn't like, oh, if your word's strong enough, or

  80. oh, if PT say the right thing, or oh, if Elder John is

  81. anointed, or oh, if they sing the right song, I'll be broken.

  82. There is no song we sing. There is no sermon we preach

  83. that can break down your walls if God alone can't do it.

  84. Now anybody in here that has come to change, Everyone of you

  85. who want to change without the Lord change me.

  86. Change. Don't come like that, Lord

  87. change. Me.

  88. No, you got to. It's almost like he just feeding

  89. you. You saying change me with your

  90. mouth full? Are you sitting here ready to

  91. hear what God has to say to you without you tweaking and

  92. manipulating or reasoning what he's saying?

  93. Are you ready to be served? Because his desire is that.

  94. Can we go back? We.

  95. We past there. We, we eating right now?

  96. Yeah. Word up, plates down.

  97. We ready. Let's go.

  98. There we go. Go back.

  99. Thank you. No.

  100. Greatly moved? Can God move you?

  101. What do you need to be moved? I'm talking about moved, not

  102. inspired. Moved, right?

  103. Move you from where you walked in today and you going to leave

  104. with a different heart posture like you ever heard somebody say

  105. I was. Moved to tears.

  106. Like can you can can God move you to the hand clap?

  107. Can God move you to tears? Can God move you to a decision?

  108. Can God move you to a decision today not need to pray about it

  109. again. Here it is some of you.

  110. God's going to answer your prayer today might not come the

  111. way you wanted it to come, but he tell that thing.

  112. Don't don't. Is that you?

  113. Yes, I'm telling you now, that's him.

  114. And then he says, burning. It is his.

  115. Desire that He set your heart on fire.

  116. It is his desire that today your little dry Christianity be done

  117. with. Because some of y'all

  118. Christianity can update. Just keep it real some of y'all

  119. Christianity. I wouldn't follow Jesus if you.

  120. If you was, if you, if you, if you was the the example of what

  121. Jesus being in your life is. And I'm not talking about if you

  122. don't do nothing wrong or if you got money.

  123. I'm talking about just I don't want to follow a Jesus that

  124. don't excite me about life. The point is, is this world is

  125. dark and I follow Jesus because he is light and I can now exist

  126. in a Dark World with joy, right? I don't, I, I'm not a whatever

  127. these Christians with a dark cloud over them.

  128. How, how aren't you? How, how has it, how has it

  129. smile become your default face right now?

  130. I was worried. No, no, no, no.

  131. You're not an introvert. Stop.

  132. Well, the Holy Ghost, if the Holy Ghost enter you, he want an

  133. ultravert. Want an ultravert?

  134. Hey, this is what this is, OK? I knew.

  135. I knew it was. Going to happen.

  136. I knew it was going to happen. So we're playing a game the

  137. other day and we're we're we're building a team for this big

  138. tournament coming up in two weeks, OK.

  139. And there was a big man on our team.

  140. So if you were there at the game the other night, two of the guys

  141. that started with us, Brian and Mamba, they are Mumba's the one

  142. that hit the game winner on us the other night, but we still

  143. finished in first place. So yeah, yeah, Love Quest is in

  144. first place. Yeah.

  145. So so we'll go into the playoffs in first place.

  146. I think we get a first round bye.

  147. But anyway, stay tuned. But but I was talking so Mumba

  148. and Brian, Brandon. Sorry, Brandon, that was that

  149. was on the other team, but starting with us, they're going

  150. to be on our team. I'm like, man, I'm tired of

  151. trying to play with this person ever.

  152. I just need some dogs. I don't care if they make a

  153. bucket. What I can guarantee is those

  154. two dudes is going to be. Dogs.

  155. Right. And so but they also have

  156. Spencer that was going to join us.

  157. He's the big man that was on their team.

  158. And so when they showed up the other night, he was like, yeah,

  159. I just we roll them with you. You know, we could they said we

  160. could not wait to rejoin Love quest team, right?

  161. And then and then he said Spencer decided to go play for

  162. Afro the the team that yeah, Afro hair salon.

  163. He he decided to go over there with them.

  164. I was like, OK, I'll see him on the court tonight and talk to

  165. him about why he decided to go to the other team.

  166. And then at the end of the game, so I talked to him first.

  167. That's what I was talking to him about at half court and and, and

  168. I I I'll checked him, but at the end of the game being him said

  169. this, he said do. You know cats.

  170. Hesitate to play with us because they know we have an

  171. expectation. They know the expectation to

  172. play with us is we going to play hard.

  173. And most people want to coast, they want to play in the

  174. tournament, but they they want to coast.

  175. And that's kind of how I feel about some of us in here.

  176. You you want to be saved, but you just want to coast.

  177. You don't want no pressure applied.

  178. You don't want to hear, you just want to get away with this.

  179. You want to get away with your you ready your cultural excuses,

  180. your racial biases. You want to hide behind what you

  181. were taught culturally and talk to think about people who had

  182. the same color skin as you. You were taught to think that

  183. more so the color people are more the people with the

  184. charisma and Pentecostal and and their their charismatic and jump

  185. all over and their gospel music. And then CCM we know is more

  186. like you see how even in gospel music, it's a split, but we sit

  187. in our churches that way. That's why you can find most

  188. churches either or and then they say we're diverse because you

  189. have a few people sprinkled through the audience.

  190. But the to me a diverse. Church is your entire your your

  191. culture is impacted by the diversity, right?

  192. It's not OK, we got multi color. And we're multi ethnic, but to

  193. be multicultural means multicultures are celebrated and

  194. you can see it in the DNA of the community.

  195. So when you come into a multicultural church, you are

  196. going to feel the weight and the pressure of having to bend in

  197. multiple cultures ways. So musically, we can be, we can

  198. be CCM and we can be quiet or whatever that represents.

  199. But there's also going to be a pressure on the people who are

  200. used to just being in passive worship.

  201. There's going to be a pressure on you to step up a little bit

  202. because we're trying to experience heaven, not our race,

  203. OK. And dancing is not the black

  204. folks thing. It came from heaven.

  205. Before we were formed in anybody's womb there was dancing

  206. and singing. But how is gospel music, black

  207. people music when we all represent the gospel?

  208. How did we get here though? We always end up in right here.

  209. Amen. That's OK, but the burn, the

  210. burn, the burn, the burn. Somebody say the burn.

  211. There's a burn within us, and at the end of the day, God wants

  212. our worship. The one thing you find yourself

  213. doing as a transformed human being is worshipping.

  214. The more you get closer to God, you sing a new song.

  215. You don't have to be spurred on to lift your hands.

  216. Right. This is the only thing, one of

  217. the things I hate about just this one room is that when we

  218. get over there and we have a lobby is just like the

  219. sanctuary. When you walk in, it's going to

  220. be prayer in the all this, you know, coffee and fellowship and

  221. all that. And then we got to spend 20

  222. minutes to get you pumped up. No, like when you walk in on

  223. Sunday evening, if you want to fellowship, you're going to stay

  224. in the lobby. And if you want to come into

  225. church, you're going to walk into a place saturated.

  226. When you walk into the. House of God, it should be

  227. something. That you look forward to

  228. gathering with your brothers and sisters so we can encounter the

  229. Father. And that should be everybody's

  230. goal. Therefore, if that's your goal,

  231. you can't come in here holding anything back.

  232. You can't hold your voice back. You can't hold your clap back.

  233. You can't hold your love back. You can't because you don't

  234. understand that what's locked inside of you.

  235. It's like if everybody if if, if somebody came and robbed.

  236. The Room, OK, it said. Everybody empty their pockets.

  237. Put on the altar everything you got in your pockets and your

  238. purse. Everybody.

  239. If you were smart, you would empty your pockets and you would

  240. empty your purse. And that's what should happen

  241. when you come to church, is everybody empty themselves.

  242. And then there's an accumulation of faith and testimonies in the

  243. room that I, I'm telling you, heaven has to respond, cry out.

  244. Let your cry, breathe. Out before you bleed out.

  245. You cannot do this without God, your cry.

  246. It protects you, your cry. It preserves you.

  247. Your cry also purges you. It's not going to come up on the

  248. slides. This is not up there.

  249. OK, when we, when we started this a few weeks ago, a couple

  250. weeks ago. God doesn't have to get us to

  251. cry when something goes wrong. And this is how we often will

  252. when we sit here, cry out, we often think.

  253. Sad, we often think. Overwhelmed, we often think.

  254. Tragedy, catastrophe, divorce, death.

  255. Most of our crying comes from something bad, and a lot of

  256. times the bad doesn't break us, it calluses us.

  257. When you cry out before the Lord, it will break you and

  258. build you, not break you and callous you.

  259. Let your cry breathe out before you bleed out.

  260. Like a lot of mental illnesses in this world comes from people

  261. being calloused by life trauma. And instead of crying unto the

  262. Lord, we cry unto booze, we cry unto drugs, we cry unto sex, we

  263. cry unto sin. This is why now we are in that

  264. world that we are in, where we need everything to heal us but

  265. the one who made us. It is the cry on the lips of

  266. sons and daughters that release the hearts of the Father on

  267. earth as it is in heaven. It is the cry on the lips like

  268. it's on my lips. Yeah, You see, I got to do this

  269. because I just got to make it practical.

  270. You are you, You. You ever just want to say

  271. something to somebody? What you wanted to say was where

  272. on your lips. It wasn't something you have to

  273. think about, it was something you had to prepare for.

  274. You just was like soon as I see I can't wait to see you.

  275. And you knew exactly and sometime because it was on your

  276. lips. You had no self-control and it

  277. slipped off your lips faster than you intended because it was

  278. already where on your lips. This is this is what I'm saying.

  279. And what if a thank you was always on your lips?

  280. What if a God you are faithful was always on your lips?

  281. It is the cry on the lips of sons and daughters that release

  282. the heart of the Father on earth as it is in heaven.

  283. What is the heart of the Father is that you have peace,

  284. uninterrupted, undisturbed peace.

  285. What is the heart of the Father is that you have healing in your

  286. life, that you have comfort, that you have strength, that you

  287. have joy. That's the heart of the Father.

  288. And a lot of the stuff that you are believing for, you're just a

  289. cry away when the cries of heaven and the cries of earth

  290. join forces. The cries of heaven and the

  291. cries of earth join forces. The gates of hell shatter off

  292. the hinges and sons and daughters break free.

  293. This is very important, guys. This is very important.

  294. This is very important. When we come and gather, you got

  295. to see that there's an invisible not audience.

  296. There is a in there. There is an invisible host that

  297. is worshipping with us. The point of worship is to a lot

  298. in prayer is to align ourselves with what heaven is crying out

  299. for. Not what our emotions want.

  300. Hear me. If heaven say Amen, I don't

  301. necessarily need to know what heaven saying Amen about, but if

  302. a Amen hit my spirit, it came from heaven.

  303. I best give it my lips and agree with it because it's when my

  304. lips agree with the heavenly Hostess lips that we begin to

  305. see miracles. It's not when I cry out for my

  306. deepest knees and my deepest wants and my LAX and this burden

  307. to go away. It is when I align my desires

  308. and my heart and my mouth with the desires and the heart and

  309. the Word of God that I begin to see God's will manifest in my

  310. life. And we have made the church

  311. about a place that can help me get what I want.

  312. Hallelujah. And one cried to another, and

  313. one cried to another. This is a picture of what's

  314. happening in heaven. Isaiah's having a vision.

  315. And why do we leave so many visions in heaven?

  316. What do you mean, Pastor Terence?

  317. Well, let's read it. And one cry to another, that's a

  318. vision in heaven. When we worship, when we say,

  319. hey, man, sometimes you'll see them, right?

  320. They write up here and you'll see them.

  321. High 5 and you'll see them. Talking to each other, it's kind

  322. of like this picture in heaven that's happening.

  323. Is there's this this room full of people or angelic beings that

  324. are agreeing about the majesty of God?

  325. Like they're not just staring. It's not an Angel staring at

  326. another Angel. Get his worship on.

  327. It's another Angel like you right, he good.

  328. Yep, you right, he faithful. Yep, you right, Yep.

  329. I've seen them. Yep, you right.

  330. It's it's not an Angel staring at an Angel.

  331. I, I, I, I would like to believe all the angels look the same and

  332. if you understood you as a son and a daughter, you would

  333. understand we look the same. And they just like, Oh yeah, I

  334. agree. I agree.

  335. They're not just speaking about their experience, they're also

  336. aligning themselves with their neighbors experience.

  337. Here's why. Because all of our experience

  338. came from the same nature, God as provider, God as healer, Lord

  339. of the breakthrough, all came from the same person.

  340. So as you testify out your spirit, I don't it'll be too

  341. many state. Like I'm not going to say your

  342. testimony. But as you thinking God, have

  343. you ever have somebody has somebody tears or praise?

  344. Ever moved you right right. We we, we now we got some really

  345. dramatic people that like when, when like army commercials come

  346. on, you cry or certain type of movies you cry or a certain type

  347. of music you cry and something here it is moved you like

  348. somebody else making it through somebody else almost, almost

  349. killing themselves somebody. Almost losing their family,

  350. like, like that stuff should move you.

  351. And if you're not going to praise God over your own stuff,

  352. at least praise them for somebody else's stuff.

  353. Like like, do you? Can you imagine the energy in

  354. this room if you, you, you, you begin to thank Him for what He's

  355. doing in other people's lives, let alone yours?

  356. Like if I just look around the room, I'm just looking at his

  357. goodness that like, like, like I'm looking at his glory when I

  358. see you. So if I just give him 60 seconds

  359. to praise him for what he's doing in your life, and then

  360. I'll move on to the next person, and then I move on to the next

  361. person. Then I move on to the next

  362. person. Then I thank Him for Judah's

  363. life. Then I thank Him for what He's

  364. doing in your life. Then I thank Him for what he's

  365. doing in your life. You're not thank him for what

  366. he's doing in your life. Like, like it ain't no time.

  367. The reason why we got to get you in and get you out because you

  368. came for you. You came to church for for

  369. something you need to get in your time frame.

  370. But when you just get lost in his goodness, man, I can look

  371. around this room and praise Him before I even get to me.

  372. See, here's the power of praise. When I pray with corporate

  373. praise is when I praise Him for what He's just doing.

  374. I forget about me. What?

  375. What if? What if Jesus was able to endure

  376. the cross because he forgot about His?

  377. Pain. Your your pain was greater than

  378. his pain. You hear it is your eternal debt

  379. was greater than his physical pain.

  380. But we often mostly come in here like this towards the platform.

  381. Feed me, feed me. Instead of looking next to the

  382. person I'm sitting next to is a miracle, the person I'm sitting

  383. next to is a work. No matter where you are in your

  384. life, you are a work of God. They cried to one another and

  385. said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.

  386. The whole earth is full of his glory.

  387. Look at, look at what? Look at what they're saying.

  388. They wasn't like, look at us, look at us with our wings.

  389. Look at us. We so magic.

  390. We so majestic, right? We so majestic.

  391. Come on, somebody do this. We so majestic, right?

  392. We so majestic, right? Look, we so majestic.

  393. They did. They weren't even talking about

  394. themselves. They said look at the earth.

  395. It's full of his glory. And in Vancouver, Greater

  396. Vancouver, you should know about his glory.

  397. You boast about how beautiful the you can get from the

  398. mountains to the water in just under 30 minutes and all the

  399. lakes and the maybe and the whales pass through and the

  400. bears. British Columbia's full of his

  401. glory, and we steal this old Sediti, stale, dry Christianity,

  402. and we pick churches that don't apply pressure.

  403. The whole earth is full of its glory.

  404. And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice.

  405. Here it is of him who cried. There was a shaking from a cry,

  406. and then the house was filled. Here it is.

  407. The shaking could be also looked at this way.

  408. I don't know about you, but has God's word ever shook you?

  409. And it wasn't until His word. Shook.

  410. You that he was able to come in and feel you.

  411. If it listen. If he can't shake you, he can't

  412. feel you. Right, right.

  413. If you hear this word and you and you not shook at the sin in

  414. your life, stop walking around to my love God.

  415. Yeah, I. Will tell you now you're a liar.

  416. You're an absolute liar and that's that's pointing to

  417. somebody heart. If the word don't shake you

  418. enough here, here's what Job said here's here.

  419. He said, I make covenant with my eyes.

  420. Joseph said, Nah, Nah, Nah. You can have this robe I'm not

  421. sleeping with you shook and you wondered that Joseph didn't have

  422. favor. Joseph had honor.

  423. Joseph had holy dignity. He had holy and righteous

  424. integrity. Joseph wasn't living a secretive

  425. life. You sit here and worship with

  426. your voice audibly all you want to but your your heart until

  427. your heart and your actions cry out.

  428. Stop crying because God's not moved by your tears, He's moved

  429. by your repentance. Can he shake your mind?

  430. If he can't shake your mind, he cannot renew your mind.

  431. Then I said, whoa, it's me. Look at him.

  432. He just said he shook. He like whoa, brother, for I am

  433. undone, I am ruined. I can't live this way no more.

  434. I like. How dare us look before.

  435. How dare us go to the Father unshook by the way we live and

  436. present ourselves to him. How dare us look it when the

  437. Holy Ghost came in the room. He's like the The presence of

  438. God should expose you. 1st you ready?

  439. Are you ready for some of y'all? There's many of you in here want

  440. the Lord you you. One of your prayers is Lord use

  441. me. When's the last time you prayed?

  442. Lord exposed me. That's a different type of

  443. prayer right there. I promise you this.

  444. He'll expose you privately first, right?

  445. You see how I'm preaching right now, right?

  446. That word is meant to burn and move.

  447. Get what I'm saying? Privately?

  448. He's dealing with some of you in your heart.

  449. Now here's the catch, you're going to walk out of here and

  450. remember the prayer in the beginning is that He moves you

  451. to decision. He moves you to some lifestyle

  452. changes today. Today, this is the day the Lord

  453. has made. I'm going to make decisions and

  454. be glad in it. You know what I'm saying?

  455. There's some people will sit. In here and be like this good

  456. word. They'll write notes.

  457. Some people write notes out of conviction.

  458. What do I mean by that? Let me write it down so it look

  459. like I'm like I'm getting it. How how we know you getting it

  460. is you walk out of here and live different.

  461. Hallelujah. Hey, the words should make you

  462. squirm in the church. Anybody ever squirm in church?

  463. Right, them spirits get you squirming.

  464. Amen. But but man, I don't want to

  465. like squirm all the time. Like when I'm going to rest in

  466. his presence and I squirt, you can't squirm and rest.

  467. Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst

  468. of the people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king.

  469. My eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

  470. I don't know about you, but I've seen the Lord of Hosts work in

  471. my life. I've seen them fights and

  472. battles. I can't hold me together no

  473. more. These fig leaves are ruined.

  474. In other words, some of us in here are choosing to do what

  475. Adam and Eve did in the beginning.

  476. You, you desire, you lived in the presence of God and then you

  477. put on this facade, fig leaves, you just cover yourself and

  478. instead of just being naked before the Lord, letting them

  479. deal with you, you want to hide and hopefully things change.

  480. God don't turn his head, you turn yours.

  481. God don't turn his because he's good enough and holy enough.

  482. He could still look at you in your filth.

  483. The worst thing is when your Mama come to the point where she

  484. stopped talking to you about your sin.

  485. I'm going to tell you one more time, when when God shuts the

  486. mouth of the voice He put in your life to warn you, you know

  487. you're in danger. At that point.

  488. The day you hear my voice, heart and not your heart.

  489. One of the greatest blessings ever in my life is that I had

  490. people in my life who would tell me what I didn't want to hear.

  491. And I have family members that would check me.

  492. And I remember in my family, I've seen my grandma do it, seen

  493. my mom do it where it's just like warning and prayer and

  494. praise and warning and prayer and praise and warning and

  495. pleading and crying and arguments and wrestling and, and

  496. then you all, you see it spiritually when the person

  497. shuts their mouth, but have joy and peace about it.

  498. They're not still talking through their, their, their sad

  499. posture when you come around, it's like, almost like they

  500. leave you hanging. It's just like they hug you and

  501. don't mention it no more, right? Because some of you get

  502. comfortable from the encouragement of warning, right?

  503. Some of us want to be carried and we get comfortable getting

  504. carried. And for some of you, on the flip

  505. side, you have to do this in this season.

  506. Stop talking to your kids about their mess.

  507. You got to actually let them wallow in it because it comes a

  508. point where God sends you to be His voice.

  509. And then when God tells you he don't need his voice no more,

  510. you need to shut up. Just love, just love and let

  511. them wallow. Whoever that's for crying out

  512. requires spiritual engagement. Talk to me.

  513. It's not a passive act. Let me, let me, let me do this.

  514. So you get let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me

  515. explain to you. It's not a passive act.

  516. It requires a deep engagement. Meaning pass your brain.

  517. It's not like oh, how am I going to look when I cry out or I

  518. Can't Sing like them. Let me tell you, some of them

  519. sometimes Can't Sing either. They be off key.

  520. If you go listen to the stream right.

  521. We some of them. They sound good sometime to you

  522. and to themselves because we all in here screaming but when we go

  523. listen to the. Stream the stream.

  524. Exposes things. Hey, man, we're learning.

  525. It's OK. We work on this stuff.

  526. OK, But it's it's a deep engagement that requires you to

  527. not, I want to say this very carefully.

  528. I am not telling you not to think.

  529. So you won't go out there and tell nobody.

  530. Pastor G don't want us to think. He just want us to listen to

  531. him. No, I no listen to the word.

  532. I need you to think. But the kind of thinking that

  533. I'm talking about, like I don't need to think about, do I

  534. praise? I might need to think about his

  535. goodness to stir me up, but I don't need to think about do I

  536. clap or do I lift my voice or do I dance or do I move my knees or

  537. do I uncross my hands? In a time of praise.

  538. In a time of worship. No, it's it's not a passive act.

  539. It requires deep engagement with one's emotions and faith

  540. breaking through passivity and fear.

  541. Have you ever been? Just busy, busy, busy, busy,

  542. busy. And then you like you got in the

  543. car and you turned on that music, that worship pad.

  544. And immediately you start. Feeling away only a few of y'all

  545. OK? That's that's right.

  546. That's why we're talking about this.

  547. But I know when I'm busy. Busy, busy.

  548. And I'm like, all right, it's time to lock in.

  549. I'm going my office. I'll turn on this type of music

  550. and I'm going to focus on the Lord.

  551. Man, it don't take long. It don't take long that that's

  552. me setting my mind on him. And when I set my mind on his

  553. goodness, it stirs my emotions up.

  554. I need my emotions. You ready?

  555. My emotions are not my motivation.

  556. They're my offering. OK, my emotions is my offering.

  557. Here's what you say. Cash your cash, your cares upon

  558. me. My emotions is my offering, not

  559. my motivation. So in order for me to have a

  560. rich worship experience, I have to stir my emotions up.

  561. And This is why you got to watch dead churches that tell you to

  562. watch alive churches because they think we manipulating you.

  563. No, he tells Timothy. Stir up stir up the flame like

  564. there's a fire in all of. US but my emotions is my

  565. offering. I might come in here sad, but

  566. I'm gonna lay sad down. But I'm going to stir up my sad.

  567. And today I'm just going to praise out of my sad.

  568. But I'm not praising because I'm sad.

  569. I'm going I'm going to praise. I'm going to praise out of sad.

  570. And he's going to take those emotions.

  571. I'm not going to let sad mute me.

  572. I'm not going to let a heavy spirit.

  573. Here's what he said. He said I am going to trade

  574. this, this spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise.

  575. He didn't say you were sinning because you was in a heaviness.

  576. He's like, can you just trade? I'm trading my sorrows.

  577. We've been may endure for a night, but in the morning

  578. there's going to be a trade joy and what the enemy and what

  579. people want you to do. No, no emotions are bad.

  580. No, they're offerings. What are you going to do with

  581. your emotions? Are you going to let your

  582. emotions put you in prison, or are you going to let them

  583. formulate one of the greatest praises you've ever had in your

  584. life? Yeah, I walked in here depressed

  585. today. But the devil shouldn't have

  586. never messed with me. Stir me up.

  587. You walked in here sad. You walked in here confused.

  588. You walked in here with a heavy spirit.

  589. You walked in here broken. Good.

  590. You have something to offer. Come on, you have something to

  591. offer. And then and then and then

  592. there's some people that's like, Nah, I'm good.

  593. I ain't, I ain't sad. I ain't depressed.

  594. Look, if you ain't sad, depressed, broken, nothing, you

  595. good, you should be praising, praising God way more than

  596. somebody else. You should be leading the March,

  597. man. You got something to offer.

  598. And so many of you come in here on a Sunday with your emotions

  599. and your mind filled with work all week and all that God's

  600. saying, come with me. Come to me in spirit and in

  601. truth. You'll read not just the Word,

  602. but your reality. Your reality is is an offering

  603. doesn't mean I'm not struggling with anxiety, but boy, this,

  604. this anxiety is about to be. He works everything together for

  605. good. Guess what?

  606. Your anxiety is not so great. He can't use this for the one of

  607. the one of the greatest breakthroughs you've ever

  608. experienced. Come on man, you have something

  609. to offer. And if everybody walked in here

  610. and dug deep and was honest before God, this the church

  611. should be a place where you are undone and you are broken.

  612. And you say I had enough. I finally came to a place where

  613. I can unravel, right? The thirsty man come to a well,

  614. he gonna drink. When you come to a place where

  615. the chain breaker is present, you come like this.

  616. Lord, take these chains off. It's a deep engagement with

  617. one's emotions and faith. Got way too many people in

  618. church starting with leadership thinking you got to walk in here

  619. and act like you got. No wonder burnout is the.

  620. Thing no wonder we've fallen to adultery.

  621. It's because you're trying to act like you got it all together

  622. and you force yourself to live a secret life.

  623. He's like, no, I need help, man. I can't figure this out.

  624. I'm pastoring, but I don't know how to do this.

  625. We raising money ain't never did this.

  626. I can't can't even get my Mama a house.

  627. Now I'm building God a house. I can't do this.

  628. But I ain't had no man in the house to show me how to be a

  629. husband. I can't do this, so now I'm just

  630. going to read a book and make up how to be a husband.

  631. I'm not a love like Christ did. My daddy walked away.

  632. My Mama was abused. Her father passed when I was

  633. one. What are you talking about?

  634. I grew up in the hood. I grew up where homicide was

  635. high. I grew up where Mamas was on

  636. crack, sold to them by their kids.

  637. I grew up in disadvantages. I don't know how to do this.

  638. And you come and and with that boldness and that honesty, and

  639. then watch how God takes that man.

  640. I'm not proud of my family. I'm not proud of what my daddy

  641. did to my mom. I'm not proud.

  642. That hurts. How long are you going to callus

  643. yourself and just keep on wrapping yourself up and with

  644. fig leaves and and keep on acting like you got it together

  645. instead of crying out to God like God, I need thee and there

  646. ain't no better place to do it. You can't do it at work.

  647. You might get fired. You can't do it in the grocery

  648. store. They might put you in the mental

  649. institute. The one place you can live and

  650. be broken is the House of God. That's what the father's house

  651. supposed to be, where his children come home and they

  652. drink from the fountain and they be healed and they be made

  653. whole. It starts with your cry and

  654. sometimes they start with the men.

  655. We carry so much and you want to walk around and try to act like

  656. to your sons and to your wife you got it all together.

  657. Nothing more powerful than a son watching his father broken

  658. before the Lord. My son, my, I was getting ready

  659. this morning and I was putting my stuff on and I was squirting

  660. my Cologne and, and, and, and I walked past Mike and, and Pastor

  661. Dylan was downstairs and Mike was just lingering in the bath

  662. in, in, in the, in the, in my bedroom.

  663. And I and I was about to say, and I think the Lord shut my

  664. mouth, but I was about to say, man, can you give me some room?

  665. And soon as I walked past me, the Lord said He's watching you

  666. and. Then like 2 minutes later he's

  667. like dad can I get some Cologne? You best believe if he paying

  668. attention to me put on Cologne, paying attention to paying

  669. attention to the music I'm listening to and to the praise

  670. that I'm listening to and he's seeing me FaceTime his mom

  671. seeing us distant was seeing us figure this out and my my mic is

  672. feeling. It too, and just a little over a

  673. year. Sister goes, then his brother

  674. goes. It's a lot.

  675. For him, he wrote a song about it.

  676. I'm like, boy, he's talking about man.

  677. All this stress I'm under, I'm like, boy, what you stressed out

  678. about? It was a really good song.

  679. He had backup singers in the SSK.

  680. He was like, he recorded it, he made a beat.

  681. Everything. Where you get that from?

  682. He watching, He in the studio, he watching, he's seeing us make

  683. music. He watching these hours.

  684. They're seeing us sacrifice and give at the same time.

  685. I could discipline them and they love them.

  686. He's watching and quite frankly, it is the discipline and it is

  687. the correction that that that that builds the bridge for him

  688. to pay attention to the love that I have for God.

  689. If I was his buddy and if I was just letting him get away with

  690. whatever and I was in there. No, no, no, no.

  691. There's this straight line that's very clear what it looks

  692. like to be a man in this Dark World.

  693. He's been, he's been he's walked in and heated conversation

  694. wisdom sessions. He's he's, he's what he we share

  695. the life. I'm not so much his dad that I

  696. don't set him up to be his person that God created him to

  697. be. But it starts with my praise.

  698. It starts with my praise, right? And it's OK to be broken and say

  699. I I was just I was just raised by tough dad.

  700. But that's what I thought of man.

  701. That's my default. The ladies that didn't have a

  702. father in the house or you had a dad, but they didn't represent

  703. the heart of God, they represented the heart of mammon.

  704. They provided for you. They gave you a safe home.

  705. You never starved. You had clothes for school.

  706. But what every kid needs, man, is they need an example of what

  707. it looks like to be a son and a daughter before a mother and a

  708. father. In what what's happening is we

  709. don't have parent. They're so busy parenting their

  710. kids don't see them sunning and daughtering.

  711. Ain't it funny how how you got a son and a daughter but you so

  712. parent? What if we raised our sons and

  713. daughters to be sons and daughters, not raise them to be

  714. responsible adults? What pressure on our kids?

  715. But boy, my little son see his daddy having fun dancing around.

  716. He's like, oh, when I'm grown, I don't lose kid because I always

  717. got a father. When when I'm grown, I don't

  718. lose. Right, right.

  719. Like, like, like we're scary to want to be an adult because it

  720. looks like life gets really serious and really boring and

  721. just work and vacations. But it doesn't.

  722. You don't see too many parents. That's just in the joy of the

  723. Lord, like David, just in the field, just like, and everybody

  724. in here has danced before. Everybody has clapped.

  725. But then you come around better dancers.

  726. Now you can pair in your praise. No, we need you to be off beat.

  727. Come on, we need you. We need all that up in here, all

  728. of that. We need all that for the Kingdom

  729. to come. I bless God every chance I get.

  730. Every somebody say every, every chance I get like, you know, my

  731. lungs expand and we read this is a scripture in this house.

  732. My lungs expand. Like like, like, like sometimes

  733. you know, when you're working out or something, you ever it's,

  734. it's funny how you can not breathe right and still live.

  735. You you sometimes somebody got to tap you on the shoulder and

  736. be like breathe and you didn't realize you was.

  737. Like breathe man. Do you understand the detoxing

  738. that takes place literally see praise detoxes all three parts

  739. like like right now I'm sweating a little bit.

  740. What that mean I'm losing calories.

  741. I don't know what that what it mean, but I think that's what it

  742. mean. I'm losing calories right now,

  743. right? Physically I'm benefiting from

  744. praising God, spiritually I'm benefiting from praising God

  745. and, and soulishly or emotionally I am benefiting.

  746. All three parts are impacted when you praise God.

  747. I breathe better when I praise God.

  748. Look, look, I'd much rather sit in the valley with, with, with

  749. healthy breathing patterns then walking through the valley with

  750. a with asthma and no asthma pump.

  751. Now I'm here to tell you, not going to get out of this Dark

  752. World except one way. So at least while you're in it,

  753. learn how to breathe. Only way you can do that.

  754. I live and breathe. God, if things aren't going

  755. well, hear this and be happy. Join me in spreading the news.

  756. Now go back. I don't want to run past that

  757. if. Things aren't going well.

  758. Hear this and be happy. I don't want you to hear hear

  759. this and be happy. Next slide.

  760. No hear this and be happy. Start at verse. 1.

  761. If things aren't going well, remember I told you I bless God

  762. every chance I get. If things aren't going well,

  763. when I bless God, I expand my lungs with this prey.

  764. When things aren't going well, I live and breathe God.

  765. If things aren't going well, hear this and be happy.

  766. Next verse, join me in spreading the news together.

  767. Let's get the word out. God met me more than halfway.

  768. He freed me. He freed me from any anxious

  769. fears. Look at him, look at him, give

  770. him your warmest smile. Never see all that smiling,

  771. dancing, All the good stuff is in the Bible.

  772. That's not Pentecostal. Give him your warmest smile.

  773. Never hide your feelings from him is.

  774. That what he just said. Why don't you hide your

  775. feelings? Because then if you hide your

  776. feelings, you're hiding your offering.

  777. This is a guy like, oh, you said today, yes, bring it to me.

  778. Some of y'all stay depressed too long because you won't let it

  779. be, won't leave it at the altar. When I was desperate I called.

  780. When I was desperate I cried out.

  781. When I was this coming, when I was desperate, I called out and

  782. God got me out of tight spot. See, this is the this is the

  783. thing. How many people?

  784. God got out the tight spot. Like like, but how do we do you

  785. see that thing on Instagram where to get the the gold or the

  786. sheep out the tight spot and he jumped right back in the tight

  787. spot. I'm.

  788. Just I don't even need to say nothing else about that.

  789. God's Angel sets up a circle of protection around us while we

  790. pray. Open your mouth and taste.

  791. Open your eyes and see how good God is.

  792. Blessed are you who run to him. Worship God.

  793. If you want the best, worship God, cry out.

  794. Engage deeply. If you want the best, worship

  795. opens doors to all His goodness. Praise who I am, not merely what

  796. I do. If we had more praise breaks,

  797. we'd have less heartaches. Praise releases me from the

  798. toxins of my soul and terrorizes the enemies of my purpose.

  799. Said that a few weeks ago. Just want to remind you.

  800. A groaning too deep, a cry out is a groaning too deep to

  801. explain and too passionate to ignore.

  802. I can't explain what's coming out of me, right?

  803. You see it when players are playing in packed stadiums and

  804. they're the home team and they're the 16,020 thousand,

  805. 80,000 people cheering. It's not just someone's that

  806. excited the player. They feel the energy of the

  807. emotions in the stadium. What do you know, the healing

  808. power that takes place. If everybody in here got to a

  809. place to have deep encounter with the Lord, there is no

  810. revival. Without deep engagement, see

  811. y'all want to see revival. Some of y'all want to see

  812. revival and just be passive like Lord come.

  813. You want revival where the Lords show up?

  814. You won't like Thomas revival. You won't God to show up and

  815. prove something. No, no, no.

  816. That's that's not what he's. Responding to is to prove

  817. something to you, right? This is, this is, this is, this

  818. is revival that's coming because you have engaged the depth in

  819. your soul so much that it's an offering that you are giving.

  820. You are undone. And in North America and in

  821. Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, This is why the dryness.

  822. This is why we don't see revival, but we see it in other

  823. parts of the world. And we would call it revival

  824. because we're like, revival is wherever excitement is.

  825. OK, well, how, how, how, how is your city being impacted?

  826. They just got approved. They announced the 10,000 seed

  827. stadium right right like right Kitty corner 10,000 seed stadium

  828. with with a with a a. Conference Center and.

  829. Some crazy amount of restaurants in night spot this.

  830. Whole little. This little.

  831. Right here. Revival.

  832. So you think revival is a bunch of people coming to church and

  833. staying 24 hours and seven days a week?

  834. That's not really revival. Like revival spills into the

  835. streets. I'll give you Psalm.

  836. Where'd you go? Psalm 34 and Isaiah 54.

  837. We'll close it out. Open your mouth and taste and

  838. see. I gave that to you, didn't I?

  839. Yeah. Somebody need to hear it again.

  840. Amen. Praise who I am.

  841. That's what I mean. Psalm 30 for his anger is but

  842. for a moment. But his favor is for a lifetime.

  843. Or in his favor is life. Here it is.

  844. Weeping. May endure.

  845. Here's. Yeah.

  846. I saw this before older John. I just decided this morning to

  847. stop at Endure and not read it as the victim.

  848. Not read it as how long God am I going to weep versus him saying

  849. if you can endure in your weeping, not like in the

  850. morning, he going, he going. To take it from me, but because

  851. if I read it with Second Corinthians 9, I don't know 12

  852. where he's like, no, keep that thorn in.

  853. I've learned how to keep that thorn in or.

  854. In due season, if you faint not what What if weeping is

  855. something that you are called to engage in and endure in No, like

  856. you like the reason I need to I I need to go from when weeping

  857. shackled me to when I can now soar while weeping, right.

  858. It's this picture of a baby eagle coming out or a baby,

  859. whatever kind of bird and they can't fly.

  860. But eventually there's the strength.

  861. Eventually they're thrown out and they're able to fly.

  862. There's this feebleness in the conception of weeping.

  863. But then that weeping should grow you to By the time the

  864. weeping lifts, you never knew you would still weeping.

  865. Not that you tolerated what made you weep, but weeping did not

  866. become your testimony or your identity.

  867. Endure for a night, endure for a season.

  868. On the other side of that is joy.

  869. And I know a lot of people who have weeped for a night morning

  870. Cain didn't have no joy. Season was over, didn't have no

  871. joy. So you weeped in vain, and

  872. you've been weeping for years, complaining about the same thing

  873. for years. Ain't no good men out there cuz

  874. you ain't good. Ain't no good women out there

  875. cuz you ain't good. Oh, how did I get in this

  876. situation? You've been getting in all kind

  877. of situations all your life because the weeping shackled

  878. you. You didn't let the weeping grow.

  879. You the weeping. Is meant to mature you.

  880. Can I just rhyme for a minute? Not manure you.

  881. Amen. I knew somebody elementary, we

  882. we'd get that. All right, I got.

  883. I got to thank you, Caleb, for the encouragement.

  884. Amen. Here it is.

  885. If your cry can endure, your joy will ascend.

  886. If your cry can endure, your joy will ascend.

  887. Your sustained cry is the push your promise needs.

  888. See, I'm not going to wait till something.

  889. Happened to start crying. I'm just going to cry because

  890. he's so good and. I don't care what you think,

  891. because the moment you start crying, you often think people

  892. often think what's wrong. That's the first thing that you

  893. OK. I don't know, I I love sometime

  894. the the little off time where I kept somebody crying and there's

  895. a few of you. I'm not going to call you out

  896. here that no, not even a few of y'all, a couple of y'all and

  897. I'll walk up on you crying and and and and I don't even got to

  898. say what's wrong and that you just you just look at me and be

  899. like he just. So good, right?

  900. It's just like he's just so good.

  901. Come here. I love you, Pastor, right?

  902. Is this, is this pure joy, right?

  903. If pastors had more of those encounters versus like, Oh my

  904. God, can you? Help me in this relationship.

  905. My God, can you help me? I just lost my Oh my God, my

  906. money Oh my God my all the tears is all from stuff.

  907. You rarely find somebody crying because they got a revelation of

  908. his goodness. Lastly, Isaiah 54 rejoice with

  909. singing cry out cry out CD you got to understand the cry out is

  910. not asking for you to be sad. The cry out is is oftentimes

  911. this this this awe this wonder this word.

  912. If you understood this topic cry out you understand was steering.

  913. We're still in the fear of God conversation.

  914. Right. Rejoice with singing, you

  915. barren. 1 You who have never given birth, burst into a song

  916. of joy and shout, right? This is about God's children who

  917. had been in bondage. There's some judgment here, but

  918. more than anything how it translates to the New Testament

  919. believer on the other side of Christ is that man.

  920. All you who have endured some hardships, get ready barren like

  921. you've been pregnant with dreams.

  922. Listen, you've, you've, you've, you've, I'm here to tell you get

  923. unsettled with manna because some of you are like, God's not

  924. asking you to settle for manna. He's asked you to be thankful

  925. for manna. But you don't got to set.

  926. You know that ain't what he promised you.

  927. You know, there's more, but the mature believer is not bombarded

  928. in heaven. There's more where this ain't

  929. it. No, no, no, no, no.

  930. I understand God has promised to sustain me, but the breakage,

  931. the breakthrough, the overflow, the bumper crop.

  932. I know the but I ain't got bumper crop yet, Kay, You've

  933. been pushing, you've been trying, you've tasted, you've

  934. seen, you've been faithful. Man, I wrote something for you,

  935. right? You said burst into a song of

  936. joy. Barren one, not delivered one

  937. while I'm barren. Push what?

  938. See, if you're barren, you think it's unnecessary to push because

  939. you think ain't nothing in there.

  940. So you like what? Push for what?

  941. Cry for what? Shout for but what?

  942. I just got a sense we've got too many settlers in here.

  943. You who have never been in labor for the deserted wife will have

  944. more children than the married one, says Yahweh.

  945. He said increase is coming, but he starts off by saying but

  946. before you see the increase you need to cry out and it's a

  947. sustained crying out. So enlarge your tents and add

  948. extensions to your dwelling. Hold nothing back, don't settle.

  949. Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger because God's

  950. getting ready for a generational increase.

  951. You ever see a tent when you go on hiking and camping by

  952. yourself? The little small one, It's just

  953. for you and folks don't look at you crazy.

  954. Like why are you bringing this 3 bedroom tent out here?

  955. Why you get that apartment before the baby is born?

  956. Like it's guaranteed to be born? How you paint that room, How you

  957. got clothes already in the drawer for a baby that ain't

  958. here? How aren't we doing this for the

  959. Lord? Where's that expectation?

  960. Let me let me help you. Anytime you're around the word,

  961. you get impregnated with seed and every word God speaks has

  962. the potential to birth a fruit in your life that can go

  963. generational. You will increase and spread out

  964. in every direction. Territorial blessing, Regional

  965. increase. Come on.

  966. Right, this what he's saying is increase is coming.

  967. The increase that's coming is for beyond your household, every

  968. direction friends are coming family.

  969. There are people that need you to get in position.

  970. Your sons and your daughters will conquer nations and

  971. revitalize desolate cities. Sons and daughters will conquer

  972. nations, and my son and daughter can't conquer the nations until

  973. we conquer this city. Do not fear, for your shame is

  974. no more. Do not be embarrassed, for you

  975. will not be disgraced. You will forget the inadequacies

  976. you felt in your youth. I'm I want you.

  977. Here it is. Spirit and Truth.

  978. Here it is. Dig in that deep place some of

  979. you walk through, family stuff that embarrassed your family,

  980. shamed your family name. Come.

  981. On From adultery to bankruptcy. To.

  982. Abuse. See sometime in the Spirit.

  983. You try to look away from it. No, God didn't say claim it, but

  984. you got to be able to look. At it and understand the shame

  985. because if you if you can't connect to the pain, you cannot

  986. connect to the promise. A part of someone that is super

  987. grateful is because they know. They've been through it.

  988. Now God is saying, connect right now to when you had shame in

  989. your bloodline and connect to how you felt when you experience

  990. the abuse, when you experience the betrayal, when you

  991. experience the abandonment, when you experience the alcoholism,

  992. the drugs, the addiction, the mental illness.

  993. How did that make you feel? And here's the promise.

  994. Your shame will be. No more.

  995. See shame. Is not about.

  996. Who? Sees your fall.

  997. Shame is personal. There's some.

  998. There's some stuff some of y'all that went through.

  999. And some thoughts and some private stuff.

  1000. Don't nobody know you've carried the shame.

  1001. Don't think you free from shame because nobody found out, he

  1002. said. Do not be embarrassed.

  1003. Don't. Ain't it funny how you can be

  1004. embarrassed? And don't nobody know what you

  1005. went through? He's telling you there's some

  1006. inner demons inside. That's still got a little

  1007. remnant of shame, some of you. Here's how your shame is.

  1008. Showing up, you afraid? To answer the call.

  1009. Because what and who shamed you? Carried some of the same call

  1010. you have and that's how. You're carrying shame is

  1011. because. At that moment, there was a

  1012. deposit in your. Mind you made-up in your mind

  1013. you were so hurt, so angry. I'm never going to be a pastor.

  1014. Why? Because a pastor.

  1015. Hurt you? I'm never going to get married

  1016. because you saw divorce. You still carrying shame.

  1017. I'm never going to be like my Mama.

  1018. I'm never going to be like and and while you never going to be

  1019. like, you never starting to be like.

  1020. You so focused on not being like that you're delaying.

  1021. Being like who you supposed to be because your identity somehow

  1022. has been entangled. In the mistakes of your family,

  1023. this is the promise. I like it.

  1024. You'll forget it. You're like, how's that

  1025. possible? It comes a.

  1026. Point where the reality of your. Pain is not so real.

  1027. You still feel the pain from it, but you have the thoughts and

  1028. you actually. Have to go down this trail to

  1029. stir up any type of feeling from that.

  1030. Time. Say you know you, you, you.

  1031. You will forget. It felt in your youth.

  1032. And will no longer remember the. Shame of your widowhood.

  1033. You know that time when you didn't have?

  1034. Lord, Lord of your. Life.

  1035. No relationship with the father. No, no relationship.

  1036. With Jesus Christ, God's like man.

  1037. If you really. Understood, my grace, your past

  1038. has. Nothing but good use for you.

  1039. Your past has nothing but. Good use for you.

  1040. For just a brief moment, I deserted you.

  1041. But with tender feelings of love, I will gather you back to

  1042. me. This is where we'll pick up next

  1043. experience my. Cry is the water the Potter

  1044. needs to shape the clay. Lift your hands right where you

  1045. are. Your path.

  1046. Can be. Used for nothing but good.

  1047. In the hands of the Potter. You trying to run from your

  1048. past? No, God said.

  1049. Don't need that. He said I need it.

  1050. You don't need to be stuck there.

  1051. Just to lay it at the altar. That trauma stir up those

  1052. emotions, Don't be afraid of it, and let that be the fuel for

  1053. your praise, not your complaint. Your emotions is an offering.

  1054. It's one of. The richest offerings.

  1055. That's why it frustrates. You when you're in relationship

  1056. with someone, they. Don't give you no emotion.

  1057. They seem dead, that's why. I frustrate you when you mad and

  1058. you all. Excited about something they

  1059. just sitting there. Uh huh.

  1060. Emotions are from the Lord, and the enemy has perverted them.

  1061. Aside from Revelation, your. Emotions is one of the.

  1062. Greatest assets in your praise. It's crazy.

  1063. You can go to a Beyoncé. You can go to you name your.

  1064. Artist to their concert you don't need no revelation all

  1065. emotions the whole city excited you know how many depressed is

  1066. that a. Depressed people at a Travis.

  1067. Scott Concert How many depressed people is that?

  1068. A. And they take those.

  1069. Emotions and it's a night that they.

  1070. Look at that gave them relief. Ain't that crazy but we don't

  1071. walk in here understanding that we and they give their emotions

  1072. mean you can hear the stadium rocking from from miles away

  1073. because all those emotions in that room.

  1074. Here's why they connect with the artist.

  1075. Man, you know how important. It is for you to connect with

  1076. your maker. Lift your hands right where you

  1077. are. Yes.

  1078. Come on, right where you? Are just lift your voice and.

  1079. And just tell God thank you, the Father, thank you.

  1080. Just take a moment. Whatever the Spirit is.

  1081. Planted in your heart be. Determined that it will grow

  1082. you, it will mature you, it will move you, it will set you

  1083. ablaze. Thank you.

  1084. Lord, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord.

  1085. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

  1086. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

  1087. Thank you, Lord. Yes, use it for good.

  1088. Use it. For good.

  1089. Use it for good. Use it for good.

  1090. Use it for good. Use it for good.

  1091. Use it for good. Use it for good.

  1092. Use it for good. Come on in just for. 60 seconds

  1093. just begin to. Praise God, Lift your voice.

  1094. Come on 60 seconds. Begin to give him praise.

  1095. Come on. We praise you, Lord God.

  1096. We praise you, Lord God. You are faithful.

  1097. You are worthy. Hallelujah, we bless your name.

  1098. We bless your name. We bless your name.

  1099. We bless your name. Break forth.

  1100. Break forth, Break forth. Break forth, Break forth.

  1101. Break forth. Brave force.

  1102. Brave force. Brave force.

  1103. Brave force, bless the Lord all my.

  1104. Soul all that is within. Bless your holy day.

  1105. The. You.

  1106. See. You want lovely dream?

  1107. He rains on high. On the hill he is on.

  1108. You want the main tree? He rains on high.

  1109. The. The.

  1110. You have no.

  1111. What a powerful day. What a powerful day.

  1112. The. There's

  1113. no. No, you won't lighter.

  1114. Not till you won't lighter coming out.

  1115. So I won't keep down. I won't set it out coming out.

  1116. No shadow, no shadow. You won't light up.

  1117. I see. You won't light up coming out,

  1118. snowball. You won't get down die.

  1119. You won't turn it out Coming out of me, snow shadow.

  1120. You won't let it up, down till you won't find love coming out

  1121. of me snowball. You won't Take Me Out, Die.

  1122. You won't turn it out. Don't shadow.

  1123. You won't light up now till you won't light up.

  1124. Coming down to me, there's no all you won't take down.

  1125. Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

  1126. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

  1127. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.

  1128. Certainly still you can yourself wait, you'll leave, you'll move

  1129. and be there already. Where this is love?

  1130. But now I see when I opened my eyes, I couldn't believe that I

  1131. could sing you. I could sing my love again We

  1132. now I can see when I hope. In my eyes.

  1133. I couldn't believe I can see your love.

  1134. I can see your love again We now I can see when I hope.

  1135. I can see your love again. I can see your Yeah.

  1136. I can see your love again. I can see your love again.

  1137. Lord, we sell the deal. You will not walk away today

  1138. with fears that hurt in vain. We're going to do so about it.

  1139. You're going to obey your word. You're going to make decisions.

  1140. You're going to allow you to move us, however you're going to

  1141. move us. No more delaying obedience when

  1142. you speak, Lord. We don't just say yes.

  1143. We vote from yes. To if I do.

  1144. And we take it serious that once we were alive.

  1145. But Your Grace has allowed. Us to see.

  1146. May we not take our new sight in vain, May we not take our new

  1147. life in vain. And may our love for you be

  1148. marked by our obedience to you. We thank you, Father, that you

  1149. are a God that do not throw away our past.

  1150. You heal us from our past. But you use.

  1151. The remnants of our past to create this beautiful story that

  1152. points back to you and your love so that man, they say they can

  1153. make it out of that. Lord, we just thank you for the

  1154. stories that you have written. Lord God thank you for the lies

  1155. that you have reserved for lies you have transformed and making

  1156. our lives be a living testimony. Father, may we be living the

  1157. pistols may. Our light shines so bright,

  1158. Father, may our salt be that which preserves Lord, that

  1159. someone may look at our lives and say, What must I do to be

  1160. saved? May we?

  1161. Not be contradictory, may we not?

  1162. Be double minded, May we not be hypocrites Lord, but may we be

  1163. the real thing, because your blood, your blood, your blood,

  1164. your blood has saved us and have washed us and we are forever

  1165. grateful and there's nothing worth keeping us from the

  1166. intimacy that you. Desire to have.

  1167. With us, nothing. So may today, something inside

  1168. burn us, move us towards change. May change, not just be a part

  1169. of our imagination. But may it be a part of our.

  1170. Reality. That we taste and.

  1171. See the salvation of the Lord in our lifetime.

  1172. May we no longer put off our transformation as we wallow in

  1173. our sin. But today we get up.

  1174. May our testimony today be. I've come to.

  1175. Myself and I'm heading back. Home and I'm here to.

  1176. Tell you if that is your. Testimony.

  1177. Today the Father is waiting for you with arms open wide, not to

  1178. condemn you, but to celebrate your return.

  1179. And just know, in the Father's house, your seat was never given

  1180. away. We thank.

  1181. You for now, Jesus. Name Amen and give God a hand of

  1182. praise. All right, really.

  1183. Quickly. There there was some

  1184. announcements. Done in the beginning.

  1185. I won't bore you with more announcements.

  1186. I will let you know you need to find out what's going on because

  1187. there's a lot going on. We start off with our church in

  1188. the wild tonight. And I'm trying to let you guys

  1189. know I was going to read scripture.

  1190. I don't have no time for it. But in the in the book of Acts,

  1191. they did not abandon gathering. They gathered at the temple, but

  1192. they also gathered at homes. When you're not somewhere, we're

  1193. gathering. There's a part of the body

  1194. that's not there. You're you can't be replaced.

  1195. OK, so tonight we're gathering at Monzo's.

  1196. Now, Monzo's is a phenomenal burger spot, OK?

  1197. And they got chicken wings and they got milkshakes and they got

  1198. soft serve and they they like they they they're good and they

  1199. got vegan options too. So you ain't got no excuses and

  1200. nothing like and they fry their French fries in beef tallow is

  1201. so is smacking OK? Now listen, you are not going

  1202. get over yourself. You not going to be in the

  1203. video, OK? We're not asking you to come and

  1204. be in a video shoot. We're asking you to hit the

  1205. marketplace with us, OK? Why is because for this next

  1206. month, in everything we do, we want to be intentional about

  1207. getting out when you come. Home.

  1208. You come home to get refreshed. You take a shower, you sleep so

  1209. you can do what go to work the next day when you come to church

  1210. you do the same thing. You get refreshed, you drink,

  1211. you get strength, you get encouraged so you can do what

  1212. you can go out there today. So tonight we're going to have

  1213. an opportunity to go impact some people's lives.

  1214. They almost cancelled on us because we told them 100 people

  1215. come in now some of y'all going to make me out to.

  1216. Be a liar, but that's OK. OK, but they were.

  1217. Like I don't know if. We can do it.

  1218. The lady is overwhelmed. They don't know if they're

  1219. staffed enough, but what about if we showed up and they were

  1220. like, this is the. Easiest. 100 people that we've

  1221. ever had. In our place, it's something

  1222. about us, whenever we go somewhere in the marketplace,

  1223. people love us. They love the energy.

  1224. Always some haters. That's OK and they want us to

  1225. come back. OK, let's go be a blessing to

  1226. their business. Let's go leave a mark on their

  1227. lives and understand we got this whole left wing and there's

  1228. going to be people coming in and out all night and guess what

  1229. we're going to do? We're going to hand them Flyers

  1230. because all roads is leading to mocktails and then we're going

  1231. to shoot a little video on the side and we.

  1232. Do. We we're not going to film you,

  1233. OK? We're going to film some people,

  1234. but not you, OK? OK, now if you need to carpool,

  1235. whatever. That says.

  1236. That it's tonight that says 7, another place says 6.

  1237. We won't start shooting until later like the main.

  1238. Purpose is to go out, laugh and eat together.

  1239. We got a DJ from our church DJ. And tonight, like we're going

  1240. into the marketplace and we're about to have some fun.

  1241. OK, So I want to see you there tonight.

  1242. And then the other thing is next week we have 100 Huntley and

  1243. remember I told them 100 people coming to eat burgers tonight.

  1244. OK, so if they charge me for yo burger and you not there, I'm

  1245. bringing receipts next week. OK, Next Saturday we are having

  1246. all. Zone and there will be prayer.

  1247. It'll be a little word that we baptism.

  1248. If you want to get baptized, please sign up.

  1249. We have 100 the historic 100 Huntley coming to get some

  1250. testimonies as well film what's happening in our garage.

  1251. I love that 100 Huntley is filming us while we're in our

  1252. garage. And so I need.

  1253. You to please show up next Saturday so they can get a love

  1254. fix experience. But starting tonight you know

  1255. because next week is free tonight can cost me for some

  1256. cheeseburgers. OK so y'all need to come now I

  1257. will put this out. I I'm not buying food tonight.

  1258. Got that because I know some of y'all.

  1259. Wondering in your spirit? Is he treating?

  1260. No. OK.

  1261. Your own gas money is your own. Burgers, but it's worth it.

  1262. Amen. Invest.

  1263. In your belly, OK. And then lastly, lastly the

  1264. building next door. So I told you a couple weeks

  1265. ago, work has stopped. Then within a week, I think it

  1266. was like 75 grand came in. Within a week and a half work,

  1267. they started back work and we're. 75.

  1268. Away and I'm not. Listen, I'm not.

  1269. We we cannot let the. Work, stop.

  1270. This is on us. This first building is on us.

  1271. OK and there's been people faithful I'm not begging you,

  1272. I'm compelling you to partner with the Lord whatever you can

  1273. do everywhere where that now look, this is 75 grand to be

  1274. done with the second phase. What does that second phase

  1275. include? You will walk over there and you

  1276. will see the whole building lit up.

  1277. It's everything electrical and everything they did before

  1278. electrical, plumbing, all of that.

  1279. But we're the electrical is the last thing before drywall and

  1280. all that stuff. Once this part is done, then

  1281. you're looking at several weeks before that work is done.

  1282. Like we're right at the finish. Line, we're right at the finish

  1283. line and, and, and, and there's people in here that can dig deep

  1284. and invest in something that is going to eternally.

  1285. Be on your. Account souls equipping the

  1286. church. I'm really not begging you, I am

  1287. presenting. You.

  1288. One of the greatest opportunities of your life to be

  1289. a part of OK. And so there's ways to give

  1290. right here. And I'm believing this week at

  1291. bare minimum. I'm always believing for.

  1292. It all. But at bare minimum, half will

  1293. come in over the next few days. Amen.

  1294. Do not count yourself out, OK? Maybe you can't give 70. 5

  1295. grand. Maybe you can give $0.75.

  1296. I guess what $0.75 is. It's a seed.

  1297. Amen. Put your hand on your neighbor's

  1298. shoulder. Tell your neighbor.

  1299. I believe in you. Tell your neighbor.

  1300. That's all I got to say to you. I hope I love tell somebody

  1301. else. I see you tonight and if and I

  1302. will share my food with you. Have a good evening, God bless.

  1303. Until next time, get your love fixed man.

  1304. Spirit of light, Spirit of God, we need the fear of the Lord.

  1305. We want the thank you so much for tuning into this week's.

  1306. Sermon we pray. You were challenged, equipped

  1307. and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all

  1308. platforms. That's lovequest intl church.

  1309. We out here for real. We're really doing it.

  1310. That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

  1311. You can find us anywhere you need to find us.

  1312. But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto.

  1313. Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.