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Anointed, Disruptive and Prospering (9AM) - 3.9.2025 (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. What the enemy has meant for evil God, you have used it for

  10. good from generation to generation.

  11. And we say thank you this morning.

  12. We ask Holy Spirit that you would empower us, You.

  13. You would reveal the Savior to us.

  14. You will convict us. You will transform us by the

  15. renewing of our minds so that what you have given us we can

  16. pass to the next generation, so their testimony can be from

  17. generation to generation. Yes, God, you are faithful, but

  18. we are here because of some faithful Saints, and we say

  19. thank you, Lord. May every person in this room

  20. determine in their mind that they will be a person, a St., a

  21. believer, a Christian, a follower of Christ.

  22. That will not pass on fear from generation to generation, not

  23. pass on doubt from generation to generation, insecurity from

  24. generation to generation, double mindedness from generation to

  25. generation, insecurity, sabotage, comparison from

  26. generation to generation. But we will be a people that

  27. pass on faith and hope and love. But I know you are God that from

  28. generation to generation you've only needed a few.

  29. And I want to say Lord, I'm, I'm wanted a few.

  30. Send me for real though, I'll go and may may there be a few more

  31. people by the end of the day that says God.

  32. I mean it this time I am going to not just March for you, shout

  33. for you, but I'm going to March with you.

  34. I'm going to shout with you. And I'm not just going to merely

  35. be a Christian and stop at the door of religion, but I'm going

  36. to enter into the door of the Kingdom where resurrection power

  37. lives. And I am going to be a follower

  38. of Christ, not a follower of religion, a follower of Jesus

  39. Christ. We pray for the spirit of

  40. revelation in this place today. And whatever we miss by notes,

  41. Lord, may we catch by spirit. Come on, say I got to catch it

  42. today. Come on, say my stupid days are

  43. over and my anointed days have arrived.

  44. Come on, say my ears are anointed, my heart is anointed,

  45. my tongue is anointed. Look at your neighbors.

  46. Say watch out. May be seated anointed,

  47. disruptive and prospering. That's me, that's me.

  48. I'm going to be selfish. I'm anointed, and because I'm

  49. anointed I'm disruptive in Jesus name and I'm forever prospering,

  50. not according to prosperity preaching, but according to the

  51. word of God. Yeah, and every season I am

  52. prospering not because I'm just declaring it, it's because God

  53. says so. Don't box with me, box with God.

  54. And I'm here to announce that the holy fire of God has

  55. arrived. You ready?

  56. And that means church. Whoever considers themselves a

  57. Christian stop playing around being a being A2 faced dead

  58. hypocrite. Just go to church Christian them

  59. days is over. I promise you the fire that has.

  60. Come to try is going to sizzle out all your little carnal

  61. living and God judgement starts in the House of God.

  62. The world is already. Judged.

  63. Look at them. You remember you was in the

  64. world. I know nobody here is of the

  65. world. Nobody.

  66. Right. Everyone of you are so holy.

  67. I am. See, that was your moment to say

  68. I am you, right, Pastor? You finally said something,

  69. right? Yeah.

  70. No, no, no, no. Being separated from God is all

  71. the judgement you need. How was that living?

  72. But now, as believers, judgement hits the house first.

  73. That's why we did something astronomical in my mind.

  74. We just cut out Sundays. For a month?

  75. Who does that right, 'cause that's our biggest giving day

  76. and that's when you get to most attendees and all this kind of

  77. crap. But what I understand is our

  78. salvation is not in Sunday, it's in Jesus that part.

  79. And that's why you're going to see us spontaneously here and

  80. there have church in the wild. What does that mean?

  81. Like on the 21st through the 23rd, 23rd being Sunday, we are

  82. going to go to the basketball championships and the and the

  83. tournament is. Called the Devil's Cup and we're

  84. paying. We're playing for cash.

  85. It's a cash prize if the tournament.

  86. Starts Friday night, we're going to pack it out.

  87. It goes on this Saturday, two games we're going to pack it out

  88. and then and then we go, we're going to show up Sunday, no

  89. church. We're going to go to Applesford

  90. and we're going to pack it out Sunday morning for game one.

  91. We win game one, we go to game two, we lose game one, we go

  92. home and we win game two. We're in the championship and

  93. what they going to experience the joy, the Lord.

  94. You hear what I'm saying? Church in the Wild, OK.

  95. And then in June we're going to have a concert, a release

  96. concert. No church that day.

  97. Church in the wild. Then July 6th we'll have an

  98. official album. Release concert for your pastor

  99. George. Truly.

  100. Yeah. Now now now some of y'all like

  101. hey man, like we're going to see.

  102. And Pastor rapper, we going to see, I got bars, OK?

  103. And we got beats and we got rhythm, OK?

  104. You'll see at the album the listening party this coming

  105. Saturday. I didn't plan to make an

  106. announcement, but I'm going to make it since I'm up in this

  107. thing right now, OK? Right.

  108. I like this part, right? Because you come in British

  109. Columbia and you say that's a pastor.

  110. Hello, God's doing a new thing. Amen.

  111. And so July 6th, we just booked it the other day.

  112. We will be having July 6th is a Sunday.

  113. We will be having the album release concert at the Hollywood

  114. Theatre in in Kitsilano. Guess what?

  115. That's a Sunday. No church.

  116. Don't worry about it. No church.

  117. No church. You can brunch.

  118. You go to the beach, you go wherever, but we go.

  119. Listen, I need it's. 600 capacity, all we need is like

  120. three 5400 to really pack it out main floor 350 and it's like

  121. right, we going to put all the marketing behind it.

  122. But this is what you got to understand when they're

  123. promoters and that secular market sees they not going to be

  124. in see church. They going to see dollars.

  125. That's fine. You look at dollars.

  126. We got anointing, but they don't want to book us again.

  127. When other acts come in town. They're going to want us opening

  128. and now all of a sudden not not not my homies miles manic.

  129. They they doing it in the states.

  130. He's at rolling loud. If you know anything about

  131. rolling out loud. It is probably one of the

  132. biggest hip hop festivals. All the biggest names are there.

  133. He's the first Miles came here. You know he's the.

  134. First Christian artist to ever be booked.

  135. How did that happen? Because they packed out secular

  136. venues in the city and so this big festival saw that there was

  137. a fixed following. Stop saying you love the body

  138. and you support Nicki Minaj more than your pastor.

  139. You know what I'm saying, right? Part of them 300 million

  140. followers and we making them rich and we keeping the church

  141. artist broke and I promise you there's some really dope

  142. Christian artists yeah I'm I'm one of them scribe music is one

  143. of them you know what I'm saying Dang now just day is 1.

  144. Adam is one Amen, Amen love quest worship is and so we're

  145. going to be church in a while. We we we have we have disrupted

  146. what was Sunday means to the church and I'm sorry if you

  147. Sunday and you show up you like Dang, that's my why y'all

  148. messing with my day? We're not we're just we're just

  149. relocating your day. OK, and so look out for those

  150. and when we put out the promotions next Saturday,

  151. tickets will you will have the first opportunity to get tickets

  152. and they will be cheaper than that ever be.

  153. They're going to go from $15 to $25 to $35.

  154. Hieroglyphics from the Bay Area. They're coming to that same

  155. venue. They sold out in a week.

  156. They added a second show, right? Their tickets are almost 100

  157. bucks. So don't come in me $15.00 is a

  158. lot because some of y'all saw Taylor Swift, some of y'all, you

  159. get what I'm saying. So stop playing $15.00 for that.

  160. But by the time you finish your double caramel macchiato with

  161. brulee chips on the top and almond milk and that's $15,

  162. Don't play with me and you don't get a real Dope Show.

  163. Live band, backup singers, it's going to go crazy.

  164. I'm bringing my DJ friend from Oakland, CA, Elijah.

  165. He's going to tear it up. And so anyways, all right, I

  166. didn't. Mean to get it?

  167. I'm anointed. I'm disruptive.

  168. That's how we got there because Love Quest is disruptive and

  169. prospering. The fire is not for Sunday and

  170. the fire is not to just share with y'all.

  171. The fire is to go out there in the marketplace and shine that

  172. light. This.

  173. Is a very crucial. Topic that we're on right now,

  174. I'm going to give you some new and I think it's very important

  175. to go back into last week because we're talking meat here

  176. is not milk, this is meat. I will start off today by

  177. telling you that you are holy. If he was here last week, you

  178. already agree and you understand you are holy.

  179. Next time somebody say you think you holier than thou, you say

  180. no, no, no, no, just holy. You got the first part right.

  181. I am holy. Why?

  182. Because God called me holy and I came from him.

  183. And guess what? He is holy.

  184. Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can

  185. live among them. Somebody shout out among them

  186. one more time. Among them, you must build this

  187. Tabernacle and it's furnishings exactly according to the

  188. pattern. I will show you.

  189. I'm going to read it one more time.

  190. Just so you know, we're an exodus.

  191. Oh yeah. Have the people say we the

  192. people of Love Quest. No, no, no, you're done.

  193. Build me a sanctuary so I can live among them.

  194. We'll say it one more time. We'll read it one more time.

  195. Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can

  196. live among them. You must.

  197. What does must mean? Have to command no other option.

  198. If you do it any other way, it will not work.

  199. You might get a counterfeit, but you will not get the benefits.

  200. OK, You must build this Tabernacle and it's furnishings.

  201. Somebody say exactly what does exactly mean exactly?

  202. You're smart. Exactly, exactly according to

  203. the pattern I will show you. Now in Genesis, we didn't need

  204. to build nothing. We, we, we were just, we were

  205. the garden sanctuary. We were the sanctuary.

  206. It was his presence was a sanctuary.

  207. I want us to really understand where God's plan is to get us

  208. back to the Garden. New heaven, new earth, No more

  209. sickness, no more disease, no more crying, no more fear, no

  210. more shadows, no more darkness, no garden.

  211. Realities are returning. That's the good news.

  212. Amen. So you have to understand that

  213. death is a door. Back to.

  214. So we have to go. We have to die.

  215. To say you don't want to die is to say you don't want to return

  216. to. There's no other way.

  217. We weren't created to die. But once sin entered in, death

  218. is inevitable. But while we're waiting, we can

  219. experience. The Kingdom of Heaven.

  220. Within. That's why he wants a sanctuary.

  221. He does not want a sanctuary for you to start your ministry.

  222. He does not want a sanctuary for you to find your wife.

  223. Oh, that's or husband or boyfriend, girlfriend, or a good

  224. doughnut from the cafe. Whatever.

  225. OK, let's get off of that. Whatever it is that we have made

  226. church. He does not want a sanctuary

  227. that's rocking on Sunday but dead Monday to Saturday.

  228. He does not want to build another church where the most

  229. activity is on Sunday and then throughout the week.

  230. It's a secretary, the pastor and we handing out sandwiches.

  231. The sanctuary is so he can live among us.

  232. And where he lives, there is what freedom.

  233. And we as a body remember what I said, There is revival happening

  234. all over the world, but I cannot be a selfish St. and be

  235. satisfied. That's not my mantle.

  236. I don't have pastoral mantle where I'm just concerned about

  237. how healthy this house is. But there's some broken toes,

  238. there's some torn Achilles, there's some ripped Acls in the

  239. body of Christ. And the body has to understand

  240. that although I have a healthy arm, if I got a broken foot with

  241. disease in it, then there should be concern towards that.

  242. We can't just talk about the move of God here where there's

  243. places of in this city that aren't experiencing the life of

  244. God. So we got to be a a model bride

  245. and we have to be that. So those that lay eyes upon what

  246. God's doing, they can behold and it will encourage and strengthen

  247. them. When you go to work, when you go

  248. to the gym, you come from that cloth and you carry a piece of

  249. that wherever you go. But here's the goal is so he can

  250. live here. It is not visit so so love

  251. quest. We don't have to invite.

  252. Him here no more. Just just why?

  253. Some churches I've been to, we got to invite him.

  254. Why? Because he doesn't live there.

  255. He's a Sunday God, good love quest.

  256. I want you to have the conscience, conscience that he

  257. lives here and he invited you to his house.

  258. So when you walk to the tent, you say thank you, Lord.

  259. You don't come in here saying, Lord, you're welcome here.

  260. We're not hosting him, he's hosting us all.

  261. Right, all right, all right. I made a statement last week

  262. that is a life changing statement for me.

  263. It wrecked me last week and it wrecked a few people.

  264. From what I hear. We've been trying to find

  265. ourselves outside of holy. We've been trying to find.

  266. Ourselves in holy like books, holy like gatherings.

  267. Remember Bible Bible talks about in these days forms of

  268. godliness, but they deny the true power.

  269. So it looks like he lives there until we scatter.

  270. OK, you look holy until you get to work Monday and get around

  271. worldly friends and now you cussing like them.

  272. Right, you holy because you don't bring no cigarettes in

  273. church, but when you leave you pop that pack in the car and now

  274. you back to put put nicotine, alcohol, whatever it is in your

  275. body form of godliness. You singing the songs, you got

  276. the playlist, you got a T-shirt from a concert.

  277. But holy is not this outward appearance.

  278. Holy is who you are. It's your nature, you ready and

  279. here it is. I'm going to say it to you, if

  280. we are struggling with if we're male or female, you are already

  281. so far from understanding your holy because what was made in

  282. holy was male and female. So what the enemy is attacking

  283. is identity, and then the next thing he's attacking is the

  284. identity of family. Because once you walk in

  285. holiness, power, unstoppable, revelation, clear identity, no

  286. manipulation, you you in a rest, you understand who you are, and

  287. most of all, who's you are. But we have been trying because

  288. the gate is narrow, so we have millions of ways to try and find

  289. out who we are based on dreams and desires and goals and

  290. purpose. It's only one way to know who

  291. you are as a creation. Only one way if the gate is what

  292. but boy. You see how wide the enemy is

  293. making the gate is so wide you can find right now you can go

  294. find 100 different opinions on who you are, how you should

  295. live, where you should live, what's the best place to live,

  296. what's the best weather to live, who got the biggest mountains

  297. in, how you can attend points to becoming a millionaire or a

  298. billionaire or there's all these ways and what he's doing.

  299. He's pointing that stuff you desire because remember what I

  300. said last week? You have these goals and you

  301. think when I get here I'm going to get.

  302. This. But what you really were created

  303. for is this. But now because you've lost your

  304. way, you think this is going to bring it to you.

  305. And it ain't God. You think job, career, spouses,

  306. kids, all these things. You move to California, you move

  307. to Toronto, You move to Bangladesh.

  308. You move to Hawaii. You move where there's blue

  309. water. You move to where there's no

  310. mountains. You move to where there's no

  311. wheat flour. You move to all these things.

  312. You be vegan, you be Protestant. You be.

  313. You be what plant you you. You don't eat red meat, you only

  314. eat white meat. Animal diet, all bacon and

  315. cheese. All this stuff that we think is

  316. going to cause us to find us. And God did not cause us to live

  317. a life of modification. Just 'cause you feel good and

  318. your body don't mean you walking in holiness.

  319. I don't care how good your body look it look.

  320. I don't care how banging your hair is.

  321. I don't care how big your muscles is.

  322. I don't care how fly your car is.

  323. I don't care how fly your home is.

  324. What about this home? I don't care how long your

  325. lashes are. I don't care how much you got in

  326. the back or the front in the middle.

  327. I don't care. How's your soul?

  328. Don't care who you know? How's your soul?

  329. We've been trying to find ourselves outside of holy.

  330. No wonder we have power potential and not power living.

  331. You you ever, you ever try to plug your phone up to an outlet

  332. only to find out it ain't working?

  333. That that's how that's how we are sometimes right people

  334. supposed to plug into your life and get results.

  335. Some of y'all can help people find a job, but you can't help

  336. people find Jesus. You get what I'm saying You can

  337. help people find a good time, but you can't help people to a

  338. lifestyle of worship. So there's this form of

  339. godliness. There's this power potential and

  340. not. Power living.

  341. A lot of our choices short circuit, the power that God

  342. created us to walk in and live in.

  343. You were created to walk in power.

  344. How do I know that? It's in Genesis one, It's in the

  345. Holy Scriptures and then we fail and then the Holy Spirit was

  346. given to us to do what In the meanwhile, while we're waiting

  347. for eternal power to a live a lifestyle of authority and

  348. stewardship and dominion, Holy Spirit has come within us to

  349. fill us so that we can walk in image and likeness.

  350. You ready? If you're not walking in

  351. authority, you're not walking in God's image or likeness.

  352. You're not walking in garden realities.

  353. If you get a runny nose and you think you got cancer, I'm just

  354. saying how we just get freaked out over stuff.

  355. You're not walking in authority when you go to family dinners

  356. and you let your uncle who been drinking for 30 years before you

  357. was born get on your nerves and you didn't you, You want to

  358. leave because you don't have enough power to stand in the

  359. midst of darkness, have joy while other people are walking

  360. in oppression. You don't.

  361. You're not walking in power. You you let people get on your

  362. nerves. You get easily offended.

  363. That's not a garden reality. You lose a job and you lose your

  364. mind. You lose a boyfriend or a

  365. girlfriend, you lose your mind. You don't know how to be single.

  366. You don't know how to be alone. You don't know how to to, to

  367. pursue God on your you don't. You don't know You need King

  368. James. You need living translation, you

  369. need TPT, you need NIV, you need amplified.

  370. You need message amplified classic, the God version.

  371. You need all this stuff for God to reveal himself.

  372. And it's never meant to be that way.

  373. We were just walking with him. Now all of a sudden we need

  374. perfect sound, we need perfect disc, we need perfect that, we

  375. need perfect disc. We need friends, we need

  376. community, we need alpha, we need Omega.

  377. We need all this stuff. And after you've went through

  378. all the courses the church provides, are you just more

  379. acclimated with the culture of the church or the culture of the

  380. Kingdom? Are you walking in holiness or

  381. are you now walking in community?

  382. We have idolized community and abandoned Kingdom and not every

  383. community. Is walking in Kingdom last day's

  384. talk? In that day the Lord will remove

  385. the heavy burden from your shoulders and break off the yoke

  386. of bondage from your neck. In that day, this is our day.

  387. Say this is our day. Is is there some heavy?

  388. Is there anybody doing heavy lifting?

  389. Like burdens? You have a burden for the bride,

  390. you have a burden for seeing people, for sons and daughters

  391. come home. Do you have a is there?

  392. Does the darkness of the world bother?

  393. Anybody in here at all? Now I'm talking about beyond it

  394. threatening you. Like I don't want to walk

  395. through that neighborhood because it's dangerous.

  396. But as long as I, you know, I can go eat and have coffee and

  397. kids, I have peace. So what you're saying is that I

  398. don't really have a burden unless I walk through something.

  399. But if I don't have to see it and if I can stay away from it,

  400. then I'm really not burdened aside from when I see it.

  401. My question is, can God show it to you?

  402. See, I don't need to see E Hastings to be burdened about

  403. Vancouver. What what I understand is

  404. there's his yoke he puts up on me and he said this is what this

  405. this is what Rebecca said. He said, let me go up and let me

  406. see what God is going to tell me about the burden.

  407. God opened his eyes to the calamity of the world and he saw

  408. trouble. And because he wanted to see

  409. what God saw, he also was willing to carry what God

  410. carried. I'm talking about you ready.

  411. I am talking about burden from God, not burden from

  412. inconvenience. I'm not talking about you got

  413. burdens when life ain't going your way.

  414. I'm talking about burdens you carry because God's heart is

  415. greed, because his children are lost.

  416. It's very important to understand because you got to

  417. see the main purpose for the anointing.

  418. He says in that day, the Lord will remove heavy burden from

  419. your shoulders and break off the yoke of bondage from your necks

  420. because of the heavy anointing upon you.

  421. The anointing is for those who are willing to carry the burden.

  422. Once the burden leaves, the anointing has no purpose.

  423. Yoke destroying, Bird removing. Power, He says, take my yoke up

  424. on you. My yoke is easy.

  425. Why? Because he's in partnership.

  426. The burdens you have because of what you chose to walk in,

  427. that's your stuff. So you can't be like, oops,

  428. slipped up in it. God slipped me out.

  429. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You didn't say Lord slip me in

  430. you now you wanted to slip you out.

  431. No, no, no, no, no. That's not how it work.

  432. If you slipped in, everybody say you can slip out.

  433. Why you need help now? Why you didn't ask for help and

  434. discernment? Hallelujah, we OK, so then

  435. prepare your hearts and minds. For action, stay alert.

  436. So if God's telling us to stay alert, then what is the enemy

  437. trying to do? Distract.

  438. Can we all agree that there is great distractions?

  439. In these days. Like back in the day, no phones.

  440. I don't know. You, you tell your kids that

  441. they'd be like, ma dad, that's your day.

  442. Like when I tell my kids, see, I'm going to have to take you on

  443. a mission trip so you could be more grateful.

  444. They like, but I don't got to go on no mission trip.

  445. That's not my life. And I get it.

  446. God knew that we could not make it in that dispensation of time.

  447. It was just simple, right? Sound crazy to ride a donkey

  448. somewhere, but it's kind of simple, right?

  449. That's why meal planning is pretty simple.

  450. It's like you don't got to think about what?

  451. You're going to eat. Thinking about dinner can be

  452. very stressful. Has thinking about dinner ever

  453. stole your joy or your peace? Yeah.

  454. Lunch breakfast. That's why some people don't eat

  455. breakfast, because it's too much to think about end up eating.

  456. Chips for breakfast. Like, let me just grab some

  457. chips. No, no, no.

  458. Why? Why?

  459. He said. Stay alert.

  460. So the enemy's coming after your focus, man.

  461. I'm, I'm trying to preach to some, some, some, some

  462. believers. The enemy is coming after your

  463. focus. And here it is.

  464. He's coming after your ability to discern spirits, discern

  465. God's timing, discern the relationships God is calling you

  466. to. And then Jeremiah says, listen

  467. to me. He says the heart is the most

  468. deceitful of all and then he says who knows the heart?

  469. What was the answer? God.

  470. So if God knows the heart, you ready?

  471. He knows the leaders you need, right?

  472. In other words, you don't know your heart like God do.

  473. So you trying to find a church and pick what you want and what

  474. you think is your culture, your style, It ain't never.

  475. It's not going to necessarily lead to your freedom.

  476. Some churches we've been in allowed us to be comfortable in

  477. our captivity and then we come here and we like it's too loud.

  478. No, it's not too loud. No God too close to your

  479. business now. So you start critiquing and

  480. being picky. Church too long.

  481. It ain't too long. But you know, the longer you

  482. stay here, God might come down your Rd.

  483. You'll sit in, you'll sit in the movie for three hours, you'll

  484. binge 7 episodes. Don't talk about time.

  485. What the problem is, is the enemy is like you got to get out

  486. of here. You notice your awareness of

  487. time never came from Revelation. It never came from the Spirit of

  488. God. It came from your flesh.

  489. You start getting antsy in church.

  490. You're like, it's high. What's the Bible say?

  491. Stay alert. But you just can't stay alert.

  492. What are you? What are you fixed to picture?

  493. Hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you.

  494. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of

  495. grace will be released to you. For the believer, the darkness

  496. of our times. Is good news.

  497. Not for those who will be victims of the darkness, but for

  498. those who are called to be the light.

  499. In the darkness where sin abounds, grace does much.

  500. More. He says in that day there's

  501. going to be a great measure of grace.

  502. He said where there's a really heavy burden, there's going to

  503. be a heaven and heavy anointing. He says rise and shine.

  504. Gross darkness will cover the earth.

  505. But for you, my children, the glory of the Lord will be upon

  506. you. Kings will come to your light.

  507. That's good news for us. Somebody say I'm anointed for

  508. such a time as God's obedient children, as God's obedient

  509. children never again shape your life, your lives by the desires

  510. that you followed when you didn't know better.

  511. Some of y'all in here, you know better now.

  512. So what's your excuse? That God says you have more.

  513. You're held accountable now because you know better.

  514. So you notice when you start manipulating your mind, you

  515. start acting like you don't know.

  516. So I hate it. Funny how we can make ourselves

  517. forget something we know. That's some hardcore

  518. manipulation where you just you, you shopping online and you just

  519. like accidentally pressed that payment button.

  520. You like, Oh no, come back and you start hitting the fuck up.

  521. He's like, Dang Dang God, I won't do that next time.

  522. I've never done that before. I was just, I went to.

  523. I learned that in theological seminary school.

  524. If you're watching, sweetheart, I'm so sorry.

  525. I'll repeat right now in front of everybody.

  526. Instead, shape your lives to become like back.

  527. You see how he's trying to get us back to likeness?

  528. He wouldn't tell us to become like if we never was to become

  529. like the Holy One who what called you for Scripture says,

  530. because it is written, you shall be holy, not act holy.

  531. You shall be holy not act holy. And man became a living being,

  532. not doing, but being. And that was the announcement

  533. after Holy breathed in US. He says holy is this it's not

  534. long dress. It's not a scarf over your face.

  535. It's not no lipstick, no makeup. That ain't holy.

  536. So all the church, anybody ever been to a holiness church or

  537. been around where you you know, to the folk, you wear something

  538. and they'd be like young lady to the you can't you got to go home

  539. and change and come in here like.

  540. You can't handle they legs, but God can you, You Now, now.

  541. Here we go, Mark. Here we go, Mark.

  542. If you actually be holy, a girl's cleavage won't disturb

  543. you fellas. But you ain't being holy.

  544. So you want her to change so you don't have to.

  545. You know what I'm saying is it's like, no, she can't wear that.

  546. She can't wear that. No, you can't stare that.

  547. You stop staring. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm serious,

  548. man. This is what holy allows you.

  549. You're what you're trying here. It is.

  550. You're trying to cope with perversion instead of if you

  551. were being holy, some of the things that tempt you would not

  552. tempt you. So we're trying, we're trying to

  553. find ourselves outside of holy. That's why we need therapy.

  554. Therapy is good. Come on that.

  555. Now, now, whoever's on pro presenter, we ain't here yet.

  556. They over there preaching they own sermon to them.

  557. Get back. Here we go.

  558. Angua. Her name is Angua.

  559. You guys Angua? Like like no, no, no, no, no,

  560. no, no. Understand, I couldn't just make

  561. the decision to stop drinking and smoking.

  562. I had. I understood that the call to

  563. leave behind was the lesser of what I was called to step into.

  564. And if you trying to leave something behind with a lesser

  565. forward motive, then you will always end up back.

  566. No, no, no, I, I was able to go cold Turkey because what was

  567. before me tasted better, right? Right.

  568. You ever break up with somebody and then you get with you

  569. thought you didn't want to be with them, then you got with the

  570. next one that was worse that that one.

  571. Worse. Didn't want it.

  572. You didn't want to get a new one.

  573. You wanted to go back to the old one because you were programmed

  574. to think that that's better than that.

  575. What are you leaving for? Only way I was able to put down

  576. the drink and the drugs and and the life and the woman.

  577. Not all that. Only way is because what I was

  578. stepping into the love of God was greater.

  579. The love of God made me want to stay away made me want to me and

  580. me and my wife was in Italy. You didn't think they asked us

  581. did we want some wine. Me and my wife looked at each

  582. other and know them before we went was like baby.

  583. We went far away for like our 50th anniversary.

  584. You know when we serve the Lord and we almost to heaven.

  585. Can't like and we were both like, it ain't worth losing the

  586. testimony. Like like, like you see what I'm

  587. saying? I didn't say to you I didn't

  588. want to have a sip but the sip isn't worth what I can stand up

  589. here and tell you that I once was lost and now I'm found.

  590. You get what I'm saying. It's not worth it and some of

  591. y'all here it is. You're getting anxious in a

  592. season. Ask yourself in your singleness,

  593. does God want my singleness for a testimony?

  594. Not is God trying to keep me from someone.

  595. What's great if you just think God's trying to keep you from

  596. something you think you're going to miss out and here it is.

  597. That's how holy got messed up. Holy got messed up because the

  598. devil said you, you still going to be good.

  599. And here's how the enemy gets you.

  600. If you start longing for something you think is not

  601. attainable or it's never going to be yours or you'll never get

  602. it. My clock's ticking.

  603. I got to hurry up, find somebody to get pregnant because I want

  604. babies. You don't want a husband, you

  605. want babies. You don't want a husband, you

  606. want a family. What is God trying to get you to

  607. get rooted in so that that testimony can help the next

  608. generation? Here it is.

  609. Your story of singleness can heal someone who just got out of

  610. prostitution and has been grossed out and traumatized by

  611. relationship. It's not merely to tell somebody

  612. to stay single. It is your singleness is might

  613. be going to help somebody stay healed.

  614. You fighting for your marriage is going to not merely just help

  615. somebody stay married, but it's going to help their kids not get

  616. divorced or abuse somebody here. You ready for they over how we

  617. going to overcome and and by the what else is after that.

  618. Then there's this denial of self, but that testimony part

  619. people we think a testimony is something that God just brought

  620. us out of that we accidentally slipped into and and it's not

  621. really about that man. The testimony God graced you to

  622. go to the club because he knew out of it it was going to be a

  623. testimony. What if I told you every

  624. believer's call is to have a testimony and it doesn't have to

  625. be from trash. It don't got to be from getting

  626. shot. It don't got to be from cancer.

  627. It don't got to be. We always think, do you know,

  628. one of the greatest testimonies is that didn't happen.

  629. You should be holy, for I am holy.

  630. You want to see holy in flesh, Look at Jesus.

  631. He was tempted and Jesus had girls.

  632. Now ladies, if you like a man got a good job, He got a nice

  633. car and all that. Can you imagine just hanging

  634. around Jesus and just like you saw him take a lunch pail some

  635. of y'all? If y'all saw Jesus turn that

  636. water into wine, you would have been like, that's my man right

  637. there. God told me that you the wisdom

  638. that he had, the game that he had.

  639. Help us, Jesus. The Bible said he had.

  640. He was tempted in every way what Jesus says.

  641. Jesus was looking for his testimony to be in Hebrews 12.

  642. It was hard for me, but boy, I saw people far off and I had joy

  643. because I knew my testimony. Was going to save.

  644. Terrence See, we're not fighting for testimonies.

  645. We're not trying to protect testimony.

  646. We just slipping up on testimonies.

  647. Oh, I was getting drunk and I don't drink no more.

  648. But you didn't have to drink. It would have been more of a

  649. testimony if you just didn't drink, right?

  650. All testimonies don't got to be what he brought me from.

  651. It could be where he kept me. Am I talking to somebody?

  652. Has God, Has God kept anybody from anything, from anywhere?

  653. Come on. If he has, lift your hands right

  654. where you are and just open your mouth and thank him.

  655. There's some places you didn't have to be, some places you

  656. wouldn't have survived, some places you wouldn't have made

  657. it. God, thank you for keeping us

  658. out of it. Thank you for protecting us from

  659. it. Lord God, thank you for shutting

  660. that door. Thank you, Father, for keeping

  661. me from things that I didn't even know.

  662. If you brought it to me or allowed it, I would have.

  663. I would have gave in. A good parent keeps their kids

  664. from now say, go ahead, do it. I got you.

  665. The good, good father's trying to keep you out of it.

  666. The good, good father told Adam and Eve, Don't even try.

  667. I'm putting the tree there, but so you don't have to have that

  668. tree. You can have all of these.

  669. I'm here to tell you what God is trying to keep you from.

  670. There is so much to eat off of. Do not be enamoured by that one

  671. tree. That experience is not worth

  672. your covenant. Come on, lift your hands, open

  673. your mouth right where you are. If He's kept you from some stuff

  674. and I want you to praise Him and worship Him for what He kept you

  675. from and you don't know about it because let me tell you, it's

  676. some stuff that God kept you from that you will not find out

  677. what He kept you from till you get on the other side.

  678. That person that stepped on your porch and tried to break in

  679. while you were asleep and they went to the next neighbor's

  680. door, that car that was about to take you out.

  681. Come on, open your mouths. Yeah.

  682. Come on, thank him. Come on.

  683. It's not just what you brought me from.

  684. It's what you kept me from. Come on.

  685. It's what you kept me from. Lord God, you kept me from that

  686. relationship. You kept me from that

  687. conversation. You kept me.

  688. Lord, You kept me. You kept me standing when I

  689. would have failed. Lord, God, come on, You kept me.

  690. You kept me from my own ignorance.

  691. You kept me from my own pride. You kept me.

  692. God, you kept me. Lord Jesus, you kept me.

  693. Come on. I should have lost my mind.

  694. But you kept my mind. Lord God, come on, You kept me.

  695. Lord God, bring it down.

  696. Want you to hear me? God will always try to keep you

  697. from before. He lets you through.

  698. Every person has been here where you, you, you.

  699. You had trouble breaking through something.

  700. Here it is where the enemy will trick you and your flesh and

  701. biblical manipulation. Do you think because it's harder

  702. to get, it must be God and it must be the devil trying to keep

  703. it from me. But how many times have you

  704. fought for something? You prayed for something you

  705. ready and you gave for something you got into it and you like,

  706. wait a minute. I thought God, I I just know for

  707. sure God told me. Now your faith is jacked up.

  708. I'm trying to tell you. God is saying that this season

  709. should be simple. Same word.

  710. He gave us the hardest thing to do this year.

  711. It's going to be. Interest.

  712. I'm telling some of you, you don't have to have.

  713. That side of the testimony, God is trying to keep some of you

  714. from greater trouble. Here it is.

  715. God is God. Wants.

  716. You for himself. He's trying to redeem a

  717. generation and a people so that we can bring this last day

  718. harvest home. It's not about your desires

  719. right now. It's about God's desires and his

  720. desires is his sons and daughters.

  721. This is why we're after building this building and trying to

  722. close it out and trying to get across the finish line.

  723. Come on, lift your hands all over the place.

  724. We've tried to find ourselves outside of holy and we were

  725. created in holy from holy for holy in holy from holy for holy.

  726. God is coming for His children and for those that want to be

  727. home, welcome home. I will tell you that.

  728. Home and we're going to get. Into this next experience.

  729. But home is not this building. This is home.

  730. This is why you're going to be set free.

  731. This is why Pharmakeia will not be able to hold you as you get

  732. rooted in the word is because he paid for this body.

  733. This body does not belong to drugs.

  734. It does not belong to anything toxic or perverted.

  735. He's coming for his home. He's coming for his children.

  736. He's coming for His bride. So, Father, I thank you for the

  737. finished work of the blood of Jesus.

  738. We thank You for confirming Your word with miracles, signs, and

  739. wonders. Lord, we walk away in full

  740. confidence that before we even came to this moment, You knew

  741. exactly what we needed. So Lord, I thank you that we

  742. have approached our prayer closet with a yes and Amen.

  743. Your promise still stands. Great is your faithfulness.

  744. Hallelujah, Amen. Well, you got to get rooted,

  745. Stay rooted. You got to come to a house that

  746. is going to continue to feed you the Word.

  747. We start our Wednesday nights back up this Wednesday, make a

  748. make a decision, come on, make a decision, make a decision to not

  749. be a Sunday Christian. What are we coming here

  750. Wednesday for? To make disciples.

  751. You want to be equipped, you want to be trained and you want

  752. to do it alongside other people who are fighting for their lives

  753. and their freedom. Wednesday night, this Wednesday

  754. night, for those who have never been, it's going to be a

  755. different format. We will have worship, but we

  756. will have some little breakout sections because we want what

  757. we're teaching to be ingrained. It's going to be fun, it's going

  758. to be good. And hopefully through your

  759. faithfulness and continual attendance, you will get

  760. connected to a group and and be disciple and become a part of

  761. this dynasty family, right? I know the Lakers have a

  762. dynasty. They working on getting it back.

  763. I know Boston, you know what I mean.

  764. But what I do know is the Kingdom of God is and was the

  765. 1st and will be the last dynasty standing.

  766. Yeah. And so one thing I want you to

  767. mark in your calendar is next Saturday, I need you to help us

  768. pack this place out from the front to the back is going to be

  769. fun. We're going to have some food.

  770. We're going to have some fun. And you're going to get and we

  771. don't, man, it's going to be so cool.

  772. How we going set up this stage? But we are going to have a

  773. listening party and you're going to get a chance to listen to

  774. like 30 of my new songs and you're going to help me select

  775. what my album is going to look like.

  776. We're going to have some live performances by a few of our own

  777. in the house and we'll have a DJ.

  778. It's going to be super fun. Saturday night at 7:00 PM.

  779. Don't come at 7, come earlier because you, you you might end

  780. up out there in the tent if you don't come in here, it's going

  781. to be some couches and it's going to be fun.

  782. So come out and support. Can y'all do that?

  783. All right, some of y'all didn't say nothing, but that's OK.

  784. I'm going to guard my heart from you.

  785. Amen. And then May 9th, there's not a

  786. flyer, but I want to get it in your in your soul.

  787. A few months back we went to Victoria.

  788. Anybody know people in Victoria? Anybody ever heard of Victoria?

  789. Amen. OK.

  790. Do you, how many people know Victoria need Jesus?

  791. Amen. And so we're going to go back

  792. May 9th and we're going to have a worship night out there and

  793. encounter night. We have the church, we have

  794. everything set up and it's a Friday night.

  795. And so mark it on your calendar because if you can come out

  796. there and make it and be a part of it, it'd be nice to have Love

  797. Quest show up on the island and run some demons off that island.

  798. Is that cool? All right, all right.

  799. Put your hand on your neighbor's shoulder and then look at them.

  800. Say don't touch me. No, I'm just playing.

  801. I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

  802. I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

  803. I'm just playing. I'm just playing.

  804. Come on, Pray for your neighbor. Just 30 seconds.

  805. Something simple and straight. Forgetting something.

  806. I forgetting something. What's that weekend called?

  807. King Me 10 seconds is that? 5 seconds.

  808. All right, listen up really quickly next weekend.

  809. Is our Our anniversary was in February, but we're celebrating

  810. it next Sunday. All right so the entire weekend

  811. is is it's it's it's I'll be preaching on King me for our

  812. anniversary and I'll bring some revelation to what that is as we

  813. leave 7 and go to 8 and David, what is his was the 8th, the 8th

  814. brother, right, 8th brother something special about this

  815. eighth year. And so next weekend the the the

  816. album release concert is a part of the anniversary celebration

  817. and so or listening party. So we need y'all out for

  818. Saturday and Sunday. OK, Amen.

  819. I think that's it. No, no, please. 15th was it 13

  820. grand Brettt came in last week. We have $237,000 to get in a

  821. week. It's in the house.

  822. Is it sacrificial? Absolutely.

  823. OK, But anything that's going to last, it's going to cost.

  824. We want to be in our building by June, but we cannot do that for

  825. free. Amen.

  826. Everybody, 100% of the people in this room can give something.

  827. So I am looking forward to telling you the testimony next

  828. weekend that what we are asking for and what God is needing for

  829. this house, we going to bring it in.

  830. Amen. Have a wonderful day and tell

  831. somebody on the way out. You look real good today.

  832. Amen. Get your love fixed man.

  833. We need the fear of the Lord. Thank you so much for tuning

  834. into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged,

  835. equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all

  836. platforms. That's Lovequest Intl church.

  837. We out here for real. We're really doing it.

  838. That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

  839. You can find us anywhere you need to find us.

  840. But until next time, you know the drill.

  841. You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see

  842. y'all real soon.