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Wonder: Day 17 - "The Turning Point" (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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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 cold time, let's get into it.

  9. God's doing some really, really cool things.

  10. Last night we dealt with turn the turning point and we are in

  11. a turning point. Everybody.

  12. I was talking to the team in the back and I'm like, we're, we're

  13. in a season where you have to make quick decisions to cut

  14. what's hindering the glory. Like, like some of the things

  15. that I, I'm grieving right in this season and I'm real.

  16. I'm, I'm grieving having to reposture and recontextualize

  17. some relationships. And so I'm grieving how I once

  18. was able to pastor or how I once was able to relate to people.

  19. And now God's calling me to a place where see what you got to

  20. understand. There's see there's there's

  21. there's seasons that you are grace to be certain things

  22. right. It's like a parent like I'm I

  23. can't at 18 years old when I see Malachi and be like Hey buddy,

  24. like I'm still dad, but I'm. I got to talk.

  25. To him, different, He talks to me different, we hang out

  26. different. And the scary part in this

  27. season is people are going to remain the same and have the

  28. same unhealthy relationships with God.

  29. When God always plants the seed. The problem is the condition of

  30. your soil. And that's what we got into last

  31. night. And I shared a little bit of my

  32. frustrations that God placed in my heart is really His

  33. grievance. And His bride is sick.

  34. We have idolized Sunday. We have idolized going to church

  35. more than being the church. And so I'll talk a little bit

  36. about it tonight. I will have a full picture on

  37. Sunday of how He has charged me to charge us to break some

  38. things because Sunday and serving has become an idol and

  39. serving and Sunday has been. One of the greatest areas the

  40. enemy has been able to use to divide and conquer in the local

  41. church. Many people would not.

  42. I, I've watched this. If you don't serve or if you

  43. start to serve and stop serving, you see many people who

  44. backtrack. They found a church home, they

  45. start serving. Whatever reason, they stop

  46. serving and shortly after they're gone.

  47. So much of our involvement in church has to be with having a

  48. position, a place, God using US, feeling important, having

  49. friends, being seen so much of that.

  50. And now church, how we've made it and what you heard last

  51. night. You can't package the anointing.

  52. And so a lot of our administrative frustrate.

  53. This is I I, I personally can hold the tension to understand

  54. that I can work better and being more professional, whatever that

  55. means, because to different people that means different

  56. things. But also the administrative mind

  57. also needs to stop idolizing what they think is order and

  58. understand that God does procure your things sometimes like this.

  59. How would it drive some of you crazy if God said you're going

  60. to help me feed 10,000 people? All we got is 2 fish, 5 loaves

  61. of bread. Would you take him at his word?

  62. How would you feel if God said, hey you see that little stick in

  63. your hand? Point it towards the sea?

  64. How many of you will look at God like OK right?

  65. How many of you would you look at God crazy if there was a man

  66. that was dead and you thought God was going to use dead bones

  67. to bring a man back to life? How many silly things do we see

  68. in the Bible that God does to blow your mind?

  69. And so the church has packaged. We've done a great job packaging

  70. the church because what we're trying to do is we're trying to

  71. relate to the world, we're trying to influence the world.

  72. And we think that it's the package that God needs to win

  73. souls. Here it is.

  74. I can stand in this kitchen. He needs certain things but not

  75. more than presents. So I can agree with you that he

  76. needs like Flyers can help or certain machines can help and

  77. certain systems can help. But over here, why we aren't as

  78. intense to make sure you are led by the Holy Ghost in your

  79. day-to-day life. One day a week has caused so

  80. much division. And realistically, it ain't even

  81. about that. We've made it about programs, we

  82. made it about community. We've made it about this is

  83. where you go to find your friends, you find clients, you

  84. find all the church. And this is what we read last

  85. night. Jesus turned over the tables,

  86. says you're not going to make my church my, my church, my temple

  87. out of a den of thieves. And then after he put the house

  88. in order, what happened? People got healed, right?

  89. Because we're not doing what it takes.

  90. How was he able to heal? Because he had a life of prayer

  91. and he came into a place that wasn't a House of prayer, but he

  92. put it back in in the order it was supposed to be.

  93. For us, we get a word all the way from the islands that the

  94. next wind of revival in this house will be a revival of

  95. prayer, Right? Look, the church, it's easy to

  96. find conferences, easy to easy to find books, easy to find

  97. seminars, easy to find packages, easy.

  98. You want to know how to grow your church?

  99. Easy. You, you, you got thousands of

  100. information, thousands of books. This is look, I can hold the

  101. attention that God loves excellence, but I could also

  102. look in the word where God has disrupted your excellence, my

  103. excellence, humans excellence here, here's excellence.

  104. The Red Sea was excellence. But he disrupted what the sea

  105. was supposed to do so he can do what he wanted to do, right?

  106. We're in a season where God, the fear of God, is coming to

  107. totally rearrange how you have. Even related to him and it's

  108. going to cause some people to grieve relationships because in

  109. as you are trying to find the new you will go against or come

  110. against people that want to stay in the old here it is they it's

  111. not like they intentionally are like no, I'm not I'm not going

  112. into the new, but by nature right.

  113. And so I guess I could start. There and just letting some

  114. people know is in February the the Lord says if you're willing,

  115. let's do it. But as I search for a way of

  116. frustration. I'm like, man, we can do this

  117. better. We we can do this, but what

  118. people don't understand is I follow the Lord from the time we

  119. planted the church. So when I'm seeing and this

  120. ain't the only church I've stepped in, but when I see this

  121. consistent disgruntledness in the body of Christ and it's not

  122. about what it should be about. Rather it's politics rather it

  123. is marketing rather, I find my here you go.

  124. Cannot let me just put it on me. I don't think we post enough

  125. where I get that from because we're in a day and age where

  126. there's these temptations to be like and the only way we going

  127. to get the news out is So then I got to check my heart because in

  128. how I see I want to move forward in certain things can impact how

  129. I lead people. And then I lose the fervor that

  130. once I had when I started before I had the pressure.

  131. I don't know the Bible I read God does some pretty ridiculous

  132. stuff. Thank God right now saying God

  133. saying yesterday again for everyone, we all this stuff.

  134. But then when it comes to us and I'm like, so in February, I'll

  135. have all the details on Sunday, OK?

  136. So don't press me for all the details right now, OK.

  137. But in February we are not having no Sunday services, no

  138. Saturday, nothing. There was something planned,

  139. Papa shop and and the Renaissance thing.

  140. On the 1st Sunday, which I think is next Sunday there will be no

  141. morning services. After that there will be no

  142. morning, no need, nothing. We are we are gathering Monday,

  143. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

  144. Come or don't come, doesn't even matter what.

  145. Are we going to gather Monday through Friday doing worship and

  146. prayer like we've been doing before the revival week?

  147. Why? Because that's what he wants.

  148. How dare us give the world 8 hours a week to work and to

  149. slave and to do us. But then then then then then

  150. Sunday we going to cram in all the community and cram in all

  151. pursuing God and one day and then got the nerve to be upset

  152. over spontaneous worship or church too long.

  153. We we like like like not save. People ain't complaining.

  154. It's us. What, where, where are we?

  155. Wait. And that doesn't grieve.

  156. No, not many people. So when God says that the, the,

  157. that, that, that, that the spirit of the fear of God comes

  158. up on you. This is the kind of stuff the

  159. spirit of the fear of God does. He causes you to really look at

  160. your heart. And it's why a lot of people

  161. don't want to walk with God, because it costs.

  162. And there's a lot of amazing churches in this city, in this

  163. nation. Oh, man, we have a call.

  164. But Sunday has been an idol for a lot of Christians.

  165. We dressed our best on Sundays. We prepare the best Christmas.

  166. Who knows, this year we might do Christmas service, we might

  167. celebrate Christmas. I don't know.

  168. We might do our Christmas production in November, right?

  169. You see, you see how you feel because you like, wait a minute,

  170. that's out of order. That ain't even Christmas, Jesus

  171. birthday. Like what are you talking about?

  172. But all the work we put into event we made, we made church

  173. about events. Like we don't present Jesus in

  174. presence. We present him.

  175. We package him and put him in events.

  176. So Easter we're going to get together and we're going to meet

  177. and we're going to put on something really good because

  178. that's when a lot of people normally go to church.

  179. You know, a lot of people normally go to church when the

  180. church be to church, then Christmas, then Thanksgiving,

  181. all this stuff and we have fallen into and when we read

  182. last night, Jesus said you want to follow me?

  183. You ready to rough it? We read the scriptures that he

  184. said I don't have a place to lay my head as he was poor.

  185. No, he he actually was on the move and the church has lost its

  186. movement and his sentness. We're trying to find a church

  187. home that we can retire at, not a church home we can move with.

  188. Let let me, let me put, let me just be clear.

  189. A pastoral centered house is more likely to be focused on an

  190. Apostolic scent house, prophetic scent house.

  191. There's a sentness, a urgency, it's a move, and that's why you

  192. can't box every church into. Every church has a type of

  193. fivefold ministry gift that is the primary lead in anointing.

  194. This is why it's very dangerous at times to have multiple

  195. pastors, right? We don't mind hiring pastors.

  196. When the last church you seen somebody hire a prophet because

  197. they was a prophet, not a pastor.

  198. When's the last time you seen somebody hire an evangelist

  199. because they were an evangelist? So you see why a lot of gifts

  200. sit idle in churches because the primary gift does not have the

  201. anointing to activate them. So we don't listen to one person

  202. on the screen. This is, I'm not talking to any

  203. particularly. This is a popular thing across

  204. the world. But you can't tell me in them

  205. seats. You can't tell me Deborah can't

  206. preach. You can't tell me Wayne ain't

  207. got a word you can't tell me Danny can't ain't got a word you

  208. can't tell me you got to. You got this big old church and

  209. you're the only preacher or the only people that can preach his

  210. own staff. Where's the activation?

  211. But here it is, you're wondering.

  212. How they get, How do these churches get big guarantee you

  213. what I've seen, what I've seen, what I've seen, and this is not,

  214. this is not true for every, this is not everybody's stories, but

  215. a lot of leaders in churches know how to do business very

  216. well, systems, programs, which is something that I think is

  217. amazing. Administration is a gift from

  218. God. It's a spiritual gift in the

  219. Bible and it's very vital to maintaining revival.

  220. So administration is a must. Systems are must.

  221. You ready for this dip? Watch this.

  222. Here's what people forgot. OK, we worldly systems are

  223. policies, procedures, checks and balances.

  224. Pro presenter, planning center, team apps, all these things.

  225. These are these are systems. But what you didn't realize is

  226. that the Prof the fivefold ministry gifts are God's

  227. administrative gifts that you ready for this Elder John is a

  228. system. OK, let me help you out, Effie.

  229. Jesus says he's the chief cornerstone, which mean as a

  230. man, if Jesus is not set first, everything else, every system is

  231. not in alignment that lines up with him.

  232. So we have to understand what kind of anointing is on this

  233. house and build systems around the anointing of this house.

  234. So a pastoral kind of cornerstone type church needs

  235. certain type of anointings. That's why certain certain.

  236. You look at Craig Grosshell, powerful.

  237. I love Craig Grosshell and that brother and they do great

  238. business and the anointing on his life, the administrative

  239. gifts look like his gift. So, so, so help me out if we say

  240. that there was no blueprint for what God is building here, that

  241. also mean that there's no systems that are in the earth

  242. yet or in this city or in this nation.

  243. So before we get proper here, here, here, here, I, I feel the

  244. frustration, but I never look at what we're frustrated about.

  245. I got to look at the warfare behind what's causing the

  246. frustration. So when's this going to change?

  247. When's that going to change? Man, trust me, I want it to

  248. change. But we can't build systems that

  249. can't sustain the move of God in this house.

  250. So here you go. Ephesians 6 says that the.

  251. Enemy principality in high places.

  252. Rulers in high places. Deputisms.

  253. He has systems. And we have a lot of worldly

  254. business systems that are amazing that the church should

  255. have. And I wouldn't give them to the

  256. world. I would give them to the wisdom

  257. of God. But there's a whole nother

  258. system that we have not yet learned how to apply.

  259. That's why you only see one or two.

  260. Gifts in a church take me to a church where all 5 gifts are

  261. activated. Realized and mobilized, the FIFO

  262. ministry is a system. Now let's build systems around

  263. the anointing on this house. Guess what that takes?

  264. Trusting God takes the Holy Spirit.

  265. It takes patience. Because I don't know about you,

  266. but I see God building this church and I have just

  267. experienced God beginning piece by piece to release proper

  268. pieces, set them in place, and then we're going to see the.

  269. Systems support. We're going to see a big shift

  270. in our church. We're going to see church growth

  271. from it, but we're building something that can last a set of

  272. times. The the the test of times,

  273. right? So you got to kind of build care

  274. like next door. They're building for those to

  275. never be like how long that takes, like it takes time.

  276. But in the midst of it, there comes a time where God

  277. challenges his church and say, what price are you willing to

  278. pay? For the new I asked the Lord

  279. that and he says, son, what's on your heart?

  280. Oh man, I said, I think we need to just shut church down for a

  281. month and I'm like, Dang, we can't because we can't do that

  282. because the point is not about not gathering.

  283. The point is turning over the idol.

  284. So in February you get details. Sunday you do what you want to

  285. do. On Sunday you go to another

  286. church. But I want you to When Sunday

  287. comes around, I want you to examine your heart.

  288. Do you? Feel like you got to go to a

  289. church? Why?

  290. Like if the whole point is to just gather with the Saints as

  291. we are called to and serve the body of Christ and, and, and

  292. come to church, then it doesn't matter.

  293. It doesn't really matter. So, so there's no like we're not

  294. going to have production like except for sound.

  295. We're not going to have children's church.

  296. We're not going to have Cafe for what?

  297. Let's just come for what it's for and then I'm encouraging

  298. teams to meet with their team just once in that whole month

  299. and, and not to plan, but come together and be like, what are

  300. we going to do on the other? Side of this who are we going to

  301. be as a team are we going to return the same way I'm praying

  302. purging happens that mean people leave what I'm praying is

  303. people's hearts change and then come back ready to.

  304. Serve for the right reasons, come back with a a made-up mind

  305. and look you ready. Here's what God does he like

  306. Gideon. You don't need 25,000.

  307. You only need 300. You only need.

  308. Who God is called to rock with you.

  309. I don't know man. I'm just like reading the Bible

  310. and I'm just like. Could.

  311. Could we? Handle any other stories that we

  312. read about. If we were the main character,

  313. could could you be Moses? Would you be Abraham?

  314. And would you even get to the mountain to to sacrifice a lot

  315. your son? Would you have to press?

  316. Through the crowd, like the woman with the issue of.

  317. Blood would you have to been blind like blind Bartimaeus

  318. people are that are are wishing you away from Jesus?

  319. Would you have to cried out louder and would you have to ran

  320. to God? Would you have to untie the

  321. donkey like did like like do you really trust God like at the end

  322. of the day and as I told the team is like.

  323. You have to be honest and stop just declaring by faith and

  324. really examine your heart. What would it?

  325. Look like if I took him at his word.

  326. Like, like that's not a regular worship song because you're

  327. asking a question over and over and that song is actually, we're

  328. singing it to each other. That's a that's a song of

  329. accountability. You think it's because of how

  330. it? Sings you like we talking to

  331. God? He like don't look at me because

  332. I know what it look like. I know what you look like if you

  333. took me at my word. That's why I'm trying to get you

  334. to take me at my word, because I know what you look like.

  335. I gave you guys 5 things last night that I I, I really come

  336. when business stops as usual. Then the Kingdom of heaven can

  337. be the usual when business stops as usual.

  338. It's crazy Natalia. Like we, we get up every day and

  339. go to work and some of y'all in here work way more than 8 hours

  340. and then we have sweet man we and we have funneled God.

  341. Into. Beware of turning the movement

  342. of the Kingdom into a business model for revival.

  343. What I mean, a lot of us think that if we do these things

  344. right, then the harvest is coming.

  345. And it's kind of a mindset undergirding church growth when

  346. I don't see anywhere God telling us to try to grow the church.

  347. Can you please show me a picture, a verse where God says

  348. please go grow my church? I'm going to just show you a

  349. picture where he says I'm the Lord of the harvest, which means

  350. growing the church is his responsibility.

  351. Yeah, I know you thought you found this church, but God found

  352. it and built it for you. He found the church he thought

  353. you needed, so he brought his harvest to the church he felt

  354. was best for him. I see the Holy Spirit, men and

  355. women that followed the Holy Spirit.

  356. Grew the church. Men and women apostles that that

  357. that discipled people crew to church.

  358. God said seek me first and my Kingdom and there's a lot of

  359. stuff we packaged and then put Jesus name on it.

  360. I don't know about you, but I'm searching my heart so deep to

  361. make sure, to make sure that the Lord has my heart, my children's

  362. heart. My wife's heart.

  363. It's serious right now. How many people know you can

  364. have fun and and and be serious? I'm going to have fun like this.

  365. Fun stuff, but it's urgent. Some gifts aren't meant to be

  366. packaged and I'm one of them, right?

  367. Like we go to the grocery store. My wife, my wife, she don't like

  368. getting bags no more. So I hate grocery shopping with

  369. her because we'd be going to the car carrying heck of stuff

  370. because she's like, I ain't paying for no bag.

  371. That's a waste. That's a waste, right?

  372. You ain't going to package these oranges.

  373. No, these oranges going to roll around the back seat until we

  374. get home. I'm just and I'm proud that God

  375. has made brought me to a place in my life where, you know,

  376. coming here to this country for a couple years just fighting

  377. being accepted, misunderstood rather skin color, rather height

  378. and let rather people find out you from America, you

  379. charismatic, You're you're a prosperity preacher.

  380. You you prioritize fashion like the crazy stuff, like we're in a

  381. garage. Dude.

  382. Why are you persecuting me in a garage?

  383. Like I'm not doing anything like I'm not doing anything great

  384. like. And then I had to get over that

  385. and it's just like you just. Can't please everybody,

  386. especially following Jesus. And I'm like, man, wow.

  387. I've had it said to me, I've had it prophesied over me, I've had

  388. all these things, and many of you have.

  389. But until you learn how to embrace your unique, you will

  390. not walk in the anointing the way you are called.

  391. To the anointing is on your unique, not on your popular.

  392. I said yesterday some people are too set to be moved.

  393. You, you ready, some of you. Here it is.

  394. I'm about to help a few people. You're like, man, if God told me

  395. to go, I'll go, but he hasn't really told me anything because

  396. he knows you wouldn't go. Here's how good I say it this

  397. way. God provides in two ways.

  398. He provides as a king and he provides as a father.

  399. A father provides the needs and what we find out, we think that

  400. it's the greatest sign and wonder or fruit when all our

  401. needs are met. That's the blessing.

  402. No, that's that's that's his minimum.

  403. Hey, how many parents in here do you know you respect like I got

  404. to feed my kids. You're not going to the movies.

  405. I'm not obligated to take you to the movies.

  406. I'm not, you can catch the bus in the rain.

  407. I'm not obligate. You can't go to the cops and be

  408. like my dad won't pick me up. You can go to the cops and say

  409. my family won't feed me and there will be some problems

  410. here. You got to understand.

  411. You got to understand God as Father meets his requirements

  412. every day. Let me help you.

  413. Stop settling for mana. Stop settling for daily bread.

  414. That's the father's duty minimum.

  415. So you can be an outright Sinner.

  416. But as a good, good father, I'm going to provide for my bad

  417. kids. You're not doing anything

  418. special because your bills are paid and your pantry's full and

  419. you got a car to get to your job.

  420. Atheists do that. Atheists don't walk in favor,

  421. though. Atheists don't walk in divine

  422. protection, though, Right, right, right.

  423. There is then the king when you're walking in the Kingdom,

  424. there's sons and there's daughters and that's a hole.

  425. And I shared last night, man, my son, you just, but I, I just

  426. want to do anything. Sometimes he tried to act like

  427. he'd a man in the house and he, he, he my daddy.

  428. I'm like, bro, like I know what my daddy looked like.

  429. He wasn't even there. So I know like I don't get up

  430. out of here with all that, get up off the couch, like move.

  431. I went out to Calgary. I'm on television.

  432. I went out to Calgary. That's his house apparently I'm

  433. going out. He just laid out.

  434. I just got from the airport. He laid out his little plates

  435. with salsa on it is there and I walk in, he watching.

  436. TV he's like, what's up? And then my wife had to ask, can

  437. you move so your dad can sit down?

  438. And I'm like, I could tell I'm like, I feel the energy like

  439. he's a dude, right? He my son, but he's.

  440. A dude, I feel his energy like man, what is he doing?

  441. Here like right he had school, he called his mom, I answered

  442. I'm like he like can mom pick me up?

  443. I'm like no. Or his stuff like.

  444. When he came here for Christmas and he's sitting there doing

  445. Calgary. Stuff.

  446. Hey Ma, can you give me some water?

  447. Hey ma, can you now? Now that's what Calgary that's

  448. him and mom. That's when mom moved there for,

  449. that's when she there for but then when dad home, mom priority

  450. is husband. Right.

  451. Can I help you right now? I'm like, wait a minute, you got

  452. my wife running all over the place.

  453. I ain't got my food yet. And it's not like that.

  454. I'm like, but but in that time, there's a time where she's

  455. called to do that. And then just as a son, as a

  456. young man and just maybe now you, you serve mom or you serve

  457. dad or you serve uncle, whatever, right?

  458. It's, it's just like, but but this, but this, this, this, this

  459. heart that's moldable. And, and when I'm, I'm just

  460. super proud, I'm bragging. And when he when he does

  461. something kind of like snappy. He'd be the first one to come

  462. back. Dad, that was my bad.

  463. As a young man that's OK with apologizing, that's a young man

  464. that's willing to ask the hard question.

  465. As a young man that's willing to come over and prophecy on his

  466. dad. Lay hands on his dad as a young

  467. man, right as a as a young man. Why am I bringing this up?

  468. Do you know what it does in the Father's heart when his sons and

  469. daughters are moldable and that is willing to say God really

  470. whatever you need me for at any time.

  471. So there comes seasons where God is going to truly prove.

  472. Your agility. And your agility is going to

  473. create separation because not everybody understands you're in

  474. a season where God, Moses was in a season.

  475. They didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing with

  476. Moses. So they made they own idols.

  477. But God, you guys don't understand.

  478. Sometimes what you got is there will be a man or woman of God

  479. that's willing to be separated for God's sake and be broken

  480. hearted because he's being persecuted or misunderstanded.

  481. But what God is challenging him on is, will you be free from

  482. people's opinions of you? I'm talking experience right

  483. now. You, you're not walking with me

  484. in the mountains where God's like, yeah, I'm the one

  485. separating. I know I'm the same person that

  486. told, told, told, told Moses ago.

  487. And I hardened Pharaoh's heart. What was I doing?

  488. I'm the same one telling you to look like a fool and and and be

  489. spontaneous sometimes and sometimes you got in your flesh

  490. and you did that. And I'm willing to admit that.

  491. But he didn't correct in the in the way where I was being

  492. rebellious. I was in a rhythm where I'm

  493. trying to find him and some of y'all so afraid of making a

  494. mess. You can't you.

  495. You like How do I hear God? You afraid to make a mess?

  496. You're going to always have trouble hearing God.

  497. That's why you always need signs.

  498. You want to hear them or you need a sign.

  499. Here, here, here you go. Something fail.

  500. That's hearing them. Here's a sign, right?

  501. Some of you didn't hear something fail until you saw

  502. something fail. And most of us have a

  503. frustrating walk with God because you always need A and

  504. the more you don't walk with God, the more you need signs.

  505. Conversations is for the walkers.

  506. Signs is for the strayers. See I need a sign because I'm

  507. all I'm over here doing me. But when you out there walking

  508. with God and it's what happened with straying Adam and Eve,

  509. wandering Adam and Eve, God had to come where you?

  510. How'd you get over here? How'd you how'd you get how'd

  511. you get over here doing my own thing.

  512. And I lost track of God's voice when I was made to always know

  513. his voice. Some people are too set to be

  514. moved. Let me help some people.

  515. God exercises will get you fit, but they also will frustrate

  516. you. I was so I'm in the midst of

  517. writing this book, right? And I'm going to take, what do

  518. you call it? An excerpt, right?

  519. An excerpt because he released some stuff last night.

  520. And then Effie was reading through my book and she sent me

  521. an excerpt. She was like, this excerpt that

  522. you wrote months ago speaks into what you released last night.

  523. It was good. It'll be in the book.

  524. This simple yet profound truth is often forgotten.

  525. And part of the reason for this is there is a very real attack

  526. on believers to not see themselves as sons and

  527. daughters. We have been so focused on

  528. teaching people to turn from and identify individuals by their

  529. sins that we rob God's children of the revelation of their

  530. return to sonship through salvation.

  531. We have created a context that is so focused on building the

  532. organization of the church, we have missed the reality of what

  533. we are actually building, a family of sons and daughters who

  534. are rooted in love, who are rooted in the love of their

  535. father, and anointed to bring other sons and daughters home.

  536. There are too many church and religious organizations run by

  537. programs that focus on building inward facing communities.

  538. The results of the Church growth method separates us from seeing

  539. the people outside of the church building, people who truly need

  540. to experience the same love that we have received and found.

  541. The Church is the reconciliation of family, not a rescue mission.

  542. Something's got to change and I told God this is his church.

  543. So if he like all right now, why?

  544. Why no Sunday People? That's their biggest giving

  545. days. Would you give on a Wednesday?

  546. You look at Sunday attendance, look at a midweek sentence

  547. experience. Why?

  548. Why it's so packed out on Sunday?

  549. Oh, because you don't got nothing to do.

  550. So now you only can come and serve God when you have

  551. availability. I'm just saying let's check our

  552. heart. I'm not calling nobody.

  553. It's on you. Why is midweek so hard?

  554. Oh, I got to work. OK, so say pastor, I got to

  555. work. I get off at 6:00.

  556. I'm going to be late to church. Can we have midweek service at

  557. 7:30? Are we trying to figure out how

  558. we can get to the House of God or we only going we going to

  559. make church a priority when it's convenient?

  560. I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking, right?

  561. Why? Why is Monday, Tuesday,

  562. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? What?

  563. Why when it's prayer? Why we don't have Sunday

  564. attendance for prayer even when it's on Zoom?

  565. I mean, can I holla at you see, there's this kind of long

  566. because I'm in I'm I'm in your same seat.

  567. Like, I feel you. Like I get it.

  568. But I get you. Know what I'm saying?

  569. I got to sleep tonight. Why so hard are you going to

  570. give if the not-for-profit if you don't get a giving receipt

  571. or you give, what are you what, what if God said and, and I

  572. don't know, I'm just walking with the Lord.

  573. OK, The plan is no, no Sundays in February.

  574. We're going to do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

  575. Friday. What if God, well, I'm I'm in

  576. that place in my life. What if God be like we ain't

  577. going back to Sundays for the rest of the year.

  578. We're going to be gathering Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

  579. Thursday. Friday.

  580. No, I'm just letting you know I'm in the place.

  581. Are you going to change churches or are you going to be like, oh

  582. man, I'm only still going on Tuesday.

  583. That's going to be my Sunday. I'm just saying that changes now

  584. you start seeing who's whose. Church home it really is because

  585. when it's your church home, then if home shifts, you shift with

  586. home. Yeah, God's going to apply the

  587. pressure this year. I'm not look, my plan.

  588. We we look that's too much. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

  589. Thursday, Friday. But.

  590. But at Davidic house, he trained.

  591. He trained thousands of musicians and prayer warriors

  592. for 24/7 prayer. OK.

  593. This is why, This is why Jesus said my house is going to be a

  594. House of prayer way and a House of prayer.

  595. When you come on Sunday and you come late, you don't, you don't

  596. reverence God. You just roll up in here

  597. whenever you want to roll up here.

  598. Prayer, prayer. You don't even realize how

  599. important it is for you to help start service.

  600. You think we start service for you?

  601. Here's some folks, they show up late, maybe the first ones out

  602. the tent. What'd you get right?

  603. You need some extra money around Christmas.

  604. You're trying to figure out how could I cut this so I could work

  605. some more hours? When's the last time you sat

  606. down and said, God, give me wisdom of what I can cut so I

  607. can be here more? Right, Everything.

  608. And and then here's the excuse. Here are the excuse.

  609. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The church is not the building.

  610. Well, why you come? It's very clear the church ain't

  611. the building. But the stuff that we will

  612. maneuver things around for, and then if God is calling you to go

  613. higher in him or he got a call for you or whatever the case may

  614. be, we're that same energy at not asking.

  615. You to be the. Pastor the church serve as much

  616. as but but I'm talking about the the soul of your heart.

  617. I mean, we kind of arrogant right now.

  618. I'm not doing it. Can't really be too much

  619. spontaneous. Spontaneous every now and then,

  620. like quarterly spontaneous. But the more spontaneous you

  621. are, the less participation you get.

  622. But I'm just saying, I'm just saying how many people read

  623. their Bible? Right.

  624. Do we see Jesus? We see Paul, we see like you

  625. name it, this is what Jesus meant.

  626. Like I I have nowhere to rest my head.

  627. My bags are packed right now. Some of you are going to hear

  628. me. Way wrong.

  629. Like way wrong. But I don't have time to back up

  630. everything with the other side of the coin for you.

  631. Check the resistance in your heart.

  632. Let me let me give you a little scripture and let me let me

  633. please run real quick. I'm y'all got me scared.

  634. Isaiah 4318 TPT was up there. Can you give me the five, the

  635. five slides that's at the end. The things that we have to fight

  636. for, we have to contend for Hallelujah.

  637. We have to contend for the sentness of the bride.

  638. The sentness. How many people do know that

  639. Jesus was sent? The Holy Spirit was sent by

  640. Jesus. The church is sent, the bride,

  641. the Eklesia is sent. We're sent people.

  642. We we have to keep the movement of the church, right?

  643. Not every church is John the Baptist.

  644. Not every church carries the spirit of Elijah.

  645. Not every church is Apostolic. Not every church is that so?

  646. So please hear me you've you have to identify the different

  647. gifts within churches, leadership, different people who

  648. come up here and preach like like when Effie come up here and

  649. preach, you're going to hear a bona fide teacher, teacher gift,

  650. not teacher. Let me tell everybody that is a

  651. professor in school don't mean you have the gift to teach the

  652. word. That mean you don't know the

  653. word. It's just when you have a gift

  654. to teach, you have you have an anointing to teach the word.

  655. OK, So if Elder John's free, if I'm coming, you got to learn how

  656. to. Put the, the, the have you ever

  657. bought headphones with different type of earbud sizes that that

  658. fit your ears right? You got to learn how.

  659. OK, we'll preach in a day. OK, I can receive based on the

  660. gift that I know is on their life.

  661. Are you ready? But you also got to know those

  662. people who have multiple gifts because within 45 minutes, hour,

  663. whatever, they can go, Holy Spirit can lead them to work

  664. through multiple gifts. So you got to know, you got to

  665. be sometimes you got to be switching them ears in and out.

  666. And here it is. I mean, some of you guys, I've

  667. heard this before, man, the word was good today, but it seemed

  668. like you were all over the place.

  669. No, I've, I've heard that before and I totally agree.

  670. I was all over the place. Yeah.

  671. Absolutely, like when Jesus told people like 4 parables.

  672. In a row. No, you just don't know how to

  673. listen all over the place. You just got one setting on your

  674. earbuds and you don't know how to move.

  675. You don't. You don't notify when God is

  676. moving and you think you're the only person in the church.

  677. So keep the sickness of the bride.

  678. Next, keep the movement of the bride.

  679. We're about to end our 7th year. David.

  680. What? David was the 8th Sammy.

  681. Went through 123-4567 and finally the anointing of king

  682. was presented and then David went back to tending sheep he

  683. went back to his garage it's. The year of Jubilee, literally,

  684. right? It's a it's a very specific time

  685. in the earth, and I thank God that we have people in this

  686. house that understand the signs of the times, like the sons of

  687. Issachar. Let me tell.

  688. You ain't nothing worse than going to a church and can't know

  689. where what God doing in the earth.

  690. You got a lot of education though, like you learned about

  691. Jesus in Bethlehem in the Mediterranean Sea and, and, and

  692. Golgotha and, and you learned about that today.

  693. You got a lot of information, but you did not hear what God's

  694. doing today. Right now, that's a dangerous

  695. place to be in The Dark World. Keep the movement of the bride.

  696. Next keep the vulnerability of the bride.

  697. We must stay vulnerable. Next, keep the urgency of the

  698. bride. Next, keep the agility of the

  699. bride. Like, like, like when it come to

  700. leading the church. I want to be like LeBron James.

  701. OK, Let me help you. I want to be like Jesus.

  702. For all that, Dean. I look, I've been traumatized.

  703. You guys, you got to got to pray for me.

  704. I've, I've been, you know, you some people.

  705. Yeah. Yeah.

  706. The church has hurt me as well. I'm hurt, OK?

  707. But what I mean like. You can't be the greatest or a

  708. Hall of Famer or a multi champion without taking every

  709. possession serious. It's not taken every year

  710. serious. It's taken every possession.

  711. Sunday's a possession, right? Set up in the morning is a

  712. possession. Shutting down is a possession.

  713. Yeah, lovers meetings is a possession.

  714. Some people take possessions off right?

  715. It's all a present. How do you handle each

  716. possession? A true champion is careful with

  717. every possession. So you got to keep the urgency

  718. and then you got to keep the agility of the bride.

  719. Those seasons work. You know how many people ever

  720. been stretched by God? You've been going through a

  721. stretching season. See, the stretching is to do

  722. nothing but make you more. Agile.

  723. This is why it's very dangerous to ask God to put you back to

  724. form, right? Anybody remember Gumby is a

  725. Gumby is a Gumby. Look.

  726. Gumby. Gumby.

  727. What is Gumby? The green guy, right?

  728. You ever play with the like slinky toys that you can like

  729. stretch and you put the legs behind the huh anybody?

  730. OK, it's like you can't have a toy made to be stretched and not

  731. play with. It, stretching it.

  732. See, see, in God's hands we're like these toys that he like.

  733. He stretches. And because he he made us agile,

  734. you were made to be flexible. You were made to do the splits.

  735. Hey, man, I'm sorry. Anybody know how to do the

  736. splits? No, just guys.

  737. I want to see the guys who know how to do the splits.

  738. All right, let's, let's, let's. I want to get you.

  739. I want to, I want to, I want to get you something really quickly

  740. to just kind of back up God's doing a new thing.

  741. OK, I'm not going to go to that Scripture, but God's doing a

  742. new. Thing you got that.

  743. Come on, somebody say new thing. OK, somebody say new thing.

  744. Go to Luke 537. Wow.

  745. This say it's in the Bible. Come on one more time, say it's

  746. in the Bible here. Here's what I.

  747. So we often say God's doing a new thing.

  748. How many people have heard us say that in this church, right?

  749. Whenever God, and how many, how many people believe he's doing a

  750. new thing? OK, So if you believe he's doing

  751. a new thing, you must understand that there's a new

  752. administration, OK? Like, like, like, like, like

  753. Trump or I don't know, you know what I'm saying?

  754. I'm not being political right now, OK?

  755. I'm just saying like, come on, guys.

  756. OK, let me free, OK. But.

  757. But what I'm. Saying they call it an

  758. administration. It's a whole new administration,

  759. right? It's a whole new administration.

  760. So you can't be declaring no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

  761. no and not understand that there's going to be a new

  762. operating system. Man, I'm trying to.

  763. Help some people in here tonight.

  764. So when? So what you have is, Are you

  765. ready? You ready?

  766. All of us have been here. How many people came here from

  767. another church or another Christian experience?

  768. OK, the tendency is to bring how things were ran to where you are

  769. at at least the expectation. This is what comparison does.

  770. So you are used to seeing things a certain way, and there's a

  771. season that may be frustration divinely to help you divorce an

  772. old administration. Because this is what I believe

  773. God brought you here to activate some stuff in you that you

  774. couldn't do there. Yeah, I want to help some people

  775. here. There are some places that you

  776. abide, that there are gifts in you that God can't even reveal

  777. to you there. So you didn't just find a new.

  778. Church Home. This is why you got to lay on

  779. the table and 1st surrender to what God's doing in the new

  780. place because then He is going to activate new things in you

  781. that will cause you to adjust but also add to where you are.

  782. So one of the most dangerous things to do is step in the new,

  783. but constantly looking back to where you were, you ready or how

  784. you're used to doing. Things.

  785. I'm talking about even for myself, I couldn't come to

  786. America, to Canada. And be an American pastor.

  787. I have to learn. The people had to learn the

  788. laws. I couldn't be like in America we

  789. can make AU turn. I was stuck.

  790. I didn't even know what that blinking red light meant.

  791. I'm like, what is I was I was just pumped gas break there.

  792. Gab, what are you doing? The blight broke like red light

  793. at home is just a red light. And then when it turned green

  794. and mean go. So I I I have to get used to

  795. that. It's just certain things.

  796. You got to get used to the end and then you got to be an end

  797. for two years. In the end the L Or is it the L

  798. in the end? Well, back home, it's just AL.

  799. It's a license why we got to do all it is.

  800. But it's a new administration we came to so, so, So what what

  801. what God's going to do in February?

  802. He's going to He's going to force some of us and then some

  803. of us are already ready, but to reset the soil of our hearts and

  804. give us an opportunity to return ready for the new.

  805. That's good news for me. That's good news for me.

  806. Luke 537 and the go back 36. Oh, you're just going to.

  807. Fade it in real smooth. Like yeah I see 36 but I can't

  808. read it yet because it's caught in the middle.

  809. Are they trying to shit? Did we get some new software or

  810. something? They trying to show it off just

  811. like. Hey man, don't ever do that

  812. again, please, OK? Hey, he gave them this

  813. illustration. He gave them this illustration.

  814. No one rips up a new garment to make patches for an old.

  815. We do in these days, we make all kind of cool clothes, right?

  816. But, but, but feel me OK, worn out ones.

  817. If you tear up the new to make a patch for the old, it will not

  818. match the old garment. And who pours a new wine into an

  819. old wine skin? The old wine skin is a system.

  820. It's the administration that holds the gift of the wine.

  821. And you can't you, you can't think that God, there's new

  822. anointing and fresh this and fresh fire.

  823. Fred, give me a fresh wind. Like all this stuff we'd be

  824. singing. We stupid, we like, we, we, we

  825. just a really confused bride. We are really.

  826. He said, he said. You can't.

  827. You can't step in the new and not get new wine skin.

  828. Here's the mistake. We think it means throw out the

  829. old. No, you can't put the new.

  830. You can't allow the old to administer the new.

  831. But like, like the old. Like the Help me out.

  832. The Italian pizza dough. Talk to me.

  833. Help me. I'm I'm you in my ears.

  834. Tell me. Starter dough.

  835. Come on. I'm not going to say exactly.

  836. You got to be in my ears, Elder John.

  837. Tell me. So, so look, it's the starter

  838. dough, OK. And so for a year, Deborah

  839. knows. Yeah, yes, but there's this

  840. starter dough that that that they keep it around for like he

  841. Elder John told me before hundreds of years, like, and

  842. they just talk to me, talk to me.

  843. OK, And she said the same thing you said.

  844. Can you tell me the process? Like, what is it?

  845. What is it? So cuz folks, folks don't know

  846. they they over there talking about sour dough.

  847. Come on right, right, but from year to year there's there's

  848. there's some of it that is still used see she pre y'all y'all

  849. here it is she is really preaching see you got to feed it

  850. and if it goes dormant, you can bring it back alive.

  851. And you got to feed it, huh? And it only takes a little bit

  852. to bring it back to life. Right.

  853. She really helping me, Elder John, Like I don't know what she

  854. was doing over there. No, no, you got to understand

  855. this. So the old, This is why we sing

  856. hymn sometimes. Like y'all think I'd be like, I

  857. don't be remembering these hymns, but they'll come in my

  858. spirit because I haven't thrown the old away.

  859. You you can't you can't keep legacy without honoring the

  860. starter doll, right. And This is why you go to Italy

  861. and you go to these places and they have stuff standing from

  862. generation to generation because they honor the old and as the

  863. church here we got to honor the old.

  864. But when he steps us into something new guys it the new

  865. requires in a new administration.

  866. It requires new systems. How we pastored and did church

  867. first few years. We can't do it the.

  868. Same. We're growing out of systems,

  869. we're growing out of ways of doing things.

  870. We're growing out of old ways of communicating.

  871. It's not going to be sustainable.

  872. We have to evolve. And I think sometimes, Deborah,

  873. the church has never thought about this.

  874. What we'll do is we'll take off a Sunday at the end of the year

  875. and get a church arrest because we didn't work so hard.

  876. We'll take a sabbatical for vacation or whatever, but can

  877. God just interrupt and be like, like, this is not the plan?

  878. Who's stopping church from Sundays for a month?

  879. God's trying to preserve something.

  880. God's trying to revitalize his church and he's trying to get us

  881. unfamiliar with the privilege of a Sunday gathering and also

  882. letting us know that Sunday cannot be your, your punch

  883. thing, your your, your punch clock.

  884. That that can God say come Tuesday, come Wednesday, come

  885. Thursday, I'll adjust my life because I may be in a season

  886. where he is trying to make me agile.

  887. It's supposed to stretch. You.

  888. I don't go to church just because I'm off work.

  889. I don't go to church because I get off early.

  890. I I'll show up at church at 8:00 PM because I got off at 7 and I

  891. was stuck in traffic, but I'm getting to the House of God.

  892. I know this is crazy. This is this is crazy.

  893. I'm popular. I'm popular.

  894. Old wine skin would burst and the new wine would be lost.

  895. It's too much oil and it's too much new.

  896. It's too much skill. It's too much talent.

  897. It's too much. God has sent too much juice

  898. here. And that's how I know, you know,

  899. when you see a Deborah and a Wayne and a Mac and a family

  900. like that, when you see a day, you see Revere's, you see, you

  901. see Noel's, you see all this like quality juice if we don't

  902. change. All this good juice rots because

  903. how we did it two years ago cannot manage new growth.

  904. And what I'm seeing in the midst is that the Sunday church is

  905. sick. And we don't know it.

  906. And I thank God, he says, Son, if you're willing, shut it down.

  907. We're going to divorce Sunday. For a month.

  908. We're going to lay on that Gurney and let God expose our

  909. hearts. I'll give you 2 scriptures, Mark

  910. 222 and First Samuel 17. Say out with the old and with

  911. the new and right, if you're not careful, your family as you're

  912. changing and things. Have you ever went back home?

  913. Well, you let you at home. OK, so you can go back home and

  914. there are people still want to relate to me how they knew me.

  915. And it's it's heartbreaking because I'm like, dude, don't

  916. talk to me. Like I don't care.

  917. Even if they watching. Look, somebody they not

  918. watching. We not streaming.

  919. Yeah. Look, look, you, you ready?

  920. You ready? I had somebody reach out to me

  921. and they doing this, this women's conference that they

  922. always do. They knew me as a youth pastor.

  923. They said, hey doctor, such and such is having a conference and

  924. she want to do this a little different.

  925. She want to start off the conference with the youth and

  926. she wants you to come out. Now don't get me wrong, I really

  927. don't mind doing youth, but what I do understand is they have not

  928. caught up to who I am today. They want to keep me and you

  929. ready. Some of you are allowing people

  930. to keep you in your old self because you are too afraid to

  931. say no. You're too afraid to say don't

  932. talk to me like that no more. I don't really.

  933. That's that. I don't cuss like that no more.

  934. Don't offer me no drink. Don't like, don't relate to me

  935. like that no more. You have to guard your new even

  936. amongst families. I it's OK to tell your Mama I've

  937. changed. We can't talk.

  938. It's OK to tell your kids. Don't talk to me that way.

  939. You are too familiar. Mark 222.

  940. And who would pour fresh new wine into an old wineskin?

  941. Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wine skin burst.

  942. Losing everything. The wine will be spilled.

  943. And the wine skin ruined. Instead, new wine is always

  944. poured. This, this is telling you what

  945. it's supposed to be. New wine is always poured into

  946. new wineskins. Now take it to your personal

  947. life. One of the most dangerous things

  948. you cannot recognize is God's doing something new in your

  949. heart. Some of your.

  950. Frustration in the last year has been because you haven't

  951. realized you changed. There's change within you that

  952. you are not. You don't realize.

  953. I just realized just a few days ago that an old Grace gift

  954. lifted. I've been experiencing over the

  955. last year or so. Every time I do it, there's

  956. agitation, not anger, not mad, but there's a holy agitation and

  957. there's a weariness in it and a tiredness in it.

  958. Something I actually used to actually really be anointed

  959. juice to do. See some of y'all think because

  960. you tired, some of you get tired because you, you and your flesh.

  961. I'm talking something that I love the people or I love doing

  962. this, but when I do it. The.

  963. Grace isn't there to do it. The backlash of the sewing hits,

  964. so I have to realize the. Season I'm in and then I have to

  965. place people in certain positions so that I can be free

  966. to move in. My new grace hit you ready.

  967. If I don't move in my new grace. That auto orderedness will flow

  968. down and there's a certain level of your gifting that will not be

  969. activated and there's a certain harvest that's on the way that I

  970. will not be able to leave. We will not be able to leave.

  971. So as he moves me over here, he moves somebody over here and

  972. then the line just keep going. However, that works right?

  973. So you have. To realize when you are in a new

  974. season and yeah, just for somebody, new seasons come with

  975. new language. I close the First Samuel 17 32

  976. week of revival. If you wanted to see some demons

  977. get casted out, you should. Have came the other night, we

  978. missed it. You missed it.

  979. It was it was it was Monday, Tuesday.

  980. Yeah, yeah. You want to see deliverance and

  981. all that, but Deliverance happens in different ways,

  982. right? The greatest way for

  983. deliverance? Is the truth sets you free

  984. because you can get free. And if you don't put the truth

  985. in, guess what, 7 times stronger.

  986. Don't play with your freedom. All right?

  987. David said, Saul let no man's heart fail because of this

  988. Philistine, your servant will go out and fight with him.

  989. And Saul said to David, I want you to notice a new day for

  990. David. He, he, he, he was taking

  991. sandwiches down there to his Bros this day.

  992. He didn't realize that he, he was about to, he, he was

  993. anointed, not he, he was anointed to take down the giant

  994. you are not able to fight against, Saul said to David.

  995. You ain't able to fight. Oh, here it is, Saul.

  996. Like little homie, you can't do this.

  997. I mean. You got some people around you,

  998. Saul, now ready for David. You're not.

  999. You're not able to go to fight. You are only an adolescent.

  1000. Wow. You too young to fight, and he

  1001. has been a warrior from his youth, And David said to Saul,

  1002. Your servant kept his father's. Sheep.

  1003. Wow, what Saudi realizes God was training him for the moment you

  1004. was looking at accolades, God looked at faithfulness.

  1005. And when there came a lion or again a bear, and took a lamb

  1006. out of the flock, I went out after it and smote it and

  1007. delivered the lamb out of its mouth.

  1008. And when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard.

  1009. And smote it and killed it. This is what?

  1010. This is so powerful, his response to what someone says he

  1011. can't do. He tells them what God did do.

  1012. Your servant killed both the lion and the bear.

  1013. And this uncircumcised Philistine, how do you see?

  1014. Your enemies shall be like one of them, for he has defied the

  1015. armies of the living God, Davis said.

  1016. The Lord who delivered me out of the pod of lion and out of the

  1017. pod of bear, he will deliver me out of the land.

  1018. The hand of the Philistine. It's all said to David, go, and

  1019. the Lord will be with you. Here we go, here we go, here we

  1020. go, here we go. And Saul clothed David with his

  1021. armor. He put a bronze helmet on his

  1022. head and clothed him with a coat of mail.

  1023. And David girded his sword over his armor.

  1024. Then he tried to go, but David could not go, for he was not

  1025. used to Saul's armor. And David said to Saul, I cannot

  1026. go with these, I am not used to them.

  1027. And David took the old off. I don't really got to preach it

  1028. down. You read it.

  1029. What's your revelation? David got called to a fight,

  1030. Saul tried to put his armor on and David said this don't fit.

  1031. David would not have defeated Goliath if he wore Saul's armor,

  1032. although Saul's armor was enough to protect him naturally.

  1033. But it was a. Spiritual battle going into the

  1034. season, guys, you will not make it without being who God says

  1035. you are. When you believe what he said,

  1036. you can endure you. You ready.

  1037. You want to know how you can make it through some of the hard

  1038. stuff? Be who he said you are.

  1039. What are you wearing? Let me help you.

  1040. It's not Love Quest and it's not God that's weighing you down

  1041. all. Right.

  1042. And I look back, there was a season where God was trying to

  1043. get me to move and it was California weighing me down.

  1044. It was old relationships that was weighing me down.

  1045. I couldn't even walk in my anointing because they saw you.

  1046. They they saw a little T So God brought me to Canada so I could

  1047. be who he said I was because I couldn't put on what my old

  1048. church told me to put on. You will not make it in this

  1049. season until you identify and boldly put on who God says you

  1050. are. The.

  1051. Artificial. You will not make it.

  1052. It will produce artificial fruit.

  1053. PT how you be doing all that how you be, how you be how you be.

  1054. Because I'm doing what he made me to do.

  1055. Are you doing exactly what he made you to do?

  1056. Not what you like to do, not what he he gave you talent to

  1057. do. I'm talking about what he made

  1058. you to do. Because you have talent to do

  1059. something doesn't mean that's what he's calling you to do

  1060. right now. Whatevers God called you to do

  1061. it should fuel you. It doesn't mean like it doesn't.

  1062. It doesn't. It doesn't mean it's going to

  1063. feel like it's fueling you. I'm done.

  1064. I really hope you hear. You hear?

  1065. The spirit of the fear of God is the.

  1066. Word for love quest. Do not think this will be a

  1067. normal year. He's going to be really fun.

  1068. He's going to be amazing. I love, I remember, I think I

  1069. first. Was it Adam?

  1070. Beth? It was.

  1071. Somebody I was like, walking in the life of faith is really fun.

  1072. Now, I know it's fun, but it doesn't mean that you don't have

  1073. hard moments. But to actually just like be in

  1074. the palm of God's hands and he could do whatever and just be

  1075. like, hey, wake up, go over there.

  1076. Like that's super cool. I guess not everybody.

  1077. Is going to going to agree whatever.

  1078. Many are called, few are chosen here.

  1079. It is not everybody desires to walk with God.

  1080. Lot of people desire to hear from God for their personal

  1081. needs. When's the last time you wanted

  1082. to walk with God to hear what he's concerned about all?

  1083. Right. What I do know is God is burden

  1084. for this city and he is looking for some people that will carry

  1085. the burden and pay the price. When you walk in the spirit of

  1086. the fear of God, you will be exactly where he's called you to

  1087. be. And so please pray for me as I

  1088. seek the Lord's face to make sure I give efficient details

  1089. about February because I, I, I want this to be a.

  1090. Fruitful time and I don't want our time in February to be in

  1091. vain. And Sunday.

  1092. There's going to be a lot more people here because Sunday is

  1093. when everybody goes to church and so I'm going to release that

  1094. for so the Sunday like you guys are cool.

  1095. I know you guys would be here every day.

  1096. In February. Not sure if I'm on Sam.

  1097. But there's going to be a lot of people here on Sunday that just

  1098. do Sunday, so when they hear this news, they're going to be

  1099. disappointed because we took their church day away.

  1100. And we're going to see how them orange seats look in February.

  1101. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 3rd I'm so excited.

  1102. I'm I'm not believing for anything bad.

  1103. I'm actually believing that this church will be packed Monday,

  1104. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

  1105. Is there a few? People that can believe that

  1106. with me was that was that was that bring that bring that down

  1107. a little bit? Was that Aiden praying?

  1108. Today, yeah, just watching that young man's change.

  1109. When he first came in his church on a Wednesday night or

  1110. something, I prophesied over him and.

  1111. And a few weeks ago he told me he wasn't filling that prophecy

  1112. and. And then, but then he told me

  1113. the other day he was like, I hope you don't mind.

  1114. That's OK. I'm not going to tell our

  1115. business at all. But he came to me.

  1116. He said I love meetings like that.

  1117. His meeting was like 15 minutes. Like he was just like this

  1118. meeting. I'm not wasting your time.

  1119. I'm coming. This is a response to what you

  1120. spoke over my life a few years ago.

  1121. He said I'm ready to answer the call.

  1122. Yeah, that's what it's about. And he's serious though, and he

  1123. I think the reason he like me because I'm like a coach, he's

  1124. like an athlete. So he like when a coach came.

  1125. Come on, Aiden, get out. And so people, there are people

  1126. responding to what God's doing in their hearts and there are

  1127. people that's willing to pay the price and there are people who

  1128. willing to go higher. And I am looking forward to

  1129. hearing from some of you say it's time.

  1130. I'm tired of running. I don't know what it's going to

  1131. look like. But that's why I'm telling you

  1132. because I need help disciple me because I'm saying yes.

  1133. And I am believing that in our church because I will tell you

  1134. that we need you to say yes. What God has for this church.

  1135. God can do anything, but he is not going to do it with, with,

  1136. with without people that say yes.

  1137. So I look forward to hearing from some of you.

  1138. It's time. I don't know who this is.

  1139. For now I have these simple. Words for you it's.

  1140. Time. I'm going to say it.

  1141. I'm going to say it 10 times. Say it 10 times.

  1142. That's what I have in my spirit 10 times.

  1143. I don't know what that means, but I'm going to be obedient.

  1144. There are some people here that needs to hear this.

  1145. In this statement is the answer you've been looking for, but not

  1146. the words you've been looking for.

  1147. So you've been looking for this promise and you've been looking

  1148. to hear from God. He's answering you this way.

  1149. You've been looking for a career you've been looking for.

  1150. It's coming through this OK, number one, it's time #2 it's

  1151. time #3 it's time number. 4. It's time #5 it's time, and

  1152. number six, it's time #7 it is time and #8 it's time.

  1153. Oh yeah, one more #9 it's time. I forgot one.

  1154. It's time. This is the moment in your.

  1155. Life that will change every generation after you.

  1156. It's a simple yes in your heart, and then it is the corresponding

  1157. response or actions to say Lord whatever, to stretch me,

  1158. whatever. It is your time, and this isn't

  1159. about your time for for for monetary promise.

  1160. It's your time to step in the sonship.

  1161. It is your time to obey God, and it's your time to be unveiled.

  1162. It is your time to walk in your strength, walk in your hope.

  1163. It's your time to get your joy back.

  1164. It's your time and people will not understand it.

  1165. Listen, you will not have all the money.

  1166. You will not have all the answers.

  1167. You will not even be able to see your way.

  1168. But you will know your way it is.

  1169. Time. Get into whatever God is calling

  1170. you to just take a step towards it.

  1171. If it's getting back in the worst team, if it's getting

  1172. getting on the prayer team, if it's, if it's, if it's personal

  1173. and it's just a prayer life, if it's getting back to 5:00 AM, if

  1174. it's getting back, whatever it is, it's time.

  1175. It's time to apologize. It's time to go back.

  1176. It's time, it's time, it is time.

  1177. It's time time to sober up. It is time.

  1178. It is time that God gets his daughter and His son back.

  1179. It's really time. Here it is.

  1180. You got to hear me. I've been down this road.

  1181. God says if you do not turn, you will reap the harvest of your

  1182. lifestyle. That can be sickness, that can

  1183. be death, that can be hospital, that can be many things.

  1184. But God is saying I have been tender, I have been kind, I have

  1185. graced you. I've allowed you to be afraid,

  1186. I've allowed you to blame family, I've allowed you to make

  1187. excuses. I've allowed you to blame busy.

  1188. I've allowed you, I've allowed you, I've allowed you.

  1189. God says in this season, it's my time for you.

  1190. I want to be with you. I want my daughter back.

  1191. I want my son. Back.

  1192. I want you back where I found you confident, fearfully, and

  1193. wonderfully made unoffended, healthy sound mind.

  1194. I didn't make you to be a anxious mess.

  1195. I made you to be someone who houses peace.

  1196. So forget your Google diagnosis. Let the word diagnose you

  1197. tonight. You are the healed and not the

  1198. sick. You are the head and not the

  1199. tail. You do have wisdom.

  1200. You are intelligent. You do have patience.

  1201. You are kind. You're not an angry mess.

  1202. You are kind. I'm speaking life over you.

  1203. You might say I haven't been that way, Who am I?

  1204. But the father says daughter come home, son, come home.

  1205. And home is not a building. Home is where I found you.

  1206. Home is where peace is. Home is where faith is.

  1207. Home is where hope is. Home is where love is.

  1208. Home is where power is. Home is where confidence is.

  1209. Home is where courage is. Home is where steadfastness is

  1210. home. It's your time, son.

  1211. It's your time, daughter, To not let fear dictate your life.

  1212. To not let fear. Dictate your choices.

  1213. To arise, shine, live, you shall not die.

  1214. I'll say that under the sound of Jesus name.

  1215. You shall live. And not die.

  1216. Addictions be broken, dry up, loosen the grip.

  1217. Be free. Allow the Lord to break your

  1218. heart for what breaks. His be undone so he can do you

  1219. back up the way he made you to be.

  1220. There's freedom in this room and there's healing in this room.

  1221. You can do it. You can do it.

  1222. You can do it, you can do it. You do have the strength.

  1223. And if you don't have the. Willpower take his will take his

  1224. will. Just take a moment, say lot.

  1225. I'ma say it in advance. I'm proud of you.

  1226. In the last six months, I know for a fact that God has done

  1227. some significant, significant work in some of your hearts, and

  1228. I'm just speaking on His behalf. He is proud of you.

  1229. Get ready for greater. I see it.

  1230. I see it Deborah. I see in the spirit.

  1231. I see the Father arm stretch towards you and I see your arm

  1232. stretch towards him. I don't know what is going on,

  1233. but I do know that is everything is turning around.

  1234. I see your. Heart.

  1235. Vanelli, I see the work that God has done in your heart.

  1236. I feel like encouraging you and telling you to take a leap

  1237. because even the change that has taken place scares you.

  1238. What you deserve is God's daughter to experience the

  1239. fullness of God. And that baby that is in your

  1240. belly is God saying, daughter, I love you.

  1241. I see it.

  1242. Mac is turning. It's turning day.

  1243. It's it's really turning. I'm I don't know your private

  1244. life. I don't know none of that, but I

  1245. can tell you, I see it. God has done a work in your

  1246. heart. I'm just saying just like, keep

  1247. going guys, Lily. Like I see it and I tell you

  1248. what I see, Lily. I really think this time around

  1249. you're never going to turn back to that old way of seeing

  1250. yourself. I, I see a confidence rising in

  1251. you. I see a woman rising in you.

  1252. I see a fire for the Lord rising in you.

  1253. And I'm just saying you may not feel it.

  1254. You may not see it right now. I'm just telling you what God is

  1255. telling me to tell y'all. Nicole, Nicole.

  1256. Nicole Preacher great healing has taken place.

  1257. We've been talking about we going to meet for a long like

  1258. couple years now, a year. So now, but without meeting and

  1259. sitting down and listening to the depths of what's going on in

  1260. your heart. Father says it's well, it's all

  1261. turning. You will not reproduce the old

  1262. and there's many of you in here. God has done a great work in

  1263. your heart. You can see clearer, you can see

  1264. color again, feel the Lord is just saying you can do it.

  1265. It's just getting started. Total heart transplant.

  1266. It's time to tell you, whatever that means for you.

  1267. It's time. Oh, I'm just going to be

  1268. obedient. Don't be met, Yvonne.

  1269. It's time. That's just what your father

  1270. said. That's just what your father

  1271. said. It's time.

  1272. Whatever that means for you, it's time.

  1273. It's time before this year is over for whoever receives

  1274. whoever you will see the greatest version of yourself

  1275. you've ever seen. God is about to re reintroduce

  1276. you to you. Out with the old and with the

  1277. new. Thank you, Jesus.

  1278. We just thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

  1279. Let's stand to our feet. Wow.

  1280. Come on. Somebody say I believe God about

  1281. me. Yeah.

  1282. Well, Amen. We got one more night.

  1283. Tomorrow night's going to be a little shorter because we're

  1284. going to take Revival to the ball game and we're in the

  1285. semifinals and we're going to go and man, if everybody in this

  1286. room showed up to the game tomorrow, we'll pack out the gym

  1287. and and bless some people. I had AI had a tournament reach

  1288. out to me a few weeks ago. And ask me, we want to do a

  1289. tournament for $4000. Which date is Love Quest

  1290. available? And that lets you know there's

  1291. been major impact in the city. And it's it's not, it's not

  1292. about the players like they know our brand, the basketball.

  1293. We going to compete, but what these people want is fans at the

  1294. game, you got to hear me. They want us to be a part of

  1295. their league because they want the experience and they know if

  1296. we play, y'all going to come and they're going to be able to say

  1297. our tournament was lit for one hour because when we leave the

  1298. gym is empty. So come out tomorrow night.

  1299. We play at 9:00 and we'll we'll be leaving here.

  1300. We'll be done here to go at 8:00 and just come out.

  1301. Elder John will be sharing and I'm excited to hear.

  1302. PJ, can you come pray us out? My wife came in and hung out

  1303. with me. We found out our son was.

  1304. Out of school, he told us at the last minute.

  1305. Like, I'm like, bro, you didn't know you had a whole week out of

  1306. school. And so then we were just like,

  1307. y'all come home. I'm telling a story about my

  1308. family. EJ Starter Doe.

  1309. Come on, man. And so we had a little window.

  1310. I'm like, well, if you know I ain't doing nothing, then come

  1311. home because I'm I miss you so. I'm glad she came this week

  1312. because it was a challenging week for me in a very good way,

  1313. but I needed her prayers. I needed her comfort.

  1314. I needed her wisdom. I needed her by my side because

  1315. to deliver some of the words that I'm delivering, you

  1316. wouldn't I'm I'm courageous enough and bold by the power,

  1317. the Holy Ghost, but it's difficult.

  1318. So to be able to look over and hear my wife say Amen.

  1319. If ain't nobody ever said like to see her support and feel her

  1320. support, it means the world to me.

  1321. So thank you. Absolutely.

  1322. So if you can wear all black tomorrow, nice.

  1323. Like we're not having a funeral or anything like that.

  1324. We're just going to show up to the game in all black and and

  1325. we're going to go mob over there and have some fun.

  1326. All right. Amen.

  1327. So, Father, we thank you. We thank you for what you've

  1328. done tonight. We thank you for what you're

  1329. doing in our hearts. We thank you that we have

  1330. received it. We thank you that we are good

  1331. ground. We thank you that we are tilling

  1332. the soil of our hearts. We thank you, Lord God, that we

  1333. are doing the work individually so we can corporately build the

  1334. Kingdom for you. We thank you, Lord God, that you

  1335. are opening our minds and that we are readily renewing our

  1336. minds daily to what you're calling us to in this new

  1337. season. That you are giving us new

  1338. wineskins to put this new anointing in.

  1339. That we will never, ever, ever forget the legacy that has been

  1340. generations past. But it we are standing in real

  1341. time creating new wine for the next generation to carry our

  1342. legacy forward. So we thank you that we are

  1343. aware that every possession counts, that we are aware that

  1344. every relationship is important. We are aware that everything

  1345. that we sacrifice, Lord God, you multiply.

  1346. We thank you for what you've put in our hands.

  1347. We thank you for what you've put in this house.

  1348. We thank you that we are pursuing you collectively

  1349. unified. We are pursuing you that we fear

  1350. you, that we love you, that we carry your glory everywhere we

  1351. go. And as we leave tonight, we take

  1352. you with us everywhere we go. We are touching people with your

  1353. love and your presence. And we thank you for our Father,

  1354. we thank you for tomorrow, We thank you that we will come

  1355. ready to receive that this entire week.

  1356. Lord God, that you are shifting and changing and purging.

  1357. And we are willing participants, not just individually but

  1358. collectively because we are stronger when we are unified.

  1359. And we thank you for it. In Jesus name, Amen man.

  1360. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

  1361. We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

  1362. Make sure to follow us on all platforms.

  1363. That's love quest Intl church. We out here for real.

  1364. We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram,

  1365. YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you

  1366. need to find us. But until next time, you know

  1367. the drill. You know the motto, get your

  1368. love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.

  1369. There is a river, a flight flowing down from the Grove.

  1370. Can you see it? There is a sound off the shore,

  1371. far from heaven.