The Year of the Fear of God (1130AM) - 1.19.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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My greatest prayer is that every person in this room did not just

show up for the sake of going to church, but that you actually

grab a hold of something that God is trying to implant into

your heart, into your life. I am going to do a quick little

review of this morning and then we'll hopefully get into some

newer material. But I feel like this year is a

year that God is really, really, really, really ready to do some

significant things in His children's life.

And I know the enemy knows that and I know he's going to fight

like hell to get you to at bare minimum, just stay the same

person, right? He's going to, he's going to

fight like hell to get you to manage your bondage, not break

free from it, right? He's going to, he's going to try

and get you into coping instead of overcoming.

Am I, am I talking to a, to at least three people in here,

right? And and a lot of times we

celebrate. We now know how to cope here.

Here it is. He didn't ask you to just become

mature in your bondage, right? He didn't say OK, I was

alcoholic. Now I only drink twice a week.

Like if if free indeed is yours, then why not take it?

Right, I'll share it this morning that that that your

heart is not made to be closed. Now I got to be careful.

I'm not going to do anything, say anything medical.

I got doctor in here. OK, so I'm not going to say

anything. So I got accountability in here.

But I do know that the heart has valves.

OK, And if those valves close, what happens?

Talk to me, OK, if you understand that you were created

before your body was created. So get up off of physical and

understand that the spiritual and the physical, they work

together like Old Testament and New Testament.

Old Testament shadows and types. OK, New Testament, right.

Old Testament we build temples that man can build with their

hands. New Testament those those

buildings aren't made. You are the temple.

Understand that. OK, so the same way physically a

heart attack happens in a physical body, it happens to a

believer who keeps their heart, soul, mind, same thing closed.

And So what the enemy loves to try and us get us to do is close

the close the valves of our heart, our soul.

How do you keep the how does a believer keep the valves of

their heart open? Right.

You can look around the church and tell who has closed valves

in church because closed a closed mouth represents closed

valves. Out of the abundance of the

heart. The mouth speaks as a man

thinks. When you're talking about

biblically speaking, thinketh. Anytime you see mind, heart,

soul, it's Speaking of the same thing.

He, God didn't say I knock on the door of your heart like your

physical heart. I knock on the door of your

soul, your mind, your suitcase, your thinker, your filler, your

chooser. If you can open that up and let

me in. Out of the abundance of the

heart, the mouth, what speaks? And some of you think worship is

a religious duty versus a privileged lifeline.

You are actually killing yourself when you don't open

your mouth in worship. This is what you were created to

do. If a dog stop barking, it's a

problem. If a bird stop flying, it's a

problem. If a fish is taken out of water,

it's a problem. And if you don't worship, you're

a problem. Worship has nothing to do with

how you were raised. It doesn't have nothing to do

with the color of your skin. All of God's children supposed

to be loud sometimes. It ain't black people, it ain't

the charismatic church. It's sons and daughters make a

joyful noise. Let everything that has breath

praise the Lord, right, right, right, right, right.

I was like, Lord, do I do I share this?

Well, how many songs did we do this morning?

1 1/2 and it wasn't because we started later, but what we will

not be is a church who uses praise and worship as a filler

when nobody, when there's people in here don't want to be filled.

What you not going to do is waste the anointing of God.

We sit here and entertain you and make some noise for 45

minutes and the valves of your heart stay closed.

So when the word come be like we're going to come out here and

do one song and depending on the level of our reception then we

going to worship on the back end.

But worship is not to entertain you.

Worship is not to what we do to start church.

Worship is not what we got to do.

When you are privileged with such skill musicians and singers

that God sends to you clearly he trying to get your vows wide

open and some of y'all just sit here and watch don't say

nothing. I can understand someone who

does not go to who is not a believer, I understand but for

some of y'all who you know that you ain't here by nothing but

the grace of God. Now what does a house?

Look like when everybody the worship leader.

When, when everybody, I'm so full of the spirit, I Can't Sing

the words of the song because I'm singing the new song.

So worship is a defibrillator. It is a something that brings

it's meant to bring life. So if you can sit in a 45 minute

set and don't have no expression, that's what you call

dead. Right.

How? How long we going?

How long we going? How long do you do CPR on

somebody before you pronounce them dead?

Long enough, huh? What's that long enough?

Do you afford? I know there's variations.

I mean, school me a little bit to be.

Honest, I wait for God to resurrect the.

Dead right. So you got a spirit filled

doctor. OK.

All right. Do do we got any people who just

got their CPR certificate, huh? No.

Huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause

I'm, I'm believing for them to raise the dead too, but I'm

just, I'm like to huh. Yeah, yeah.

No, not doctor, not doctor stuff, just the class, yeah.

Right, so then they take over and then they drive.

I'll be watching first 48 sometime and and they they yeah,

right. You always know it his his he he

just like they on their way to the John blah blah blah medical.

Center where he dies. Like not one part.

There is very few people that make it then we always know it

and they like 30 episode 3030. You get what I'm saying,

Seasons. And like every time you hear

they went to the hospital and they died, right?

Some people died because we're not going to even get into that.

OK, Anyway, you get you get on set.

There's a there's a point in time where you got to move on.

There's there's a point in time you got to move on.

This, this is on the basic level.

You, you got to stop begging that friend to be your friend.

You got to stop begging that family member to come to church.

You got to, you got to you, you got to, you got to.

Because if, if, if you spend all your time to revive the dead,

you end up dead. As he said, only Jesus can

really resurrect the dead, especially when we're talking in

our spirit, right? But one conviction I have and

one thing I do understand is that, man, we're in a worship

war, right? Who has the allegiance of your

heart? You hear what I'm saying?

And if you trying to get a people to a generation to

understand I, I guess, I guess Spotify and Apple Music and all

of that is a problem too, because back in the day you used

to have to go, you only had as much music as you bought.

So if you had no money you might have two CDs or I don't know how

far you go back tapes 8 tracks for some of y'all vinyl right

today. You.

Have too much to listen to and too much to watch and depending

on your TV? You, you, you.

You maybe had one. Clear.

Channel you spent most of the time hitting the side of the TV

yeah I got any any people that had those old TV's right and so.

So worship is a lifeline and in our worship there is levels and

measures to go. Again, look at a swimming pool.

Like I hate when a swimming pool stop at 5 feet.

Because I'm tall for some of you, I get it.

You 5 feet is like like the like.

Red Sea that's like deep for you.

OK, I get right. Some of y'all die diving 10 feet

into 5 feet. So I'm not I can't do that if I

if I dive into 5 feet is is real dangerous.

OK, but I'm talking about like Ezekiel tells us, ankle deep,

knee deep, waist deep. Like last year, if you started

at ankle deep, you should at bare minimum be calf deep,

right? The reason I trust me, I'm not

somebody who grew up like man, just I can't wait to grow up to

every Sunday tell people they need to worship.

That wasn't a dream. This is a raw conviction when I

walk out of those doors and see. That man, you're missing it like

you, there's a level and a measure of God you're not

experiencing because there's a certain level.

They're say ankle deep is I walk in a place that I can tell God

is so so man, it's been prayer and worship going on in this

house. You can't tell me when you walk

in this. Place that the presence of the

Lord ain't here. And, and then there's a level

of, of like engagement where like I can't just walk to the

beach or to a pool and be like, man, water here.

There's some point I put on my trunks.

I, I put, I, I, I get ready and I walk in the water and I engage

with the water and then I just can't get in the water and just

be. You can't get in the water in

the deep and just stand there. You going to do what?

You going to sink? And the worship becomes over

your head. Revelation comes through

engagement. If you won't engage, there's

nothing to reveal. I can hand you a present, but if

you ain't going to start unwrapping, you'll never get to

the prize. I see some of y'all doing

worship. You just be thinking what you

thinking about. How are you thinking right now?

What are you thinking? About trying to get you to think

about what you're thinking about.

So I feel like the Lord is really trying to get his bride

ready, man, right? The bride.

Don't sit at the back of the Chapel and the vows, the husband

at the altar and the old bride at the back of the Chapel and

then they start to the ceremony. Don't even you can't.

We ain't read no vows or nothing until the bride and the groom

are standing together. And that's how we come to

church. We just stand in the back of the

Chapel. Even Peter didn't do that.

He said if that's you, Jesus, tell me to come.

I'll walk. I'm asking you to draw near.

Here's the thing. The fear of God will take care

of a lot of your Constipation. And I'll talk to you.

The fear of God will take care of a lot of your Constipation.

Ecclesiastes, 12, says this all has been heard.

The end of the matter is fear God?

How many more people you going to follow on social media?

How many people you going to follow on YouTube?

Click and subscribe. How many times?

How many magazines? How many books?

How many seminars? How many how he says at the end

of it end of the matter is what fear God.

Here's why Revere worship him, know that he is and keep not

just obey, not just religiously obey and March into the church.

It's no the word that you're getting.

You're going to guard it. You're not going to go home and

let somebody steal it. You're not going to let a devil

lie to you and steal it. You're not going to start

questioning the word because somebody who don't get what you

got, they're causing you to doubt.

You're going to protect the word.

Guard the Word, keep the word. I just look for instruction and

say, well, since I'm a Christian, I got to do this.

That's not keeping the commandments.

It's guarding the word as precious, fragile.

Wrap red tape around it. This can't be touched.

I shall not be moved off what he said for this.

Here it is, Here it is. Here it is here it is for this

is the whole of men, the full original purpose of His creation

up. How many people in here looking

for a purpose? Everybody.

Don't even raise your hand. How many people looking for a

new job? How many people looking for

somebody to like him? How many people can't wait to be

unsingled? Right?

How many people you got all this stuff you want, want, want,

want, want, want, want, want, want.

Why? Why?

Here's what he says, your entire purpose.

What's the worship God and he says the full original purpose

of his creation. Let's keep it going.

Look at. Look at.

Look at here. The object of God's Providence.

The object. The roots of character.

The foundation of all happiness. Right.

So if our happiness is a foundation of our happiness is

employment, it's kids, it's all, it's all the stuff.

It's all the stuff. Let let let let your kids.

Let something happen to your kids.

Let something happen to your spouse, let you lose your job.

Some of you are one thing being take removed from your life

from. Losing your mind?

You are losing a loved one away you are losing your job away,

you are a car accident away. Somebody hit your hit your

bumper. You going to lose your mind cuz

yo the foundation of your happiness right like like some

of y'all about to some of y'all struggling picking out what you

want to give for the remnant pop up shop, cuz you like that

jacket you like Oh you looking at them shoes?

You trying to moan one more time.

You thinking about that jewelry you had long.

You don't even wear the jewelry you don't even wear it.

It's worth a lot in union. Now all of a sudden Lord like

hey get that from my house, get that from my house right yo-yo

the foundation and some of y'all just won't participate.

You like I ain't got no clothes, I don't got nothing put for the

Remnant project. I don't know.

Right you like me, remember you was praying you like Lord, if I

can be a part of the project, let me and he's like cool.

You got some nice clothes. I ain't got no money.

You got some Jordans, though somebody come through put put

the depending on the Jordans give you 1.

I don't know what they're going to price them at, but I told

them I'm going to have my own corner.

Don't be pricing my clothes teeth right, No, no, no, no, no,

right. You guys for Jordan 151 hundred

depending on what it is, it'd be something for 203.

I don't know I don't know, but I know it's some good stuff coming

through brand new stuff, almost brand new.

Somebody wore it but kept the tags on it.

You know how we do so just because he got A tag on it,

don't think it's not worn. Smell it.

Somebody say hey man. Right.

The foundation of your happiness isn't it's over here.

And it's And that's why you're the foundation of your happiness

always changes. Now I'm married now.

Whoa, I just got laid. Whoa, I got that bonus I was

looking for. Whoa.

I got accepted in that college. Whoa, now I can.

Live. The other part of what I told

people this morning is for some of you, stop holding your breath

until it happens. Some of you can't live until

whatever happens. While you waiting for the job,

live. While you waiting for the

acceptance letter live. While you waiting for your

spouse, live. While you waiting to get

pregnant, live. Stop waiting to live.

Stop holding your breath. Breath baby.

OK, the adjustment to all inharmonious certain things out

of whack in your life. Have you checked your fear of

God meter? Everything that's out of whack

is because God is not in the center of it.

Everything that's out of whack and out of order is because

God's not in the center where you are being attacked in the

level of anxiety. I promise you, I promise you, I

promise I am not attacking you loving God.

But just because you love God don't mean you fear God.

As I told people this morning, you are some of you are dating

God. You you you.

You are engaged but not married. You said yes, but not I do.

You said I trial try you, but I won't commit right.

You know, the ones that like dating a lot of people don't

don't look down. Same thing.

So your relationship with God is physical.

This was so good this morning. It just dropped out the sky and

and and I think you got to get this.

Your relationship with God is physical you.

Ever hear like actual human beings you ever had just a

physical relationship, right? You was attracted to someone

because you had a romantic relationship.

They look good, they body was good, they you had sex with

them. Whatever it is they you, you

just like the conversation good. It's all physical and as long as

those things are intact, man, I love you.

All right, I love you. It's physical.

Have a good time. It's physical.

So it is a form of love. It's called Eros erotic love.

And and with God. Some of you have an Eros love.

What does that mean? Is your relationship with God is

based on him doing things for you.

Breaking. He's he is Jehovah Belparazine.

You need a breakthrough all the time.

He Oh, yeah, you can you. That was your song.

Jahra. You are enough and I will be

content. Not in every circumstance.

Stop lying. As long as you come through.

Because you are Jireh. No, no.

Here it is. Here it is.

Here it is. It's physical.

Just. Lord, Lord.

Lord, I need you when I need you.

I don't just need you because I'm in love with you.

I don't need you to breathe. I need you to breathe on this,

not on me. I, I need you to breathe on this

resume. I need you to, oh, I'm, I'm

about to send that e-mail. Lord, breathe on it.

Hallelujah Lord. Breathe on this relationship,

Lord. Breathe on my acceptance letter,

Lord. Lord, get please.

I need another call back for this movie.

It will do that, Lord. Breathe.

You don't want him to breathe on you.

You want him to breathe on this? You went out and picked this

girl, picked this boy all on your own, all on your didn't

pray about it and then now y'all think Lord breathe on our

relationship right? So it's it's, it's a physical

relationship you have with God. It's a physical relationship you

have with God. It's transactional, not

relational, and as long as God does what He says, He's going to

what you. Think he say he going to do?

Then you and. God's cool, I'll serve you.

I'll I'll sow into the projects. I'll tithe if that's how, if

that's another way you can get blessing, I'll tithe.

It's transactional. I'm not just tithing because it

contributes to you building your church.

I'm tithing because I needed to contribute to building my life.

So then we got to beg. But we ain't going to beg.

Versus you see in tithe and giving is an opportunity.

To to to tap into God blessing so all your money ain't in a

world who don't have nothing for you, right?

You ain't questioning paying them taxes, says.

And the whole duty for every. Man what?

What? What's the whole duty of every

man Revere God, man, if you can get your life and your soul to a

life of obedience and a life of walking with the Lord, I am

telling you everything in your life will line up.

You talking about happy, man? Forget happy.

I'm talking about joy, right? I get happy to Pharrell.

I like, I want joy. You know what I'm saying?

Like I want, I want joy because happy we're off, right?

Happy we're off OK. The fear of God is the

prerequisite to fulfilling the abundant life.

The fear of God is the lifeline tethering me to the good life.

The fear of God is the essential key to experiencing the

predestined life. The holy fear keeps us connected

to the wisdom and the plans and life of God, Isaiah 33 says.

And there shall be stability. Everybody in here that's going

to work, Everybody in here that's getting married,

everybody in here that's trying to make money.

Everybody in here that's trying to go to the gym.

Everybody in here that's trying to hike and meditate on the top

of the mountain at a beautiful. View Everybody in here that's

doing keto and all the Edo, all all the stuff we doing.

Here's the one thing you're looking for is stability in your

life. I'm going to do yoga because you

want stability. You're trying different

religions because you're looking for stability.

He says there shall be stability in your times.

So, so, so he has considered the time you are created to live in.

There is going to be chaos. He said in that time there will

be stability and abundance of salvation.

What is salvation? Hope, joy, peace, love, wisdom,

an abundance of wisdom. How many people need wisdom in

these days? Hallelujah, everybody and an

abundance of knowledge. The reverent fear and Worshipful

of the Lord is your treasure, and it's his it's God's

treasure, right? Does does what breaks his

heartbreak yours let you ready for this?

Does what break your heartbreak his?

That's that's a powerful question.

Does what break your heart? Would it break your heart to

find out what broke yours? Don't break his what what what

have you found out? He actually is excited about

just what broke you. Right.

Does does what break his heart break yours?

But better question, does what break your heart break his?

And a lot of times what's breaking our heart is making his

heart leap because he's like, finally you're coming to me.

I'll take you, however I'll get you.

So if somebody breaking you up, breaking up with you, somebody

rejecting you, somebody abandoned you, called you to

come to the altar because a breakup happened.

Now you got time for prayer. I'll take it.

Heaven is rejoicing and you sitting there praying because

your heart is broken. Lord give me strength.

He's like. This.

Yes, yes, he's like, I've been gracing you.

I've been trying to prevent this day from I haven't been trying

to prevent the breakup. I've been trying to prevent the

brokenness. See, see, because you're going

to, there's going to be a million things that break you,

but if you find yourself broken in my arms, you can still stay

together. See, a lot of times your

brokenness needs God to pick up the pieces versus I am broken in

His arms and I remain intact while broken.

Right. A part of a baby crying in their

parents arms because it's almost like they was crying and he's

like leave me alone. Then they get in your arms and

then they really throw a fit in your arms.

But there's a part of throwing a fit in your arms.

Because it's safe to throw a fit.

Like, like as much as I'm screaming right now, I would be

screaming like, like I'd be screaming way more if you put me

down right now because I'm scared.

I'm afraid. I don't, I don't know what's

going on. I'm losing my mind.

But the only thing that's keeping my mind intact is I know

I'm in your care. It's hard to have faith you're

in God's care when you don't live in his care.

And if you get too many people in the church that when

everything falls apart, then they want to have counsel and

they want to like counsel shouldn't be reactive.

It should be something that's proactive.

Like I'm count, I'm getting counsel to stay out of trouble,

not counsel because I'm in trouble.

Hallelujah. I'm probably hey, I'm preaching

right now. Hallelujah.

Amen, Pastor. Holla back.

T he he look, he will be your constant source.

He will be your constant source. Is he your constant source of

stability in changing times? The times are going to keep

changing. Presidents, prime ministers keep

changing. Officers will keep changing.

He's been the king forever. He will not change.

He's been the Prince of Peace forever.

He will not change. His word has never been shooken

or changed. He will not change in the midst

of unstable times and changing times.

You will find stability in the midst of those times.

And out of His abundant love, He gives you the riches of

salvation, wisdom and knowledge. Yes, the fear of the Lord is the

key to this treasure. Here's the key you've been

looking for. The key you spent $30.00 on that

book. Have you found the key yet?

Or was that somebody else's key? You can't be a one-on-one and

living off everybody else's keys.

What if I told you God got a key for you?

Hallelujah, Say the fear of the Lord is my master key.

All right, the true nature of the fear of God is US honoring

the access to intimacy we have in Jesus, right?

I I fear I have the spirit of fear of God.

Why? Because man, I don't want to

take this access for granted. I, I realized when I'm up in the

plane and I'm like, man, this plane get crashed and whoa,

whoa, come on, come on man. And they still serving peanuts

and all that stuff. Still I'm like, we good man, we

good right. That's why God puts people in

your house in your life that are stable.

So when you are unstable, you put your eyes on them and

they'll stabilize you, right? Stop, stop, stop hanging out

with unstable people because you unstable and and you find

comfort with unstable people because y'all talk the same

unstable language. All right, Hallelujah.

I really appreciate you guys welcoming back to Love Quest

International Church. OK, I, I, I tapped on Proverbs

3. You could take a picture.

I'm going to leave that up there for 10 seconds.

Reading on your own. It's small for reasons not

really meant for you to read it right now.

Take a picture, zoom in on it and, and, but I just want you to

see all of this right here and then in the burnt oranges, say,

then in the burnt oranges say then need to be reading

everything before this. Then I know you want health.

I know you want stability. Here it is.

Can I can I can I can I tell tell some of you in here, Some

of you in here are just really good life.

People by nature use raising good situations or you know how

to handle certain things like your life.

It is stable for some of you just it seems stable because

that's just your nature. Like you're not a dramatic

person. You're not you like you chill,

you a simple person, all of those things, but you look.

Under the hood of your simple, a part of your simple is because

you live in fear, right? We're not talking about being

stable by nature, we're talking about being stable by the Spirit

of God, OK, All of us have different types.

And you got people in here who high sprung.

They walk in. Whoa, what's going on this

morning, Right? You hear, you hear, I hear EJ in

the back. He's singing and he is on his

own note. He is on his own tune, right?

He is on his own tune right and that's beautiful right that that

that that is absolutely just by nature, though, by by being from

Chicago, by being parented by his his story, However he has

come to be this person, including being filled with the

Holy Ghost include having a family that has created the

space to let them be that right you you just by name without

God, you are you. But my question is, is who you

are is who or all God made you to be?

I'm an introvert, but if is that what God has for you.

I want to be married, but is that what God called you to?

I'm going to help some people. Marriage is a calling.

Marriage came from God, right? Marriage is a calling.

It didn't come from Vegas, it came from God.

OK, no one ever asked am I called to be married?

Marriage is a ministry. Now, now look, it don't mean if

I ain't called to be married, I'm called to be free to do my

thing. No, because single is a calling,

and there's a holy way to do single.

And there's a holy way to do marriage.

Hallelujah. All right, I got to keep you

pushing. Keep you pushing.

Keep you pushing. OK, we see Isaiah 11.

OK, New Year's Eve. I brought up Isaiah 11.

Snap, Snap, next. Snap, snap.

Next. OK, we see that.

The fear of the Lord is a manifestation of the spirit of

the fear of the Lord is the manifestation of the Holy

Spirit. OK, follow this and and the

spirit of the fear of the Lord is our Savior's delight.

See, when you talk about the fear of the Lord, there's almost

like people receive it with a heaviness like, oh.

And the way, the way the Bible has it and the way you hear it

is like, oh, they were in fear and truth.

The priest couldn't even stand. And you like, Oh my God, there

you can. All you can imagine is these

priests that scared of God. And you, all you see is Moses

like this. And you don't see that the fear

of the Lord is the children of God's playground.

It's it's their. It's their jumpy house.

It's it's, it's their, their their their their bottomless

applesauce. It's Legoland.

It's it's it's it's it's. It's where the children of God

thrive. It's where we live.

The fear of God is our discipline, but it's also our

playtime, It's our it's our prosperity.

It's everything pertaining to life and godliness flows through

a life of the spirit of the fear of God.

See, when you got the spirit of the fear of God, nobody asked

have to ask you to get off the phone in church, right, right.

When you have the true spirit of the fear of God, he is the

person that bring he causes you to have honor where honor is

due. When you got the spirit of fear

of God, nobody, nobody got to beg you to serve and build his

church. Nobody, nobody got to beg you to

obey the word. Nobody got to beg you to be on

time because I fear like like I honor God, I Revere him and I'm

coming to his house when I was over there in Italy, you show up

late to the to the the Vatican, you not getting in and you ain't

getting no refund. How you going pay to go into a

holy place and then show up late?

But that's the church. That's the day when I mean you

got people overseas and in different continents.

They are walking hours to be a day early and then I just sound

like a madman yelling and you like he doing too much.

He charismatic, he Pentecostal, he from America.

That's what they do like, like not not understanding that God

will always before he does something, before he moves,

before he judges, he will always send a voice into the wilderness

that well, here it is, here it is.

He will cry out the same message and it's crazy that you can hear

the same message week after week and still not hear it.

I. Don't want to come up here every

week? And when he's begging, people,

worship and lift your hands. Because because then it becomes

then people think, oh, you're trying to control and I don't

want to lift my hands. This I'm not going to come to

this church. If you ask me to lift my don't

come back, right? I'm like, I'm trying to do you.

How many places? You go where you abide by.

And this ain't even a rule. I'm actually trying to encourage

you and invite you into to what you came to church for, right,

right. That's why you got saved, right,

To find that piece and you got somebody that's really going to

be like, no, it's not OK. Like like, like you watch some

of these churches and people, these big churches and if you go

to their services and their conferences and the worship team

up there worshiping and then most of the people in the house,

ain't nobody lifting their hands, barely rocking.

How you staring like that's too long to stand up and stare.

Like I, I lightweight respect the people that come to worship

and sit down because you let me know I'm not, I'm not

interested. But the people that just stand

up through first time attendees. Oh, they singing again.

This church just loves singing. And then the pastor come up,

he'd start trying to sing. When the singing goes stop, from

what I hear, that's what heaven is.

They don't stop singing. They don't stop singing.

You know, I'm saying like there's no sermon in heaven.

It's like the same. He is the sermon, he is the

word, right? And so for me, I'm like, it's

it's tiring because you, you waiting for this wave to catch.

And but, but here's the sad part.

What I'm telling you is you actually have permission to do

what you were created to do. Why wouldn't you do it?

Because nobody had to tell you had the permission to sin.

You just sin Now I tell you got permission to live.

And you like, hold up. What scripture is that?

Where? When?

What we doing? I don't feel like it.

My stomach hurt. Right.

Nobody had to give you keys to sin.

You like. Ah, janitor.

You the janitor at the sin department?

No, that makes it cheesy. Caleb.

Kate, no more. OK.

No, it's not a comedy club. OK.

All right. Look right, right.

Ain't it funny how we just will step in sin just like ah, we'll

boast in and yeah, I was out drinking.

You don't drink. What's wrong with?

You, you must be holy. This Christian's talking though

you don't drink. You must be holier than thou.

No, not holier than thou. Just holy.

Take the DAW out. You don't smoke, that's from

God. Yep, OK, plants is from God, How

we use them, right? The body is from God too, but

how we use them, right? The brain is from God, but how

we use in the you get what I'm saying Like no, no, so so, so

then somebody come in your life and like really trying to point

you to real life. And you like you, you're not

talking to me. Yes I am.

You don't want to hear from me, Don't come here.

And then you're like, well, I'm going to come.

When somebody else preach, guess what?

We're going to be saying the same thing.

A person with the fear of God, the person with the gift of the

fear of the fear of the Lord understands who they are and why

they are here in relationship to God.

In other words, everything the person with the spirit of the

fear of the Lord is, is due to the wonder and the love and the

grace and perfection of God. A person with the fear of God is

totally dependent on the Lord as a child is to a parent.

The gift of the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Once a person understands who God is and desires to please

him, they can begin to understand things from God's

point of view or have wisdom. And today I just want to kind of

like take a different angle of like shoulda, coulda, woulda,

shoulda, somebody say shoulda, coulda, woulda.

We're going to look at some familiar scriptures and I ended

off last experience with just trying to encourage some of you

that there was places in your life where you said never, You

said no, you said not today. You said not again, you said

never again. There was a point where you drew

a line in the sand, a point where you put your foot down and

maybe you did that once and and didn't do it 20 other times, but

just to encourage you is is God is saying that where you are.

It has been him honoring even the one.

Never again, right? Like like if you don't learn how

to celebrate the small victories that you have accomplished, it

will be hard to create a momentum of victory in your

life. OK.

And we're in a world where it's just next, next, next, next,

next and some. And I have been in a place in my

life where I've had to celebrate the same victory for several

years. Let me tell you something.

Getting in this building what I'm getting in this unfinished

building. Was a victory.

It is nothing like leading homeless sheep.

Oh, I forgot y'all not shepherds.

So you don't understand what I'm saying.

OK, They're disgruntled. They they go everywhere.

They don't have home. It's an orphan spirit.

And and and then we're also not treated like his home.

We got to get in, unpack pack. We got to get people serving,

setting up, breaking down longer than they get poured into.

Now this, this building ever got to get finished?

Please Lord do. But this building I'll never got

to get finished and I'm still celebrating the garage.

See. And what you don't understand is

that the celebration of where we are is what opens the door to

eyes to see where we're going, which in turn gives me the

stability I need to stand while I'm waiting.

So God's like, how are you about to ask me to open another door?

And you still have overlooked what we just walked through.

It's just like breakthrough, boom, God, breakthrough God,

give, give me a job six months later, give me a raise.

You got a raise. I need now promotion to another

position. And you're not just happy and

celebrating what you have overcome.

It's just this grind in the world to kind of get ahead.

Not knowing for the believer you're ahead is in the head.

See, it's not in you sucking and jiving and striving and

finagling and manipulating and and, and I can't say I can't do

this because I got to get here. And if I don't take this

opportunity, I'll never accomplish my goals.

You care more about your goals than your God.

Should have, could have, would have said beware the side

effects of glory because I'm 100% of you in here will

experience God's glory. If you haven't already.

God will do what he said He'll do.

He is going to bless you. He's already blessed you.

He will prosper you, 100% of you.

He. This is not a matter of God will

prosper you. It's a matter of will you have

the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the capacity to

maintain and contain the blessing that God is going to

bring in your life. This isn't.

This this, this, this isn't about God.

Is he going to do it? If you don't got eyes to see,

you won't even see how he's blessing you sometimes God, it's

God blessing you that they walked out and you praying God,

what should I do? And he say.

Let him walk, he like no what should I really do?

And he ain't going to answer you again.

It's God's doing. Genesis 39 Somebody say should

have could have, would have we read this story.

I don't want to stick here too long, but the Lord was with

Joseph and and and he he though a slave he though a what talk to

me. He though a what?

I need you to shout that shout that out.

He though a what? He, though a slave, was a what

successful and what prosperous man.

Who we oh, we there there is divine, what you would call

captivity divine that, that that season in your life where it

seemed like you can't get ahead and you right, You got to be

careful putting language to seasons that God didn't give you

language for, right? It's very dangerous because if

you, if you add your emotional language to a season, you'll

have an emotional season and you'll walk out of that season

not benefiting from the divine waiting pattern that God had you

in. See, God will give you language,

right? Here's language.

Oh, this building is all about God showing his people what he's

doing in them. OK, you see, that language can

allow me to wait because I can make a correlation between how

long it's taken to get that beautified and how long it seems

to get my life right when God got me on the surgery table,

right? You can't move on to certain

seasons until you have certain permits, OK OK.

And so when I have language to it, this building is no longer

hey project. It's an illustration.

I'm not talking to anybody. And how how many people have saw

what you're going through? It's trauma instead of an

illustration of something God has been trying to do.

Oh, man, I'm trying to help a few people in here.

I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying, right?

Because in Old Testament, before Jesus even hit the scene, he was

on the scene and he was trying to get illustrations that like

you can look at Joseph's life, you can look at Noah and you can

look at the ark and be like that was an illustration of Christ.

You can look at Abraham's sacrifice and say that was an

illustration of Christ. You can look at Ruth, you can

look at Naomi, you can look at Elijah.

You can see all these illustrations of Christ.

And after the illustrations come the manifestation.

There was no Jesus manifested till they start talking about

Jesus. Isaiah talked about Jesus there,

right? There's a season where you got

to prophecy the promise before you see it.

If you can't put language to what he promised, if you can't

put godly language to a tumultuous season, you will not

benefit from that season. Why?

Why did I go through this loss? OK, be emotional about it,

grief, cool. But I guarantee you God has a

language for that grief or for that loss or for that season.

And the moment you can get the language to that season.

Let me tell you the with the language.

Comes strength to endure Jesus in this moment.

He says let this cup pass, but nevertheless and then and then

understand. He understood the language for

that season was not about his pain, it was about your demise.

That, that, that. Whole season of darkness with

Jesus. He had language, and the

language was them. And because them was the

language and not him, He was able to endure.

Hebrews 12 tells us that he despised the shame.

And he looked forward and He saw our freedom.

He saw you one day sitting in the church, having an

opportunity to worship between you and the Father once again.

Did this what you got to understand?

We just had that break. That wasn't just like, let's

sing. I wish you got this revelation.

All you parents who love playing with your kids and you love it

when your kids is like Mama Dada and when they play in front of

you and they just doing this and you're just sitting there.

You like, wow, here's one of the things you see in your kids when

they're playing. Here's one of the things that

you see in your kids when they're playing.

It's not one time your kids is not playing and you don't see

you. So while you think that was just

a moment to sing overflow, what God saw is his kids.

And guess what he did in Genesis?

He put himself in you. And when you praise Him and when

you breathe in the rhythms of grace, guess what He sees?

He sees himself. Stop.

Stop robbing God from playing with his kids.

Because have you ever played with a kid with attitude?

You you ever had a kid? In front of you like this.

And then here's it. You ever have a kid sit in front

of you like this? You'd be like, what's wrong?

They'd be like nothing. This is this is, this is the

posture, right? This is, this is the posture.

This, this is this is our posture.

This is how we live, even if we're not physically like this,

our hearts is like this. Our valves are open.

Jesus was on the cross, valve was open, right?

His heart was fully available for God his whole walk.

Can you imagine Jesus on the cross with the cross, Right,

Just on the cross, Gangsta. No, there's no strength in a

closed heart, right? When somebody have a heart

attack, one of the first things they do, they collapse.

You can't even. Walk with your heart closed.

You wondering why you can't hear from God?

Your heart closed. And that's why it's very silly

to close your heart off because the church hurt.

Because if you close your heart off to His church, you close

your heart off to the head of the church.

So I says guard your heart, guard it, Garrison, protect it.

For out of it flows your issues, your issues, not his issues, not

your spouse issues, not your kids issues.

Want to change your surroundings?

Open your heart to the Lord. We see Joseph, Joseph prosper

man, prosperous man as a slave. Bible says he that that that

Potiphar saw the favor on Joseph's life.

The master saw that the Lord was with him.

When you're walking in the street, can people tell the Lord

is with you? When you open your mouth, can

they tell the Lord is with you? Right.

I would say 95%. I don't know when my wife pray.

I know my wife pray. I'm not with her when she prays.

Sometimes we'll pray together or sometimes I walk past and I hear

her praying or we're driving somewhere and I hear her

praying. But she got her prayer life.

But I can tell she prays. I can tell she prays to how she

responds because I met her when she wasn't praying.

What are you talking about? Don't tell me you got a

relationship with God but you struggle trying to have one with

me. You know I give me no grace.

No, you can't be a grace taker and not a grace giver.

You should be able to see your walk with God says everything

that brother touched, everything that brother had, it flourished.

And so the moral of that story right there is Joseph said here,

you going, I'm going to have to put everything in your hands and

I want you to see the progression of stewardship.

He was like, OK, I'm put them. OK, I need to put everything.

You can't have my wife with. I'm putting everything in in

your hands. Say smart move.

Right, a lot of people in here looking for ownership.

You know, you know, it's really silly is we think in this world

ownership is the highest form of authority or dominion ownership

and how many people have owned something and you got more

headaches. I mean, Amen.

OK. Have you ever, have you ever,

have you ever looked in the Bible of how much God has he

When Adam was in the garden and it was almost like the Father

said, what's mine is yours, even if your name ain't on it.

I give you authority as though it's yours without the weight

that I have as the creator of it.

And all we look for is we going to rent or we going to own.

We skip this other Kingdom thing.

Right. We're ambassadors.

The power of ambassador is I'm, I'm, I'm merely a representation

of Christ. He created the message.

He owns the message. He just put the message in my

mouth to speak it. I don't want to own, I don't

want to be the word. I don't want to own the word.

Too much responsibility for that.

But I will partner with the word and I will speak on the words

behalf. And I will manage the word and I

will guard the word, and I will steward the word and I will

release the word and I will pour in the people that are good

ground for the Word. And I understand that ownership

is not the highest form of authority.

Even a cop is given delegated authority.

That's why if they violate a law within their jurisdiction or

within their, their, their, their, their, their little

sphere, they get that badge taken.

And that badge, guess what? When that's taken and their gun

is taken, guess what? They lost authority.

What if God just wants to put something on you and walk you

into some places and you become a manager, you become a source

of wisdom. You become someone who billions

and billions and billions of dollars in resources find you.

And someone sees something on your life.

They see your faithfulness. They they see your change.

They see your integrity. And one day.

And you don't know they've been watching you and they like, boy,

you've been in that garage, you ain't budged.

You can't that garage have caused you to be able to be a

better vision caster. I got all these people with

money around me. They don't know how to cast

vision at all. They think the money is the

vision. I want to start you out of.

I want to bring you in on my team and I want you to begin to

whatever, whatever on you. I want to bring you in so some

of that can rub off on my team and I'm going to break you off

this. I just need you a few hours a

week because you're all so efficient.

I don't, I don't do me, you know, billion I don't do I don't

do nothing past 30 minute meetings.

I don't got that kind of time. I'm doing 1010 minute meetings

because it's efficient. Cut the fat off right?

You don't. Understand that that that you

know the Boaz sees you walking in purpose and walking in the

fear of God, and all of a sudden you in the field and the

blessing finds you. I believe Matthew 633 seek me

first, seek my Kingdom, do things my way, develop habits my

way, all these things that you losing sleep over.

Let me tell you something, 2025, you can't afford to make God

2nd, 3rd or 4th. No, it ain't no question going

to church and gathering with the Saints.

If God has blessed me with a church home and a pastor and

leaders, I'm going to church. God's blessed me the opportunity

to serve. I'm going.

I'm going. Not just serve.

But I am going to pull on the discipleship.

I can't do this every week without having people that pour

into me. You ready?

And it's not their obligation to find me, to pour into me.

I'm the one need pouring. So guess what?

You got to learn to do the principle of pulling.

Yeah, pulling is work. Why?

Because the oil costs. Elijah says I ain't going

nowhere. He didn't say, hey, Elijah, when

you get ready to die, holla at me.

Just I come beat me down the street so I can get that double

Porsche. He said.

No, no, no, I understand To get the double portion, I got to

follow you, but I also got to see you when you go.

Meaning there is an intentionality and an intensity

of how I watch. All right, move right along.

So Potiphar plays Joseph Potiphar had nothing to worry

about except deciding on what to eat.

Ain't that brother was wow that brother was Joseph kept handled

a lot. Now Joseph was strikingly

handsome, very good looking and well built.

Now how many people here can be like that?

That sound like me right That sound like me now Now here

here's the crazy part. Some of y'all is like oh this is

not church. Wait a minute, this is in the

scripture. That's in the Bible, right, the

Bible right and that's just what I'm saying.

So if the Bible if if and there's a few people in the

Bible talk about David was handsome red hair, strong like

Joseph, like these guys was built back then.

No fried chicken, no air fried. What none of that.

These guys was like lean, right healthy.

They didn't they didn't have Nikes and air and zoom.

They straight sand, ain't no zoom about them sandals, so they

was grounded. They were one with the earth.

Oh, their toes were like their fingers.

OK, Hallelujah. Come on.

He was there there. There's a reason why when God is

pointing out someone's looks and their physical attributes, let

me tell you something. Yeah, you're beautiful man who

much is given, much is required. Your beauty.

Your beauty is is to be a door for God to use.

Because there's nothing like beauty that's tamed by

reverence. Right when you could just be

bad, you could just be fine. You could just be like Bob boom,

boom, boom. But all of that doesn't get in

the way. Like like like we need that in

the world where where my fine ain't your permission.

And because I smile. Nice.

That ain't a door for you to come talk to me.

Or because I wear a crop top. Fellas, tan yourself.

It's a tank top and it's hot. But dear ladies, yeah, let me

keep reading. Let me keep reading.

Let me keep reading. I got to pray for me while I be

preaching because I can go all kind of ways.

Amen, right, because I ain't I'm I'm not just built on Bible

school, right? My my eyes, God have brought me

from a mighty long way. These eyes have seen some things

right. So what you got to understand he

didn't he didn't be like, now you're going to become holy.

And what is what is that kind of holy like?

Do you know how many priests you ain't never heard testify?

You just got a collar on me? You about to read me?

Now I can read on my own, right? This real life stuff.

This is real life. And This is why I picked these

scriptures, because it's real life.

You look good, you handy strong. You got money.

You got a a a nice little Vancouver penthouse or apartment

that you're overpaying for, so you're looking for roommates or

basement suites. You drink your smoothies, body

energy club, you go to the gym. All of that is good unless God

can't use it because beware of the temptations and and and and

the side effects of glory. The blessings coming you the

blessings here you are blessed. Let me let me stop feeding you

that junk. I will not just tell you it's

coming. It also you are blessed right

where you are. You don't need another shoe.

You don't need another friend. You don't need another church.

You don't need another dollar. You don't need.

I know you don't got all the money you think you need, but

man, sometimes increase can come from decrease.

OK, maybe you only can do 2 gigs on your phone.

You can't do the whole package because I'm a texter, but you

can't do the texter the texter plan, right?

There's decrease for increase. It ain't just always increase,

increase, increase. You, 100% of you in here, I can

promise you I don't need to know what you going through in your

life. I can deem you as blessed.

And I ain't talking about by faith and I'm not talking about

it's coming. You blessed man.

Look at your neighbors. Say you blessed.

All right, all right, all right. Come on, come on, come on, come

on. Follow me.

Follow me. Follow me.

Follow me. Follow me.

It wasn't. It wasn't long.

Here it is. Here it is.

It wasn't long before his master's wife noticed.

Joseph. Hey.

The backlash of blessing. We come up here matching same

colors, right? We, we going to dress up.

We going no, no, no, no, no. Vancouver already dark and and

dingy in the sense of like the weather and the clouds.

And then, and then you want to be the church that we're all

black and black tuques and and and and and bloodstones and

tight jeans and black and black and black because we

Vancouverites know what at the purpose of the church, can we

put on some color? Can we brighten things up?

People already depressed. What is sad?

What is sad? What is sad?

Yeah, all you know, see, he's an affect disorder.

Now look, when I first came here and heard about that, I was

like, man, I know in the name of Jesus they Vancouver going to

get healed from sad. And then I remember one day I

started feeling sad. I was wow.

I'm like, I'm like. No, I ain't.

Suffered from it, but I'm like, I ain't been outside in a while.

That's what it is. Like, you don't realize how

having to be, you know, outside in the sun.

And I get it, but I'm not some of y'all.

Some of that is an excuse for some of y'all.

Sorry. It's just like, oh, it's

seasonal though. It's seasonal.

No, no. You know, Bible tells me that in

every season I can be fruitful. So which word are you going to

believe? Remember the language, right?

Language. Two seasons are important,

right? Cold plunge in the winter.

It's cold but you. But you're not going to let SAD

build a nest on you. All right?

All right. All right.

Here, here it is. Joseph.

Joseph, wife. Potiphar's wife sees Joseph and

she demands come Make Love to me, right?

And then Joseph says never shout out, never.

No, no, I need. I need to give.

I need to let y'all in on something Joseph wasn't talking

to. Her.

He was, he was talking to himself, he was talking to

himself, he was talking to himself, he said.

Never Joseph. Right.

I'm just, that's how I'm going to read it.

Never, Joseph replied. No, never Terence.

Nope, Nope, here it is. I've I've gotten to a place

where I don't have to look the other way.

Not saying I'm strong like I'm crazy strong, but but, but my

soul is getting my soul. I've been doing work on my soul

so I can see a beautiful woman and be like, she's beautiful.

And in my mind, my mind might go, Dang, I didn't say Dang my

mind. I said never, right?

There's, there's, there's beautiful women in this church

and I'm called to be one of the leaders in these people's lives.

I'm called to pastor men's wives, right?

There's beautiful, Hey, no not beautiful, handsome men in here.

I'm not going to be one of them people that walk around and be

like, Hey, how you doing? How you don't know if I'm going

to look up? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Maybe there's a season where you got to look away.

But when you're going to get to the point where you can exist in

front of in like God's beautiful creation and be like that's a

beautiful young lady, when you don't get control of this, when

you going to stop letting. Beauty Pervert right right there

beautiful he's handsome. It doesn't mean because they

looked at you and smiled they interested not in that way but

we also not about to walk around.

Hey sister in Christ. Hey, brother in Christ, No,

what's up, right, because there's some time that's just

false language and we're trying to you know, how many people

sister in Christ with a collar on and that's sister and that's

brother and then they back in the back sister and brother and.

This is hot. I'm I'm excited to be back.

OK? I'm not going to rob.

I'm not going to rob. I'm not going to rob myself.

Like I got to get so I got to get my eating under control.

So I can't go enjoy some every now and then right in Italia,

like like folks didn't even like they they started feeling guilty

because they ate a cheeseburger. Like wait a minute, you you, you

ate a cheeseburger. Now I'm not talking about on the

fast, but some of y'all look right.

And now you can't even enjoy certain things sometime because

you don't have no control. So I can't enjoy being around a

room full of beautiful people. I look over here, there's

beautiful men and women, there's beautiful people over here,

beautiful. Like it's beautiful.

Everybody in the room, beautiful.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

See you get what I'm saying, right?

Because if I fear the Lord, this is my response to temptation.

If the Bible did not say that Joseph wasn't tempted, it just

shows us how he dealt with his temptation.

This is this is his default now. Never it was it wasn't like what

how we going to do this? Like what you mean like wait

till everybody can Oh no, I don't want to do this.

Like no, and they're not looking around.

Be like where your husband at. He wasn't like, I feel you,

girl, like because sometimes you, you do all of that.

To just say. No, right.

He just said never. You going to say I feel you, You

Beautiful like man, if you wasn't married I would and da da

da da da, but never like never don't have that much power if

that ain't the first word that come out your mouth.

So you say he said why, why, why, why?

This man is trusting me with everything and you think I'm

here? It is.

You think I am about to throw away my favor for you?

You don't look that. Good.

You ain't that tempting. You know what I'm saying?

There comes a point where you got to stop playing yourself

because that guarantee you if the Bible could had a timer in

it, that little situation wouldn't have been that long.

First of all, they had to sneak. It had to be.

Quick like it had to like people was walking around because it

was like, hey, where the servants head they outside, they

tend in the. Cows only it only matter of time

they come in the house and some of y'all get so tempted and

worked up you just like he's like was that worth all of this?

Was it worth the guilt? Was it worth the shame?

Was it worth the pain? Was it worth it?

Nobody got to. Beg us to sin.

There is no one greater in this household than me.

Look at this language. Yeah, I'm in a I'm a slave.

I was just sold. I was just abandoned by my

brothers. I was, I was inherit.

I, I, I walked in a family of, of, of polygamy.

Although Jacob did not plan for it to go that way, you got to

understand some of his brothers hated on him, was born jealous

of him because they Mama was jealous of his Mama, right?

Can you identify? See Joseph right here ain't just

saying never. Joseph is also breaking

something. Joseph is breaking something.

I, I will not, I will not see there was 3/3 that I don't have

time to get in this, but Joseph had three robes.

He had three, 3, three sets of garments.

The first one was one his dad gave him, and then and then he

had and then he was given a garment of slave clothes.

And then when he got in the palace, then he was when, when,

when, when, when that season of the, the, the promise and the

dream become to come to pass. He was given a ring, right?

These are three phases of of seasons that he passed and he

was marked by all three of them. We're at a place where he has a

robe as a slave and his integrity is being tested.

Here it is. He got the promise, now he has

to go through. So I know God promised you, but

can you can, can you, can you? Can you stand the test of time

and not keep revising the promise to fit your timetable?

He said I'm not going to sin against God, fear God, I'm not

going to sin against God, bear with me, I'm not going to sin

against God, I'm not going to sin against God.

He didn't say I'm not going to sin against Potiphar.

His relationship was with God. And you more afraid of people

than you? Are about how it's going to

affect you and God's relationship.

The weight has to be God. It can't be people.

She said yeah, day after day. She was determined to seduce

them, but Joseph continually refused.

How long can you keep saying never?

She walked in again, Looked at you never, right.

She walked through with her little with her little little

Galilee, Victoria Lee. Come on somebody shout out

never, he said he refused her advances and would not even go

near her here. He would not even go near.

Why you flirting with temptation?

No, hey, why? I'm just going to come over the

crib. We going to watch movies and.

That's it. Never.

He didn't go near her. Then one day when he had to go

into the hound, do his work, and no one else was there, she

grabbed me. Come here, boy.

Right here, here. Here it is.

You got to be able to withstand the season.

The devil gets aggressive. It's light work.

At first he going to try to invite you in and before you

know it he's going to grab you by you by the by the by the hem

of your garments and he going to say come, I'll look what she's

saying. She grabbed him.

Come on, sleep with me. She's serious.

She want that boy, she thirsty. She want this brother.

She want this brother. I want you to see this.

She's not after Joseph. He's on an assignment for his

favor. He's on an assignment for his

birthright. If I take your birthright, I'll

snatch your authority. But he abruptly ran out the

house. What?

No. You know how sometimes you'd be

like, no, Yeah. No, no, abruptly.

I'm not playing. He wasn't like I need this robe.

He didn't want it because it represented slave anyway.

His brother abruptly ran out the house, leaving his robe in her

hands. What are you willing to leave so

that you can step into what God has for you?

Realizing he had fled, she was holding.

See I just want 2025 to be some make the devil mag here.

She was hot. She called for her household

servants and said to them, see, my husband brings this Hebrew

this this foreigner here to make fools of us.

He barged into my house and. Tried to have sex with me and I

screamed and when he heard me scream for help he ran out the

house and he left his robe. Look evidence she kept the robe

beside her until his master came home and she told him the same

story and she told him the same story.

And now we understand Joseph is now goes from the pit, goes into

this house, he goes into prison. And if I had time, we would

continue to talk about Joseph. And we will see.

No matter if it was the the, the, the pit, the house, prison,

palace, he understood what was on the line.

And there, every season he went through, he prospered.

People in prison, what's in you is meant to change what's around

you. It's not meant to drown you.

It's not meant to take you out, though it may.

Can you imagine how Joseph felt in the pit left by his family,

No one coming to get him to lie? Lie to his dad and say he's

dead. Do you know what he felt like

being lied on again? He can't escape being abandoned.

He goes in prison and then someone forgets about him.

And you got to be OK with people forgetting about you and stay

ready for God calling on you. In 2025, my message still is as

it was you to. Mess with the wrong one.

It is absolutely too late. I declare that the Nets of your

deception Satan, have been broken.

It is absolutely too late. The setups won't work.

They will only snap back you you ever you ever did it and then it

popped back and hit you in the face.

That that's kind of the way I see the enemy.

What he shot out to destroy me is shooting back at him.

God desires to build an unshakable house.

No matter what season you're walking in.

You are unwavering your immovable Davidic people and

place. That stands the test of times.

Now here's where we'll go. I will give you Job 31, First

Samuel 24. Just promise me one thing.

You'll lean in, you'll pull, and we'll close.

Have a song ready and we going to leave with a shout.

Joe, I made a solemn pact with myself never to undress a girl

with my eyes. That's in the Bible.

Oh, remember Shoulda coulda. Would I get it?

She bad. I get it.

He's hot. I get it.

The money's good. I get it.

I need to take the edge off. But here's what he did.

He made a covenant. I'm going to look at her, but

I'm not going to undress her, Right.

You know what you're thinking, right?

You ever you ever be? You ever be.

I'm just talking, fellas, ladies, you can you can make the

parallel. You ever, you ever had a

stoplight and there's a crosswalk in front of you and

then some people walk in front of you and then one of them

dangs walk in front of you, right?

Can I get any honest people instead of everybody looking at

me like they just came out of merry womb?

Huh. You know.

What I'm saying and then you try to do the OR some folks are just

downright just gone, right. You if you're a waiter or a

waitress in a in a restaurant, how you know, certain

restaurants make you dress certain way and then you, you

got to serve these, these these older men sometime and they just

looking at you and it's just gross.

It's disgusting. It's like, but to just look at

you and say, Hey, how you doing? Whatever I'm saying in your

head, you like, oh, it's beautiful.

What's that? Hey can I get another water

right you? You undressing her in your mind

and once you got the clothes off in your mind they off.

And that's anything across the board.

He just said I'm making a covenant with God and with my

eyes, that I will never undress a girl with my eyes.

So what can I expect from God? What do I deserve from God

Almighty above if I go either way, if I keep this covenant?

Or if I break it, he tells us. Jesus says you might as well cut

it off rather than sin, it's that serious.

You got to be aggressive about these strongholds and stop

thinking you're stronger than it.

Somebody say shoulda, coulda, woulda.

I'll close here first Samuel, I'll give you a different take.

24 There was a cave there, and Saul went in to relieve himself.

David and his men were huddled far back in the same cave.

David's men whispered to him, can you Can you believe it?

Now understand Saul, you know, he hired David to to to to be in

charge, but he also got jealous. Everybody that help you anything

that's you get what I'm saying. Everybody that hire you ain't so

you. So you got to understand this.

So Saul, David, David is here with his boys.

He said, Can you believe it? David's men whistle.

Hey, Can you believe it? You got to watch a circle.

Can you believe it? This is the day God was talking

about. You got to watch some friends

that twist the word for you. This is the day God was talking

about when he said, I'll put your enemy in your hands, you

can do whatever you want with him.

Quiet as a cat, David crept up and cut off a piece of Saul's

royal robe. Immediately he felt guilty.

He said to his men, God forbid that I should have done this to

my master. God's anointed, God's anointed,

God's anointed, God's anointed. Although he is someone who is

hating on me, he is still God's anointed that I should so much

as raise a finger against him. He's God's anointed.

David held his men in check. With these words and wouldn't

let them. Pounce on salt.

Yeah, you. You've grown when you tell when

you tell your friends to stop talking about your haters.

Should have, could have, would have.

But when I. Revere God.

You can't talk about nobody around me like that, right?

There's conversations about what's going on and people and

people that frustrate you. But just to be a trash can, to

let people dog people to you, You don't Revere God because the

same person you are indulging in gossip with, that's God's child,

that you're being entertained by someone talking down about them.

Saul got up, he left The Cave, went on down the road.

Then David stood at the mouth of The Cave and called Saul, my

master, my king Saul, look back. David fell to his knees and

David fell to his knees and bowed in reverence.

He called out. Why do you listen to those who

say David is out to get you? Why, why, why do you listen to

those people, Saul, this very day with your very own eyes?

You have seen that just now in The Cave God put you.

Put you in my hands, right? Jesus, same thing.

I knew Judas was about to do this, but I'm going to let him

kiss me, right? I should have let y'all pay for

your sin. I could have let y'all pay for

your sin. I would have.

But my relationship with God and obeying God was too important.

My men wanted me to kill you, but I wouldn't do it.

Told them that I won't lift a finger against my master.

He's God's anointed. He didn't say I told you I

wouldn't lift a hand. Although I don't like him, he

said. I won't lift a hand.

Because that's God's. I'm not going to touch God's

anointed. Oh, my father, look at this.

Look at this piece that I cut from your robe.

I could have cut you and killed you, but I didn't.

I could have cut you. I maybe should have cut you

because you are a threat to my promise.

But I didn't look at the evidence.

I was this close to you. I'm not against you.

I'm no rebel. I haven't sinned against you and

yet you're hunting me down to kill me.

He is sitting here face to face with someone who wants to kill

him. Someone wants to.

Not just somebody, but someone who needed him and someone who

has used him. And he is so jealous of him.

He wants to. Kill him and David catches him

asleep. He cuts a piece of his garment.

Could have killed him. Without a reverence of God, he

said vengeance is the Lord's. What does it have to do when you

have the fear of God? You let God handle your

vengeance. You don't.

You don't get caught up in paying people back or having to

let people know how much they ticked you off.

I Revere God and the words that are coming out of my mouth, do

they bring glory to God? It's OK to say you frustrated in

a wholesome, firm way. Davis said Man, I could have

killed. You see the repentance in his

heart, you see the reverence in his heart.

He said I didn't kill you because you belong to God.

See, when you Revere God, you see even the people that hate on

you as God's children. You see your alcoholic parent as

God's son or daughter, so you still honor them although they

disgraced you. The the parent that abandoned

you, you still bring honor to them because you understand

that's God's child. Peter cuts off a man's ear,

rightfully so. They fighting.

We fighting. I mean we fighting, but he was

talking about this is what we do back then.

If it was the day he would have shot him in the ear, but he

sliced him up. What did Jesus do?

Jesus says to him. He says, you really think I'm

not going to drink this cup? Here it is.

I want you guys to see this Jesus.

So put your sword away, Peter. You so hasty, Peter.

You emotional Peter. Tell you really think I will

avoid the suffering? You notice this, right?

He said. Man, we got to get his man his

ear back. Because if, if, if I, if I pay

him for betraying me, then that's not counted as suffering.

What's counted as suffering is loving those who are hard to

love. What's counted as suffering?

Can you wait for recompense? And the recompense is not God

paying people back. It's him restoring what you

lost. Some of y'all are still waiting

for those who hurt you to understand how much they hurt

you. Fear the Lord will.

Free you up at a level of freedom that you've probably

never experienced in your life. We'll pick back up this week.

Tuesday we have Pastor Oscar coming from Good News Chapel.

Wednesday I'll pick up. EJ will pick up.

Saturday we got 15 people that's going to share 15 minutes, 24

hours. It's not it's 24 hours.

It's not normal time. OK, Just let people know this

week we going in. You don't want to float to you.

Like I only got 2 hours and that's a lot, or 2 1/2 hours and

that's a lot on a Sunday. Awesome.

But when the church calls for prayer, church calls for

fasting, church calls for giving, and you don't

participate this. Ain't your church because we

don't do memberships. Let's get free now.

We don't do memberships, we do family.

This is a family ship. This is a Kingdom ship.

People come and go, and those that want to be here, your

spirit will tell you and you will obey.

This is where I'm supposed to be.

It's hard to hear stuff sometimes.

This is where I'm supposed to be.

But he says your treasure where your heart is, your treasure,

your heart will be. Where your treasure is, your

treasure will be, your heart is and your treasure is not just

your money, it's your time, it's your talent, it's your

resources. You got a lot of people who come

to church for community and you got friends and you, you, you

like the coffee, you like snacks and muffins and, and you out the

back door. And then there you go to

physical relationship. Hey can I set up a wisdom

session because I need help. But if this was your house then

you would sit under the word and understand every Sunday while

you think an old service long man the wisdom session shorter.

If you learn how to listen in here, the wisdom session could

at least be about something not different.

But it could be about victory, not about giving up.

But I do believe there's people in here who honor this house,

honor the leaders in this house, and want to break the orphan

spirit, want to stop church hopping, want to stop being all

over the place, want to stop having a wandering spirit, and

want to get rooted. I don't know how I got here, but

you need to make that decision before you get out of January.

And if Love Quest is not where you want to be rooted, please go

somewhere. It's OK to come and visit, but

this ain't your church home. That pastor who you call your

pastor, he needs you there. If that's where you're called,

that church needs you. You got to stop going from place

to place trying to find messages and experiences that tickle you.

You got to get rooted somewhere because there's a voice.

There's sonics. There is a word specifically for

where God is taking you and what God is trying to uproot out of

you. So although every church should

be and is preaching the gospel, not every method or form or

talent OR personality or means of communication is what you

need based on what God has locked inside of you. 2025

cannot be the year of wandering. It can't be the year of the

orphan spirit. It can't be the year of the pity

party. This has to be the year of your

greatest victory, and that's what God has for you.

This is a home, this is a family.

And if you want to sit on the porch and look through the

window instead of getting in the house, that's your choice.

But their strength at the inner courts and what some people call

clicky, you're just looking at people that are rooted in a

different way than you. And there's clickiness in the

church. You can't never stop that.

We'll do our best, right? At the end of the day, God's put

people in your life for you to pull on.

Same way you go to your sink and put your cup under the water,

you pull on that faucet. Well, if God has put some water

in somebody's belly for you, then guess what?

Pull up and let God use whoever so that one day you could be

somebody's faucet and they will pull up.

Father, I want to be like Joseph.

Never. I want to have the strength, the

integrity. I want to hold on to the Word,

and I want to hold on to your friend, no matter how long.

If it's the pit, if it's up and down, if it's the palace, if

it's the prison. And then one day my brothers

come to me after they left me for dead, and now I get to feed

them. I get to see my nephews.

I miss my entire family's life because I was abandoned.

But I was abandoned for purpose. I was abandoned so I could be

adopted. Hallelujah.

So God, I even thank you for the moments of abandonment in my

life because you work everything together for my good.

I thank you, Father, for using my broken moments as moments to

just be closer to you and to get to know you.

I really pray, Lord God, that this is a house that truly

pursues you, that the fire begins to spread and people

begin to give their worship. May this be a house that doesn't

have to be instructed to worship, but the moment they

come indoors, Lord, God, it's just just a, there's a, there's

a, there's a, there's a, there's a, a spirit of worship in this

place on the people. So I look forward, Lord, to more

hands going up and, and more hands clapping and more knees

dancing and more feet shuffling. Lord, I look forward to the fire

spreading in this place. And Lord, as we approach this

revival week, may you just deal with people and those that have

never sacrificed past Sunday. Maybe this week for some people,

it's a sacrifice. And then for this week, some

people it's a it's a lifestyle. When you call out answer, Lord.

But I pray, Father, that you confirm Your word this week with

signs, miracles, and wonders. Yeah.

Lord, manifest your presence, your may your Shekinah glory be

in this place Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

Saturday and end it Sunday. Lord, may it be the most

miraculous time we have in your presence.

May it be a fire that never goes out.

May something happen this week, Lord God, that will go into the

next 10 generations in the name of Jesus and we thank you for

it. We thank you for the skillful

musicians and worship leaders and singers and all the talent

you've brought in this house. Thank you.

And if I can help it, Lord God, we will lay all of that at your

feet and worship you with it. And by your strength and by your

power. May we run and not get weary.

May we walk and not faint. May we put our wings on and soar

in this season. I speak prosperity in every area

over every person in this room. Those that believe it, those

that's hungry, those that believe the word, you can lift

your hands right there as our release in the name of Jesus.

May God prosper you in every area.

I'm not believing for healing for you.

I'm believing for wholeness. That in every area of your life

you experience wholeness. Get ready, get ready, get ready

for a year of acceleration, for a year of leveling up, for a

year that God will prosper you beyond exceeding abundantly

above all we could ask, think or imagine.

For whoever this is, for a blessing that has just come in

your life over the last year, I'm telling someone in here, it

may be a couple people, there's been a significant blessing that

can change the trajectory of what you're called to do in the

marketplace. I am here to let you know.

And then maybe within the church, I'm here to tell you as

I stand under the sound or the authority of Jesus Christ, in

the name of Jesus Christ, what you have been entrusted with is

only a proving thing. It is only a small opportunity

so that you can be proved. On the other side of what God

just has put in your possession is something so much greater.

Do not settle for where you are, but be content in Him.

I think it's very important for you to understand this, what

God, the opportunity that God has released in your hands over

the last year. It is a trial of stewardship

past this season. You are going to see what God

has blessed you with over the last year 1 hundredfold in your

life right now. This is big enough for you and

maybe one or two people to manage.

But what's coming next is going to take full staff and it is

going to multiply multiple locations, multiple cities.

As you go, revisit the vision. Write it for the nation, not

merely for the neighborhood. Think bigger.

Do not be afraid. God has already put expansion in

His predestined plan for your life.

You are going to do things that eyes have not seen, ears have

not heard within your family. No one saw it in your family.

You don't even have an education to manage what's coming.

Whoever I'm talking to, you're almost overwhelmed with the

little that has been entrusted with you.

But I am telling you, in this season, open your eyes because

your education will come through relationships.

Your education will come through some failure.

But God says there is no punishment for failure.

There is only education. If you can learn one thing,

adjust immediately. I will prosper you beyond your

dreams. I will prosper you beyond your

years. I will prosper you beyond your

imagination. I will prosper you because what

I need to get through you is for generations to come.

I am releasing a generational plan.

And for whoever this is, for a part of what hinders your vision

is you're afraid of death. So you can't see past living

because the vision that is required of you, Hallelujah, is

required to see you out the picture.

The vision is requiring you seeing your grandchildren

running it. The vision is requiring you

seeing people. In other lands that speak other

languages that you do not speak, operating your business, the

vision that God is giving you, He is taking it to other

nations. He is taking it to other

continents. He is taking it to.

Other provinces the Lord says to whoever you are and you'll know

who you are because it's going to hit your spirit.

You thought this was something and it easy it easy.

It has even come out of some of your mouths.

Lord, if you don't do nothing else, this is enough.

God says thank you, but I've called you to more than enough

because I know this is enough for you.

I can entrust you with more than enough.

Yeah. Over the next five years, there

will be frustrations. There will be slow financial

progress, but there will be accelerated infrastructure

released to you. You're like God, why it's taking

so long? Because it's not about the

money, it's the infrastructure for the money.

God is going to release to use systems that you don't even have

to apply yet. God is going to give you job

titles and job descriptions for roles that don't even need to be

filled yet. Hallelujah.

Can you spend this next season? And I'm hearing for some of you

the next season is 6 months. For some of you the next season

is 15 months. For some of you the next season

is three years. Can you spend this next season

allowing me God to pace your progress?

It will be mundane at times, but I will need you to say no to

some things and I will also need you to say yes to some things

that don't make sense. And I will also need you to

stand still for stretches. I'll say it again for stretches

and it could be someone watching online for stretches.

You ready? Because I am growing roots for

your strategy. Throughout time, lastly, I think

you've been grieving over your poverty and God says.

Get over it, be free from what you have lacked.

I will take your lack. And prosper every generation

after. You in your bloodline.

There's lessons in your lack that will be fruit for.

Those to come. If you can hear it, God says

your lack had. Purpose.

Now will you let me prosper it? For those that have ears to hear

before you leave this earth. You will experience the full

renovation of your. Bloodline you.

Will see your father sober. You will see your mom saved.

You will see your brother healed.

You will see your uncle free from prison.

Before you leave this earth. You will.

See the. Full renovation.

Of your bloodline. You will see your family

reconciled. You and your mom will have that

conversation. Your.

Father will repent to you, daughter, whoever you are.

Someone. In here you are believing for

your mother defying. Jesus, I am telling you, in this

year you will know out of the sound of your mother's mouth she

is accepted Jesus as. Her Lord and Savior.

Better get ready because that's lost as she was.

She will live the rest of her days in a fire that may annoy

you. She will know Jesus before she

takes her last breath. That Co worker that you have

been believing for is coming to Jesus.

They have some questions. Whoever you are.

You need to be more patient with them.

There's something in the way you respond, or they've seen you

respond, or there's something in how intelligent or knowledgeable

of Jesus that you have presumed to have that has made them

afraid to open up. Within the next two months that

Co worker. Will open up.

I pray that you have ears to hear and eyes to see and you

will bring that Co worker right in this building and you will

say Pastor T Elder John this is the one.

This week's revival bones are coming back together.

Lift your hands right where you are, if you don't mind.

Won't you say, Lord, I'm available?

Hey Lord, I take the limits off. I am ready for the impossible.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. I received.

I received. I receive.

It Lord Jesus I. Receive it, Lord Jesus.

I. Receive what my eyes can't.

See, I receive what my ears can't hear.

I receive it, Lord, I receive. I receive what?

No. Man has seen.

What no man has heard, I receive it.

Lord God, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Stand to your feet if you don't mind.

You don't. Have to but.

This this experience that will not close.

We have. Announcements I will not tell.

They will be up on Instagram. Oh, I will, I will.

Prophecy. Some announcements will be on

Instagram tonight. Flyers and then tomorrow.

There is no revival. In person Monday only prayer

call. I want to make that clear.

We will meet in person starting Tuesday.

Through Sunday. Saturday we enter 24 hour prayer

and that will start at 122. And as I try and encourage

people, man, come in the 24 hour prayer.

I don't know how you did it growing up, but it's not you

sitting at the altars on the floor talking for 24 hours.

If you see how we scheduled it, a part of the 24 hours is 2

services, so. I told you, if you're a person

that's like. To sleep in the.

Presence of the Lord. Man, bring your sleeping bag, we

will make room for sleeping. Bags.

Like I said, you, you might get here at three, you might stay in

here till six, you might need an hour to go run some errands.

You might want to take a nap in your car.

You might need to go get something to eat.

You might need to go to a meeting.

But but that kind of like effort to stay engaged.

That's the posture God's looking.

For he's not looking for you to sit.

Down here. And know how to pray for 24

hours. He don't want to hear you for 24

hours. OK, God wants to hold.

You, he wants to touch you he wants to whisper in your.

Ears. He wants you to just sit.

He don't want to say nothing, but I expect every person.

To come in at some point. But it would be nice to come in

and just hang out. Let's do it together.

And maybe you're a super. Clean hygiene.

Person I am, I'm going. I'm going to leave first of all,

because I got to prepare a message and I'm going to take a

shower. So maybe you like I'm going to

stay all the way to 6:00 AM, but I'm going to run home and shower

and come back. That is fine.

Understand. And if you don't care how you

smell, then rock out. Just rock out in the back.

Just don't rock. Rock out on the on this area

over here. God's doing something.

Look at your neighbors. Say God's doing something.

I can see it on you. Come on, tell him I can see it

on you. I miss you.

Guys, when I was away so so so much I want to tell you that

your. Church is special and it is a

print. There are churches wishing, I've

heard this out of their mouths, that they had more time to

encounter Jesus on Sundays. We take it for granted.

There's a lot of people in. Schools and in.

Rented places that got to get out.

Don't take it for. Granted the ability when God

says I want a. House I'm not called to a

theater. Don't take it for granted.

To have a house, you're a special group of people and

you're called to do super special things and the glory.

Of the Lord is upon. You.

I hope to see you this week. Yes, right after.

This I will be meeting with SSK. Those that signed up to help

serve SSK or our youth ministry or both or whatever, it's like

15 minutes. I just want to see your faces,

lock eyes with you. Share a few minutes and if you

got questions, I will answer those.

It's not going to be long, promise you.

That. That can you see who, who, who,

who can they go see? Because we're going to do that

meeting in my. Office.

OK, Effie's out there so. We'll round you up and.

We'll we'll catch the meeting in about 1520 minutes.

And I promise you, we. Will not hold you.

I just want to let you know how serious we are about our kids

and our youth. And then hopefully we got some

people that signed up that are serious about helping serve our

families in that way. Go put your hand on your

neighbor's shoulder, you say. We're not going to close out

right now because I will see you this week.

Say don't. Play with your life.

By missing out this. Week.

Have fun, drive safe, let your light shine and.

Bring joy everywhere. You.

Go. Until.

I see you again. You know what it is.

Have a good one. Thank you so much for tuning

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