The Capacity for Chaos (1130AM) - 12.29.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Jesus left and went north into the non Jewish region of

Lebanon. We just finished singing a song

that's original in Love Quest and it says he's not just the

God of. He's not just the God of.

I'm here to tell some of you theologians and doctrinal

experts that God is not just historical.

Jesus is not just some little story of a little boy who once

was. I know he was and I know he's to

come, but he also is. And we're selling a world that

he's just this historical miracle worker.

He's just Jacob's God. He's just Elijah's God.

He's just Abraham's God. But I'm here to tell you that he

is Terence's God. He is Troy's God.

He is Andrew's God. He is Kim's God.

Look at your neighbors, say he's your God too.

Then Jesus left and went N into the non Jewish region.

Say non Jewish. He encountered there a Canaanite

woman who shouted out to him, Lord son of David, show mercy to

me. My daughter is horribly

afflicted by a demon that torments her, but Jesus never

answered her. What was Jesus doing ignoring

her? Because at the time he was not

called to her people. So, so, so his disciples said to

him, Why do you ignore this woman who is crying out to us?

Jesus said, I've only been sent to the lost sheep of Israel, but

she came and bowed down before him and said, Lord help me.

Jesus responded, it's not right for a man to take bread from his

children and throw it out to the dogs.

Did he just call her a dog? Well, if he was here at the

production, you would have understood when the woman at the

well was. It's not so much like this is

how he was raised. You don't talk to those.

You don't mess with those people.

You don't share this goodness with those people.

He's not just the God of. He didn't just split the sea

once. He didn't just go on the lion's

den once. He didn't just go on the fiery

furnace once. And I'm sorry to this generation

that you think you've come to church to learn more and more

and more about a historical being.

But I'm here to tell you that Jesus is alive and, and he wants

to get in your situation with you.

And he's not just the God of pastors and elders and deacons.

He's the God of the person that just came off of some alcohol

last night, just came out of the bed last night, just put down

the weed last night. He is everybody's got and he's

ready to move in your life right now.

Look at her answer. She did not get offended.

She did not get offended. She said you right, you right,

you right, she replied. But even puppies get to eat the

crumbs that fall from the Princess table.

Man, how how many hungry people in here?

Like, like, like, you can't tell me you hungry if I can't see you

hungry. You can say you want God, but

but how desperate are you? Are you desperate enough to lift

your hands? And are you desperate enough to

clap? Are you desperate enough to lose

your cool to your neighbor? He says, he says then Jesus

answered her. Dear woman, your faith, he's I,

I don't, I don't care who I'm called to right now.

Your faith has caused me to translate into a different

dispensation of time to meet your needs.

Today I, I, I hear God saying I didn't even come here to heal

backs and heal ulcers today, but because you are so desperate.

I'm here to heal whoever's hungry for healing.

I believe God is is done trying to prove himself to a very self

entitled generation. I believe in these coming times.

He's he's responding to people pulling on his hymn because he's

been there for you in ways that you cannot even acknowledge.

But we're going to see the greatest move of God in the

desperate in the most desperate places, he says.

And at that very moment, her daughter was instantly set free

from wait a minute. So she you.

Oh, hold on. So she used her faith for

somebody else. She she, she went to church and

lifted her hands for somebody else.

She, she, she danced for somebody else.

She got on her knees and bowed before the Lord for some.

If you ain't going to worship God for yourself, do it for

somebody else. Come on.

If you're not going to close the year out strong for yourself, do

it for your dying daddy. Do it for your lost son or

daughter. Do it for your city who is lost

in a pit of hell. Are you going to praise God for

somebody else? Are you going to lift your hands

for somebody else? Come on, for somebody else.

He saves you for somebody else. Come on, sing your own song.

Come on guys, we can't go into, we can't be so focused on 2025

that we don't come to the end of this year and give God our best

praise. Give God our best worship.

Come on, open your mouth all over the room and tell them

thank you, Lord, thank you for keeping me when I didn't want to

be kept. Thank you for loving me when I

didn't love myself. Thank you for giving me peace

when I was being chaotic myself. Thank you for feeding me when I

didn't even ask for nothing to eat.

Thank you for giving me friends. Thank you for giving me a church

home. Thank you for giving me another

chance. Lord, God, thank you for

bringing me out of darkness. Thank you for healing my mental

illness. Thank you for healing my Mama.

Thank you for healing my daddy. Thank you for healing my

brother. Thank you for healing my sister.

Thank you, Lord God. Thank you, Lord God, for you are

worthy to be praised. Come on, somebody magnify the

Lord with me. Let us exhort his name.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

You touched me when I didn't want to be touched like the old

Saints You brought me from a mighty long way.

You have my attention, Lord God. You have my family's attention.

Lord God, you pick me up and turn me around and place my feet

on solid crown. You have my attention.

Come on, that same energy when you was in a desperate

situation, when you was about to lose your mind and you called on

the name of Jesus, when you was in that car accident, you asked

God for one more chance. Did He bring you out?

Some of you thought she was going to lose your mind this

year, but here you are. He kept you.

When you let Him go, He kept holding you.

Come on, you're worthy God. You're worthy God.

We're pulling on your hymn right now.

We're not waiting to 2025. If I can't praise you now, I

won't praise you then. We lay our goals for 2025 at the

altar. Lord, may you be our top goal.

May you, may we seek you first. Thank you, Jesus,

Come on. It's not going to hurt some of

you to take some moments to say thank you.

You can close your eyes, you can get out of your head.

You're not saying thank you to your homeboy, your home girl.

You're saying thank you to the one that saved your life.

You're saying thank you to the one that that impregnated you

when you were barren. You're saying thank you to the

one that restored your business. You're saying thank you to the

one that brought your son or daughter home.

You're saying thank you to the one that gave you your right

mind after you put drugs in your brain and alcohol in your brain.

You're saying thank you to the God that healed you and

delivered you and sets you free from depression and oppression

and anxiety. That's that God.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're saying thank you to the

God that made a way where there was no way.

You're saying thank you to the God that brought you out of that

surgery, saying thank you to the God that healed your

relationship with your children, healed your relationship with

your spouse. That's what we come to church

for. You can read the Bible at home.

We going we going to get into some word, but we came as a body

of sons and daughters to boast in our God, right.

Is it like like we should have all come in here today with a

thank you on our lips, not in our head.

Yeah, Lord, we pour it out today.

Come on, don't go into 2025 with a 2024 praise.

We we pour it all out today, the last Sunday of 2024.

We pour it all out today. Come on to my intercessors, you

lead the way and just open your mouths.

If it's not for your presence, I don't want it.

I don't want church without your presence.

I don't want purpose without your presence.

I don't want marriage without your presence.

I don't want parenting without your presence.

Come on. It's all about your presence.

We're we're pursuing you. Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. The.

Come on, lift your hands all over the place, Jesus answered.

At that time, deception will run rampant, so beware that you are

not fooled for many will appear on the scene claiming my

authority or saying about themselves I am the Anointed 1

and they will lead many astray. You will hear of wars and

revolutions on every side with more rumors of wars to come.

Don't panic or don't give in to your fears, for the breaking

part of the world's systems is destined to happen, but it won't

yet be the end. It will still be unfolded.

Nations will go to war against nations, and kingdoms against

kingdoms, and there will be terrible earthquakes, horrible

epidemics and famines in place after place.

This is how the birth pains of the new age will begin.

You can expect to be persecuted, even killed, for you will be

hated by all the nations because of your love for me.

Then many will stop following me talking about believers and fall

away, and they will betray one another, meaning the church will

be a hot mess and turn on one another and gossip and talk

about each other and and demonize people for the ways

they do things. And there will be theological

debates and slanders and everybody's thinking they got

the right way. And the church will turn on

itself. It will betray one another and

hate one another. Many lying prophets will arise.

Well, if there's lying prophets, there are also truthful

prophets. There is no great move of God in

the latter days without prophets being recognized and set in the

church. So if you are more comfortable

in a church where the fivefold ministry gifts are not

acknowledged, activated, ordained and put in place as God

ordained it to be, promise you, you will not see miracles, signs

and wonders at the rate God has designed here it is and at the

rate the world needs as a witness that God is still alive.

Even Jesus himself, after he talked, it was always followed

by signs and wonders. And I understand we are in a

region, we are in a country, we are in a world, we are in a

North America where we get high off of knowledge and we accept a

lack of movement of God. We accept the lack of movement

of signs and wonders. Well, how did God convince the

world there is no real gospel being preached, shall I say

anointing without signs and wonders?

I'm sorry we have settled where God has restored the office of

teachers. It was never to take the place

of the anointing. So we have a lot of people

puffed up with knowledge and we're arguing over theology and

who's right, who's wrong, what schools you went to.

And we see in the Bible, when God started moving in the book

of Acts, even the smarty pants of religion said, whoa, there's

something different about these guys.

They didn't go to the same schools we went to.

They didn't sit in the same seminaries we they went to.

They didn't sit under the same teaching we did.

But one thing we can see is they've been with Jesus.

What the world needs to see is a church that walks with Jesus,

not a church that is more interested in how to hear God's

voice, but not learn how to walk with God.

See, here's the thing. You want to hear from God, You

want to learn how to hear God's voice, walk with them.

So, so hey, go buy that book. There's a lot of books out there

that can tell you how to hear God's voice.

There's a lot of conferences because we're we have a lot of

hungry Christians who are hyper spiritual.

We're more we have it here it is Bible says it, not PT.

But I agree with the Bible. There is a form of godliness,

but we deny the true power. We have entire universities in

the name of Christianity. No power on campus.

I don't care where we are. If we rock the name of Jesus, he

should be alive and even in the classroom.

Every now and then the Holy Spirit could get a hold of the

curriculum. Ain't he the one that that,

that, that wrote it? Who?

Who wrote the Bible you built your school off of?

So can the author of the Bible have his way in class?

Sometimes. Sometimes.

So here, he says, in the last days there is going to be great

deception. And there is going to be great

sin. Here it is.

Then many will stop following me and fall away.

And they will betray one another.

And many lying prophets will arise, deceiving multitudes and

leading them away from the path of truth.

How do you get LED away from the path of truth?

Because there's a truth that fits your dilemma or your way of

thinking. We, that's why.

We. That's why it's dangerous.

All you, you 2 churchgoers or you who may go to church, but

you got your favorite church on YouTube that that's in Tennessee

or something. And you, if you live there,

you'll go to that church. Well, if you were supposed to go

to that church, either God's telling you to move there or you

are not supposed to be there. And there's a church he has for

you here. And maybe if you're here, this

is the one for you, right? And and and and and we are

scrolling to find inspiration instead of getting in the word.

We, we, we instead of walking with God, we're walking with

updates, likes and trends. I don't think hearing from God

is a is a is a God problem. I think, I think your actions

show if you really want to hear from God like that, like like

like here it is the reason why you want God to speak in an

audible voice because that's that.

That's what your channel you only audible.

Guess who speaks really well in audible?

Yeah, the devil. Soon as you scream, hey, give me

a sign. He's like, oh, absolutely.

I give signs all day. Signs don't mean truth.

Goosebumps don't mean God. Gut feeling doesn't mean Holy

Ghost. But I can't really trust my gut

all the time. I can't trust my gut without

running my gut through the multitude of counselors and the

Holy Ghost. I don't care how my gut feel

about it. The Holy Ghost still got to have

he said. He said try the spirits, not try

your gut them goosebumps. You need to try who these

goosebumps from because you can go to a Taylor Swift concert and

get goosebumps. Sorry everybody that went to a

Taylor Swift concert has had goosebumps by Taylor Quicksilk,

but you know what I'm saying? So goosebumps is not a sign and

wonder. Sometimes you don't feel

nothing. Sometimes there's no sign.

What if the only sign is Jesus? Why we need extra.

Amen. Amen.

All right, let me let me read the Bible to you.

Amen. There will be such an increase

of of the sin of lawlessness that those whose hearts once

burn with passion for God, this is others will grow cold.

Wake Uncle Willie up. You get what I'm saying?

Hey, guys, listen. Listen, this is what I'm faced

with here. I see a lot of people who've

been in church for a long time. Can I, can I, can I just be

honest out of loving you? Your worship is pretty stale.

Like if I was a non believer here it is who doesn't

understand spiritual things. I could not tell you were in

love with God. I could not tell that he is your

Lord. I could not tell that you are

excited to be saved. I could not tell that you have a

revelation that you are chosen and royal priesthood.

Understand I am to be a witness not to y'all all the time right?

You, you the kind of person that turn on the flashlight when the

sun is out. So I see you all bright when you

around Christians, but the signs and wonders look when you save

this by faith when you lost you need a sign.

That's why some of y'all Hey Siri, tell me where to go and

and this is the day guys where stop crying out for revival.

If you don't want to be a sacrifice like like make it here

it is. Make your mind up.

Are you a Christian or a follower?

And what makes you think you're a follower?

What you following? OK, here it is.

If you follow Jesus, no one has to beg you to be at church on

Sundays. If you follow in Jesus, no one

has to ask you to forgive your neighbor.

If you follow in Jesus ready, no one has to beg you to tithe.

If you follow in Jesus, no one has to remind you, let

everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Is that me? Is that you?

Right, right, right. If you follow in Jesus, then you

count it all joy. When you follow in Jesus, no one

got to always encourage you. If you follow in Jesus, you're

not going to mean mug the pastor the whole service.

Right when you following Jesus, nobody got to pump and prime

you. Hey, hey, it's worship.

Hey guys, God's here. Just in case you didn't know the

Lord's here. I know it's a garage.

He was born in a major kind of similar.

The the worship's good. The the musicianship is good.

The skill is good. The the mics are pretty good

quality. The speakers are great.

Hey, you hear me right? The stage is raised.

We got a nice stage in the garage.

We're good. We got a sleek contemporary

podium for you, right? We got TV's for you to read the

words something. Do you all see the lyrics on the

screen? I, I tell, I tell.

I said this before, and you guys can tell me better than I can

remember, but a sign that you're free is your site.

Let me tell you, if you still see the saying you're not free,

you can't. You can't tell me that your

praise look the same in December as it did in January.

Not if he brought you through. Like if you have a revelation of

God's saving mercy, right? And let me help you.

Praise, worship, clapping, dancing, making a joyful noise.

It's a doctrine, it's theology, It's, it's, it's, it's biblical,

right? The Bible I read is a pretty

colorful, noisy place, right? Why is this important?

Because you got to understand that in these latter days, it's

a sound war. It's a worship war.

It's a pray. Why?

This is how important praise and worship is is the devil finds

his greatest talent in the church.

Go go do your history. Go do your history.

The sounds always spin off of the church what God is doing

like if you want to know who got the greatest sound on earth and

in heaven, it is the Kingdom of God.

Hallelujah. So, so we need, we need the room

participation, we need you to worship God.

We need you to participate in that.

We need you to act like you believe God is here.

All right, all right, so, so I'm going to do a quick little

review, real quick. And then I got to get to see you

because it's last Sunday. It's the last message that God

has said. This is how we're going to close

the year. And then New Year's Eve, we will

have a word for New Year's. And I cannot wait to deliver it

because it's weighty, it's heavy, and I cannot, I think

this is the first time I've never ever shared with one

person, maybe except my wife, what the word is going to be.

I haven't told you yet. Look at that, look at that.

This is the first time it is that sacred.

It is that heavy. And 2025 is, it's going to be a

year, it's going to be a year and it's a year he's prepared us

for. And I think we need to get this

right here. All right?

I really like the sound of this mic because I get to hear money,

you know, I get to hear my voice like this, you know what I'm

saying? Amen.

Just today, today's today's title, he said for the to close

out the year, here's what I want you to tell the people out of

everything we preach this year, This is going to wrap it up with

a nice bow. Today we're talking about

capacity for chaos, a capacity for chaos, a capacity.

I just read to you that you, you were actually born in, saved in,

called to a chaotic time in history.

Can we agree that everything I just read is happening?

Earthquakes. Anybody heard of any earthquakes

lately? Right.

Any, anybody ever anybody heard of any wars lately?

Rumors of wars? Anybody?

Anybody see kingdoms fighting against kingdoms?

If you haven't, the church is fighting against the church,

right? So these aren't just physical

kingdoms. These are also spiritual

kingdoms. OK, so we're in it.

Somebody say we're in it. So, so, so God, why are you

going to call me the crazy time? Like there's only one man that

that didn't live that lived out of crazy time.

Two people lived out of crazy time.

Sound like for a quick minute, Adam and Eve, and then they

introduced us to crazy time. And then we've all lived in

crazy time and the world's getting crazier.

Not that there's new crazy things, but crazy is amplified.

You got to understand, because this brings crazy to you right

now, Please don't turn on your phone unless you take a note.

A lot of you guys aren't, but that's OK.

So, so you're good, but there's distractions.

There's notifications. How many notifications you got

on your phone? Crazy, crazy, crazy.

It's crazy that we will install crazy when there's already crazy

around us. I think we're addicted to crazy.

I think we really like crazy, Andrew.

I think when it's not crazy, we'll feel like we're missing

out. I think, I think we, we, we, we,

we, we mourn crazy. That's why we are hesitant to

walk towards peace, right? Right.

Ask yourself, do you really want the peace of God?

And then ask yourself, what have you done to get that peace?

Because He gave it to you. So the problem of having peace

is not because this hasn't been given.

He actually have given you a higher level of peace that

cannot be touched by the enemy, only given away by you.

I'll say that again. God's peace cannot be touched by

the enemy, but only given away or not received by you.

How do I know the enemy can't have this peace?

Because it's not his. The peace of the world is his.

The peace that God's given us, that surpasses all understanding

is God's peace. And the devil can't touch

nothing. That's God's you ready, not even

you so. So there's a capacity for chaos,

which means in the darkest times of the world, you should have

the most joy and the most peace as a child of God.

Yes. Just because you can't handle

it, let me pass, pass. You can work through fingers,

fingertips. Just just because you can't

handle it doesn't mean it's chaos.

How about we start there? How about we start there?

We didn't, we didn't pay our Internet bill.

So we got a, we just, we just had $101,000 come in over the

last week, but we didn't pay our Internet bill.

So that was that was a quick, quick little, quick little

praise report for those that know we took up our victory seat

last Sunday. The goal was to bring in 100

grand and it's for, you know, some overhead, but also for our

building next door that is being built right now.

And, and we are still believing for that last 340.

What we got 100 of it now we're believing for I think was it

282842424240 And we're believing for that to come in before the

end of the years. Is is is out that hey, if I

believe, if we believe for 100 grand and it came, I hope you

understood we was believing for a hundred 101 came in.

Yeah, but we we didn't pay our Internet bill.

So This is why this is taking a long time to go forward.

There we go. There we go.

Just just because you can't handle it doesn't mean it's

chaos. It means you need greater

capacity and God's allowing something to tip your scale.

Some of you guys, can I, can I help some of y'all?

Can I just be the one in your life?

To tell you the truth, some of y'all is way too dramatic.

Have you, you ever had that phone that that person you with?

Oh, excuse me, Oh my God. And you like what happened?

It's supposed to rain tomorrow. And if you got kids in your

life, if yes, your wife or your husband, you like this,

something happened to the kid, it's going to rain tomorrow. 30%

trance of rain tomorrow. Anybody anybody know someone

that is dramatic and if you sit next to them, do not raise your

hand, but anybody knows someone that's dramatic?

Wow. We got a lot of dramatic people

in here because you're not raising your hand right right

here. Here's here's here's what it is

you, you, you, you, you magnify something very small.

You ready, you. Oh, this is so good, Holy Ghost.

You believe the hype of your own perspective.

Write it down. You believe your own hype.

So you is, is is 8:00 AM on Sunday and it's a 30% chance of

rain with some sun pictures on the weather report.

And you like everybody, kids won't be ready.

It's going to rain. It's going to be a storm this

week. And then you get into tomorrow,

JT and the sun come out. It's beautiful.

You like see and they like what it's going to rain today at some

point. Can't nobody change your

perspective and anybody that tries to give you a God

perspective they too deep they spiritual you don't understand

you don't care. Jesus is sleeping a storm.

They look at him resting instead of looking at his leadership of

peace. They wake him up when he's

trying to stay asleep. They don't know if on the inside

he what about that. They just don't see him freaking

out. So then they wake him up to say,

don't you care about us? Here it is.

Here it is day in the storm. These are fishermen.

We bout to die. Now listen, I'd have been there.

I didn't. I didn't.

I didn't have to throw. I hate throwing up and I wanted

them like I'm all in when I got to throw up.

Like I don't if it's three in the morning, everybody about to

wake up, ask my wife, She gets the words.

I'm like, hey, look, I didn't have Julia call the ambulance at

cumber times, but because because I'm trying not to throw

up, because I don't like throwing up, because because I'm

like my my whole body go into it.

I'm like, I'm like crumping. I'm like, right?

I'm laid out on the bathroom, bring me a pillow in the

bathroom. I need cold towel everything.

And so I start hyperventilating because I'm trying to keep it

down. And then once I start, I'm going

and I get dehydrated quick. I remember one time this is

this. This could have cost our

marriage because I was like, I was really sick.

OK, it to me, I was really sick. She had to go to work.

I think I was left with Malia and Malachi and Michael, 03

kids. OK.

She had to go to work and I'm like she cannot go to work

today. And I'm like babe, I don't I

don't feel good. She just getting dressed.

I'm like no, she is not about to leave me here with three kids

and I'm I'm over here sick. She walks out the door.

Go smooth to work and I think I threw without throw up or

something. I was you wasn't there.

So I was I was throwing up the kids was there.

I think I Dang near fell down the stairs on purpose and I and

I was like, who was it? Malachi?

It was one of the kids. I said call the ambulance or

I'll call the ambulance or something.

So the ambulance came, huh? Yeah.

You want to tell the story? Come on.

Come on. Come on.

No, you got to come up here. No, no, no.

You got to come up here. Ain't it funny how she she don't

want to say nothing else, but she want to hop on?

How dramatic I am. Hey, man.

Well, we had been through this quite a few times, so I knew

what was going to happen because we had a history of this

happening. So I said I have to go to work.

Mind you, I'm the boss if I. Not the boss of me.

The boss of my job, if I call in sick to work, there's no one to

replace me. However, I feel like because

I've have a history of this, he will be fine.

However he called, they call the ambulance, I am down the road.

Oh, not only that, my commute was a hour and a half.

So I'm like an hour down the road and I get a phone call.

I'm going to have to call the ambulance.

I'm going to and I said you are fine.

You are going to be fine. Why are you looking at me like

I'm not throwing up right now? Then he they call the ambulance,

the fire department comes the ambulance or the fire department

guy says this to me. You need to tell your husband

there's nothing we can do for him.

He needs to calm down or we are going to take him to the

hospital and we're going to have to take your kids, all three of

our children into custody. I said put my husband, put my

husband on the phone. Terrence, you better pull it

together before they take our kids to children's services

because you just have to throw up.

Do y'all feel like she's still trying to need some healing from

this? Hey, man, go.

So they gave them a paper bag and they left and our kids were

fine. I felt that one.

Yeah, she that was anointed right there.

Hey man, I mean look, I told y'all I've overcome a lot God

has brought me from a mighty long way, but it but it but look

I've got now. This was honest to God truth

ever since you you gave me game on breathing.

That's my brother that the enemy because because you know when

you sick like you, it'll attack your mind right.

So it's more mental, it's more spiritual and and and my Mama

here, I kind of got this from my mom when my mom don't feel well,

listen, my my Mama, I'm about to tell all my childhood years, I'm

like, what's going on? Is my Mama OK?

She when she don't feel it? Look, if she got a cold, she I'm

like masterpiece na na na na. What?

So I kind of got a little bit of that drama from Nana.

Amen. It's out the bloodline now.

Amen. Hallelujah.

But this is not about me. This is about y'all.

OK, listen. But but in my mind, I couldn't

handle it. In my mind, you would have

thought I got shot in my in my mind, right.

And what, you know, once anxiety kicks in, it's just spirals out

of control, right. And what has helped me the most

when anxiety that like it, I don't I can't remember the last

time I remember, you know, laying down.

And I feel like the spirit of death would come and try and

show me dying at it. Like, I grew up in a place where

a lot of people died at a young age, you know, to do the murder

and prison and drugs. And so I was accustomed to men

that look like me not living long, that that's a normal

thing. OK.

So as you begin to walk on this frontline with the Lord, it's

not I'm going to walk with Jesus because it's easy.

It's like, no, the enemy's going to attack one way or another.

It's just when you got eyes to see, you know, the attack,

right, You can see the attack and it's almost more real.

Like it didn't bother me this way when I was out drinking and

smoking. But now I've got my right mind

and now I, I'm not going to compromise under pressure.

And now I'm loving and now I'm forgiving and now I'm obeying

the word of God and now I'm following the Lord.

Not now. It's like, oh, and so for me,

the the breathing, but not like just breathing.

It's as I'm breathing, I am opening my mouth to speak the

word. It's not no, you can't.

You can't warfare with thoughts. You got to open your mouth and

speak a word against what's attacking you.

So if your health is being attacked, you better know that

by His stripes I am the healed and not the sick.

Greater is He in me than he that is in the world.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper. 1000 may fall by

my side. 10,000 at my right hand, neither shall it come.

Come on, you got to know the word of God.

And This is why we ask you during worship, open your mouth.

Some of you are too. What are you thinking about?

You had a whole drive here to think you would sleep all night.

You could have thought you had breakfast.

You could have thought when we come together, man, we supposed

to be like a bunch of like seals on the on the shore.

Just oh oh oh oh holy holy holy. Please, please, I don't have

time. So y'all, y'all got to y'all got

to go listen to this warning's message because it's the last

time I can get to see you this year and you got to go listen to

this message this morning about chaos, right?

He said. He said you can handle all of

it. Philippians 413 says I can do

all things. What does all things mean?

He says. I'm self-sufficient, in crisis

sufficiency. I am ready for anything.

What does anything mean? I'm ready.

Say I'm ready for anything. 2nd Thessalonians says that the Lord

of peace himself grant you his peace.

Whose peace? His peace at all times, What

times? All times.

So it don't matter who leave you, who forsake you.

It don't matter who's in office, don't matter who's the Prime

Minister, who's the president, what wars are breaking out.

There is a peace for all times, right?

So you got to understand that you have a capacity, but you

don't have a. God is not giving you a God has

not given you his capacity for your plan.

God is not giving you his capacity for you to do you.

A lack of peace restricts capacity.

This is why the enemy is so after your peace.

A lack of peace leaves hole holes in your armor.

A lack of peace leaves holes in your armor.

Some of you have to stop it now being so dramatic.

Some of you got to learn how to stand.

Because when you panic and when you're anxious, that is a wide

open door to the enemy. To bring depression and anxiety

and drama to your life. You wonder why drama always

finds you. For some of you, you want the

drama. For some of you, you want to

hear bad news. You're attracted to it.

You're expecting something bad to happen.

For you to believe God's about to do great things in your life

without a but is against how you was raised.

For you to not gossip is against how you was raised.

For you to tell somebody that's running to you to dump some

trash on you, for you to be like, you know what, I really do

want to know what you have to say.

But you know what, I got to guard my peace.

I'm good. Somebody, somebody, somebody,

somebody ran in my room the other day.

They was on the phone and, and somebody was arguing or

something. They was like, man, come answer

this. Look, look, look, they, they, I

said, I don't want to hear it. Get out the room.

Some of y'all too afraid to tell people you don't want to hear

it. It's OK not to know what's going

on. It's OK not to give your heart

and your soul and your mind to drama.

Let people be dramatic. Drama eats away at the fiber of

your capacity. And some of y'all worried about

people thinking you're not there for them.

I could be there for you. We're not without having to

carry your drama. Come at me with a God

perspective and now let's talk about your problems.

Are you coming to me to complain?

Are you coming to me to say, hey, you my stand in partner.

Here's a scripture that I found that I'm just coming to you not

to just pray for me, but I need you to stand.

That's the language. Stand with me.

Way too many people. It's like here, Andrew, can you

pray for me? Thank you.

Let me know what God say versus grabbing a hold of your friend's

hand and saying, look, the enemy is attacking my mind, but I

found a word and I'm giving you the scripture I'm standing on

because we're two or three are gathered in agreement in the

name of Jesus. There he is in the midst.

I need you to stand with me versus patting me on the back

all the time. In 2025, we got to lose that

excuse. Excuses have to be done.

Excuses got to be over. This church should be packed.

You, you see, You see how Christmas production can bring

people out. You see how Christmas production

can keep people for long rehearsals multiple times a

week. You see how Christmas production

can have people to have elite focus.

And then the rest of the year, what do we do?

We play dumb, but God gets our best around Christmas because

that's when the little baby was born.

This when Jesus birthday was. So we better get it right

because Jesus was born this month, but you started honoring

him in October. Ain't he ain't he was is and to

come. So it ain't about when he was

born. He's alive, but we treat him

like we really welcoming in a baby.

We get all sweet, we forgive. We don't want to argue, we don't

want to do nothing because it's Christmas.

Some of y'all don't want to argue because you want some

gifts. That's what you do.

Definitely not arguing for. But how does Christmas bring the

best spirit out of more people? Is is it the music?

So have we made Christmas an idol and not Jesus our Lord?

And it's crazy how we believe that's his birthday.

How do I know we believe? Because you start acting

different. But but what if I tell he's he's

alive? He's like today, like tomorrow

when you're not in this building.

Little baby Jesus who then grew up, died, Rose again, is alive,

sitting on the throne in charge. Where's, where's that same level

of commitment? Wait, you ready?

Why do we have a compel to bring people to a production but not

till Sunday or Wednesday? How y'all compel so strong for

Christmas? For some of y'all part of it is

they see you practicing, so they see your commitment has

increased. So I got to come.

So here it is for some of y'all. If you got family members that's

willing to come out and see you perform, maybe it's worth you

being here every week to increase the chances of family

following you to the House of God.

Hallelujah. So in 2025, let's lose that

excuse. In 2025, we going to Max out,

not tap out. We going to Max out, not tap

out. Hey, hey, hey, you got 3

terabytes. God gave you 3 terabytes and you

are tapping out at 500 gigabytes talking about you don't got I

can't go no more God. No, that's perspective.

Just because it's hard don't mean it's it's chaotic.

Just because you don't ain't skilled at it, don't mean it's

chaotic. Stop calling everything chaos.

You can go back and look at the story of Second Kings.

We met. We we mentioned this morning,

but we learned in Second Kings that the woman who had only a

little bit of oil was asked by the man of God, go get some jars

and barrels. He said, get as many as you can

and then go in the house, lock the door, you and your sons.

She got as many as she can. And boy, she started pouring.

Supernatural oil was pouring and then she said, hey, bring me

another jar and her son when her son said we're we don't have no

more jars and because there was no more jars, there was no more

oil. And here's the thing, create

capacity first a part of waiting on the Lord is preparing for the

Lord. Some of y'all pray you say Lord

do this for me. Are you creating and preparing?

Anybody in here ever have a little baby?

A few of y'all, when you knew you was pregnant, what'd you

start doing in your house? Huh?

Preparing right? You got a little baby on your

lap. That little girl when she was

just in the womb didn't even know her name.

She had a room in the house and if it wasn't a room, you start

looking for places that like that baby.

Don't. That baby going to sleep with

you and here you are looking for a bigger house because your

family is expanding in eight months.

Here you are praying to God and all you doing is the same stuff,

but you believe in big. And I'm like, look, I'm going to

miss this process. It's going to come a point where

Love Quest is just managing. It's not going to be hard to

bring in money. It's not going to be like I'm

going to miss the setup. I'm going to miss the mopping

and I'm going to miss some of these process because it's in

the preparation and the process. And when you got something to

believe for that draws you closer to God and you learn who

you are. You don't learn who you are when

God just show up with a Santa Claus bag and give you what you

want. You got people in other parts of

the world who've been waiting on God to move for generations, not

even 10 years, generations and he ain't showed up yet, but the

process of waiting on the Lord and believing and preparing.

You got people who believe God has something better for them so

much they will hop on the rudder of a ship to go all the way

across the world, hoping they land in a country that will give

them a better chance. Let me tell you something, you

don't hop on a rudder of a ship and go across the Atlantic or go

across any ocean without something in you saying there's

more for me. And some folks are willing to

die right where you are unless God bring it to you.

You create capacity first. Have you made as much room

possible for the things you are believing for?

That's what waiting on the Lord looks like.

That's what waiting on the Lord looks like.

Preparation. A Mama is not just sitting on

her back for nine months. She's going to classes, she's

walking around nurturing that baby.

She shifts her that me and my wife was drinking and partying

and partying and drinking and and and partying and drinking

and drinking and partying. She got pregnant.

Guess what? Stop drinking and partying for

her. And then shortly after it

stopped for me because although I wasn't carrying, although I

was not the one carrying, here it is.

It was my responsibility to nurture the carrier because what

she was carrying was as much mine as it was hers, and what

she was carrying was my responsibility as well.

This is why we worship the way we worship and we need

everybody's participation because what I'm carrying, if we

can give birth to it, it's going to benefit you.

And if we can help you give birth to what you you're

pregnant with, it's going to benefit the world.

And that's why I say, if you're not going to pray for nobody

else, pray for yourself, pray for somebody else, right?

But life changed. We couldn't live the same.

You can't go into 2025 the same. You're going to remember this

passionate voice. You cannot go in the same and

you cannot show up to 2025 starting the change.

No, no, no, we, we, we started, if you've been it been on this

wave, we started a few months ago, 2025 been here and you got

a chance a few more days to end this year.

How you want to start? Get ahead of the goals.

Got to take the lid off of your expectations, and you got to

take the lid off God's capacity in your life.

Your capacity. Here we go.

No, no, your capacity is compromised by your fear of

trusting people. Because although the woman got

the word, she still was instructed to get help.

Let me help you. If you could do it by yourself,

it ain't God. You can run your business by

yourself. You can run that nonprofit by

yourself. You can, you can, you can, you

can raise kids by yourself. No, no, I'm talking about the

married ones who still want to do it independent.

You thinking too small. You should think generationally.

You you should think you're city.

You should think you're family. You should think you're

coworkers. God's promises, yo.

Here we go, Chaka Khan. God's promises aren't based on

your ability. It's rooted in your obedience.

No, no, no, no, no. Everything that God has for you

has already been given You. Ready.

He can't take it back. So you not walking in what he

promised is not because he's withholding anything.

Bible tells you that he withholds nothing good.

Hallelujah, here you go. It's it's it's your obedience.

Somebody say obedience. Here we go.

For with God nothing is ever impossible, and no word from God

shall be without power or impossible fulfillment.

No word from God shall be without what power or impossible

or fulfilled. There is nothing we have

declared in this house that is impossible to be fulfilled.

Nothing. Then.

Then Mary said, OK, remember, remember a few verses before she

said, I don't understand how this going to happen.

I ain't slept with nobody. I ain't kissed nobody.

I I have not lied down with anyone.

So how I'm about to get pregnant, right?

Couple verses later, she says I am the handmaiden of the Lord.

Here it is, here it is, here it is.

She accepted the word she went from how is this going to happen

to I am the one? Ain't that what she just said?

I am the handmaid. Whatever you call me, God,

that's who I am. Look what she said.

Let it be done to me according according according to what you

have said. Not even according to what

you've done. Got what you have said?

And the Angel left her. Where did the Angel go?

Where the Angel go? The Angel, She, he delivered the

mail. She opened it up and sign the

dotted line and the Angel left and then she had a husband who

got a word. See some of y'all stuck in one

place because you worried about how other people going to accept

it. The same people you afraid of is

the same people God's already dealing with a heart about you.

All right, you ready? Right at the bottom, The small

fine print right here. Your understanding isn't needed

for a miracle. All right, y'all, y'all get that

on this side. Y'all get that on this side, OK?

Your understanding isn't needed for God to move.

Sometimes yo-yo, yo-yo understanding could get in the

way. He is.

Thank Father, here, here, here is Jesus, here, here is Jesus.

Now you see how obedience is passed on.

That was Jesus, Mama. Now here go her son.

Father, if you are willing, remove this cup yet not my will.

In other words, what He says. My capacity to walk through this

is way smaller than your capacity to walk me through it.

I want you to see this part now. Somebody shout out now and Angel

appear. What is now?

No, no, no, no. But look, look, look, look,

look. After he yielded, I want you to

see this. He was done.

Now an Angel appeared to him, strengthening him.

What did the Angel just come do? Gave him a capacity to finish.

Oh, wait a minute. You expecting God to take you

out of the hard time? What if he came to touch you and

give you a capacity to finish? Hallelujah.

Let me. OK, OK, let me.

Let me read some more. If he said it, he'll do it.

If he said it, he'll do it. If he said it, he'll do it.

Love quest. Remember this word.

Clear. Lots of ground for your tents.

Make your tents large, spread out, think big.

Use plenty of rope. Drive the tent pegs deep.

You're going to need lots of elbow room for your growing

family. Now now, now, now, now, now,

now. Why would God come and say

something's coming? Make room.

Some of you want to make room after it comes too late.

If you haven't made room, you're carrying what should have had

space for it. God didn't say what I'm about to

bring. You got to carry it.

You have to make space for it in your life.

So he says, clear lots of ground, make your tents.

What? Spread what?

Think what use what drive the 10 pegs what you're going to what

need lots of room. Here it is.

I love it. You guys catch it, catch it on

what your increase is for growing family.

You don't need no more room for you If all you focused on is

being blessed for you, You don't need no room but for God's

plans. He says you need to enlarge and

increase capacity for the the people that I've brought around

you. Remember this from the other

day, Christmas Eve. I don't care how it went down.

Watch how it comes up, he says. You're going to take over whole

nations. You're going to resettle

abandoned cities. Don't be afraid.

You're not going to be embarrassed.

Don't hold back, he says. Do not let fear minimize or

restrict how far you extend and how big you prepare.

Some of you have this little false humility, and when God's

trying to bless you or someone's trying to bless you, God's

blessing you through someone you like.

No, that's OK. I don't need that.

But but maybe all of it ain't for you.

Maybe God's trying to get it to you because the person that's

blessing you does not have the relationship that you have with

the person that need it. Maybe God's not trying to just

get it to you. He's trying to get it through

you. So there's none.

That's OK. That's OK.

I don't. I don't need all of that.

No, you don't. But you know somebody who needs

some of it. Capacity can be increased by

offloading. Hebrews 12 says let us strip off

and throw aside every encumbrance.

What is encumbrance? It is the unnecessary way.

But there's also good that needs to be offloaded.

What was good one season is not good in this season.

Have you thought about in 2025 what relationships you need to

re prioritize? Have you thought about some of

those people who need less time because they waste time?

Or is everybody going to get just as much as they've gotten

in the past? Is there more?

Is there other people in your life who are hungry for what's

on your life, but you've been giving it to people who take you

for granted? Am I talking to anybody I know?

I'm talking to at least two people in here.

Capacity can be increased by purging.

John 15 two says this. If you want to be more fruitful

and if you want greater fruit, you want greater relationships,

you want greater wisdom, Look, purging is a part of growth.

You have your father's DNA. What do I mean?

In the beginning God created by forming from nothing the heavens

and the earth, and the earth was formless and void or a what

waste and emptiness and darkness was upon the face of the deep

primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth.

The Spirit of God was moving. You have your Father's DNA in

the midst of in the midst of chaos.

What do we see God moving? Here it is.

And God said, here it is. Here's God's answer to this

chaos. He said, let there be light.

I got to show you this. And there was what like God saw

that the light was what? Good, pleasing, useful.

And he affirmed and sustained it.

And God separated the light, distinguished.

He separated the light distinguished.

He separated the light, distinguishing it.

I'm going to say it again. He separated the light,

distinguishing it from the darkness.

Should I be able to tell the difference between you and dark?

In human form, you are the light.

He spoke Into Darkness. How do I know that?

Here's how Jesus put it. You are the light of the world.

You are a city set on the hill. So let your light shine.

You know what this world needs in this chaos?

Jesus, you are. The light of Christ is.

Is that what you? You.

You are? You are pointing to Jesus by

your light shining. You were created to shine in

chaos. You ready?

You cannot shine in chaos without capacity for chaos.

You have capacity for wherever God is calling you.

Wherever God is calling you, He's anointed you for it.

Here it is. The anointing is the capacity.

Not my will, your will, not my strength.

Your strength. Here it is.

The anointing is the capacity, not your education.

The anointing is the capacity, not your ability to hit high

notes. The anointing is the capacity.

You ready? What is the anointing?

It's when God puts his super on my natural right?

I tried, I tried to I tried to get a little all nations, a

little different diversities. That's all.

That's all Campbell would give me is a little blonde baby and a

little little whatever the little baby is with the black

hair Italian or whatever he is and my sister at the top.

OK, I I really did type in the can Canva S curl.

I typed in perm. It didn't come up.

So I had to type in curls because you can have a natural,

you can have a nappy head, you can have whatever.

Some people understand, some people don't, but you put that

perm on there. Now let let me let me help.

Let me let me help, let me help. Black folks ain't the only

people that get perms. OK?

So listen, let's not put perms on the colored people's side.

No, a lot of people get perms. OK?

What does perms do? Tell me about it.

Tell me about it. Huh.

No. Why all the colored people

answering? I don't want to hear from the

colored people. I want to hear some of the

blonde people. I want to hear it oils.

What else it do boy it. Yup.

Coys. Gotcha.

What else? What else?

What is come on. It permanently changes the Yeah,

Yeah. What else?

Yeah, It it it stretches. Yeah, yeah, huh.

It adds what volume? It adds volume.

OK, All right. It give it gives you potential,

right. And it gives you potential.

OK, when the back in the day when I had hair now I thought

about growing it back in 2025 just to show y'all still got it.

But I would I, I, I, I got a little perm.

I I did a little S curl thing and little Johnny Gill.

Y'all don't know who Johnny Gill is but I did get it's when God

puts his super on your natural. Here it is.

I'll give you 2 and we'll go but you shall receive power.

I need y'all to see this. When God says that I am sending

you the Holy Spirit, He's saying I know you don't have capacity

for what I called you to do but you shall read.

This is why he said take your butt to Jerusalem.

Stay there, don't go nowhere until the Holy Ghost comes upon

you. And when he comes here it is.

You'll receive power. Here's the breakdown of power

ability. I don't, I don't.

I don't know why they got that they.

There you go. Thank you.

Ability, efficiency and my capacity.

Walking with the Holy Spirit gives you greater capacity for

what God has called you to. And when he comes up on you,

look, you will be my witnesses. Oh, how the church is trying to

be a witness without the Holy Ghost.

We have took the Holy Ghost out of church and it's all man, it's

all head. And the Holy Ghost is no longer

in the driver's seat, let alone the passenger seat.

He is in the back seat. And in some churches he is in

the trunk. You want to know why our cities

have more impact in the church? You want to know why they said

the church? It is impossible to call us non

essential when the power of God runs our churches.

That's why God wasn't moving when we was trying to open the

doors and all that because the world told us the truth.

You're not helping us. It's kind of like when a child

tell their parent something and you just want us, you.

And in your mind you like you, you right, you right, you right.

It's like the world told us you're not offering us anything.

So what are you being open for? Why are we risking gathering for

what? If we're going to be, if we're

going to take a risk, let the chances of transformation,

freedom and deliverance be prominent.

But the church, when has the church become a risk?

When it used to be a place where people ran to when trouble came.

That's why we're not going to let people run our services.

If you got to go, go. The Holy Ghost will run our

services and we have great order, but we going to give him

an opportunity to do what he promised he will do.

Pro presenter will not run our service.

Hallelujah. He says you'll be able to be my

witnesses. I'll close here. 2nd Corinthians

3. Yet we don't see ourselves as

capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true

competence flows from God's empowering presence.

You see why the church needs presence?

Man, you can go into some churches these days.

I'm talking about big churches, and ain't nobody raising their

hand doing worship. Oh, pray for the worship leaders

in these atmospheres, but also we're the worship leaders that

are challenging the congregation on lifting.

First of all, teach them that they hands they hands raised as

biblical. It's not cultural right?

Them them saying Hallelujah is not charismatic or Pentecostal

or a black thing. It's not an American thing.

It's a Bible thing. Where do we get Hallelujah from

the Bible? Where do we get a man from the

Bible? Where do we get dancing from the

Bible? Where do we get clapping from

the Bible? Where do we get shouting from

the Bible? Shouting was actually a strategy

to breakdown walls. So I don't care how many

thousands of people you got in your church.

Can you are your are those people in your seat soldiers?

Can they win people to Jesus? Can they lead people to Christ?

Can they cast out a demon? Do they know who they are?

Is they marriage is winning. We satisfied because our

churches are full and tithe is coming in.

Don't pay no tithe. It ain't paying anyway.

Don't give tithe. Don't give to remnant.

God is going to sponsor the church He called you giving as

an opportunity for your household to get in on what God

is doing says He alone makes us adequate.

I don't care how many books you got on your shelf if the Holy

Spirit ain't in it. He alone makes us adequate who

are focused on an entirely new covenant.

Our ministry is not based on the letter of the law it but through

the power of the Spirit pours out life.

There is nothing in us that allows us to claim that we are

capable of doing this work. Here it is.

The capacity we have comes from God.

Want to know why it's you? I can't do it.

You're right. You've come to the end of you.

That is good news. You can't do it.

That is the most amazing news we've heard that you can't do

it. But most of the time we'll quit

on what we can't do and find something we can do so we can

stay in control. It is He who made us capable of

serving the New Covenant. This is not about my ability to

keep up, but it is His ability to keep me and His word.

It doesn't have to make sense if it makes glory.

I am tapped in to His ability. Somebody say I am tapped in to

His ability. If the Spirit don't help, I am

tapping out. If the Spirit does not help me,

I am tapping out. It is time for maturity.

It is time for preparation. Lord, help us be the bride that

you've called us to be. We must renew our minds to carry

God's capacity. We must renew our mind to carry

His capacity. Your capacity decreases when you

don't use what you've been given.

I'm not going to read it, but this is where he gave 3 three

men different measure of talents or capacity.

Two of them use their capacity, one of them buried their

capacity. Are you going to go into 2025

with a buried capacity? Your capacity decreases when you

don't use what you've been given.

Your capacity decreases when you don't stretch what you've been

given, and your capacity decreases when you don't develop

what you've been given. Write it down.

Your capacity decreases when you don't use what you've been

given, when you don't stretch what you've been given, and when

you don't develop what you've been given.

Ask any vocalist who sat out of singing for a long time what

happens to their vocal cords. Any musician who sits down that

instrument for a long time, who comes back, I'm challenging you

guys to jump in and for the rest of your life be a follower of

Jesus, not just a church attender, not just the bumper

sticker. A harvest is coming.

A harvest is coming and it is going to flood this street, not

just this building, this street. A sound has went out.

You are the people. This is the time and God in this

house for sure is going to do what he said He is going to do.

This is our last Sunday of the year and at least for me, I

could say that God, when I look back, yes, it has went fast.

But man, in this little garage, you see people out there mopping

the concrete right now I'm, I'm telling God's writing a story,

right? God's writing a story.

You see people out there so we can receive there.

There's they're, they're, they're cleaning God's house.

They're, they're, they're maintaining it, right?

What are we doing? We are preparing for what he

promised. We're not looking at man.

We man, we ain't going to have church until it stop raining.

What? No, we're going to finish

strong. God is going to do it.

What are you doing with what you have everywhere?

Love Quest says. When we have treated it like it

was, it was, it was. It was the Pope's house, not in

it's God's house. Then come on, I'm not supposed

to be wearing no suit up in this garage.

Why not? You see our production?

That ain't supposed to happen up in here.

All you can hear is heels. That's not, that's not supposed

to happen. How many people have ever felt

the freezing cold in here? That's, that's not, that's not

supposed to happen. You hear the heater back there.

You see, I'm, I'm serious because it's the end of the

year. And I want us to understand

we've been in this building for three years, 2 1/2 years waiting

for a building permit next door. All these buildings had leaks

and rust and animals and all of that stuff.

And it may still be some under your seat.

I don't know, I'm just playing. What have you ever felt stressed

out about? Next door?

We going to roll these doors down and they going to tape up a

bag at the bottom to try and minimize the amount of water

that comes in here. And every Sunday they come in

here at 6:00 and they sweep water out, turn on the heater.

We rent porta potties and heaters back there.

This patio furniture up in here, the little fire lamp with the

church hat on top. See, I'm I'm pointing these

things out because at the end of the day, this is what waiting on

the Lord looks like. Because I'm in a garage, I'm not

going to get garage speakers. I'm not going to get garage

microphone. No, no, no, no, no, we going to

do the best with what we have, right?

We don't got room for a camera man in the middle.

So what we going to use a stick and some and some and some lace

it down and and and we going to put the camera up there.

But when you streaming you do you just think it's somebody man

in that camera. So five years from now when we

get wherever God promised folks going to come to our conferences

and they're going to be asking questions.

How'd you get here? Are you willing to pay that

price? Because you can't.

You just ain't no book. This is Holy Spirit LED.

This is God said, hey, I found the people a remnant of people.

It's not like we giving a remnant seed to go in some big

old beautiful theater. No, we going, we moving into

another garage, just a bigger garage.

But boy, I tell you what, what what's happening in that house

because we are 100% building that for the Lord.

I'm sorry, I'm just a visionary. So I look around, I know where

it started. I'm just like, man, we got mics

hanging. We really trying to be really

trying to do this. If you only stream, you would

think those are really big white speakers and you probably want

some in your church, but you don't want those.

Those are old school eaters. And yeah, but we're in here and

people labor and we do the best we can.

Yeah. I've never waited for building

permits in my life, ever. But somehow I got a capacity to

wait. I've never had to raise this

much money in my life. I've never seen this much money

in my life, but somehow there's a capacity to keep coming up

every single week. Never had it.

Never had to counsel and give wisdom sessions and lead as many

people, but somehow there's a capacity for every single level

we go to. I don't have vision all the

time, but somehow God always puts a word in my mouth.

I'm I'm, I'm letting you know I didn't, I didn't, I didn't

graduate from high school. Hello, some of y'all and you're

like, oh, no, you're not smarter than me, OK?

You're not smarter than me. You're listening to me today.

OK, I didn't graduate from high school, but I went on to junior

college. I got my a A degree and then I

got BA from Sacramento Theological Seminary and I

played high the high school I played college basketball.

I played pro base, but like I have experience, but like a

formal God didn't call me because I was just like this

theologian in the greatest. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And I know my word and I but but man, God needs people up here

that that is walking with him not not just giving you what's

up here, but getting back to the preachers that take the pulpit,

that walk with him and that no presence and that no, the Holy

Ghost and hear from God today and not hide behind their

education and knowledge of Jesus.

Can you tell me what God is doing today?

Can you help me with my broken family?

Can you tell me where to find the hem of his garment?

Can you show me Jesus today? So when I'm talking capacity, I

am like here. I didn't have a father in the

house that was husbanding my mom.

My mom raised me by herself. I didn't have an example of what

marriage looked like, let alone a healthy marriage.

But then I got in a marriage and God showed me.

He gave me and gives me capacity.

So now I am not passing on drama from trauma to my son, to my

daughter. He gives you capacity for every

circumstance, every situation. No matter where you go in life,

he is with you, right? So I'm talking to you from

experience. I've been in the club, I've been

drunk, I've been high, a woman, I've done all of that.

I failed many a times. I've started many things and

didn't finish them. How am I standing here today

leading doctors, lawyers, psychologists, trainers, people

with pH DS? How?

How is he calling me to lead people who on paper are more

intelligent than me? I am a very intelligent man, but

the education route you or some of you have taken was not my

route. How is he calling me?

Because I've accepted his capacity.

I haven't made my diploma an idol.

I need him more than I need my spouse.

I need him more than I need my children.

I've made my mind up that I will follow Jesus all the way.

God's not trying to take any of those things from you, but he

for sure don't want those to be your God.

Students, take the pressure off yourself.

You are somebody before you enrolled in college, so if you

fail the class or don't get an A because your Mama think it's

shame in the family, you got to say Oh well Mama, I did my best,

but don't you dare let the pressures of a culture pull you

down into depression and lose your identity.

No, no, no, no, no, no, everybody don't learn the same

everybody route ain't the same. Follow Jesus man, as you close

this year, close this year. First of all, thinking of the

goodness of God. If He has brought you from

anything, be thankful. Also close this year with a

made-up mind that you will not be the same in 2025.

You will not let the same stuff get on your nerves.

You will not let the same people get under your skin.

My skin don't even come up. Make up in your mind you will

not be a source of drama. Make up your mind.

In 2025, my walk with Jesus will be so much greater than it was

in 2024 and I will not turn back.

Can y'all, can y'all Love Quest, help us be this light and this

force in this city that is going to see many sons and daughters

come home. If you do not have a church

home, do not go into the new year without a church home, a

place that you call home, that you are committed to at least a

year. I used to say give Love Quest

one year and then I took it down to six months, and that's one

year or six months of you really being faithful and pulling on

what God has in His house. I promise you your life will

never be the same. Will you have a chance to be

offended? 100%.

I'm going to offend you at some point.

Somebody's going to offend you at some point, but you don't go

to church to not be offended. The Gospel Preach rite should

offend you. Stand to your feet if you don't

have a church home, man, talk to one of our leaders in the back

and say, man, I want to give this church a try.

Do not be a church hopper in the next year.

That is not Bible. God has a home for you and for

some of you. Love Quest is it.

Welcome home in advance. Hey man, look to your neighbor

in front of you and the side of you in the back of you and say

how long you going to try out Love Quest?

How long you going to try out Love Quest, Troy?

Hey man, can we give it up for our first time attendees one

more time? Hey, Love Quest, we have dated.

This is our last Sunday in 2024. Congrats, Congrats.

Our worship team has sang 10,000 songs this year.

Just a couple of announcements. New Year's Eve celebration is

coming to, is it Tuesday? Tuesday, the Citizens Ball show

up. We're going to have red carpet.

It's going to be fun. There is a cost like it was last

year. It's 35 bucks, but if you buy

your tickets today or tomorrow, it's only $25.00.

We are going to come in, we're going to have live music.

We are going to have a lot of really good food.

We're going to take a lot of cool photos.

We are going to get a fresh word for 2025 and hear what the Lord

is saying. We're going to sing some of our

house's favorite songs and then at around 11:15, we're going to

head next door into our building that's under construction.

And we are going to bring in the new year over there with our

apple cider and a little bit of acoustic worship.

And we are going to bring in the new year in that building.

We're going to pray in that building as a church, and we're

going to watch God do some really cool stuff.

And so we want you to be a part of it.

And then January 5th is Sweat Suit Sunday.

Everybody wear a sweat suit. Why?

I don't know. It's just going to be

comfortable. Amen.

It's going to be comfy. All right, Put your hand on your

neighbor's shoulders first. Get permission.

He takes 60 seconds and pray. Pray for your neighbor really

quickly. Hey, look at your neighbor, say

I don't hear you. Come on, pray for me.

20 more seconds. 5 seconds.

Hey man, listen up as we dismiss.

I want you to find three people you do not know, or at least you

rarely speak to. I want you to go up to them and

I want you to say this coming year is going to be one of your

greatest years you've ever experienced between you and God,

and get ready. You got that?

You got that. All right, I'll see you guys on

Tuesday. Until next time, you know what

it is. Get your love fixed man.

Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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need to find us. But until next time, you know

the drill. You know the motto, get your

love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.