The Capacity for Chaos (9AM) - 12.29.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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In Jesus name you can be seated. Last Sunday, like for me, I'm, I

got to approach the last Sunday with way more spirit than the

first Sunday of the year. I don't know about you.

Maybe the devil ain't after you at all because you're not really

a factor in, in the body of Christ.

I don't know, but I don't, I, I believe there's a few people in

here that have overcome some stuff this year.

And to, to, to give you a sobering thought, there's a lot

of people who started off this year in the world somewhere very

vibrant and healthy. And then there's a lot of people

who started off vibrant and healthy aren't even on earth

today. There's a lot of people who

started off with full health and strength and then at the end of

the year they are battling cancer.

Right, but what? What, what, what?

You have to do in this moment is you have to end this year a way

more grateful person than you started.

And going into next year, you have to be a more expressively

grateful person. What I found out is gratitude.

And when I say gratitude, I'm talking about expression of

gratitude brings healing to the body.

That's the Bible. This is why the word it it it

can it it, it can invites us into a life of Thanksgiving.

It brings healing. And to me it ain't Thanksgiving

until you can show you grateful and you ready.

It ain't Thanksgiving until you excited about what you're

thankful about, right? Like like when a.

Kid, do you ever like? Giving presents to someone who

when they give them to you, they say thank you and you assume

they're grateful because your gift was great versus the person

that's just like, no, which person are you though?

Now on the on the other side of it, what kind of person are you

when you give the gift? See, because sometimes we can

think gratitude is all about receiving something.

We don't realize that our praise is a gift to God.

Our like he gave me hands, right?

And he's saying, man, if all your hands are used for and the

earth is for labor, that's a waste of why I made you.

If your hands can't be lifted, but your hands can, you can lose

fingers over work, but you can't raise a finger for praising me.

What we give our bodies to and what we put our bodies through.

And then when it comes to praising God, there's a

negotiation. But I will drag my body through

all kinds of stuff to make money.

Not knowing that my actual praise is an exercise that

actually brings health to my body.

It brings strength to my body. So what is that in our in our

minds that we can allow our body to be used for labor and

minimize for praise? Do you think your body was made

by God for you to labor in the world but not?

Give it to him to praise him. I mean, I, I guess he just wired

me like this. I'll be like God, why can't I

just hop into the word? Why I got to challenge these

people on praising the Lord? I think that's what he brought

one of the main things he brought me to Canada for because

y'all got a lot of teaching in in Canada, like y'all not

lacking teaching in theology and doctrine.

So we've been talking about increase.

Anybody remember those messages? Increase.

I bet, I bet you do. I bet you do, I bet you do.

Increase, increase, increase. Somebody shout out increase.

I do want to let you know you are an elite group of people who

showed up at 9:00 AM on the last Sunday of 2024, right?

Come on, just Lord, let's just take 60 seconds.

You have my attention. Now, if you get the revelation,

this song is how you made it to today, say it again.

Rain came. Wind blew in January, February,

March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,

November, December. I didn't think I would make it

to this point, but rain came. The children you have eyes and.

Truth, I stay. Distracted by you.

You have eyes and truth. You have eyes and truth.

I stay distracted by you. You have my attention.

You. Have my attention, you have my

attention. You have my attention.

You have my attention. You have my attention.

You have my attention. You have my attention, you have

my intention. You have my intention.

You have. My intention before I open up

this message, I just want to read something really quickly.

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 give in to your

fears, for the breaking apart of the world's systems is destined

to happen, but it won't yet be the end.

It will still be unfolding. Nations will go to war against

nations, 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 nations because of

your love for me. Then many will stop following me

and fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one

another, and many lying prophets will arise, deceiving multitudes

and leading them away from the path of truth.

There will be such an increase of the sin of lawlessness that

those whose heart once burned with passion for God and others

will grow cold. But hold your hope firmly to the

end, and you will experience life and deliverance.

Yet through it all, the good news of Heaven's Kingdom will be

proclaimed all over the world, providing every nation with a

demonstration of the reality of God.

And after that, the end of the ages will arrive.

Hey, you want Jesus to hurry up, start preaching the gospel

because he said, look, it's going to get chaotic.

It's going to get crazy. Don't panic, don't fear.

Fear is going to lead you into deception, it says.

But while all this chaos is happening, one thing is for

sure, the gospel will be preached.

Now, some of this stuff started a long time ago.

Yeah, hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago.

So if it was that time then it's for show closer now.

Have you ever asked yourself, why did God create me in this

time? You was not born because your

mom and daddy had sex. God took you off the bench of

the heavens and said it's your time to go in with what I put in

you and you are going to carry what I called you to carry

anointed you to carry, and you will have an opportunity to

bring me glory in your lifetime. So despite the time of history

you are born, there's a grace on you to bring Kingdom on earth

through your life. The last thing you should be

doing is getting wrapped up in the affairs of the world and

sitting on your little lazy butt acting like your time for

calling and gifting is over. This is why in the last days it

is very dangerous to be in dead churches, dead communities,

especially if you going to die with it.

Now if God has called you to spearhead and be an anointing

and be a gift in a dead community, then get to work.

But to just die with a dead church, to die with a dead

community and don't do nothing about it and be as dead as the

culture around you is absolutely ready.

It is disobedience and it is sin.

Forget adultery. Forget having sex outside of

marriage. Forget killing somebody.

You not walking in what God has called you to walk in.

You are sinning. So take your eyes off of the

murderers of the world because the Bible says all sin is sin.

Take your eyes off of the possessed folks.

Take your eyes off the drug addict.

Take your eyes off of the domestic violence.

Sir, if you are not doing what God has called you to do, you

are in sin. That's something God wants you

to know before you go into the next year with your long list of

goals. Don't matter how much you go to

the gym. Don't matter how much you knock

off your personal goals. Are you walking in what God has

called you to walk in? And are you where He's called

you to be? God's provision is where He's

called you. Not where you want to be, not

where it's convenient for you. It's where He's called you to

be. So the other day I was just in a

conversation and and this one word popped up and it hit my

spirit when I wasn't looking forward to a new message I'm

still trying to unwrap. The New Year's Eve message I'm

still can be on increase. We can be on deception.

And I, I was in a conversation and this, these, these, these,

this one word just hit my spirit.

And once I started to sit with it, I was like, oh, that makes a

lot of sense, God. Not that it needs to make sense,

but it made some sense spiritually.

I'm like, you are trying to end the year.

You're wrapping the year. On the other side of where you

started the year, you started the year with a word telling us

we are ready now. As much as we gave that word to

you, how many people found themselves in the year not

acting ready? And it funny how God can speak

to us and we're like that word can go right out the window.

He gave us everything we needed for 2024 and then now he's in

the I kid you not, I was not, I was not seeking the Lord for a

word today. So this word can be for

everybody, but it's not. It's for those that want to hear

the word from God, not what they want to hear for themselves.

And whatever you've been seeking God for, it is wrapped tightly

in the word He's delivering. So because you may not hear car

or job or husband or wife in today's message does not mean

this message is not for you. He is delivering it to

everybody, but he who has ears, let him what hear, today's

message is called. The capacity for.

Chaos. Right now we go from deception

to increase the chaos, but I think this message wraps up

everything. It sounds like a sending off.

It says make sense or bring glory.

Are you more concerned about it making sense or bringing God

glory? I just read you.

Let's not forget like learn how to stream through.

We just opened up with the Lord painting a backdrop of what you

can expect for the last days. It's happening.

Rumors of wars, wars, earthquakes, it's happening.

Lawlessness like never before. It's happening.

Somebody say we're in it. So so please have ears to hear

we're in the time God said would happen.

OK, in that you must hear that no matter how chaotic it gets.

You have a capacity for chaos because he puts you in the

middle of chaos. That that.

OK, let let me just let the word speak.

Let me just let the word speak. Here it is.

Let's go. Just because you can't handle it

doesn't mean it's chaos. It means you need greater

capacity. It means that something is

tipping your scale. You need Jesus.

Thank God He is tipping us in a direction constantly that causes

us to rely on Him. If you ain't involved in nothing

that relies causes you to rely on Jesus, you ain't walking in

purpose. Just because for all these high

anxiety people, these easily offended people, these people

that get stressed out over the littlest things.

Just because you can't handle it does not mean it's chaos.

Chaos is in the eye of the beholder.

How can how can your neighbor handle the pressure and you

can't? How can we both be on the roller

coaster? You throw up, I don't why your

eyes closed? Why we why did you get on the

roller coaster? How can some people handle a a a

a disturbed marriage and some people can't?

How do some people quit faster than others?

Just just, and some of us in here, I think all of us can

agree to this. You've made things chaotic

because you couldn't find comfort or you couldn't get your

way here it is or you didn't have understanding.

A lot of the chaos that you experience is within, not

without. He just told you war is coming,

war is here, lawlessness is going to happen.

So, so you have a knowledge of what to expect in the last days.

He told you the unraveling of government is going to take

place. So us trying to put government

together and make it work for us, it's not going to work.

That's why the church got to be careful dipping and dabbing in

politics. He's telling you the government

is going to crumble. So why invest in a crumble?

Why lose your peace in something that is prophesied by Jesus?

It will fail. Why keep sowing in the

government? Why keep depending on the

government? It is failing I'm.

Going to say this one more time because I think this is very

important. Just because you can't handle it

doesn't mean it's chaos. Breathe.

Share what you're going through with someone that can help calm

your storm. Have you ever?

Have you ever? Called and been on a

conversation with another anxious.

Person while you anxious. Have the anxious person ever

helped your anxiety? Or both of y'all just on there

just working each other up. Here it is, EJ.

This is what God told us, and he'd been telling us this.

Yes, indeed. It won't be long now.

God's decree. What does God's decree mean?

God said it. OK, ain't got no time.

God said it. Things are going to happen so

fast your head will what? Swim one thing fast on the heels

of the other? You won't be able to keep up.

Everything will be happening at once.

And everywhere you look. Blessings.

So it sounds like chaos. Sounds like what you've been

praying for, right? We just remember increase

enlargement territory house it is house it that blessing

exceeding abundantly above all we could ask, think of, imagine,

blow my mind, Jesus and he blow your mind.

Now you're losing your mind and you're now asking him to chill

because even blessing, it's not just sin.

Some of you get anxious and lose it When you're blessed, you

can't handle a bumper crop. What's a bumper crop?

You should have been here last week.

Stop visiting. Amen.

What? What's the bump?

The blessing is heavy. It's weighty.

Some of y'all don't realize how much a blessing it is to serve.

So serving becomes chaos, Not realizing that serving is a path

to the promise. Yeah, indeed.

Keep telling you. Won't be long.

Things are going to happen so fast, so fast.

Somebody say so fast, your head's going to swim.

Sound like chaos. One thing fast on the heels of

the other. Like, like it could be blessing

on blessing on blessing on blessing, or it could be trouble

on trouble on trouble on trouble.

It depends on how you see it, what it sounds like.

A wave is happening. A wave is coming.

Are you in position to ride the wave?

All right, all right, all right, Holy Spirit, I'll rock with you.

I asked my wife to send this thing.

It was not in the message, but I was like, if it if you want me

to bring it up, I will. And then if you going to help me

make sense out of it, then I I'll put myself out there.

Let's do it. The other day I asked my wife to

send me something. I forget how we got on the

subject, but I asked her. I think we were talking about, I

had, I had asked her, I said, babe, why, why, why, why, why

are some waves so much larger in certain regions than others?

So my wife being, you know, Google, PhD in Google, she

looked it up and I asked her to send this to me.

Listen, listen, listen very, very, very carefully.

Holy Spirit, help me extract some revelation out.

It is like right now and tie it in.

Help me right now, Holy Spirit. The the the definition it says

when wind blows it transfers the energy through friction.

So they even get to a wave. We need some friction.

The faster the wind, the faster the wind, the longer it blows or

the further it can blow uninterrupted.

So when we, when we begin to talk about God just moving on

the scene with this, this unexpected, this all of a sudden

blessing, this is it. We're also talking about the

speed in which God's moving. And when he moves fast, it's not

for a come and go fast. God is actually coming fast

because that should send us into generational blessing.

The faster the wind, the longer it can blow.

The question is, can you handle the speed of the blessing?

Are you in position of a suddenly?

It sounds good, but a suddenly can suddenly knock you out.

It says, it says, it says it can blow under uninterrupted the

bigger the waves. This is like revival.

This is what we stop blowing. We stop sacrificing, we stop

pressing, we stop pushing. God comes in on a Sunday and and

then you get excited and then all of a sudden you get pulled

right back with the currents of the world and very few people

know how to keep the winds blowing to keep what do you need

when in a fire? Part of it is what oxygen,

right? So, so in order to keep the fire

lit, you got to keep a wind blowing.

This is why we praise the way we praise.

This is why we worship the way we worship.

This is why there is a frequency in our gatherings that is

abnormal to some because we are trying to hand the biggest wave

of our lifetime should be the next generation's smallest wave.

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

Somebody see you selfish with your pursuit.

It's too many generations that are able to paddle board.

You handing your generation, you handing your kids off paddle

boards and they ain't seen your your parents ride no waves.

Here it is. When I say chaos, I am talking

about divine chaos. I'm not talking about the chaos

you create. There's not a grace for your

chaos. So let me make that clear.

So you can think that you have a capacity for your stupidness.

No, no, no, no, no, no, your stupidness.

God ain't involved in your stupidness or or my stupidness.

Let me put it on me. This is divine chaos.

This is chaos you're called to go into count it all joy when

you fall into divers, when I'm doing what I'm supposed to do

and it just all hell break out. This is what I'm saying.

You don't got time to create chaos because you already got

some, some, some, some, some some divine chaos.

You already got, already got in your his plan for you chaos.

So why you want more chaos? And you wonder why he's not

getting in your mess because he's like, I didn't create that.

I didn't tell you to get with them.

I didn't tell you to go there. I didn't tell you to buy that.

So so this wind, therefore a wave size depends on wind speed.

Are we a church that are able to have to to to to have peace and

poise in a in generational acceleration?

Can you handle? Blessing on blessing on blessing

on blessing on blessing on blessing.

No, you can't handle it if where you are at God barely gets your

time and attention. You you can't handle it if you

so busy you, you have irregular church attendance, you you

cannot handle it. So God will allow you to work

for your bumper crop. God will allow you to get walk

in a blessing that requires more labor.

There are formulas just use this word blessing because it's

popular. There's formulas to be blessed

or there's formulas for increase.

And some of you are where I'm here to tell some of y'all you

working way harder than actually God has planned for you to work.

All right, that worked. Thank you.

Jesus. Hope you got something.

Thanks, babe. Look at your neighbors say you

can handle it. Come on, come on, don't no, no.

Convince them they can handle it.

And now you ready say you can handle it and then shout out

them all. Come on all somebody shout out

all listen, listen, remember this, remember this.

Remember this God remember the tipping of the scale KK God will

allow you to gather all of you, all of your stuff, all of your

smart plan, all, all of your, your, all your smart strategy,

all your purpose. God won't even bother you and

you'll think he like really blessing you and and and.

Sure, he is by way of permission, not way of the

blessing. Permission is.

Go ahead, you could do it. I'll put it in you to do it.

Doesn't matter the time and or not if.

If this is when you want to do it, do.

It here, you ready, you ready and then he'll allow you to

gather all this stuff and then he'll put his plan on you.

He'll he'll, he'll put it in you like I can't handle.

He's tipping your scale. And the point of him tipping

your scale is in hopes that you will offload some of your stuff

that that you will clear out some of the stuff in your

schedule that's feeding you, not you and him.

So he'll allow you to do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do

you, do you, do you. And he'll let five years of do

you, do you, do you, do you uninterrupted, do you.

And you got all this momentum and he allows something to come

and interrupt and tip your scale.

And here's the unfortunate part, Andrew.

The first thing that goes when life gets chaotic is church.

You like Well, well, I still got God.

Let me tell you something, you are not walking in the perfect

will of God when you exclude this church.

It's Bible. What part of the Bible?

I asked the group this morning. What are you following Jesus?

Like following him? Are you just a Christian?

We got Christians in here. How many followers we have?

When you follow him, His word is reign supreme.

Kids, it it doesn't matter what you feel.

It's what his word says. You carry your cross how often?

Daily? Not once a month, right?

That cross ain't for rent. It's not on lease.

This is a daily thing. Hallelujah.

Let me keep moving. Somebody say all I can do all

things, right? The cross ain't something.

You you you rented at a party store.

See, when you don't carry your cross, you'll call any hard time

across. All right.

I found out when you carry your cross, some stuff is lighter.

Hey, Andrew Living, you know, you know what I'm saying?

I used to play baseball right in the on deck, in the batter's

box. You would swing with a heavier

bat. So the real bat, you have more

speed, right? There's sometimes you, you pick

up weight that even basketball, you dribble with a weight ball,

right? What if God was saying carry

your cross so that the other stuff in the world that you

carry is lighter. Maybe it's so weighty because

you ain't carrying your cross, you're only carrying.

Problems. All right, all right, all right,

all right. That's just, that's just

whatever. I can do all things.

I can do what all things, one was shouted.

I can do what all things, which He, He has called me to do

through Him who strengthens and empowers me.

What's today's title? Capacity for what?

Chaos. What does all things mean?

All things the Bible says I can do all things.

Here it is which He has called me to do what here?

Here's where freedom is. Here's where the yoke destroying

bird removing power is is. I can do everything he's called

me to do and what God has called you to do alone is challenging.

So why invite more challenging? Things in your life?

Why open up more confusion in your life?

It says through Him who What strengthens and empowers me to

fulfill his What? His purpose?

He's only obligated to anoint us and strengthen us for what?

His purpose? How many times have we prayed

for Him to give us strength to do?

US. Am I talking to anybody on this

last Sunday of the year? Lord, give me here.

Here's here's here's how your prayer life can get more

efficient. Stop praying about doing you

because God answers always lead you back to his stuff.

So sometime when you're praying, Lord give me strength.

He's like who? Let me help you offload some of

this stuff and you can get strength.

Sometimes you can get more strength by lifting weight.

Sometimes you can get more strength by a healthier diet.

Some of us are weak because we eat a lot of sugar.

Hallelujah. Through him who strengthens

empowers me to fulfill his purpose.

Here it is. I am self-sufficient and a lot

of people pause there. I am self-sufficient, I can

stand, I am strong, I am powerful.

But but but but this other part in.

Crisis sufficiency. Here it is here.

Here's where he ended last year and started this year.

I am ready. I am ready for anything.

What does anything mean? I am ready for anything and I am

equal to anything. Through him who infuses me with

inner strength and confident peace.

Oh. Oh, no wonder.

Here's where burnout, here's where, here's where life gets

really, really, really, really hard.

And here's where we want to give up and quit.

Here's where we want to give up on businesses that even God told

us to start. We took His advice to start it,

but we ain't letting Him run the business.

I am. I can.

I'm ready for anything, all things through Him.

You ready? You ready?

You ready? What does all things mean?

Now? May the Lord of peace himself,

peace himself, peace himself, grant you his peace at all What?

What does all times mean? All times and in what?

Every way. What does every way mean?

That that that peace and spiritual well-being that comes

to those, comes to those. Oh, it's a specific group of

people. It does not say comes to

Christians, it says comes to those who walk with him.

My son asked me a very powerful question on the way here

yesterday. And then he said, Dad, how you

know that that 2025 word is really from the Lord?

How do you hear from the Lord? How do you know it's him?

And one statement I'm not going to get into the conversation,

but one I think peace of wisdom and nugget that God had me

translate to him was many people want to know how to hear from

God, not walk with God because our relationship with God, we

need to hear him so he could tell us what we need to hear,

where we need to go about our plans, about promises.

God, should I stay here? Should I go here?

See, it's a lot easier to hear from someone you walk with.

Holla back. Holla back.

See, we don't want to walk with God because it costs, but we

want to hear from him. That's why there's conferences

and books to tell you how to hear from God.

Oh, I didn't know there was a formula.

I thought there was a relationship.

So we'll spend tons of money on books that how to hear from the

Lord. So there's a way.

Yeah, you might be able to give me a couple principles, but you

don't know me. You don't know how wild I was.

You don't know how God needs to talk to me.

So we just made our walk with God just this mechanical and we

have spent most of our Christian walk trying to manipulate God.

It's almost like we gave him Romans 12/1 through 2.

OK, some of y'all don't know don't get what he's saying.

Be not conformed, right? Renew your mind.

We, it's almost like God, you better get up on game.

God, you know what I'm doing. God, you better renew your mind.

I don't know about the plan you have for me, but this plan right

here going to work. So we wait for God to renew his

mind and catch up to us. And I'm here to tell you in

these last days, after what I just read to you, if you don't

walk with God, you're going to be lost.

You're going to experience a lot of unnecessary pain.

Unnecessary pain and it let me tell you, some of the pain you

will experience will not be the devil.

He will take advantage. He will lick the wounds that you

inflicted. I'm telling some of y'all ahead

of time. The attacks that will have you

is not from the devil. It is from not listening, not

obeying, and not walk. And look, it's the grace of God

that's allowing you to go through it.

I'm here to tell you ahead of time, it will not kill you.

What it's designed for is to push you closer to Him because

you wouldn't just listen. God will never, ever, ever

without warning, without heeding, without beseeching,

without sending men and women of God to say hello.

Over and over and over and over and over again.

And when you? Prove that just just God's grace

in just trying to say, hey, hey, it's not enough.

He will allow you to get to a place in your life where you are

so desperate. Like the woman with the issue of

blood. She spent everything, she tried

everybody, every doctor, and Jesus was her last resort.

But here's the grace and love of God.

Even if you make him your last resort because he made you his

first, you will always be first even though you made him last.

I love this. It says that that peace and

spiritual well-being that comes to those who walk with him.

Here it is regardless. Regardless of life's Sir.

What does regardless mean? Regardless means, regardless of

what life's what, Sir, circumstance, circumference,

what, what's going on around me, regardless of what's going on

around me, regardless of what's going on.

I just read it, he said. I'm putting you in the middle of

chaos and you have a purpose and your purpose to be in chaos is

not to withstand it. It is not merely to endure it.

Your, your, your purpose of being in chaos is to be #1 an

alternative for those that's caught up in it.

You, you, you should presume you should present an alternative

life for those that are hooked in this one life of chaos.

I put you in it to push back darkness.

Hallelujah. He says.

Regardless of life's circumstances, here it is.

The Lord be with you all. Somebody say that's good news.

Here it is so. So no matter what dispensation

of time you are born in, and no matter how long you live and

what happens in the decades to come, there is nothing that is

coming your way that God has designed for you to be in that

He has not graced you to thrive in.

You ready? You ready?

A lack of peace restricts capacity.

Oh, that's a word right there for somebody.

You, you just selling your peace for cheap.

You give it away. On the on the Instagram.

Post. Hallelujah, I think y'all quiet

because the truth be spoke Hallelujah what you when you

understand when you understand when conviction comes, that's

something to shout about because God says Oh my God, like how

many people ever been sitting in here and you was like.

Oh my God, how does PT know that?

How PT know that that was for me today.

Oh my God, did something. You look to your friend, he'd be

like, did you tell pastor? Did you e-mail the church?

Did you? What did you do?

Nope, here it is. Unfortunately it's for him.

But but God really is talking in real time, and God is really

alive today. So if it's hitting you, let me

tell you, that's the Holy Spirit that's jabbing you.

And that's when when you hit feel that jab, that's when you

Hallelujah, you don't sit there and think about it.

You receive. It is nothing to ponder like

that. You take notes and ponder later,

but receive it right now. A lack of peace restricts

capacity. In other words, wherever you

have internal chaos going on and worry and anxiety and

anxiousness, your capacity is restricted.

It's minimized. So it is the grace of God that

He does not add more on your plate in this season because you

already can't handle where you at folks.

Folks not wanting to be with you flips your whole world upside

down. God don't want you finding a

spouse that you need. So if you can hurry up and get

out of your needy season, maybe He'll bless you with what you

need versus you finding somebody that can feel your need now.

A lack of peace restricts capacity.

You so insecure, you want to find somebody that'll just

listen to you? Let me tell you something.

There's going to be a point in the marriage they stop listening

to you. Amen.

Uncle. Uncle Willy hit Lisa like, oh,

what is that? What's going on, girl?

A lack of peace restricts capacity.

Here it is. A lack of peace leaves holes in

your armor. You like how the devil get in

here man Easy like it's Let me tell you something some of y'all

ain't making the devil work he did he just skipping around with

you in your life. The devil just having fun and

anytime he just got access like my, my, my kid, like, like back

there, like my, like my kids, just especially Mikey.

He just busts through the door. Like can't nobody else really do

that? Like you can't just do that.

Hit Malachi, Micah. They just bust through the door.

Why? Because they have access right

at home in our bedroom. They just bust through the door.

I'm like, boy, don't just be busting in my bedroom.

Hey man, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I'll stop right there. Amen.

I'm like, but, but here it is. Let me put it back on.

The devil. The Devil.

Is is just here? Here's the people who love drama

or find themselves always in the middle of drama.

You, you have to question why drama is always a part of your

life. Because because the death,

because the devil show up and you like, hey, man, why you take

so long? I've been waiting for some more

drama in my life. I've been waiting for somebody

to call me the gossip. I've been waiting for somebody.

You get what I'm saying? I've been waiting for you to

hurt me. I've been waiting for that.

Why are you waiting? On drama, holes in the armor, he

he injected me with his likeness.

Here it is this and this. This little thought came to me.

He. Created us in such a way that he

can at any time under any circumstance launch a greater

software in and through US perform to perform the

impossible here it is somebody's right so so if you have a Tesla

right there there's you can actually pay for an upgrade in

power. You don't got to go get a new

engine or nothing. It's a software that you could

download and pay for more power, right?

Right. You have these phones and these

iPads. If there's a time where an

upgrade in the software comes which empowers you to do more,

there's a way that they make these laptops where you can keep

the same shell, turn it into the off and they will give you a,

you have the capacity in your laptop to get more RAM and more

hard drive. God made us in a way that at any

time, any circumstance, any storm that we find ourselves in,

He made us in such a way that he can upgrade our capacity at any

time, but you just won't show up.

You got to have a season where you'll turn in your computer

into rest and let God fix it. We in a world where we are we

afraid to stop grinding because somebody else going to get more

followers than us. What if God is telling you this

next year to stay off social media?

OK, let me start with me. I'm I, I think I think he said

that to me, but I'm not sure. I'm still praying about it.

I need a couple more signs. I'm being transparent.

I'm not sure I'm like, how we going to do this Lord?

I'm not sure, but I know where he's calling us to and I am at a

place where I'm like Lord, whatever I want to, I want to.

I want to upgrade my relationship with you, my

clarity with you. I I really want to be anointed

to do what I'm called to do. And if this is the last days I'm

living in and deception is at an all time high and will continue

to increase, I need to make sure I'm sharp.

Some of y'all, if God came for your social media or your

YouTube, you would absolutely stop following Jesus.

You would say it don't take all of that.

Why wouldn't it? If he's just trying to say for

one year, can you set it down so I could do something and then

you can represent yourself to the world.

See. See, if you can't let it go,

here it is. I'm talking to somebody.

If you can't let it go, it's an idol.

And if it's an idol, God can't bless it.

Yeah, I'm talking to some folks this morning.

I know it is usually you like I should have came New Year's Eve

or to the production or or no, no, no.

Any service you come to you going to hear something.

If you can't let it go, it's an idol.

And if it's an idol, stop praying for God to bless it.

God don't bless idols. He's their idols are already

cursed coming for you. So for some of y'all that's been

thinking about man this next year, maybe I need to just.

Put down and then here to negotiate and come.

Maybe I'll just do it Monday through Friday.

God, can we work that out? Monday through Friday, no social

media. I'll give it all to you, Jesus.

Monday through Friday, it's all you, Lord.

None of me, all of you. Monday through Friday.

None of me, all of you, Monday through Friday.

This is a 2. Part message we're going to pick

up in the next service, but I still got a little bit more to

give you. Thank you in Jesus name.

He, he, we have the ability. There is not one Season 1

circumstance that we are going to be blessed to go through that

He is not ready to upgrade our capacity, but an increase in

capacity is a partnership. OK, look at this, look at this,

look at what I said. He injected me with his

likeness, say his likeness. Oh, oh, here we go.

And God bless them, granting them certain authority, or you

could say certain authority or certain capacity and said to

them, be fruitful, be be fruitful, multiply and fill the

earth and subjugate it, putting it under your power.

This this this is how it. Started.

We had dominion capacity. We had rulership capacity.

The world was under our rulership, not us under it.

That's how I started. He blessed them, granting them

certain authority or capacity. Here it is, and rule over

dominate the Fisher to see the birds of the air, and every

living thing that moves up on the earth.

Here it is, here it is, and God bless them, granting them

certain authority. 2 verses before that what did he say?

Let us make man in our image and in our what likeness?

There is a God like capacity within us.

He blew himself in US. What did he say?

I am self-sufficient in crisis sufficiency, right?

You ever you you can you can be a little cheaper and buy a

computer that has less RAM or less gigabytes capacity right,

But you have available to buy what a what an external hard

drive. There we go.

Or they even have it now the cloud.

I get it, I get it, I get it. Here it is Holy Spirit.

You will learn this in crown that he is our external eternal

hard drive. When we run out of capacity, all

we got to do is let plug into and, and some of us try to do

that, but we show up to plug in and don't even know where the

plug is because we don't have a relationship.

We don't know where to plug in. We don't know how to plug in.

We don't know the word right. Plugs is like keys.

You got to know how to do you not know where you're going to

electrocute yourself trying to plug up to Jesus for, for, for

an emergency power. What they tell you when they

when the when the power go out and you and you and you and

they're about to turn it back on.

Well, come on, talk to me BC huh?

Turn your main switch off. Tell me why.

See, so you trying you trying to deal with God on a surge to

surge basis, right? So you, you want to stay off and

then when you need strength, you like hook me up Lord like a

crackhead. You didn't hook me up, Lord.

Hook me up Lord, you crackhead Christians 2025.

You ran out of veins. Like there, there's like you for

those that know better, and that's hearing His words.

Your little emergency hits can't work no more because even God

bailing you out has not made you turn to Him.

Why am I still doing this? Amen 2025.

You got to lose that excuse, The Bible says.

After you've done all that you can do, God is telling you he's

he told you in the beginning of the year, you're ready.

And one of the key things about you being ready is because he

made you ready, not because you've done all this work.

His capacity is in you. When when God says you're ready,

he said, I'm stepping in and you're about to live off my

capacity. So you got to lose that excuse.

Jesus don't care nothing about excuses.

He don't care nothing about excuses because he know what he

put in you and he's not going to ask you to do something that he

has not already approved that you can do.

Just because it's hard don't mean you can't do it. 2025 you

ready? 2025 We Max out, not tap out.

OK, we Max out, not tap out after after you've done the

Bible says in Ephesians 6 after you've done all somebody shout

out all all that you can do then stand external hard drive and

and you you come in you, you come in you come you, you come

in. Still, you got 3 terabytes and

you didn't only use 500 gigabytes.

Tell my Lord, help me. He like man, I I can't help you

got you got, I don't know, terabytes plus 500.

Well, however you work, TB is TB 1000 gigabytes, huh?

Is that Yeah, they're all my nerds said yeah, that's what it

is. Started out 10 terabytes in the

gigabytes and the gigabytes in the gigabytes and the Hittites

in the Jebusites. Listen, listen, listen.

Listen. Come on, come on, come on.

Follow, follow. Here it is.

Here it is, last Sunday of the year.

Here it is. We Max out No, no, no.

God is calling you higher, isn't I'm?

I'm trying to tell you so when you reach the point I can't do

it. He like, have you done all that

you can do? Right.

If, if I'm running out of room on my phone, what do you do?

It gives you options to offload stuff and you can offload stuff

completely or you can I I don't know what it does, but it like

you, you, you it just instead of erasing it, but it's still on

there and you can load it back on one day.

Yes, so, so, so, so some stuff, some stuff, some stuff.

God is just saying offload it for a season, put it down for a

season. Let me shine it.

Let me do some work on you. Let me heal you and you thinking

God's trying to do a whole delete God's like, can you just

sit your little anxious butt down?

See. Because when you understand that

you're only running a leg of race, there's some stuff he's

having you do that you're not called to finish.

And you're trying to do the whole assignment in your

lifetime. No, it's your job to get it to a

certain place and then, and then, and then there's another

generation or some more. Help.

Let me tell you something. I will not be up here every

Sunday at 90 years old. No, you, you ain't going to have

me coming up here. No, not at all.

The moment I can't, you know. Nah, Nah.

This baton, you bet I'm throwing that pot baton like a bouquet.

That's what I'm doing. I'm like, y'all be able.

No, no, no, no, no, no. That.

That's not God's purpose. Because if you stay stuck too

long, it will aid you itself. You're not meant to die in the

place you started, right? So you got to.

You got to stop marrying stuff. Marry God, not assignments.

Assignments are meant to develop and and get it as far as you can

and then hand it off so it can keep evolving.

There's too many churches being sold because a vision was not

handed off early. You ain't.

But the next pastor should not come in when you 90 When when

when God is going to start anointing and ordaining apostles

at a young age. An apostle is not a 90 year old

on a way out. We make so many assignments

about age not anointing. That's why you younger people

and and and lack it on your resume.

Stop disqualifying yourself. God will anoint you and train

you before he train you and anoint you.

I'm in a whole nother country. I don't know all the laws here.

I didn't call me until I went to Canada school.

We'll end here. Second Kings 41 day.

The wife of a man from the Guild of Prophets called out to

Elijah. Your servant, my husband is

what? Dead.

What does dead mean? You well know what a good man he

was. What is she doing?

She is talking to the man of God and reading back to God what her

husband did. It is OK to remind God about

your merits. The Bible says, so put me in

remembrance of your good deeds. It's OK to go to God and say

God, look, your faithful servant is here.

I serve you all the days of my life, right?

He says, you well know what a good man he was devoted to God

and now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect

by taking my two children as slaves.

Here's what you want to do. You do not want to be in purpose

debt. When it's your kids, turn.

Stop handing your kids off unfinished work that you you

didn't do. Stop handing your kids off.

The the, the the, the spirit of disobedience.

Here it is. Here it is, Elijah said.

I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me.

What do you have in your house? Here's what she says.

Nothing, she said he see the Lord working on her heart.

Well, I do have a little oil. Somebody say a little.

I do have a little oil. But he says she's in debt coming

to get her two kids. That's expensive.

And the the the answer to her debt God sends a man of God with

instruction to do something that don't make no sense to her

problem. I'm in debt man Monday coming to

get my kids. Please tell me what I got in the

house like any of us. We'd be like nothing because

nothing I have can can that I know of that can pay the debt.

Nothing that I know of looks to be something that is worth my

debt. No, I don't have anything that

qualifies for my debt. He didn't ask her.

What do you have in your house that's worth your two sons?

He says. What do you have in your house?

She says I have a little oil. Somebody.

Say a little oil. Here's here's see, see this is.

Why the enemy fights against having profits?

In the land. Apostles in the land.

Because we out here asking Oprah what to do.

Maybe not in Canada. We ask who, who, who, who's like

equivalent to over Michael Bublé.

No, no, no, Bublé. Nobody, nobody, nobody, right.

We're we're Youtubing. We're Youtubing.

There's so much information, it has to be confusing when you're

looking for a word from Youtubers, OK?

A word from God does not necessarily come from smart

people. It comes from people that walk

with God might come from that person with 10 followers.

Amen. Nothing, she said.

Well, I do have a little oil. Look, here's what you do.

Somebody say talk man of God. Here's what you do, said Elijah.

Go up and down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from all

your neighbors, and not just a few.

All you can get now. Now what do I need jugs for?

All the jugs I can get for the little bit I got.

Borrow jugs. So here it is.

She's in debt. He tells her to get in more

debt. Is that what that says, mighty

lawyer? Look, he says, what does borrow

mean? Borrow.

Y'all with me? She's in debt.

The man of God says, come, what do you have now go borrow

something. That you don't have from all

your neighbors. Let me help you.

What God calls you to should require you to ask for help all

your neighbors and not just a few.

He says all you can get. He didn't say how you get them,

he just said you go get as many jars.

Jugs and bowls as you can get, and then what?

He says. Then come home and lock the door

behind you. Because if you want to see

multiplication in your life, you're going to have to spend

some time behind closed doors. Look, you ready?

You. And your sons.

Here's another thing. He didn't say go get your

family. He didn't say go get the church.

So when when you when you start stepping into the miraculous,

you will see God do a Gideon in your life.

You can't be with everybody. OK pour oil into each container.

What container? As many as I can get when.

Each is full, set it aside. I love how he's stretching her

face because he says fill each container don't you ready?

Don't ration it. He tells her before you get

increase, create capacity first. I am really preaching on this on

this last Sunday. How many people in here?

Increase, increase, increase, increase, increase, increase,

increase, increase Everything we do we just trying to get.

More, more, more, more, more, he says.

More is the promise. But do you have capacity?

I've been trying to tell you to purge those relationships.

I've been trying to tell you to clear your account.

I've been trying to tell you to slow your butt down.

I've been trying to tell you to focus more.

I've been trying to tell you to go to bed early.

I've been trying to tell you to switch your diet up.

All these things. Diet up, cutting certain

relationships, not going to certain places.

Remember offloading some, completely deleting others.

You got to discern what God is saying.

Offload for a season versus delete.

And I've struggled with this with music sometimes.

Are you asking me to offload it or I'm about to record my last

album? Because offloading is hard.

It's a lot easier to just delete, but you need to tell me,

just put it to the side and I it is going to come back.

I can pick it up again later. It's like putting a putting, put

some candy next to a kid and be like you look, you can have some

candy later. Just leave it right there. 2024

has been a year that God has asked this church to create

capacity. That's why he said 2024 the

hardest. Thing to do, it's going to be to

be still. Did you be still?

You ready? So while you're waiting for

2025's word, if you didn't do 2024, you have your word for

2025 because you still got to take that class.

Create capacity first. Here it is.

Have you made as much room possible for the thing you're

believing for? She did what he said.

Praise God for people that listen to the gifts that God

sent. She locked the door behind her

and her sons. She didn't add an extra person

in the room because they was throwing a fit.

What? You see, you're always trying to

do secret stuff. No, she's like me and my son.

That's every word the man of God gave her.

She did it as they brought the containers to her.

She filled them. Here it is.

They brought. She filled in this next season.

You can't do every. You can't brought and feel.

You know why Your capacity is compromised?

Because you don't trust people. Let him bring you a broken bowl

you can't see. God is trying to multiply you

and he can't. If you're trying to bring in all

the bowls, you can only carry so many jars.

You ready? All he asked you to do was pour.

They brought. She filled.

And when all the jugs and bowls were full, when all the jugs and

bowls hear this, this is the this is the blessing, but this

is the heartbreaker, she said to one of her sons.

Another. Jug, look at her.

Faith EJ, She got all the jugs she could, and then now she's in

the rhythm. She's like in the flow.

She like, oh, give me some more bowls, right?

This increase, this miracle thing is working.

Wait, man, she had a little. I want you to see something that

hurt, please, he said. That's it.

No, it wasn't. That's it.

Oil. That was as far as you believed.

You ready? Your preparation is a direct

reflection of your faith. It's no knock.

She got increase, but it says that her sons, it was enough

extra for her and her sons. What about her grandkids?

See. Are we thinking generationally

or we just think in our household?

What if the little bit of oil was for five generations?

Here it is. There's no more jugs.

Then the oil stopped. The oil stopped pouring when

there was no more room. And you like God, increase me.

Have you made room? You're like, God bless me, give

me more wisdom. Have you used the wisdom He gave

you? The oil stopped because there

was no more room. When God is saying be still, He

is saying make room. Take the lid off of your

expectation and take the lid off God's capacity.

He went and told the story to the man of God.

He said go sell the oil and make good on your debts.

And that next word is so crucial.

Live both you and your sons on what's left.

Overflow. God's not interested in just

paying your debt. You ready?

God's not interested in just healing you.

You've been praying for healing. He's like, no, there's see, when

you're just praying for healing, you do what it takes to be

healed, to get wholeness. Healing comes with wholeness.

You can get healed without wholeness, but if you're whole,

you get healed. And to be whole, there's some

different steps you got to take them being healed, to get

healed. You might need to take some

medicine. Or switch your diet to get

whole. You might need to also.

Add changing your attitude, your capacity can be compromised

by your fear of trusting people. She had to trust her sons and

she tried. She had.

Look, she didn't just pay off her debt the her initial debt.

Won't you see it? The blessing also covered the

debt of the jars and barrels barred.

So in the season, you may need to borrow some strength from

somebody. But once you get on your feet,

you're going to have enough debt to go.

You're going to have enough courage to encourage someone who

borrowed who you borrowed courage from.

As you go today, man, my prayer for you is that you make room as

much as you want to increase, increase, increase.

We've already told you that's coming.

What are you doing to make room for increase?

Oh, sons and daughters coming home.

What are we doing as a church? What are we showing God?

How serious are we about sons and daughters coming home?

Oh, we going to be on tour one day.

What are we doing? To one day of Live Nation call

say we want you to open up for this people at Rogers are we

ready right does our does our does our are we having some

people why are you spontaneous and why you do it because.

We are really making room for God.

We are really building a capacity for revival.

We're not. You can't be believing for

revival, only putting God on a 90 minute, 75 minute cycle.

What are you doing to Createspace for what you're

believing for? Your preparation speaks to your

level of faith. Lift your hands right where you

are. Father, we thank you for an

amazing year. We thank you for the UPS, the

downs, the good, the bad, the rain, the sun.

We thank you for the friends. We thank you for the enemies.

We thank you Father, for the tough times, the easy times.

Lord, we thank you for the winds, the waves.

We thank you, Lord, we thank you that we are self-sufficient in

your sufficiency. When we are weak, you are

strong. We thank you that we have the

mind of Christ. Lord God, we thank you that your

call and your purpose and your promises are not dependent on

our capacity alone. But you have come alongside of

us. You have come within us.

You are surrounding us, Father, because you are the God of the

impossible. We're going to see this in next,

the next, the next experience. He's the God of the impossible.

He knows what he's asking you to do is heavy.

He knows what he's calling you to do.

You have no formal education of, but you are self-sufficient in

His sufficiency. You can do it.

You are ready. This is your year.

You can overcome, you can thrive in dark times.

You are a cycle breaker. You are a curse breaker because

he is in Jesus name. Hallelujah, stand to your feet.

Yes. Well, it's only one announcement

we have, and that is I actually, yeah, here's my phone and that

is, where'd that go? That is New Year's Eve

celebration this week. How many people excited?

OK, what's that? More announcements, huh?

All right, so tickets at at at Eventbrite last year was $35 to

get in. This year, we going to do you

guys a favor and keep it the same price as last year.

Yeah, last year's price is today's price.

But if you go and get your tickets today and tomorrow,

there will only be $25. OK today and tomorrow and get a

few for your friends. Get a few for the people.

Who are going to show up asking can they get in for free today

and tomorrow only there will be 25 bucks.

Will it be worth it? Absolutely.

You want to come and get the word for 2025?

Absolutely. Bring somebody out.

The doors will open at I'm just going to say 745.

That's what time the doors open in Jesus name.

January 5th is sweat suit Sunday.

It'll only be two experiences 9 and 11:30 and then we will

proceed. January 12th we will return to

our Vancouver evening experience.

Hey man y'all got that? If you don't follow follow your

church on Instagram. Thank you guys for victory seat

last week. As of yesterday.

From last Sunday to yesterday there was $101,455.39.

Amen. Thank you.

Thank you for those that really praise the Lord and gave him

some enthusiasm. Amen.

And more is coming. More is coming.

The goal before the end of the year was 340.

That's where my faith is. So we got three days to bring in

200. Let me just do my, my, my math

right now, 238, let's just say $240,000 in three days.

That's what I'm believing for. And I know I got a few people

that are believing and so thank you guys for for giving and

believing God. And we will be in our new

building in 2025 for sure. Amen.

Hallelujah. Come on repeat after me say 2025

will be my most efficient year. I will have the most.

Peace that I've ever had. I will be the most productive

than I've ever been with the least amounts of energy spent.

I will live in the grace zone of my Lord and Savior in Jesus

name. Until next time, good show.

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