Garrison (Wonder Wednesday) - 12.4.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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All over the room. The Spirit of the living God is

here. I'll say it one more time.

The Spirit of the living God is here.

The answer to all of your cares is here.

The Lord is here, the creator of the heavens and the earth is

here. And if He can create the earth

and fill the earth in seven days, guess what else he could

do in your life? I'm here to let you know

whatever you're facing, it's not to minimize it, but it is pretty

many in the hands of God. So I pray, before we go even

further, lay your cares down. How do you?

Do that. You begin to put the word in

your mouth. You begin to put your own words

in your own mouth and sing your own song.

Not just reciting what other people gave you to sing, but

open your mouth and begin to thank God for what He's done for

you. Open your mouth and begin to put

volume to the strength that you do have, to the peace that you

do have, to the family that you do have, to the food that you do

have, the gas money you do have. The roof over your head that you

do have, the health that you do have, even if it's a little bit

of health, a little bit of health in God's hand can bring

you to wholeness in Jesus name. The little bit of faith you

have, the friends you have, the family you have, the eyes you

have, the legs you have stop. Complaining and begin to praise

God for what you do have. Stop complaining about what

ain't working. Praise them for what is working.

Guarantee you got a lot more working that's not working.

You got a lot more for you than there are against.

You see, when I begin to focus on what God is doing can do, all

the other stuff becomes real tiny.

When I magnify the Lord, all the other stuff becomes real tiny.

So in this moment, Lord, I just magnify my wholeness.

I magnify my health. I magnify that you are the

healer. I magnify that you are the

strong tower. I magnify that you are peace.

I magnify that your Kingdom lives within me, that your life

is within me. Your love is within me.

Your hope is within me. Your passion is within me.

Your Kingdom is within me. Your light is within me, your

courage is within me, your promise is within me.

Hallelujah. You ready to bring it down for a

second? I'm looking for you to get as

emotional as you do about your problems, as you do about His

goodness. Where you at now?

Keep the same energy. I know some of y'all was

complaining this week. Where that energy at?

We're that same energy. I know some of y'all was crying

over some stuff this week, we're that same energy.

Cry over His goodness because His goodness is something to cry

about. Because you should be dead and

gone. See, this year I hope you get

allergic to complaining. You get man man, pull your phone

out right now and I want you to write some stuff down.

You should be allergic to that. You way too comfortable with You

can go and have a seat right now because we going to take some

notes everybody worship team, grab your phone and at home grab

your phone. We going to hop straight in next

time, take these off. Thank you.

What, what, what? We give way too much energy to

let's put it this. Way we give way too much energy

to lies. Hey, yo-yo.

Your life is so good. I'm so blessed.

I can't. I can't right now ask you to

write down everything that's going good for you.

And then next to it, write down what's going bad for you.

Guarantee you that list. You can't get too far.

Come on, write it down. Write it down.

What? What should you be allergic to

that you way too comfortable with?

All right, it's not the message tonight, but I'm just flowing.

Because I feel like whatever God's.

You know, the moment that here it is, the moment that we said

the other night we're going to have a peace revival and we

going to come against peace. Guess what the enemy was working

hard to do with some of y'all to show up stressed out, to show up

worried. Guarantee you if I ask you to

raise your hands, how many people had a moment today where

they was tripping? They going to raise the I

guarantee. Let's just do it if you want to

be honest. Let's do it.

How many people in here had a moment today where you was just

like, come on, raise your hand, look around, look around, look

around, No hold. Keep your hands up.

I feel it. This, this is the Lord.

Keep your hands up. No, no.

Over 50% of you and there's some of y'all lying.

Here's how I know you lying because you trying to think

about it and in your mind while you're thinking about it, you're

trying to reason yourself for me like I really wasn't.

Tripping that much? And tripping a little is

tripping right? If you say I was tripping a

little in that sentence, what word is in there tripping

exactly? Over. 50% of the people in here

let something get them away from the word Sunday.

This thing is serious. How quick the enemy can steal

the word from us that we can be in church for all day long.

Monday come. Something just gets in the way

of the word and that thing gets in front of our face and we

actually have a meeting with worry and we begin to pick stuff

up and we begin to it's just like, did you really get the

word? Did you really?

Get it? What?

What was all your a man? 'S about.

What was all your tears about? What did you sow?

A seed for what? What you talk, and this is what

we do on Sunday. We talk to other people about

how good the word was, what what is what is the challenge to

where the word takes a back seat the moment something.

Tempts us to worry. We had this talk last week.

It's like you have a choice. Even if a spirit's wife said For

God did not give us the spirit of fear.

What comes with? Fear, worry, anxiety, all of

that is in the family of fear. But he gave us the spirit of

boom, boom, boom, boom. We know that by heart.

So what he's telling you is if it's a spirit of worry, it's a

spirit. It didn't come from me.

When worry jumps on you, it's a spirit.

When when anxiety jumps on you, it's a real spirit.

Every spirit needs your permission to make itself at

home. Even God stands at the door and

knocks. Guess what else stands at the

door? Knock.

Worry. And how long did you leave God?

And how quick did you say to worry?

Hello. What do you want?

You again? Oh my God.

Why are you here? Why are you here?

Leave me alone, OK? What do you want?

You want my peace? Why Oh my God, my job, my money,

my friends and because the devil know you don't got no power over

you, he just want to keep you in a conversation.

As long as you want and as long. As you're in that conversation,

guess what you're doing. You're.

Wearing worry. And it's the wearing of worry

that wears you down. And guess once you're work, once

you're once you are worn down, you're no longer worried you're

work, you're. Worn down and that's that

conversation you had. It wasn't no man moment that

worry comes. God did not give me.

I'm blessed, I'm highly favored. I'm blessed coming in, blessed

going out. God shall provide all my needs

according to his riches and glory.

God's promises for me is yes and Amen.

It it don't matter what door closed, don't matter what door

open, even when a door. Opens.

That's not my source of peace. I'm not waiting for an open door

to have peace. I'm not waiting for you to

affirm me. I'm not waiting for you to like

me. I'm not waiting for you to see

me. I'm not waiting for you to want

me. It should not be that this

church and you sit in this building as much as you do and

be so easy to take out. You have to have a holy

frustration about yourself that you aren't standing on the word.

You are emotional and you are carnal and your family and your

friends are watching how much you worry and they're tired or

you complaining to them, always having to encourage you.

You are grown man. You are the priest of your

household. You supposed to carry joy?

That ain't APT thing. That's a Bible thing.

Way too many of us always have to be encouraged.

That's not the Bible, David said.

I encourage myself. It doesn't mean it's not hard,

it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have people to lean

on, but all the time. Here it is.

Once a week is too much. Every week you need

encouragement from somebody. The point is, is that you have

to be a self-contained witness because the people that

encourage you got their own courage they need and their own

harvest that they need to witness to, and you do too.

My wife reaches certain people. I don't.

Therefore she got to learn how to have her own joy and her own

peace because I ain't going to always be around and encourage

her, just like she ain't going to always be around and

encourage me and then understand it's the joy of the Lord that's

imparted, not fake joy, not you around.

People say, let me put it on and I don't want every time you

around because I'm giving you this word that then that your

goal is well, whatever I'm feeling this way, I won't say

anything. No, keep saying something, but

even the language and the body language is like, come on, come

on, You are the light of the world.

Come on. Right.

It's like if, if I'm meeting with Andrew, if I'm meeting with

Pastor D, if I'm meeting with the elders, I might have a

moment, man. I've had moments with them where

I'm just like, this is how I'm. Feeling boom boom boom boom boom

boom boom. I don't think neither one of

them can ever tell you when I've when I've complained that they

walked away feeling like Oh my God, there's a way to talk about

what you're going through that Jack people up to want to stand

with you. Am I talking to somebody?

What you should want from people is a stand with you, not a carry

you right? We in a war.

If I got to carry you, both of us going to get taken out now.

I'll stand with you even if you wounded.

I can be like, come on, get up, but I need you to get up and

limp The moment I got to. I can't watch out.

I can't, man. We're done.

We got to get past these things we're worried about because

there's a world going. I was just telling the worship

team the North American Christian is soft.

You wonder why all these other other religions that we call

wrong are doing so many Kingdom things right.

And it starts with the family. We raise our kids to grow up and

be independent. We don't raise them to be

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We're not raising generations of

disciple makers. We don't disciple our kids.

We raise them to make it in America.

But you go to these other countries when they move here.

We drive past these houses all day.

They look like the UFO with all these lights on them.

But how many generations is in the house?

So it's like, go play sports. But there's something in them

that no, there's a responsibility.

I will give up the sport to take care of the legacy.

And our main goal is raise our kids, get out.

And if you don't get out, shame on you, you're failing.

No, they're your kids and you got a responsibility to take

care of your kids till they die or you die.

They're your children. Tell me in the Bible where God

says stop taking care of them and stop covering them, said

raise them up in the way they should go, not the way culture

says they should go. And us Christians got the world

in US so much we pass it on our children.

And we wonder why it takes so long for them to return.

Because, he said they're going to return because you raise them

in the way they should go. I did not plan to come out here

and say this or talk about this, but man, the, the, the, the

North American church, why we don't got no buildings that's

been up for, for, for over 1000 years because we ain't raising

nobody to take care of it. Why we got so many churches

being sold? Because we ain't raising nobody

to take care of them. We don't care about no building.

We raising soft kids and we going to let what's her name

that's coming here raise our kids.

Got to be kidding, man. This is the stuff that is going

to really weigh heavy on the remnant.

The remnant is the people that's feeling like the conviction and

a burn. They're like really do this

thing for Jesus. And if you really about Jesus,

think about what the martyr could be complaining about.

Think about the families in in certain parts of the world in

different continents that have a reason to complain.

Man, we so blessed. That's what should bring us to

repentance is how much we complain and we are blessed.

We got too much. We got more than we should have

and we complaining about what we don't have or how much more.

We're always stuck on the Moor and that was not a garden

reality. The garden was here it is.

Take this. And Adam's job was to take care

of what God gave him, not worry about what he don't got.

But what God has fallen is what we didn't have or what God said.

Don't touch. And that's what's going to call

you the fall. It's worrying about what you

don't have. Instead of being like, I got

this woke up this morning, blessed.

I'm going to take care of these two dollars.

I'm going to take care of my wife.

I'm going to take care of my children.

I'm going to take care of the house.

I got let me wash the car and shine these rims.

It ain't my ideal car, but I got a car.

Like that's what should bring us to conviction.

Who are we after God has done so much for us to find in us

somewhere to complain about something else other than being

close to him? We come every week, every week,

every week, every week, and then every week we complain and then

every week we get mad. And every week it's like contend

for your peace man. And continuing for your peace is

not waiting for worry to leave. Not going to end this year with

the same old mindset. Worry.

We'll put you in the hospital next year.

Write that down for a prophetic word.

Worry is going to kill some of y'all.

Here's what I will tell you the words that I read is you got to

do anything in your power to do what it takes to keep peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers. That's not a scripture.

Just on if you if you fighting somebody you like.

Oh, I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. No, if you come up swinging on

me, I'm going to protect myself. Ain't no blessing or the

peacemaker where you just like please please don't please

please. That's not a peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers. Create peace in your life.

Fight for your peace in your life.

Make peace out of trouble. Jesus had peace on the cross.

You don't think he did? Ain't no way he could shut his

mouth if he didn't have peace. Let's just start.

I don't know where it is not going to go now.

It's just because because you'll understand when you get on the

frontline, you'll get tired of dragging people for for.

Elementary stuff. Like, look, look, look, I, I got

a pastoral heart. I, I, man, I just put many hours

in a meeting with people and I'm going to continue to meet with

people and have wisdom sessions and all that.

This is not about a wisdom session.

Well, let's have a wisdom session about some light stuff.

Let's not have a wisdom session that Sunday message was supposed

to solve. You're just not listening.

So you got to ask yourself, what is it that I'm not retaining the

word? Which ground am I marked for?

Stony ground? It's a heart, it's a soil issue.

It's not a God issue. It's showing a word issue.

It's a soil issue. So are you looking at the

condition of your heart and why the word isn't taking to where

it overrides your flesh like this is Garrison.

Garrison steps in when worry shows up.

Garrison answers the door. How do I know that the scripture

said it if you've been paying attention, that Jesus himself

takes responsibility to stand up.

This is a lifestyle of peace. It's not every time.

You need to wake Jesus up in the boat.

Every time it's a storm, we got it.

Hey Jesus, wake up, you don't care about us.

Hey Jesus, wake up, you don't care about us.

Then he brought you through that storm.

Next storm. Hey Jesus, wake up, you don't

care about us. When you going to wake up and

speak to the storm? Let the teacher sleep.

Garrison, Prince of Peace. I mean a few notes and a few

reviews. And then then we going to.

Figure out where we going to go. Prince of Peace was in Mary

before he. Came out of Mary.

I'm just trying to trying to. Trying to really let you know

that peace is a person and where you lack peace, you ready.

Where you lack peace, you lack communion.

Let me talk to this side. I think this is.

Where you lack peace, you lack communion, Where you are

troubled, you haven't submitted that area to God.

You got peace over here on your diet.

You got peace on. I'm not going to work on

Saturday. You got peace over here, but

then you waking Jesus. Up on this issue.

I want you to see this though. He's a person, Prince of Peace,

God with us. Where was he?

Mary had peace. And then when she said, you know

what I don't understand? Oh, the peace that transcends

all understanding. That's how peace came in the

world, not being understood. But what did she say?

I don't need to understand it. I'll believe your word.

I don't need to understand why I'm going through this.

I believe your word. This is why I need to find a

word for whatever storm I'm going through.

There is a word I don't, I don't understand.

I can't wrap it. I'm not even trying to wrap it

around my mind. But you can't give peace to

people until you let peace pregnant you.

Here's the issue. You've never gotten pregnant by

peace. Pregnant with peace?

How you going to give that man? There's way too many Christians

imparting fear and anxiety and worry.

Even in our language, it's worry.

It's like, hey, how you? Doing I'm I'm alright, you know

again now, now don't, don't don't get offended because you

aren't the only one that that's a lot of us.

I'm alright. I'm talking you ready.

Hey, Deborah, I'm talking, I'm talking about after a booming

service. You ever had that?

Booming service and then you walk up into somebody and it's

like, hey, how you doing? You like you know, I'm trying to

make it and just holding on. Just holding on 2025 you get

that answer. God bless you, God bless you.

God bless you right, because here here it is family or not.

It doesn't mean that that you don't care and that's what you

got to stop thinking because you won't entertain or give your

energy. Do you feel can do you feel

this? I don't care.

No. You.

Actually. Care.

OK, let's look at Jesus. Hey Jesus, I ain't go bury my

dad. Let them do it.

Hey Jesus, your mom and your brother are outside.

They want to see you. Let them know that my mom and my

brother are the people that does my father's.

Will Hey Jesus, can I get some of them chips please?

Jesus, can I get some of them chips, please?

Oh, OK. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.

I'll just get some crumbs. Jesus, why are you ignoring me?

I'm hungry. Jesus passing by.

Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

OK, Jesus. OK, man, stop calling on Jesus.

OK, I'm going to do it louder. Jesus.

And he stops and he says, who's that man that's pursuing me with

so much intensity? Tell him to come here.

He gets up and he throws his garment off.

And what did that garment represent?

It wasn't just like some cool world he got from the flea

market. It represent him being a legally

blind man, which gave him the legal right to beg.

And before he went to Jesus, not when he got to Jesus.

Before he went to Jesus, he took off his old identity, stepped

into the new. Are you tripping that Jesus

ignored him? He's ignored a lot of people.

See, because when you want some it's easy.

It don't take faith to complain. All right, all right, get

pregnant with presents and you'll birth promise.

I'm going to address this later. Hopefully y'all do got some

time. I'm going to address this

hopefully later. Get pregnant with presents and

you will birth promise. Oh, hospitals, Hallelujah.

You ready? This is going to mess some

people's theology up. This is going to mess some

thinking up. Because I know, I know we, we,

we like to think a lot. And even when I wrote this down,

I'm like, OK, I'm trying to wrap my head around it.

He's like, you probably can't wrap your head all around it,

but write it down. So I did, and then I'll, I'll,

I'll it'll, it'll keep ministering to me.

Presence is for you, promises for them.

So I'm going to just interpret how I got it or what I think it

means as He gave it to me. Our number one priority is

presence. And any promise has for God, has

for you is meant to impact others.

But what you have made is promise first, then you'll have

peace. And if you understand that the

priority, the garden wasn't Adam's priority, him walking

with God was his priority. But he took his eyes off a

presence, got greedy for promise, and ate off the wrong

tree because it looked like the other ones.

And when you make promise the priority, you're easy bait to

get confused with a blessing from God.

And just something you worked hard for or got manipulated

into. Presence is for you.

Promise is for them. I believe that if you think so,

big the exceeding abundantly, above all we can ask, think or

imagine. You don't even have enough life

in you to enjoy the fullness of it.

So even if you get wealthy, guess what?

You got to include other people. It doesn't matter.

You ready even if you get healed from the crown of your head to

the soles of your feet, and that's the promise.

Guess what? You only getting healed from the

crown of your head to the sole of your feet so you can go about

doing good, so you can go do the Great Commission.

You see what I'm saying? The promise is not about you.

What God has in store for you is for them and you are the

beneficiary of it coming through you.

But you better have open hands and release the blessing of God.

Right. A God.

God. Oh, he anointed me.

His favor surrounds me like a shield.

Yes it does. But why does his favor surround

me like a shield? So I could do what I do now.

Why did he anoint me? So I could go about doing good.

But we've made promise over presence.

You, you, you want to keep your your sanity.

You must live in His presence. You, you want to you want to

keep your sanity moving forward. You must live in his presence.

You, you want to keep your sanity.

You know, if a bird that's supposed to fly want to keep its

sanity, they better they better have some air time.

Right. If a fish want to keep his

sanity, he better stay in the water.

If a human being want to keep his sanity, you better stay in

God's presence. That's your natural habitat.

Here you go, 2024-2025. If you lose your mind, you will

lose your life. Have you ever seen somebody that

lost their mind? Can I talk to you?

You see? You see the people that we walk

on the other side of the street for?

Yeah. You ever see somebody that lost

their mind? You ever see somebody who had

their mind but lost their mind? Some people lose their mind

because they didn't deal with trauma, right, or they didn't

deal with losing a loved one right or right.

There's the. Streets are full of people.

Who have lost their minds, right And somehow some of us may think

we that'll never happen to us. It can your chances of losing

your mind goes up if you leave presents out of your daily

routine. You ready?

It should not be a routine. It should be something you'd

never set down. Super simple song.

You have my attention, right? Look, it'd be random day.

I could be in the cold punch. I could be on the bike, I could

be driving. And now those words came from

heaven to earth just to put in my mind and the way I get my

attention. You have my attention, right?

I'll just sing that for a few minutes.

Then I keep doing what I'm doing.

I can't afford to put that down. I can't afford to get God's word

out of my mouth. Actually, Joshua One says that

don't you ever take God's word out of your mouth and don't you

ever take them off your mind. If you lose your mind, you will

lose. Your life Quick review Isaiah 9

we see Prince of wholeness. Somebody say Prince of

Wholeness. That's what the message says.

It says no limits to his wholeness.

Please help me. What does it say?

There's no limits to his wholeness.

He brings who bring he brings he he brings he he brings, he

brings. There's no limit.

His ruling authority will grow. It will increase.

It will increase. We're in a day of time and is in

his authority in his church is going to increase.

But but but there's no authority that can increase.

If the if the if the if the soil is not good ground, His

authority can't live where worry lives and there's way too many.

You want to walk in the anointing and walk in the glory

and walk in ministry and walk in power, but you will not fight

for your peace. This he'll put this, he'll put

this Kingdom on a firm footing and keep it going.

This is why does he say firm footing?

Because there's going to be a chance where you can slip up.

There's going to be a day where there's going to be a lot of

slip ups and he said no. And then those days where it's

slippery, I'm going to give you solid.

Ground we go forward. I want you to see this, that,

that, that, that, that. Piece.

Is wholeness and we're going to see some of the same language

really quickly. Look at this word salvation.

We went over it last week to save salvation.

So Tyria, it's to save, it's to heal.

It's freedom from both physical danger and the effects of sin.

It's restoration to to a state of safety.

It's soundness. This is when we say I'm saved.

I am saved. Right.

I'm not Christian. Some of us are more Christian

than saved. Am I talking today?

Am I talking you more Christian than saved?

You more convinced you're Christian than you are convinced

you're saved? And it's easy to ignore yours

not saved or act like you're saved when you don't even know

the definition of saved. You don't even know the

definition of salvation not knowing that when Jesus said he

is your salvation, it is He. It means he is your soundness.

He is your health and well-being as well as preservation from

danger of destruction. He is a guarantee of safety.

Somebody say salvation, Salvation.

And and, and, and peace. Here's peace, here's peace.

Let's see if we see some similarities.

Peace, the state of law and order that yields blessing and

prosperity. That's why it's some some

cultures. Shalom is a word that's always

said Shalom. Nothing missing, nothing broken.

Wholeness in every area of my life.

Here it is peace. Shalom means the absence of war

or chaos. Here it is and the best.

When are you going to get to the point where the thing you've

been wrestling with for years is over?

When is the war going to end up here?

Is there ever going to be peace about this area of your life?

Is there ever going to be peace about you being single?

Is there ever going to be peace about you make the certain

amount of money you make? Peace does not mean I settle, it

means I'm content. Are you ever going to make

peace? That's your family Crazy.

Are you ever going to make peace that the government is the

government in that you live where you live?

I want to move to Cali. I want to move where is Morris

Sun? Are you ever going to make peace

that God has you where he wants you, where he needs you, where

he designs you to be right here, right now And while I'm here,

I'm going to be everything that God's created me to be.

Are you ever going to make peace?

There's always something you ever going to make peace that

they may not be a good friend for you.

So stop waiting for them to invite you somewhere.

Are you ever going to make peace that y'all not good chemistry

and think are you ever just going to make peace?

That's what it is. It is what it is ever going to

make peace. It's going to snow.

It's it's it's going to be cold there.

There's inflation, prices are going to go up.

What? What the stuff we worried about?

Trudeau's going to be Trudeau, Trump's going to be Trump.

It doesn't matter. Make peace that God is God and

all this other stuff. Kids get sick, it's a different

story. Why?

Because I am responsible to care for them.

At the same time, I'm not God. So there's some stuff that I

just can't help. I can't.

I want to help but I. Can't help?

You're responsible for a few people in your life.

Why are you so concerned about so many other people?

True. Don't know my son Trump ain't my

uncle, right, baby? I don't know people be like you

see the news. No, I didn't for a while.

You would think if you don't watch the news, you stupid.

No, I'm I'm kind of smart. Oh, you should find out what's

going on over Internet the oil list.

And first of all, I don't my mind don't work like that.

Like I lose peace over mass. I lose peace over certain

things, like certain conversations.

I lose my peace over science and all like like some of y'all

worried about culture. You worried about all this other

stuff? You just work like you're just

worried about way too much and then let us not be online.

Oh my God, did you see that? And there's some of you so bad

you believe the lies on, on, on, on the social media.

I don't want to be Diddy in jail.

Like that's not my daddy. Like, I don't care like how long

we going to be chasing the the story folks be like, you know

who the president? I don't know who the president

is. Yeah, some of it, man.

There's some stuff we're required.

We're we're, I wouldn't even say required it.

It's. Good if we know, but This is why

I have friends. I got friends that care about

those things and there's some folks don't lose peace

overwatching certain things. So I'm going to go talk to

certain friends and certain people that that that I don't

know if they're knowing it for it or they just wired that way.

But why am I going man? I have text Grace.

I've text Effie. I have text I have I.

Forgot the word. I forgot what it was.

When you take a a plant from one place to another or a tree from

one place to now I know, so don't scream it out.

I already know. Right transplant, right.

But I texted Effie. I was like, what's that thing

where where they take the tree out?

I didn't feel like thinking about it.

I didn't want to Google. No, I just said Effie tree out

of pot to another spot and then right away transplant didn't.

What did nothing pop up in our text message?

It wasn't no shoes popped up in this text message.

Nothing popped up. It was just three words and then

transplant answer, move forward. Some people had these.

These answers just ready on their brain, just ready.

I didn't have it ready, so I didn't.

I wasn't about to go look for it.

I didn't feel like thinking about it.

I cast my care on. FA.

It's the absence of war, it's Shalom, it's wholeness, it's

calmness, it's completeness with Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

They went ahead. They don't want to hit

somewhere. I don't know where they went,

but they anyway, they over there just reading their own little

sermon right now, but that's OK. Hallelujah.

Stress free. I wasn't even there.

I was talking about Effie. How did we get 3 slides up?

Peace. Look look, it's a stress Free

State like 2025. This should be man.

This should be at the top of your goals.

Look most of your goals for 20/20.

Five should relate to your soul wealth.

Watch how quick the other stuff he said.

I pray that you prosper even as your soul is your help prosper.

See, you got to understand if you if you right there if what

if the goals you look at every day is pertaining to the soul

that Jesus died for? Watch out everything else line.

Up. Top of the list?

We got $1,000,000. Work work working at Burger King

went $1,000,000 by the end of 2025.

Ain't nothing wrong with working at Burger King, but calm down on

the $1,000,000 unless you invest in this something or whatever,

right? Did be like 2025 meeting with a

millionaire, right? Something like that.

Like I want to get in a room where millions are.

Right, 'cause it's like your soul has to be at the top of

your list, 'cause it was at the top of God.

A stress. Free State of security calmness

it says it says and calmness that comes when there's no

fighting or war. This is a peace that comes when

there's no fighting or war. This is a piece that comes.

When there's no fighting. Or war is oh, well, I'm not

going to enter that fight. I'm not going to enter that

conversation. For what?

Oh, that's what you think? Awesome, right?

Conversations can be over quick. You hear what I'm saying?

They can be over quick. And that's not being rude.

That's not being mean. That's not being you don't care.

That's not that's like, man, you got a guard.

It's just like, yeah, that I'm not the person.

I'm not intimidated. I don't feel stupid either that

I don't like. I can't engage with you on that

level. It.

Says everything. Everything coexisting in perfect

harmony and freedom. Shalom, wholeness in all of

life, completeness, welfare, safety.

Some of you in relationships that's unsafe.

Forget physical abuse, emotional, spiritual, your state

of peace. You going to lose your mind

because there's no way that peace can be cultivated in some

of the covenants. That you are in.

I got. I got.

Covenant partners that are peace partners like they in my life

and they going to help guard my peace and you can't just have

people that's always pulling peace from you.

They also got to contribute Interstate well well-being.

There's three types of peace that we said three peace,

special spiritual peace, relational peace, Emotional

peace is what he died for. All three of these parts.

Spiritual peace, that's peace with God.

Relational peace, that's peace with others, emotional peace,

that's peace within ourselves. Moving right along Isaiah 9.

The responsibility of complete dominion will rest on his

shoulders. Amen.

Their responsibility is on his shoulders.

He is trying to get peace to us. John 14, we read this last week.

We're not going to stay here. He said, I'll leave it with you.

The same piece I had on the cross, same piece I had hanging

out with Judas who I knew was going to reject me.

Same Look at Jesus whole story. Look at this whole story.

All the persecution, all the hate, all the misunderstanding,

all the turmoil around who who his identity was.

He was on the run since a baby and what did he have?

Peace, He said that same piece that kept me quiet when they

took me from courthouse to courthouse.

That same piece that allowed me to stay quiet and know who I

was. I held on to my identity and my

purpose. I didn't have to say nothing or

prove nothing because I knew who I was here.

It is because I found myself in the Word.

That's what the Bible say. He found himself in the scroll

and just like other people. He tried to tell him he was him.

Stop trying to convince people you, him or her.

The reason some of you trying to convince people, you, him or her

is because you trying to convince you, you, him or her.

So you need somebody to believe you so you can believe them.

You get, you get. You and I see you're very low.

What you say? Come on.

Slow down, PT. Slow down.

Slow down. Slow down.

So slow down. Here.

Here's some confidence we have. If you believe I'm great, then I

believe you that you believe I'm great.

I don't necessarily. Without you believing in me, I

might be left insecure. So I need to convince you I'm

good because I'm waiting to hear from you.

Yeah. You good?

Oh, you great. Now I'm living off of your

affirmation, so I'm trying to convince you I'm good because

once I convince you, then you convince me.

So I'm so in confidence that I don't have hoping to reap

affirmation from you. That's why some of your friends

or the moment somebody who did affirm you, but they hold your

account and be like, Nah, that was trash.

You offended. Wait a minute.

If you believe that, that if you believe their affirmation in

you, you should believe when they see trash.

Right on. You don't know what you're

talking about. Well, I guess I didn't know what

I was talking about when I said you the bomb, right?

Me telling you that's trash does not take away from me telling

you you great. What I'm telling you is that

trash is going to compromise. You're great.

Stop allowing yourself to be agitated.

Stop allowing yourself to be disturbed.

And do not permit yourself to be fearful.

And do not permit yourself to be intimidating.

And do not permit yourself to be a coward.

And do not permit yourself to be a coward.

If there's an earthquake. I'm going to be unsettled, but

man, come on. We be unsettled over.

We be tripping. Silence the lies, silence the

slander, silence the mental assault.

Come on, tell your neighbor peace is yours, right?

We see in Thessalonians, We see in Thessalonians.

Bounce back, bounce back. You see in Thessalonians.

We see in Thessalonians. We saw this scripture.

Remember, Remember now that may the Lord of Peace himself

somebody say himself, here it is.

Again, he's taking responsibility.

Look, grant you his peace, his peace.

So whenever you Are you ready, whenever you are seeking peace

from relief, it is not his peace.

Some of y'all are so smart you should see your faces man.

When I'm be preaching to some of y'all be like.

And then you can tell when you get it, 'cause you're like,

like, like stop trying to receive it up here, right?

You're trying to approach God's Word like you, you have to get

it for a test next week. It's like just hear the spirit

of it. I'm I'm not anointed.

So you can be intellectual. You don't mean don't think.

Now I got. Hate that I got to bounce back

and forth. Didn't say turn your brain off

OK, didn't say trust everything I said please.

But like but but what I'm saying is like it's nothing hard.

This all I read you already, this all I read and did I say

something to confuse you? Because I want to.

Clear it up, I said His. The the Lord of Peace himself

grant you his peace. And then what I say after that?

Because I've seen some confused faces.

Or did that's all I read. And you confused about what his

piece is? Come on.

Yeah. What did I say?

Right. You received it.

What did I say? Empty.

Because you had that look, huh? Yeah.

What did I say? Nope.

See. So you didn't you didn't get the

word or what I said. You, you, the enemy just

snatched that right away from you.

All right, All right. All right, Auntie.

All right, All right, All right. See, I care.

I care. That's why I'm asking.

I'm going to stop my message to to answer, right?

One day we're going to get too big, and I can't be stopping and

answering, of course. So enjoy this right now, OK?

Right. Is, is, is may the Lord of peace

himself grant you His peace. It is His peace.

Here's what I said I have said. I have said if you are waiting

to get peace from relief, it is not His peace.

His peace is the relief. You got me.

Don't be lying. I'm going to test you after

church. I'm going to ask you to see if

you got it. OK, His peace is the relief, the

paycheck, the husband, the wife, the surgery, the healing is.

Not the relief. Here it is.

This is why this is so important, Elder John is.

We have tried to transcribe healing before peace, not

understanding that if I can have peace, I increase my chances for

healing. It's just like we're scared to

try to encourage people to not live with it.

I'm not telling you to live with it, but the end all be all is

not you healed. OK, move right along, move right

along. Peace himself.

And then I just want to get to the all times, all ways, all

circumstances, all conditions, whatever.

So he said all times. What does all times mean?

What does always mean? What does all circumstances

mean? What does all conditions mean?

What does whatever mean? What does you all mean?

That's for everybody. No one's exempt from this piece.

Here it is. Here it is.

It's whatever somebody say. It's whatever.

OK, Remember that. Y'all remember that?

OK? We remember this.

The peace of God is designed to regulate and govern our nervous.

System and protect our soul. Remember that last week Remember

somebody say wow, see this piece a paycheck can't regulate your

nerves. See see here.

The peace of God leaves you content piece from a paycheck,

leaves you wanting another paycheck.

Hey look, look, when you get that paycheck, you go to that

tax bracket you like. Oh my God, they take way too

much money out. Ain't nothing.

Nothing but worry on the paid stub.

You know what I'm saying? Ain't nothing but worry on the

pay stub. I don't need no medical.

Insurance on they taking way too much out.

I'm young and then and then I don't care how much you get paid

you. Consider and not paying them

bills 'cause you like, Oh my God, 'cause when I pay this

bill, I pay this bill, I'm only going to have $300.00 left for

$2.00 left. Way too much worry waiting on a

paycheck. Because nine times out of 10,

you working somewhere where you don't get paid what you worth or

even what you desire, let alone what you need to live.

So you are working and on top of working.

Every time you go to work, you stressed out, even if you.

Enjoy your job because it ain't enough.

But what if you could take the peace of God into your work?

And it's just like, this is where I'm at today.

I'm grateful. Now the souls around me is the

priority right now. I take away the performance at

my job to try to get a promotion or use my job as a step in step

in stool. And it's just like, no, this is

my pulpit right now. This is my sanctuary right now.

There are souls in here, and My faithfulness over the souls.

Is what's going to be the. Connection to my promotion.

The peace of God is the designated to regulate and

govern our nervous system. Nervous system?

Here it is. I need to give you proof.

OK, We we bear his image by bearing his fruit.

OK, I just want, I want to follow me.

We bear his image by bearing his fruit.

OK, Now go back to the garden. Let us make men in our image and

our likeness. That's his purpose.

That's that's why he created you so you could bear his image.

You can bury his his image and harness his likeness.

You understand this, you understand this.

This is Genesis 1. Read it your own time.

He congregates with Spirit and and Jesus and he said and the

word and he says, let us make. Man in our image and our

likeness, and then God. Created male and female and you,

you go on and on and on and you see.

Then he planted us in the garden.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He, we bear his image by bearing

his fruit. OK, look at this.

I want you to see this. And he got up, we heard the

story and he rebuked the storm, right?

He rebuked the wind. He rebuked the source of the

storm. Y'all following me?

And then he he said, and he spoke to the sea and he said,

hush, what is God telling us to do?

The storm in our mind and the war in our mind to hush it down.

Stop feeding it with your wind. Stop putting words in your cell.

That and that's why you just get.

Madder and madder and madder and madder.

When you can use the same breath to speak what God says against

the storm, here it is, He said. Be still.

The the the. Storm was not in the sea, the

storm was within because there are some people.

Who know how to? Ride the waves like when I was

with my skipper in Italy. He was.

Like you're going to be OK. Like we do this, I've been doing

this, I've been in way worse storms, but based on how I saw

the waves is how my you ready. Based on how I saw the waves

determine how my nervous system was regulated.

As as, as if I love this part and the wind died down.

You got to hear this part and the wind died down.

You got that. What does it say the as if it

had grown weary? I know in some places where I

was that reading that they would that they would have jumped up

in the organ with a Oh, and if they the wind, the storm got

weary. I'll say it to this side, the.

Storm got weary, right? So if you understand who you

are, who lives in you, then then if you learn how to stand up to

the storm, it will get wet. Don't you get weary before the

storm gets weary. Race not given to the swift.

It's endurance. It's long-suffering.

The devil gonna get tired. The storm gonna get weary.

And there was there was at once a great calm.

I love this. If the wind died down as if it

got tired of causing a ruckus, the wind heard the voice of its

Creator. Every time you speak against

your circumstances, it hears the voice of the Creator.

Every time you speak the Word, the enemy that's behind

disturbing you is reminded that God is in charge.

That's why Jesus, when he was going through his 40 days and 40

nights and the devil tempted him, he spoke the Word.

He said, do you still have no faith and confidence?

Why are you tripping? The word was in the boat with

you. Tripping, not tripping don't

mean no tears. Not tripping don't mean no sad.

Not tripping don't mean no anger.

But none of those steal my peace.

That's why he says beyond your understanding, because your

Pete, God's peace goes beyond it goes deeper than the than the

than the the the the the anxiousness you feel.

It goes deeper. But what what happens when you

live in image and likeness? This is what happens because of

your walk in your stand. Then people see it.

And they say they were so confident and sure.

Here's regulated K without peace and without the Holy Ghost.

Peter was a coward and he couldn't control his nervous

system. So when pressure came, he ran.

Then he got filled with the Holy Ghost, got the peace of Jesus,

and now he's willing to lose his life because in the midst of,

of, of, of of hate and persecution, they're standing

because peace is regulating them.

Now see Deacon step in. How is he there getting stoned?

Because peace is regulating him. And then when peace can regulate

you, then it brings conviction to the, the the stand buyers and

it says, man, who are these guys?

They didn't go. They don't have the same

training as us. They don't have the same formal

education as us. But they must have been with

peace. They're companions with peace

because we can't shake them. We see it got to the point where

they couldn't be shaking. They had to be threatened.

Paul and Silas couldn't be shaking.

They have to be thrown in prison, right?

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego couldn't be shaking, so they

have to be thrown in the furnace.

Daniel couldn't be shaking, so he had to be thrown in the

lion's den. That's why when you find

yourself in some circumstances and people hating on you and

people being mean to you and tearing you down because that's

the enemy trying to intimidate you because you couldn't be

shaking. That's why your Mama and daddy,

that's why your brothers and sisters, that's why they

attacking you because they're trying to break you down.

Look what they said. They said they saw the

confidence in boldness. Peter and.

John, they could tell they had been with Jesus Chaka Khan.

The Master over Chaos lives within us to regulate and govern

our nervous system and soul wealth.

When you say you, you will receive what power when the Holy

Ghost comes upon you, Here's what peace produces ability,

efficiency, and might. Oh, I can't get this done

because you're all over the place.

You're my You have not harnessed this peace.

Work in this piece plan in this piece study in this piece get

married from this piece choose who you're going to date from

this piece You don't choose who you're going to date because

you're tired of being lonely. That's a breakdown of the

nervous system for a person filled with the Holy Ghost to

say they lonely. What?

You got the creator of the heaven and the earth in you, How

you're lonely. You got the Kingdom of God in

you, how you're lonely. Just say I don't like being by

myself. That ain't saying you're lonely.

I don't like being by myself, but I enjoy some alone time.

I need it. Every last one of us needed it.

None. What?

What? Nothing wrong with Adam being

alone. If it was then God would have

created them both at the same time.

Now you need some alone time, but you're alone time should

lead to birth. All right.

Some of y'all just leave me alone.

I don't like being around nobody.

Get out of here, that ain't God. Say regulator.

Hey, what? What's the?

Hey, what's the what's the next word?

Mound up. Now Warren G and Nate Dogg don't

say Garrison, but they do say mound up.

Oh yeah. I'm in the Ramen Canada.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, guys. Sorry, I'm sorry.

Yeah, Snoop. They do a lot of business in

Canada though in the weed industry.

That's what Canada is really good at across North America,

slinging that weed. Canada.

Hallelujah. Warren G was out here a few

weeks ago walking the streets, and somebody tried to roll.

Up on them with a with a knife or something.

And he was like, well, I'm the wrong one.

I'm from West boy. You better stop playing with me

and the boy. He just he just turned around

nothing. All right, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Yo, Canadian gangsters.

I'm a man. Hallelujah.

Or BC gangsters. Hallelujah.

Real. Now, now, now.

You got to follow me. You got to follow me.

Kate, This piece is to to. Regulate your nervousness.

Here it goes. Here's what the word says.

Lean on, trust in and be confident in the Lord with all

your what heart. Remember that All in all did.

Remember that with all your heart and all your mind.

And do not rely on your what own insight.

Insight, your own wisdom, your own ideas, your own

understanding. Do not do it.

Why? In all your ways, know and

recognize. And acknowledge here it is all

your ways, all your trust. Acknowledge him and he will what

direct and make straight and plain.

Because that's where peace is plain.

Everything is good on everything bagel, but everything don't work

in life. Make plain your.

Path be not wise in your own eyes reverently what fear and

worship the Lord and turn what entirely away from evil.

Check it out. What does this lead to all in

leads to what next slide it shall be health to your nerves.

You cannot be this and this and this and they're like, where's

my peace? You can't get God's peace that

leads to wholeness when you only take a piece of him.

You have the peace that you want.

You only want a peace. You got P i.e.

CEI got Oh, I got to be careful, right?

You read before it said all, all, all your heart, all your

mind. And then Jesus comes and says

love the Lord God with all you, all you, all you, all you.

And then he say give me, give me all your focus.

Stay fixed on me. And you're what have perfect

peace. I know this peace is hard to

harness because you're not ready to give them everything.

Be not wise. In your own eyes.

And then it says. When you lean on them, you make

them your everything. It shall be health to your

nerves and your sinews and marrow and moisten into your

bones. It will, it will, it will, it

will just it. It will keep you.

Young, It will keep you vibrant. It'll keep you healthy.

You can't fight for healing and be anxious.

So so so if I'm fighting for something, it's all out war.

This got to get out of my house. I can't hang out with this

person. I can't go here until I see I'm

not letting go until you bless me.

You trying to keep on you trying to keep your same lifestyle and

get different results. There has to be a season in your

life where God gets all. Moistening to your bones.

This is for real. There's not no analogy, no no

parable. They came from out of the.

Presence of God and they said they whole affect changed.

They walked before the people and they were shining.

This is this is a man that don't even this is a man that that

that that don't go to church and they didn't want our

contractors. Love them, but you can see, you

can just see that. Lord working on their heart and

the other day I think me and P Dill was over there and we just

talking about what kind of what kind of tile we want or what

kind of floor we want and I was like, I want this black whatever

Bah Bah Bah I. Forget what I said and he I had

said, he said all those are cheap.

He said something like they don't shine like you.

And he wasn't hitting on me. He wasn't hitting on me either,

wasn't hitting on me at all. Remember that PDW is like, they

don't shine like you. And I just laughed and I'm like

and he just laughing and we just kept it pushing.

But what does he see? Because he doesn't have

spiritual, but what does he see right?

He sees consistent, he sees joy, he sees me.

He knows how long it's taken. He knows what we're trying to

do. He know we over here in a

garage, he know what we trying to fix up.

He trying to figure out what kind of people are these that he

is surprised that it's turning out looking so good.

How you doing today Calvin? Man I'm OK, my family in Calgary

and man life just just can't wait to the city.

And after three years, he like these people are different, I

feel. Different when I come.

I ain't never built nothing for nobody.

Like you, I'm I'm normally arguing with, with, with, with,

with, with developers. Because developers is telling

contractors, I don't know, I don't care how long it's going

to take, you need to hurry up. He's like, Pastor, I can't.

I can't. I can't tell you how.

Look, Sir, we want to be in there by February.

I can't make no promises. Not a problem, Sir.

Take your time. You guys doing a great job, man.

You that that floor ain't shining like you.

What? What?

See, This is why you can't give in to your feelings here.

Here's what you got to hear. Here's what you got to hear.

You got to. I was thinking about this the

other day. So much of us are caught up on

how we feel, not understanding that God's presenting.

Us to someone. So you may feel a way, but God's

presentation of you, I could be having a bad day, but if I just

show up for God to present himself through me, then what he

presents to the person that he is trying to witness to see you

caught up on your feelings, not understanding what God can do

with the people that see you. He can.

Joseph, these is these is fault man.

We need you to come with us. You dirty you, are you naked?

Are you losing your mind? No, we need you to come with us

naked, man, because you got naked with favor.

He he saw something on him, do you think?

Look, I need you to see he saw favor on him after he just got

left by his family. He's not just left.

They left him for dead. They put him in a ditch.

They saw favor, not depression. Yeah, it is.

We want to. We want everybody to see what we

going through. Here it is, Here it is.

Here it is. Here it is.

Here it is. Dear friend.

Listen well to my what Shout it out words.

Listen well to my what Words Listen well to my what.

Words tune that. That's that.

That's that goes beyond. Listen, you find the channel.

That's why when I come in church, no, no, I don't feel

like talking. Don't talk to me right now.

That's why I'll repeat something when I hear people sneeze or

cough because if you bet this sometimes folks cough and sneeze

on right on the one I'm like, let me repeat myself.

So nobody missed that. Tune your ears to my voice

because there's a lot of voices. Find the right channel.

Look at it is keep my message in Plainview at all times.

They're all all all all all times.

I don't care what you think about me.

Oh no, I'm just playing. Look, look, look.

Concentrate. Was you concentrating on

Sunday's word? I hope you just took your little

beautiful notes and closed it and.

Threw it over in your passenger seat.

It stayed there until tonight. Or you put it in a note, saved

it. Not knowing that that in this

house Sunday's word is is for Sunday night.

Sunday morning word for Sunday afternoon.

Sunday night word for Sunday night.

Monday, Tuesday, got to get back in here Wednesday because I got

a tune. Way too many voices out there,

and some of you got way too many voices in your house.

Those who discover, those who discover the those who discover

these words live, really live. Those who discover the real

meaning behind the word, the revelation, here it is.

They really live. Ready, ready, ready, ready.

Body and soul. They're bursting with health.

You don't think the peace of God is serious?

You want to see why the Church is the way it is.

You want to see why life is the way it is.

Marriage goes. Peace will lead you to the

right. 1 We worried about all the wrong stuff.

But we say. Keep vigilant, watch over your

heart. Keep keep vigilant, watch over

your heart. That's where life starts.

Don't talk out of both sides your mouth.

Avoid Careless banter disturbs peace.

White lies disturbs peace. Gossip disturbs peace.

Keep your eyes straight ahead. Ignore all sideshow

distractions. Watch your step and the road

will stretch out smooth before you.

Look neither right nor left. Leave evil in the dust.

It really is all in if you really want all dead.

We bear his image, we bear his fruit.

Galatians 5 tells you it's obvious what kind of life

develops out of trying to get your own way.

All the time, all the time. You ready.

This is the fruit of your all the timeness, repetitive,

loveless, cheap sex, a stinking accumulation of mental and

emotional garbage because you're trying to do it your way.

God says stay on social media for the rest of the year.

You like just once a week. He's like, I'm not answering,

I'm not. God's not getting into

conversations like Eve did, you know, like God is God.

Don't do that. But God, can we hold up?

Come here, come here, come here, Come.

Here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here.

Listen, Listen, Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen.

Listen. Listen.

Listen, listen. Listen.

God. God is not like us.

He, he's not going to get bamboozled.

You're not going to tell God, just give me two minutes.

Just give me two minutes. No, no, no.

God like, no, no, I told you what to do and then here it is.

Here's the challenge. When God doesn't answer, you

answer for him. So now you're talking to

yourself in your head. He's like, oh, God told me that

no, you didn't know. You went crazy because he didn't

answer. Because here it is.

We can't, we cannot accept walking away without hearing

something. So instead of This is why God

tells us to obey immediately, because the gap between his word

and your obedience can lead you a whole lot of different ways.

And that's why even if you think he says something, how about the

boat? Oop, I'm drowning, get back in

the boat, he said come cool. Oh, I'm not meant to walk out

here. Help me Jesus, see you think

that you're punished if you step wrong.

Obedience is always stepping right.

If you are going to step trying to hear, the question is can you

correct yourself immediately? So as quick as I obey, I have to

be quick to correct myself. And that's why here y'all I'm

it's hard to hear God, let alone lead people.

So I don't mind changing stuff. I don't mind saying we ain't

going to Vancouver fault me for trying to find where God is.

But one thing I'm not afraid to do is say we're going to do

this. And then I hear or I find out

that was me. That was my emotions that was I

repent. I learned from it.

I am not shamed by trying to pursue God and some of you won't

even get close to hearing from God because you're too afraid to

take a step because you don't want to be.

You don't want to make a mistake.

What's going to happen if you make a mistake?

He's going to correct you out of his love.

See God corrects who he loves is not all about you're wrong.

It's all about no this way. Am I talking to somebody?

It's not all punishment. It's like go this way.

Nope to the left, Nope to the right.

That's correction. He course corrects who he loves,

who we're so afraid to leap. It says he gives his angels

charge over you, which means you got to jump.

As long as I'm jumping covered and really pursuing God and my

motives are not impure, all I ask you to do is check your

motives before you jump. Peter really wanted to know if

that was Jesus and the only way he can know if it was Jesus if

he. Stepped out the boat and because

he wanted to know Jesus, Jesus introduced himself as he was

sinking. Jesus said walk him high.

You think you think you can walk on water?

I'm one and. Get up and get back in the boat.

What did the Bible say? Immediately grabs his hand and

he says, oh, yeah. And he didn't say this in the

Bible, so I don't want you to. But I can only imagine.

Wow, you really want to see me? So let me get in the boat with

you. He didn't just like here, Peter.

Yeah. Dangerous out here.

Why he didn't go back on the water and just walk.

See. Don't come out here with these

sharks, boy, You know no, that brother picked him up.

Jesus picked him up. And see, when you you, you the

greatest thing you can give your family and your friends, when

you fall, Jesus grabs you. And then as much as they like,

see, I told you, but he should say, see, I found Jesus.

So now, because he was willing to take a risk, he brought Jesus

in the boat with his friends. Who are you?

Robbing because you're afraid to take a chance.

Can y'all give me the 845 last Wednesday of the year?

Can y'all do that? Hallelujah.

No, I ain't going to take my time.

I rebuke that in Jesus name because I can take my I can't

take my time, but I'm not going to take my time.

Uh huh, I'll be another churches preaching and I'm like, I want

to be invited back and somebody will yell out in the

congregation. Take your time pastor.

No, I'm not taking my time. You telling me one thing The

pastor told me another thing. Hey man, he says frenzied and

joyless grabs for happiness. Frenzied.

You're just looking for you're just looking for happiness

somewhere. Trinket Gods, magic show,

religion, paranoid loneliness. Oh since you just so I can

remind you, this is the fruit of you doing you OK.

Cutthroat competition all consuming yet never satisfied.

Wants a brutal temper, an impotence to love or beloved.

Divided homes and divided lives, Small minded and lopsided

pursuits small minded. Just me, Lord, bless me, bless

me, bless me, bless me, bless me God and.

OK, the vicious habits of depersonalizing everyone into a

rival, uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions, ugly

parodies of community. I could go on and on and on.

One translation says and the like.

This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know.

If you use. Your freedom.

This way you are free. You using your freedom to worry.

Oh, you got freedom, but you're using it for worry and you're

getting and you're mad. You're getting worry.

Fruit. All right, this isn't the first

time. If you use your freedom this

way, you will not inherit God's Kingdom.

What's God's Kingdom? What's inheriting God's kid?

This peace? He's about to tell you what he's

about to tell you. What's in the inheritance of the

Kingdom in the next one? But what happens when you are?

When we live God's way, you inherit the Kingdom.

What's inheriting the Kingdom? He brings gifts into our lives,

much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard.

Things like affection for others.

I don't want to be around people.

No, OK, that's not a fruit of the Spirit.

Hallelujah. Exuberance about life.

Serenity, peace we develop a willingness to stick with

things, and fruit of the Spirit which the work His presence

within accomplishes. It's His work.

The Holy Spirit is trying to bring this life.

To you, This is why we're tempted or encouraged to

rejoice. Rejoicing is a superpower.

Rejoicing is a superpower. Let them all be glad, those who

turn aside to hide themselves in you.

There it is. Again, all of you in him.

May those people who are hiding themselves in you keep shouting

for joy forever. And when they keep shouting for

joy forever, and when they hide themselves in you, God

overshadows them in your presence as they sing and

rejoice. And every lover of your name

will burst forth with endless. Joy.

These are the things that fight off.

Sickness and disease is a lifestyle.

It's hard to get it in the fight, so you got to work on it

when you're not. In the fight.

So that when you are too weak to fight, it fights for you.

What's that? 37, seven minutes.

Is that right? I'm math, right?

Yeah. I do not want promise without

presence. This has to be your priority Is

I do not want promise without presence.

I do not want promise without presence.

It sounds good, but I couldn't leave it.

Leave you with. It just sounds good.

I want it. I want you to see where.

This, this comes from Moses said to God, Look, you tell me lead

this people, but you don't let me know whom you're going to

send with me. You tell me I know you well,

Moses, and you are special to me.

If I am so special to you, let me in on your plans.

That way I will continue being special to you.

Don't forget, this is your people and your responsibility.

Moses getting a little sassy over here.

OK, See why Moses didn't go to the promised land.

Moses got a little sauce to him, caught up to him, his nervous

system getting him out of control.

But here's how God, I love God because God's more.

God will use you for his purpose, even if he ain't

pleased with you. I don't.

That's why people use me, Lord. Nope, Nope.

I don't want to be used if you ain't pleased.

You got a whole lot of ministers out there, so happy they being

used, but God is not. Pleased God said my presence

will go with you what if God told you that you weren't going

to have no entourage but what if he told you you ain't going you

you going to go without enough money you're.

Just going to. Start off with my presence.

How many times when you had insufficient funds you was like,

that can't be God, Yeah, God can't be telling me to go there.

I don't got no money. But what if he said, but you got

my presence so so you not tripping, I got this out the

Bible too. OK, see, I'm confident in saying

this because I see it in the Bible.

Jesus said don't take a purse with you.

Don't take nothing with you, there's people waiting there for

you. That's going to bless you and

whoever. Don't be nice to you.

Kick the dust of your shoes off. And and and and.

Do not leave a blessing with them.

Don't take a purse. Don't take nothing.

I'll provide say my presence will go with.

You I'll see the journey to the end.

Moses says this. If your presence does not go

with me, I don't want to go. That that's got to be 2025 and

let me help you. This will help you have peace

because there's a whole lot of places his presence won't go

with you. Now, let me tell you, carry his

presence. Hear me figuratively speaking,

there's some places that God is not interested in going that you

want to go. And then he says, how else will

we know that we're special apart from your presence?

He says, how else will people know?

Look, is it not in your going? With us so that that we are

distinguished all that God said I'm going with you and then

Moses says show me your glory and God said I'll show you my

goodness. Glory is not gold dust.

Glory is you should have been dead and you're here.

That's God's goodness. So when you see your neighbor

show up again, guess what? That is glory.

When you make it from point A to point B, guess what?

That is glory. When you go home and look at

your refrigerator, you might not have filet mignon or rib eye.

You might not have none of that. But guess what's in there?

That cheese is what? Glory.

So when you open your refrigerator tonight and you see

that last slice of cheese and two pieces of bread or the end

piece that somebody left, say Glory.

Somebody shout out Glory, I'll leave you with this.

Colossians 3. You got to catch this, Kay.

I can't believe I made it this far.

I don't got through like 50 slides.

Y'all, y'all should be. And let the.

Why don't? No, no, that is not.

I am there. I do not need you to clap for me

right now. Probably.

And let the peace, the soul harmony, which?

Comes from Christ's root. No, no, no.

Like a pad or something. Yeah, yeah.

It made me feel like I was in, in, in the Bay right there.

Or Nordstroms or something. Hey can you help me find the

Nespresso stand please? Hey there.

Sorry, sorry. OK, I only got only got 2

minutes. Come on and let and let the

peace, the soul harmony which comes from Christ rule.

Let God's peace rule. Let it act continually as an

umpire. In other words, peace does not

only protect, but it makes decisions.

Says let it rule in your heart, deciding and settling with

finality all questions that arise in your mind.

How many decisions have we made? Nervous and or or frantic.

How many times have we responded?

I look, I've I've gotten people send me text messages, long text

messages. Look, I'm talking about back in

the day like and and they saying something that got on me where

they misunderstood me and immediately.

I would send back a text message.

Long explain to myself and all of that all of that I typed was

emotional response. 9 times out of 10, my response from the from

an immediate response, my response led to more stress.

What this is saying is you probably do not respond until

you calm down and then you let peace come in your heart and

sift through your thinking. Once peace has sifted through

your How many times have you ever?

Said I'm away and then you never even responded.

Because peace, by the time you let peace take over you is like,

I don't even need to talk to them about that.

It is what it is, he said. In that peaceful state to which

as members of Christ one body, you were also called to live and

be thankful, appreciative, giving praise to God always.

And then the Amplifier classic says, let the words spoken by

Christ have its home in your hearts and minds and dwell in

you in all its richness. As you teach and admonish and

train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom, in

spiritual things, and as you sing and psalms and hymns and

spiritual songs, making melody to God with His grace in your

heart. And whatever you do, no matter

what it is in Word or deed, do everything in the name of the

Lord Jesus and in dependence of on His person, giving praise God

the Father through Him. Bible says that we have been

called to peace. I wonder what my calling is?

Peace. Use me Lord.

Well, I need you to have peace first.

See this word rule. This word rule literally means

it's. Two slides above or three or

whatever. Please, Lord Jesus, it's there.

No, no. No, it's a slide with a.

Statement on it not a scripture. Hallelujah is that.

Now go go to the first one that says rule.

Thank you. It is to.

Act as an umpire pitching, then you get a batter.

That was out to strike. Umpire get the last say and when

you try to argue with the umpire.

And every time you argue with peace, peace is like, you're not

going to disturb me. So you fighting against

yourself, It's like I can't care about that.

I can't worry about that. You don't want me, somebody else

want me? Go through the rule.

Go through the rule. Next, know when there's peace

about it, even in the midst of having nervousness about it.

Because what some of you may hear walking away is anytime I

feel anxious, it must not be God.

Here. Here's the power of this piece

is you can have peace about it and be nervous about it.

Go, go, go, go, go, go. Here it is.

The peace comes from the word, not from.

Facts. The peace.

Comes from the word and the multitude of counsel, not the

facts. Here, here you go, watch this,

watch this. I am standing on a word, not a

nerve. So I don't make a decision to go

forward because I am nerveless. The most powerful thing is when

it doesn't look like you should go forward.

You know, I mean the decisions I've had to make to make to get

to this point and nothing look, or I've had some, some, some,

some hesitations, but I had to be able to identify what's my

fears, what's my bondage? What's my hesitations?

Am I afraid to make a mistake? Because last time I made a

decision, I failed. So now I'm hesitant because last

time I moved too quick. But last season quick could have

got you in trouble this season. God needs you to move quick.

You see why you need the presence of God?

And This is why I'm not. Afraid to dance with God.

I'm not afraid. I don't know God.

I'm in this human body. I have fears.

I have hesitations. I have experience.

I don't. Are you over here?

OK. Nope.

I'm OK. OK.

OK. You over here?

Nah. Nah.

Nah. Nah, Nah.

You right, And then I'm like, oh, you.

Idiot. No, I learned from over here.

I learned why not over here. Sometime not over here because

that was the devil. Sometime not over here because

it was timing and we're so paralyzed.

So often times we only do what's safe and we only pass on money.

We only pass on property. So I'll just say in this year

committed, I am going to care less moving forward.

I am going to worry less moving forward.

Guarantee you tonight you're going to have some opportunities

to choose peace. Promise you some of y'all live

in places. You you're going to go eat

somewhere. You're going to choose peace.

Somebody say choose peace. So when I was like saying this

peace revival, I was. Thinking about it and I'm like,

I know some people, we say peace, revival.

We going to move out. The chairs and we going to get

the oil. Look, let me tell you something,

chairs going to stay there. We ain't pulling no oil out.

Oh. I have peace about it.

We don't need all that because. Here's the thing.

I'm not trying to get a demon out.

I'm trying to. I'm trying to, I'm trying to

activate something that's in you.

What's in you needs to stay so we don't need to wrestle in a

little. We don't need to do none of that

that that's not we're trying to have peace.

The enemy would love for us to get all riled up and throw

blankets and no, that's not peaceful.

Like when we doing deliverance. That ain't so.

You going to sit right there this House?

Are you going to sit right in your chair and you going to take

this word and you going to write down and meditate and you're

about to write 3? I don't even know what you call

it like. 3 declarations over yourself.

I was on the treadmill today and I just felt the Lord said in my

spirit that one of the a couple of the words this year was

wisdom and discipline. He said, yeah, you need to keep

working on that. So we going that's going to be

2025 too. But he told me to add on

worship. Very interesting.

So right now it's worship and wisdom and discipline.

I felt the Lord was calling his son to to, to this year, focus

on living in a lifestyle of worship beyond just singing

songs. Now the next step of that is I'm

going to have to detect what interrupts my worship because my

worship is I can worship in all three parts of me.

I can worship with my body. I can worship with my thought

life. I can worship in my spirit.

So then if God says, hey, start here, worship all right now I

need to what, what, what what gets in the way of my worship?

What steals my mental worship? What poisons my thought life?

I need you to write down 3. There's just like 3 declarations

or words for rather the end of the year going into next year

that this word has ministered to you.

Like I would write down something like I will not worry

about what I cannot control. Something like that.

You know you. I am.

I am. Putting an end to overthinking.

But but what? I want you to make sure you

write it down, and when you write it down, you're committed

to walk it out, not asking you to just write down thoughts.

What is the Holy Spirit putting in your spirit?

Even right now, the Prince of Peace is in this room and he

dares you choose a life of peace, dares you to worry less.

Places like Italy, you see, I saw more old people walking

around, you know, whatever. I looked at Julia one time.

We was in Pastor Julie one time, was in Italy and I said I

haven't seen that many wheelchairs.

But I saw a whole lot of old people walking these hills, and

when you go to a restaurant, they're not rushing.

They call them the, I think the Blue Zones or something like

that. What why people live so long in

certain places? It's exercise, it's community

and they're not stressed. And for some people they, they,

they far as being physically they in, in like Asia or

whatever. In certain places they, they

have no couches. So they always have to get up

from the ground versus when we sit up here, we never use our

core. We never we're up here.

So we just sit up. They garden a lot and you see

them in a garden like this all day.

What do they have to do so their bodies stay extended?

We do a lot of sitting a. Lot of this.

And a lot of this, one of the biggest things is community and

they're not in a rush. And for the Richmond household,

we going to take some authority over some things.

We can help, but our health, our time, I don't want to be in a

rush anymore. It's crazy.

We want the Prince of Peace, but then we try to do 15 services on

Sunday. We get people in and then we get

them out and then we get them in and we get them out.

And you did all of that, but. Hey, can you please hurry up to

your car? Write it down.

I want you to be committed to it.

This is going to be a House of miracles.

It has to be a House of peace. I forget where it's at in the

Bible, but church was so long one day man fell out the window.

But man, they was in church past four hours like it was something

crazy. But what?

What? What am I trying to put?

Man? We rushed the word.

We made sermons fit yours, yours, your, your, your right,

their studies. It's like, oh, people.

Attention span. Yeah.

And attention span is a span. It can be spanned.

Out. Enlarge your tent pegs and man

in Jesus name so where eternal beings or our capacities can be

stretched some good, good length.

So right where you are. Check your posture.

Sit straight up. Empty your laps.

Put your hands on your lap. Put your phone down for a

minute. Elder John, come up here.

Have you pray in the peace. Now if we pray in the peace, you

got to use your peaceful voice, Kate.

No, I'll just play it. I'll just play it.

Just wait. You you pray, however you lay

the lids, Sir, and I want you to just check your I want you to be

aware of your posture right now. And once you sit with your your

palms up on your lap, don't if you have anything crossed,

uncross it. I want you to even be aware If

you feel unsafe, you're like, ah, no, I want to cross.

You feel nervous any of that that's coming up.

I don't want to close my eyes any of that that's coming up.

For those that are afraid of the dark, for those that are afraid

of being alone, those that are afraid of dying.

You can close your eyes right now.

Now I'm going to keep my eyes open.

OK, so. And I'm looking behind you.

I got your back, I promise. I got you.

Those that are afraid of failing, those that are afraid

of. As I'm talking, I want you to

not be dishonest with yourself. And I'm not saying take

ownership, take responsibility. But when it comes up, if we name

something, I want you to see yourself walking away from it

and leaving it. I want you to see yourself

victorious walking away from places that are not promoting

God's peace, let alone having God's peace.

Some places just don't have the revelation.

Some places just don't want it. And if within yourself you feel

or you see that anxious you, that angry you, that's OK.

That's the Holy Spirit showing you a picture.

But I want you to see yourself walking away.

I want you to see yourself unidentifying yourself with that

person. I want you to see yourself calm.

I want you to see yourself not getting easily offended and

riled up. I want you to see yourself not

nosy again. I want you to see yourself not

needing to know every answer. I want you to see yourself as a

little kid right now, skipping around, joyful singing,

careless. Let's feel Lord in this moment

saying for some of you, he is going to restore your childhood

through joy and through peace. I mean, you grew up in in

anxious homes. Some of you have anxious

parents. Well.

To you to be strong, and I want to free you right now.

You do not have to take on other people's worry, he said.

You can help each other with their burdens, purpose, call,

but do not be mad at me because I'm not as stressed out or angry

about what you meant stressed out about.

Do not be guilted into worry. See yourself free to see

yourself strong. This peace does not mean avoid

work doing hard things, but I'm going to do hard things with

peace. I'm going to do hard things.

Understanding it just makes takes may take some time.

I'm going to do hard things knowing that I need help and I'm

not going to try to do it all by myself.

Take 60 seconds, Elder John. Then you pray.

I'll let you know. Just let them out for 60

seconds. I'll be quiet.

Father, we thank you for your peace.

Everything began with peace, You said.

Everything was finished and it was good, very good.

That mean nothing was missing, nothing was broken and all was

well. And you end our age here with

your peace. Everything fully restored, new

heavens and new earth, nothing missing, nothing broken, but it

all being well. We thank you God, the one who

began it in peace is continuing the thread of our lives in

peace. Father, we thank You that you

tell us we don't have to get peace, we just have to yield and

let peace come forward. Let this peace that's in you let

this peace come forward. So we thank you, Lord, that we

are operating and receiving a grace to yield, just to yield,

just to pause, just to say LA, just to breathe, pause and think

on that the fact that you have it all done and all together in

your hands. We thank you, Father, that

walking in peace and living in peace is not a difficult thing

because You have perfected the peace that we live in.

You've made it ready and able to accomplish and be adaptable to

everything in our lives. All we have to do is yield to

let it come forward and really be determined to fight to rest

in that yielding. So, Father, we thank you for

your word that's been declared tonight.

We thank you that it's at work in our lives.

We believe it, we received it, and we let the peace of it

manifest and multiply and grow in our lives.

And we thank you, Lord, that this peace.

Is not only doing a work in us, but doing work through us and

upon us. And Father, it's our desire that

we would have testimonies of the peace of God and testimonies of

the truth of this word being done in our lives.

Testimonies from our lips and testimonies from other people

saying there's something about this atmosphere.

This on you is different. They would give testimonies to

the peace of God that's manifest in our lives and we thank you,

Lord, that as we you have these testimonies of peace, We will be

generous with sharing with people the source of peace, the

person whose peace our relationship with that person

Jesus and and what it means to be in his presence.

We thank you Lord God that we're being coming such a people of

peace that people going to bring us into spaces of agitation

because they know the peace that we bring.

They just want us to be around. We thank you for that Father, in

Jesus name. And it is fitting, as our last

Wednesday of the year, we're heading into a celebration all

about peace coming to the world. My prayer to you is that as you

get out here and you shop and you drive in all the anxiousness

around you. That you be a light and.

When you have dinner with family and breakfast and and as you

have anxious people having anxious conversations, that you

be a source of stillness. And where the difference between

you this last year and this year at dinner is that you will not

be easily pulled into anxious conversations and they're going

to say what's wrong with you. He.

Will say nothing I'm. Good.

And I just want you to sit at that table and watch the storm.

And I want you as you watch the storm, I want you to feel inside

how anxious you are that people are going to think something's

wrong with you. But I want you to pay attention

to the peace in your boat versus the peace in their boat.

Before you cross over this year, God's going to show you.

He's going to reveal to you His peace.

You're going to be in rooms with people and you're going to hear

their pieces coming from. They just landed a deal.

Their piece is going to come from I just got married.

And you're going to hear people gossiping in the table and in

the house. And you're going to hear.

And you're going to sit there this year not pulled in, but

contempt being OK with. Yeah, you could think

something's wrong with me. It is.

I've changed. I'm going into the new year with

a piece I've never harnessed. I know I am.

I feel it. Stand to your feet.

Thank you for all you faithful wonder Wednesday soldiers.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Next year, and you'll hear a

little bit about it, New Year's Eve next year, Wonder Wednesday

will not be called Wonder Wednesday because we're going

to, we're going to next year's going to be a big year for

discipleship in our church. And so we're going to have

Wednesday, but the format of things, there'll still be a

word, there'll still be a little bit of worship, but there's

going to be some other stuff structurally that we do because

we want to focus on discipleship next year.

And so as we're preaching the word, we also want to have a

time of breaking out and having groups and discussing and like,

we really want to be intentional about making disciples next year

and equipping the church as a large.

And so, yeah, thank you. I love Wednesdays.

It's better with you now. If you want to know what's going

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And what you should know is that this Saturday, we kick off our

production. Any update on ticket sales?

437 people now that was that was last week.

It was 200 something. So it's moving and it is going

to grow. Last year we only had two, two

production nights and the second one was tiny, under 500.

We're going to have four this time over 2 weekends and so be

praying. For us as.

We are trying to prepare to do a Broadway show.

In the alley. From.

From the alleyway to Broadway. Amen.

Hallelujah. Have a good evening guys.

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