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Garrison (Wonder Wednesday) - 11.20.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

  5. you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

  6. your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it.

  9. From generation to generation, your bloodline will run full of

  10. builders and battlers. In the name of Jesus, I declare

  11. the fight has not been in vain, the struggle has not been in

  12. vain. The pain has not been in vain.

  13. The confusion has not been in vain.

  14. The. Suffering has not been in vain.

  15. The lack, the loss has not been in vain, but I hear the Lord

  16. saying he is done and He is sick and tired of building things

  17. that are temporary and that can easily be torn down.

  18. But it has been in your struggle, it has been in your

  19. waiting, it has been in your suffering for your bloodline,

  20. that what God is building today, it will never be torn down.

  21. It will never be shattered poverty.

  22. Will never find a place in your household in the name of Jesus.

  23. Come on, you got to receive that.

  24. You got to receive that that your suffering is for

  25. generations. Your suffering, your waiting is

  26. for generations to come. You've been going through what

  27. you've been going through for generations to generations to

  28. generations. So Lord, since the next 5 to 10

  29. generations in my blood, time is being radically changed for the

  30. good. I say thank you for the

  31. suffering, I say thank you for the waiting.

  32. Come on. I say thank you for the

  33. hardships. I say thank you for the

  34. long-suffering. We want to say thank you if it

  35. means 10 generations from now can enjoy debt free, can enjoy a

  36. temple that cannot be wrecked or torn down.

  37. If it means that 10 generations from now that the congregation

  38. and family and community of love quests can enjoy unhindered

  39. fellowship, Lord, if it means we have to toil so they can enter

  40. in immediately, we say thank you.

  41. Thank you for the pressing. Thank you for the garage.

  42. Thank you for the tent. Thank you for the flooding.

  43. Thank you for the overflow. In Jesus name.

  44. Look to your neighbors, Say your suffering is not in vain.

  45. Get with it. Come on, look at somebody else.

  46. Say your suffering is not in vain.

  47. Get with it. You can be seated.

  48. Come on, somebody shout out, it's not in vain.

  49. Come on, one more time, somebody shout out.

  50. It's not in vain. Let's take this for a lesson.

  51. When we look in Hebrews 11, it says that they waved at the

  52. promise, they saw it far off. Somebody waved one time, right?

  53. And then it. Says Jesus in Hebrews 12 it said

  54. Jesus he despised the shame because he looked far off and he

  55. saw in 2020. Four sons and daughters will be

  56. coming home, he saw in 1935. Some of y'all whenever y'all got

  57. saved. Now I need you to see this.

  58. I need you to see this. Some of your vision is way

  59. through now, so you can't have joy because you can't see stuff

  60. far off. But if you can see what you're

  61. going through now, what it's going to pay off.

  62. See what Jesus went through 2000 plus years ago.

  63. He saw 2000 years in the future, so through seeing you got to get

  64. this through seeing 2000 years in the future, he was able to

  65. find joy all. Right, all right.

  66. Are y'all going to be deep today or y'all going to be with me?

  67. OK, 2000 years he found joy Moses, these all these Hall of

  68. Hall of faithers. So even before Jesus, OK Elijah

  69. wasn't speaking to the bones for his day.

  70. How do I know that? Because all of their ministry in

  71. the Old Testament was about shadows and types pointing to

  72. the future. So their ministry was used to

  73. speak to a Messiah in the future.

  74. So they but they found joy in spotting a blessing 2000 plus

  75. years later. What?

  76. What if you just took your mind off of being blessed now and

  77. just really tried to comprehend what your work today, your

  78. suffering today is going to? There is no labor in God done in

  79. vain. So what if you got like like

  80. like like instead of being near sighted you, you became

  81. farsighted and begin to broaden your scope of sight and saw.

  82. What you are doing today is going to produce 10s and

  83. hundreds of years from now. See, we can find joy if we got

  84. our minds out of today. This is where the the devil is

  85. defeated because our work pays off.

  86. And this is what he understands. He understands.

  87. I was we, we were somewhere and I was like, this world is just

  88. made-up of families, great ones and not so great ones.

  89. And the devil understands his work.

  90. And this is what you got to understand.

  91. I'm going to say this to every person in here.

  92. The attack on your life is really not about you, so you

  93. should never take an attack personal.

  94. The moment you make your the attack about you, you can't see

  95. what going through it is worth because coming out of your

  96. attack is far beyond you coming out of it.

  97. Coming out of your suffering is far beyond you coming out of it.

  98. It's really you're overcoming for he says Peter Devil's trying

  99. to sift y'all like wheat hear it.

  100. But I'm praying for you, Deborah, the enemies after your

  101. family. But my grace is coming on you to

  102. make it out. OK, see on.

  103. I heard your voice. The the the the devil.

  104. I have given the devil permission to attack the

  105. Molatus. But where I'm pointing my favor

  106. is to you. OK.

  107. And that's why you don't understand.

  108. You got to go instead of trying to drag the whole family.

  109. The grace is on you to go, hey Moses, go tell Pharaoh let my

  110. people go. He didn't say all my people go

  111. tell Pharaoh to let you go. He said, Moses, the anointing's

  112. on you to get my people free. Your entire now family and

  113. future family is dependent on you to obey God.

  114. He says, Peter, I'm going to let the enemy through to mess with

  115. all of y'all, but I'm praying for you specifically that what

  116. your faith does not what fail. And he says this after you've

  117. gone through it and I've let the enemy run you through.

  118. I've let the enemy get you on your last nerve and you come out

  119. on the other side of it. Now I want you to go get your

  120. homies and help them out. See you trying to take everybody

  121. with you. You, you trying to change all

  122. your kids, you trying to change your spouse, and the Lord says

  123. the only reason you see the way it's going ain't right because I

  124. gave you. Eyes to see.

  125. What are you doing with your sight?

  126. You trying to give your eyeballs to them?

  127. And what your your sight is spiritual.

  128. Your sight is something I gave you, not something you gave you,

  129. right? It's so rather male or female.

  130. See here. Here's.

  131. Can I, can I help some folks? We're going to take turns on the

  132. heater, please. OK.

  133. I'm gonna help some. Females and males out tonight in

  134. the world. Man is man, right?

  135. Meaning the man carries the load.

  136. In the Bible, the man does have a responsibility to be the

  137. priest of the home. We're ready.

  138. Some of you ladies, you waiting on your husband to lead you to

  139. where God's called you. That's not his job.

  140. No, because because here's a great question for marriages

  141. from all the way from cooking to taking care of the kids to

  142. cleaning up to walking out purpose.

  143. What would you do if they wasn't there?

  144. Is your purpose gone? If your husband gone, you had a

  145. purpose. You was going supposed to clean

  146. up your house without a without a husband.

  147. You supposed to cook tonight. You just got to cook for an

  148. extra person. But what happens?

  149. A lot of time we get we find our covenant partners and we put our

  150. God-given responsibilities on them, right.

  151. So if you were the lazy spouse, guess what?

  152. Now you lazy and guess why you lazy?

  153. Because they lazy. Really.

  154. Is it a battle? Absolutely, but what we have to

  155. stop doing is giving away our responsibilities that God gave

  156. us when we before I formed you in your mama's womb, I knew you.

  157. You notice that scripture didn't say I knew you and him or you

  158. and her before he, for he didn't form y'all in the womb together.

  159. Right. And quite frankly, you know, you

  160. chose that person. You told them that God didn't

  161. you, that person. OK, I'm trying to tell you I'm

  162. trying. I was thinking about this the

  163. other day. What God put together, let no

  164. man put asunder You trying to declare that he like I didn't

  165. put y'all together. So that's why I so suck up.

  166. Hey, man, it's an attack on families, OK?

  167. That's not what I came here to talk about tonight, but I did

  168. come to tell you that your bloodline is dependent on you to

  169. be obedient and do not put your obedience in somebody else's

  170. hands. Can I?

  171. I'll say that I'll say that there's there's a there's a

  172. necessary weight love quest had to have building waiting on this

  173. building actually protected us. I'll talk to you waiting on this

  174. building absolutely protected the anointing on this house.

  175. There is a there is, I want to say density.

  176. There's a there is a richness of anointing that would have never

  177. come or been established in this house without the waiting and

  178. the waiting has protected the oil.

  179. I really mean that God is building some things that can

  180. never be torn down again till Jesus return.

  181. You're a part of that kind of work.

  182. All right, here's what I love because the Savior came in as

  183. the savior was came in and was in a Manger and came in ghetto.

  184. He came he came in ghetto, he came in hood.

  185. I love it. Can I just talk like that for me

  186. because I can relate to the Manger that way, right?

  187. I can relate to his Mama have his mom and daddy having to run

  188. and hide it. And then how he starts his life

  189. is ghetto. And then how he ends his life is

  190. ghetto. Bible says they couldn't even

  191. tell who he was. That's how beat up he was.

  192. So then I I, I began to understand man.

  193. Then they understood who he was. But in the in the to guard the

  194. Christ, the anointed 1, he had to come in unconventional.

  195. I I often find when God's doing something that is going to be

  196. very crucial to and very annoying.

  197. It very prophetic, very Apostolic, very that that

  198. carries some punch. It comes in unconventional

  199. swaddling clothes. It comes in covered.

  200. It could like so. So for me, this is equivalent to

  201. a Manger for me to didn't end in that fashion like we've been in

  202. the garage. These folks do not want to come

  203. here just because of the area we're in #1 you let them know we

  204. don't want all but once. 105 We had Wally right next to the

  205. police station over there by. Yeah, all right.

  206. Man, I'm gonna. Come one day, and when they

  207. come, there's all kinds of elements that will deter them.

  208. Service good, but cold, rainy, uninviting in that way.

  209. When I was in Denver, one of the biggest things they're blessed

  210. by is that when they did come here and I walked them through

  211. the building, they didn't hear me.

  212. Not one moment could they tell we were in a garage #1 the

  213. anointing and #2 how they heard the vision casted like we're

  214. standing. It's one thing to sit on the

  215. couch or like, like be on a fan in a fancy hotel or coffee shop

  216. and tell people about your church.

  217. It's another thing to be standing bright in the mess and

  218. birds flying and you like, man, that's where the that's where

  219. the stage going to be and it's it's anointed right now.

  220. You feel the Lord is here in this place.

  221. When you write the vision down, make it plain people, God, sin

  222. can run with it. So I'm, I'm saying you got to be

  223. proud of what what you're a part of.

  224. No one can take this journey away from you.

  225. I think the thing that makes me the most proud is to see people

  226. for the first time actually see God move, like actually build

  227. something. This generation doesn't build

  228. things, let alone see God do something.

  229. When you give a loony a Tony A5. If we get to see these

  230. increments come in, there's chunks, but then there's just

  231. been consistent, just a lot of mites and and there's a reason

  232. why this church in Denver is going to be the first church to

  233. give in to this project. I want you to be proud of where

  234. we are is one I would say 99% on.

  235. This house is giving like that don't come out of a garage.

  236. So what this is telling me is. God is, God is.

  237. He's requiring requiring of us to sow.

  238. But it's in such a way that this church is going to reap such a

  239. harvest and it's own ever since we planted this church.

  240. The giving has increased year after year after year after

  241. year. And we need to spend it year

  242. after year after year after year.

  243. But we are here because from the beginning, we've always been a

  244. sewing church. So you got to, you got to look

  245. at we haven't just been sewing in, in, in, in, in remnant.

  246. We have been sewing into this city that we're taking.

  247. We have been sowing into people's lives.

  248. We've been sowing tears. We've been sowing songs.

  249. We've been sowing our time. We've been sowing our talent,

  250. our treasures. We've just been sowing and

  251. sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing.

  252. And I'm not a fool to think that next door is the harvest.

  253. See, that's not ungrateful. That's not that.

  254. That's not crazy. No, this is, you know, you know

  255. how they have model homes like there's there's in, in a lot of

  256. time with model holes. They do what, tear them down or

  257. use them for another purpose, right?

  258. That office on the corner right there, I don't know what they're

  259. going to do with it, but that's where they sold all those

  260. condos. But that condo, that thing right

  261. there, I don't know if they're going to tear it down, but they

  262. also have a fourth tower to put up.

  263. I don't know where that's going to go, but on the map, that's

  264. where it goes. But there is so much.

  265. There's so much finances that comes through that they can

  266. afford. You ever known a friend to buy a

  267. house and a property and tear it down?

  268. There is so much. Hey, you got to understand this

  269. is not about this. Now we're going to.

  270. Reap, we're going to. There's some things going to

  271. happen on this corner. But I promise you, before it's

  272. all over, you were going to see that this building right here

  273. was all about you. It was all about what this

  274. project presented you, an opportunity to deal with God's

  275. house. You know what's going to happen

  276. once we get in there? By nature, this church is giving

  277. muscle is going to be absolutely ridiculous.

  278. Now you're going to have giving muscle memory.

  279. Because you got to understand he used the building to get our

  280. giving to a certain level. Once we're there, should we

  281. stop? No, but he broke something.

  282. There's a lot of stuff that's happening inside of you by being

  283. in this this garage. For some of you, Remnant drove

  284. you crazy in the beginning. And now you just so passionate

  285. about Remnant. I'm proud of this church, and

  286. you should be super proud of your church.

  287. There's going to be an unusual anointing on this house.

  288. And when I say this house, I mean this house, Right,

  289. Garrison? Ah, no time.

  290. Virgo before Garrison, We give you this really quickly.

  291. The mouth of the believer is a portal for peace or poison.

  292. And you just, you know, just wrote this down.

  293. I got to give it to you. The mouth of the believer is a

  294. portal for peace or poison. You do not get the option to

  295. just be a thinking time bomb. Some of you think you are going

  296. to get through it by thinking and you're trying to overcome

  297. thinking instead of behavior. OK, You don't get to the option

  298. to just be a thinking time bomb. You ready?

  299. You have to speak. Here it is.

  300. People are like, some of you think you've matured because now

  301. you hold your tongue, but the goal is not holding your tongue.

  302. The goal is changing your language.

  303. Can I help this side? Can I help this side?

  304. The goal? You can only bite your tongue

  305. for so long. Yabba dabba Doo, right?

  306. But if you change. Your language, you would have

  307. never had the outbursts. You've made your goal, shutting

  308. up about it instead of speaking life into it.

  309. To speak with sharpness or clarity, you must have a made-up

  310. mind, not merely a biblically articulate tongue.

  311. So you just 'cause you can quote a scripture does not mean you

  312. are clear about the power of the Scripture.

  313. And the power is in your faith in the Scripture, not your

  314. ability to repeat or articulate what the words say.

  315. Break it down, Lord Jericho came down by 5 weapons #1 the number

  316. one weapon was a word from God. All God's words are specific,

  317. say specific, but they may require some digging.

  318. Follow me. But when God is ready to reveal

  319. his victory, which is His salvation, there is no digging.

  320. It's just simply obedience. There's mysteries, but some of

  321. you have made practical instructions from God.

  322. A mystery. Let me pray into that again.

  323. I haven't heard from the Lord. He's not going to repeat

  324. himself. It was super practical.

  325. Go. If he wanted to give you more

  326. details, he would have. So clearly more details is on

  327. the other side of what go #2 The Walls of Jericho came down

  328. through obedient, fearless leadership.

  329. Unfortunately, this generation has to understand God calls

  330. leaders. And sometimes and a lot of times

  331. there's a spearhead, there's a front man or woman, and they

  332. have the responsibility to equip and mobilize and activate

  333. people. But this, this desire for

  334. duality or this desire to make believers feel safe.

  335. So let's create a army of leaders.

  336. Let's a triple headed snake. So if there's one leader or 1

  337. lead pastor, somethings wrong with that.

  338. But these walls came down because the vision and the word

  339. had to get to a person and it was they the the person who was

  340. going to articulate. We see what happened once the

  341. vision got to a second person with Adam and Eve.

  342. So sometimes in our hearing different it.

  343. Slows down obedience. So Jericho Walls came down

  344. because there was fearless leadership.

  345. God had a contact person #3 here it is.

  346. Number 1 was a word from God. Number two, it was obedient,

  347. fearless leadership, and number three, it was what?

  348. Unity. It was unity of movement, and it

  349. was unity of language. They all had to shout.

  350. Right. It was everybody saying, yeah,

  351. not Boo. And 10 people was doing this, 10

  352. people. Now I'm sure out of those

  353. thousands of people, somebody few people had attitude.

  354. I'm like, why are we walking off?

  355. Men watch if these walls don't come down #5 no #4 sorry, they

  356. had a corporate faith. But I want to speak this.

  357. It was a gift of faith. Because what happened, if you

  358. understand the gift of faith, it is beyond your personal or

  359. physical ability. This is something that God has

  360. to do, but He uses you as an instrument of activation.

  361. Right, shout now. A shout, naturally, is not going

  362. to tear a wall down. David, pull the sling back and

  363. let it go. I'll knock the giant down.

  364. Corporate gift of faith is going to come up on Love Quest.

  365. It's not just going to be a couple people believing for

  366. radical stuff. Here's the power of here.

  367. Here's the necessity of a corporate gift of faith is we

  368. have to actually be moving in unity.

  369. That's right. OK.

  370. You short circuit the power when you're in line in the corporate

  371. and you want to do it your own way, OK.

  372. Number #5 timing and number six, fullness of time.

  373. What's the difference? Timing was Kronos.

  374. It was you need to go do this today, right now, six o'clock

  375. 5:00 chronos, time, timing. They had to do it then, but

  376. fullness of time, this was Kairos.

  377. This was a moment in time and in history that God had ordained

  378. that if they didn't do the chronos.

  379. When Chronos was supposed to take place then it would have

  380. threw off the Kairos. But this is what I do understand

  381. about Kairos. No one can stop it.

  382. Ready or not, Holy Ghost, about the fall and the day of

  383. Pentecost here. I don't care who angry.

  384. I don't care who got attitude. I don't care who didn't show up

  385. to Jerusalem. I don't care who didn't give.

  386. I don't care if it's raining sunny.

  387. It doesn't matter. The elements doesn't matter.

  388. This is Heaven's timing. And you can't do nothing about

  389. it. Remember this was this was

  390. December 31st, 20 through 23. We talked about you can't do

  391. nothing about it. So in Chronos we got to do our

  392. job, build this building. But when God says time,

  393. everything we need is going to flood.

  394. No one can stop what God has planned.

  395. You got that? That was just some little little

  396. appetizers for you Babble. Here it is.

  397. It's not power is memory. This is all around.

  398. Here's the point I'm gonna get to is some of you destroy your

  399. peace by how you speak. OK, some of you want peace so

  400. bad, but you want to talk the same Babble.

  401. Language brought unity and chaos.

  402. Here it is when they were speaking the same language, they

  403. got a God's attention and he said, uh, uh, So what did he do?

  404. Confound their language and they couldn't understand each other.

  405. Just like when you got the word and you got the Lord, you got

  406. the Holy Ghost and you got truth in you, but what you speak and

  407. don't align. So you are creating chaos within

  408. your faith system because what's coming out of your mouth is not

  409. aligning. This is how you got saved.

  410. If you believe in your heart and confess with your out of the

  411. blend into the heart, the wait see there has to be

  412. corresponding. You can't just get fat on the

  413. word. But what you speak is totally

  414. contradicting what's in you. So now you frustrated with God

  415. and your your speech has to be faithful.

  416. Your speech has to be consistent.

  417. You can't be desperate in your speech, so you say what needs to

  418. be said because you're desperate for it.

  419. Now you are manipulating the heavens, and that's impossible.

  420. Therefore, you're manipulating yourself, and when you

  421. manipulate yourself, the. Fruit of it is confusion, and

  422. where there's confusion, there's no peace, and where there's no

  423. peace, there's no authority. We, we, we can't be like the

  424. world in how we talk. We can't let conversations go on

  425. around us when they eat at our peace.

  426. You gotta especially listen in your home because the weights

  427. and the volume of the conversations in your home have

  428. more impact on you. Why?

  429. Because you're 1. So when Mama say something, even

  430. if you act like it don't bother you, it still interrupts

  431. something inside of you. We're not talking in the world.

  432. What's conversation like in your crib?

  433. Won't say. I got to guard my peace better.

  434. And it's the last thing. If you're going to live in

  435. Kairos, you have to let anxiety go about Chronos.

  436. You have to be willing to live a life where you take your hands

  437. off the will and say God, do your thing.

  438. Garrison the protector of my soul.

  439. Last Wednesday, if you were here, you you remember some of

  440. this and if you weren't, you're going to get some of this.

  441. And but Garrison, we're going to see tonight is peace.

  442. The peace of God is meant to protect you.

  443. The World Peace brings you a feeling of calm.

  444. God's peace allows you to move through chaos with control of

  445. your spirit and poise. You ready.

  446. God's peace can have you planted in the middle of chaos and your

  447. mind still be sound. God's peace can have you in the

  448. middle of chaos and you're still able to make sound decisions.

  449. God's peace can have you in the middle of a storm that

  450. contradicts God's promise, and you still can hold on to His

  451. word. Understand God's peace has

  452. nothing to do with what's going on around you.

  453. So while you're praying for things to stop, God is saying

  454. no, I'm actually allowing you to be in the storm so you can

  455. practice peace. Oh man.

  456. Hey, go across. You gonna go across?

  457. OK? You don't think Jesus knew a

  458. storm was coming? Go across.

  459. He was sleep. He was sleep.

  460. Here it is. And on one end we could say he

  461. was mad that they woke him up because he was sleeping good.

  462. Or on the other end he understood that they did not do

  463. this very important thing. Keep their eyes on him.

  464. Their emotions dictated their response When he was out there

  465. in Italy and we was on that, on that, you know, was with this.

  466. There's so much revelation with the skipper now.

  467. Day before, I was trying to tell my wife, hey, I want to rent a

  468. boat and I'll drive. She's like, Nah, I was like,

  469. babe, we drove a boat before. Like it's just a little boat.

  470. We just don't go around and we're going to go around and

  471. we're just going no. And she, she didn't want, she's

  472. like, no, no, I'm like, OK, whatever, whatever.

  473. And so then we got a skipper. Man the power of a skipper.

  474. That understands the ocean, they understands the island, that

  475. understands the winds in the way he was like, I was like, Sir,

  476. can we like why? Why don't you guys drive?

  477. Closer to the shore. Right.

  478. Like why? Why we so far like, because at

  479. first he was like, is it we're going to go this way around the

  480. island because the wind is blowing on the other side?

  481. But it looked like when we went around this way, the wind was

  482. blowing on this side. I was like, OK, I was like, Sir,

  483. it's pretty choppy out here. And I said, why you?

  484. See, because in my mind, if we're closer to shore, if

  485. something happens for me, I'm a little closer and being closer

  486. feels safer. But he says.

  487. The reason we stay out this far is because if something goes

  488. wrong, we have time to to to adjust.

  489. But if you're closer to the mountains, you don't have the

  490. time or the space to adjust that way.

  491. I'm getting peace. I think I'm going to get peace

  492. due to proximity. God says I need to find peace.

  493. Further out. Because actually further out is

  494. safer. Some light.

  495. So we go around. And it's choppy.

  496. And so to get to, to, to, to, to, to grab a hold of what I'm

  497. feeling based on what I'm seeing, I trusted the skipper.

  498. My wife was on the front, on the on the butt, on the bow.

  499. Is it the bow, the front of the thing now?

  500. I'm like this just like the movies.

  501. I'm sorry. This just like the movies.

  502. He got a brother, a little brother right here.

  503. He out on the front and just bye.

  504. And then she just bye. And I'm like, now I'm back here

  505. and I'm sitting on the stairs. I'm sitting on the stairs now.

  506. I'm still enjoying myself where I'm at.

  507. OK. I don't need to be on the nose

  508. of the boat. For what?

  509. And I'm sitting here, I'm like, man, if this boat knock her in

  510. the water, would I really jump in?

  511. I'm like, Lord, you're going to have to keep her on this boat,

  512. he says. And I'm sitting here, I'm

  513. talking to the skipper. I'm just sitting here and I'm,

  514. I'm more so I'm taking my eyes off of the choppy.

  515. The, the, the cause of the boat is it's like we, we went through

  516. a choppy patch. And in that I'm not focused on

  517. the waves and the winds. I'm just folk.

  518. I'm looking at the map, I'm talking to him.

  519. I'm doing everything but looking at my conditions, right, because

  520. I know me. He's not a bad thing.

  521. I know me. So in order to to be ready enjoy

  522. the ride, but also ready not mess up her faith because of yo

  523. fear she's enjoying being in a place I'm not ready to go.

  524. But so many of you try to pull people back from where they're

  525. ready to go because you're not ready to go there.

  526. So I'm going to demonize her faith when at the end of the

  527. day, God is honoring both, both places we're at.

  528. That was a fun ride. And then we finally got to some

  529. places where I could hop off for the first time.

  530. Jumping the ocean and we have to swim to a hot spring, I said,

  531. Sir. I was like, OK, I'm going to do

  532. it. I want to experience the hot

  533. spring, swim over to the hot spring and to sit on a volcano

  534. is absolutely astounding. I but burnt my buns a couple

  535. times. I'm over there and I'm like,

  536. man, I can't hop back in the boat.

  537. I got to swim back and we went around.

  538. It was beautiful. And then we found another spot

  539. and it was gorgeous and I dove in and it was good.

  540. But a lack of peace will always rob you from experiencing the

  541. splendor of God. Some of you have allowed fear

  542. and anxiety to rob you from sink because you could still be on

  543. that ocean, You could be on the Mediterranean Sea, you could be

  544. on a roller coaster. You can be in Vancouver, you can

  545. be in a beautiful marriage. You can be whatever.

  546. But you've allowed what's your what's triggering?

  547. You hear it, Your kids can trigger you.

  548. But that's no different than the waves triggering me.

  549. But I can't respond to the waves.

  550. I can't respond. Stop responding to triggers.

  551. All right. Are we using our time?

  552. Well, I'm like you, getting a few things.

  553. All right. All right.

  554. Garrison. Proverbs 4 Keep.

  555. Guard your heart with all vigilance and shout it out

  556. please, and green a little louder that you guard what is

  557. above all mean. OK, this is a little this is

  558. pretty important, right? This is reign supreme.

  559. This is priority. Somebody say priority now is

  560. this any priority or top priority above all that you?

  561. Guard somebody ain't funny. Tell.

  562. Tell me what? You.

  563. Come on, talk to me. What do you like guarding?

  564. Some of us guard our pride. We guard our attitude.

  565. Well, you shouldn't wait a minute.

  566. Well, you shouldn't. So I'm.

  567. Why? You right did anybody live with

  568. in that situation? So just look up OK How much how

  569. much dysfunction do you guard? Talk to me come on talk to me

  570. How much dysfunction do you guard Some folks guard they

  571. deadness in church. We like lift your hands and they

  572. like. No, I wouldn't, no.

  573. You're not me, you guard it. What do you guard that's not of

  574. God? Ask yourself, why do you guard

  575. ungodliness, right? Anybody ever try to help your

  576. attitude? And you like don't judge me.

  577. Anybody ever try to help you with your bad diet?

  578. I'll leave my chicken alone, leave my candy, leave my sugar

  579. alone on the fast that if you want to get somebody offended,

  580. throw it fast and make it strict.

  581. Y'all remember God bless his soul Juan Carlos, when we just

  582. fasted one week sugar no sugar. And that brother keep like he

  583. trick or treating all the time. He got candy always and he was

  584. so offended that we was fan as fast as you.

  585. Call it fast. You see what people guard?

  586. Oh, you. No, no, social media.

  587. I don't got a problem with social media.

  588. The fact that you don't want to get off social media says you

  589. got a problem with social media. Now all of a sudden you need

  590. protein. My, my, my body needs protein.

  591. My body need protein. Well, there's there's other

  592. protein than actually me, and you get protein in other ways.

  593. OK, What dysfunction do you guard?

  594. You got to let that go in 2025. You can't be so prideful that

  595. you will guard dysfunction, he says.

  596. Above all that you guard, for out of it flows the springs of

  597. light above. All that you guard, guard your

  598. heart. So, so, so here it is.

  599. If you're guarding dysfunction, you're keeping dysfunction in

  600. your heart. So you notice you guarding your

  601. heart. But he says for out of your

  602. heart flows the issues of life. So what you're going through?

  603. Is not just happenstance. What if what you don't like

  604. right now in your life, a part of it is something you birthed?

  605. Yeah, it's the war outside, right?

  606. You walk in the house that you helped create the culture.

  607. Not creating culture. Being passive is still creating

  608. culture. Not saying something is creating

  609. culture. Saying too much is creating

  610. culture. What are you guarding of all?

  611. We have to guard our heart. We have to keep our heart.

  612. Keep guard. Garrison K.

  613. Look at the next verse. Yes, Philippians, how did this

  614. get? How did this get on?

  615. Chaka Khan, How did that happen? You got the next Oh Jesus, where

  616. did that go? So sorry y'all Philippians 4.

  617. Somebody open that up. That's why I didn't make it.

  618. Chaka Khan, you. OK, so So what you're going to

  619. do is you're going to go all the way to the slide before last.

  620. So sorry, Philippians 476, is that Philippian 46?

  621. OK, that's fine. Did you download the latest one,

  622. the one that says copy? OK.

  623. All right. Thank you.

  624. They didn't make it to the top. Do not fret or have any anxiety

  625. about anything. Oh, anything.

  626. What does anything mean? Anything?

  627. Don't have anxiety. So, so would you?

  628. Are you going to argue with me right now and say, God, that's

  629. not fair? Are you going to tell me that?

  630. So. So it would be.

  631. Unfair if God told you don't have anxiety about nothing, but

  632. then on the flip. Side be like you got a right to

  633. be anxious. Here it is.

  634. You guard your anxiety. How do I know that?

  635. Because the moment you have a reason to be anxious, you can

  636. point at that and say if that leaves, I won't be anxious.

  637. So you guard anxiety instead of activating the peace of God and

  638. you now guard it because they did that or the government did

  639. that or my spouse did that or the doctor said that or so you

  640. guard it or my kids did that, right?

  641. We got to get to a point where some stuff just don't matter.

  642. Like like what can you eliminate tripping on?

  643. Like there's some I'm telling you, you don't have the ram the

  644. capacity to to carry and and be anxious about as much as some of

  645. y'all anxious about some in this place in life.

  646. Look, clothes on the floor don't matter, but like what's dividing

  647. y'all house? What?

  648. What are you allowing to be an argument attention point in your

  649. house? Tell me, is it worth losing

  650. peace over? Remember, and and I'm not

  651. saying, OK, well, I'm not going to say nothing.

  652. No, that's not that's not getting peace because now you

  653. like quite quite frankly, you, you flipping out release you

  654. right, you release some steam. You can't hold it in.

  655. You got to now speak. See, you got to now speak life.

  656. You got to now serve the thing you want to change.

  657. The folks we get married and be thinking marriage is going to

  658. solve a lot of problems. No marriage is going to activate

  659. it a lot of a lot, a lot, a lot of change in your life.

  660. It's going to give you, you just assigned, you just signed up for

  661. an assignment. It's going to, it's a project,

  662. it's going to, it's going to bring you a whole lot of

  663. scenarios to activate and expose the stuff that was already

  664. there. Already there and now you got a

  665. partner to work it out with. That's what the vows is.

  666. You promised to never leave me while work me out.

  667. Come on, say nothing. Say be anxious for nothing.

  668. But by prayer and petition. So you pray for the thing that's

  669. causing anxiety, but here it is. He says with Thanksgiving,

  670. continue to make your wants known to God.

  671. Hey, hey, look, look and God's peace.

  672. Look, you got to do verse 6. You can't shout about 7:00.

  673. You can't guard toxicity and then shout about uninterrupted

  674. peace. It don't work that way.

  675. And God's peace, whose peace? God, come on, God's peace shall

  676. be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation

  677. through Christ. So fearing nothing from God and

  678. being content with its earthly lot, being content with this

  679. earthly lot of whatever. So whatever, say whatever.

  680. I married a dirty man. Whatever.

  681. Talk to me. I got some nasty old kids.

  682. Whatever that peace. Which?

  683. Transcends all understanding here it is the peace that

  684. transcends all the I'm talking about this is peace.

  685. See see this is see too many people are like, girl, I feel

  686. you man. You should be mad like that

  687. because that's the worldly way. You should be grieving in the

  688. way of pulling your blinds down, taking off two months of work,

  689. defeated, ready to kill yourself.

  690. You should. That's what the word.

  691. But he said I bore your grief, which means the way the world

  692. grieves and the way you grieve is two different things.

  693. So as believers grieve, but grief does not now dictate your

  694. joy or your peace or your life. Because there's a surety, a

  695. certainty about where my loss is going.

  696. So, so it transcends all understanding because sometimes

  697. I don't even know why I'm not tripping.

  698. I can't tell y'all why I'm on the road going to my son's

  699. basketball game while I'm still celebrate my anniversary and we

  700. got this building over here. It's just some stuff I can't do.

  701. So I'm not going to be here at the office every day making sure

  702. and praying and God, I'm not going to walk around.

  703. I'm going to do prayer every day until the building get done.

  704. Some of y'all filter your anxiety or hell, let me put it

  705. this way, some of y'all praying from anxiety.

  706. I'm going to come to the building every day and I'm going

  707. to walk around the building and touch all the walls with oil

  708. getting yeah, y'all, they got a they got a they got they got a

  709. power wash that oil off. Hey, no, no, we we get so we get

  710. so. Lord, we going to pray no.

  711. Pray. But you know, you can pray on a

  712. ferry, you can pray on a drive to hike, you can pray

  713. everywhere. Your life does not have to stop

  714. because you're in the middle. Of a faith project there's

  715. there's this piece of after you've done all you could do

  716. stand. You you can't you can't stand

  717. without this peace after you've done all you could do have

  718. peace. Look, he says it shall get this

  719. peace shall Garrison and mount guard somebody shout out mount

  720. guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

  721. Now go back real quick. But some of us, yeah, it says a

  722. soul assured of his salvation. Some of us read that as a soul

  723. assured when they die they going to heaven.

  724. They don't read a soul assured of his salvation on earth as it

  725. is in heaven. Verse 8 somebody say Garrison.

  726. Next verse 8, please. Thank you.

  727. It ain't no eight. I was just seeing if you got the

  728. right. I'm just seeing if you got the

  729. right one, she said. Ain't.

  730. No 8. I love your church man, I'm

  731. telling you. Thanks for having me.

  732. Amen. Hallelujah.

  733. Now Garrison. Somebody say Garrison.

  734. OK, what is Garrison? I'm glad you asked.

  735. A station, a place where one stands a military.

  736. See, this is very important. What you're going to have to

  737. understand is if you're going to have this piece, you're going to

  738. have to learn how to do what stand a military or a fortified

  739. post. A prefect, a Superintendent.

  740. Hence a military post. Somebody say militant.

  741. A A body of troops stationed in a Fort or fortified town to

  742. defend it against an enemy. This peace shell Garrison

  743. around. Y'all got to learn.

  744. Y'all got to put all this together.

  745. This peace shell, the peace of God shell Garrison around your

  746. mind. OK, it's the Garrison is a a, a

  747. soldier, a military, a body of troops that are stationed.

  748. They have a stance, they have a location, they have a a firmness

  749. fortified town to defend it against an enemy or to keep the

  750. inhabitants in subjection. Here it is.

  751. Here it is Garrison, a place that is manned, provisioned and

  752. fortified. See, the peace of God is a

  753. provision. I want you to see some read

  754. this. A blaspheming enemy of God had

  755. been permitted to build a fortified stronghold on God's

  756. property. Enemy troops were dwelling on

  757. God's heel and oppressing God's people.

  758. What am I talking about? First Samuel 10 says.

  759. After that you will come to the heel of who?

  760. God where? The what?

  761. Garrison of the Philistines. Is when you come to the city,

  762. you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the

  763. high place with harp, tambourine, flute, leer before

  764. them prophesied. I will say this, in these last

  765. days we must learn how to identify, activate, mobilize and

  766. honor the prophets of the land. Here it is.

  767. We are for sure going to know false prophets, but we will only

  768. know the false ones if we recognize the real ones.

  769. You know you, you, you, you, you.

  770. You can't. We're not.

  771. The last shall be first. The apostle and the prophet.

  772. The way it started is the way it's going to end.

  773. Look, look, look. Old Testament dominated by

  774. prophets, New Testament apostles, and for any doctrine

  775. to be out there amongst the body of Christ to say that there's no

  776. apostles, no prophets no more, it's absolutely.

  777. Stupid. So we got three fingers left out

  778. of the fivefold. We gonna we started with five,

  779. gonna finish with three. Run track and get 2 toes cut

  780. off. Let me see how how well you

  781. compete so right up on your brain.

  782. We have let the Philistines. Some of you set up Camp a

  783. Garrison. What does this mean?

  784. There's lies inside your life that you actually guard.

  785. The Philistines, the bully have set up.

  786. Camp in your mind and you actually protected.

  787. And if somebody comes and tell you no, you are fearfully and

  788. wonderfully made. You believe no, I'm not wanting,

  789. no, I'm not good enough. You Garrison you, you protect

  790. this lie. I want to read this one more

  791. time. Philippians 4 says Garrison and

  792. mount guard. You can you can go to the to the

  793. slide up top mount guard. Someone say mount guard.

  794. You can go up to the the the slide.

  795. That's actually right at that. No, no, no, the slide book for

  796. that. Thank you.

  797. Garrison and mount guard. I want to bring this slide back

  798. to you. Mount guard.

  799. We can't slide by that. What does mount guard mean?

  800. Mount guard means. To organize people to watch or

  801. protect a person or a place. The peace of God mounts guard.

  802. I hope you understand that the Lord can be here, which He is.

  803. Your lack of awareness robs you from experiencing or benefiting

  804. of His presence. You ever been ignored?

  805. You you ever been in a room and didn't realize something or

  806. someone was in it? And then you became aware you

  807. believers working all day love the Lord can walk in here right

  808. now the. Presence of God is here.

  809. I know it for sure and there's ways that I know it, but you can

  810. sit in here and not be experienced in the presence of

  811. God because you've made it about a feeling.

  812. So mount guard organized people to watch or to protect a person

  813. or play. See this?

  814. This sends me running like crazy.

  815. Here's an example. But let them all be glad.

  816. Those who turn aside to hide themselves in you.

  817. Here it is again. Pay close attention.

  818. Those what we're about to read is going to happen to those who

  819. hide themselves in him, hide themselves in his presence, hide

  820. themselves in his work. How do I hide myself in his word

  821. or in his presence or in him is because what he says about me I

  822. guarded and when I guarded I'm saying I'm keeping his word

  823. wrapped around me. OK, what am I saying here It is

  824. may they. Who is they?

  825. Let's read again, but let them all be glad.

  826. Who is all be glad? Those who turn aside to hide

  827. themselves in him, may they keep shouting for joy forever over.

  828. Shadow them in your presence. Who is them?

  829. It's not Christians, it's Christians who run and hide, not

  830. from calling from him, into him. So when we read promises, we got

  831. to be very specific. We can't just think everything,

  832. everything is intended for you. Wait, what are you doing?

  833. Are you hiding in your lies? Are you hiding in your anxiety?

  834. Are you hiding in your fears? You're hiding in your trauma?

  835. What are you hiding in? This is overshadowed.

  836. I mean your presence as they, as they, as they, as they

  837. lifestyle, as they sing and rejoice, as they.

  838. Open their mouths and speak your word and honor you and worship

  839. you and adore you and fear you. Then, then, then, then, then,

  840. then, then, then, then, then every lover of your name.

  841. Well, you would assume every person in here is a lover of

  842. God. Well, let me take you to what

  843. Jesus says is a lover. If you love me, you obey me.

  844. You ready? Obedience is not merely

  845. connected to call. Obedience is connected to tell

  846. them, sorry, obedience is. Cut that off like I asked you

  847. to. I'm not going to ask you again.

  848. We think, send me, I'll go. We're looking for God to give us

  849. a platform and I'll obey when we say send me, I'll go.

  850. We're talking about what God can do for me based on what I like,

  851. want, and what I'm gifted at. Practice.

  852. Practice obedience by being a peacemaker.

  853. Peacemaker, Peacemaker. Not peace receiver, peacemaker.

  854. One way to have pieces. Make it Hallelujah.

  855. Look what you. Say then every lover of your

  856. name will burst forth with endless joy.

  857. What does endless mean? It means there's nothing that

  858. can end it. Here's the here's the part,

  859. Lord, how wonderfully you bless the righteous.

  860. Your favor wraps around each one and covers your favor does what?

  861. What peace does your favor wraps around.

  862. This is why the enemy hates folks that walk in favor.

  863. But look you you can say. Everybody, all God's children

  864. got favor, but not all God's children walking in it.

  865. So then we demonize those that's aware of the favor of their life

  866. and they walking in it. Now I'm going to walk in favor

  867. without confidence, without a little bit of swag, without a

  868. little bit of, without boasting in my God.

  869. But he says, may your favor surrounds them like a shield.

  870. This is why I must obey. This is why I must walk in God's

  871. call for my life, because His favor is not outside of His will

  872. for my life, but when I'm hiding in Him and His purpose for me

  873. and His presence for me, and His love for me, and His love and

  874. His joy, the fruit of the Spirit which peace is a part of it, it

  875. garrisons. OK, come up here.

  876. Come up here. Troy.

  877. Come up here. PDO.

  878. Come up here. Come on up here.

  879. Ryan. Come up here.

  880. He came. He'll keep you awake.

  881. Come on. Come on, brother.

  882. Come on, brother. All right.

  883. And let's go. Let's go.

  884. Let's go. Let's go.

  885. Come up here. OK.

  886. Now I need you fellas to lock arms.

  887. Create a circle. Lock arms.

  888. Now let's do it over there. OK.

  889. And now you won't get in the middle.

  890. OK. These your brothers in Christ.

  891. Hallelujah. Now you got to create a circle

  892. around you. Come up here too.

  893. I think that's all. No.

  894. Dang, come on, we need one more person.

  895. Y'all too close to her so we need to broaden the link.

  896. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, come on.

  897. Now, Now, now, I want you to say I want you to.

  898. I want you to see this, OK? I want you to see this.

  899. Garrison it it. I want, I want, I want to see

  900. this organized. To to mount guard is to organize

  901. people to watch or protect a person or place.

  902. You got this. It is may your favor surround me

  903. like a shield. So So what a Garrison does, a

  904. mount guard does. It's not merely like this.

  905. Now you guys kind of loosen the chain up a little bit, not your

  906. arms. The chain still lock.

  907. Arms now walk around her. See.

  908. See. This is the picture of Garrison,

  909. so it doesn't matter which angle the enemy tries to enter into

  910. your life. Now pause.

  911. I want you to see she's not moving.

  912. See a lot of us instead of focusing on the Garrison and

  913. sitting and trusting and reading my book and waiting on the Lord,

  914. we're trying to she would be looking out here at the storm

  915. and the friends. That's like girl, you crazy come

  916. out here. But she still keep going.

  917. So it doesn't matter where the enemy tries to come in.

  918. There is no way to penetrate. All her job is to do what?

  919. Be still and know that he is God.

  920. OK, good. Thank you.

  921. That's all you have to do. This Garrison is something that

  922. God. Here it is has orchestrated to

  923. keep you. But but what if Hannah Beth was

  924. like, let me go. I'm tired of being still, like

  925. I'm missing out. I'm going to miss out.

  926. What did she do? She allowed the peace of God

  927. what he said. It will guard, it will guard and

  928. here it is. So I don't got to run my, my, my

  929. grandmama or my Mama. Look, look, don't got to run to

  930. the alley to get my kid. Look, here's Garrison.

  931. Here's Garrison. Garrison is organized people.

  932. God organizes his angels to watch or protect a person or

  933. place. I can't be in all places, but

  934. his word can't. So the man says, Lord, you

  935. can't. Don't come to my house.

  936. Just what? Send your word and your word

  937. will heal. You can't be anxious.

  938. About what my kids doing, where they, where they going, *** I'm

  939. gonna need to go out. No.

  940. No, no, no, no, no see, because if the enemy can use your kids

  941. to take you off your post, he could use your coworkers to take

  942. you off your post. If he can use whatever he needs

  943. to use, politics. If he could use and there's some

  944. of us are so easily anxious. The Lord says, man, there's a

  945. piece of that mount guard that all you got to do is say a word

  946. and I send to places. It would not be fair for God to

  947. only protect where I'm at. Yeah, see what we where we have

  948. to start is be honest on how much we trust God and stop

  949. thinking that Christian means trust.

  950. Yeah, here's Garrison again. Both male and female went inside

  951. as God had commanded Noah and Yahweh Himself shut them in.

  952. Here is shadow and type. He says Noah, build something

  953. and in the midst of this storm, because you hide yourself in the

  954. ark, guess what, you're protected.

  955. Psalm 91 for he will give, he will give.

  956. Here it is. He will mount guard.

  957. He will give his angels a special charge over you.

  958. Am I talking to anybody to accompany and defend and

  959. preserve you in all what does all mean?

  960. All your ways of obedience? Here it is.

  961. Here it is. Man, I'm trying to like, like

  962. our prayer life. Don't line up to our obedient

  963. life. You're praying here.

  964. Here it is. What if I told you we think pray

  965. without ceasing me like every second?

  966. No, prayer is also a posture. What if I told you that

  967. obedience is a prayer language? What if I told you?

  968. That now this is going. To be very dangerous for some of

  969. you, but if you have eyes they see and ears to hear, you will

  970. understand what I'm saying. What if I told you you could

  971. pray less if you obeyed more? Obedience will change your

  972. prayer life because now I'm praying different.

  973. I'm not praying I because my obedience produces faith,

  974. because I know I did with his work, because I know I seek him

  975. first in his Kingdom. I don't got to pray about things

  976. because the first the obeying the obeying the first part of

  977. Matthew 633 is my prayer language.

  978. I'm doing what he said. Therefore I can expect what he

  979. said he'll do and some of y'all are praying for stuff that

  980. obedience would solve. That's why prayer is hard for

  981. some of us because we praying, but we're acting against the

  982. prayer. Here's the here's what you got

  983. to say. God would be a lie if he went

  984. against his principles. But if I told you some of the

  985. stuff you waiting for is obedience not prayer.

  986. You ready? Some of y'all been been prayed.

  987. Have you obeyed? Have you hid in him?

  988. Have you been praying but also guarding toxicity?

  989. But what if God loves you so much he want toxicity before you

  990. get blessing and you just are like you?

  991. You just think it's all about God breaking you through when

  992. God is like. No, I want you whole because can

  993. y'all give me 10 minutes please and y'all want to hear from me

  994. Sunday? Y'all going to hear from EJ and

  995. somebody else again and then this is my last week.

  996. I'll be gone, OK? I normally don't tell people,

  997. but then I tell people on Wednesday because you guys are

  998. special. So yes, you are.

  999. Thank you, see how you received it instead of thinking about it.

  1000. If you walk into a trap, they'll be there for you and there that

  1001. word go again, keep you from stumbling the angels.

  1002. If you walk into a trap, it didn't mean I'm out here whiling

  1003. out, it mean I'm hidden in the Lord.

  1004. This is counted all joy if you fall in the diversity if you if

  1005. you're doing what God has asked you to do and just something

  1006. comes against you, but you're not about to just slip up into

  1007. some sin and be try to apply the scripture.

  1008. No, no, no, no, no. If you walk into a trap while

  1009. you walk in in in obedience, they'll be there for you and

  1010. they'll do, you see? So, So here's the first thing.

  1011. Here's what the accuser of the brethren does when you get in a

  1012. storm. He puts your sin in front of

  1013. your face. And if you are currently walking

  1014. in what He is currently showing you, do you guarantee you your

  1015. faith is challenged because you look at the devil and be like

  1016. you, right? And you can't agree with the

  1017. enemy and agree with God. You can't stand on two truths

  1018. like that. And This is why obedience and

  1019. obeying the Word is so important.

  1020. So when the day of trial comes, you can.

  1021. You can. Hey, try me.

  1022. That's why he was able to try Job.

  1023. This is what God was like. Yeah, go.

  1024. You ain't going to find unknown Job.

  1025. You could take whatever you want from Job, but Job's loyalty gave

  1026. him the ability to stand. This is why it's important to

  1027. obey. It's not important to obey, just

  1028. to obey. But it's it obey is is covenant

  1029. show. But it's also for the day when

  1030. you're on trial, not with God, but the devil.

  1031. Some of y'all can't fight under pressure because you know you

  1032. ain't been in your words. You know you've been having

  1033. nasty attitude. You know you got bitterness in

  1034. your heart. So then the enemy comes and he

  1035. drives you. He's like, you can't cast me out

  1036. because you guard me. You can't get rid of me because

  1037. you've been guarding my lies. How you going to protect me and

  1038. give me a home and then evict me?

  1039. How you gonna give me a couch to sit on?

  1040. How you gonna give me some water to drink and then now you're in

  1041. trouble? You gonna kick me out?

  1042. It don't work that way. How?

  1043. Why doesn't it work that way? Because the very thing you're

  1044. trying to cast has roots. You don't even believe they

  1045. should be evicted, said you'll even.

  1046. Walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness.

  1047. Trampling every one of them beneath your feet, because here,

  1048. Oh my goodness, here it is. Here it is here.

  1049. Here's the other side of it. This is not for Christians.

  1050. This is for those who because next Scripture, because now mind

  1051. you, Psalm 91, one starts off with hiding in the wings of the

  1052. Almighty because he has set his love up on me.

  1053. Because this person has set his love up on me.

  1054. This person's hope is in me. This person's affections is in

  1055. me. Therefore therefore tell me if

  1056. I'm wrong. Elder John therefore means

  1057. what's before it has to be in place now I can say because the

  1058. first parts in place, therefore will I deliver him.

  1059. Man, there's change that's on me and there's change I'm holding.

  1060. Try to get out of change. You holding?

  1061. Therefore will I deliver him? I will set him or her on high.

  1062. I'm I'm about to lift you up. Can't he can't he.

  1063. The hell can't reach you here? It is because he knows.

  1064. Oh, here's another. Because because he or she knows

  1065. and understands my name, they have a personal knowledge of my,

  1066. my mercy, my love. And then you stated personal, a

  1067. personal knowledge and understanding of my grace.

  1068. We, we know grace, right? Grace saved me.

  1069. Oh, but His mercy when you know you.

  1070. Deserve all his mercy. Right, Grace, you get what you

  1071. don't deserve. Personal knowledge of my mercy.

  1072. You should be done. You should be wiped.

  1073. You should be dead. You should be in jail.

  1074. You should be infested with disease.

  1075. Your punishment was great. You don't walk from that

  1076. posture. We got to beg you to serve God.

  1077. We got to beg you to give. We got to beg.

  1078. If you understood my mercy, I got to beg you to come.

  1079. You still running from call? You don't understand my mercy.

  1080. You get mad at accountability. You don't understand my mercy.

  1081. Do you know the blessing of accountability?

  1082. That's I have put a burden on somebody's heart to care about

  1083. you for me. I put people in your life to

  1084. stay up all night while you rest in your sin.

  1085. See what God has arranged to keep you say they know I'll

  1086. never forsake them no, never because he has set his love upon

  1087. me I simply. Think, to think, think of this.

  1088. That person has set the weight of their lives on the shoulders

  1089. of the Lord, keeping our eyes. Fixed on Jesus, you've got to

  1090. get this as we close is not just meant to draw from like I'm

  1091. staring at you, Jesus because I I want this, I want strength, I

  1092. want a blessing. It is not just to draw from and

  1093. not just to draw to, but it's also to reflect.

  1094. Here's what I'm telling you. Think of the power of

  1095. comparison. When you compare, you actually

  1096. look at someone and in a way you see yourself in them, but they

  1097. are so far along than you are. There's this comparison thing.

  1098. We compare all day. We see ourselves in people all

  1099. day, right? I'm hearing my call because I

  1100. got a spiritual I looked in a spiritual mirror at some men in

  1101. my life and I their lives spoke to the call in me right when you

  1102. admire people and you look up to people, we we know that in human

  1103. fashion. Am I correct?

  1104. My Jesus had a been mad at Peter because he said listen, I am

  1105. laying here in a posture that you should be laying in, but

  1106. you. Will not keep your eyes on my.

  1107. Rest long enough you can't even rest.

  1108. What, what, what let? Me, let me tell you this.

  1109. In the beginning, as Jesus is peace, we embodied that same

  1110. peace. Before sin entered our nature,

  1111. as Jesus is peace, we embodied that same peace.

  1112. Sin brought anxiety. So if God is taking us back to

  1113. the garden, OK, that's why he says if you keep your eyes fixed

  1114. on me, I'll give you perfect peace.

  1115. How long got to be with you? Oh, you a little face.

  1116. Why you just didn't look at what I was doing and mirror me.

  1117. Here it is. Go to the end of the.

  1118. Slide end of the slides. Why we got to keep focused on

  1119. the word? Because his piece.

  1120. Carries or bears his image and his image carries his peace.

  1121. Here's why if you unlock this Scripture tells us scripture

  1122. things like and all of us as with unveiled face because we

  1123. continue to behold him, look at him in the word as in a mirror

  1124. reflecting him the glory because we kept our eyes in the word and

  1125. kept our eyes on him. Eventually we took on his

  1126. posture. Same way you look at a storm,

  1127. you take on the chaos of the storm.

  1128. So if I was going to keep my peace on that ocean, guess what

  1129. I did? I took my eyes off the.

  1130. Ocean and then just take a picture of this next slide and

  1131. we're done. His piece carries the next one.

  1132. Please no, it's the next one. Hallelujah.

  1133. I'm gonna read it to you and they gonna get it up there.

  1134. His piece bears His image. His image carries His piece.

  1135. We just read with unveiled face. We kept our eyes like a mirror

  1136. on His word. We behold His word.

  1137. Here it is. Look at those scriptures right

  1138. there. I want you to look at those What

  1139. do they like? For those whom He foreknew, He

  1140. also ready, predestined, to be conformed to the image of His

  1141. Son on earth as it is in heaven. Colossians 310 says and have put

  1142. on the new self which is after the image of the creator

  1143. Galatians 220 look. I've been crucified with Christ.

  1144. It is no longer I who live, but it's Christ who lives in me.

  1145. Uh oh, the life I now live. I want you to understand this

  1146. piece is a part of the Newman. They don't mix with the old.

  1147. This piece is. New wine and in First

  1148. Corinthians 1549 look at it just as we have borne the image,

  1149. borne bare the image of the man of dust.

  1150. You see this, Troy, we bear the image of Adam.

  1151. We'll own that I'm a Sinner. Yep.

  1152. This is how I messed up. This is how I was unholy.

  1153. This is how I went wrong. This is how they mad at me.

  1154. This is how they how they messed me over.

  1155. This is how they lied to me. This is how I messed up.

  1156. The world is we, we have beholded the image of Adam.

  1157. So the same way you behold the image of Adam.

  1158. Why not Jesus? You know how to be anxious like

  1159. Eve. You know how to we bear?

  1160. That's in there. But what?

  1161. What else is in there? Oh, so don't tell.

  1162. Me, you don't know how to bear. He's got to put on the new man

  1163. and this is what I said. This is the power.

  1164. This is so powerful. It really is all in if you

  1165. really want all did. What you saying, hip hop pastor?

  1166. When I read the scripture, when I listen, when I read these

  1167. scriptures, I'm here to give somebody some good news.

  1168. But for some of you, it's going to be bad news.

  1169. There's really no way to to to live out all that God did for us

  1170. without being all in. Absolutely.

  1171. I've come to the conclusion that I cannot harness this peace that

  1172. transcends all understanding unless I bear the image of Jesus

  1173. Christ, Unless I keep my eyes fixed on His word, Unless I walk

  1174. out how He walked it out. Unless I.

  1175. Love how he loved unless I obey when he tells me to do whatever

  1176. he tells me to do. And let's not walk by faith and

  1177. not by sight. If you want to choose tonight to

  1178. be worldly and Christian, guess what?

  1179. Stop praying for peace. You ready?

  1180. You can have peace as the world gives it.

  1181. Therefore you have to work for that peace.

  1182. So when you get paid, you'll have a little bit of peace

  1183. because you got a check and you can pay some bills.

  1184. So you don't have a pressure of bills.

  1185. You don't want no pressure. You want to keep keep trying to

  1186. get the right Prime Minister in and then you have some peace

  1187. when yo, as the world has peace, he says, I don't give you that

  1188. peace. And praise God that there's a,

  1189. there's a, there's a level up of peace because we can't wait

  1190. around. For the government.

  1191. You can't wait around for your spouse to change.

  1192. You can't wait around for your kids to get grown.

  1193. That's too long. Listen, Micah Malia Malachi,

  1194. that's too long. I can't wait for them to get it.

  1195. We know everything we sow into them is going to work out, but I

  1196. don't got time to wait to raise them up in the way they should

  1197. go. And when they get older, they

  1198. going to return. I don't got time.

  1199. To wait for the return to have peace.

  1200. It could be 30 years. Some of y'all waiting and you

  1201. let your prodigal son take your piece to the pig bin and you

  1202. sitting on the porch waiting for them to return.

  1203. No, some stuff I just can't stress out on, some stuff I

  1204. can't care about. And there's some conversations

  1205. you got to cut them off before they even get started.

  1206. You ready? You got to know what time you

  1207. can have certain conversations. Lord, thank you for your peace.

  1208. Come on, pray into that 60 seconds, 60 seconds.

  1209. Just just pray. You know you got to receive

  1210. that. I challenge you to unlock the

  1211. gates that have been protecting toxicity in your life and let it

  1212. go. Come on man.

  1213. Peace is your inheritance. Peace is your inheritance.

  1214. Peace is your inheritance. You online, peace is your

  1215. inheritance. Come on.

  1216. Peace is your inheritance. Come on.

  1217. You don't got to wait for a job to have peace.

  1218. You don't got to wait for a career to pop off to have peace.

  1219. You don't got to wait for people to accept you to have peace.

  1220. You don't got to wait for it to turn around to have peace.

  1221. Peace is yours. Come on Lord, your favorite

  1222. surrounds us like a shield. Come on, come on, stand to your

  1223. feet as you pray. Come on, have a posture.

  1224. Of faith in this place. Come on, you having this?

  1225. Piece as a witness. It's a witness to your family.

  1226. Come on, Say you can't have my peace.

  1227. Come on. You cannot have my peace.

  1228. You cannot have my peace. Come on.

  1229. Come on, this piece is mine, the Lord gave it to me.

  1230. Come on, this piece is my praying to that.

  1231. This piece is my inheritance in the name of Jesus.

  1232. This piece is MyHeritage in the name of Jesus.

  1233. This piece belongs to me in Jesus name.

  1234. This piece belongs to your bloodline in Jesus name.

  1235. I will not impart anxiety to my children in Jesus name.

  1236. Come on. I will not impart fear into my

  1237. children in Jesus name. Come on, come on.

  1238. Jesus name. Something I ask of our parents,

  1239. including me, is be careful. Be careful of the anxiety you

  1240. allow to make itself at. Home in your.

  1241. House because you have to understand that children pick up

  1242. by impartation more than they do.

  1243. You can you can be anxious over here and come in the next room

  1244. and be like, hey, sweetie, and as a kid carnally, they're going

  1245. to respond to hey, sweetie, but what was imparted is that stomp

  1246. that them dishes banging the the the yelling at each other like

  1247. that stuff is imparted. We got to get anxiety out of our

  1248. nests or you will give birth to anxious children.

  1249. If you don't mind living anxious, fight for your kids.

  1250. Not to have to the best you can ask the Lord.

  1251. Lord how do I raise my children to maintain their freedom?

  1252. Cuz we're born with a freedom. Depending on who raises you, you

  1253. can lose that confidence, that childlike freedom.

  1254. You ready? There are some things that kids

  1255. do that you have to be careful of not punishing them for

  1256. because it triggers you. Some of us don't speak Lord.

  1257. Some of you punish your children for being over amped because you

  1258. don't know how to have joy. It might get on your nerves a

  1259. little bit because they just. But what you don't want to do is

  1260. break the spirit of joy. In your children.

  1261. That is not something you want on your hands.

  1262. God gave them that joy. And I'm sorry the school system

  1263. does not know how to handle all types of children, but you'd

  1264. never diagnose your child with an ungodly diagnosis.

  1265. You pray into that child and you speak life into that child.

  1266. Every child in this church has a dynamic call on their lives.

  1267. So Lord, any anxiety that has been imparted to our children,

  1268. any fear that has been imparted in our children, Lord, any, any,

  1269. any, any gifts or spirit that you have given them, Lord, that

  1270. we just didn't know how to manage because of our anxiety.

  1271. Lord, we just ask that you forgive us first.

  1272. But Lord, we just pray that that is not lost because of our

  1273. anxiety. We speak into all of our

  1274. children's spirits right now and we just declare that your joy

  1275. will never be broken, Your peace will never be broken, Your

  1276. strength will never be broken, Your uniqueness as a child will

  1277. never be broken. Lord, surround our children with

  1278. people that know how to to build upon how you've created them.

  1279. We can't always have our children with us, Lord.

  1280. So we ask that you protect our children.

  1281. Protect our children, Lord God. Surround them in the places that

  1282. they go. Mount guard around their

  1283. campuses, mount guard in their classrooms.

  1284. Mount guard on the playground in the name of Jesus.

  1285. Mount guard when they have sleepovers, Lord God.

  1286. Mount guard over their minds in the name of Jesus.

  1287. Mount guard. When they're watching

  1288. television, mount guard. When they're what, playing on

  1289. their iPads, mount guard, Lord. We know the enemy is trying to

  1290. kill, steal and destroy, but we break the power and the plans

  1291. and the strategies. Of the enemy over our families

  1292. in the name of Jesus we thank you Lord, that this is a

  1293. revelation and a word we will grasp because in these last

  1294. days, Lord, if we lose our. Peace as a church.

  1295. The world is in trouble. Come on, lift your hands and

  1296. repeat after me. Say from this day forward.

  1297. I will guard my peace. It is the peace of God that

  1298. transcends all understanding. This peace that I have, it is

  1299. not based on external circumstances, but it is based

  1300. on the word of God. It is based on the truth in

  1301. Jesus name. I have faith to keep and and to

  1302. guards and to walk in Shalom. Nothing missing, nothing broken,

  1303. but wholeness in every area. Of my life in Jesus name.

  1304. We'll finish this little piece, not little, but this topic next

  1305. Wednesday and I will dive into really breaking down.

  1306. Shalom. And salvation and the wholeness

  1307. that God is calling us to in 2025.

  1308. Somebody say wholeness. I don't know if you've seen one

  1309. of my posts the other day, but the other day I had said I was

  1310. on the treadmill and it just hit me to give some people some

  1311. advice that every day you should sow into every part of you.

  1312. You should sow into your spirit by reading the word,

  1313. worshipping, meditating on the word.

  1314. You should sow into your soul by feeding his soul food, doing

  1315. something that is going to feed your soul.

  1316. Whether that is read, whether that is bless somebody else,

  1317. whether that is speak life into somebody else.

  1318. Do something that is going to enrich your soul and you should

  1319. do something that is going to enrich your your body.

  1320. He died for all three parts every day.

  1321. So into every part of you. Good food what you want?

  1322. OK, Come up here. I'm sorry I missed y'all.

  1323. I missed y'all. Round ball is not this week.

  1324. It is next Friday. And I'm super happy to.

  1325. I missed the first three games, but I am super happy to to be

  1326. back and yeah, we two and one. So come on out.

  1327. And then the homecoming lunch is this Sunday.

  1328. Now 11:30 will be one hour. It will be power packed.

  1329. It will be 1 hour boom boom, boom.

  1330. And we will have the homecoming lunch and then Christmas

  1331. production. That's what you up here for.

  1332. OK, He's excited. For our Christmas production,

  1333. who has never, who has never been for productions before?

  1334. Wow, you are in for a street, OK.

  1335. Deacon, Deacon Rona, raise their hand.

  1336. You never been here for Christmas production.

  1337. You got to listen. No, but right.

  1338. But that wasn't the question. Deacon Ronan.

  1339. The question was who hasn't been to our productions?

  1340. OK, not Deacon Ronan. Deacon Ronan has been to all of

  1341. them actually, but they are coming up on December 7th, which

  1342. is a Saturday night, December 8th which is a Sunday night, and

  1343. then again the week after which is December 14th, again Saturday

  1344. night, and December 15th at Saturday night or Sunday night.

  1345. OK, so we need y'all to pack out the house because guess where

  1346. we're having it right here at at home, which we're so excited

  1347. for. Put my mic up, Noel.

  1348. Thank you. Thank you.

  1349. OK, so we have a QR code up here and we need y'all to secure your

  1350. tickets, OK? We even made a quick little

  1351. video of how to secure your tickets because I know somebody

  1352. go ask me later. OK, so you're going to go to the

  1353. QR code, you're going to go, you're going to choose which

  1354. date do you want to go to? One of the four, OK.

  1355. Or all. Or all come to all and you're

  1356. going to go down and you're going to send this to people.

  1357. It's going to show the vision of what the production is.

  1358. Then you're going to add your tickets in the corner.

  1359. You're going to press reserve. You're going to write your

  1360. information in. I know, I know.

  1361. There's don't be people out here, Google, don't ask me.

  1362. So anyway, so you're going to write your e-mail and this is

  1363. actually going to send the confirmation right to your

  1364. e-mail, OK? So it's super easy.

  1365. So you can send that QR code to everybody, you know, OK, We're

  1366. in believing for 250 people to fill this house, and we're going

  1367. to fill the tents. We're adding a tent.

  1368. We go fill this place and we go reach our city.

  1369. This is an evangelistic tool. But listen, OK, quiet for one

  1370. second. It's all by donation, but every

  1371. seed sown is going into our remnant projects.

  1372. So if you haven't sown yet or if you're like, man, this is going

  1373. to be an amazing opportunity for my neighbor or my coworker to

  1374. come. Not only can they sow, but

  1375. they're going to get the gospel. They're going to get Jesus in

  1376. the most creative and most beautiful way.

  1377. And let me tell you, the team as we're working hard, we have

  1378. dance moments, we have creative moments, we have singing, we

  1379. have dancing, we have it all acting.

  1380. And I'm telling you guys need to come out OK.

  1381. So make sure you get this QR code, send it to everyone you

  1382. know, come out December. Can you go back to the dates you

  1383. don't want to say the? Wrong 7th, 8th, 1415 if.

  1384. He's like, get off the stage, no?

  1385. No, no, no, no. No, I'm really excited and I'm

  1386. so proud of our team. So can you all commit to being

  1387. there for all four shows? See you all there.

  1388. Love you guys. All right, so.

  1389. So it's very important we're having it here and that's why

  1390. we're doing the tickets like that, so that we could try to

  1391. have some control over who comes.

  1392. Last year or last night for our Christmas production, we had a

  1393. somewhere between 405, yeah, somewhere between 400 and 500

  1394. including like production and stuff.

  1395. I don't know how that's going to happen here, but it's going to

  1396. happen. We are going to be getting

  1397. another 10th to expand. We are looking at staging coming

  1398. in so we can we we just need a lot more space.

  1399. But I do feel like the Lord says we're going to finish the year

  1400. strong and have it in our place and that's what we're going to

  1401. do. So we praying for budget things

  1402. of that nature and people to partner with us for this to

  1403. happen. How many people we have a part

  1404. of production we have every year we keep getting more and more

  1405. and more people and, and what how many people we have see on

  1406. Yeah, 60 people and it's going to be pretty crazy.

  1407. OK, so anyways, it's going to be wild.

  1408. So Sunday you will have some more announcements about

  1409. December dates. Pay attention, please.

  1410. There's going to be some dates and and there's only one service

  1411. on the Christmas Sunday production.

  1412. OK, so on the 8th it's only one service.

  1413. On the 15th it's only one service and production.

  1414. The service time will be 9:00 AM.

  1415. We are going to do the 9:00 AM so we can give our team the day

  1416. to rest and prepare. So it will be 9:00 AM and 7:00

  1417. PM got that we'll have Flyers and all that stuff soon and

  1418. there's some other dates. The Hub the the last Sunday for

  1419. the Hub is going to be December 22nd and we're going to have

  1420. like a Christmas celebration there in Vancouver, but there

  1421. will be no Vancouver on the weekends of the Christmas

  1422. production. You got that?

  1423. All right, all right, put your hand on your neighbor's shoulder

  1424. and say we already prayed. Get your love fixed.

  1425. And get home safe. I see you Sunday.

  1426. God bless, have a good one. Get your love fixed man.

  1427. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

  1428. We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

  1429. Make sure to follow us on all platforms.

  1430. That's love Quest Intl church. We out here for real.

  1431. We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram,

  1432. YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you

  1433. need to find us. But until next time, you know

  1434. the drill. You know the motto.

  1435. Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.