Fight the Good Fight of Finishing Faith - Part 7 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Won't lift your hands. The Lord is here, and when it

says miracles are breaking out, that simply means that the

testimony of this person, the testimony of that person, and

the more we spread, the more more we testify, the more we

step in and press in. Miracles are breaking out.

Is it meaning it's going from you?

It's like a wildfire. Miracles are.

Now if I ask the same questions again, three more people have

hope. Now three more people feel

peace. Now, five more people feel like

they can breakthrough a wall. Come on, lift your hands.

I'm here to tell somebody you can because he did.

I'm here to tell somebody that you're weeping may endure for a

night. Come on.

If that's you, shout out the other.

Part cause joy it's morning time.

Come on, it's morning time. By faith, it's morning time.

The devil is defeated. The devil is defeated.

I said the devil is defeated. I declared over your finances,

over your body. I say the devil is defeated.

I speak this over your mind. I speak it over your emotions.

The devil is defeated. I speak it over your children.

I speak it over your thought life.

I declare the devil is defeated. The devil is defeated.

I say the devil is defeated. You thought you had me.

The devil is defeated. You shouldn't kill me when I was

friends with you. The devil is defeated.

I want to say this. You only need to be ahead when

the buzzer goes off. I know we don't have too many

sports fans here. It don't matter if you're losing

the whole game, if the buzzer has not went off, you still in

the game. I don't care how ugly the win

is. I don't care how beat up you

are. You only have to be leading when

the buzzer goes off and I'm here to declare the devil is

defeated. I'm talking to the remnants.

I'm talking to the never gave up.

I'm talking to the people that are still standing, the people

who have kept hope. Come on, I'm talking to the

remainers. I'm talking to the stayers.

It it don't matter. Come on, it doesn't matter how

it's been feeling. The buzzer has not went off.

I will. I will tell you this, The buzzer

has went. The buzzer has not went off for

you, but the buzzer has went off for the enemy's games.

Have a seat, Have a seat. I declare over you that you are

a finisher. I declare right now.

Even when your talent fails, your tenacity will carry.

You to the end. Am I talking to a few people in

here today? Is there anybody here that

actually came to have church? Not just do community right?

I know some of y'all didn't know what to expect coming into this

garage, but let me tell you something.

Any people that do church in a garage, they do church.

OK, you understand what I'm saying because being in this

garage speaks to to the tenacity.

It speaks to the kind of person. It don't matter what it looks

like. I know my God is faithful.

It doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside.

I am rich on the inside, clean on the inside, clean on the

outside. Come on, say I'm a finisher.

Failure in your ability is not the end, it's the beginning when

I am weak. He is what you're coming to the

end of yourself because you need more than yourself.

Finishing strong is what we do, but finishing strong is not what

we see often. We're not just getting to the

finish line. We're called to bust through the

finishing line like finishing is a call the the the enemy.

Look, do you know how many people find a job, find a

purpose, find a career stack, enjoy whatever benefits the

career brings, get to the sick bed and wish they had more time

for purpose? Hebrews 12 tells us to let go of

every encumbrance, not just every weight.

And an encumbrance is the good thing that binds you, the good

thing that binds you. We talked about sweet cheeks in

the first service, and sweet cheeks have bound a lot of

people. And if you know what sweet

cheeks are, you've probably been bound by sweet cheeks.

It's that thing that it is benefiting your flesh, but it is

binding your new man. I was talking to my son the

other day, man, my son handsome. My son is an athlete.

My son is smart. My son is, is going to do some

great things. My daughter is only.

And I said, boy, if I had it like you got it.

We're just having a little, little, little little little

banana leaf, a little roti, little little ginger beef,

right? And you ever order something

that you like? Oh, that sound good?

And when they come, you're like, Nah, have some noodles.

Y'all don't know what noodles are?

They got noodles in almost every cuisine.

Noodles say noodles. OK, those are noodles.

OK for those that didn't know, those are noodles.

I said son, who said God can't bring you your good thing early?

See here's the mess up. Sometimes God reveals early and

then ask us to tie it later and we mad when the good thing went

bad because we tied the good thing up too early.

God is saying, hey here, your deposit, I got you.

I said, son, looks, man, there's thousands of women out there.

There's thousands of men out there.

Yeah, I'm like, all right. There's a lot of people like I

got my soul mate. Well.

I know that may hurt some of y'all feelings that you don't

got a soulmate yet and you'd God didn't just plant one person in

the earth and you just got to spend your life looking for the

one and then one day you're like, I can't find it.

So I guess I'm a settle. I said son, Prince, king, juice

and what what we ain't telling our kids is the real power is in

the ability to choose, not the ability to find the one.

Because what I see in the scripture after I when I do

weddings, the Bible says that the two become one.

So I'm not a soul mate until we become and this is the problem

when you have sex outside of marriage you become you become

one with something you got to let go.

So you soul tied instead of waiting for soul mate.

And now after you didn't got a few neck ties on you, now you

finally choose the One. And then now you and the one got

to deal with other souls that you didn't got tied to.

And then you over there with Sweet Cheeks and you and you

making out with them. And that other name almost came

out your mouth because that other name was in your spirit.

I said, son, brother, you know what's so dope?

You end up at that altar ain't touch the thing with the one you

can test drive the rest of your life.

Why we got to test drive me like that's a lemon.

Well, that's a bad car. The world tell you to test drive

live together. First, let's figure out if they

Let's find out what's below the waist.

For what? What's below the waist today?

Trust me, it ain't gonna work always.

Can I help you? OK, OK, so I say, son, boy, you

could just trust your dad. Brother, you qualified.

You affirm. You could just choose right the

first time. The recipe is somebody that

fears God. Yeah, they got to be a little

intelligent. It's a little bit.

Just a little bit like just make sure they brain working, like

make sure they got some RAM in their computer where we can at

least upload some stuff to the like.

If they brain ain't working then we that I don't care how fine

they is, you got to keep it pushing OK?

Like anybody ever bought a computer for $150 from the

store, from the store where it's at, since you want to be the

only one to raise your hand where you where that computer

at? It's gone.

He like I did, it's gone. I said, buddy, when you when you

get to that ultra with that, that girl, forget a ring boy, if

you can offer her all of you and look at that woman in her eyes

and say, dear, I've saved myself for you.

And I said, any woman you just kind of even be friends with, It

would be a shame to find a really cool person and then mess

up the friendship because you prioritize romance.

I said, buddy, you have the responsibility, 'cause if she

ain't your wife, she's somebody else's.

So if you treat her as a sister in Christ, you can set her man

up and not send her to somebody else with stars.

You don't want to wait. No one gets in the relationship

to hurt somebody. I said, son, you got it brother,

you got it good. A handsome brother like you to

show it to a woman and be like I have saved all of me, none of

me, all for you. I'm like brother that that's a

high commodity these days. But the world is telling you the

total opposite. The good fighter.

Finishing Faith Turn your attention towards the video

screen. It looks like it's going to be.

She's going to do the double and she's going to 2451.

In this room we have someone who's the best player.

There are a couple of the guys raising him.

Two women raised their hands. One was the coach, one was the

one in the back, right? I was hoping everybody raised

their hand right because guess what?

There's no wrong. You're not wrong to think that

you're the best. Now, are you putting in the

work, the time and are you confident to fail?

That's what we want to see. If I was watching you guys this

week, I want to see who's going to fail and then who's going to

come back. That's the one I'm around with.

My big worry was that the heat, the humidity, we just tried to

to put it aside. Just concentrate on your lace.

My hair and everything was still functioning.

I I knew where I had to go and to dehydration.

Your body prints up, I kind of told myself.

Tried to keep running and tried to stay upright.

My muscles just didn't respond. I knew if I would stop or sit

down, that would be the end of it.

I just was going to turn it to wake you through that finish

line. I'm here to tell somebody

there's more inside of you than you think.

I also need you to hear this very closely.

Finishing strong is a generational weapon.

Can I tell this side Finishing strong is a generational weapon?

Stephen Curry sucks for the first few games of the Olympics.

Last few games of the Olympics went absolutely off.

What you think they remembered how he finished?

But then the joke is now next time can you start how you

finished? Because the way you started

scared. US, we need your finishing

effort sooner, and a lot of people wait until the ends of

their lives to start giving maximum effort.

Start living a life of simplicity.

When I say simplicity, I'm not talking minimalist.

I'm not talking, look, if you want 10 couches in your house,

just keep it clean. I'm talking keep your life

simple to God's purpose for you. And then we wait and our kids

get out of the house and we empty nesters and we like, whoa,

all right, purpose, although kids is a part of the purpose.

But kids aren't a pause in purpose.

Never an excuse, right? Money is a sensitive topic with

people, Kids is a sensitive topic with people.

And we have used both to avoid God.

Both have stolen God time when God was the one in the beginning

blessed you with both to serve him.

He gave Isaiah, he gave, he gave Abraham what he what he prayed,

what he asked for, and then what he asked Abraham.

Give it back. You see the blind lady she was,

she was, she couldn't see when she was running and she had a

partner next to her, right? If I watch that, if we watch

that again, you'll actually see that the runner that was leading

her was not at his maximum speed, but she was at hers.

I don't. I don't need to run with people

that can run at my Max. I need to run with people that

stretch me to my Max, but they still have more to stretch me

beyond my potential. But what it takes to run full

speed, trusting someone else's site.

Hey, you ready to finish your assignment?

You going to need somebody in your life.

And some of you, the ones you got running, which you ain't,

the ones they're not only running a different pace than

God says you should, they're also running in a different

lane. Oh, OK, OK.

What he say, what he say this morning?

What he said this morning. He said he said he said he said

he said he said what he say what he say.

So let's keep focused on that goal.

Those of us who want everything God has for us.

If any of you have something else in mind, something less

than total commitment, gotta clear it clear your vision.

You'll see it yet. Now that we're on the right

track now we on the right track now I got your attention.

Now you back in your lane. Let's stay on it right, right.

You know I'm I'm a dude, but that's OK.

I used to, I used to do a little bit.

Some of y'all don't know what that is.

Y'all think I'm running track, but no that's double Dutch,

right? You got it.

You got to start. You just like little double

Dutch. Little double Dutch, OK, Stick

with me friends. Keep track of those you see

running this same race, man, You got to get to a point where you

OK with people who need you to fulfill their expectations, but

your call is pulling you a different way than their

expectations for them. You have to find the people that

are running the race you're called to and keep your eyes on

them and keep them close and keep them insight.

Like I got to talk to EJ, I got to, I got to even sometimes the

people that we're discipling, although I'm called to go out

front, even when I look back, I or to the side, I need to see us

moving together. I don't know about you.

I don't I don't take this gift of life cheap.

Sorry. I realize that you don't know

about some of y'all, but I buried too many people in high

school. I buried a best friend who was

shot with a 12 gauge in his back. 15 years old.

You don't want to be a teenager and a pallbearer.

God says who's forgiven much? You you hear you require, but

no, no, no. Who's giving much?

Much required, but who's forgiven?

Much? The what?

Love my soul. When you see this shouting, His

praise and His passion, it's because I have a revelation of

how much I've been forgiven. Some of you got the stare

effect. The stare.

You stare because you haven't not yet grasp that your little

stanky self would not be here, nor would you have what you got

if it had not been for the blood of Jesus Christ.

And then we stare at the blessing of somebody yelling at

us saying come on. And then we don't realize the

blessing of the people that got the capacity to come week after

week and say come on. And then God gives them more

capacity to come back another week and say please come on the

blessing to have messengers in your life to beg you people that

represent God's faithfulness to reach you.

He says wisdom, it cries out in the street here.

There's a season for wisdom to cry out on the street.

And he says, but one day you're not going to hear that cry no

more. And then you going to be crying

out for wisdom and wisdom won't respond like you didn't.

I want you to understand that's not God.

You ready? That is not God not responding.

That's your silent harvest. That's a harvest.

The non response is a harvest. It's not God.

You sold silence. You sold stubbornness, you sowed

pride and then you get a harvest of pride and you like God where

you at? He was like I remember, remember

that Sunday. I was like PT was sweating

bullets and and they prayed and they was all that pet.

That was my passion. I gave them.

I thank God God put urgent people, people that carried

urgency in my life. You know why you yelling?

Well, you some of you don't move when people talking quiet.

But ain't it funny what kind of person that paved the way for

Jesus? John the Baptist?

Why Jesus didn't get like some little quiet person?

Just hey guys, the king is coming.

Prepare either way, please. Please prepare the way.

No, he was sending warning shots, he says.

There are many out there taking their other paths.

Choosing other goals and trying to get you to go along with

them. But I press on toward the goal

to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ

Jesus is calling us forward. When your last breath comes,

will you you will you leave footsteps of victory for your

children? If if your children could not

listen to a voice message, playback, a tape, read a letter,

and all bibles and Bible apps was taken off the planet, could

your could your children find Jesus?

Could your Co workers find Jesus?

Could your spouse find Jesus off of how you have lived, not off

of what you've said? If you took your voice away from

your life, would your life point to Jesus?

If you took the bumper stickers off and threw out all the

Christian T-shirts, would your life be a bumper sticker?

Finishing leaves trails and traces of evidence to victory.

You know what that Bible is? Trails.

We saw how Abraham did it. Hebrews 12 says look at how

Jesus did it. It will shoot.

This, this, this, this heavenly energy through your veins, this

adrenaline through your veins. When you see how he kept

bouncing back, how he loved his enemies to finish.

We have to apply all the principles from sowing to

forgiving, loving, getting back up, endurance to finish.

You need all the fruit of the Spirit.

And the fruit of the Spirit has nothing to do with

circumstances, nothing. It's the fruit of the Spirit.

I I, I wish I had some time. I plead with all you guys to go

back this week and listen to this morning's message and if

you have to Fast forward to any part.

Start at the beginning and listen all the way to the end.

But we broke down this thing with Nehemiah and these

attempts. Hey Elder John, this is the part

I don't think people people quite get.

Nehemiah didn't get a prophetic word.

He didn't walk in the gifts of the Spirit.

Nehemiah was actually a man. In politics, oh, Shikaba, let's,

let's, let's go talk a little bit.

Let's can I just chat for just one second?

Let me, let me read, for I lose, lose, lose it.

He was a Jew high official at the Persian court.

Nehemiah, this guy we talking about rebuilding the walls.

I looked at this EJ and I said we may look at Nehemiah's work

and think it's a priestly duty, but it looks like God got a hold

of a King's heart to rebuild the wall.

He was a man in high places in the marketplace who had a

conviction to rebuild the wall. He wasn't a man in the pulpit.

He was the man. He wasn't a man with a sermon.

He was a man with a conviction and a vision.

Because the Bible talks about understand the walls.

There was temples rebuilt priestly, but then there was

walls, a wall built to protect the work that was being done.

The conviction, a strong church is when the conviction moved

from the pulpit to the pews. When y'all start being convicted

to hey PT well, what we need to rebuild the building.

One point mill. OK, I ain't really got that, but

I know a few people. Let's get together so I can get

the vision down on paper and I can get the slides and I'm going

to talk to the few people I know, right?

That's how we should be positioning ourselves in the

marketplace to where we are trustworthy, to where other

people will bless us to be a blessing to something we call to

build. That's what a lot of people do

with their business, with their with their business groups.

A lot of rich people take other people money and build stuff.

They have their friends with investors and they got EJ Eero.

Hey, hey, hey, Andrew. Hey, Hey, Adam.

Hey. I got this project.

I need 10 people to give me $1.5 million and it's going to be

this in the return. It's like what?

We trust you. We trust you, Nehemiah.

What did Nehemiah go do to the king?

He said, Sir, can I get a letter?

Because I got a conviction to rebuild the wall.

If Nehemiah didn't do it, the king wasn't.

Nehemiah used his pool and said, hey king, I got to go back to my

father's city where he was buried and I just really want to

see this wall built. I want to see sons and daughters

return home. Tobiah and met at the lab

didn't. That wasn't a conviction, but

Nehemiah was getting persecuted because he had a conviction to

see something done that other people should have been

convicted to do. I love God put us in this

community. Can't wait to tell the people

who have left Wally the way Wally is was known, and then

when they come back, what Wally? What's that?

What's the name of The Body Shop right here?

Harms Auto Body. Do you know what I mean?

You know, there's a few people we ran into.

It was like Harms. I used to get my car.

Harms. Yeah.

Didn't know Harm was changing oil.

Praying that God would send some people and that as he gets rid

of this auto body shot one day. The Lord would redeem the

property. Annabeth's father and mother

shared shared shared that they used what was the school, the

Bible school. It was a Bible school that was

over here and they used to do missionary work around here and

walk around this neighborhood and pray.

What is what is the revivalist that moved to Oakland, CA?

My neighborhood started a church that's blazing right now.

Then I came to her neighborhood and we started a church that's

blazing and me and her going to talk when we get to heaven

because there was a swap that heaven did that we didn't know

about. So I can't wait to say what's

her name again? Violet Kylie, when I see her in

heaven. Come back girl, come here.

She going to know me too. She going to say tearage and.

We going to sit down and Violet going to say, do you know how

many do you know? She going, she going to say,

son, do you know what we did to prepare that soil for somebody

who would hear our father? Do you know they wouldn't even

they ran me. The men ran me out of that city

because I was on fire and preaching the gospel and I was a

woman and they couldn't handle it.

Do you know how much we fasted and prayed that Wally would know

Jesus one day? I'm going to say, Violet, thank

you so much because you made it a little bit easier for us.

You loosen, you know, it's somebody kid could hey, can you

open this this Jelly for me? And then you just like I always

had the house the other day. If he was like, can you open

this Jelly? Can you open this for me?

And it was super easy. And she's like, no way.

But what she didn't know that her efforts to loosen it made it

easier for me. It ain't.

I had so much strength. It's just our efforts together

over time wore the resistance down.

And then an open door happened. So I got some people to say

thank you to. And then Violet, she said.

You, you from Old Town. She a white lady too.

She a Caucasian lady, OK. You promoted down.

Oh yeah, sis. And I'll be like Violet.

Do you know the story of my grandma and how much they prayed

in that community? You know, I went to school right

around the corner from Shiloh. She going to say, man, we was

working on both ends. I started in Canada.

You started in Oakland. So you can finish in Canada, so

I can finish in. And we both left for work in our

hometowns. Thank you, Violet, for your

faithfulness. Shiloh still around, Love Quest

still around. And we both have something to do

with each other's work because that's just how big our God is.

I owe Violet to finish my leg of the race.

Violet, her family, they sold money for ministry work here

that may have seen over then, but like the farmer, they sow

and go to sleep. Violet sold and left.

She finished her time here. She went to Oakland.

I finished my time in Oakland. I came to Canada.

I owe it to Violet. I owe it to my grandma.

I owe it. Who do you owe a greater effort

to? For us to be able to have church

right now with with tents, with windows, and not have to worry

about being arrested. How many lives song for that?

And we just walk. Up in here like.

God owe us to hear the gospel like we supposed to just have

church. He's ah, get there when I want

to It's just church. What the local church is the

very glue that's keeping the world together.

You know how stupid you sound. If it wasn't for the local

church in the earth, you wouldn't have never got saved.

That's. Something y'all like you don't

call? Me stupid.

I didn't call you stupid, but wherever stupid landed.

You shouldn't have let it land, Nehemiah said.

I can't come down and y'all got to hear this man.

You got to stop coming down having conversations with your

anxiety, with your poverty, with with.

You got to stop having the same conversations with people.

I'm here man. I said it this morning and I

don't know about you to anybody get free this morning like let's

listen to me, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me.

Some of you codependent people. God is saying in this next

season we're not just finishing this building.

We finishing this building. Some of y'all keep looking

foreclosure and you don't need it.

Your healing is not in the explanation, it's in your faith.

You don't need the closure. Some of y'all keep having the

same conversation with people and God is saying OK enough

you're in my way now if you want that person to change so bad,

shut your mouth and be the example he said.

Stop having the same conversations with people.

They're telling you they don't want what you want them to have.

Believe them Lord saying stop having the same conversations

with yourself that insecure. Stop talking to your insecurity,

stop talking to your fear. Stop talking to your abandonment

issues. Stop talking to sabotage, stop

talking to low self esteem. You can no longer afford to come

down. Am I talking to like 2 1/2

people? Now I don't know who the half

is. Did you just say Amen to be in

1/2? Amen.

Hebrews tells us this. Do not therefore fling away your

fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious

compensation. The woman was like she had her

hat to the side. At first you would have thought

she was just drunk and just somebody interrupted their

Olympics. And then she got the hand

swinging and she was just like this.

And if you listen to her, she had conditioned her inner man.

She her inner man carried her body across.

Put up, put up Ephesians 316 real quick for me 317 three

17317. I, I beseech you brethren, to

get here on Wednesday night. How many people was blessed by

Wednesday night New sermon, man, Y'all got it.

Y'all got to get here. Y'all got to get here.

We're talking about what it looks like to walk with God.

What is living under open heaven look like like like we are

called to walk with God. We're not called to just call on

God. If you listen to some of our

prayers, you could tell he far off, but he ain't far off

because he far off. He far off because you don't got

the revelation of how near he really is.

Make Christ you ready through your faith actually dwell,

settle down, abide, make it his permanent home in your what

hearts go to this verse 16 may may He grant you out of the rich

treasury of his glory to be strengthened and reinforced.

Where? With body power.

Where in your what? In your what?

One more time in what? That woman's inner man was

conditioned to help her finish when her body gave out.

I want you to understand, when her body gave out, it wasn't

just her body gave out. Her technique gave out.

Her form gave out. Her energy gave out.

What carried her across the finish line was the strength of

her inner man. I'm here to tell 100% of us that

trouble will hit your house. I pray that your inner man can

handle the Sheikh bless you, for you have need of steadfast

patience and endurance so that you may perform, ready and fully

accomplish the will of God and thus receive and carry away and

enjoy to the full. You need confidence, you need

patience, and you need endurance to fully accomplish what you are

called to accomplish and not just to finish but to also

enjoy, right? Hold on not just to finish, but

also reap. And not just reap, but also

enjoy. There's some folk in here you

got what you been begging you what you was begging God for but

you are not enjoying it. You're like God if you just

bring me, I promise you I'll serve you all the days of my

life. And now you thinking of exit

plans. Now you want to quit, But wait a

minute. When you got it, you was like

look at God. Finishing does not mean

finishing unblemished. OK, OK.

Y'all going to help me land this plane K Y'all going to help me

land this plane on this side, this side?

Y'all going to help me land this plane?

KKK All right. Finishing does not mean

finishing unblemished. Did that woman look unblemished?

They had to immediately get her medical attention.

Who said it's not OK to finish needing medical attention?

Hey, what if I told you before you came to this church you

probably came here real beat up and some of y'all don't look at

me crazy because if if we honest I know you came in beat up.

No, but what if I told you that you came here beat up because

you just finished the season? Have you yet celebrated the

season that you finished some of y'all been here for 2-3 years.

You like, oh Dang, can we just give God some praise real quick?

Come on, you, you, you. You were in a season.

You came to love Quest, beat up, busted and disgusted,

traumatized, all of that. But while you were focused on

what you were leaving, you forgot to celebrate.

You finished. And if you listen, if you do not

recognize when something is finished, you can't start the

healing. Let's just take a moment.

What have you transitioned out of even a long time ago and

you've allowed it to be a sequel in your life?

You ever watched a movie? It's like why they got Part 2?

Some stuff got like part 10, like Fast and Furious.

How many parts they got now? What is it as we go into this

fast, What is it in your soul you got to be like, yeah, I'm

done with that. See, here it is because you

haven't recognized and celebrated.

It was over. It's still an option to go back

to. Can I talk to this side?

It's still an option to go back to.

So if you don't like this church, you like.

I really don't like my mom and them church, but they'll let me

serve there. I can sing over there.

I can sing over there. They ain't got no good music.

Now I can sing over there, though.

You get offended somebody. That's why a lot of people,

they'll leave something and they'll start off like, whoa,

PT, can we meet So I can just tell you about where I'm where I

come from and where I'm ready to go.

And then we had that meeting. And then you like, Oh my God,

this is what I've been looking for.

I've been praying all my life for a place like this.

Oh my God the music is glorious. Some months go by and it really

start popping when you start serving.

Sometimes some of y'all don't really understand what's serving

you think this like like the YMCA or something you like.

Well, I'm just want to volunteer my time because I just want to

give back to the community. No, this is not the YMCA.

This is not giving back to the community.

This is taking back territory that's been stolen by hell.

Yeah, it it's charitable, but it ain't that kind of charity.

And you start serving, you get a oh, my God, why we be serving so

much? Oh my God, another service.

Wait a minute, ain't this the church?

That you said you've been praying for all my life.

Oh my God. They relentless PTV yelling P

they sing too loud. All of a sudden your dream has

become a nightmare and a lot of times the temptation to go back.

It's simply because you never realized you was finished.

You just left right when I was young and immature.

Yeah, I know. Nobody here has ever done this

stuff. That's why I love.

That's why God using me, because I'm the only one who's been

through what I was about, what I'm about to share with you, you

know, maybe. A couple jobs in my life where

I'll just like, I'm done. I'm not going in today.

I'm not giving a notice. I noticed myself and I'm telling

my friends, right? I ain't no call, no nothing.

And then you know what I mean? And you call your friends.

Hey, let's go out today. They like, I thought you had to

work, girl, I'm done with that. I'm done.

They wasn't paying enough work. Nah, but what I didn't realize

is because I didn't finish right, I took the same habits

right? Finishing right holds you

accountable to start right. What doors?

This is the last message of today and we start our fast

tomorrow. What?

What? What is it that you, if you was

honest with yourself, even if it's painful, you would say

right now, no, God brought me out of that.

I'm still there. But God brought that, see, we

got to pay attention to that moment when you, you know, the

moment when you like, it's over, I'm leaving.

And so God gives you the inspiration to transition, but

you need the faith to stay. But God saying, hey, let me take

you back to that inspiration. What?

Is it? And when he gave you his

confidence to walk away from it. And then weariness.

It happens in marriage. You like what?

We get mad. Let's get married.

No, it's not a slow song, Caleb. It's not a slow song.

It's it's like a real it's like a club song.

Just stop. Thank you.

Right, that boy playing We are the world.

Come on. I got to finish.

I got to. Finish.

I got this. You get what I'm saying?

So what is that place? Because I love this fast.

We ain't never did a fast like this.

We ain't never did no until no, no, no, no, no, we did until

COVID is over. And once we saw COVID wasn't

ending, we stopped the fast. We thought the fat.

We thought Kobe was going to be like, oh, this ain't no we going

fast for the next 35 days. And then we saw COVID was like,

all right, guys, we're done. Order some chicken.

We about to turn this turn up right now.

OK, come on. Listen, listen.

But but at the end, it was just about something.

This is what it was. The focus was about something

being over versus US walking into a promise.

I'm so excited about this fast because the fast holds us

accountable to see something through.

All right, I gotta bop bop bop bop bop bop.

Yep, cool. All right, so love quest.

Get compensated for your suffering.

Come. On come, on come.

On. Come on, look at your neighbors

say we about to get compensated. Listen, listen, listen, listen,

This is this is this is look, look, this is scripture.

He said don't fling away your confidence because great

recompense is be not wearing well.

You know what I'm saying because in due season, right get

compensated for your suffering. That's God's plan is on the

other side of your suffering. You reap internally and

externally. Come on, somebody say David did.

Look what David said, who was talking to the men standing

around him as. What is?

What's? In it for the man.

Come on, somebody say what's in it for me?

Who kills that Philistine and gets rid of this ugly blot of

ends? Israel.

Israel's honor. Listen to what I'm telling you.

The Philistine physically in the Old Testament represents the

giants of the land today. The housing market issue is a

giant issue. It's a philistine issue, and

This is why the church revival is going to be involved with

affordable housing. How do I know that?

Because shelter is a promise and everybody got to come home.

So what does that mean? Housing is a net, so when we can

own property and be the operators of it, then we can

provide programming and love at a rate that's different than the

world, because the church's bottom line is different.

We're not under the pressure of having the overhead the world is

because therefore profit all through, through and through,

but because we tithe and we offering and we get a lot of

volunteer support. The level in which we can

provide what we're anointed to give puts us in a position to be

essential at a level that's absolutely mind boggling.

That will require the government to look at us and say, hey,

we're going to own this building over here, but we want to give

it to you so you could do your work in it.

Do you know how much, how many properties and empty buildings

that the government owns? And they will sit on it until

they have need for it? We will enter another COVID,

mark my word. Will we be essential?

What the COVID that just happened was light compared to

what's coming down the road. And we go look back and say, oh

man, we should have learned that protesting back then ain't the

mission. Fighting each other ain't the

mission. God gave us the seven years to

get in position for the seven years of famine and darkness.

And there's going to be some churches that just absolutely go

out because they didn't take the first one to understand what God

was really saying. The church's responsibility to

dark times is you want to understand why it's important

that we finish this building. Finishing this building going to

put us in some rooms. And there's some other little

stuff happened on the side that's going to put us in some

rooms. And God is setting us up to be

essential. Finishing validates my scars and

brings value to my wounds. My scars on the other side of

the finish line are my receipts. My scars don't mean nothing if

all my scars did was scar me. A failure is when a person who

has failed, fumble, and fallen but haven't been able to cash in

on the experience of that failure get compensated for your

suffering. Why?

Jesus did end with this Hebrews 12 looking away from all that

would distract to Jesus, who is the leader are you with me and

the source of our faith looking away from all that would

distract to who Jesus, who is the what leader and the what

source of our faith giving the first incentive for our belief

and is also. It's finisher bringing it to

maturity and perfection. You ready, He, for the joy?

Joy of obtaining the prize? Let me pause and ask you and see

if you see this. Who was the prize for the joy of

obtaining you? He went through the suffering.

He went through the shame that was set before him.

Look, he endured the cross, despising and ignoring the

shame. You ready Like Nehemiah said.

He said I can't come down. I'm not talking to shame.

And he's now seated This brother one place he was in pain and

then he they didn't kill him. Y'all know that he gave up his

spirit and the next thing after he gave up his spirit, what did

it say he rested after he finished?

He entered rest. Here's another part after he

finished. He's now seated.

What if I told you rest? Is on the other side of your

finish. This next season is only for the

remnant. Might I prophesied to you.

This next season is only for the remainders.

This next season is only for the non fainters.

I hope y'all can catch this. The devil can never finish you

because Jesus has finished your story.

I'm going to read it again. The devil can never finish you

because it is Jesus that has finished your story.

Revelations told us this latter day blessing and empowerment is

for the remnant. Revelations says this.

Are your ears awake? Listen to the wind words, the

Spirit blowing through the churches.

I'm about to call each conqueror to dinner.

I'm about to. I'm about to call each overcomer

to dinner. I am about to call each person

that is endured to dinner. I'm spreading a banquet of tree

of life fruit, a supper plucked from God's.

Orchard, this church. Will not be the Church of Loa to

Sia. The Bible warns that church.

And I will say, unfortunately, that we live in Loa to see it.

We live in the nation where overall the church believers are

lukewarm. And when he says he will spew

you out, it simply means he can't use you.

Loyd Lo Odyssea is a church he warns us about.

It is a type of church that will be in the last days.

It is a people that depends on themselves and believe getting

ahead monetarily is going to be what they need to get everything

he's provided. I'm here to tell a few of you

that we cannot afford to be lukewarm.

You can take this. We cannot afford to be lukewarm.

We do not have time when I hand my baton off I.

Want the next generation to be like because my baton is so hot

I want to hand off a baton that says I can't drop this one.

We do not have time to be fake, lukewarm, excuse making

believers. Malachi 4 warns us and tells us

that there will be a great separation in the last days.

And I'm here to tell you that great separation is not the

world from the the world from the church, because the world is

already separated. It is the church separation,

real from fake and I love a God that just draws the line and

make it clear if you want to be lukewarm, here's what you can

expect. You're unusable.

You're only savable. And when you want to stop being

saved and believe you already are.

And when you going to go from saved to used?

But I do know we serve the guy that only need 300.

He really only needs one. So what I am telling you is what

God's going to do in this country is not if you what I'm

telling you what God is about to do.

He's offering you an opportunity to join him.

And if not? Cool, stay on the sidelines and

be a spiritual Leech. Many are called, few are chosen.

That is not an in just statement.

He calls everybody. Only few respond.

The the the next step is not to look at the obstacles.

The next step is to say, God, whatever I got to do, you going

to have to give me strength because I got this in the way.

I got this in the way. I'm carrying this and carrying

this. Oh, you need me to put this

down, cool. You need me to get help, cool.

But whatever I got to do, I will not miss out on this opportunity

I want. To be in that number, I will be

in that number. And I'm sorry if we're not

preaching relationship goals for you.

And boy, if you could just fall in love with Jesus.

Every relationship, finances, yes, we need to be taught in

those things. But man, in this hour the Lord

is calling his sons and daughters home with your hands.

This is not an apology, but just what burns in my soul.

Guys, I just can't help and trust me, it's a burden.

To be on the front lines saying, hey, come, I see this in you,

God is calling this out of you. It's your time.

It's your family's time. It's never going to be the right

time. The right time is now.

And if all God is asking now is one step, then take one step.

That's it. Just take one.

You don't need 10. He's not calling you to leap.

He's calling you to step the city, this country, this region

needs clear, clear definition of what it looks to be like.

Here we go. Forget being a Christian, a

follower of Jesus. And there's some of you in here

that need to graduate from being a Christian to a follower.

Obedience is the highest form of love.

It's yes, Lord. He says if you obey me, you love

me. You, you prove your love.

You prove your reverence through allowing me to lead you.

After all, I've purchased you as my temple in the earth.

So just write where you are. Allow the Holy Spirit to remind

you of what's finished. I'm here to tell you, son.

I'm here to tell you, daughter, it's finished.

I'm even here to tell somebody that needs to hear this.

You don't need to be afraid of those old habits.

They are under your feet. You ready?

Addiction will not creep back into your life.

Come on. Come on.

You are now. I just need somebody to believe.

No, I am free. I'm actually free from that.

I don't have to worry about backsliding.

I'm actually free from that anxiety.

I don't have to worry about being overwhelmed by days and

days of of of anxiety. Oppression.

He has need of you today. He's saying be united, calm,

calm. Drink from the fountain.

Come on all over this room. Just lift your hands.

God's really doing it, you guys. I'm, I'm I, I could point out

testimonies right now. God is like really changing

people's lives. Like, man, if that's you, like

you, you got to open your mouth like.

Man, God is really changing people's mindsets.

He's changing their defaults. He's changing the way they used

to respond to pressure. Man, there are people rising.

There are people swelling up. There are people that are

expanding. Come on.

The Kingdom of God is expanding within you, here and now, here

and now, here and now, here and now.

He's here. Come on.

I know there's a world waiting for us to come out there and.

Go out and eat and do all these things, but man, just take a

moment for yourself. Love.

Yourself enough to be in this moment.

Yeah. You.

You. You.

You. You.

You. You.

You, the Lord says, I love you son.

I love you daughter. I see your pains, I see your

pressures, I see those secret fears.

I see, I see, I hear of a father saying in this next few months,

I am going to rid you of some things that have been passed on

to you. Generational fear, generational

anxiety. And this doesn't just mean that,

oh, I'm just going to sit there and I'm just God's going to take

it. This means I'm going to I'm

going to pick my mat up like he told me.

And I'm going. To get up and walk like he told

me. I'm going to go forward like he

told me. I'm going to stick my rod out

like he told me. This isn't just God.

No, God has an instruction for you.

And what is that, man? I'm here to tell somebody in

this. This is in your heart.

You don't have to leave this, this earth with you unfinished.

There are some things that you have your let me tell you, you

are OK if you just live the rest of your life with who you are

right now. You are pretty good.

Like you have a great personality, you're strong, you

have great coping mechanisms. But there's a level, there's

levels to freedom. And I believe it is the blood's

desire that we experience that level of freedom.

Glory to glory, man. I want you to experience not

worrying about what people think about you.

I want you to experience confidence after rejection.

I'm talking to somebody. If somebody break up with you,

if somebody leave you, if you experience divorce, I want you

to walk away from that with tears running down your face,

but knowing that you're still worth it.

I want you, some of you to lay down on your pillow and the

moment you hit it, you some of y'all don't get no good sleep.

Lift your hands if you need a sound mind right now.

Come on. We despise shame.

Sound mine sound mine sound mine.

During this fast, the Lord says for some of you that struggle

with a sound mind, you are going to your rod is going to be you

going to bed early. No, no, no, hear me, hear me,

hear me. It doesn't mean you going to go

to sleep early, but you're shifting something in the way

you think and and you going to turn everything.

You going to turn the TV off, you're going to turn your phone

off and you go go on the bed mean turning off distractions.

You don't mean going to sleep, It mean turn off distractions.

I got a time in my mind. I'm not ready yet, so I'm not

going to tell you what it is. Come on, sound mind.

By the end of these few months. I'm I'm telling you, you about

to start. No, no, no, no, look, you're not

losing your mind. It's not Alzheimer's, it's not

Alzheimer's. It's not also it's, it's not

dementia, it's not early dementia.

No, it's, it's some diet and rest that forgetfulness.

You just got to, you got to declutter your mind and you have

to get better sleep patterns. Watch how your mind is restored

in these next few months. Watch the level of energy you

start getting. One day you're going to forget

to drink your cup of coffee and you're going to realize you

forgot to drink it because you thought you drank it, you said.

Whoop, Wagga. I'm Kurt.

You don't have no coffee. Come on, lift your hands right

where you are. Some of you don't even know what

true joy is. In these next three months, the

the joy of the Lord is going to consume you.

God's going to make you laugh. And you're going to know because

there's going to be some people ask you what's gotten into you.

Say the joy of the Lord. Come on, hands all over the

room, this is my duty to send you off into this fast,

believing and expecting. Come on.

I believe more than anything else that the Lord wants to

restore rest to His children. Some of you over these next few

months, you don't get comfortable saying no and not

feeling bad about it. Come on, I'm coming, I'm coming

down your street. I'm coming down your street, I'm

coming down your street. You like something Lord, please

tell me something and also come on lift your hands right where

you are. Yes some of you over the next

three months you were going to get a fresh fight for your

marriage. A fresh fight.

Not a not a fresh fight like y'all going to fight about

something new. You don't need a word for that

and just just some of you are at the end, you're either either

ready to throw in the towel and quit or you just willing to be

like it is what it is. But the change in your marriage

in this season, it's not going to be them.

It's going to be you in these next three months.

Your, your, your answered prayer about your children, you will

see come to pass. And even if it's a partial

shift, celebrate that thing. Yeah, go ahead.

Celebrate it even now. Come on.

Lift your hands. Lift your hands.

He's here. He's here.

Miracles are breaking out. We don't need to sing it.

It's just I'm just letting. I'm making you aware.

Miracles. Come on.

Open your mouths. Right where you are.

All right where you are. He's doing it.

Remember, remember, if you was here Wednesday, the it's the

Kingdom is expanding with the open Heaven is within.

It's not out there. It's it's right here.

So then you open your mouth and release heaven that's within.

Release the rivers. Hear me out.

I don't know who this is for, but there's at least one of you

in here that you are going through a rough time in your

life because of someone you're in covenant with.

Their choices, OK, Their choices.

And how many people know we can be directly impacted by our

partners choices? Lord says James, draw near to

me. Come, I'll draw near to you.

But there's another passage that says as you resist the enemy,

the way you resist the enemy is you draw near to God and the

enemy will what? Your instructions for this

season is not to beg them off the Cliff.

It is not to even have the conversation anymore.

Is it not to tell them what you need from them.

It is for you to do what draw near.

As you draw near, the Father says I will handle the details.

He says for me to move in, I need you to move out.

That does not mean if you're in a marriage, that does not mean

move out. OK, so that's not a word from

the Lord. What he's saying is I need you

to stop doing my part. Your voice is louder than mine

in this season. So as you move, I will step in.

Let the issue go and endure, and as much as you want to say

something, SHH and worship me. Lift your hands one last time

before this year is over. The Lord will cause business

deals to be accelerated. Unexpected partnerships.

Sometimes we hesitate to say stuff like this because to some

people like how you know, but if you knew some of the stuff I

knew man, God's doing crazy stuff.

But I'm this is for someone that you are going to get a call

before this year is over about some Oh, and we found this

amount of money and it's supposed to be yours.

We was looking through this and we owe you.

There's some money that's yours you forgot.

There's some money that's yours that you didn't even have the

knowledge to know is yours. You gave it away through

ignorance. He won't get this phone call.

You going to get this mail and you I got it.

I got it. I got a little check that came

to my house from some for somebody the other day.

For no reason. It was just over what they were

supposed to pay. So that organization sent the

check. That person even know it was

over, but a check showed up and I took it to him and it was

like, oh, I was like, I can keep it.

That kind of thing. New testimonies.

Come on, new testimonies. So we're not going to get into

this song. I just want to say this one part

really quick. You made away.

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