Fight the Good Fight of Finishing Faith - Part 6 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Maybe someone in here, maybe he was here earlier, maybe I don't

know. But you, you walked in a little

weak and somebody in here, I know it's a couple people in

here. You heard a word, you heard

something, but you kind of was walked in here.

Felt defeated a little bit. You just like, oh, just a little

weary. But something has shifted and

you like, no, I can't, I can, I can do this.

I don't know how, I don't know when, but but something inside

is telling me I can do this. If if that shoe just lift your

hand. The miracles are breaking out.

Miracles are breaking out. Come on.

Miracles are breaking out. Come on.

Miracles are breaking out. Come on, Miracles are breaking

out. Miracles are breaking out.

Miracles are breaking out. Miracles are breaking out

because the Spirit of the Lord is here.

Spirit of the Lord is here. You ready to lift your hands?

There's freedom here in your prayer.

Walk there. Come on, where's your faith at?

None. Everything.

Come on if you believe it. 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, 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 your.

Weeping may endure for a night. Come on, if that's you, shout

out the other part. Because 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'm 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 stairs. 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 they 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 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 sounds 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, right?

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 like I can't find it.

So I guess I'm a settle. I said Son, Prince King.

Juice hey, 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 no one got

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

And then you over there with sweet cheeks 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 or 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

today. 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 altar without 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 because 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 scars. 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 up to a woman and be like I have saved all of me, none of

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

commodity these days, but the world is telling you the total.

Opposite the good fighter finishing faith.

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

A couple of the guys raised a hand, two women raised their

hands. Almost a coach, almost one in

the back, right? I was hoping everybody raised

their hand right because guess what?

There is 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. I was watching you guys this

week. I want to see if it's going to

fail and it was going to come back.

That's the one I'm arrived with. The big worry was that the heat

and humidity, we just tried to to put it aside and just

concentrated on the race. My head and everything was still

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

To. Dehydration your body cramps up.

I kind of, I told myself, tried to keep running, 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 wasn't a permit 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 sucked 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 gonna 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 say 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 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.

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 required, but

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

Much are required, but who's forgiven?

Much? The what?

Love my soul. When you see this shouting, this

praise and this 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 or 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, chica BA, 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 loose it.

You know it's somebody kid. Hey can you open this this Jelly

for me? And then you just like I always

at 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 the open door happened. So I got some people to say

thank you to. And in Violet, she said.

You you from Oaktown? She a white lady, too.

She a Caucasian lady. OK.

You from Oaktown? 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 hands 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 gonna help me land

this plane? OK y'all gonna help me land this

plane on this? Side this side Are y'all gonna

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, 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

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 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.

Can you start serving? You getting.

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 PTB

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 is

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, bro, 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 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 and 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 Kobe 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 ba ba ba ba ba.

Yep, Cool. All right, so love quest, get

compensated for your suffering. 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

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 Davis said, who was

talking to the man 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 they're for 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 I'll 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 prophecy 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 come.

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, the Sia, the Bible warns that church.

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

Lloyd Low 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 join him, 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 were 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 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. Come, come, 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 can 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 and 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. And 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 mind, sound mind, sound mind 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're 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 the Sir.

No, no, no. Look, you're not losing your

mind. It's not Alzheimer's.

It's not Alzheimer's. It's not all.

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 turd. 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 to 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.

Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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