Fight the Good Fight of Finishing Faith - Part 4 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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If you understood. What I just said, you would be

elated because it takes a long time to establish culture and

there's so many pieces to the culture happening.

You know, when I come out and hear the worship team, I don't

have to be at rehearsal. And it caught the vision of

medleys and passion and stepping into the anointing and

confidence and courage. And when I TuneIn and stream and

watch people preaching, a lot of women preaching, I will tell you

any church where the women voice is strong, confident, honorable,

anointed, and the women know who they are in Jesus, they're not.

They're not up here trying to prove themselves that they can

preach like another man. Whenever you can see that female

woman, daughter after daughter after daughter after daughter,

that church is unstoppable. So I want to say thank you for

every single person that touched this platform and honored this

platform and preach the Word of God.

Come on y'all. Can do better than that hey man

thank you to our elders for holding it down and covering us

and watching over us thank you for guest services production

parking lot SSK thank you love quest give yourself a big.

Old. You can be seated in the

presence of Yahweh. I love when who you leave behind

to step in your place. They raise the standard.

I love it. I'm competitive like that in a

in a real good way, though, But man, we got that's just

encouraging because it don't matter what church we plant.

We got preachers right. You ain't going to have to watch

me from somewhere on the TV screen.

We got anointed men and women right in this house.

Holy. Spirit activate.

I'm super excited must my 1st 9:00 AM service or experience in

history at Love Quest International.

Maybe we've done it earlier before, but y'all going to have

to bear with me because I got yeah, I got a lot, but I'm going

to you guys saw the video. I was just Lord just kind of let

me rest for about 3 weeks. I don't know if he it was rest,

but it was rest. And then probably about the

third week after conversation with Elder John, I hung up the

phone and my spirit was just like just just stirred up.

It was frustrating. It was some holy anger happening

and I really had to push past my emotions.

You know, I was talking to my wife.

I was talking about quitting. I was I was talking to Elder

John about this is time as you want to quit and give up and

standing before the people and constantly having to encourage

and tell people one day, one day, one day and we're believing

for 200 grand in two weeks and in two weeks coming we got 30

grand and you're like one day and you got to keep pressing and

asking, not asking, submitting opportunities for people to sow

into God's vision and you know your disciple people and they

don't get it you. It's so much overtime and you

never as a leader get to be really honest with people

because I have to be strong for you and be so I had a moment

where I was just talking to Elder John about some of the

just some frustrations and I only could share so much with

Elder John because I got to lead Elder John, right?

And so it could be a very lonely place.

And in that moment, the Lord says, son, this is, it's not

just faith, but there's way too many people that don't finish

the race. Zeal and passion can help you

start something. You don't need God to start.

You don't need the anointing to start.

The anointing is for finishing. And when I say you don't need

God to start, it's like men, how many people, just how many ideas

have you ever gotten? And you got pumped up and you

told somebody and you tried it and you started, you wrote it

down, but you didn't finish because you got discouraged when

that same joy that started, it wasn't there.

And so we think joy is the sign of continuation and it's not,

It's not the joy has to to search, certify what God's

called you to do. You have to at times feel like

he's nowhere around because you have to know for yourself that

God said you have to stand on the word.

You can't stand on his presence. You need his presence, but you

have to stand on his word because his word is always

present. And if you trust his word, then

you always have his presence. But you got to be able to finish

the race without feelings. And any champion, you know, they

know how to not play emotionally.

They're not moved by 18,000 fans booing them.

Quite frankly, a true champion. Love playing on the road.

And guess what? Believers are on the road.

This is not our home and unless you know how to play in the

opposing teams territory, you'll never finish.

We look throughout the Bible, we look throughout history is great

men started great work, but great men that started great

work also had Great Falls. And we are in a time where great

men that have great works are not finishing.

Lord says son. And then this building is less

about the building, but God has given us a project that is going

to make us who He's called us to be.

If we don't finish that, we don't finish the assignment.

You ever went to school and you had projects that were hard and

you didn't want to do them, but you finish them.

There was information, there was research you did.

There was late nights, you push through, there was tears, there

was frustration. If you would have stopped,

there's a lot of things you wouldn't have learned.

So having patience requires finishing.

You don't have patience if you don't finish.

Patience and endurances for finishing.

Patience is not for moving on to the next thing and leaving

everything incomplete. And when I'm talking about

finishing, yes, corporately God has given this church, this

building next door as a corporate assignment.

But as everyone press forward to finish what God gave us, He's

going to give you a finishing anointing for what He gave for

it to you individually, right. You can't see, Oh, this is not

my building, this love quest building.

No, no, no, no, no, it is your building.

It is our building. And in the perseverance of

seeing it to the finish, we will see the reward.

Rest is on the other side of finishing.

And what I said, what, what do you, what do you what, what,

what one of the conversations I was having is, man, you see

people get weary and you're like, I can't give big.

So I'll stop giving. Not knowing that you're

consistent giving of, of any level of sacrifice breaks you

through to the level of giving you desire to give, right.

And it's not just about showing up Sunday and saying, what do I

have? It's about throughout the week.

Lord, I want to go into the house with seed.

So I'm looking for seed. How can I get the seed to finish

the assignment? Here's Jesus.

He finished, but he's still working.

He finished and he said he went to the right hand and now he's

forever more interceding for you.

He's still interceding for you. He's still working on your

behalf. The cross wasn't the stop of his

work for you. So how dare I say here, this is

what I gave. This is my sacrifice.

And this is not. About the remnant as much as

it's about the remnant that is providing us an opportunity or

finish work within us. And so he says, son, I'm ready

to take you all through the finish line.

And throughout Love Quest history, I've never preached a

series that directly spoke to a project we were in.

Most churches you go to, if they're in a building project,

they're going to preach on the building project.

Most pastors, if they just wrote a book, that series that you're

about to hear is the book. I've only preached what God has

told us to preach as we go. And I listened to some of the

words that have been released in this house over the last several

months. And then he puts finishing faith

on it. And I said, it makes sense why

you've been walking us in all these different areas.

He has, he has broken us down. He has patted us on the back.

He has told us about his sufficiency.

He has told us about how enough he is.

He has presented himself as king.

He has built us up. He has broken us down.

And when you think of working out, there's a breaking down

before there's a building up and the Lord's ready to finish this

year. There's there's, there's

graffiti on the buildings we went in the other day, broken

windows that's been put in electrical panel torn down.

God's like that's y'all building.

If it don't get finished, what you expect the people to walk by

and see? Right now the owners have some

place to do so. Right now we're in a standstill

because the owners have to finish their part.

We can't do anything until the owners finish their part.

But don't let the owners finish their part and we can't finish

ours. So God's trying to get us ready

in the batter's box. So when it's our turn, it's go

time because those same people that are are are are are

vandalizing the building are the same people that's going to get

delivered and get saved. And so we going to finish.

Yeah, God's doing a new thing. Leaving and forgetting the old

things does not mean not finishing.

When we're talking about finishing, you're going to see

over the next couple months that there's things within you you

haven't finished. I'm talking about we are going

to go on a journey where we look at things that we have not

finished. I got a book I'm supposed to

finish. I'm talking about God's trying

to finish the work. Some of y'all got songs.

You got books you got you got things you've been putting on

hold thinking that time you going to find time.

No, he already told us it's going to be stuff up on top of

stuff up on top of stuff. So no wonder he would give us a

finishing anointing. I heard a Virgil from off White

E passed away. God bless his soul.

But he was telling artists the other day, why would you make

one piece of art? He said I make 6 pieces of art

at a time. I put six pieces out because in

the process of putting out multiple projects, you actually

learn more than resting on the one.

You learn more. Evolution, innovation comes out

of you taking risks multiple ways.

So we going to release 6 sneakers at a time.

We going to plant 3 churches at a time.

We're going to understand what I'm saying.

In order to finish, you cannot play safe.

As sports fans, we live for great finishes.

As movie critics, we live for great dramatic endings.

As foodies, we live for the dessert that top an amazing meal

off. As romantics, we live for the

happy ending. How something ends determines

the value of the wait. Was it worth the wait?

Was it worth the pain? How it finishes for you is up to

you, because he's already finished his work.

There's happy endings, frustrating endings, confusing

endings, dumb endings, strong endings, Cliff hanging endings,

sweet endings, bitter endings. Things is in the Kingdom.

They're all finished. They're all meant to be

finished, and things in the Kingdom all have A to be

continued value until the author and finisher returns for the

final finish in Christ. There's no wasted finish.

There's no bad finish. You just got a what finish?

Because we know the end is sweet.

Because He works everything together for our good and what

the enemy meant for evil. He works for our good so we can

count it all. What joy in knowing this.

Because I know the end result is glorious.

It makes it a good fight. Because I know the end is

glorious. That's what makes it a good

fight. If I can just get through the

finish and very, very specific with through because God is not

calling us to the finish line and a lot of us are satisfied

standing on this side of the ribbon.

But I've never watched a race where the runner runs to the to

the ribbon and stops. He causes us and cause us to

finish through the ribbon full speed until the ribbon hits my

chest. The finish line should be behind

us. A good fight is a world worth it

fight. A good fight is a noble fight, a

good fight is an honorable fight, and a good fight is a

memorable fight. I'm parking on good fight

because we want to park on finishing faith, but you cannot

finish if you don't see the battle.

Your end is good. All God's fights result in

salvation, freedom, reconciliation, healing,

deliverance, nations being saved, walls being rebuilt,

cities being reclaimed. A good fight, a God fight always

finishes with Mamas embracing their sons again and fathers

embracing their daughters, prison doors opening, demons

fleeing, cancer, reversing poverty being broken.

A good fight always finishes with testimonies that will

transcend the times and leave the enemy's plans demolished,

destroyed, obliterated, void, canceled, failed and frustrated.

A good fight, Somebody say a good fight.

The Kingdom is advanced. Our sons and daughters inherit

the Kingdom. That's why a good fight is an

excellent fight. A good fight does include some

stars, some scars. I'll say it again, A good fight

does include some scars, some embarrassments, some pain, some

abrasions. But the pain, the abrasions, the

embarrassment and those bruises aren't signs of defeat.

They're signs of endurance and perseverance and overcoming.

You're standing here today with your scars and bruises and the

memories of your trauma is a miracle, a sign and a wonder.

A testimony that our God is faithful.

Like those nail pierced hands shown to Thomas testify to the

resurrection power that can only be obtained through the

challenges that contend for your finish.

It was finished at the cross. But quickly hell lost it got

cracking in three days. Now we back on top right, We

understand that Jesus didn't hide his wounds from Thomas.

So in the resurrection he came back with his wounds.

He didn't come back scarless. His resurrected body had the

evidence he died. See, your sign of victory can't

be scarless. Your signs of victory is that

you finished with the scars, right?

We're not trying to get rid of our wounds.

That's our wounds is our evidence.

We're trying to finish with nail pierced hands.

I want imprinted in my life. I made it through something.

If you could just get to the finish line, I'm telling you,

you will see the glory of the Lord like never before.

You've sown too much not to see a harvest.

You've cried too much not to experience joy.

You've forgiven too much not to encounter love.

You've stood too long not to see the hand of God.

You've endured too much to not taste and see your due season.

And that the Lord is good. Shout out, I'm a finisher.

Finishing does not mean finishing unblemished.

Somehow you think you can't finish in your pain.

Your pain, your scars do not disqualify your finish.

Your pain actually has the gasoline to accelerate you to

your finish. We don't faint, we finish.

We don't faint. We finish.

We don't faint, we finish. This is the good fight of

finishing faith. You heard us say, you heard God

say, and it was like real quick. Next generation won't have to

slow down or turn back, or I might I add, or break stride

even. We will finish our leg of the

race, pull, throttle. The next generation won't have

to finish this building. Next generation won't have to

finish the next building. The next generation will not

have to slow down because we will be a generation that

finishes strong. Yes, he's doing a new thing,

yes, but the new thing is a finished thing.

That's what you got to understand.

The new thing is not really a new thing.

It's a finished thing. Here I was thinking about this

when I'm trying to raise my kids right.

And you know how as kids and even as adults, we you tell your

parent, your kids something? And they act like they already

been to the end. I only can give them wisdom for

somewhere I've already been, but then they don't want to trust

the evidence that I bring back. This is what God did.

He went all the way to the end and then He met you at your

birth and throughout your life. The Holy Spirit say, Nope, don't

go there. Nope, I've been there.

Hey, go here because I've already paid for that.

You got three restaurants in front of you.

All of them is good. God says I paid for that one.

Be like, I'm going to go try this one over here.

Wait a minute. He, you, all of them good,

Equally good. He paid for that one.

Come on, He's doing a new thing. But the new thing, it's a

finished thing. After Moses, Yahweh's servant

died, Yahweh spoke to Joshua son of nun Moses faithful assistant

and said I need y'all to hear it is.

My servant Moses is what dead? What's the next word now?

What's the next word now? What's the next word now?

Get up. God is not asking Joshua to

start a new thing. He's asking Joshua to continue

the race of a promise that has already been given that somebody

didn't finish. Moses was supposed to finish.

Joshua was supposed to take over in the Promised Land.

No. No, you ain't going here,

Terrence. My servant is dead, Malachi.

Now, can you go finish the remnant?

No. And who in here wants to hand

off an assignment? Wait a minute, let me ask you

this. How equipped is the person you

hand off an assignment you didn't want to finish that you

was called to mentor? Part of discipleship is showing.

People how to what? Finish.

Part of discipleship is showing people your scars now trying to

show up perfect. You've been thinking God's been

trying to ask you to lead perfect.

No, he's like, oh, you got some scars lead.

You got some pain, lead. And as you lead others to their

healing, I'm healing you. Prepare to cross the Jordan

River. Prepare to cross the low they

they look they they had a Jordan River.

We just got low alleyway over here to cross OK you and all the

people lead them into the land that I am get what God is asking

us to finish. He's given, he said.

I got the provision to the Israelites giving it to you.

Every part of the land, every part of the land where you

March, I will give you. Why did I underline March?

Because it didn't say where you walk.

You say where you sleep. It sounds like he's saying where

you take over, where you walk in authority, where you walk in

certainty, where you walk in urgency.

I will give you as. I promised Moses.

What God has promised you is old news.

He promised your parents what he was given your bloodline.

He promised your great Graham. He promised Abraham.

We're not finishing nothing new. We're finishing something

finished. There's rest in that.

Your borders will. Extend Joshua.

No one will be able to defeat you.

Look, if you're not ready to run through a wall, this is going to

be a wrong the wrong series for you because because this series

is not raising up an army. This this series is dispatching

an army. I'm going to do it's deploying.

It's it's, it's it's we bout to we bout to run through some

stuff. If I could share some of the

things that that the enemy see, when I look at graffiti, when I

look at the panels being torn, when I look at windows being

broken into, I just see the enemy.

He knows what's about to happen. You see, on the individual

level, this is what happened. You take all of that kind of

resistance as that's not God's will, right?

And it's like I see the enemy throwing a fit.

He tried to delay the permit. There's all these things he's

trying to use to discourage us because I don't want you to see

this word. No one will be able to defeat

you. Which in other words, when I see

this word right here, he's saying you're going to have to

fight for it, but no one will defeat you.

You're going to have to wrestle for it, but no one will be able

to defeat you. You're going to have to cry a

little bit, but no one will be able to defeat you.

So all I have to do is set my mind on what finishing.

But I love this part. For the rest of my life.

I got a victory promise for the rest of my life.

I just got to go in the way. He showed me and told me I will

be with you as I was with Moses Terrence.

So look at Moses. You saw I was with him.

AC couldn't stop him. I will never fail nor abandon.

You, you must be strong though, and break.

Why I got to be strong? Because I got to fight.

Why I got to be strong Because I'm going to be tempted to be

discouraged. Why do I got to be strong?

Because I might veer off to the left or to the right.

I'm going to get unfocused. That's promised.

Then, in the last days, the very elect will be deceived, snatched

away, bamboozled. So I cannot afford to go to the

left and go to the right. I actually have to simplify my

life because the simple things in Christ is way more than

enough for me to way more than I can handle.

Simple in Christ is way more than you can handle.

This project we in is simple but way more than I can handle.

Yeah, $1,000,000 and $1.5 million.

He likes son. If you can't get this project

done, if you can't flip, no garage y'all, y'all love quest

ain't going to last for the rest of what I got.

No, I got garage faith way more than garage faith.

OK, but then I had, like I told Elder John, I got to take the

pressure off of me and my family.

I'm not going to be a drop dead pastor.

Listen to me, y'all, If y'all, you know how free I am.

If y'all don't want to give, we just won't get a building.

I'm not going to kill myself. And and I'm I'm, I kind of feel

good about saying this, but I'm not going to cut my salary

either. If y'all don't want to, If y'all

just want to stay here, fine. This is our church.

Yeah. I'm I'm, I'm blessed to lead,

but this is for your grandchildren because if this

church is for me, then when I leave where the church going?

If, if I pass, when we pass 80 years from now, where where the

love quest going? This is a soil for your future.

You got pastors killing, they self starving they families.

To build a building, I much rather spend money on ministry

than a building. Although a building is to host

ministry. We can't equip the Saints in

Vancouver. Outside for sure.

Maybe in Southern California, but not in Vancouver.

We need a building, but it's way too many people killing

themselves and God says son. No, no, no, no, no.

I just asked you to leave my children.

They got to take ownership. And it's not just you.

And here I'm just talking to all those to come, those not here.

You will lead the people to acquire.

You will lead the people for the people to acquire and apportion

the land that I promise there. Moses, you're going to lead them

into a land, I promise. Their family so you understand

the weight of someone that's leading.

They're also they're also in a work and committed to your

bloodlines promise. That's why some of you have

brought family here and you've seen family come to the halt and

we pray for them. They don't got to be members

here. But because you are a part of

this family, the work happening in here directly impacts your

bloodline. Look what he says ancestors.

I would give them you must remain.

You must remain, come on, say that with me.

You must remain very strong and courageous.

So he's not calling us to finish Wimpy.

So he's like, I think there's a grace for you to feel faint, but

then there's a grace to like where the enemy is like, whoa,

whoa. Whoa, whoa, no, wait a minute.

I thought I had you. I thought they was down.

I I thought, I thought one more punch.

They for sure was gone. And then all of a sudden, you

rising out the ashes, you, you, you make, you get your second.

Win, he says. You must remain very strong,

very courageous. We must remain.

We got to finish the race, we got to finish the course and we

got to finish the season. I don't know about you, but the

house I grew up in, my Mama would not let me leave the table

till I finished. All love it, baby.

Be be sitting there falling asleep in his little his little

food chair. She like I don't care what

you're doing. Call me when you're done.

You got to finish the race. You got to finish the course.

You got to finish the season. We must remain there, Lord said.

There's some of you guys. They.

Yeah, the Goliath in your life. Your strongholds have been

knocked down, but you refuse to cut the head off.

You're at the finish line of your freedom, but you're not

through the finish line of your freedom.

And right when you're at the finish line of your freedom,

this is when the enemy brings in distractions.

Because what happens at the finish line, if I get distracted

with new responsibility, it's hard to finish the last one.

You see why he's putting emphasis on finishing?

Because he's trying to say Hola. Hola, Hola Hola.

You still ain't finished that. You still ain't finished you.

You still ain't mature. That one little thing.

And before you carry it into a new assignment, new

relationship, and new assignment, guess what?

You have to finish that because all the enemy needs is a small

fox. All he needs is 1 little seed.

And so you got rid of the apple tree, but an apple seed fell in

your pocket and you about to take it into a relationship, you

about to take it into a new business.

And the Lord says no, I want to finish it, I want to uproot it,

and I want to annihilate the strongholds.

We must remain, because there's no reaping if there's no

remaining. There's no reaping if there's no

remaining. No.

I've sown a lot of tears and a lot of seed, and my grandmama

has two and my Mama has two and my uncle has two and my aunties

have two. Who in the generation going

harvest it? Who in the family going harvest

it? Who's?

Going to remain. We must remain.

We must stay in the fight and get ready to finish.

You are anointed to finish. Come on, tell your neighbor.

Because they didn't quite hear it and they don't quite believe

it. Tell your neighbor you're

anointed to finish. Stop looking silly.

Tell them to stop looking silly. Part 2.

Come on. Don't be.

Scared. What he's calling us to defeat

is directly to our ability to finish what he is calling us to

defeat. OK, practical.

There's character issues, there's there's strongholds that

get in the way of finishing assignments.

Like, right, if, if I, if I'm sick, I might call into work.

Therefore I can't go to work and do my part, or I'll call into

school and I can't go to school. There is something that I have

to overcome in order to finish the assignment.

What is it in you and your personal life that God is saying

you need to finish it? Kill it so that we can finish

the assignment. Like, like David had to

encounter Saul because Saul was in David.

David had a little bit of Saul in them.

This is why you often encounter folks.

It's getting David to stand on, get on your nerves because guess

what? It's a little.

Bit of them in you and you hate seeing you and other people

because you've been trying to hide that part of you so.

You don't want to be their friend because they bring up

you, they they show you you. But David had to deal with Saul

in a honorable way. He had to stand with Saul.

He had to love him some Saul. And guess what?

What is it in your life that God is saying I just before you

become king of Israel like David's anointed three times.

Why at every stage there was new dimensions and but there was

depths within him he had to deal with and unfortunately, I'm

sorry God's never done uprooting.

If we're heading to perfection, which we're far from, you will

go to your grave transforming. So you're like, man, I just went

through this season. I just got healed.

Now you're healed. You can actually look at some

stuff. Some of us, we were too immature

for God to reveal how broken we really are.

So God will help you deal with the fruit.

And then when you're healed from the fruit, he'll say, now let's

dig and get to the. Root, let's now deal with your

abandonment issues since now you not too quick to worry about

like you don't people please no more.

So you're healed from people pleasing.

Now let's deal with the root of why you people please.

This is why we got to deal. We got to deal with the Goliaths

within us. So the Kingdom, the promise

that's within us, it's all within us.

So if I don't want to heal, I don't want to finish.

And then the promise that's within me can never be

manifested, flow out of me into other people's lives.

What He's calling us to defeat is directly connected to our

ability to finish. Whenever God has anointed you to

finish something, He's also anointed you to defeat

something. He would not be saying it's

finishing season if He has not anointed you to cut the head off

something because God know you can't take that into the

promised land. So He's not going to ask you to

go into the promised land without also anointing you to

overcome the things that can't go with you.

Am I talking to at least two people?

So Caleb quieted the people before Moses.

I love this. Caleb quieted the people because

they was complaining. Caleb and Caleb brought back a

good report. He said we can take this, we can

finish this. What's what's 1.5?

What? What was a giant to a king?

We could do this and then you got the people.

I don't know. We ain't got nothing.

I ain't. I don't know, man, that my

family, I was born in this and I was born in that.

And no, you start listening. All these insufficiencies and

you. Need some Caleb's in your life?

That's quiet enough of what we can't do.

This is the season where you going to have to quiet the doubt

endowed the doubters, the names that you going to have to quite

if God put told you to do something.

I don't care how crazy it sounds to somebody else.

You going to have to just you just going to have to deal with

the separation that obedience causes.

Let us go up at this is at one season.

God, man, God, it's been so gracious, letting us drag our

little pity parties around with us.

He said all right, I'll let you cry.

I'll let you sit in a ditch. I'll let you complain.

I'll let you blame your trauma. I'll let you blame your Mama.

I'll let you blame your brother. I'll let you blame that that

that church heard for so long. It's over at once.

I'll let you grieve over Moses, but at once.

Now there's some stuff I need to get in this dispensation of time

into the earth, because I got some people in waiting and I'm

about to send some kids in the next 10 to 15 years, start a new

generation, and I need them to have a different starting place

than you. I got to get some revelation in

the land. I got to get some books in the

land. I got to get some songs in the

land. I got to get some stuff in the

land. We wouldn't be where we are

without people writing their books and writing their songs.

We got to give birth to it. This isn't just the building.

It's songs, it's albums, it's labels, it's it's all kinds of

things that we got to give birth to so then it can get to where

it's supposed to get by the time it's time to hand it off.

There's some stuff we can't give off or hand off started.

We got to hand off finish stuff. What do you say, though?

We are well able to conquer. Look at the confidence.

Yeah, you think Caleb didn't see the same giants?

He says man. But it comes a point where you

just can't let that stuff in your ears.

So as loud as you are complaining and magnifying the

enemy, I'm going to open my mouth even louder and say, man,

we could do this. Let's go possess it.

We're well able to conquer it. And God drew a finish line

through all of eternity. God drew a finish line through

all of eternity when he said it was finished every work.

That he's finished. Every work that he's called us

to is finished. So how the word says.

I am convinced and confident of this very thing.

That he who has begun a good work.

Where? Where's the work?

It's not next door. If he can't finish the work in

you, he can't finish next door for you.

If he can't finish the work in you, he can't finish your desire

for things that you want in this world.

Like why you want to show up unfinished?

He says put work in you, he will continue to mature and worse

that work finish it. If the spirit of the Lord is in

you, guess what's in you, the finisher.

Why? Why does he say I'm not alpha

and Omega at the beginning and the end I am the author and the

fit. Like, why would he want us to

know that's what he is? If you're anointed, If you're

filled with the Spirit. You're a finisher.

God is looking to put resources in people that are aware of

their finishing anointing, the anointed one and his anointing

is upon his anointed to finish. Jesus said to them My food, I

want you to see this is to do the will of him you ready who

sent me and to accomplish. He says my nourishment is in

completing what God asked me to finish.

How I get peace, how I get strength is I finish my

assignments. I love this.

He says to finish his work. What do you mean on the 6th?

On the 7th God said he finished his work.

So why'd Jesus say he came to finish his work?

Wasn't it finished? Great question pastor.

You can see it by the cross eyes that are in the room.

Jesus work was to make the way. He was to put it in to the veil,

to the veil between us and our Father.

He was to bring us back. He was to be the way, He was to

make the way back. Our work is to show them the way

and to lead them to the way. Look what Luke 18 says.

He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily.

However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find persistence

in faith? Will he find people pressing

towards the mark? Ready?

Very key part. The higher calling and it's way

too many Christians busy and stressed out over the lower

calling. The higher callings is like

fighting and contending for a space for families to come in to

be discipled, to be saved, to be healed, to be delivered.

Because those people that get healed and saved and delivered

and discipled, then they go to where they're called to make

impact and then they bring healing and discipling.

And by the time you get to heaven and when it's all said

and done, you're going to look at that one little moment in

your life, that 1.5 million, that that little deliverance

you, you finally humbled yourself to go through.

And you're going to look like, wow, my life, my fingerprints

are on the lives of millions of people.

There are people's lives you are going to impact that you will

never meet until we all see King Jesus.

Close with this and we'll pick up next experience by the 7th

day. God we got to finishing.

Father, I want you to see this though, this is this is going to

get into this next, next experience.

He completed creating his masterpiece.

So on the 7th day, here's what he did.

He couldn't rest until we finished.

Some of y'all are looking for rest and there's rest in the

finish. It's not rest in Maui because

when you come back, you still got to come back.

And what finish? Look, look, he says on the 7th

day he rested from all his work. How did he rest from all his

work? Because he finished his

masterpiece and y'all have to hear me.

In order to find true rest, we must live in the finished.

It's not living in the what's next.

It's not. Living in the Who's next?

It's living in the what finished?

As we enter into God's faith rest life, the faith rest life,

the faith rest life, we cease from our own works, just as God

celebrates His finished works. I want you to see this and rest

it. What does God rest in y'all?

This is so major right here. God rest in his finished work.

God rest in the finish. He's anxious for nothing because

everything's finished. I'll say it again, he's anxious

for nothing because everything's finished.

So This is why he tell us be anxious for nothing.

You can't tell me that unless everything's finished.

And most of our stress comes because we're chasing stuff that

he didn't start nor finish and you're praying and fasting and

sewing for him to finish something.

He's like, I can't finish a thing I haven't already

finished. You need to find what I finished

and rest in that so I can wait on this because it's finished.

He told me it's finished. So like our kids, it's like,

hey, try this. Stay away from that.

I know it's tough, but watch after a few years of staying

away from that, you're going to see a finished work.

Can you trust this finished before you see it finished?

So he says, Let us be therefore zealous and exert ourselves to

strive diligently to enter that rest.

The master finisher has put his finishing DNA in his

masterpieces. The master finisher has put his

finishing DNA in his masterpieces.

I will leave you with this beautiful statement He showed me

and I swear it's going to bless you some of y'all.

We were God's finishing touch in creation.

I want you to see this creation wasn't finished till He finished

you. Who are you that He needs to

finish you before He rests? He needed to finish you before

He could rest. So now you see why he won't give

you rest until you finish you. Because his rest is in the

finished you, the new you. If you want to know who the new

you is, it's the finished you. There's no authority and

dominion without the ability to finish.

You want to walk in authority. You want to see favor with God

and man. You want to be essential.

Finish God assignments and watch the doors He opens for us and

for you as you take on His finishing DNA.

Lift your hands right where you are.

Father, in the name of Jesus, you are the author and the

finisher. Therefore we declare we're

finishers as well. But as Moses says, I can't

finish and let your spirit go with me.

We just declare now simply that everything you have promised it

stands. Great is your faithfulness, and

we thank you. It is finished, it is done.

It is well in Jesus name, Amen. Shout out real quick.

I am a finisher. Look at your neighbors, say you

are a finisher. All right, I'm so happy to be

back. Welcome back really quickly,

really quickly, really quickly. I got to get in the flow of this

this 9:00 AM experience, so bear with me really quickly.

So when I when we were doing this, the Lord said there are

some things you're going to have to do practically because we

serious about finishing. So one of the things what I need

you guys to do over in pro present, I need you to go back,

go to the end of my slides and just put up one of those slides.

It's two different variation of the of the flyer, but the Lord

says y'all going fast Now look now, now, now look.

I want y'all to see how long the fast is and don't pass out until

I explain what the fast is. Oh, you'll see how long the fast

is. Laura.

Laura, stop breathing. Laura, start, stop breathing.

Laura, stop, don't stop breathing.

All right, y'all see that we are starting on August 12th and we

going fast until we walk through those doors next door.

That's what, that's what I know some of you guys are like, Oh my

God. Look, look, look, but look at

where some of y'all faith is. You like Dang, that's a long

time. Folks going to be praying now.

Lord, please hurry up. Get these doors open now.

Here it is. Listen, listen to me.

I am very fair. We will have the details out

this week. Here's what's going to happen.

The details of this facet first when it comes to food is we're

going with no sugar. Listen, listen closely.

We're going no sugar, no process like junk food, none of that.

No fried food. We'll have the list.

You can eat whatever meat you can eat.

It's just no processed stuff, No fried stuff, no sugar.

Listen Monday through Friday, Saturday and Sunday, if you just

a pig like that, you just blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah. You go right ahead, You go right

ahead. OK, so we are going to be

disciplined with the food part Monday through Friday.

Like you eat your chicken, you eat ribs, You could do whatever

you could do, but you just no sugar, no processed food, no

junk food sodas, not like it's pretty much clean eating.

And then you can modify that how you want to.

It could be organic meat, it could be whatever.

It could be 20 wings for $2.00 from the dollar store wherever

you want to, however you want to.

A some of y'all just want cheap food so it don't matter.

You just get dollar store chicken.

All right, all right, So it's Monday.

We'll have the details by Wednesday, but we will fast

Monday through Friday, seven days.

Well, let me, let me, let me just slow down then there.

What I'm asking you to do is I'm asking you to fast from what

he's been dealing with you about finishing.

I'm talking about practical stuff.

For some of you, it may be shopping right, Right.

But soon as the doors of the church open, all right, you can

get your grand opening outfits. You can do what you got to do.

But listen, listen, whatever it is, if it's social media, if

it's TV and this is not, don't you can't shop Monday through

Friday. That part is until that's every

day. Y'all got what I'm saying?

You be honest with yourself. What is this something that God

has been dealing with you about? It could be attitude, it could

be pride. You're going to practically put

to death some small foxes stuff that seemingly it's just like

it's a problem, but it may not just be like killing you or but

it it it it messes with relationships, it's messes with

your consciousness. You got to be secretive about it

a little bit. And if it's porn, like just kill

it for the rest of your life. OK, We're not after the fact

soon, as soon as the soon as we walk into the building, we going

to go back and get no, some stuff just got to be dead.

OK, So you have to be honest about that.

We'll have details Wednesday. But God is very serious about

finishing this year. And so, yeah, stand to your

feet. And then in that process you're

going to get back to. I know for me, I got like couple

chapters to finish writing to finish this book, like stuff you

just been putting on hold. If there's seasons that God's

been asking you to finish, I don't care what it is, if it's

stuff, talent, stuff, singing, if it's right, if the Lord said

retire in this season, retire because there's things that you

need to finish so you can step into the new thing.

I'm talking to some people because they see there's some

people looking down to the ground.

Hey, man. And then Wednesday, we're

starting a new series. I'm asking for now on when we

start a new series, at least be there for the day of its

starting. OK.

This next series is going to be called Open Heaven and Earth,

and we are going to deal with interacting with the King,

establishing his Kingdom and dominion and authority by his

Spirit. We're going to deal with what

living under an open heaven and walking with God looks like.

Amen. Put your hand on your neighbor's

shoulder. So good to see, y'all.

I hope I ain't forgetting nothing.

If I am, oh, well, they probably heard it already.

All right, I'm going to forget it.

Is this somebody that needs something else that I'm not

aware of? We good.

All right. Lord bless them.

Until next time, get your love fixed man, have a good one.

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