Cry Holy: The Return to the Fear of God pt 3 | PM 2.11.24

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We thank you for the the breath of life.

Thank you. We get to release a sound.

I just thank you, Father, for your revelation.

Power in this place. Illuminate.

Shine your light deep down into the depths of our inner man.

Illuminate. Thank you for the spirit of

revelation flowing in this place.

I pray that some people at least have one eye open tonight, if

not both. I pray for eyes to see and ears

to hear, and I thank you for mine to not merely comprehend.

I'm not necessarily looking for comprehension.

I want impartation first, and then I want understanding of

what you're saying. And I know there's a difference

between understanding of what you're saying and me trying to

comprehend according to how I think.

So I just take my little brain and submit it to you and I ask

you to breathe in my mind however you want to.

Lord, I will say you have to look no further.

You have found the sun that you can use however you want to use.

You are the Potter, I am the clay.

Say what you want to say tonight.

Move how you want to move. The floor is yours, Lord, our

hearts are yours. May we move from attending

church to being attentive to your voice because you don't

take attendance. Yeah, you take attention.

So, Lord, I will say for me personally, I don't know about

nobody else in this room but you have my attention.

You have my attention, Lord, tomorrow will take care of

yourself. Later tonight will take care of

yourself. My attention are right where

both of my feet are here and now.

Therefore I declare, since you have my attention and my heart

is good ground, go on ahead, Sow what you need to sow and we will

steward it and it will produce hundredfold.

I got the faith to produce hundredfold, but for some, some

30, some 60. But I'm just going to be greedy

for myself a hundredfold. Whatever.

You sow into my heart tonight. In the Richmond family's heart

tonight. Hundredfold.

It will produce this year. Yes, Lord, hundredfold.

I call my faith to rise up to a hundredfold faith.

Come on. I stir my faith up to a

hundredfold faith. Yeah.

We rebuke the Devourer right now.

Everything that's mine come now in Jesus name.

Hundredfold. My heart is tender.

My heart is ready. We fasted.

We prayed. We we we've been hungry.

We've been thirsty. Lord.

Hundredfold. We haven't cut no corners.

Hundredfold. You have 100% of my attention.

I expect a hundredfold return, Lord.

Not because this is a deal. It's because you said so.

So, Laura, I'm just declaring what you already told me could

happen, would happen. If I delight in you, if I seek

your face, if I sow in this land, if I fast and pray.

These are promises, Lord. And so I'm just, I'm just

hollering back and saying, Lord, do what you only can do.

And I'm here to receive it. I'm here to steward it.

I'm here to bless and release and give and be generous and

build however you want to. And lastly, I declare we are

anointed to build and to battle in Jesus name.

We trust you Lord. We trust you, Lord.

We Revere you, Lord. We worship you, Lord.

We stand in awe if you, Lord, for you are holy.

You are worthy and worthy to be praised both now and forever.

Both now and forever. You deserve the honor.

You deserve the praise. 24/7 morning service.

You deserve the praise. Evening service, You deserve the

praise. Sunday, you deserve the praise.

Monday you deserve the praise. Tuesday you deserve the praise.

Wednesday you deserve the praise.

Thursday you deserve the praise. Friday you deserve the praise.

Saturday you deserve the praise. And on Sunday, again, you

deserve the praise. January, you deserve the praise.

February, you deserve the praise.

March, you deserve the praise. April, you deserve the praise.

May you deserve the praise. June, you deserve the praise.

July, you deserve the praise. August, you deserve the praise.

September, you deserve the praise.

October, you deserve the praise. November, you deserve the

praise. And December, you deserve the

praise. And in January 2025.

You deserve the praise. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

You deserve the praise. Come on, shout it out.

You deserve the praise. Jesus name.

Give your neighbor high five. Say if you don't know.

Now you know. Sister, brother, you can have a

seat. Can you put up a song?

Let me just dig in my bag for a second and see where we end up.

Can you just put up Psalm 34, put it in the message and then

we going to put it in the TPT? Psalm 34?

Sorry if I'm roaming around like a Roaring Lion, there's one

inside of me. Is this the message or the TPT?

What's this? Nice.

I bless God every chance I get, every chance I get.

Now now what this leaves me to understand, Natalia is the

worshipper is left with the under or with the discernment

and responsibility to discern when you got a chance.

And some people see more chances.

Can I just talk to you out my spirit for a second?

Some people see when when, when trouble hit them.

They look at that as a chance to give them praise.

Some people look at AM service to give them praise.

Some people look at whenever the worship team come out, that's

when we give praise. And when the worship team sit

down, that's when we stop giving praise.

Some people give a praise or take a chance when people

instruct you to praise. Some people only see a chance to

praise is when you get good news or when things are going your

way. See, it's all up to you.

This brother right here says every chance I get I give what

praise. So what I got to understand is

I'm trying to help you. All right, now before we move

forward, every chance is an opportunity to give God praise.

And there's not one breath, Spence, on praising God that

will not produce fruit in your life.

OK, OK, OK, You can do the math, Buy you 10 lottery tickets.

Let me tell See how many times you win.

And if we had heaven's view. Every time you used your breath

or spent it on praising God, you can see how it produced in your

life. I do understand that there are

blessings that come into our lives that we do not see and

will never see. Like that car that should have

hit you. Like that person while you were

asleep came to check your door at night and it was locked.

Or somebody was about to break in your car and somebody walked

by and they it's a whole lot of stuff.

I believe there's even sicknesses that have inflicted

our bodies. And in some moment or another,

God healed us and we won't even know there is a miracle.

But we going to get to heaven and God's going to say, man,

that one year when you was feeling that pain but you never

made and it just disappeared. That one day you didn't know

what was going on, but it just kind of went away.

You took some Advil. Let me tell you something.

That was that was some cancer. Yeah.

That one car accident that you drove fast, if you would have

saw it in my time that was that was that should have been you

enemy been trying to take you out.

So to me, I can't just praise him when I see him move.

I just got to live knowing he is always moving on my behalf.

Can I can Can we just take like 60 seconds to praise him for the

stuff that we don't see but we know he doing?

Come on, open your mouth. Lord, we thank you.

We thank you. We we thank you, Lord.

Come on. 30 more seconds. So I throw up my hands and

praise you again and again. Come on, 20 more seconds.

Why? Why would Jesus be at the right

hand and his position is interceding for us?

Why is he interceding for us non-stop?

You tell me. What would he need to be

interceding for me all the time For the enemy comes to steal,

kill and destroy. It is say, in the three, three

months a year. He is always looking for a way

to take you out. So don't think because you made

it through a day he would sleep. It just didn't work.

Can I talk to somebody? Every day you make it out of

your bed, around your house, out your house.

Every day you may get out your bed and back to bed.

Declare it didn't work, 'cause he tried to get me when I was

sleep. He tried to get me when I left

the house. He tried just because you safe

and just because you didn't experience.

No, no moments, man. You better realize you made it

'cause his plan didn't. Work.

Come. Jesus is interceding on our

behalf day and night, night and day.

That's why we let incensor rise. You can be seated or you can

keep standing. I don't care.

I just want to make sure you don't think that I'm expecting

you to keep standing. But if the Lord got you

standing, you stand. That's your praise every chance

I get that that you know what I'm saying.

Some folks don't praise God till Sunday.

What kind of life is that that you waiting for a set to praise.

What if we don't show one day? I'm telling you this, that

church worship thing ain't gonna come out but we don't turn the

other way on you. And we ain't gonna use no mics

either. Ain't gonna have no lyrics said

I bless God every chance I get. You take my voice and you gonna

have to take all my fingers. You gonna have to take all my

horns. You gonna have to take both my

legs. You gonna have to take.

You gonna have to take my neck. You gonna have to take

everything for me not to give them praise.

I really believe you. Ready.

I really believe that this well is the difference between

long-suffering and short suffering, because if you look

at long-suffering as the capacity to last long in faith

under pressure, this next. Part is very crucial and it

speaks. I can't make it to Game 7.

Injured, tired. Unless I have the lung capacity,

cause don't nobody care if you Steph Curry, don't nobody care

who you are when you get to the championship game, 'cause when

you get to that point you you playing against dogs and they

coming for your head. They don't care nothing about a

shoe deal. They coming for your neck and

you having a right ankle sprain don't matter to a competitor.

Let me find out. One of your legs is hurt and you

trying to guard me. I'm going at that leg and on the

other end I'm bumping it. But then this makes the

difference, OK, you, you, you can do cardio

every day and it will expand your lungs, it, it will give you

greater capacity, right? You can't run for you.

You can't not run ever and then go try to run for an hour.

You got to ease your way into that, correct?

So, so, so, so, so. Won't you try?

And when the little battle's got gay, you think you just going to

chill until a big battle come. If you don't practice fighting,

it's too late to fight. When you got to fight.

No you don't. Your boxer, don't start training

the night before because he and he's in great shape.

She's in great shape. But at Beaumont, they get into,

you get what I'm saying? So, so I'm sorry.

I wish for you introverts there was a better way.

There's no replacement for praise.

No replacement. Sorry, no replacement.

He's watching a little bit of the Super Bowl.

Anybody ever been to a Super Bowl party?

Stanley Cup Party, UFC Bat battle party.

What? Come on.

OK, so so football party, soccer, whatever.

You know what I'm saying? Any kind of party of celebrating

cake. Like you get what I'm saying.

Jesus Christ Birthday party. So here's the thing.

When you have a conscious reason and emotional investment to

celebrate, you will do it annually with nobody having to

remind you it's a birthday, it's your kids birthday.

You get more excited for your kids birthday, but every single

day is a brand new gift called Life with New Mercy.

I'm I'm just saying that my lungs was breathed into firsts.

By God, the first breath that I ever took was his.

Where'd the baby get the breath from?

Soon as they come out, They can't.

Come on, let's talk about it for a minute.

They came out of water. You go, you go to a swimming

pool today and go try to stay down in the pool, in the pool

for nine months. How that, how that work, how

that's working And then and then as soon as you as soon as you

come out, where did that breath come from?

Where did that initial breath come from it?

Didn't come. It didn't come from your Mama.

You came out and don't he deserve at least a tithe of your

breath? Can he get a 10th?

Of your breath. I guarantee you if you was able

to measure your breath, you would probably find there's more

percentages given to complaining.

And I'm telling you, if you give more percentages to complaining,

you exhale complaints. You inhale toxicity every time,

right when you inhale. Or exhale life.

You inhale detox. It begins to burn away.

That negativity. See, you got to understand.

You have to come. You don't have to comprehend

victory right away. You don't have to feel

victorious right away. You just know because he is who

he is. I am in him and the victor is in

me. Therefore I am victorious

because he I got his name on me. This is not about you.

You are a loser. I received that.

Don't know how to feel about that, huh?

But the point is, here is is. He crowns us.

He shines on us. He strengthens us, so I bless

God every chance I get. But you got to discern what's a

chance, Not just discern. You got to define what's a

chance. My lungs expand with praise.

My capacity increases with his praise.

I live and breathe God. But what are we reading?

We're reading A Fear of God. Passage.

I live and breathe God. And now now God ain't the

nachos. He ain't the Turkey, but he not

the hamburger got so that's not what you know everything.

It's like me. God is not the car.

It's not the but men in every. Aspect of my life.

I see God, I see granite, I see what he's doing.

I see him intervening. I see him.

But putting food on my table I can be like.

Oh man, ain't nobody go to the grocery store.

It's like the kids be like, hey, can we get something to eat?

And we'd be like it is food. At home and they.

'D be like it's only on the other side of only that's food,

right. So you can say you know I'm not

where I want, but but you're somewhere if you're not where

you want to be, you're for sure not where you used to be.

So then you thank God for where you are.

I live and I breathe. God, if things aren't going

well, here it is. And be happy.

If things aren't going well, join.

Me in spreading the news together.

Let's get the word out. Word out.

God met me more than halfway. I I know we be feeling like

super good about what we do. Went to school, save money or

did. But if if God showed us how much

he was a part of making that happen versus what we did, your

part will be so tiny, the amount of mountains, right?

See, what you did was everything you could do today.

But to get you there before you was born, God had to put some

things in situation. God's been working on you,

getting that job before you was even born.

You get what I'm saying? What God had to do.

He had to move mountains. He had to move some big

mountains to get you where you are today.

He met me more than halfway. He freed me from my anxious

fears. I love.

I love. Yes, he did.

Right. Some folks still thinking about

it, like, All right, did he? Likewise?

No, no, no. Yes, he did.

You see how you exhale? You see how you, before you even

let a thought in, you put the word on the thought.

Hallelujah. He freed me from my anxious

fears. Look at him.

Give him your warmest smile. Never hide your feelings from

him. And that scripture does not give

you permission to be a hot mess. Never hide your feelings from

him. But I love wait, wait, Go back,

Go back. This is pretty cool, he says.

Give him your warmest smile while sharing your mess.

You get what I'm saying? He said this.

Give him a smile. Don't hide them.

Hand them to them. Let me help you in your prayer

life. Stop just bringing things to

Jesus and learn to leave them with Jesus.

Can I help somebody? Can I help somebody?

What, what? What?

What? You go to the laundromat and

still take your dirty calls home.

What you going to pray for if what you laid down, you pick it

back up? I didn't did that before.

I didn't did that before. You ever get out of prayer and

then get into an argument? Hallelujah.

Some of y'all all know today, today.

Hallelujah. But that's OK.

You're here. Give Jesus a warm smile When I

was desperate. I called out and God got me.

Out of a tight spot. I don't know.

I don't know, man. I didn't been in some tight

spots, boy. I didn't been in some.

I didn't been in some. Some never would have made it.

I would have been in some tight spots.

Calm down. Calm down.

I would have been in some really, really tight.

I'd have been in some tight spots.

Can we just show our hands? Anybody ever?

No, I'm not talking financial, OK?

I'm. I'm talking.

I'm talking like life. Like barely made it.

Tight spots. You know what I'm saying?

Like oh God. I'm like, God, I didn't have

some bad highs. Yeah, I'd have been in some

tight spots. Hallelujah.

We're not going to even testify. Go to TPT now.

Is that the message? Yeah.

Go to TPT. I got plenty.

I got, I got plenty of slides for you.

But I'm just, I'm just it's for whoever this is for Lord, I'm

bursting with my joy. Right.

This kind of picks up where we read about Jeremiah this

morning. Like like it's it's it's more

it's it's tiring, holding gratitude and and joy and like

let it go like fire. See you got a you got a blow on

it to spread it. You get what I'm saying.

I'm bursting with joy over what you've done for me.

Right. My lips are full of perpetual.

What is perpetual? What is perpetual?

It's it's it's on. My lips are full of perpetual

praise. Lord, I'm bursting with joy over

what you've done. For me.

My lips are full of perpetual praise.

I'm boasting of you in all your work, so let all who.

Are discouraged. Take heart.

So what? He is saying that somebody's

praise should cause you to get courage.

This is why I can't keep my praise from you, right?

So let all who are discouraged take heart.

Join me, everyone. Let's praise the Lord together.

Let's let's make him famous. See, this is how you make people

famous. It's not really that they're

super great at what they do. You just keep talking about and

then people are like, who is this person y'all keep talking

about? Then you go to their Instagram

and then you follow them, you know?

What I'm saying What's this? Restaurant y'all keep raving

about I got to go. And then you go and you'll be

like, man, that wasn't all that y'all putting too much on it.

You get what I'm saying? How do you make someone famous?

You celebrate them, you you relentlessly exalt them.

You relentlessly magnify them, perpetual, and let's make his

name glorious to all. That's not just a shout or a

praise, but in your life. Let people.

See the glory of God. You get what I'm saying?

Listen to my testimony. I cried to God in my distress,

and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears

and and and here you go. It does not mean your fears

don't exist somewhere, but you're freed from them.

In other words, my fears no longer dictate my faith.

So you freed me from my fears. Gaze upon him.

Gaze upon him. Joy in your life.

With his and joy will come, joy in your life.

This is reverence. Your pace, your rhythm, your

will, your spirit, your blood, your word, your ways, your

truth, your life. And he says.

Joy will come tethered to the Lord.

He said your your faces will glisten with glory.

I bet. I love.

I love walking in the room and lighting it up.

I just love walking in the room knowing what's on me and who

with me. I'm a I'm a difference maker.

Don't. I'm saying that for you.

I'm trying to things can't stay the same when I, you get what

I'm saying. I I really feel that there is

something on us and we got to be aware of it and we got to put

aside like, like like we got to stop, stop carrying our fears

and our introversion. I'm sorry if that's a word.

You get what I'm saying. Our introvertedness.

We got to stop making all these things excuses because the world

needs your praise. They need the joy.

They need to see some glistening.

This for everybody. This for everybody.

This is not just for church. Don't come here with a church

smile if you ain't smiling out there a little Sunday morning.

Smile because you like OK, but you don't smile PT Going face up

there. You know adults just be walking

in here JT like hey Vt no no no no.

No. No.

No. No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The, the, the. IT meant when I think about

Sundays, I'm smiling, 'cause I know what's happening.

I'm. I'm coming around some soldiers.

We bout to lift up some noise. We're advancing the Kingdom,

man. I can't wait to get here.

Jesus, you know what I'm saying? I made it through a week.

Oh Lord, Hallelujah. That would y'all be like, what's

wrong with T? What's wrong with PT everyday

Jeremiah 20. You got to hear this.

It's a slide. It's a slide.

I just like man, sometime I'm like this morning when we were

doing them little songs and all that and I'm like in my mind I

was like, oh Lord, how am I get out of this?

Because sometimes you just praising the Lord because you

like a little kid. It's like like a little kid.

You tell a little kid we leaving at 9:30 and then they they

playing outside. They never seen little kid come

in and be like it's 9:30, right? They just be lost in what they

doing and and and joyful and playing in the freedom of their

blessing. They're not thinking about

responsibilities when it's time to play.

Praise is time to play right. Praise and worship is the kids

playground man. This is what we do.

This is what we was made for. You push me into a God, you push

me into it, he says. And I'll let you do it.

You You was too much for me. And now I'm a public joke.

They all poke fun at me every time I open my mouth.

I'm shouting murder, rape, or you're right, he got this.

He got this conviction for justice and he's shouting out

what he sees and he like God. Why you would get almost like

this fire is conviction. The fire of God doesn't always

look. Like whoa no.

No, no, no. That's not the fire of God.

Like that fire of God sometime is calling people to who they

are and what they're supposed to.

You get like the fire of God is conviction.

And he says, man, and all I get for my God warnings, her insults

and contempt. And that's why we made we we we

released the song. All bets on God.

No. I heard the kick pumping.

Calm down. But if I say forget it.

Do you know how many times I came out here last night at

prayer? I was in the back.

I'm like, it's going to be light word.

Not too many people going to show up.

The team is tired. Everybody, we going to come out

here, we going to be quick, right?

Sing a song. Two people pray.

We going one more song and then we going to get that broad word

up there. And man, I came out here and the

spirit of God was just moving. Then we got up here and I'm

like, whoa, buddy, you you doing something?

OK, No problem. We ain't going home.

I see this your show, Lord. OK, we moving but it's like but

if I say forget it, I sit back there, I get in my car, I go

home and I'm like what? Holding that in no more God

messages from me. The words are fire.

Like what's inside this treasure is fire in my belly yo belly and

burning in my bones. I'm worn out trying to hold it

in. I love this because he didn't

say I'm worn out trying to I'm I'm worn out releasing it.

I'm worn out holding it in it's so if releasing it makes me look

foolish but God's pleased and an offering went up.

I'll take that all day Then holding it together.

I can't do it any longer and I hear whispering behind my back.

There goes old danger everywhere.

Shut him up. Reporting old friends watch.

I'm hoping I'll fall flat on my face, he says. 1 misstep and

we'll have him. We'll get rid of him for good.

See what I'm saying? The indie man the Indian got got

plans for you, but it won't work.

But God, but God. A most fierce warrior.

Is at my side. Here it is, every chance that I

get hero now, right when you walk in with somebody you love,

you're aware of their presence. Now these days it's a little

different because we on our phones, but you see two people

sitting next to each other that swear they friends, but they

both on their phones and they're like, you see this.

These kids don't even know how to communicate these days.

Write a letter, say I'm sorry. We will text each other in the

same room, no face to face. But if I'm with you, I know JT.

You know what I'm saying? That's how y'all got #4 right?

Coming, right. You know what I'm saying?

She's next to you and you're aware of her presence.

And her presence does something to you, right?

Hallelujah. So.

So, so, so you get what I'm saying?

So just like I'm talking to y'all, I'm aware of your

presence, right? If I'm walking and talking with

you, I'm aware of their presence.

So I acknowledge their presence based on who they are to me and

what they mean to me. I acknowledge them.

For some people, it's a, hey, how you doing?

Have a good day. For some people, hey, come here,

man. For some people it's like.

And for some people it's like, come holla at me, let's go in

the office and talk, right? There's there's an awareness of

who I'm walking with me and my wife is out, There's an

awareness, there's an awareness. So when he says.

He's by my side. Every chance I get, thank you,

Lord. Like if I had to really put him

on my side. If this is God, like if we want

to make God physical. Just if God was really walking

with you, which he is by your side.

Like if he was as present as I am in front of you, what would

your response be if you was walking with God?

Bet you wouldn't. Bet you wouldn't do some stuff.

Nothing. Nothing.

You good, you good. Just picture it for a minute.

Even some of the decisions you thinking about.

Thank you. God was really walking with you

physically. What would your life look like?

And that that that answer compared to how you.

Really, act speaks to the difference of the revelation you

have that he's with you. Because here's the crazy part.

He's not at my side. He's in within me.

He's not just by my side. He's inside.

We ran second Samuel 6 when David after the Fool.

Well, maybe Michelle. Michael acting a fool.

David wanted God's presence so bad he went to get it.

What are you willing to do to get in the presence of God?

What are you willing to do? I don't want to pause there

because because we went through it this morning, but David

danced. You remember that this morning.

Such such good moment. You see, I get testimonies from

people first time and people been here for three times and

people man, anybody been getting testimonies of how your friends

and newcomers have been like really enjoying themselves.

You get what I'm saying, Like people are really blown away

that they can find a place like your house.

And most of the testimonies I get, it's the love, It's the

fun, right? I'm telling you, Joy radically

changes people's lives. And then Michelle.

Michael was barren for the rest of her life, messing with

David's praise. That is absolutely crazy that

that woman messed with somebody's praise and the result

was Baroness cut the fruit line off.

No more produce section, all carved, all all, all, all rice

and and vegetables. How many people just been eating

rice? How many people tired of rice?

Natalia, you can't keep it. I'm so tired of rice.

Hallelujah. Amen.

I forget who I was talking to. I think I forget somebody.

Be careful when you come off this fast because some of y'all

really about to try and eat a lot.

Like, be careful, OK, be careful.

The fear of God cast out all fear.

The fear of God is not only the beginning of wisdom, but it also

is the entry into his love. The fear of God is the entry

into His love. I'm talking about real love,

right? The real love it.

It is the entry into his love because the wisdom comes from

his heart. But you ain't going to get to

his heart without receiving his love and without knowing who he

is. That's why that scripture's

right there. I pray that you be rooted, be

founded in love so that you may ignore the depths, the width,

the height and the length of that love.

Fear. God is the death sentence to the

fear of man. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it is. First, John 4 says we've come

into an intimate experience with God's love and we trust in the

love he has for us. God.

He is love. God He is love.

Those who are living in love are living in God and God lives

through them. That you hear what he said

living in love. And we read earlier Song of

Solomon, that his love is like fire because he is a consuming

fire. So when you really have God's

love in your heart, there is a passion.

For. What he is passionate about in

context, The fear of God will free you from the fear of man.

That's why David said oh, you messing with my praise.

OK, even more. I'm about to turn up.

Even more I'm about to turn the music up even louder.

All right, we're throwing away all the earplugs and guest

services. God is love.

And when we take up permanent residence in a Life of Love

permanent, no more renters. No more love leases.

We live in God and God lives in us this way.

Love has the run of the house becomes at home in mature in us

so that we're free of worry. On Judgement Day, our standing

in this world is identical with crisis.

Oh this is big talk right here. Big talk Tony right here.

Listen, our standing in the world.

He is identical with crisis. There is no room.

In love or fear, Well formed love banishes fear.

That's why he says. Don't be afraid.

The people cannot kill like they the people who no, no, no, be

afraid of the person who can put folk in hell.

This is what scriptures say. OK, now if you want to can you

can you Google that for me so we can pull that up?

Elder John, can you Google that for me it's the don't be afraid

of man. In other words, they don't got

to heaven or hell to. Put you in.

The one you should be worried about or should reverence is the

one who has your eternity in his hands, Since fear is crippling A

fearful life. Fear of death, fear of judgement

is 1 not yet fully formed in love.

So here's here's his When you live a life of fear, this is Can

I Help You, singles? Can I help Everybody?

OK, you don't get married until you have found, embraced and

become rooted in agape, not Eros.

Eros is good. It's erotic love.

It's it's got some lust in it. It's conditional.

But you want to have a revelation of God's love.

Because what scripture says if you have not harnessed God's

love, if you have fear in your life, then you have an immature

love not developed. Therefore you are not in a

position to release God in someone else's life in a

covenant away called marriage. Marriage is an agape institute.

Not AI. Like you.

Not a you. Cute.

Not you. Sexy.

Not you. I'm lonely.

This is a purpose. Partner.

Abandoned self. I give myself away.

Divorce ain't an option. Don't need separate bank

accounts. Sorry.

Well, that would be kind of smart.

Just in case. OK.

Will you marry some? Just in case.

Here's what the Lord said. Let me, let me help all your

little financial media. Let me help.

The Lord said the two becomes what, 1K1 bank account K?

We ain't nothing to talk about, OK?

No, it ain't no Plan B. We gonna be rich together.

We gonna be broke together. Whatever it's gonna be, is gonna

be together. Amen.

I said this a couple weeks ago, but let's get this entitlement

out of our love. You remember this?

Don't cry, God, you owe me. Cry Holy God, don't owe you.

Nothing. See, he's giving you everything.

It's all in the land. The principles are in the land

and they work. Work the Word and the word will

work for you. Get a couple of scriptures and

we we going to go home in this little rain and come back for a

powerful week. Besides being wise himself, the

quester or the pastor, the man of God also taught others

knowledge. He weighed and examined and

arranged many proverbs. The quester did his best to find

the right words and write the plain truth.

The words of the wise prod. Sorry, the words of the wise

prod us to live well. They're like nails hammered

home, holding life together. They are given by God the one

Shepherd, but regarding anything beyond this, dear.

Friend, go easy. There's no end to the publishing

of books and constant study wears you out, so you're no good

for anything else. The last and final words that I

will say, the most important fear God.

And that's it. This is what he's saying.

Like you can go all the trainings, you can read all the

books you want, go to get all the diplomas you want.

It will wear you out. But, he says, fear God.

Do what he tells you and that's it.

Simplify your life, he says. Eventually God will bring

everything that we do out into the open.

Judge it according. To its hidden intent.

Whether it's good or it's evil. All has been heard.

The end of the matter is dear. God Revere worship Him, knowing

that He is, and keep His commandments.

For this is the whole of man, the full original purpose of His

creation, the object of God's Providence, the root of His

character, the foundation of all happiness, the adjustment to all

in harmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun.

And the whole duty for every man is the fear God.

But this is the. Whole of man.

It's the worship God, keep his commandments, obey him.

It's his original purpose. This is why we was designed.

You don't want nothing out of the fear that came from the fear

of man. Put up that.

Put up that scripture real quick.

Put up that scripture, I. Just want to show you so you

don't just see I'm look babbling.

Don't be in fear of those who can kill only the body but not

your soul. Fear only God who is able to

destroy both soul. And body in hell got to redirect

your fear. Worship God.

And there should be stability in your times, and abundance of

salvation, wisdom and knowledge. Ready the Reverend Fear and

worship of the Lord. Is your treasure and his.

I wish somebody preached to me like this when I was younger.

I probably wouldn't have listened, but at least I would

have heard it. Amen.

Hallelujah. Amen.

I don't know what I would have did, but I probably wouldn't

have. You know what I mean?

I would be like, that's good, pastor.

That's good. But listen, listen, Stability in

your time. Let me tell you it's your time

and abundance of salvation. In your time, wisdom for your

time, and knowledge for your it's your turn.

The Reverend Fear and worship of the Lord is treasure, It's

treasure. Therefore, since we have these

great, great, wonderful promises, beloved, let us

cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates

body and spirit, completing holiness, living a consecrated

life, a life set apart for God's purpose.

In the fear of God, it's all over the Bible.

In the fear of God, Like, like, like, like, like.

Get rid of everything that brings contamination in your

life. We must remove everything from

our lives that contaminates body and spirit and continue complete

the development of holiness within us.

This is all foundation. We going to get to holiness, but

we got to start with the fear of God.

But what is holiness? He's calling us back to holiness

verse 10. The reverend fear of the Lord

worshipping, obeying, serving and trusting him with all filled

respect prolongs one's life. The fear.

You want to know why we dying so young these days?

Where's the fear of God? You know why there was generals

back in the day. I'm talking about generals now.

They live long, long. I'm talking about when until

they was like, Lord, any day now.

Like I'm good. Like can we go?

No, I believe God wants to restore this quick.

Because I really, Natalia, I really believe that we don't

have to be old. And I'll, I don't believe we got

to be old and sick. I believe there's there's a

level of vibrancy, but I do believe there's a a point in

your life where it is what it is.

You get what I'm saying. If I've been eating a certain

way till I was 70, I'm. It's hard to.

I'm not going to the gym every day, but but this is a part of

why I'm trying to get in certain routines now.

So I go into older age, you know what I'm saying?

I might not be able to do all that, but it's gone like this.

I don't want to you. You see Oswald, you know what

I'm saying? Oswald.

I know Oswald used to get down. Like, hey, he had them fish

tanks in the bottom of his shoes.

Them them platforms we have.

Listen, we have too many images of sickness in our generation

and we have accepted. I guarantee.

If I asked how we have for y'all right now, you can tell me at

one point or another you probably thought about man, I'm

not going to die from. Cancer.

You, man, you, you'll get a ache in your in your belly.

Oh, it is. I got to go to the hospital.

There's a cancer, right? You'd be like, Oh no, there's

that colon. Cancer.

No, that's not spicy nachos from last night.

All right, we got we got it close.

We got it close. But the fear of the Lord

prolongs one's life. I want you to hear this.

It does not prolong one's existence.

It prolongs life. But the years of the wicked be

shortened. The fear of God expands our

life. A wicked life is a puny life.

The itsy bitsy spider. OK, OK, All right, all right.

All right. So we're going to close here.

We're going to close here. Proverbs 19 and Revelations 1K.

Y'all with me. Y'all going to help me close

this out. OK, We're going to go home.

We're going to get some good sleep.

We're going to eat tomorrow something and and and then we

going we going to come here and we going to run the devil out of

town. OK, what we bout to do?

All right. Y'all going to help me land this

plane. That's how I do what I'm about.

Getting ready to land on the in the airport and get some

Chapstick for landing. OK, I pull my seat up, put my

tray up, and I'll put Chapstick on.

Hallelujah. The reverent, Worshipful fear of

the Lord leads to life. We saw one scripture say it

expands life. We see here it leads to life and

he who has it rest satisfied. Can I can I talk to somebody who

who don't get who don't rest too well, right.

Rest satisfied. He cannot be visited.

With actual evil are y'all reading what I'm reading?

So So what he's telling me is what I can be an evil I may

experience when I am resting in the Lord and revering.

The Lord is nothing but the shadow of evil.

It says it cannot be visited. He or she cannot be visited with

actual evil. So the enemy is taunting me.

He may be threatening me, but he don't have no actual stuff all

my life. Like you really can't mess with

me right now. You're getting into into you do

this now, now, y'all going to do that.

That money that was only in my hood back home.

It just, uh what you doing right?

Ain't going to do nothing. Hands way up here.

Just kick you in the chin. Oh man, immediately.

You know, if somebody can fight the way they go, do they fight

in the stands? Like, Oh my God, he cannot be

visited with actual evil. Fear of God.

Is life itself. So, so we go from fear of God

leads to life. We go to the fear of God expands

life to the fear of God is life itself.

It's a full life and serene life.

No nasty surprises. See, man, when you walk with the

Lord intimately, he like, hey, OK, hold up.

We bout to go through. We bout to go.

We bout to something about to go down.

I'm here with you though right. He's preparing you, right?

He's preparing you in your spirit.

No nasty surprises And things that are natural in life,

they're going to happen, but no nasty surprises.

So we go from it leads to life. The fear of God expands life,

and the fear of God is life itself.

A full life and serene. No nasty surprises when you live

a life of abandoned love surrendered before the.

Awe of God, here's what you'll experience.

Abundant life. Continual protection and

complete satisfaction. See if God work everything

together for my good. In other words, He will take the

nasty, the ignorant, the rebellious, the off trackness,

the the, the, the constipated, the all these parts of my life.

And He allows them because when I hit rock bottom or when things

I begin to reconsider. He's trying to he's always been

trying to get us back to this. Oh, you in that little

relationship, are we trying to? OK, we can give you wisdom, but

the first piece of wisdom ain't gonna work.

Nope. OK.

The devil make you think I'm trying to hate on you.

OK, no, but how you got into it. How your last relationship was

the period between the last breakup and the new one, right?

I bet. I bet I'm not just going off my

experience. I'm going off of wisdom and

God's always. OK, And then he'll say, shut up,

shut up, PT. Shut up, Shut up, PT.

Shut up. Let them do their thing.

Like, sweet. That's what you don't want right

now. That's what you don't want.

But God's always a lot of times when we're going through hard

times in our life, the Lord's trying to just realign us.

So why not just keep getting your tires checked?

So you ain't wobbling for too long, right?

Why not just stay in alignment and never veer to the left?

That's what Proverbs 4 say. Don't go to the left, don't go

to the right. Keep your wheels going straight.

Abundant life, continual protection and complete

satisfaction. And lastly, revelations.

One I saw this and fainted. This, this brother John, he he

had an opportunity. God tapped him on the shoulder

and ain't ready show them the details.

This is what the fear of God will get.

You see, some of y'all just want to hear from God.

Sons want to see God. I really want to see God.

I really want to experience his heart.

I don't just need a word for my life.

I I want to. I want to lay on my father's

chest and hear his heartbeat. You know what I'm saying?

I I I want more of the Lord. I want.

I want him to let me in on his secret place.

Right. So here he is.

I saw this and fainted dead at his feet.

I probably would have too buddy his right hand.

Pull me up, right? His voice reassured me.

Don't fear. You see this?

He was afraid. And then the.

Lord says no, no, no, no, no. This is not that.

Don't be afraid of me. I am first, I am last.

I'm alive. I died and I came to life and my

life is now forever, Forever, Forever ever.

Y'all super ghetto. We got ghetto.

Hecka ghetto forever. Wow, I love it.

See these keys in my hand? See these keys in my hand?

They open and lock Dev's doors. They open and lock Hell's gates.

And do you understand the access?

This is why you understand the devil can't keep you out of

where you supposed to be. Am I talking to anybody?

We serve a Master that got the Master keys.

Come on, the master keys. They open and lock Hales gates,

so then I can believe that I can rest in him and I'm protected.

And I don't have to live a life afraid of something bad

happening, because whenever it happens, I will be hailed.

I will be protected. I will be carried.

He will give me a word. He will keep me strong.

He will give me courage. The fear of the Lord is the key

to the abundant life. And I'm not talking about

abundance. I'm talking about abundant life.

And the abundant life is abundance in every area.

But more than that, it is the wealth of satisfaction.

See what some of you guys. You don't want nothing, OK?

Can I help two people in here? Some of y'all don't want

nothing. Based on how you was raised, you

will tell God. God, I'm just happy with your

presence. Let me help you out.

That ain't going to get you nothing in this world.

Just his presence. I know, I know, I know.

That's so contradictory. See.

Like I'm going to mess with you for man.

Annabeth, right? She from she from the island.

And this girl. All she want is a hammock.

And some water, not drinking water to be by water.

And the sandal, barefoot, barefoot, barefoot.

And a guitar. And she is happy, right?

And you know what's? It was so crazy.

Some people, especially from here, will hear that.

Be like, man, that's that's all we ever need in Jesus.

But then she comes around us and we like girl, there's a lawyer

in you. You got some Jordan ones in you

right. We got we got right so so

there's bigness in this. She found herself woo yeah you

know she whooping and she there's there's there's

fierceness in her and in her mind she's like PTI don't do

this this ain't what I want. And what she hears is.

Cadillacs instead of hammocks. No, you don't get gold chain.

No, no, it's safe over here. She like, give me my hammock

back, right. But let me help you.

You don't lose simplicity when increase remains God's, so don't

be afraid. God needs to get stuff through

you, not stack it on you. And so don't be so simple that

you don't really get the abundance of God.

And you can't be blessed to be a blessing now.

There's always something to give.

Please hear me not. Saying it and it.

All looks different in different people's.

Lives I'm not. Telling Annabeth to go and want

to be a billionaire or even a millionaire.

But what I am saying is get off the dock.

Here's why. That may have been what you

needed to be raised in, but there's something on you that

God's not saying leave what you've come from, but where you

going needs where you came from. So you are going to bring

simplicity to the people who abundance makes them.

But if you only stay around simple people y'all don't need

to help each other. Just like I don't need to be

preaching in some of the churches where I'm at.

They get this all the time. But God said take that passion.

They don't need help with this passion.

They got passion. God said go out there, it's this

little place called British Columbia and just it's going to

be hard sometimes. Just be yourself, be passionate

and dance like David did. Then you gonna run into some

Michelle Michaels? But be not afraid of their

faces. Then there's the people who all

you after is abundance. And I found this really sweet

spot. I know what God put in me is

big, and I can't deny it, but it doesn't make me so.

The abundance I'm pregnant with is not driving me nor pulling me

to it. But I also need the simplicity

so I can be anchored in being content in him.

So I don't have to deny abundant life.

So you feel comfortable, but I'm also not going to dumb my life

down so you don't think I'm prosperity guy.

I like nice things, but I also like other people to have nice

things. I'm a sower of nice things, and

there's nothing wrong with wanting to be a blessing to

people. But to be a blessing, you got to

get blessings. Because what what happens

sometime is you're so simple, you only got enough for you.

I got. All I got is enough cake for me

and my son. And then God sends a prophet in

your life and say give me that, Give me your hammock for a

season. You can keep your feet, right?

Give me your guitar for a season and let let let me.

And you was ready to die with just enough cake for yourself

when you about to see God is trying to get you to give cakes

away. And there's too many people

that's comfortable, which is, you know, the one side of the

mints that's for you, then the other side is for them.

You just. I got a mint.

I'm sorry my my breath good. But God's like trying to give

you a mint company. I don't know who I'm talking to,

but some of you, I just feel there is a false humility in

some of you guys's simplicity. There's a pride in it.

And you look at other people and you, they they're just flashy.

And and and they're. Just now.

See, you don't understand. So when I do the little fit

check and all that, you know how many years I've been doing fit

checks? If I show you some baby

pictures, My Mama been doing fit checks all my life.

When Nana's here, always steal pictures.

Pictures. You can ask my wife pictures,

pictures. I was the only student in grade

3 that was wearing a three piece all white suit for school

pictures. No, no, no, no, no.

And then my Mama said you better not come home with it dirty.

This. And when you hear more, this

does not mean Bentley. This does not mean mansion this,

this could. This could mean just a simple

condo. I'm talking about what you are

willing to manage for God in the earth.

When I'm talking about abundance, I'm not talking about

you having surplus for you. I'm talking about you have more

than enough for you and them, Joseph.

They were mad at Joseph because he was pregnant with Big and

they misinterpreted his dream. God needs some people that's

willing to steward some big things.

Please do not be afraid of what God gave you.

Do not think because God gave you one talent that it was his

plan to keep you at one talent. He's coming to check on what you

did with your little bit your parents.

Simplicity was to start the family where we're heading.

This is 2024. Some people lives would

radically be changed through just practical needs being met.

OK, love quest. I'm not saying your prayers,

Lord, give me Mens, give me houses, Give me that man, we

ain't got to pray for that. But what I'm saying is I have

prepared a place that's big enough for him to drop it on me

and I'm not denying it. I'm not running from it.

I'm, I'm, I'm going to be. I'm going to be who I am to the

fullest. I'm not shrinking back.

You're not shrinking back. Be you.

You ready? Win the room.

If he put you in a room, win the.

Room. Who am I talking to?

Win the room. Don't hold your swell.

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