Cry Holy: The Return to the Fear of God pt 2 | PM 2.4.24

What's going on everybody? You are now listening to the

Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast.

It's a brand new season. Matter of fact, it's homecoming

season. Sons and daughters are coming

home. So you know what to do.

Get your Bible, get your water, get some coffee, get some tea

and get yourself ready to receive.

The time is now, and if you don't know the drill then you

better learn the motto. Get your love fixed, man.

Come on, that's a good place to give God a hand.

Hallelujah. Psalm 8 and verse 9 says, O

Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth?

I'll read it again in case a few people didn't hear that Psalm 8

and 9 says, oh Lord, Our Lord, how excellent, majestic and

glorious is your name in all the earth.

You ever hear of a world renowned artist, right?

It simply is saying that across the world they are highly

respected, highly regarded, and known for their greatness.

So I'm going to read the scripture one more time.

Oh Lord, oh Lord. And I said I'm going to read it.

I mean, that's fine. That's fine.

That's fine. Oh, Lord, Our Lord, how

excellent, how majestic. And how glorious is your name.

In all the earth. In all the earth, in all the

earth. Every demon in all the earth

knows this name. Right in all the earth.

Come on. Oh Lord, Our Lord, I love it

because this excellent God that they're talking about is our

Lord, right? I guarantee you.

I guarantee you. If some of you were like name,

name a world renowned artist, huh.

OK, Beyoncé. Now, if Beyoncé was your Mama,

right, the response to That's my Mama that y'all cheering about,

that's my Mama that y'all hating on that like there is nobody in

this world that can say that's my Mama like the privilege.

Of. Having a world renowned parent

covering Guardian master. See, that's what that's what be.

That's what I'm trying to help you get right?

Because for years we just read scriptures.

He says, Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name, The name

above all names. The name that saved me.

The name that every demon must tremble and bow and and and and

and confess that same name. So he didn't just give me his

spirit, He gave me his blood, He gave me his mind, and he gave me

his name. So when I go and pray, I don't

go in the name of Terrance. I go in the excellent name and

if I don't have his name, my prayers don't count, right?

My prayers in a lot of religions and my prayers go as far as my

understanding of its power. So it's all based on the prayer

that I know versus in in my religion.

Or in my faith, the Bible says that I'm in communication and

I'm heard even when I don't know how to pray.

Other religions. You need to know how to pray to

be heard. When I don't have words to put

together because of the excellent name, that name is

praying for me if the only thing I can get out of my mouth is

Jesus. Do you know what's packed in

that word? Any see because when I say Jesus

it has a tone based on my needs. So it's sonically speaking,

depending on how I say Jesus it will register in heaven.

And I got translators up there. He's called the Holy Spirit.

He takes my inner yearnings and he communicates for me.

No other religion has that. So when I'm talking about this

simplified scripture, how excellent is your name?

No matter where we go, your name is recognized.

I can go somewhere where I don't speak the native language, but

when I say Jesus, I don't care. They not going to say I don't

know that and that's why he knows Jesus everywhere Yeshua

Hamashiach everywhere is recognized.

Hey this is the name. No matter where you at it's

going to make you get happy or make you uncomfortable.

You in the restaurant, you in the hotel you you're in the

airport. Next time just shout out Jesus

right if I was shouting Malachi. No one would be armed.

They'll be like, oh, he's looking for his child.

But if I walk around Jesus, Jesus, that things start

happening. Oh Lord, our Lord.

How excellent, majestic and glorious is your name in all the

earth. Names mean everything.

So when he gave us his name, he gave us himself.

You got to understand. OK, let me put it this way.

When he gave us his name, he gave us his reputation.

This is why my reputation in Christ don't matter.

It doesn't mean I shouldn't have a good reputation, but what I'm

telling you, when it comes to all the earth, if I'm in him,

demons got to think twice about messing with me.

So I just need you to understand right now we're in the presence

of excellence, We're in the presence of a world renowned

being. We're in the presence of a world

renowned, earth renowned, heaven renowned universe renown below

and beneath, above renown there is nowhere that this name does

not register as great as of all times.

Now here's the last sweet part. This is where I'm I'm.

I'm pretty. I'm in awe is that this world

renowned lives in me. So.

So we go back to Beyoncé right now.

Beyoncé lived in. You ain't gonna look a certain

way. You might know how to dance now.

You might know how to sing. Now there's something that comes

with. The name of and the presence of

and the DNA. Of I just.

I What I don't want is I I don't want an ignorant church this

time next year if I'm held responsible that you read this

and you like wow that's such a like man, I love how the authors

in the Bible do they just execute it.

No. This is alive.

So when I personally Terrence Richmond son of the living God

read this. I read this like this.

Excellence, this majestic. This glory.

Lives in me. This is not on the pages of the

book. This scripture is on the pages

of my heart. So it's got to mean more in this

letter than it means on that one.

So when I go to sleep tonight, when I'm driving home, when life

hits, Oh Lord, Wait a minute, my Lord.

How excellent is your name in all the earth?

Lord God, I pray for the Spirit of revelation in this room.

I pray that our inner man be strengthened right now.

Lord, I just pray for I get it now.

Spirit, in this room, I pray for us the anointing of Aha.

Lord, I pray for you. Open our eyes, Illuminate the

eyes of our heart. Tonight, shine within our souls.

And Lord, your servant, ask that you unlock some mysteries

tonight. It moves for me to articulate in

such a way that makes it plain the Kingdom is like, the Kingdom

is like, The Kingdom is like. It looks like that.

The King has always been trying to get us to understand so much

to the point he will dumb down heavenly realities to natural

realities so that we might get it.

I pray tonight more people get it.

And then when we get it, we respond like we got it,

understanding that our response determines how deep that seed we

just got goes. So, Lord, may we be good

stewards over your word. Tonight I declare for me

personally. I don't know about you, but I am

good ground. The soul of my heart is ready

for some good seed, And this seed will produce some 30, some

60, some hundredfold. I will be fruitful from

tonight's word. My household, my wife.

My children will be fruitful from tonight's word.

My grandchildren who are not even in the earth.

There's something that I will hear tonight that will activate

something tonight that will produce actions and actions and

fruit and and five generations from now will reap from a word

spoken tonight. I prophecy it now that

generations will be activated by my.

Hearing tonight, there's generations that you're waiting

to release, but you're also waiting for me to get it.

So, Father, may we not hold up another generation because we

just won't get? It so tonight I need to hear

from you, Lord, because I need to pass on some heavenly

realities to my children. This week I need to not tell

them how I feel. But this week when I talk to my

daughter, talk to my sons, talk to my wife, talk to someone in

counseling. Lord, I need to hear something

that is going to transform their life.

So Lord, release it to me. One word can change everything.

I declare that I am, and hopefully you are a carrier of

redemptive packages. So I'm ready, Lord, I'm your.

I'm your Amazon Prime. I'm your.

I'm your, your, your Purolator, whatever you call it.

I'm your your UPS. I'm Lord, I'm ready to deliver

some goods. So my heart is open.

Here I am. Here we are wreck us.

Hallelujah in Jesus name. Amen.

You may be seated. You may be seated.

You may be seated. You may be seated.

God is up to something. God is up to something.

He's up to something real good. I'm here for it.

Na na na na, but God you blue with all your

might and the sea covered my enemies.

God you intervene I love this. I I was watching a basketball

game with my son and the commentators were they said this

simple statement and only when I'm watching a game, you know

something like sun, you hear that and they were describing

the players efforts and they said he shoots with conviction.

Am I saying The son said, what does that mean?

Right. That's somebody to shoot like

you don't want to look cool. And then there's somebody shoots

like this shot matters. This shot matters.

This Rep matters. This.

When you get it into championship basketball or any

sport, every possession you'll hear, you'll hear champions say

that every possession matters from the beginning to the end.

One can, hey, hey, hey, one possession can change the

momentum of the game. I'll go to this side.

I'll go to this side. This is the whole this, the

this, the Catholic side over there.

So I'm going to go to the council side, K1.

Possession can change the position, the change the

momentum of the game, OK? In other words, one word, one

moment. One idea entrepreneur will tell

you, man, all I need is 1. Good idea, right?

One possession. Like tonight is a possession,

right? Every scripture is a possession.

When I'm making these slides, every slide is a possession. 1

slide. Somebody's going to see

something on that slide and and it's going to change their

lives, right? They're going to put it up in a

second because word up, I'm up. I'm ready.

Pop. Pop.

Put the thing in the. This slide but to you blue, you

blew with all your might somebody.

Why did I spend time making this real big?

Because all somebody need is 1 big butt to see, right?

But you get what I'm saying. Some people have read but God,

but God but God but God it ain't got it.

And then one day I'm in service and why is the butt so big all

of a sudden? Just visually something is

triggered in me and I see. But God blew all his might.

Who am I? That God would use His power for

me? This is what I'm saying.

Who am I? That God will split an entire

ocean so I can get across and then use His power to shut my

enemies in it. Who am I?

That God would intervene for me? That God would pursue me, That

God would use resources to Get Me Out of a situation?

That God would raise somebody up in the world and somewhere he'd

bring us together. And they're a blessing to me.

Who am I? This is the kind of thinking

that keeps you at the throne versus some some kid that acts

like God owe him something. Lord, give me my family back.

Lord, give me my children back. Lord do this and Lord do that.

So many people are upset with God and in too many long

conversations with God that have no redemptive value if you're

not pursuing to know God and only merely trying to get an

answer that comforts you. Let me help you.

God don't owe nobody in here any answers.

If anything, you owe him some answers.

When I went to the club, God wasn't like why you get home

late. OK, We're now moving on to the

next blessing till you tell me why you got home late every time

I strayed away from God. You ready?

He says. Where are you?

He didn't ask. Adam, what was you doing?

I Rebelled from God 35. 100 times and 3500 times, he says.

Where are you? The entire time I walked away

from God, he only wanted me. He didn't say if you don't hurry

up, we can't do ministry. He didn't say.

If you don't hurry up and change your life, we can't start that

business, he says. Son, where are you?

When the prodigal son came home, his dad didn't flood him with,

do you know. Now I had to pay somebody else

to do the work you needed to do while you was gone.

Now get in the house and clean up.

Get something to eat. We're going to get back to work

tomorrow, no, he said. Let's celebrate, because my

greatest joy is your home now. I got another employee back home

too many times. Our relationship is

transactional with God, and all he wants is you.

He split the seed for you, not because he had a job on the

other side. He's like, I got to get them

across because we got to cut these trees down by next week.

No, God is never rescuing you for work.

God is never rescuing you for talent.

God is never rescuing you for ministry.

That's that's one of the moments right there comes you going to

go back and get this snippet right here, right here.

You got to go back and tell so the world can know that God is

not trying to heal them so they can get back on platform.

God, God is not trying to rescue you for work.

He, he, he, quite frankly, he can build a building.

He doesn't need you to build a building.

And if he gives you an assignment to build a building,

it's because in the assignment to build a building, he's

building you it all, It all points back to you.

It all points back to you. He's not.

He's. He doesn't need your money.

But in asking you to sew, he's getting something done in your

heart. It all points back to you, and

we've missed it. We thought we've been saved for

work. He doesn't save people for hire.

He saves people because he loves people and he wants people to

know him. So he hopes that his rescue of

you compels you. To the reverence of him, he

hopes that all these interventions in your life one

day leads to a uninterrupted awe and reverence of him.

That is not this yo-yo of a relationship.

This, this Moody. If God was Moody with us, that's

not a relationship where I don't know if you hot or cold or if

you present or you not or if I could trust you or not or I

don't know what you thinking. I always know God's thoughts are

good at me. Hey, man, you got to y'all y'all

got to hear what I'm saying. There's people, your mom and

your daddy. You know when you walk in the

room and somebody look at you like you don't know what they

thinking about you, but we'll spend time trying to figure it

out. Hey, you want to go out to eat?

I just got a feeling like you, like you kind of disappointed in

me or something. God's never disappointed in me.

I don't ever have to worry about what God thinks of me.

He wrote it in an eternal and he cannot lie, so his words, he

can't change. And we're constantly, we're

constantly trying to please people that one day they're

going to think differently of us, right.

Go and get married. That person you was like, oh,

you know, little honeymoon. No, no, no.

One day they not going to like you.

Don't mean they don't love you, but one day you going to get on

their nerves and vice versa. Doesn't mean they don't love

you, but it means we're human And our mood swings.

God's mood never swings. Here's God's mood, Here's God's

mood. Glory to glory to glory to

glory. From faith to faith to faith to

faith. From gooder to gooder to gooder

to gooder. You get what I'm saying?

But we're constantly trying to please people who one day, based

on their mood and how life hits them, they go change.

But God never changes. He never lies.

He loves me. He has nothing but great

thoughts of me. He has an expected end for me.

It's nothing but victory on his mind for me, you understand?

So I'll end that part with this. God is not trying to rescue you

for work. He's trying to rescue you for

covenant. Who is like the Lord God?

Who? What?

Come on, class. This is why we get stuck on

review. What y'all waiting for it to

come up there. They slow tonight.

They slow. OK, Come on.

So, all right, go back. Go back.

Who is like the Lord? What is like the Lord?

No thing. And where is like the Lord?

All right. No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Thank you, though.

They're just awesome. K who is like the Lord?

What is like the Lord? No thing.

We got to go back to number one. Who is like the Lord?

What is like the Lord? See, I'm the teacher today.

Ki don't really care if it's wrong to you.

You little smart people. K no thing.

K no thing. And where is like the word the

where is like the Lord? Nowhere.

Nowhere, nowhere. Isaiah 11 three says that his

delight shall be in the reverential and obedient fear.

Understand that grace should eliminate hesitation.

A revelation of grace should put an end to hesitation.

God has been too good for me to hesitate, Peter says.

If that's you, just say come. And the moment God said come,

right, because he was faithful to His word, Peter stepped out.

Sink, swim. Whatever it is, I'm not going to

hesitate when God calls me to do something, to be something.

Grace should bring hesitation to an end, he says.

His delight shall be in reverential and obedient fear of

the. Lord, no, no, no, no.

Delayed obedience is still disobedience.

It's not your timing, it's God's timing.

As I mentioned, we can love God, but we can also not fear God.

And I think this is the biggest issue is we love God based on

who we are, limited understanding of him.

But but that revelation should lead to all, right?

That revelation should lead to all because here's what the

Bible says Loving. Me.

Empowers you to obey. So if you truly are in love with

God. Hesitation is eliminated and

obedience is activated. Our lives would be so much

better if we trusted God's definitions, not make up our own

based on our elementary understanding of who He is.

Like the world. Well, if he really God, then he

came. Why he he would never let this

happen. Or no, that's God isn't my

homie. He like he not mad at me right

now. No, he know my heart.

He does. He just told you your heart.

If you love me you will obey me. That eliminates He knows my

heart. If you if the love of God is in

your heart, it leads to obedience.

Amplify our class that says if you really love me, you will

keep my commands. There's no discussion, he says

Matthew 716. By their fruits you will

recognize them, that is by their contrived doctrine and self

focus. Speaking of these false prophets

like look at. The fruit, OK, what we're

talking about is fruits that God brings in.

Your life is meant to remain, right?

It's why you can find churches that they pop in for a while and

then something is exposed and then at the end of the day that

work is done. So you can't be moved by

popularity. But we've made popularity fruit

and so then when God tested then we all hurt and say the church

hurt us. No.

But if you examine the fruit in the 1st place and stop thinking

God was moving because people was moving.

I love Revelations 4/8. It says that these beings and

you got to go back and listen to this morning of this picture of

heaven and earth working together to see God's will done

on earth. But they never stop saying holy,

holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.

They never stop saying, they never stop saying Conditions are

moved, hesitation is moved. They never stop saying why

because God never stopped being good.

He's never stopped being good. Then verse 11 says worthy.

Are you our Lord and God to receive the glory and the honor?

Is anybody in agreement with me that God is worthy of the

praise? Anybody agree that he's worthy

of the honor? Anybody agree that he's worthy

of the dominion? He is worthy?

Come on, shout out he is worthy. Isaiah 6 says 1 cried to another

holy, holy, holy. Is the Lord of hosts the whole

earth? Where?

Where? Where do you need evidence?

Man, we we fly in and. Love when you go through the

clouds and then there comes a point where you above them the

layers in the universe, the mind that he has been.

Man I I'm, I'm, I will never get familiar with flying like the

idea that that that we just up there on some technology and

somehow we get I mean. We're in the air for 15 hours

sometime. Like, that's glory, that.

That's supernatural. If you was made out of Rock, You

wouldn't. Make an airplane.

You wouldn't have the intellect to do that, because a rock

doesn't have intellect. It is not like that.

Like look around. Look at your neighbor.

Like the whole earth is full of his glory.

Look at British Columbia. Look at the wildlife.

Look. Look at the air.

It's raining. It's snowing.

It's sunny, It's cloudy and dark down here, but a lot of clouds

is shining like the universe birds are flying.

How they doing that? How they just like, wow, just

how they doing that. How they just dip down in the

ocean and bow and then just just dip back up in the air like we

just take life and creation for granted.

And that's why, Jesus, excuse me, I'm not trying to get this

chapstick, but this chapstick trying to get me Jesus Christ.

That's why. That's why he.

Says if the lilies. Here.

Here's one of them. Examples like if the lilies

right, if the birds got something to eat.

Now I've seen some some depressed birds.

I've seen some angry. Birds, But overall, what are we

tripping on? And the foundation of the

threshold shook at the voice of him who cried, and he filled the

temple. And then here's a revelation of

the man of God. Here's a revelation.

See on here's a revelation, he says.

For I am undone, and I am ruined.

God's glory revealed to him how much of nothing he was without

God, who am IA man of unclean lips.

And then you can keep going. And he says that the Angel came

down and touched his lips, anointed him, consecrated him

with a hot charcoal. And the goodness of God, even

with his reflection of his unclean self, God still touches

him. You see where it says, do not

show gotcha. I just want to make sure God's

The fear of God unleashes the divine purpose and purposes of

your being and reality on earth. The fear of God unleashes the

divine purpose and purposes of your being and reality on earth.

And this fear and this awe of God, this thing moves heaven.

It attracts the depths of our Father's heart, his presence and

his power. This fear of God is the

beginning of wisdom. This fear of God is the

foundation. It is foundational for elite

character and fundamental for the fruit of the Spirit to take

root in our lives. This fear of God is the

guarantee for godly success is the core virtue of true worship.

It is the heart posture that produces health, long life,

riches, soul, wealth, and the pink slip for Kingdom legacy.

The fear of God. You want a successful marriage.

The fear of God. You want to crush it in

everything you do. The fear of God You want to

minimize how much you miss God. The fear of God I'm talking

about how I treat you is based on the fear of God.

Understand how I treat you if I treat you, How God want me to

treat you. You ready?

That's wisdom. That's wise, to walk in love.

And when I walk in love, guess what happens?

Me and God can walk together on the level that a lot of his

children who are going to heaven mean.

I don't know about you, but while I'm on this side, I want

to experience all that God has created me to experience.

I want to walk with God on this earth.

I don't know. I don't know if that means much

for you to walk with the Lord, but I am not satisfied with

having a membership. I'm not satisfied because I got

a few dollars to give a. Church.

I'm not. No, no, no, no.

I am a being that was made for communion with my Creator.

I want to know who made this unique gentleman.

And sin kept us apart for a while.

Sin kept me ignorant. For a while.

And now my mind is open to what he's tell.

I am thirsty. He who is hungry and thirsty for

righteousness shall be filled. Man, I'm a I'm so greedy.

I. Want to know more and more and

more, and that leads to, he says.

If I'm faithful over what he gives me, he'll multiply it.

So God has shown me a little bit of his thigh, and then when I'm

faithful, we're praising that thigh.

He'll open more, stop, and then he'll keep turning and he keep

revealing more parts of himself. Sometime God will show us just a

little bit and we'd be like, oh, that's dope.

No, he gave you a little bit to see how much.

You going to go and dig for more?

He gave you this word tonight to see what you going to do with it

throughout this week, and as you dig and unpack this word, he's

going to reveal more to you. Chaka Khan, God appeared to

Solomon that very night and said, I accept your prayer, yes,

yeah. Mr. Wisest man to ever walk the

earth. This is Izzy.

This is how wise he is. Lord said, ask me whatever you

want, What you want, what you want, what you really, really

want, what you really want it really want.

And guess what he says wisdom. Now what he asked for is wisdom

to conduct the affairs that he was given responsibility for.

A lot of people will ask me what can I pray for you about?

And I'm like, man, the obvious, like I don't got to ask you to

pray for. I just spent two hours drinking

coffee with you, telling you we're in a building project.

And then at the end you want to say what you need prayer for

Money, showed you pictures of this of this raggedy building

and you and what you need prayer about, man.

I just told you everything. I need prayer.

You know, you should be hearing. OK, let me, let me pray with

you, Lord, in the name of Jesus, get this man and this woman,

this church. Provide them with resources.

And then I want to move from praying for you to give

resources to helping you have resources, right?

But he says, Lord, give me wisdom.

It's one of my prayers. I'm like Lord, I want wisdom

because I don't want to ever be limited because of a lack of

wisdom. I want you to help me

understand. God's wisdom can take you

further than men's education. See if you.

Got wisdom? God will surround you with

really educated people. And you just.

Got the wisdom to Yeah, I'll take the wisdom.

You guys can go and do what you got to do, OK?

I have chosen this place. I have chosen this place.

I have chosen this place. This is, this is for real.

For real, though, this is, This is.

He's talking to us right now. I've chosen this place as a

temple for sacrifice. Annabeth, like I can't see, see.

Understand me. You guys can't understand me.

Wisdom, godly wisdom, takes an account.

What he surrounded you with sometimes as indicators what

he's called you to do. Right, so.

So if I put a piece of sandpaper in your hand and don't tell you

what I need you to do, that piece of sandpaper would at

least give an indication of what I'm calling you to build.

You must gave me some sandpaper because I need to what?

Saying something. If I gave you a hammer and a

nail and don't tell you what I need you to do, you would assume

that I'm going to need you to do What if I give you a

sledgehammer and nothing? Else that should at least give

you an indication of what I can't.

What would I? What would that kind of signify

I might might be interested in you doing if I just gave you a

sledgehammer and say I'll be back later on.

OK, so so when I look at the voices that God's put in this

house, let me tell you I'm not ignorant.

You don't. Not every house is filled with

that level of oil, the musicianship.

Understand the elders, certain leaders.

And their graces. I then began to say OK, and he

says here's so forget what do you want me to build?

OK, he gave me sandpaper. OK, he gave me See too often

we're looking at what other people have have built as a

blueprint and indication for what he's calling me, the build.

But I got to look at he said. Moses, what is in your hand?

I've never split the C for nobody.

So you can. I got you in a position in your

life where you have no point of reference.

You All you have is what's in your hand, and if you're.

Faithful over what I put in your hand.

Watch what I do. So now I look at the voices.

I'm like, no way, with the oil that's in this house, are we

going to just be able to do 75 minutes.

Now, now I've been places where you didn't want my anointing.

You wanted my gift. You wanted my passion.

You didn't want the altar call, though.

We got to have those discussions now.

Just give us a message. 30 minutes.

That's perfect. Great altar call.

No. We have somebody else come.

Up and do it. Awesome.

You have people out there. As for itinerary speakers, they

will be like. Do not invite me if all you want

me to do is blink because I'm tired of traveling and you don't

want my oil. So then I look around and I'm

like, OK, what I look like stopping the oil from pouring.

Oh. No, no, you're not going to give

us 7 lead vocalists without the expectation or the preparation

to run a marathon. Their oil would be frustrated if

I told Annabeth all we got is 2 songs today.

Sure, in this context she'll be like sure Sir, but if she came

here and that's all, eventually, guess what?

She'll tap out. She go look at the elders and I

look at some of your gifts and I look and I'm like, OK, God, I

see what you've called us to build.

And what you got to understand is your gift sets, also revealed

to me mines. Now it doesn't mean I didn't

have a grip on my gift sets, but more and more as I pursue God

for a greater understanding. Well, you send me a prophet, you

send me some seers, you send me. So God says I've chosen this

place Love Quest as a temple of sacrifice.

And sometimes 2 1/2 hours is a sacrifice.

I'd rather 2 1/2 hours be a sacrifice than they have to hide

to get the gospel or I'm going to be.

Killed. Look at us.

We can we we worried about time and some people were worried

about their life. So I'm glad.

He called me to go have longer services than have to run.

I don't know how many people. I'll take that.

I'll take that. I'll take that.

He said. This is a House of sacrifice.

It's a House of worship. I love how he puts sacrifice and

worship together. And if we look at the Old

Testament, there was no worship without what sacrifice?

When are we going to tap in the sacrificial worship?

There is no revival without sacrificial worship.

This little cute little little convenient.

No, no, no. Where's the sacrificial?

And this is what I have to understand.

Other places aren't wrong, because if I say that church

should be doing that, then I diminish what we should be

doing. That means they're doing exactly

what they're convicted to do, which is right for them, because

everybody got to be true to what God's called them to do.

Understand. So this house sacrifice, House

of worship, and if I ever shut, I love this.

There's the context. I want you to know who you are.

And if I ever shut off the supply of rain from the skies,

or order the locusts to eat the crops forever, Send judgement If

I ever allow drought. I love how he allowed famine,

but knowingly he put someone of his children in place.

What you got to understand, there is no catastrophe, no

tragedy that God has not already put someone of his in place.

So that when the world experiences COVID or experiences

famine, there is somebody in place that represents him, that

can provide for those that are going without.

Why? Because he's after them.

So in this hour he's raising up Joseph's and if he's raising up

Joseph's we going to see some locusts eating up crops.

It's already happening. Businesses are closing, but

there's there's there's Joseph's rising up in the Kingdom because

when it all shuts down, they going to look at you and say how

you still open, how are you doing business?

To send a plague or send a plague on my people and my

people, my God defined people, respond, he says.

This is how you going to respond when trouble hit the land.

Pray, seek my presence and turn your back on your wicked lives.

Now, Hollywood has done a job on us portraying wickedness.

So a lot of people in here probably can't even think

they're wicked. Because what Hollywood showed

you wicked is you think it's a witch, you think it's like blood

coming out your mouth, you think it's all black eyeballs, and you

think it's weird stuff. No, no.

That's movies. Here's wickedness, obedient

disobedience. Continual disobedience is

wicked. Lying simplified is wicked.

Housing fear. Unforgiveness.

You ready? Unforgiveness is wicked.

He said. I'll be there, ready for you.

I love this Vanessa, he says. When everything goes amok in the

world, I place the people in it as intercessors so things aren't

destroyed. God says I'm about to destroy

the land. Noah, I need you to build an

ark. You know me.

I don't want to be caught. Up in the flood, I want to be

Noah. I want to be on the I want to

build a boat. Lord, I'll build a boat for you.

Some people's stubbornness will lead them to say no.

Let Noah do it. And when you say let Noah do it,

what you're saying you will receive what everybody else

receives. No, no, Noah.

Right here. I'll line them up.

Two by two. God.

Yes, I will. I'll talk to them even if I get

on their nerves. Yes, I will, God, I call it out.

Yes, I will, God, I want to. I want to build the ark.

That's what I'll do, see because ark builders got inside on what

God's doing, the ark builders, he he said.

He said he told one man build an ark.

Because I am about to do this. Ark builders get inside

information. Bless you, I'll listen from

heaven, he says. This House of worship, you got

my attention. Forgive their sins and restore

their land to health. Lord, we take ownership at love

quest for this city. From now on, I'm alert day and

night to the prayers offered at this place.

See that's one of them scriptures.

I'm like who am I That you listening to me like God's

looking to hear from me. Come here man.

Every spirit of revelation please hit them.

God's looking to hear from me. I've chosen and sanctified this

temple. I've chosen intervene.

I had, I had, I had. I had remember I shared about

the pastor I was with the other day the one thing he said he was

walking through the building and they just built a humongous

church. Right, a church building and and

and they they have a legacy around here.

And he walked in here. He was like, wow.

He walked next door. He said, wow, I would have never

built in here. He said you must have some

serious eyes to see because I wouldn't have never saw this to

be a church. So he walked through the

unfinished I took him through this first, took him through my

office, and I took him through here.

And I called ahead. I told the fellas I was like,

hey, turn on some worship music, put the body lights on,

straighten up the chairs. We're bringing the king through.

We're bringing the king through, OK?

And he walked in here the moment he stepped down the stairs.

He said, Oh yeah, it's here. This room feels good man.

See you got a simple statement but but but but a man of God

that knows from continent to country.

He understands he's been where the press to walk in on one

step. Not have to come in here and and

and try to tap in But the moment he step in he feels like he

steps in a river. He's like, oh, he goes next door

and he walks through all the SSK stuff.

He's like, wow, go in the kitchen.

Wow goes in the studio. Wow goes next door.

Oh, and we just sound like we walking on Captain Crunch.

We just bunch of bird poop just like.

Now, now, now. This is what I love.

Though this is what I. Love you.

Got to go get video of the poop. Noah's Ark, what you think was

all over the He had. If he was a good steward, he had

to walk right through it. He had to walk around and check

'cause it was. Only two of them.

If anyone animal died, one wouldn't have been able to

produce that kind no more. So he walking around Crunch and

some of it wasn't Crunch either. Right?

You got every animal kind but but Ben.

But let me tell you. That arc experience gives us a

garage experience. He he saved humanity, being

willing to go through something that no one they would have

laughed at. God, they would have looked,

they looked at him and said, OK buddy, God didn't say, don't let

nobody help you build it. Don't let nobody help you build

it. He said this is what's happening

now, go build it. And he goes and tells the

people, you would think I'm like no, is there anything I can do

to help you brother? Because I do not want to get

wait A. Minute.

Did I hear you right? Just you and your family going.

Can I help you? Please can.

Can you say I'm with you? Can you tell God I'm with you?

It was. Built it was.

It was plotted to be unbelievable.

It was plotted to be unpopular. So see if we began to look at

the unpopular request of God. As an opportunity for the all of

God versus the embarrassment of me, then I can enter into some

historic moves. Of God.

That's why God says I'm looking for somebody that's willing to

look foolish for a moment. Y'all, y'all know how tired I am

to tell y'all we're going to get the building premier.

We got the building premier, the building permit come what?

A building permit come in. But I got a witness right here.

We've been doing our part. The city is just doing their

part, but this is how this is how I love it.

I love it though. I love it because the timing,

it's what's more important than being able to walk up here and

get you off my back. The pressure is building.

There's some proving happening, son.

Go up there, he said. OK, Moses, go tell Pharaoh.

Let my people go. Moses, go do it.

In other words, go tell the people to park the building

permit coming this coming week. Go tell them.

Yes Sir, I'll come back. And he hardened the city's

heart. And they do some foolishness.

And I'm telling you this, they they doing stupid stuff.

Hey, can you guys, what is it called?

Amendment. Can you guys change this word?

Can you take building permit off the letter that that was one of

the corrections that was a couple weeks to get that from

the bank to the city. I'm talking about they're not

approving plans. That's done.

They don't want building permit written on it.

But they also didn't tell us exactly what to put on there.

We've had to redo the letter twice.

One time for one word, one time for two.

I'm like, OK, Lord, thank you for protecting us.

Thank you for holding it up because you working something

out on the SO I'm not going to get all wrinkled up over a few

letters if you using letters to delay so promise can be in

perfect timing do your thing but I am telling you we super close

to getting that building permit any day.

I got an e-mail the other day the building the building permit

department is ready. You're like hey, can you guys

give us this so we can release their building permit, but then

people they're not in on this day and then you get they want

the people who said change these words and then they approved

that those now the letter is good, now they got to send it to

another department to approve what they already approved.

So we got to go through those things.

But the point is, is I'd much rather on the inside because

there's education I'm getting that some of you aren't getting,

and not saying that you should get it, but I count it as joy

because I'm becoming better, I'm becoming stronger, I'm becoming

wiser. And and and.

God's through this process, writing books, He's developing

conferences, He's, he's developing breakout sessions.

You, you how? How does a place be able to give

people wisdom? Well, you got to go through some

things to obtain wisdom. So what you got to understand is

what you're going through may be tough, but on the other side is

what's going to bring you wealth.

I've chosen and sanctified this temple that you have built,

moving right along, he said. If you live in my presence, pure

in heart and in action, living the life I've set up for you

attentively obedient, like ready.

God. What you What you what you got

for me? What you what you want me to do?

Shut it down. OK.

Shut it down. What?

You want me to open it up? I'll open it up.

OK. What you want me to do in the

cool? You want me to start it cool?

I'm ready. Attentively obedient.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

Then I'll back your kingly rule over Israel and make it a sure

thing on a sure foundation. Same covenant guarantee I gave

to David. You can count on always having a

descendant on Israel's throne. I'm carrying and you're carrying

this mantle on to the next generation.

They see some of us. Oh, this is big talk right here.

You only look as far as your parents.

You don't look back at David. You forget you was related to

Abraham, so your testimony only goes back to maybe 2

generations. And you forget that you still

standing in a promise that he made to Abraham.

No, no, the promise didn't start with my Mama.

The promise didn't start with my grandmama.

It was just their turn. Now it's my turn for the same

covenant. And if you stop and and you just

look at them, then you might fumble the covenant getting

tripped over their mistakes, trying to carry it out.

Come on, say it's my turn. Let us cleanse ourselves from

everything that contaminates. Therefore, since we have these

great and wonderful promises, beloved, let us cleanse

ourselves from everything. Let us cleanse ourselves from

everything. Let us cleanse ourselves from

everything that contaminates body and spirit.

Completing holiness, living a consecrated life.

Here we go. What is that?

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

Lord, I'm setting. I want to.

I want, man. I want to go with my homies.

Lord, I want to go hang out. I want to go do this.

But I'm set aside for you. I want to go out tomorrow, but I

I'm set aside for you on Saturday night because I got to

get myself ready for you to use. I'm, I'm going to stay here,

Lord, and I'm going to take a nap in the back because I don't

want to go somewhere, get distracted before tonight.

I want to stay locked in so you can use me, Lord, A life set

apart. Lord, here's my life, Here's my

vessel, Here's my tongue, Here's my hands, Here's my mind, Here's

my family. Here's my finances.

Here it is, you use it says in the fear of God.

We are not taking God in consideration.

We're not just saying consider God.

No. We are taking God in covenant.

No. It got to go beyond God.

What you think it got to go into God?

What have you done? What have you blessed?

Where have you went? I will go where you went, I will

get involved in what you blessed, and I will do what you

want Now, since we are God's Co

workers, we beg you not to take God's marvelous grace for

granted, allowing it to have no effect on your lives.

No effect. Like God's goodness should be

moving us from glory to glory. You know what I'm saying?

Hunger to hunger. I listened to you at the time of

my favor and the day when you needed salvation and I came to

your aid. But can't you see now is the

time to respond to his favor to his goodness.

Now is the day of salvation. Says that his rich extraordinary

kindness make you take him for granted.

Could you just think he's good? Like he's going, he just he

going to wake me up tomorrow. He going to bless my business,

my kids going to be good, man. I'm about to hop in this

airplane. I'm coming right back down.

Yeah, one way or another true. But the fact.

That I came down safe. Does it.

Does it like the first thing when I'm hitting when I when I

hit this? First thing we do is this is

this is the first thing we do when we oh reception airplane

mode going off and we get right on them text.

But first time first thing I hit Here's my prayer.

When I Here's my prayer. Here's my prayer.

Every single time. It's a little detailed.

But Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you.

I thank you for a safe ascension.

I thank you for a safe dissension.

I thank you that your ministering angels are carrying

your service servant from one place to another, depending on

where it's at. I'll say say from Vancouver to

Calgary. And I thank you.

You're dispatching your angels to bring me back from Calgary to

Vancouver safely in the name of Jesus.

I thank you that you have dispatched your ministering

angels to the front of the plane.

The tail of the plane. The belly of the plane.

The spine of the plane. From the front to the back,

inside and out, I thank you that you are with the pilots.

And you are with the the, the, the, the, the stewardess.

I thank you that we will not get off the ground until everything

is proven working the way it's supposed to.

I thank you that your servant will go where he's called to go

and will come back to where he's called to be.

Very detailed. So when I'm in the air, I just

envision angels on the left wing, the right wing, the tail

of the plane, the nose of the plane, the belly of the plane,

and the head of the plane. And I see them carrying me from

one place to another, and I see them sometime.

I'm like, 1. Angel must have went to the

bathroom because that was a rough landing.

I'm like, come on, let's just like casket dropped on that

side, like, what's going on? Come on.

Right. But when I hit that, when I hit

it, my lips go immediately to thank you, Lord, you're true to

your word. You must have gotten me here

because you have an assignment for me here.

So now that you got me here, I'm going to be attentive to what

you brought me here for. You're not going to carry me

into another day for me to be obedient, another disobedient,

another day. If you woke me up this morning,

there's something I need to respond to.

And it starts with Thank you. Haven't you experienced how kind

and understanding he has been to you?

Don't mistake his tolerance or acceptance.

You realize that all the wealth of his extravagant kindness,

it's meant why He is so kind to you.

It is meant to melt your heart and lead you into repentance.

Grace did not pay for us to be excused from reverence, but it

should empower us on to repentance.

I'll close with Luke 5 and Luke 17 when Simon let me.

Let me make sure you get this. Grace didn't pay for us to be

excused from reverence. It should empower us on to

repentance. And I want to help you.

Repentance is not something you do after you mess up.

Repentance is something you do after you wake up.

Repentance is not something you do after you.

What mess up? Repentance is something that you

do after you wake up. It is a fruit of my gratitude.

I have a the Bible says a heart of repentance, which simply

means I am postured ever turning.

I am postured, ever turning from where he brought me from that

when I say there's no turning back what I'm saying, I'm always

repenting because I'm always moving forward, away from So

repentance is not what I do after I mess up because I'm

already forgiven. Repentance is what I do after I

wake up. My gratitude is a fruit of

repentance. My sowing is a fruit of

repentance. My willingness to not live in

unforgiveness is a fruit of repentance.

My faithfulness is a fruit of repentance.

My never giving up on anybody is a fruit of repentance.

My repentance flows from my gratitude.

So I'm not excused, but this revelation of his goodness

empowers me to live a life postured at his feet.

Never turn him back. Luke 5 says this When Simon

Peter saw the astonishing miracle, he knelt at Jesus feet

and he begged him. Go away from me, Master, for I

am sinful man Simon Peter and the other fishermen, including

his Fisher fishing. Partners Jacob and John, the

sons of Zebedee, was what all struck over the miracle.

He saw a miracle. And the miracle took him to his

feet, took him to his knees, and said.

Who am I? No, I don't deserve this.

Now I'm not talking false humility.

What I'm talking about is the love of God.

The miracle working power of God.

He woke you up another day. You thought you was going to

lose your mind. You're still here.

It should cause you to magnify him, not what he brought you

from. No, you don't magnify the Red

Sea. You magnify the parter of the

Red Sea. Am I talking to anybody?

You don't magnify the bad relationship.

You magnify the one who brought you out of the bad relationship,

he says. Jesus answered.

Do not yield to your fear, Simon Peter, from now on, from now on,

from now on, you will catch what he's saying is I didn't do this

good thing in your life. For you to just sit at my feet

and just be like, oh woe is me. What my goodness, should compel

you to do is from now on, from the moment God showed you his

favor. From now on, it's not AI got to

keep on doing something good for you.

Here it is. I want God to keep Blessing me

as a response of my faithfulness, not as a response

of my need. You don't want a relationship

where you always got to come through for somebody because

they need something. You want to keep blessing

somebody that every time you give them something, he keeps

multiplying. I don't want rescue Blessing.

I want stewardship. Blessing.

Want to find me faithful? Trustworthy You will catch men

for salvation. And then lastly, Luke 17, one of

them a Samaritan, when he discovered that he was

completely healed. One of them.

Out of how many? 10 He healed 10 lepers, one of

them. One of them discovered.

What does that say, Noel? The other nine didn't get a

revelation. The other nine looking at him.

Where you going? Would you not come back?

We got to go, man. We got to go show the kid.

We got to go show him. Look at our new bodies.

Look at our new bodies. And one of them said no.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm not about to go show off my

blessing to someone who won't value it.

I'm going to take my blessing right back to the one who

brought me out. I'm I'm not trying to show off a

blessing. I'm trying to use my blessing as

a reflection of his goodness. And I'm coming to lay my crown

at his feet and say, God, you gave me this talent.

Here it is. You woke me up this morning.

Here I am. I'm not here to do it.

He said no. And that brother had to walk

back by. Look, he got healed with a

group. Walk back by yourself.

A true life of gratitude will cause separation.

The average person You don't get how good God is because if you

really catch how good God is, it will distract you from what's

not good. It doesn't mean that you don't

see bad or see wrong. But bad and wrong won't get me

caught up. His goodness will look back at

my nine friends and say, y'all. What?

What? Look at you, man.

Look what? Y'all.

Go ahead. Y'all go ahead.

And he comes back to Jesus and he finds him.

He didn't. You ready?

He didn't say, man, where'd Jesus at?

He busy somewhere, man. I'm.

I'm gonna go. I'll.

I'll come back another day. He finds Jesus shouting out

joyous praises. Does it say shouting?

Yeah, gratitude has a shout and glorifying God.

When he found Jesus, he fell down.

He fell down. A true revelation of God's

goodness looks like a posture of at his feet, reverence at his

feet not. Back at his hand, oh, I found

somebody. He to bless her.

He don't bless her, don't bless her, don't bless her.

He don't bless her. So you go back and be like God,

you got what else you got? For me?

What else you got? For Nope.

He went to his feet, not his hand, and he understood.

If he stayed at his feet, all his needs are met.

All your needs will be met at his feet not his hand.

And he found himself at his feet by himself.

Remember it was 10 people. I love this picture because this

was he didn't find. He wasn't at the cross.

He was at his feet of a savior standing and he thanked him

overlook at this and over sounds like the angels holy, holy,

holy. He thanked him over and over and

over saying to him you are the Messiah and here's Jesus

question, where's the other nine?

Wasn't it 10 of y'all? Didn't I bless 10 of y'all?

That they all refuse to return, to give thanks and give glory.

They all refuse to return, and I love it because God blesses us

before we return. See, this is what crushes me

right now. My, my, my heart gets turned and

tossed and softened. He didn't wait till they

returned. He healed them, hoping they will

return hospitals.

You stay away from after you've been been healed.

But when the Savior touches you, it's the place You go back and

live. That that's the that's that's

that's what should hit your heart is He healed them, knowing

he was releasing goodness to some people who may not get it.

But he didn't wait for you to get it to heal you.

He refused to come back, He says, and give you glory to God,

except you, a foreigner. We ain't really even supposed to

be getting down like this. But this foreigner comes back

and he says thank you. And Jesus said to the healed man

lying at his feet, get up. It was your faith that brought

you salvation and made you whole.

Wait, wait a minute. Do y'all see what I see?

He didn't. He didn't count his faith when

he got healed. He counted his faith when he

returned. No, no, no.

That was me. I healed you.

I healed 10 of y'all. But it was your faith that made

you whole. See, you got healed, but it was

the gratitude of the healing that made you whole.

Most of the time, Elder John, we stop that.

Thank you, Jesus. I'm delivered.

I'm healed. But it's when we return that we

enter wholeness, right? He didn't count his faith at

healed. He counted his faith at return.

His faith was showing up in his gratitude, not his need.

They say, Lord, I need to be healed.

Boom. He heals them.

They go, One comes back and he says, whoa, you got faith.

The faith was counted on. The Thanksgiving, the return,

not the need. It was your need that pursued

God, not your faith. If you're desperate enough,

you'll pursue. You don't necessarily mean you

have faith in Christ. It just mean you found out

Christ may be able to cure you, but what happened with the nine

is they got what they needed but did not return for dependency.

And this shows you that Jesus is after you, not your Wellness.

He's like I'm healing you so we can remove the sickness from in

between us. I'm hoping that I heal you now.

Sickness is not an excuse to keep us from distant.

Faith was found and counted in the return, not in the need.

It was your faith that brought you salvation.

Now this leper gets the. Walk with Jesus when his friends

only got to pass by Jesus. And my question to you tonight

Are you satisfied with just passing by?

Are you satisfied with just an encounter?

What good is an encounter if it doesn't lead to a return?

If he's truly been good, I believe it warrants a return.

I believe everybody in this room.

God's brought you through some stuff over and over.

I think you should return over and over and over and over and

over and over and over and over and over, because he wakes you

up over and over and over and over and over how hard your

circumstance is in this moment. It's not a reflection of his

goodness. The fact that you're standing

through a tough time speaks to him holding you over and over

and over and over and over. What you're standing in has

taken many people out. Why are you able to get out of

bed in the midst of the darkness you're experiencing, but someone

killed themselves with even a less of pressure.

Whoever you are, the Lord keeps you, and He's looking for your

return. I see Jesus right now.

I see the Father standing on the porch of heaven like this.

Come home. I'm waiting for that return.

It all starts wholeness. All starts with a return.

And I believe the Lord is calling his children home

because he wants to make his church whole.

He's He's healed you. He's delivered you.

He's kept you through countless things that you wanted to give

up in, but I think he's looking for a return.

But this is the most important part from now on, uninterrupted

communion. It doesn't mean you're not going

to go through rough times. That mean you're not going to

watch your favorite Netflix film, doesn't mean but don't put

Jesus on the couch. Don't break, don't break the

abiding, don't start sleeping on the couch.

I know there's some a lot of y'all not married, but that's

when. You know when.

When when couples, they get in there and somebody sleep on the

couch. Oh, I just fell asleep on the

couch every night. Go, go, go tell, go tell, go

tell, go tell Jesus. He can come back however you

want to see that picture, or you go back.

But the cry tonight is return, Bible says.

Return unto me and I will return unto you, saith the Lord.

Let's lift our hands right where we are.

Come on. Right where you are is an altar.

Return, return, return. Well, let's just take a moment.

You can sing this. And I bet if you and you guys

have seen this, just keep it real soft for this moment and

let's just take a moment and just allow this word to minister

into your heart. And as he's ministering, as the

spirit continues to minister and go a little deeper, just

respond. The altar is open.

Or, like I said, right where you are is the altar.

Let's let this be a moment of return within our souls.

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