Homecoming pt. 3 | AM 1.14.23

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. Did you love things, man?

You can be. Seated in the presence of an

amazing God, Yahweh, I always mess myself up, man.

I need time to breathe and then I'll get to singing my soul, get

happy and then y'all participate.

And then it messed me up. All right, let's give up for our

first time attendees. That's what I'm talking about.

This is a fun church. Y'all, super fun.

I want to. I want to, I want to.

I want to really make some progress.

And we will have an opportunity to continue the giving at the

end. But we needed to move forward.

Thank you for those generous givers.

And those that didn't have an opportunity to give you will

have that opportunity right at the end.

Can we can we give it up for the spontaneous moment?

I tell all you young people, you can start your life with Jesus,

be on fire and never turn back. I'll tell you right now.

All you college student in the world ain't got nothing for you

and it's going to leave you hanging out to drive.

And so if you could start on your path with the Lord now.

Be faithful, be on fire, be disciple, be held accountable.

Get the word and you get worship in your life.

I'm telling you nothing can stop you.

You do not have to go out in the world at like Northern America's

can tell you and experience the world and gotta keep you and the

words in you. You'll go to the strip club and

you'll be back to the all. It's OK.

Naw heck. Naw.

OK. Just to try pop, pop a pill,

Take a sip. No, I did it for you.

I didn't go to the strip club though.

I didn't go to the strip club. Let me get that one.

Let me get that one. But, but I'm just letting you

know that the world we live in is way different and your your

chances and your Grace leash is a lot shorter.

Not that God will not keep you, but there's certain principles

in the in the land that will not keep you.

And you just don't want to be that young person who find

themselves experience trying to mature through the wrong

experience. There's some experiences promise

you you do not need and if you need some testimonies, we got a

lot of them in here. If you need discipleship, we got

a lot of disciple makers in here.

If you need a church home, I would say this is a great church

home. But you I'm telling you the I'm

telling you I know you, some of you from different countries and

different things and it's hard to find a church like back home,

things of that nature. Let me tell you something you

didn't ran out of excuses. I stand on this being a great

church that is built on a solid foundation.

And so make some decisions. Do not go out of this month

without a church home. And it don't have to be this

one. But church, Church Hoppin is not

a part of God's plan for you. OK, All right.

Homecoming. This year of homecoming.

Sons and daughters activate. Father's heart revealed.

Come on, shout that out. Sons and daughters, activate.

I want you to shout out so loud. I am so ready.

You remember. You remember this last week.

Born ready. Live.

Ready. Walk.

Ready. Talk.

Ready. Move.

Ready. Stand.

Ready. Dress.

Ready. Sleep.

Ready. Wake up.

Ready. Being ready.

I was made ready. I was made ready.

I was made ready. I was made ready.

I was made ready. I was made ready.

I was made ready. Live, ready.

Walk ready. Talk ready.

Move ready. Stand ready.

Dress ready. Sleep ready.

Wake up ready. Being ready.

House made ready. House made ready.

House. Made ready.

House made ready. House made ready.

House made ready. I'm all ready.

Live ready. I'm walk ready.

I'm talk ready. I'm ready.

Stand ready. Dress ready.

Sleep ready. Wake up.

Ready. I'm being ready.

House made ready. House made ready.

House made ready. House made ready.

House made ready. House made.

One more time. Ready.

They're ready. Already.

Ready. Ready.

Ready. Stand ready.

Dress ready. Sleep ready.

Wake up. Ready.

Ready. Ready.

Ready. Ready.

Ready. Ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm stand.

Ready. I'm stressed.

Ready. I sleep Ready.

I wake up. Ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm so ready, Joseph replied. Joseph replied.

Joseph replied. Do not be afraid.

We've heard a lot of Joseph story and I would say in some

ways every single person in here can relate, understand.

Joseph was hated. By his siblings, because he had

a dream. He was hated.

And Joseph probably could have said why y'all hating on me?

We ain't even got started yet. And then he was sold into

slavery, left to die by his brothers.

Then he was a slave with favor. See some of y'all.

When you are enslaved, you forget you still got favor.

A condemned mind will cause you to forget your rights.

Shame will cause you to forget your rights.

Understand that. And so condemnation and shame.

Sin will always cause you to forget to have amnesia, and you

will forfeit what I understood when I look back.

God's hand was still on me when I was out there in the world.

But it was my behavior which impacted my conscience.

And my conscience impacted my faith, and my faith impacted my

walk. So then Joseph goes from a pit

to a palace, and then he goes into a prison.

And he goes to prison because in the palace he found favor, he

was accused of rape. And then he goes in prison and

then he's forgotten about. And now we find ourselves where

the dream is coming to pass now. Now let me remind some of you

summertime. Some of us, not all of us.

We forget from week to week what God said.

So we almost got to start all the way over.

And if you don't cherish what was given last week, you can't

build on top of it. I stand here as a picture of

momentum. I am the sum total of every word

that I stewarded up to this point.

So if you can't steward what was spoken over your life 10 years

ago, then you always got to start there versus building

momentum from stewarding what's spoken into your life and shock

of God so he ends up. When we see Joseph at this

point, it's because no matter what he went through, he was

faithful over the dream God gave him.

No matter what he went through. Accused the rape.

Put in a pig by his brothers. Left to die.

Lie to his father. Forgotten about in prison.

All he had was favor and a word. Let me before I keep going, what

y'all come to church for today? Shout it out, huh.

To be fed right to to To To do what?

Huh. What you come here for today?

They told y'all is a good church.

Y'all need to check it out, right?

How many people came here because they don't want to leave

the same? Hey, man, a few people.

A few people, a few people. That's all I need is a few

people. God only shows up because he

come to change. You God never shows up to leave

you the same. So I'm just saying lean in a

little bit more and get engaged with the work so it can hit your

heart a part of throughout service.

My the soil of my heart should get readier and readier.

The word, the music. All of this that we're doing is

tilling the soil of your heart so that when the word is

released, it has a place to not just drop, but it has soil that

will produce fruit. OK, so don't be afraid.

Here we are. Joseph, his brother show up now.

His brothers need that dream to be true.

They they're not hearing us today.

The very thing that people been trying to hate on you about

places that they've been questioning you about going one

day, they gonna need you to have not listened to them right now.

The very thing they were jealous of him of is the very thing they

need him for. So they tried to kill his dream,

not knowing If they would have killed his dream, they would

have killed they self. People don't understand.

And you don't understand why no matter how hard it is to go

forward and leave people behind, one day they gonna need you to

be where they hoping you don't go today.

But one day you gonna have something in your hand to be a

blessing to them. Stop letting people hold you

down. And unfortunately, it won't be

somebody you don't know. It's going to be somebody close

to you. It could be a spouse, it could

be a kid. It could be an ex-spouse.

It could be a boss. But it has to mean something to

you. Ain't nobody gonna hate.

It don't matter if somebody, if somebody, somebody that don't

matter to you, say something to you.

It don't hurt as much as somebody.

You really care about what they think.

Some of the old husband, your wife gonna need you to pursue

your call. Don't let them fool you into

thinking, look, let me tell the reason they need you so much to

do. What they think you need to do

right now is because they ain't free.

So they need you to do activity for them to experience freedom,

Man, you better. Not not literally, but in the

sphere. You better tell your wife or

your husband. Shut up.

You heard what I said. Not literally.

Put a Jesus can't be behind me. Jesus friend tried to save him

from the cross and he said that was the devil.

Everybody that loves you don't always see like the one that

loves you. So just because people love you,

they shouldn't have a hold on your purpose and you should have

told him you should have thought about my call before you married

me. Nobody told you to marry me if

you didn't want to pay the cost with me.

He gets to this point and he says do I act for God?

They apologizing. They're like we we, we.

Sorry, we we, we, we, we. Sorry, say the heart.

All it is is a test of the heart.

Here. Here it is.

Here's your greatest test throughout life, If you can keep

your heart soft for God, you can keep receiving everything God

has for you. And I don't even know if we're

going to get to it today, tonight, today, this morning.

We're going to get to it today. But this is all about a heart

attack or heart test. It is a fight for your heart

because your heart is the soil. If fear can, fear needs your

heart. Do I act for God?

Joseph says as he's looking at his brothers.

Don't you see you planned evil against me Now?

Now, let's not even talk about friends and family.

Let's. Just talk about the enemy and

all the hell. That's why I get excited.

That's why I can worship for an hour and 15 minutes.

You planned evil against me. I was actually participating

with you. But God wait, when I was in the

club, that was the part. I was participating in the plan.

When I was smoking trees, I was participating in the plan.

When I was kabasi and then Hennessy and then Ella saying

and and and and and and and and and and cognacking and bearing

and and I was doing the thing. I was participating with a plan

to kill me. But God this apart.

But God use the same plans. No, no, no, no, no.

God used the same plans. You trying to get him to change

plans, but he want to use the same plans.

He want to use the same plan. He want to use the hate.

He want to use the sickness. He want to use the abandonment.

He want to use the rape. He want to use the manipulation.

He want to use the poverty. He want to use the orphanage.

He want to use it all. He wants to use the same plan

that the enemy used to destroy you.

God said keep it up. Keep on trying to destroy me.

Keep on building a resume of survival and watch when I turn.

Hey, same plan. Shout out same plan for my good,

for my good, for my good. As you see all around you right

now he like look, he was like you thought he he said look

around me. You thought what you did was

going to stop like wait a minute look, do you see you asking me

for some food right now? Do you see you asking me for

some wisdom right now? Like don't think you had enough

power to stop me, so you don't even need to apologize because

what you thought you was doing was never going to work.

Your hate was a part of the plan.

You leaving me on a bench was a part of the plan.

You get what I'm saying? You having me raised by

Alcoholics was a part of the plan.

No, no, no. I do not hate the family I was

grown up in. I understand that my alcoholic

this or my drug addict that or my imprisoned father was a part

of the WHAT plan? Not knowing.

OK, 30-40 years pops in for 50 years ago, whatever pops in and

out of jail. I wish my dad would have raised

me. But not knowing that I could

never let a lack of father stop me.

Because one day when I get where I'm at, my daddy gonna need me.

So now my daddy calling me son. What must I do to be saved?

What if I made an excuse and said I didn't have a father, I

didn't have a mother. Now I can be a father to my

father. Because in God's eyes we all

sons. You see how God turned it

around? Now I got to be my daddy's

daddy. Now I got to raise my daddy to

the finish line. He turns it around.

He turn it. I don't know who that for.

He turning it around. He's turning it around this

morning. Come on, 30 seconds.

Just turn it around. Let's turn it around.

It's turning around. It's turning around.

It's turning around. It's turning around.

It's turning around. Come on, shout out.

It's turning around. See you see, you know how you

you know how you you know how you're praying for.

I'm about to bless somebody right now.

You know how you praying for your siblings or your spouse or

your family members to change. You keep bombarding heaven about

them seeing him and he just saying.

I hear him saying back to some of y'all.

I do want to show them, but you're the model so stop

worrying about me sending an example to them and let me

change you. You are the very answer to the

prayer you asking because when they see you, they go see y'all.

He's turning it around. The very people that talked

about you made it hard as hell for you to walk in your house

and sleep in peace. The people that made fun of you

is the very people that's going to have to look at you as a

model. They going to have to look at

the very one they disregarded and now they're going to have to

finish their life regarding you. He's turning it around, Joseph

says. Joseph says Joseph says easy

now. He like, easy now, easy now,

bro. I know you lied on me.

I know you put me in a pit. I know you poured blood on my

robe and took it back to my father and had him grieving

because he thought I was dead. The last time he heard about me,

or let me put it this way, the time before last, the report was

I was dead. The last time before he died, he

heard I was in charge. Now his brothers have to go home

and say hey dad, we was lying but but no time for that dad,

we're in famine. And remember the brother I told

you was dead? We actually just hated on him

and we envied how much you loved him.

We envied no matter what happened to Joseph, it's still

like he can feel like he still found favorite.

We left him to die and then come to find out he was in charge of

Pharaoh's house. For Potiphar's house.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

And then. And then praise God he got

charged for rape again. Something he didn't do.

Slander in his name, misunderstanding who he is and

God's letting it happen the whole time.

Let people misunderstand you, Joseph.

I don't find nowhere explaining his self.

He gets tossed in prison, and in prison, two things are

happening. #1 He's interpreting dreams.

So no matter what, put me in prison.

But you can't lock up my gift. God can use me in the pit.

He can use me in prison. The second thing, he's in there

with government officials because God put him in prison to

get around conversation and sales sale groups with

government officials, because God's about to have him over

government. God is preparing him in prison

to be in charge of the storehouse.

So he needs to understand the movements and the shaking of the

land. He don't have the Sometime God

will put you in prison just to educate you.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, he say, But now he say.

Easy now, Easy now. I'll take care of you.

I'll take care of you, he said. Look, what if Joseph gave up?

Look at what he says, he said. Easy, easy, bro.

See, we're not thinking about the generations, his brothers.

If they would have killed Joseph, they wouldn't have been

able to provide for their kids, Joseph said.

Look, I got you and my nieces and nephews and I don't.

I won't even tell them what y'all did to me.

I won't even bring it up. It's all good, he says.

I'll take care of you and your children, he reassured them,

speaking with them. Heart to heart.

Come on, say heart to heart. Come on one more time.

Say heart to heart. He could not talk to them heart

to heart if he was bitter. I I don't know what kind of time

I'm gonna have. I'm just letting you know where

we going. I plead with you brethren.

I beseech you brethren, come back tonight.

I might not make it to to to this example but but but tonight

you about to get your heart condition right.

I might get to a little bit. I don't know.

But I asked for some some plant seeds.

I told told the ABI said hey can you give me some seeds?

I show up to church. This brother got me some

sunflower seeds. So we going to work these

sunflower seeds today. OK, but, but, but that's what

it's up here for these different types of of of conditions of

heart. And we don't think about this.

Everybody in here has a specific type of soul in their heart.

This is why you can come in the House of God, don't feel

nothing, don't experience nothing, don't even care.

This is why you can hear an amazing message and go home and

it never produces. And a lot of people don't know

that. Understand if you're going to

change the condition of your heart, you got to know the

condition is in. This is a very vital message.

This is like you feel something going wrong in your life and you

actually need to go to the doctor to get some vital signs

to see what's going on. Like this message right here.

I needed to find my heartbeat one day if I was going to change

it to a healthy heartbeat. And it's how God made us.

And we all hear, all of us are hearing the message right.

You can see it in the room. You see some people write notes

and some people that getting hit in there cheering and and then

you see some people that and then you see some people

spectating can't receive because they trying to figure out what's

going on. These are all conditions of the

heart that the Bible talks about, and it tells you the type

of fruit that that heart produces.

This is very important because God can bring something to you

this year, and if your heart condition isn't right, it will

not produce the yield it should. This ain't just I'm going to go

to church, hear a word, and God, please do something.

No, these are steps and principles.

This brother is saying, Hey, I got you.

Don't apologize. You left me for dead.

You stripped me naked, and now you need me ask somebody else.

But because through it all, he protected his heart.

Here's the test. Here's the test.

Out of the thousands of people he's feeding, none of them are

attached to his heart like his brothers.

So the test is now how you going to treat your family when you

get there? This is a crossroad to increase

and promotion. There's a season of Pit in

Prison and Palace, and then there's a day where you're a.

Prince, you're providing. But while you're prevent.

God gave me a word that's in the midst of all this blessing

that's going to rock us today. Because all the stuff is coming,

is coming. But I won't give it away.

I give myself away. No.

But, but but then he goes. Genesis 5017.

But no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper.

Now this is the thing. Stop tripping.

Because weapons are formed. They going to get forms.

They going to hate on you. They going to plot on you.

They going to talk about you. They going to walk away from

you. But no weapon formed against me

shall prosper. See here, let me give you an

example. Let me give you an example.

Hallelujah. OK, see, here's where the enemy

wants you ignorant. The enemy.

You got somebody in your life. The enemy is not speaking death

over you. The enemy is not cussing you

out. The enemy is not being sarcastic

with you. That's the person.

So somebody say they talk down to you.

They throwing words at you. You probably don't want to catch

that one. They throwing words at you,

right? And just like we scatter for

good fruit, the enemy uses people that are bitter and are

safe folks. Christians, nasty Christians say

they love God. So the enemy takes the words

that are scattered in your life. Understand what's in the word.

This is why you can't get caught up on people talking about you,

because if you ain't trippin on people talking about you, they

can say what they want, but it just falls.

But the moment you take the seed, chew it and get the seed

in your heart, that's when the weapon starts forming.

This is why you got to guard your heart.

Just don't let it in, Let them talk.

That's nothing, he said. Look, the tree ain't nothing.

But if you eat the tree, if you eat from the tree, then it gets

in your heart and now it starts forming.

That's why we got to fight hard on Instagram and all this,

worried about what people saying and comments and we got to guard

our heart in this day. Because it's so many opinions

coming from different ways, but you got to know from the gate, a

word spoken doesn't merely have as much power as they were

digested. And it's why you never want to

be a person that sows bad seeds into people's lives.

You don't want to be the person speaking venom because you ain't

healed? No.

Their lack of doing whatever they not doing that you need

them to do that's rubbing you the wrong way.

Yeah, cool. I know you wish they would

change, but guess who really need to?

Change you because why you keep eating the seed?

You over there just popping sunflower seeds and you want

them to stop throwing you seeds, Stop chewing them.

Why, you still mad five years later?

That still get under your skin, that still push your buttons.

So it really ain't him or them. It's you 'cause they can too,

for for the next 10 years still stay the same.

But when you change then you can laugh.

I got it that don't. Bother my heart no more.

So we all need a heart transplant.

Get your tails back here tonight.

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, turn the heater off.

I'm sweating. I'm under the heat.

It ain't that cold in here right now.

And only you can see me sweating.

They just like let pastor just sweat.

Just sweaty pastor. You know.

Preach A sweaty sermon. No weapon formed against

Michelle Prosper. Let it form.

Come on, shout. I'll let it form.

This is what I'm saying. We got to get to the point.

He's like a A, a athlete. 60,000 people in the stands.

Overrated airball. That word don't mean nothing.

But then there's some players that get out there and.

Shook because they're believing. The champ.

Then there's a Kobe, there's a LeBron, There's a Wait, what's

the What's the one hockey player?

What's the one hockey player? It was the Ovechkin, right?

You know what I'm saying? OG.

OG you get what I'm saying so you you, but then you got the

players that's just like they'll get to the free throw line.

You got quarterbacks that that that.

I was watching the highlights for the Chiefs the other day.

It was cold as all get out and they were playing Miami.

Miami don't practice in Kansas City conditions who?

I'm talking to who I'm talking. To who I'm talking to.

See champs can play in any condition but man.

So not only do they got the cold against them and in between

plays they got to stay worn. Stone cold, stone cold, stone

cold. It don't matter who cheering

against me. It don't matter if you 6 fold

350 running at me. I'm focused on my target.

I'm not focused on who coming to hit me and if I take a hit, but

also that's what a elite quarterback does.

They practice taking hits while hitting the target.

Can you hit the target while taking a hit?

Because let me tell you something, baby hits coming.

But it don't mean your hits got to stop.

Hits are coming. But when you practice and you

sharp and you skillful and you keep your praise and you see the

strategies of the enemy, and you watch film and you get your

timing down and you get your movement down, you don't got to

focus on who coming 'cause you watch film so much, Your

peripherals have studied enough. Let me tell you something.

I'm an athlete. Don't study film.

And This is why Paul says I will not have you ignorant of the

enemy's strategies. You think you're just going to

be a Christian out here, winning and put it all on God.

But you ain't got to study. You ain't got to know none of

the enemy's tactics. You don't got to know the

strongholds that you inherited. Give your Mama her strongholds

back. Those are hers.

They raised you, but you could say sorry.

Do you know when you move out the house you'll be like, I'm

good. I can take care of myself.

Hand them chains back to your Mama and hopefully she like,

Nah, I'm good. Neither one of us need them.

Like let's believe that your Mama don't take the chains back.

But I'm not about to take them. It's like Jesus casting the

demons out and putting them in the pits.

Them chains got to go back to where they belong.

And every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you

should show to be wrong. This peace, righteousness,

security, triumph over opposition.

This peace, this righteousness, this security, this triumph over

opposition is the heritage. This.

I am entitled to this victory. Nothing, girl.

Listen, I'm not just entitled to this victory.

I'm entitled to this mindset. I'm entitled to this confidence.

No need to change the script when God is about to flip the

script. Come on, say it's turning

around. You see you.

See I mean my words so much. I got I got all the way to this

slide and I was over. I was I was early on it.

So now I said it don't even have you know what I'm saying I would

this was I was supposed to get to but it was in my spirit so

much come on shout it out. It's turning around.

This is the time we return to pop culture.

It's. Prayer over payback.

Need some new ones? Just some new ones.

Prayer over payback. Purpose over pleasure.

Praise over pity. Promise over promiscuity.

Pureness over pretend. Presence over performance.

We are entering A mandated season that what God says is

supposed to happen in this dispensation of time.

Whether ready or not, it's coming.

I know you are about to arise and show your tender love in

Zion. Let me get some.

Let me guess. So I feel like I'm at a really

fancy restaurant right now getting ready for my steak and

potatoes. Can we get some pads?

Get some pads. Hallelujah, yes.

Now is the time shout out. Now is the time for your

compassion and mercy to be poured out, he's saying.

God, I understand, and I see now's the time that you're about

to pour it out. The appointed time has come for

your prophetic promises to be fulfilled.

I don't know about you. Maybe you don't think God said

nothing about you, but I come to find out.

God been talking about me before I even enter this world.

God was talking about me to my Mama.

He was talking about to me, to my grandma.

And when I couldn't even see straight, my grandma was

prophesying over me. This is why it's important to

have to to to to. When you holding babies, speak

words over. Them.

Oh, I know my grand I feel my grandmama prayer, so she ain't

she not living right now. And I I I feel her prayers

carrying me and rocking me through the tough times because

I know that the call that she spoke over my life that God

showed her was all my life. She understood it was going to

be some toil and then it was going to be some trouble.

And that's why I can hear her praying.

Lord, keep my grandson. I can hear my Mama saying,

protect him, keep him from the vultures, keep him encouraged.

Put some people, some of y'all don't understand you.

To answer to my great grandma's prayers.

She couldn't put a Elder John on it.

She couldn't put a Elder Roseanne.

She couldn't put a scion and the rest of y'all know who you are.

She couldn't put a certain name on it.

But she said, Laura, send some people around, my grandson that

will guard that anointing, that will, and that same prayer is

being spoken over your life. And that's why when I started

doing stuff like firefighting, guess what my grandma and my

Mama got together doing? They went fasting and praying

and intercede. But that ain't what he called to

do. See some parents be like, oh,

that's a good career. Now that this is the day where

if you pray your kids into a good career instead of a perfect

purpose, you making a mistake and not parenting well.

I was firefighting. I I was doing my thing.

I I didn't even feel, feel prepared.

I passed the desk, I went through the Academy and

everything, but man, I was there and I'm looking around at all

the firefighters. I'm like, y'all really love this

stuff. I'm showing up like, Lord, I

rebuke fires right now in the name of Jesus.

Let's put them fires out right now.

Right now. Hallelujah.

We ain't. We rebuked the firefighting

spirit in this city. Hallelujah.

No, no, no, I ain't going. I ain't applying nowhere.

No Oakland, no. New York, no.

Put me in the wilderness somewhere.

But then forest fires ain't no joke either.

Then worse. The Lord Take Me Out the

wilderness. You see the confusion I was in?

I was looking at the money. I'm like, no, I didn't.

No, no, no, my grandma and and man, you you never you tell your

grandma and your Mama like, hey guys, I'm not doing firefight no

more and they start shouting Hallelujah, grandson, don't

worry about it. God will provide.

I'm like, y'all want me broke. Or something.

That was a good job. Like the Lord.

Jehovah Jireh. Hallelujah.

Come on, shout out. It's ready for me.

As we see in these scriptures here, the Lord has went before

us. Every struggle that you have

went through up to this year, sometimes it felt like God

wasn't present. You ready?

It's because he was here. I'm going to say this one more

time last year. It felt like God wasn't present

because he was in this year. You see, sometimes God can't

allow you to get comfortable because you'll stop.

But it was the trouble that kept you pushing.

It was the trouble that kept you pursuing.

And it's funny, he can allow you to be in trouble, but not allow

a certain amount of it. He said he said you can.

Have my son. You can have Jake Job.

You just don't kill him. You can't take his life.

You can mess with his money, you can mess with his cattle, you

can mess with it. But you joke you can't touch

him. You see how God is saying no,

no, no, see, because Satan is absolutely stupid, right?

Clearly he he failed, right? He's absolutely.

And that's what you got to understand.

You're smarter, you. But you see how sometimes you

really be like really Satan? Like I could really go do that.

I could really go cheat. I really go, I could really go

and blow this. I could really go do this and

it's going to be good. You know this after you saying

you feel super stupid. Well, for some of y'all, if you

don't feel stupid, you way too far, OK, come back, come on,

shout out, come back. Yeah, I felt that in the spirit.

Some people's like, no, but absolutely have fun.

I absolutely didn't feel stupid. I felt smart.

I got away with it. OK, that's what the enemy wants

you to do. But when that when that fruit

come that's when you feel that's when Satan he he stopped using

you and then he stepped outside of it and he started laughing at

you like all right let me build, let me make up some ground so we

could close. I want to make sure we start at

a really good point tonight. Shout out it is about that time

Ecclesiastes says this there is a season a point in time.

I just really I'm trying to get this to y'all through you guys

skulls that there is a such thing as God having to do

certain things in a certain season.

This is why the fight has been so strong for you guys.

This is why God's been you've been wrestling over last few

years. This is why you've been coming

to the end. So This is why certain people

walked out your life. This is why you felt like giving

up, but you did. And This is why you wanted to

kill yourself but you couldn't. This is This is why.

Because you enemies sensed that you were stepping into a moment

in time where God was about to release something in your life.

That nothing, your nothing, could stop it.

And sometimes there are some blessings that will overwhelm us

and do the finish work of changing us.

What I mean is, did you find many times where God blesses

someone and they fell on their face and worshipped him?

Why did it take him blessing Peter for Peter to fall on his

face? Peter said I denied you three

times you. Came back.

And blessed me with a boatload. So This is why you it's not

about it's almost like God is like he need a certain amount of

wretchedness. So when he bless you, you know

you didn't deserve it. And This is why a lot of time he

won't wait till you get it quite right.

When you get it quite right, that's the moment in life you

learn how to manage it. But when you look over your life

and see how blessed he has made you, you probably wasn't right

all the time. But it's when I get his mind.

I'm able to manage. Then more comes, but getting it

right is about stewarding. Adam was born with the right

mind, so don't you dare think for a minute what's about to hit

your life is because you got your life together.

No, I want to bless you before you even step out of trouble.

I want to. I want to bless you while you

thinking about forgiving somebody.

So when I do bless you, you gonna run and do it because I'm

so good. See, some of you are forgiving

people and it's not because you got a revelation of His

goodness. So it means you.

You can't really uproot bitterness without a revelation

of His love. So God's like, I'm about to blow

your mind in such a way that you can't deny it's me.

I'm going to bless your family. I'm going to restore love in

your heart for somebody. I am about to bring back a

family member. I am about to do something so

supernatural in your life. That you going to fall on your

face and worship me now. What'd it look like?

You just get all of this because you worked so hard?

Then who would be God? You.

No, I'm going to bless you when you know you don't deserve it.

Peter, you denied me three times after I told you you was.

Then Jesus comes back and makes it a point I'm about to.

Bless you. And keep you another boat low.

First time I bless you because you loaned me your boat.

You let me in your boat. You trusted your provision.

You trusted your money maker with me.

After you was out on the water all night long, I asked to use

your boat and you had to sit there and watch me preach.

That's the first time. I blessed you, 'cause you sowed

a seed, But in this season I'm blessing you, 'cause I sow the

seed. I can bless you without you

sowing, because I sow the seed, Jesus Christ.

And I don't see your mistakes. I see the seed I sow, which gave

me a right to bless you at anytime.

So I did away with the law that says if you do this, then I'll

do that now. I gave you Jesus, it don't

matter what you do. I'm doing this because I already

did that. Come on, lift your hands right

where you are. Jesus name.

You stay right there. You stay whoever the plant.

Yes, you. Amen.

Y'all got me crossed. Lift your hand, he said.

It's in due time. At the appointed season we shall

reap if we don't loosen and relax our courage.

I'm telling you, love quest. Don't loosen your courage.

Don't relax your courage. I want you to understand

everyone is in here. I don't care how you see

yourself. Everyone is in here because you

have courage. Rather, it's big courage, a

little of courage. No one can still be here without

a little bit of courage. You kept fighting, You kept

getting up. I don't care if you've been

sitting down all month. But today you chose to get up

and get in the House of God. Well, lift your hands.

Lift your hands. The fullness of time is here.

The fullness of time is here. And it's now.

And I'm just you keep your hands.

I'm just speaking this over. Your revival has landed.

The angels have been dispatched. The promises have been released.

The enemy has been devoured. It is really go time.

Come on, just say that softly. It is really go time.

No, he's turning faith into sight.

He's about to. You are about to see it.

God's plan. God's time.

God's plan has a proper time, an acceptable time, a fullness of

time, a due season and a mandated time.

God's plan, God's time. I'm telling you, you got to step

into this thing, you got to step into this thing, you got to step

into this moment, he says in 2nd Corinthians 6.

I. Listen to you.

At the time of my favor and the day when you needed salvation, I

came to your aid. So can't you see?

Now is the time to respond. Talking to anybody.

Listen, God said, Look, forget how bad it was.

I kept you. It didn't kill you.

It didn't take you out. Yes, you were grieving, but

through the grief I held you up. I sent you an on time word.

You may have not had the language, but that day you got

that little bit of inspiration, that little bit of second wind,

that little bit. I've I have been the one that's

getting you out of bed when you didn't want to, to get out of

bed. I've been the one that's caused

you to keep on pushing. I have been sending a wind

behind you to get you just a little further.

And although it seems like you haven't made much progress,

progress is always progress. When I'm pushing you forward,

you may take two steps back. But when I push you one step

forward, it erases the backward motion.

It's been me and I have not kept you alive to leave you here.

Somebody needs to hear that I have not kept you alive to leave

you here. I have not protected you, killed

you, rescued you to leave you here.

We're just getting started. Shout out.

I'm ready. My response is.

You are ready. It's been made ready for you.

You've been made ready for it. The walls have been rebuilt.

Now we going to land somewhere around here.

Because I can set this up for tonight, man.

Get yourself back here tonight. I'm coming back.

I'm take, man. Go take a nap.

Do what you If you live really, really far, you can stay.

You can stay the afternoon here, these orange chairs.

Lean back a little bit. You can.

We can put one behind it and then one in the front.

You can, man. I'm telling we'll make something

up for you. Shoot.

But this word today is the Israelites walk through the sea

of on dry ground. This is what we don't

understand. Elder John is all the hell we've

been through. We probably even look at it as

in Egypt. But I also kind of get a picture

of the hell I've been through is also walking across the Red Sea

and just think of that. Think of how they're running for

their lives. They're not just up and they're

not walking the Red Sea like, hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, man, Folks is arguing. You know, the the people that

can't handle stress. Well, don't stop touching me For

all I'm going. Leave me alone.

Like, can't we just go back? Frankie, you got to think.

The Bible says that he built a wall on either side of them.

So you had little fish. He's just like just up again.

You get what I'm saying? Like sharks And with y'all I'm

getting, I wish it was something in here to tell me what the

animals was doing at this time. Wait a minute.

Like. Take getting Getting out of

bondage is not fun. They're running for their lives.

They're afraid. There's people who had to swim

out of bondage. They've taken boats across seas

like grandparents and and great grandparents like people that

meant you not cool and people are here and they're dealing

with trauma from it. So don't think that the children

of Israel got into the promised land and was just because the

children that got into the promised land lost their

grandparents and their parents. So Can you imagine Survival's

guilt? Let's not look at the promise

and think it was just Peaches and cream.

This is why God gave instructions, Mike.

They walked on dry ground blessing.

Let's talk about the fear that's present during the blessing and

understand there was a time for that sea to close back up.

So when we say there's a season of divine interruption, you

better get to moving now, or you gonna be stuck in there with

your past. Our ground with the waters a

wall to the right to the left. The Egyptians came after them in

full pursuit. Every every horse and chariot,

the old pass. No matter how much you trying to

escape your past, your memories, This is why you got to get rid

of it. You got to get healed because

I'm telling you, might be out of your past, but some of your past

is still. Coming with you and the very

people, they realize, Oh my God, we let them free.

Your past does not want to let you go.

Satan does not want to let you go, does not want to let you go.

And he says, full pursuit, every horse and chariot and driver

pharaoh racing into the middle of the sea.

It was now the morning watch. God looked down from the pillar

of fire and the cloud of the Egyptian army and threw them

into panic. I'm here to tell you, I've been

saying that your enemies is panicking now.

Your enemies is panicking now, Yo-yo.

I'm telling principalities are panicking now because a church

and a praise has hit this region that they ain't heard.

Before he, he, he clogged the wheels of their Chariots.

He clogged the wheels of their Chariots.

See on. You got to understand it.

The children of Israel, all they're doing is going the way

God opened up for them. He's handling the enemy because

it's divine timing. For 400, for all those years he

let them be in slavery. Now is the time of their

freedom. So he's stopping their wheels.

So that's what I'm saying. You can't look back because

God's going to handle all of that, God's handling all of

that. This is the year he is drying up

any ground. So you can walk across, Scott.

We got to get across based on timing and where the world is

going. We got to get across, We got to

get our portion. We got to start our businesses.

We got to find the right partners.

We got to get the building. We got to get the land.

I believe God will have us go through all this on this corner

for in a few years, walk away from it because what God needs

us to get on. God will set up shop, he will

spend money and some people won't get it.

Why y'all over there? Y'all need to go buy this and

y'all need to go buy that. The city is this and the city is

that. By the time we leave this corner

every little dime that week, do you understand what God is going

to release? Man?

Nina, man, you better understand.

God will set up shop. He will spend money just to get

some souls in the boat, just to do something so big, so divine.

Just to give you a story, just to mark you and just to get in

your resume, because where you're heading 10 years from

now, you remember these moments. They were stuck in the mud.

I'm here to tell you. Ain't no devil in hell in this

season going to be able to catch you unless you turn around be

like. Come here baby.

Come here. If you if you if you gone and

you ain't looking back and you surround yourself with people of

faith. I I promise you by, by the by

the next time you want to turn back and hop in some stuff, you

going to be so far gone. Like like God is trying to make

Egypt foreign. Come on, you used to be in love

with your lust, but lust is about to.

Whatever that thing that had you is about to be so foreign to

you. The season your enemies are

stuck. This is the season.

Your enemies are stuck and you are soaring.

This is the season your enemies are stuck and you are sorry,

Gypsy said. Run from Israel now, your enemy

saying, get away from me. I realize.

I realize bothering you brings me too many problems.

What What the enemy understands is he understands Kingdom math.

When you mess with a soul winner, it's gonna cost him some

souls. So he's better off leaving PT

alone. He's better off leaving Deborah

alone. Because when you mess with me

now, it pushes me closer to the father.

It causes me to hone in on the father's business.

So when you mess with me, it's going to cost you some more

souls. So he says OK, OK, OK, OK, OK,

OK, OK. Run from Israel.

God is fighting on their side when the enemy has a revelation

of who's on your side and you don't and you don't.

When the enemy is like they don't even see the army, he's

thrilled that you you've fallen for his tricks.

He is thrilled that you paying attention to him like a side

piece. You know that makes them feel a

side piece feel like when you would ignore your spouse and

food with them. That's how the devil is.

Like y'all really fooling with me this trash.

I'm trash for messing with you, but since you don't think I'm

trash like you, you really fooling with?

You really believe me over that? You really want to be in this

hog pen over being back at home with everything paid for?

You really want me to be your father and not that.

What? Look what he tells, he says.

God said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea.

Day on the day, on the day, on the day, on the day, on the day,

on the day, on the other side. Here's instructions.

Stretch out your hand over the sea.

You got to it. It's going to be, it's going to

be your praise on the other side that's going to close your past.

Hey, when you get to the other side, there's going to be a

whole new praise. Come on, come on, come on, come

on, come on, come on. Now I got to close.

Call now, hand over to sea and the waters will come back over

the Egyptians. There's a praise being released

in the body of Christ and in the hearts of sons and daughters

that is about to close the past there there there's going to be

new enemies coming but but but the little past little ratchet

enemies that was messing with you don't have a chance.

They're doing your path. It's being swallowed up.

God is saying oh God is saying it's time to move on.

I've gotten what I've needed out of your past.

Moses stretched his hand all over the sea.

As the day broke and the Egyptians was running, the sea

returned to its place as before. Here's what you got to know.

The world ain't changing. Some of your friends ain't

changing. You see the sea return as it was

before. There's some things that present

themselves to have the ability to stop you, but because God

favors you, he is going to do something in in a dispensation

of time that no one will ever experience that way of

breakthrough. I don't think nobody going to

experience a Red Sea parting. Again, I'm trying to tell you

there's going to be some ways God is about to breakthrough,

that no one in history will ever see God move.

That way they'll see God move, but God's about to do some

custom interruptions. Here it is, because for some of

you, you are in some situations that there is no way out except

and this is what God loves. If you go that way, you back in

bondage. But what's in front of you is

impossible. God, I don't know that life.

God, I don't know how to do that.

God, I wasn't raised around a pastor.

God, I wasn't raised around entrepreneurs.

God, I wasn't raised around 2 parents that stayed together.

God. Like there's some stuff in front

of you where there was no model, nothing to show you how to move

forward in what God is calling. You to And so God's about to

part the seeds of ignorance in your life.

And he is about to impart an anointing and wisdom and counsel

and strategy in your life because he's trying to do

something new in your bloodline. You are about to be the

blueprint. So stop looking for a blueprint.

God is birthing A blueprint inside of you in this season of

life. I am sorry Daddy left you.

I'm sorry Mama didn't take care of you.

I'm sorry they didn't say I love you.

I'm sorry you didn't get hugs as a child.

I'm sorry you didn't have an example.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I am sorry. I'm sorry, but God, that says

I've gotten what I've needed out of your past.

And in this season we are about to build.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. God is God is restoring family

reunions in your bloodline. Hey, these are practical things.

Some of you wish you could sit at a dinner table with your

whole family. I'm sorry you never sat at the

table for dinner with both parents.

But what God's about to do is he's about to cause you to have

a whole family and generations you're about to.

You're about to build something so new that that that that your

children won't know that grandpa was an alcoholic.

They won't know that someone was addicted to drugs.

God's about to do something that is going to totally cover up the

past generation operations of failure and ignorance.

He's about to do a brand new thing in your life,

God said. Not one of them survives.

Man. I'm so close to the trauma I was

raised in and the the hurt I was raised in and the disappointment

from not having a dad in my life.

I'm I'm so close to being like him.

I'm talking about to where I'm I'm I'm like it's some stuff

that I'm just like you got to remind me who was that person?

Like I got it right. There's some stuff I got to

remind. Be reminded.

I went through it like I actually got to sit down and

interview some people about my life.

There is a place in your life where you can be 100.

Percent free from all your trauma and walk right through

the middle of the sea. And God delivered Israel that

day. I don't know who, but for

somebody today is that day. Today is that day.

If that's your day, if that's your day, as I'm reading, just

lift your hands if that's your day.

If you want to spend a few more days where you are, that's

that's on you. But I lift my hands.

God, whatever is lingering in my life.

Yeah, I'm better. But God, I know there's more.

This is that day. It says.

They're delivered from that day, from the oppression.

If there's anyone dealing with oppression, where thoughts come

into your life and you just every now and then you slip into

a dark place. You slip into regret, You slip

into shame, you slip into frustration and you slip into

some some moments where your memory you slip into worry.

I want to tell you that memories don't have to carry pain.

I want you to see this passage of scripture and it says that

day from the impression oppression.

I want you to see this next scripture as you're receiving.

And Israel looked at the Egyptian dead.

I I I looked at an addiction to marijuana.

I looked at it dead. I don't know what's been holding

you, but you're about to see it dead, washed up on the shore.

Why did it stay in the water? Elder John?

Why did he need to bring it to shore?

To show me what he did to my enemies today?

You're about to pick up your mat and walk.

And they realized the tremendous power.

Why is God about to do it in this season, Bernadette?

Why is God about to do it in this season?

Colepi? Why is God about to do it in

this season? So you can realize his power,

that no matter the odds that my past is dead and my now is

alive, it's my time to live. I'll end right here.

In Exodus 1520, Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took

a tambourine, let me tell you. There's a whole lot of fear and

trauma. Right now on the other side they

they made it across. Then they just watch.

Come on, come on, come on. I want you to.

I want. I want you to see.

I want you to see something. Please.

Please, Lord. Imagination May their illuminate

their their imagination right now.

I want you to see them just watching.

They make it across. And there's people that make it

to shore. At first, right?

Can you imagine? Come on, They don't know when

it's going to close up. They're watching.

They're watching a split sea. And.

Dry ground. They're they're, I can't even

imagine. But I'm trying to.

And this ain't like like 20 people.

There's hundreds of thousands of people.

And Can you imagine family members waving their children,

some people cramping because they was dehydrated, they didn't

drink enough water because they didn't realize that God was

really about to break them free? He's.

Like, come on, come on. And everybody make it across.

And they're in. Shock.

Absolutely. They're in shock.

And then Moses still has to lead.

Under compulsion. And the Lord says stick out your

hand first time. He says stick out your rod this

time, he says stick out your hands.

See on one side you you needed to use gifts and you needed to

use some of y'all been spending money to try to start things and

but you got to get to the other side where God is saying at this

point now all I need is your praise.

I just, I just need your praise. Then it closes up.

This blows my mind. It closes up and they're in

shock. I'm sure they're counting.

Didn't did such and such make it Because we're worried about who

we left behind. First of all, we're going to

have to give God praise for making it ourselves.

Praise always has to proceed worrying, he says.

See, because the moment you entertain worry before praise,

then worry will grip you. But if you if you praise him

first, worry will just be more of a feeling than a dictator.

So as they're watching now, the people that held them hostage

and let me tell you, it sounds like Elder John, they they they

didn't mind being in Egypt. They like, let's go back, We see

it later, let's go. Back.

And then he says, so some of the people they saw dead were people

they probably befriended. It's just like people in prison.

They become friends with guards. It's just like.

When you was embonded, you became friends with Pharmakia.

There's certain spirits you become friends with.

Right or wrong? So they're also grieving, losing

people they got to know over the years, 'cause I don't care who

you are, if your heart is for God, you'll even weep over your

enemies getting killed. That's why we're going to talk

about the heart tonight. Because the very people.

We want to disown God is weeping over their lostness and they're

watching death. Although at one breath, yay, my

enemies is dead. I never got to worry about them.

But one part we got to be a be be be careful of is that we

don't grieve our bondage. You going to miss the club

someday. You going to miss that?

We you going to miss sleeping around a little bit because

there's certain feeling you got when that person for that few

moments gave you attention. There's some stuff you going to

miss, but I need you to know it's better off dead,

understand? So they go, and the Lord says

Miriam is She grabs her tambourine, and all the women

followed her with tambourines dancing.

Miriam LED them in sinking. Sing to God.

What a victory. He pitched a horse.

He pitched horse and rider into the sea, and Moses LED Israel

from the Red Sea onto the wilderness.

Ashore. And they travel for three days

through the wilderness without finding water.

It sounds like God said I don't care what y'all think.

Y'all fasting. Hey, from trauma to fasting,

it'll get you right quick. I want you to see this.

They found no water. They got tomorrow, but they

couldn't drink the water. It was bitter.

Oh, just 'cause you get to the other side, it don't mean

immediately It's going to be sweet because you still have

needs. That's why they called that

place Mara Bitter. And the people complain to

Moses. Hey, it's part of leadership.

So what are you What are we supposed to drink, Moses?

Huh. Now we can't even go back to

Egypt. God ain't going to split the sea

for you to go back. Yeah, Snake tails.

Snake tails. That boy Paul.

So. So Moses cried out in prayer to

God and pointed him to a stick of wood.

God. Is still providing.

You see, they're not even in the promised land.

Can you live like this until you get it all?

Just daily bread? OK, God, I need to get out this

situation. And he points at a stick.

He points at a person. He points at a place.

Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet.

The water turns sweet. So what I'm about to do is I'm

read the I want you. I want you to read this and then

I want you to go back to the scripture.

I just the song. OK.

I have a warning. OK.

I need you to pay attention to something in this same

scripture. The place that they broke free

in and God providing the Bible says that's the place where God

set rules and procedures. That's where he started testing

them. So this year is going to be, but

in the midst of the celebration, that's where the greatest tests

are about to come in your life. And This is why he says I need

to get them to deal with their heart today, because Blessing is

coming. But don't forget the enemies

that's mad as him, he said. This is the place that I started

testing them. I set up some strict guidelines.

This is why from the start of the year I just saw this.

Today I said this is very specific.

Here you got to be careful going this way and that way.

You got to trim the fat. You can't be busy, busy, busy.

There are some strict rules and procedures, guidelines,

principles, But why does God need this year to be a year of

really, really significant discipline?

It's because there's going to be so much thrown at you that

you're going to have to stay in the pocket, stay strong.

What did we say? At the beginning of the year?

Your greatest test is going to be what?

Standing. Because on this side, God didn't

need to test you. In slavery, you have slave

masters. God broke you free for himself.

Now he got you. This is where he's You bout to

see the greatest you was some of the greatest tests but because

he said you ready the you're ready is not merely for the.

Blessings the you're ready is for the testing.

Whatever you about to go through.

You about to see how strong He made you.

You about to see how wise. You about to see God.

You about to see God like never before.

Miriam had her tambourine. She had her tambourine, right.

And then and then and then and then and then go back to the

scripture. She had her tambourine.

She had her tambourine go back to the script.

She had her tambourine. She had her tambourine.

She had her tambourine. She had her tambourone.

And then it said there was people following her dancing,

right? So it's dancing music, right?

And if Miriam LED them in singing Sing to God, what a

victory. So I don't know what we going to

do, but as we close, the band's going to start playing some like

just imagine we just made it across the Red Sea, bro.

You get what I'm saying? And then.

And then. And then he just gave us the

lyr. Like, what A victory.

And so I don't know what's going to happen, but I think there's

some people that got a celebration inside of them.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Just lift your hands up and just begin to praise God.

Lord, we thank you. Come on, Lord, we thank you for

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