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July 24 (PM) - Insufficient Funds

Love Quest International Church

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  1. What's going on? Love course Nation.

  2. Thank you for tuning into the Love quest podcast.

  3. Get your Bibles ready? Get you know people get your

  4. coffee, get some water. Whatever you need to do and get

  5. ready to receive the time. Is right now.

  6. Let's go. Lord is good and then just at

  7. the end of services, if you could take your cup yourself and

  8. find the trash can. Now this is this first one is

  9. courtesy. If they come around again

  10. dollar? So drink it slow.

  11. A man. Can't somebody Yvonne I know you

  12. can hear me, because you're out there.

  13. Can you have Kim come in and sit with her husband for the word?

  14. You just have to registration table.

  15. Amen. You can it, man.

  16. Hey man, we miss y'all. Good to see you left left.

  17. Hey, man, it's good for, it's good for couples to get the word

  18. together. I mean, we got a bunch of single

  19. people in here. Amen.

  20. Hey man, and some of y'all, that's datin or screwing around

  21. and messing around with other girls and stuff, you should

  22. bring them to church. To get them out the closet, if

  23. you can sleep with him, you can, you can get some word with them.

  24. Amen. Look at your neighbor, Eli.

  25. He talking to you, hey man. We got midweek, we got

  26. Wednesday, you can come on through, Lord, help us tonight,

  27. please. Jesus, thank you for your word.

  28. Thank you, Father. That we hear what you are saying

  29. to us today and what you are saying to us.

  30. I know we all have our own plans.

  31. I know we look too. Famous folks and folks that look

  32. successful to guide us and tell us what to do, where to put our

  33. money was popping. What's popular, what's relevant?

  34. We have our Idols, we have our heroes, but Lord, no one knows

  35. the times like you do. Not only were you there in the

  36. beginning of creation you were here now and you are all the way

  37. at the end of times. And so father, you know what?

  38. No man knows, you know, our darkest secrets, you know, our

  39. weaknesses, you know, our strengths, you know, our

  40. abilities and our potential. You know what the government's

  41. going to do? You know what, they not going to

  42. do you know what jobs will be secure?

  43. You know what won't be secure? You know what wars are about to

  44. happen. Lord, You're the best guide and

  45. so we put our trust in you and we ask holy spirit that you help

  46. us here tonight. Beyond just the words that are

  47. coming off of your servants lift, we ask that you will

  48. Illuminate this word tonight. May we receive some tangible

  49. application tonight. Maybe walk out of here, better.

  50. And obedient we thank you are before it.

  51. Father for your word is true. It never fails and Lord, forgive

  52. us for putting you on trial. You don't owe us any

  53. explanation. You don't owe us answers, you

  54. are God. It's funny.

  55. We want answers now but we had no input when we will be born.

  56. So thank, thank you for not giving us the ability to change

  57. our parents. It is what it is.

  58. And so Lord, I Thank you that we find rest in you.

  59. In Jesus name, not in our bank account, not in our spouses.

  60. But in you, in Jesus name. Look at your neighbor.

  61. Say it is what it is. Get over it.

  62. You stuck with me. Amen.

  63. Amen. I'ma just hop right in.

  64. I'm a hop right in what little worried, but do a little bit of

  65. recap and then I'll promise you, we going to get in soon as some

  66. new stuff. What little worried has robbed

  67. you of much Wonder, right? What little things are you

  68. worried about in life that has robbed you of the magnificence

  69. of God? What little worried has robbed

  70. you of how good God is? Dove so please if I was to go

  71. around the room and you tell me the worst thing you're going

  72. through. I can tell you the best thing

  73. that's happening for you. Everyone in here, has something

  74. crazy good going for them. Starting with you alive.

  75. You woke up this morning and if you in here, you're able, you

  76. got a vehicle, you got a ride, you got a car, you got, you got

  77. legs, you can see, you can hear. So, everybody has something

  78. going for the last couple weeks. What do we say?

  79. The enemy? Of course, he's defeated.

  80. But we understand that the enemy has a right to be afraid.

  81. Worried. What was the word was it?

  82. He'll had a right to be concerned because I don't know

  83. about you because I woke up, though, and I know, when I wake

  84. up, I'm a threat. I know some of y'all, when you

  85. wake up, you like, oh my God, why you wake me up?

  86. Won't y'all be quiet? Well, died in, go to sleep, go

  87. to sleep. You should never get mad another

  88. day of your life. You woke up.

  89. However, you woke up. Thank God.

  90. You didn't wake up because a missile just landed in your

  91. neighbors. Thank God.

  92. You didn't wake up because somebody beat you over your head

  93. or you heard your mama getting beat in the other room.

  94. How dare We complain about waking up?

  95. When there's people who lost their parents this morning, say

  96. I woke up, it starts there. So come on.

  97. Complain to me. Put your bills on the table.

  98. I can tell you he's a provider. Ain't nobody ever died because

  99. they couldn't pay the electric bill.

  100. Stop making stuff so much bigger than what it is. because when

  101. something real big happen, That's what I think we have to

  102. have perspective. Over really was happening.

  103. They left you, they broke up with you at her.

  104. Keep it pushing have the mindset Loop statements in out.

  105. Don't be jealous, don't be up and they don't be open a social

  106. media seeing who they knew date is.

  107. You jealous freak. What's wrong with you, huh?

  108. Get over it. They didn't want you keep it

  109. real some nights you didn't want them.

  110. Now, the Lord bless you, he just did it first.

  111. You wanted to do it first but he got you or she got you.

  112. But come on, get over it. You didn't get accepted in that

  113. school or that program. Get over it.

  114. Maybe it's a blessing. It's a closed or it has nothing

  115. to do with your not sufficient enough.

  116. Stop making everything about your weaknesses and make it

  117. about his divine grace. Maybe it's not supposed to work

  118. out and you keep trying to bust down that door and it's going to

  119. work out. And you gonna say the god, I was

  120. the Lord, he rewards, those who diligently seek Him, you wasn't

  121. seeking him. You were seeking an opportunity.

  122. He's not your career. Amen.

  123. What little worried has robbed you of much wonder.

  124. What are you worried about? What you wake up worried about,

  125. what you drive here? What was your conversation on

  126. the way here? Was it about how yous about to

  127. encounter? God was it about what you

  128. expect? You're expecting God to do for

  129. your family. Where were you talking about

  130. tomorrow? All right, are you person to

  131. watch the news all the time? And then tell everybody about

  132. the news all the time? Are you a spreader of bad news

  133. are you? I'm just asking, you don't have

  134. to answer right now. Are you attracted to drama?

  135. If you sit next to somebody that, you know, love drama or is

  136. dramatic, don't look at them. But just pray for him real quick

  137. under your breath. I hear some people in the spirit

  138. praying too. The world is saying, hurry up

  139. accelerate crime, sleep less. You don't need eight hours.

  140. Get up. We make songs about it all night

  141. dipping? No, that's not okay.

  142. Right, ain't slept in three days.

  143. I'm getting a bag. That ain't good.

  144. Get it more, and here's the killer.

  145. If you don't get it, you not gone and y'all believing that

  146. hype. If you don't get this, you not

  147. gonna make it. If you don't get this amount of

  148. money, you're not gonna make it. If you don't get this amount of

  149. client you killing yourself and the stuff.

  150. Here's here's my thing. I just want you to pause for a

  151. minute and I want you to ask yourself is life worth more than

  152. the things that I worry. Shelf with.

  153. The clothes, the food, the business deals, not saying you

  154. don't work hard, but what I'm saying is you don't idolize or

  155. put your identity in things. Your career is a thing.

  156. You ready. Your church is a thing Your

  157. spouse marriage eating, like these are things.

  158. We won't need in heaven. Some folks can't come to church,

  159. we can't do certain things because we're doing things.

  160. Hey, it's somehow working overtime or getting extradition

  161. extra that in this season. I'm a grind and I'm gonna get

  162. ahead. You God, didn't create you to

  163. get ahead. This is such an unpopular

  164. message because the world's telling you this and this is how

  165. we're programming. We look on Instagram and we can

  166. get things quick and we can get it fast and the more more, more

  167. and more. And the worst thing is when you

  168. plan hoop, and that dude is shooting crazy shots, he shoot a

  169. bad shot and it does what it goes in.

  170. And I hate seeing folks think God bless them because they got

  171. more. But if I told to turn to the

  172. left, but this is suffering and God cares more about your kids.

  173. He cares more about your spouse, he cares more about your health,

  174. he cares more about your piece, he cared more about your joy,

  175. but you leaping and feeling security because you got that

  176. cushion, what if I told you we're in a season where God is

  177. calling you to not depend on cushions Let me help you.

  178. God is not in every promotion, every increase, every dollar,

  179. he's not a prostitute, he's not here to help you make money.

  180. Stop trying to pimp them. He don't do that.

  181. You don't need God, to make money, you just need effort.

  182. There's atheist, there's Pete, there's devil worshippers.

  183. There's a whole world. There's Hollywood.

  184. There's all kind of billion and millionaires.

  185. So tell me what have you accomplished because you got a

  186. financial cushion. But you're you're so don't got

  187. no cushion. Your soul is restless.

  188. There's no pillow. It's not resting at night when

  189. you thinking about a deal. And then the phones have

  190. Amplified it. And you know what, you, you

  191. know, you know, when you put it on the new feature, oh my God,

  192. I'm gonna use that new feature. Do not disturb, but you

  193. disturbing yourself. You allow yourself to be

  194. disturbed. And we're heading into a season

  195. where the Lord is calling his people.

  196. To not be so easily accessible to any and everybody and

  197. everything. Oh this is going to be a hard

  198. one but it's why because it's Harvest Time.

  199. It's harvest time. I'm talking to Sowers if you

  200. sewn. The kingdom is like the farmer

  201. who sowed the seed, scattered the sea and then he came to a

  202. place, he doesn't know how is working down there.

  203. But the Bible said, he goes to what sleep and he let what God

  204. created to work, he let it work. And it says he went to sleep, he

  205. woke up, he went to sleep, he woke up, went to sleep and then

  206. the ears started growing And then the Harvest came, there is

  207. a time to grind and then there's a time to rest.

  208. That you youa farmer, even lets the soil, what rest when you

  209. don't see them leaves on them. Trees.

  210. What is it doing? Resting?

  211. It looks ugly and looks Barren. But can you go through a season

  212. where it ain't Poppin? Where your ego ain't stroke

  213. because you work, you closing deals.

  214. Where you feel? You accomplished something.

  215. Cuz you worked overtime and you'll check a little bit

  216. fatter. No, can you stay home and do

  217. your garden? Can you get your spouse to

  218. massage one? Last time you massage your

  219. spouse? I'm Tom on for a decent time.

  220. Now, one animal old little quick ones like them.

  221. Well, if you want a real massage lingo to go get one, I ain't no

  222. masseuse. You got to work into longer

  223. massages. First of all, you got a wanna

  224. massage them. somebody ever massage you and you can tell

  225. they didn't want to All right, I'll get all the single people.

  226. All you, man. I heard a wise man, say,

  227. constant activity leads to captivity.

  228. Constant activity leads to captivity.

  229. Busy, busy busy. What if Peter pushed away the

  230. boat and just had to depend on Jesus?

  231. What if he didn't have the boat as an option?

  232. And he had to figure out how to either swim or walk on water.

  233. He had to trust Jesus for his life.

  234. What options do you need to push away?

  235. Now, this is not a call to Poverty.

  236. Is not a call to quit your job. but some of you in here, Are

  237. saved. But if I watched your life, I

  238. couldn't tell the difference between yo, peace order worlds.

  239. So what do you say from? He's not an insurance plan.

  240. He's not something else. This is not a savior we just

  241. wait till we die and then go get peace, no on Earth as it is in

  242. heaven. I actually love messages like

  243. this because he's taking the time to love us.

  244. And help us get the best quality of life we can.

  245. And it wouldn't be fair to me to preach to you about the promises

  246. without giving you about the account.

  247. Without speaking to you about the accountability, we have Too

  248. many options can be more limiting than having to little

  249. options. I'm trying to help somebody

  250. right now that's in a Siege. That's that's been I've been

  251. thinking. Where's God?

  252. That stressed out, that's anxious.

  253. I'm trying to help you out. It's not what you think it is.

  254. But there's too many things you depend on too many people is

  255. too. Many options is too many voices.

  256. You listen to your concern about too many people's opinions.

  257. You're asking too many people or the wrong people.

  258. Should I do this? Should we do this?

  259. You let in too many people in on your marriage.

  260. You're getting too much advice. You got too many books with too

  261. many thoughts. You got too many deodorants and

  262. haven't figured out which one works with your body chemistry.

  263. Right? We're in the world of just too

  264. many anybody get overwhelmed. When they go to certain places

  265. grocery store you ever go to Cheesecake Factory in the

  266. states, right, the menu. You see that you see the menu,

  267. but when you go to certain Ramen sponsor for us pots, right?

  268. You, you it's like simple, you're gonna get garlic.

  269. You're gonna get, you're gonna get veggie, you're gonna get

  270. chicken or steak, which one you gonna get this?

  271. All we got It's why hot dog. Stand is less stressful.

  272. Beef or pork, which one you want?

  273. Right, be mad at in and out because they don't have certain

  274. out but you know what? You're going to get it in and

  275. out. Right you ever pull up in the

  276. drive thru? And you like just give me one

  277. second, please. I want that beyond meat with

  278. bacon. Hey, I have ordered that one for

  279. sure. Absolutely somehow bacon seems

  280. like Less meat. Amen.

  281. It's just a strip beyond meat with bacon.

  282. And then as a songwriter, I realized like I love music.

  283. I love instruments. I love big sound but I realized

  284. the most popular songs are the most simple.

  285. Take away the lyrics. The Beat is super simple

  286. singles. Popular songs are simple.

  287. You never really hear busy beats on the radio.

  288. As good as it sounds but sonically simple is easier on

  289. your palate. It's why we find restaurants

  290. that specialize in something you ever go to a restaurant and you

  291. tell people, this is good. But don't ever order that I love

  292. when the waiter or the waitress is honest?

  293. You how's this linguine? Please don't order that don't

  294. not order that? Right.

  295. But why? And every other part of our

  296. lives We do not pay attention to the Mastery of simplicity.

  297. Someone has told us much is better more guarantees success.

  298. Bigger means, stronger smaller means weaker, one car is whack.

  299. Not if there's communication. How many people drove for a long

  300. time? And you tried taking public

  301. transportation and use like, I can do this, some people not,

  302. but the point is you don't gotta drive.

  303. Oh, gas is expensive. What park?

  304. Too many options can be more limiting than having to little

  305. options. More does not mean success.

  306. Bigger does not mean powerful. Where you get some of the

  307. biggest dudes? Not you Andrew?

  308. Not you, not you, you get some of the biggest dudes, right?

  309. You get some of the swaggiest men.

  310. Under Pressure. You get some of the toughest

  311. like what? Redefined tough redefine, loving

  312. yourself, you swaggy? But you're not taking care of

  313. home. You you tough but you don't

  314. fight for your own Joy. Are you really tough when you

  315. not caring for your body? Then I was out there drinking, I

  316. love some Hennessy. Some of y'all still do.

  317. Don't look at me like I'm crazy. Don't be looking at me like I'm

  318. crazy. You still be drinking.

  319. I used to love smoking. And you loved it or you love it.

  320. Still? Why?

  321. Because you wouldn't have did it.

  322. I used to love party and it was fun, but it doesn't mean it was

  323. healthy. And I'm look, I'm drinking and

  324. I'm smoking. Distinct of our posture when we

  325. out partying and all that we dressed to the nines.

  326. And we walk up in there like game, nobody touch us.

  327. Yeah. You walk like that.

  328. Somewhere your legs on even as some, amen.

  329. Anybody got uneven leg. I'm sorry.

  330. I'm just, you know I'm saying? Not too many people walk like

  331. that out here. And BC Union walk like in the

  332. club like this. Hello.

  333. But here's the thing. Now I look back at that Terrence

  334. if I love me. Why would I feed me that diet?

  335. Why would I, why would I if I love my friends why would I keep

  336. passing it to him? oh, this is very important in

  337. these days and times, I think of DJ Khaled Wow. his favorite, his

  338. for him, his his tag line as what Okay, anybody else?

  339. God did right now right now right now.

  340. But what we the best way the best.

  341. Okay, amen. But the thing he been on this,

  342. God did. They didn't believe in us, God

  343. did and now he got the world saying God did except for fuel

  344. yard. God did his album coming out?

  345. God, did Drake God's plan? Kanye, I need y'all to pay

  346. attention to what the Bible warns of a warns of us of that.

  347. In the last days, there will be a rise.

  348. Now, if I'm a young kid, I'm gonna follow Bishop who talking

  349. about Jesus or Khalid. You see kids walking up to DJ

  350. Khaled car, man. Whenever I'm depressed, I just

  351. listen to your music and I feel free like what are we doing?

  352. We supposed to know freedom but what are we doing?

  353. I watch DJ Khaled and he just liked his energy is wild and

  354. then we suppose to have the answer and don't let a kid come

  355. in here and watch some of y'all worship.

  356. You don't look like God did. And I wouldn't want to serve

  357. your God if you wouldn't excited about it and I couldn't see your

  358. excitement. Here you go.

  359. You go to the dentist and Nolan before they do something trying

  360. to identify the pain, so they start hitting the tooth.

  361. Tell me, tell me on the way, y'all look, when your worship

  362. when they hit that tooth, is that the same face you make?

  363. When they hit that 24? Ah, ah, right, you make some

  364. noise to let them know what it hurt.

  365. So when we worship and we make some noise to let people know

  366. what he good. But started from the bottom.

  367. Now, we here, right? Or God did or God's plan.

  368. And and and you look at my man's, my man's, my man's new

  369. album, all kind of Bible, all kind of Kendrick Lamar.

  370. What are we doing? What are we doing?

  371. We got good Christian artist struggling because the church

  372. don't support them. We don't come to our concerts,

  373. but we'll pay for our kids to go to another concert and we

  374. wondering why they doing what they do cuz you paying for them

  375. to be disciple. What are we doing?

  376. What are we doing? We've Angela's to to church very

  377. well, but what are we doing in the marketplace is the world,

  378. impacting us morning, we're impacting them.

  379. The world don't invite us to the streets.

  380. They just do the streets. Well, but we got invite people

  381. to church because we don't do Church in the streets.

  382. Well, So we got to invite you to church because that church,

  383. that's when you can you see us act Church?

  384. But God's create, you got to understand that he is called us

  385. to come here on Sunday to be empowered in equipped.

  386. But where do we spend most of our time Marketplace?

  387. So I need to get fueled up this. The gas station.

  388. You put your little Tesla and connect it to the little battery

  389. thing. I don't got a test, let's all I

  390. know is there's a battery thing. But if you don't drive around

  391. Monday through Saturday, you need to come in here and fuel up

  392. and get your get. You need to connect.

  393. Because six days in the world is going to influence you.

  394. So you need something that will reject the worldly things inside

  395. of you, be not conformed to this world.

  396. Yeah, bigger does not mean there that part little does not mean

  397. weak weaker or weakest. I know some strong.

  398. Come here, come here. You're not little you strong

  399. come here bro. Hey this is a strong dude.

  400. Let you know I'm saying. I'm not calling him little, he's

  401. shorter than I am. But this dude is stronger than I

  402. am. You see how manly that was?

  403. Me and have me sitting here like yeah.

  404. Okay. You ain't strong and whatever I

  405. get you in the legs. No, he's stronger than me.

  406. Why? Because he's consistent.

  407. He's lifting every day. He's disciplined on his diet.

  408. I'm trying to learn from him. See, if you can't admit.

  409. Somebody is better than you and a certain area.

  410. They can't teach you nothing. But I'm a strong dude but I'm

  411. like, I'm like experienced OG strong.

  412. I wish you would strong. That's what I'm not.

  413. I wish you would roll up on me like that.

  414. You're not just going to take me down.

  415. You know what I'm saying? I know how to stiffen the leg of

  416. your nah. Nah nah.

  417. I'm not that strong. I'm resistant strong.

  418. But but but you can have a seat. But but, but you gotta

  419. understand shorter smaller black Asian You don't, it doesn't mean

  420. you'll hear somebody with soul and then you see them in person.

  421. Like oh, she White. Why they pointed their feet

  422. wide? A point at Fe, right, right?

  423. See how she how she how easily we count people out because of

  424. these mindsets. So soul, don't mean black.

  425. You ready for this one? Talking intelligent.

  426. Don't mean why? he talking about, Oh, you

  427. talking white now, okay? So white people only intelligent

  428. people. Not at all.

  429. We not going to even go there. We messed up, man.

  430. A loss does not mean defeat it. I'm trying to teach my son.

  431. There's I'm trying to teach these young people there.

  432. A missed shot. Don't mean bad game.

  433. Here's what y'all got a trip off of, it's just crazy.

  434. Tell. All you young people who be

  435. tripping over missing shots. A good shooting percentage is

  436. 40% from the three. 40 to 45. That means you miss more than

  437. half of your three pointers. you at the top of your division

  438. shooting under 50% So you get out of your game because you

  439. miss a couple shots. instead of your misses being indications of

  440. what you need to adjust, Yeah. Too many options can cause

  441. delay, it can cause poverty, it can cause fear, it can call it.

  442. Just, just, just like a lack of money is not poverty.

  443. You can be rich with poverty. It's a mindset.

  444. Fear too many options can cause anxiety divisions frustrations,

  445. it can waste time. That's why when I was sitting

  446. there writing that song we wrote that song Too Many.

  447. That's what that's what was in my mind and all I can hear on.

  448. The song was too many. Too many too many, too many.

  449. Too many. Too many too many, too many, too

  450. many, too many, too many, too many, too many, too many, too

  451. many, too many, too many, too many, too many, too many, too

  452. many, too many, too many. Too many, too many too.

  453. Any to any, what voices in my head trying to tell me what to

  454. do choices that I'm fake? Got me little bit confused, too

  455. many enemies, too many. Mad at me too many Sadducees to

  456. Annex. Somebody tell me what are we

  457. doing? It's just too many, too many,

  458. too many, too many. Voices in my head, trying to

  459. tell me what to do. Choices that I'm begging at me

  460. little bit confused. Too many enemies too many, many

  461. me's too many Madam. He's somebody tell me.

  462. What are we doing? You making it weird polluting,

  463. the atmosphere, get away, get away.

  464. I cannot handle your fears and what it appears.

  465. I'm delay. Underlay underlay.

  466. I'm not one of your projects. When are you gonna put some

  467. gates around your heart and your soul and stopped, just letting

  468. anything in your garden. Stop just accepting any

  469. suggestions. The pressure of more.

  470. The grind the keep up. And the impatience.

  471. Has led a generation into captivity.

  472. And I purposely row fear. Because wherever you find him.

  473. Patience. There's a fear of something.

  474. I got to hurry up because I I try to tell our kids.

  475. Please get your education. Please go to school and parents,

  476. forgive me. Joe education does not guarantee

  477. you, the certain kind of success.

  478. There's a whole lot of doctoral degrees in these alleyways.

  479. There are there's a whole lot of smart people divorced Rich

  480. folks. Depressed what I'm telling you

  481. is while you working on your career work on your soul wealth.

  482. Prioritize your joy. Prioritize your peace do not

  483. make an idol. Out of status, do not make an

  484. idol out of being an influencer. I look at the pressure on our

  485. children. Where does pressure come from at

  486. these last couple years of school?

  487. I gotta worry about what college I'm going to.

  488. I fill out all these applications and no, please do

  489. it. But there's so much fear behind

  490. getting out there so much fear and impatience behind.

  491. It's like we've told our kids. What you do is stay home till

  492. this time and then you go Go. Where do what?

  493. What is that part of life about have us?

  494. His parents prepare them for the leap, the launch.

  495. Patience is not meant to paralyze us, but to propel us

  496. into wholeness. To everything.

  497. There is a season and a time for every matter or purpose.

  498. Did you hear what this says? To everything.

  499. There is a what season and to everything there's a time for

  500. what every matter or what purpose so your purposes have

  501. seasons. A time to be born and a time to

  502. die. A time to plant, a time to pluck

  503. up, what is planted and we can keep going.

  504. But when I want to tell you, this message is all about,

  505. there's a time to purge and you have to be willing to go through

  506. seasons and allow God to purge as much as you desire him to

  507. add. But here's what he says, I

  508. purged the fruitful. So that we can add more lavish

  509. fruit. Multiply so purging is a part of

  510. fruitfulness. Don't go to sleep.

  511. It's hot. I'm hot dude, I'm hot dude.

  512. Anybody need some more water but your dollar Anybody need some

  513. water. Anybody needs some water.

  514. We don't want nobody passing out.

  515. Nothing else he on. Come on.

  516. You want propresenter you don't serve water.

  517. No you don't serve water. No, come on.

  518. We just had a meeting about this wind.

  519. It's it there's no Mom and Pop no more.

  520. You're not cooking in the kitchen and at the cash

  521. register. Sit down.

  522. This is the season of us minimizing.

  523. I'm really so strong on this. I'm talking.

  524. I'm starting with myself. This is the season of Mists of

  525. us minimizing because this is the season he's multiplying.

  526. Can I help anybody? And I got anybody here just

  527. tired of striving just striving just worried.

  528. Just what's going to happen next?

  529. Oh my God, am I going to God or no?

  530. God has to move in a major way on behalf of his church.

  531. And then I like this scripture First Timothy.

  532. He said you came into this world with nothing?

  533. And you're going to leave with nothing.

  534. So in between time, why you stressing about everything?

  535. If it was meant for us to stress about everything, that's how we

  536. would have been born. But he says we have a profit

  537. that's greater than the worlds. I don't know about you. but when

  538. I go back home and when I see folks that super stressed out is

  539. super worried or man, I actually I am so grateful that I know of

  540. God that is good and faithful to his promises.

  541. I have one up on people and that's not a Lambo, its peace.

  542. That's not a bigger Crib, That's Joy.

  543. I'm telling you the joy. I have Monday through Saturday

  544. while you out stressed out. Oh man, I love, I love the

  545. faith. It takes For you to chill out

  546. and let him be a good good. Father.

  547. How many people ever sang that song?

  548. You're a good good. Father.

  549. It's who you are. Who you are?

  550. Who you are. Are, I'm in Love by you, right,

  551. right. man you gotta you gotta be tired of coming to the altar

  552. singing, these songs and then not walking away letting him

  553. finish You, you can't just sing. Good, good.

  554. Father, you got to let him be good.

  555. Good. Father.

  556. Let him say let him finish. He says, because of this food

  557. and clothing is enough to make us content food and clothing is

  558. enough to make us content. Every weekend you don't got to

  559. do something. If you ready for this.

  560. I'm off work. What we doing?

  561. This week. When that happens, somebody

  562. gonna call you Girl, I got some time this week.

  563. Let's catch up what we doing resting.

  564. That sounds boring. Huh.

  565. You better practice trusting God while you have a chance Because

  566. when you're in the struggle, when you're in trauma, it is not

  567. the time to try to now get the word.

  568. Don't take for granted. Like soldiers, can't take for

  569. granted the times, they're not fighting.

  570. There are solutions in you, but he has to be the solution for

  571. you. How many people in here?

  572. Really believe? Don't even show your hands.

  573. Just really believe. That God's put everything that

  574. you will ever need. He's put it inside of you.

  575. First, Peter thinks. Second Peter says, he's given us

  576. everything. Tending to life and godliness.

  577. We have everything that we need within us everything that we

  578. need within us. It's in us, it's in Us, in its

  579. in US, you are smart enough. The, here's the thing there's

  580. Parts in you that just need to be awakened.

  581. Breathe, Don't Get Around the right people.

  582. He told the man of God, go down to the prophets and when you get

  583. around, the prophets, you will become one of them.

  584. There will be another man that shows up inside of you.

  585. There's power in limitations and constraints.

  586. Oh, man, I remember I remember, I remember when we as well as

  587. for me and my wife first got together, And I used to tell her

  588. a lot. Let me trying to tell me what to

  589. do. I'm a grown, amen.

  590. Now, if you got to tell somebody, you are grown man,

  591. guess what? Right?

  592. And I was trying to tell her, I'm a man, instead of being one,

  593. Now, ask her. Bible says, when I was a child,

  594. I spoke as a child. I'm a man.

  595. Now, here's what he said, he didn't just say, I'm a man.

  596. He said a part of being a man is putting away.

  597. Childish things. Jessica.

  598. You 60 don't mean your man. It just mean your mail.

  599. Being a man, and being a mail is two different things.

  600. I could be a man or male and not be a father, being a father and

  601. a male is two different things. Male dogs have babies.

  602. It's quiet in this little catholic church.

  603. There is power in our limitations and constraints.

  604. Remember this not enough is more than enough, the absence of your

  605. strength. Doesn't mean an absence of his

  606. glory This is the season. I need you to hear me and I need

  607. you to go listen to the Spotify tomorrow.

  608. But this morning's message as we talked about those two fish and

  609. Five Loaves. This is the season of Thinking

  610. Inside the Box. We are in the world is a think

  611. outside the box. Don't put me in no box.

  612. Y'all trying to box me in, I wasn't made for y'all box.

  613. I wasn't made for y'all Circle. We always trying to fight to

  614. stay outside the box. Right.

  615. Well, let me, let me ask you, let me ask you this.

  616. If your nose is running, would you use that tissue or disc

  617. issue? Okay, all right.

  618. All right. I'm just Lord lead me to some

  619. props right now. Right.

  620. Living outside the box doesn't always guarantee whatever you

  621. think is going. Like a lot of times we it's our

  622. freedom, I want to do what I want to do, you not going to

  623. trap me but there are seasons where you got to live in the

  624. Box. Right right, right.

  625. This is why when you're training, there's a specific

  626. diet you have in that season. He's living in the box, right?

  627. So you mad as he had his pecs in his abs.

  628. That's because you eaten out the box.

  629. Yeah, started from the top then we feared A king turned a thug.

  630. Paid my debt. Now I'm yelling.

  631. Clear, I started from the top then we feared It's looking like

  632. a comeback whole team Chandelier.

  633. I like when he say starting from the started from the bottom now

  634. we here, but wait a minute. According to the word I started

  635. from the top. I lost position.

  636. I didn't start from the bottom. I started from the top.

  637. What what, what caused me to fall from the top Was Fear?

  638. I was too impatient. I didn't want to take the

  639. option. God gave me.

  640. I wanted to try this other option because it looked like

  641. something was in there. God was trying to keep from me.

  642. And before I could even get it started off of eating what God

  643. gave me. I have to try this first.

  644. And some of your I know when it's all said and done.

  645. You going to trust the Lord? I know when it's all said and

  646. done, you're gonna serve in the church Faithfully.

  647. I know one day. All of us in here is going

  648. worship like crazy. We going to be on fire for

  649. Jesus, but right now I gotta get it.

  650. Yeah. There is power and limitations.

  651. I want to open up a couple scriptures.

  652. And we going to get up out of this thing.

  653. Want you to see as he told Abraham.

  654. I am your Shield. I'm your exceeding.

  655. Your abundant great reward. I am.

  656. Deuteronomy 8. He says I have given you power

  657. to get wealth in order to fulfill a covenant.

  658. So, because I made a promise that I can't take back, I've

  659. also equipped you to help fulfill the promise.

  660. God has taken full responsibility to back.

  661. His word concerning me. This is the confidence that I

  662. have. I don't have to worry about if

  663. this building or these buildings are going to be what he told us.

  664. I don't have to worry about if we going to get the building

  665. permit or if enough money is going to kill me, not enough, we

  666. not going to make it, we're not going to bring in enough money

  667. for this project. We going to have more than

  668. enough money. We not going to be just enough.

  669. We're Not Gonna barely make it me.

  670. And my wife, we not going to barely get by the confidence of

  671. A sower. Our creators original plan was

  672. that we exercise Dominion on Earth as it is in heaven.

  673. We were created to what dominate not be dominated by trees in

  674. money form by plants in cocaine form.

  675. Oh, my bad. What do we got to work for?

  676. All right, I always say we don't work for a living.

  677. We work for a giving. We're under different

  678. principles, we're Sowers. I want to help somebody I want,

  679. this is so good. This is so good.

  680. We've been empowered because Matthew 6, says he says, Matthew

  681. 6 says forsake your worries. So when worry knock on your door

  682. you have been empowered to say not here.

  683. When mess hits your hit your house, you have the right to say

  684. in the power to say bye. Felicia.

  685. Bye! Felicia.

  686. Practice that one time. Say bye Felicia.

  687. Somebody gonna call you tonight with some drama.

  688. What you're gonna say, bye, Felicia fear.

  689. Go knock on your door tonight while you sleep.

  690. Some of y'all. And what you're going to say by

  691. fully the hey sleepless nights is gone gonna come and you're

  692. going away. Bye.

  693. Felicia. Your mama Gonna Come.

  694. Some drama again and you're gonna say bye, Felicia a menu.

  695. You know, your mama? Amen.

  696. Your meeting, we're going to pray for you and your mama.

  697. Amen. That was a real one right there.

  698. Right. He says forsake your worries and

  699. here you ready? You ready?

  700. You ready? He says, refuse to worry, just

  701. refused to her. He didn't say where he won't

  702. come. He just says, refuse to dance

  703. with it. We're in this world where he's

  704. everywhere. Fears everywhere.

  705. Anxiety is everywhere. Just refuse it.

  706. Ladies you ever you ever rejected, dude?

  707. Right. Right now.

  708. Why would you reject somebody that's hitting on you, huh?

  709. Great. She too rejected all the dude

  710. she did reject. She like ah.

  711. I'm waiting for the King Jesus. I'm waiting for kingi, right?

  712. Right, right. So look, so you rejected because

  713. let's keep it real. They was ugly.

  714. Right. They weren't handsome or they

  715. came at you sideways, that part. They were gross.

  716. Right? They had no game right, but

  717. what, right? So let me tell, let me ask you

  718. why it's so hard for you to reject worry.

  719. Because worry, come at you sideways every time. when's the

  720. last time you told worried or gossip or Messing is not today,

  721. Right, I'm faithful to peace. All right, I got a boyfriend

  722. heeya principes, right? Now, here's something that I

  723. want you to see that should absolutely shift your Paradigm

  724. has shifted mind. This morning, we have been

  725. empowered to dominate, our emotions, not by might, nor by

  726. power, but by his Spirit, now I want you to see this.

  727. I want you to see this. John 10 says the father has an

  728. intense love for me because I freely Give my own life to raise

  729. it up again. He says, I Surrender my own life

  730. and no one has the power to take my life.

  731. From me. I have the authority to lay my

  732. life down and I have the power to take it up, back again.

  733. This is the destiny. My father has set before me.

  734. He said, nobody, nobody kills me.

  735. I gave my life up And I have been given the authority to lay

  736. it down. In other words, you have the

  737. authority. You let me.

  738. Let me hear it. Took you authority to lay your

  739. piece down. It took you authority to choose

  740. stress over Joy. It took Authority and it takes

  741. authority to walk. Enjoy, even when there's not joy

  742. around me. This is what my authority is.

  743. Not to just pray over. Leg to grow or Goldust or just

  744. scream out for Revival. Use your authority to walk in

  745. the peace. He died for you to have.

  746. He says look it is absolutely impossible for someone else to

  747. keep you from God's Destiny for you.

  748. It is impossible for you to stop me from what God has ordained me

  749. to walk in. It is absolutely impossible

  750. unless I lay down and let you or your persecution or whatever it

  751. is. Take me out.

  752. Purging is the key ingredient for multiplication in abundance.

  753. I want you to see this John 15 says, he repeatedly prunes every

  754. branch that continues to bear fruit.

  755. Repeatedly. So let me help you fruitful

  756. people, you will forever, have seasons where he's pruning.

  757. That means there are some relationships.

  758. You will have to pull back from. There are some Divine

  759. relationships, you will have to identify which Seasons you

  760. should be nurturing and watering that relationship every season

  761. is not meant for everybody to have all your time.

  762. I promised. So let me get this to you.

  763. Hey, can I get the worship team up here real quick, and I'm just

  764. playing and get you every time. It gets you every time you get

  765. you every time, I brought this picture up what a crummy life.

  766. There's a picture up here and next week, maybe I'll get to the

  767. woman, well, maybe maybe today, but I don't know if this guy's

  768. dropping crumbs or what, but how many people ever fed a bird or

  769. birds and you see how they swarm?

  770. The crumbs. And this these pieces mean

  771. little to us. But somebody appreciates the

  772. crumbs. So when we're thinking there's a

  773. crummy life people would love to take what you have.

  774. They'll take your car with only three doors.

  775. They'll take the amount of, they'll take your three hundred

  776. dollars in your bank account. And what's crazy is the people

  777. who have went without they know what to do with that 300, they

  778. know how to turn, they know how to turn that little bit of meat.

  779. Right by my grandma made some good spaghetti with some Vienna

  780. sausage. Is your life, really?

  781. As bad as you're making it then Jesus left.

  782. And went North into non-jewish region of Lebanon.

  783. He encountered their Canaanite woman, who shouted out to him,

  784. Lord, son of David show. Mercy to me.

  785. My daughter is horribly afflicted by a demon that

  786. torments her, but Jesus never answered her.

  787. What anybody ever feel? Like Jesus ain't answering you.

  788. Jesus never answered her. Why do you ignore this woman?

  789. His Disciples asked him, why are you ignoring her Jesus said,

  790. I've only been sent to the lost sheep of Israel.

  791. So in other words, it wasn't time. if this wasn't the right

  792. time, he was called to the lost sheep of Israel.

  793. He was not called to this, this woman, these people.

  794. And so he's ignoring her butts a butt, but she came and bowed

  795. down before him and said, Lord help me.

  796. Jesus responded. It's not right.

  797. Some of y'all would have left Jesus and the church right here.

  798. It's not right for a man to take bread from his children and

  799. throw it out to the dogs. I love her response you, right?

  800. But even puppies get to eat the crumbs.

  801. He said. I will be content.

  802. With the crumbs and I don't know who you are, but you are where

  803. you are possibly, because you not just valuing, the one might

  804. the one Talent, the, the, the crumbs, the little that you have

  805. is so much more than what someone else is have.

  806. Are you showing off of your little bit?

  807. Are you, are you just just out for lunch because you don't have

  808. what they have. How do you see your little

  809. member not enough is more than enough in God's hand.

  810. He said. But sir, I'll take what you give

  811. me. I'm here for you.

  812. Give me the crumbs. If only you got a little bit of

  813. Joy, come to church and shared a little bit of Joy, if all you

  814. got is a little bit of strength, I don't know how many times I

  815. told his Doom, am tired today. He ain't never said, okay well,

  816. what we gonna We gonna just the workout to your level of

  817. strength? God's plan doesn't change

  818. because you're in a season of weakness.

  819. He said, then, Jesus answered dear, woman.

  820. Your faith is strong. Your faith is strong.

  821. Wait a minute. She said I'll settle for the

  822. crumbs. He said, wow, what faith What

  823. you desire will be done for you. And at that very moment, her

  824. daughter was instantly set free from demonic torment.

  825. Wait a minute. What are you worrying about this

  826. Robin you from Wonder? Wake him up.

  827. Wake him up, he too sleepy gum on the front row, with his hoop

  828. shorts on, and then going to fall asleep.

  829. Amen. Wake him up.

  830. Wake him up. Wake him up.

  831. Wake him up. Breakthrough came through her

  832. because she valued the Chrome's. She didn't give up and she kept

  833. focused on what she was there for.

  834. You mastering the crumbs season is where the master can Master

  835. the moment? This is less about things but

  836. more about how the pursuit of things has a generation anxious

  837. distracted confused. Hi burnt-out ultimately

  838. stealing, intimacy, killing hope, and destroying true

  839. purpose, true, freedom, and true life.

  840. This also isn't a call to laziness poverty passiveness and

  841. a boring life. What are we doing with?

  842. What we have our prayers. Can't be every day.

  843. God gimme gimme. Gimme breakthrough, breakthrough

  844. breakthrough. And it can't also just be

  845. sitting there waiting the rest. I'm talking about, is not

  846. sitting in the bed, it's working on what you have.

  847. Maybe you don't have a job in this season, work on your health

  848. exercise. Take a walk work on

  849. relationships. Ask somebody, can I help you

  850. with this? I don't know how to do this, but

  851. if you show me, I'll help develop skills in this.

  852. Where is God? Put you now look around and see

  853. what God has for you. Where you are.

  854. You're not just sitting around waiting for something to come.

  855. He is put what you need right in your house.

  856. Are we Thinking Inside the Box? Now the wife of a son of the

  857. prophets. Cried to Elijah.

  858. Can I help somebody your servant?

  859. My husband is dead and you know that your servant feared the

  860. Lord. I love how she reminded God.

  861. That her husband was a servant. This is this, what you got to

  862. understand? There's rights, you have as a

  863. sower. now, one bit where me and my family worried during the

  864. pandemic, No freak out sessions. But the Creditor has come to

  865. take my two sons to be in slaves.

  866. Elijah said, to her, what shall I do for you?

  867. Here's a question again. What shall I do for you?

  868. Tell me. What have you?

  869. You ready? She's in debt, the creditors

  870. have come. He says, what?

  871. Do you have in your house? What do you have inside the Box?

  872. I know you keep looking at them. Women outside the house.

  873. But what about the man? Or the woman that you got in the

  874. house? Oh, she didn't had a few kids.

  875. So she may not be all firmed up and curved up and and how you

  876. want her to look. Work out with her. oh, Amen.

  877. A lot of single this is the single to see, okay?

  878. You know you get kids. Oh, I wish I had with my friends

  879. family got. Well, what do you have?

  880. Maybe you only got a blow up, pull splash him.

  881. Anytime I get my friends got video games, okay?

  882. We got stuff. They don't got.

  883. Your mom and daddy, love each other.

  884. We got peace. We got joy now saying they don't

  885. but I'm saying, look at what you got.

  886. My friends got yours and they got a.

  887. Why you can't be mine? Me because we on a different

  888. budget. Preach pastor.

  889. Maybe this is Earl season. This is Earl season black and

  890. blue coming. Steak, The Keg is coming.

  891. Let me finish with y'all. Are hot right now.

  892. She said, your handmade has nothing in the house except a

  893. jar of oil. All I got in the house.

  894. Has a jar of oil. All I got in the house is a jar

  895. of oil. He said go around and borrow

  896. vessels. Kind of, like, all I got is a

  897. little bit of strength, but I'm about to come to church and

  898. borrow some strength. All I got is a little bit of

  899. Faith, but I'm about to come to church and borrow some Faith

  900. from somebody. I'm about to come praise that

  901. you want to link up with my faith homies.

  902. I don't need maybe. I'm not in the season where I

  903. can spend a lot of time. We're worried.

  904. And folks, I need to get around some Faith.

  905. Folks, I need to get around some people that's gonna pick me up

  906. and encourage me, maybe I'm not in a season where I need people

  907. to feel me. Maybe I need somebody that they

  908. made it out of a pit can call me out of a pit.

  909. Challenge me. Yeah, maybe I'm in a season

  910. where I need a hard coach. A hard trainer.

  911. I need accountability. Stop running from

  912. accountability, amen. Then he said go around baldies

  913. vessels, empty vessels and not a few.

  914. I love this part. Go borrow some vessels and not a

  915. few. I don't serve a small God.

  916. Sorry. All I got is one jar oil.

  917. Go around Balsam vessels and not if you listen to the language.

  918. If he's telling me to borrow something, he must also have a

  919. plan to pay it back. And when you come in and shut

  920. the door upon you, and your son's, because there's a season

  921. where what go out, what you're going through ain't for

  922. everybody. Then pour out the oil, you have

  923. into all those vessels setting aside each one when it is what

  924. full ain't nothing cheap about. This ain't nothing short about

  925. this. He said, I want you to get as

  926. many vessels as you can and fill them up.

  927. So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her

  928. sons who brought to her two vessels as she poured, the oil.

  929. When the vessels were all what fool, she said to her, son,

  930. bring me another vessel and he said to her, there is not a And

  931. left, then the oil. Stop multiplying.

  932. So in other words, if I had more vessels, there would have been

  933. more to fill it. Enlarge my territory, expand

  934. your tent, pegs, Lord, God, Then she came and told the man of

  935. God, he said, go now, sell the oil and pay your debt and you

  936. and your sons live on the rest. Not enough is more than enough

  937. but it starts by looking at what you have, what do you have?

  938. I don't care if you married in, your marriages is a disaster.

  939. But if you got a little bit of love left work on that build on

  940. that, what do you have? I don't care if you're not as

  941. athletic as the other team mates, use the little bit

  942. ability, you have and work on your game.

  943. You start off with one dab. Build on one app.

  944. Everyone got abs. You, you may have just added the

  945. FL on it. But there is ABS under there.

  946. Some of y'all still bigger figure.

  947. It that way down. Amen.

  948. There's more value in what we have than what we are chasing

  949. and losing sleep over. I'll close with acts 16.

  950. After they were severely beaten, they were thrown into prison.

  951. And the Jailer was commanded to guard them securely, so the

  952. Jailer placed them in the innermost sale of the prison and

  953. had their feet bound and chain. Paul and Silas undaunted prayed

  954. in the middle of the night and sang songs of praise to God.

  955. While all the pro, the prisoners, listen to their

  956. worship. Paul's, they're in prison,

  957. they're bound locked up. All they have is a praise They

  958. don't got a phone call, they don't got no money on their

  959. books. All they got is a praise.

  960. And there will be seasons in your life.

  961. If you keep living is all you have is appraised.

  962. So, you better learn how to praise God.

  963. You better learn, how to praise God, and practice his presence.

  964. But I want you to see the little bit.

  965. They have, they don't got a bunch of homies, they didn't

  966. have a bunch of support. I'm talking about small and a

  967. little bit in every area of life.

  968. You may just got a little bit of food.

  969. You only may have Few outfits. You may only got three pair of

  970. shoes. You only me.

  971. You may only have a little bit of money.

  972. You may only have a tiny little car that can't fit the whole

  973. family. You may got to make trips and

  974. drop the drop part of the family off, and then come back and drop

  975. them off again. Praise God.

  976. You got gas to do trips. All right, we made we made this

  977. building. May, how many places have we

  978. went? We went to bed as in the

  979. building was too small for us. What we do Vision, put some

  980. tents outside. What are we doing?

  981. Put some tents outside. We're not complaining, we're not

  982. running down. Banging on doors, hurry up.

  983. Give us our building permit. We need more space know.

  984. We gonna, We gonna praise God. Like we never have before and

  985. what we got. And what we got me and my wife's

  986. marriage was almost over toe up from the flow up.

  987. But when we gave our little bit that we had left God preserved,

  988. our marriage, and he's taking us from a little bit of love to

  989. more than enough love. Little bit, we went from helping

  990. the church replant. To God saying no but I just

  991. needed to get you here to starting off with nothing going

  992. behind 5 months of rent with kids.

  993. With kids in another country. No family to help us.

  994. We're kids. Five months behind rent.

  995. Landlord raised the rent says, look, I love what you guys do.

  996. He was a Sikh, I love what you guys do.

  997. Now you're five months behind. I got a raise the rent.

  998. Do you think you can pay it? Why ain't got nothing to lose?

  999. I'm already 5 months behind. Absolutely, I can pay it.

  1000. Put it on the tab. Amen.

  1001. Now mind you, I'm not keeping this from my wife, my wife know

  1002. we're behind but I'm the leader of faith in my house.

  1003. So I'm not like Babe man. We gotta we gotta we gotta go.

  1004. Oh my God, what are we gonna do? No ask her.

  1005. We still eight. I told the man I said, look,

  1006. sir, I do got a little bit of money coming in when we got this

  1007. house and when we started renting this house, we had a

  1008. certain salary and that that has come from under s.

  1009. Things have changed and I'm I can't give you all my money.

  1010. I need gas money. I need to feed my family.

  1011. The few hundred dollars, I'm giving you That's all I got.

  1012. He said well, I like you and your family.

  1013. You guys do, good work. Sometime your reputation, pays

  1014. the bills. And there was something that he

  1015. said I see them Faithful over purpose.

  1016. I know they have the Integrity. So he says if you guys think you

  1017. can pay me back, you can stay, but I'm raising the rent.

  1018. No problem. And I'm telling you, we move

  1019. forward and unexpected finances. And As God built because we were

  1020. getting few dollars for the church but we have to build

  1021. God's house. And so I wasn't going to take

  1022. what God was given And in some ways.

  1023. Rightfully, so off. The top, I could have paid my,

  1024. we could have paid Pastor tea. But no.

  1025. I'm building God's house and I'm he promised that if I seek Him

  1026. First and I Delight in him he will give me the desires of my

  1027. heart. My job is to be faithful.

  1028. Love my wife, have integrity love my children.

  1029. And we had the audacity to put our kids in a private school.

  1030. Cuz we want to raise them up in the way they should go not

  1031. saying that Christian Schools is good.

  1032. And they ain't amen. And before we moved out of that

  1033. place, Every single month was paid off.

  1034. We were ahead. Yeah.

  1035. He's building his church. We wear our own nonprofit.

  1036. Yeah. Your church was able to give

  1037. your dis this family a work permit.

  1038. Like from the ground up, we didn't have to depend on another

  1039. church but you hired Pastor tea. And you seen us do nothing but

  1040. preach you've seen us get up here and be faithful with no

  1041. money. We still counsel, we still gave

  1042. wisdom sessions for two hours. Our kids eight, we had a roof

  1043. over our head and at the same time with a little bit of money,

  1044. we got the audacity to have three other people live with us,

  1045. and they ate, and they had a roof over their head, and our

  1046. daughter, shared their bedroom in our son, slept on the couch,

  1047. and we kept Minister, and we kept seeking his kingdom, and we

  1048. kept preaching the gospel. smoke and we kept showing in the other

  1049. people's lives and he's providing and every single year

  1050. we have increased over a hundred thousand dollars over two

  1051. hundred thousand dollars, we are going up and we are going up.

  1052. It's because when I didn't have no other way, I always had a,

  1053. praise wasn't a time to complain, but I believe that his

  1054. word was true. If you seek me first If you go

  1055. and make disciples, I'm looking for a man or woman that will

  1056. pick up my heart and pick up my vision and go and tell the world

  1057. about me. Don't underestimate doing God's

  1058. work. Don't underestimate discipleship

  1059. and witnessing. This is a season where you need

  1060. to pour into people pour into yourself.

  1061. You don't need overtime, go to the gym, your heart, not

  1062. healthy, Your marriage, not healthy.

  1063. There's other things to invest in.

  1064. So God's calling us to a purge we can't keep going and going

  1065. and going we've called to we're called to be the light of the

  1066. world, not the worry of the world, the salt of the earth,

  1067. And some of us have led work, we don't got time to serve it

  1068. Church. What?

  1069. When it was the church? That saved your stinky butt?

  1070. Where's the gratitude? Where's the thankfulness?

  1071. It's the local church that prayed for you is the local

  1072. church that stayed open during the pandemic.

  1073. There's so much God can do with your little.

  1074. The issue is, do you really trust them?

  1075. Do you really trust him? Do you and I and my confidence

  1076. is in my sewing. My confidence is in.

  1077. God's promise seek him first Delighted me, I'll give you the

  1078. desires of your heart man. I got a desire to take care of

  1079. my children. I got a desire to pay for my

  1080. child's tuition. We're going through certain

  1081. things because she wanted to move back, right?

  1082. Because it's cheaper as a United States citizen.

  1083. Resident. We're citizens.

  1084. But right now she's not a resident.

  1085. So we may have to pay more money because we live here and so she

  1086. got to have, I think it's two years at two years, one year,

  1087. one year of us schooling in order to qualify for the cheaper

  1088. tuition. But this is where my confidence

  1089. is. We're here, simply because we're

  1090. building God's house. So I boldly, tell her honey, I

  1091. don't care how much school is by the time you go to school, will

  1092. pay for it. We God will provide all of our

  1093. needs. According to his riches in

  1094. glory, I'm a solar. My grandma was A sower, my

  1095. children are so where she she on propresenter, but she's sewing

  1096. for her tuition, she's sewing for her future.

  1097. My children don't understand. But why the only camera they're

  1098. showing their building? God's house, that camera may

  1099. seem simple but you're holding that camera.

  1100. So, somebody somewhere across the world can It hoping the

  1101. house. You are evangelizing on that

  1102. camera. Young teenager, evangelizing, on

  1103. that camera. This is evangelism.

  1104. The young man. Get up here.

  1105. Judah, play these Keys. You're sowing into your future.

  1106. You're sowing into your, you're sowing into your future.

  1107. You're sowing into your future. I know families right now that

  1108. in came across an inheritance that changed the trajectory of

  1109. the rest of their bloodline. Now you better hear what I'm

  1110. saying? I'm talking about.

  1111. So we're faithful That have inherited some things that

  1112. shifted everything for a generations to come.

  1113. I'm talking about kids that don't have to work no more if

  1114. they choose not to and The Inheritance wasn't in a

  1115. bloodline it was somebody else's blood line and said you are so

  1116. faithful. I want to leave all this for you

  1117. and all I tell them you sewn for this.

  1118. You've given Your life to the gospel, you have raised your

  1119. children, right? And you can't tell me, God has

  1120. promised to take care of Our Generations in our children and

  1121. we sit around here, running around worried and thinking, yo

  1122. kid, did you throw in your baby? A big old party so you could

  1123. drink and you can, your baby can't even see straight and you

  1124. throwing them a big old party that party for you.

  1125. Baby head. Come on sweetie.

  1126. Look at the cake. Look at the cake.

  1127. You watch the people who choose to enter his rest this season.

  1128. if you choose to trust God in this season, Minimizing.

  1129. Focusing on the higher calling. This is the season to invest in.

  1130. What's most important. Number one, what's most

  1131. important is the Lord. Number two, what's most

  1132. important is your soul Number three, your family is so

  1133. important time is going by so quick.

  1134. What's most important is certain relationships that God has

  1135. brought. You listen, don't be casual

  1136. about the two or three people. God has brought in your life

  1137. that bring you hope that bring you faith.

  1138. That stir you up when you're around them that challenge you

  1139. with their health plans and their you God has put invest.

  1140. I need to be around and room or I need to be around certain

  1141. people. More that's gonna help me in the

  1142. areas. I am insufficient.

  1143. And I need to attack the areas of my life.

  1144. That I'm struggling in. That's more important than

  1145. overtime. Deal with Joe insufficiencies

  1146. deal with your weaknesses deal with your fractured marriage,

  1147. deal with your relationships. So into your church serve a

  1148. little bit. Give your talents to the Lord

  1149. stop running around stressing thinking.

  1150. Your grind is somehow going to make you successful.

  1151. If you 60 years old with a heart attack and then the kids you

  1152. grind it for. Can't have a father.

  1153. Not telling you don't work. But I'm telling you is do not

  1154. idolize work. So I'm telling you this church

  1155. is going on something we call in The Purge.

  1156. It's not a fast. It's a lifestyle shift and there

  1157. are certain things we will, We Will, We Will Purge ourselves

  1158. for and the Lord. Lord says, three months, And

  1159. there's some things will do corporately but there's things

  1160. that you need to do that. God's challenging you.

  1161. And I know one thing that all of us can disconnect from social

  1162. media Oh well I do my work on there.

  1163. That's why the church we don't have one hour a day.

  1164. You don't need if you if it's your job then all you need to do

  1165. is post something and maybe check up on it but I want you to

  1166. see when you're put. Even when I say it, when I say

  1167. social media, some of you like, oh I don't know if I could do

  1168. that. That's why you need to

  1169. disconnect because people became billionaires before there was IG

  1170. and let me help you. There's some billionaires that

  1171. ain't no high G at all. So staying connected in a false

  1172. reality is not guaranteeing, you success.

  1173. Her relationship with food are TV time.

  1174. What is God asking you? This is the season where the

  1175. stuff you've been putting off for a long time.

  1176. He's asking you to do. You mean putting the gym off for

  1177. a long time? Time to roll Start somewhere.

  1178. To crunches, just start with to crunches.

  1179. But it all counts, two minutes and God's presence.

  1180. Counts to crunches is more than what you did.

  1181. Go for 30 minute, walk with your spouse, even if y'all don't want

  1182. to talk to each other, just hold hands and walk.

  1183. Pray study. What is God being convicting?

  1184. You about go deeper in his word, take voice lessons because

  1185. you're giving him your voice to him.

  1186. If you're a public speaker, get around somebody that's doing

  1187. public speaking ask questions this season to be mentored.

  1188. This is a season to Mentor. This is season to edify and to

  1189. equip yourself. And while you're distracted

  1190. about his business, watch what he does in your life when more

  1191. peace hits your home. And you just Sitting there

  1192. spinning time watch that phone call that come through watch

  1193. that text message. Watch the Divine relationship.

  1194. Watch how much breakthrough comes when you stop trying to

  1195. break it down. Now telling you don't work hard,

  1196. but he says that you should be working hard and entering his

  1197. rest, Hebrews 4. Worship team.

  1198. Come up. if you want to know what's coming up, go to our app,

  1199. go to our website, I don't know about you, but in

  1200. these last days, we need the Lord.

  1201. We need the Lord. We need the Lord man.

  1202. We need Jesus, get out of this religious stuff.

  1203. We need Jesus, we need his comfort, we need a strength, we

  1204. need God's wisdom, and I'm telling you, God is calling us

  1205. into a season of of cutting back.

  1206. Right, certain trees, certain bushes.

  1207. Need to be what cut back. So they can grow healthy.

  1208. So this is not a season of lack. This is a season of

  1209. multiplication. I hope you hear me, but what

  1210. he's saying is get in the pot. This is what I shared this

  1211. morning. This brother will tell you we

  1212. watch people in the gym all the time.

  1213. Some of you think you throwing up a bunch of weight and you

  1214. just all posture bad. You doing curls like this whole

  1215. arm. what I realized when you don't need a bunch of weight,

  1216. when you have the right posture, when you get that coach, that

  1217. tell you stand like this, don't move bow, your leg.

  1218. I'll put your arm out, don't lean it on here for support, put

  1219. it out. And then you ain't gonna move

  1220. this part. You just go move right here,

  1221. man. You put 20 pounds on that.

  1222. So you go ahead and carry all that weight with your thick

  1223. neck. You're just walking in can't

  1224. even move. Cuz you just want to be big, you

  1225. want to be big, but what's big without he fishing.

  1226. You don't need all of that when your posture is, right?

  1227. And a lot of times you need a, some of y'all need a lot because

  1228. you covering stuff up. you need your bank account to reflect

  1229. successful because you covering But I believe there's people in

  1230. this room that will hear the Lord today, and that will begin

  1231. to look, we will start next Monday, not tomorrow.

  1232. But next Monday, Next Monday. So, all week, you got this week

  1233. to pray about God, what are you asking me to put down on the

  1234. Altar for the next three months. And look the part about food.

  1235. If you eat a piece of cake somewhere in between the three

  1236. months, it's not a fast, just get right back, just like, eat

  1237. the piece of cake, enjoy it? But, get back.

  1238. Right. If you overeat, whatever just

  1239. get back, this is not, this is not about that we're shifting

  1240. for a lifestyle. So what we're going to say where

  1241. we're going to ask over this week is Lord?

  1242. What do you want from me? And where do you want me?

  1243. Because for three months I want to posture myself.

  1244. To be yours to hear from you. Putting IG down.

  1245. Putting Tik-Tok down. Your stings.

  1246. He's coming for told my household, we throwing away all

  1247. sugar. I don't care if it's a gallon

  1248. ice cream in the freezer, we throwing it away as trash.

  1249. Anyway, we're getting rid of all sugar at our house so if you

  1250. sneaking sugar, you crackhead. Amen.

  1251. Amen. You going here?

  1252. Sneak some sugar if you want to. But you ain't gonna have none,

  1253. your mom. Can I go to my friends?

  1254. How they got Twinkies over there.

  1255. Okay, you go right ahead, but your health going to tell on

  1256. you. Amen.

  1257. Listen, thank you so much for joining us for this week's

  1258. podcast. Make sure you like And subscribe

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  1262. We out here. But you know what it is, you

  1263. know, the motto. We had a time but we ain't out

  1264. of Jesus. So till next time, Fix man.