July 17 (AM) - Insufficient Funds

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Go ahead and put your hands together.

One more time. Look to your neighbor and say,

wow, you look way better than last week.

Amen. Amen, why?

I just want to jump right into the word again, Welcome to our

first time. Attendees, Welcome to our

streaming audience. Those that does not do not have

a chance. Did not have a chance to make it

this morning again. We are at 5:00 p.m. and all I

can say is the day gets crazier and crazier and 5 p.m. yeah you

5 p.m. amen. To hop right back right into the

word. I really wanted to continue what

we were teaching all last week, and I don't know about you, but

I felt the shift last week. In me personally, I felt the

next level Grace and anointing on me personally.

I felt it in the room. I experienced it in the worship

team. I experiencing in other people's

lives. I can see it and no matter what.

If Elijah received Double portion, he still had the smack,

the mantle on the ground. Moses had a rod.

He still had the stick it out so I don't care how anointed you

our door, I don't care what new season you say, you're in, if

you don't do your part, then you're not going to walk in it,

but I do know, the glory of the Lord is up on his church, to do

good. He's anointed us to do good, say

to do good. And last week, we talked about

breakfast time and we talked about, I don't know about You

but the enemy for sure, he'll for sure is Disturbed and

worried that I got up this morning, maybe you not a threat

to the darkness, but I believe that I'm a threat to Darkness.

There was a time where I contribute it to the darkness,

in the world. I contributed to people being

lost staying loss, and not seeing Christ in my life, but I

do know that I posed a threat and you pose a threat when you

get woken up. But as Learned last week.

It's God's job to wake you up. It's your job to what?

Get up. So the world says on, whoa,

cool, be woke but you ain't up. I much rather being awoke is

good, but if you can't get up something wrong, there's a whole

lot of woke people in the hospital, but they can't.

What? Get up.

And then we said we're not going to just wake up.

We're not going to just get up, but we going what?

Speak up the word does not have power in your life till it gets

on your lips. Amen.

The word does not have have the power.

It should have in your life till it gets on your lips.

Right, I am more attractive to my wife.

See I'm married. I can talk like this but I have

a higher chance to turn in my wife on when I talk to her.

Okay, when you get married, don't ever tell you why, she

look beautiful. Just look at her like she's

beautiful and see how far looking at her like she

beautiful. Gets you you going to look weird

Right you ever see somebody looking at you like, what?

What are you asking them to change their look?

Or are you asking them to say something about what, they what,

see, I know you smelling that me, but what you smiling at me

for you smiling at me because you think I'm an idiot.

Right. Words, matter.

What you say matters? How you say it matters?

Tone matters. Do you notice?

You got some people who text you and you read it based on how you

see them. You ever got that person.

You don't know quite how they feel about you.

So when they send something like I'm praying for you, You text

him back, what that mean? Did something happen.

Be God give you a word. You got all these assumptions

based on who texted and then there's some people who text you

and you smile, you assumed it meant good because you think

they have good. What intention are you guys able

to get these slides? Yes, no.

Let me know. So I'm yes.

All right, all right, just let me know.

Um, and so You got to get the word of God on your lips and

coming from the states, right? Let me tell you speaking.

The word ain't name. It claim it.

I'm naming it because he said it, he did it, he gave it and

I'm just aligning my tongue with his tongue.

Double-edged sword. Two miles on Earth as it is in

heaven. I am saying What God Says on

Earth, with his already Bound in loose way in heaven.

If he said that I'm free, indeed, I have a right even in

my bondage to declare over myself.

What I'm free. Indeed, if he said by his

stripes on there, You'll did not the sick.

I don't care if sickness is in my body.

I have a legal right to say, what by his stripes I'm Healed.

So you've got to learn how to prophesy over yourself and stop

laying down. And let me kind of me.

Determine who you are. What you are letting a culture,

determine who you are, and what you are.

No, I'm a Child of God. I'm a Son of God.

I don't care if I lose my job. I end.

It is his abundance that I live off of why?

Cause I'm A sower. I'm a solar my God shall All

supply, all of my needs. According to what his riches and

Glory, not mine's not yours, not Trudeau's.

Not be seized. Not know, hand.

Do I don't need a handout. I've been giving a hand up.

My God is good, my God is faithful.

My God is good, my God is faithful.

So I got to learn how to align my mouth.

And that's what the enemy wants to do, is steal your

conversation. Steal your words, he wants you

to start agreeing with him. Then he wants you to get around

people that agree with you, that agree with him.

Ain't nothing worse than spending two hours, having

coffee complaining, spit you ever get off the phone with some

people and have to take a nap. Yeah, anybody if you not sitting

next to him right now, have you ever had a convert?

Have you had a conversation this week?

And you was just drained. Yeah, I see whole family right

here. Nobody said nothing.

They like your none of your kids.

Your wife didn't say nothing buddy.

Okay, I feel you. Keep it real.

Keep peace. Peace up.

He had keep it peaceful right now.

But man, I feel like we're in a lot in a place in this world.

There's too much negativity to start agreeing with it.

Negativity going to do with negativity, do and the body of

Christ has to start being hope. Not just in your But in your

mouth, you got to start aligning.

I don't care what it looks like, but you got to start

prophesying. I'm not talking about for

telling I'm talking about exhortation, edification, and

come for, come on, say, edification, X, edification,

exhortation, and comfort. The Bible tells us don't let no

file polluting think? Um, our mouths ever but only

things that will build people up, right?

I don't have to agree with nothing.

You say, if it don't agree with what God has said about me, I

don't care if you got it from your holy Shonda.

Rumba. I don't care where you got to

word from. I don't care.

If you stop me in the parking lot in the bathroom.

I don't care if you shaking when you tell me, I don't care if you

got gold dust wrapped around your body, I do not care.

If it don't agree with what he is told me about me.

I do not have to receive it. Our creator.

Original plan was that we exercise Dominion on Earth as it

is in heaven. Do you know God's plan in the

beginning before we fail was to what dominate?

Genesis tells us, let us make man in what our image, our

likeness, and let them have do mean y'all, and he gave Earth as

our domain. You can't be a king.

If you don't have nothing to King over, you can't be a ruler

with, you can't be a King Without a kingdom.

He said the heavens is mine, the Earth is Yours.

Listen. I want you to walk in my image

and likeness and you're going to exercise that by dominating.

For example, he said, dominate them trees, you know, this how

plants dominate us. All right, let me help you

money. Marijuana.

Cocaine alcohol. Oh you, you thought you thought

eating a tree? Ain't gonna do nothing to me.

No. Not until it get in your wallet,

or into getting your zigzags, or you pipe or your Apple, however,

you prefer it, I preferred blunts.

Preferably y'all looking at me all religious.

I said I prefer DD. That's my past some of y'all

bound because you can't even tell her testimony because you

might go back. No, I'm free.

Indeed, I'm good. I can talk about where I've

been, I'm done, I'm free shackles off my shackles off,

I'm out the prison, I'm off the prison yard.

I ain't even in the same city as the prison no more.

I am free in deed. And so, yeah, it had me, it had

a strong, hold on my life. Right, I don't know.

But one thing, one thing I don't dominate do is like certain

animals. I give them the upper hand on

that one. I know when we all get to see

each to heaven and see, Jesus, all that'll be restored, it'll

be cute. We could lay with the Lions and

play with the Tigers and and do all that and tilt in.

There's some animals I don't fool with even mice.

I don't fool with mice. I called I called my wife for

that one. I grew I call my wife for that

one. No.

Yeah. but say Dominate and so, we got to understand it if

there's a time in this, that we're in, and I'll forget the

world, the world ain't supposed to dominate but they dominate

But the believer. Is struggling dominating.

We just as depressed. We Jesse's confuse with our

sexual orientation. We are wheel.

I just as much as the world. Right.

So today we're not talking about taking the vow of poverty.

We're not talking about any of that stuff.

We're talking about seeking him first.

And knowing that he's enough. And a part of your labor is not

more work, more jobs, more overtime.

It's entering his rest, And as the former let the soil, do what

it do, some of y'all want more work thinking you going to get

more money, but you forgot about the seed that is working

overtime for you. You don't think so end is

working. Yeah, that's why I took nine

months for you to go from seed form.

Everything is a seed. It's all about the seed.

How you Stewart? The seed, my children are seeds.

You a seed. And no matter how much that Mama

and Daddy was anxious about that, baby, that was cooking.

Guess what it had to do cook. Guess what?

You'll see got to do cook. And sometimes we get anxious and

get ahead of God and he liked but that's what I had you.

So for You sold into my kingdom. My kingdom is responsible to

bring it back to you, some 30, some 60, some hundredfold, what

you getting anxious for. You got seed in the ground, for

every effort to prioritize. There's a purge.

And for every shift, there's a shaking.

I'm just trying to get to you because today is going to

radically challenge you, okay? Y'all might have to bring that

TV up here to that one. Look good.

I want to look at my computer up here.

I'm sorry for all you first-timers.

I like everybody is a, is fair game in here right now.

And so, my team is some time I talked to him just like, you

know, it is what it is. It's our living room, it's our

house. It's our family were not bound

to a perfect structure. We got structure, we got order,

but I like Phil, you like, you like you like what you call

those things reality shows everybody.

I love reality shows. Why do you like reality shows?

Because you got real stuff happening.

Right. Right.

That's what it is. If something up here that you

can blatantly see is trash. Like like if the heater was just

leaning on the side, I'm going to come up here and run the

program and not point it out to you know you see as trash I see

his trash. So let's just gonna put it out

there. That's trash.

Right? And so that's all I'm doing.

I'm just telling my team that's trash.

They hate it up there. They, you know, saying they hate

it, but it's all good. That's why we we continuously

growing and we're in God's doing amazing things.

And by the time we get to our building next door, Chaka Khan.

Chaka Khan now. For every effort to prioritize,

there's a purge and for every shift, there's a shaking.

What am I saying here is that God is calling us to

reprioritize? We think spending more

guarantees results. We think we think a higher

quality. We think a spouse will make us

happy. We think more money is going to

bring us peace, right? It's this idea that more is

going to fix me. But more isn't more Church,

plants is not going to necessarily lead to growth.

So instead of planting more Church let's first add Services

right? Like there's like what can you

do with little? Just because we spend a hundred

thousand dollars on a conference.

Doesn't mean the conference is going to be what successful

Right? And what we do is where is such

an a rush and we're so stressed thinking.

If I work more, I'll bring in this and it's going to make me

happy. But some of us have never found

happy and if we found happy, we haven't found joy and we're in a

place where the world is trying to speed you up.

You ready in the Lord is trying to slow you down.

Okay, it's going to be some challenges going on this in this

week because it is Harvest Time, there is great, Great Harvest

and great bursting. There is great wealth in the

land but how the world gets it versus how the children of God

get it looks different. There's been a shift because

there's been a shaking, there's been a shift because there's

been a shaking, right? You ever put smoothie

ingredients into you, your blender, all chunky.

You probably all, you know, all chain.

You put your little powder in there.

You put your strawberries in there, you put your yogurt in

there, vegan, right? Vegan?

We do everything vegan. And you what, why don't you just

start drinking it? Huh, talk to me, huh?

It's it is clumpy but you you have you ever had chicken noodle

soup clumpy, okay? So clumping in a reason why we

don't drink it. Huh texture, huh.

It's not what mix just pause right there.

Hebrews 4 says, they didn't walk into the promises.

They didn't mix the word with faith, right?

Come on why why won't we just put the ingredients in there and

just drink a? Why won't we just put the

ingredients in the cake and, and don't and don't blend it.

It tastes better when it's what when it's Blended?

What's that what's? What is blending accomplished?

It's smooth. It brings everything together

and makes it more palatable. It gets to the necessary places

easier, right? You might get a raspberry caught

in your throat, And then you might get the powder lingering

around your lungs or whatever, however, all that works right?

But when it's smooth, it travels easier, right?

And what you don't understand is that We want the, we want the

Blended smoothie, we don't want God to blend the ingredients,

but their seasons of blending, their seasons of resting, their

see, even the soil has to rest before we make it work again.

So, there's been a shaking. And so, we understand there's

because there's been a shaking there has been a shift.

Do you realize That your life has shifted.

Peter didn't realize that the shackles was off of him.

In the prison doors, were open, have you realized that your

prison doors have been opened? And all God is asking you to do

in this season as walk away, we must return to our first love

and know that he is more than enough.

He's more than what enough, he's more than what enough one more

time. He's more than what enough we've

made opulence. You ready.

We've made opulence. We've made options and we've

made opinions and idle, and a king.

And a goal, we've made abundance to go.

We've made options something that gives us pride and

opinions. Man, we are in an opinionated

world. We had somebody I we posted this

this this this video the other day and if you here I'm sorry.

You said it was just stupid to post on my page so if you hear

whatever but if they had a what you call it page coward page.

Okay, she gave me huh? A burner account.

Right. Right.

Yeah. She said Finn's table.

Amen. A burner account.

And so We posted some. It was all about Joy.

You know the you know the song says so that we put out remember

that. I said so right and then and

then it was some dancing on there.

This person goes into the comments again, if you're here,

that's unfortunate for you. That you would take that video

and and make the comment you made.

It was like, it's cool that you guys are happy or whatever.

But how is this video gonna help me get delivered.

Okay. Oh no, this is a bondage.

I can't help you with right now because if my joy is not going

to help you have joy or give you permission to have joy.

Then I don't I don't know how to help you.

But there's people out there that are looking to shoot you

down, right? I'm gonna move on forgot, why?

I was even mentioned that but I had a good point.

It'll come back to me opinions. There we go.

Thank you opinions. We got burner accounts, we on

social media and we get hurt by people's opinions on our post.

Do you let me help you today? When you make a post today, not

everybody supposed to like it or agree with it.

So, stop getting in your Fields because somebody commented back

that in like it or something like that.

No. But we have been given

permission to have what opinions and we give our opinion more

than we align. Our lips with God's word?

And so we love options, Netflix, kills my brain.

You sit there with your spouse and trying to find a movie.

Anybody ever met? I can't wait to watch a movie

tonight. Any you hop on there?

And you scroll and it's, and it brings anxiety, and it brings

stress because in all you do, end up is liking movies and

putting them on your list. For me, I love deodorant.

You you looking at me like I do too, but not everybody likes the

older, it's okay. But when you go to the grocery

store, there's all kinds of deodorants.

In the end, of course you Christians don't fool with acts

because it had some demonic stuff going on.

I don't care. I don't know how this sounds but

if it had a demon on the bottle and let it smell.

Good. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

Some of y'all Saint is like no you can't support.

No, you stop drinking at Starbucks then, amen.

Amen, amen. All right, all right, the goal

cannot be abundance. But the goal is to seek the one

who is more than enough, the goal is not to get myself so

successful that I have options. But the goal is to trust in the

one making him, the only option, the one who has all the options

and then the goal is not to to to just pride myself in being

opinionated and being smart and reading.

So I can tell you and being a thief.

Hold you so I can Flex my biblical knowledge.

But the goal is to allow his opinion to be the main and on

the main opinion. But we're in a world where we

pride ourself and opinions. We Thrive so we can live a life

of options and we Thrive. So we can have Financial Freedom

thinking is going to lead us to soulish freedom but it's not.

and then we feel insignificant, if we don't have such and such

Is that how I sound son? So then forsake your worries,

what the Bible say? What is the Bible say?

Now, if you go to a coffee meeting and tell your friend,

this they probably don't want to be your friend because they want

you to talk about their worries. Let me tell you, might got one

or two, maybe three max, you have have that God sends you and

that you have in that you should exercise.

Talking about your worries, your worries should not be something

that everybody knows about and here's about because not

everybody is going to give you what God is saying, okay?

Forsake. Your what worries?

Why would you say, what will we eat?

Or what will we drink? Or what will we wear for?

That is what the unbelievers chase after let me make this

clear. When I woke up this morning I

thought about what I was going where I took long consideration

quite frankly. If I wasn't honest last night, I

start thinking about what I was going, we're right up to the

point. I was still reconsidering, what?

I was going where, how many people put out options on what

they're going to wear if the Sun is?

He's out. I'm going to wear this if it's

an ugly day. Then I'm gonna wear this

depending on who I hang out with, I'm gonna wear this if I'm

trying to witness to a young man or something like that, I might

pop on some Jordans or some clean Little Sneakers because he

like sneakers, right? Depending on where it is.

I might throw a suit on. I might put a jacket on whatever

it may be. I am considering it, but I'm not

sending this ain't the kind of worried.

What my identity is not in what I'm putting on.

So I'm not worried, I'm not less significant because you get to

eat at black and blue. And I got to eat at Orange

Julius. We don't get the black and blue

with orange. Julius is where my budget is at,

say budget for me. Guess what?

We both fool. And just because you ate at

black and blue, don't mean you healthier.

Greece is Greece, bougie, Greece, and still Greece.

Yes, sir. My identity is not in what I

wear, what I drink or my identity is not in owning a

home. Identity is not in having a

spouse. He said, for that is what

unbelievers? Chase after.

I'm not waking up. My goal for finances is not to

buy more and and have more so that I can have more.

Yes, I want a lot of money. I want.

I want I want money. And what the church has done a

good job at is encouraging you to poverty.

A broke Church won't make it in the last days.

The point is, is God, wants to have your heart so that you fun

his vision. And by being the son of a king,

I will automatically enjoy royalty.

Royalty is not a princess goal. You get it?

Royalty is not Apprentice goal. He already have it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was born a sinner.

But I was born, what again? And when I was born again, guess

what? I took my rightful place back in

the place of more than enough. So when I have to renew my mind,

I understand that God need, he's looking for someone to make

wealthy, we need more wealthy son's, not more wealthy slaves.

Say that's what the world does because they don't have a king.

We don't chase royalty. We're born into it.

Doesn't your heavenly father already know the things your

body is required. So above all, I love how he's

how he said, how he didn't say. So instead of He didn't say.

So instead of Constantly seek God's kingdom.

He said just above everything you do seek him.

What? First?

Come on say first, how many people if you see liquidating

terms, do you want to be first? You don't care about being the

only one. That's the first time I seen

Elder John study but you intelligent self may be right,

but I just thought about that. That wasn't he was right?

What I would he was saying he was right. everybody want to be

first and if you don't, you lying, I'm not talking about

positionally. Because some people aren't good.

Number ones, you're a better. Number two, you're better.

Scottie Pippen. Now, I don't know Wayne

Gretzky's assisting or any hockey players stuff.

So I'm sorry, I'm learning, I'm learning.

But what I'm talking about. Number one, you are number one

in your context. Like hi, I better be number one.

To my wife. Above the kids.

Thank you. No, no, I chose you.

We didn't choose them day. It's is me.

Hey, if you understand love a motherly love and a wife, love

is two different things. A motherly love is not

necessarily Agape, but marriage, was only made for agape.

God chose my children and he shared his chosen ones with us.

Okay. So what I have to understand is

to my wife. I tell her all the time.

Look, if they was number one, they would move out.

Not only do they are they gonna move out?

They got to move out. That's a natural progression,

okay? You're always, welcome to visit

home. But I'm number one.

See what church taught you is Donald say that you let the kids

y'all the same? No, I'm not the same.

I'm not, no, I'm not the same. Nope, nope.

Nope. I'm not.

The same Malia is not the same as Julia.

That would be weird. You would get prison time.

Ain't that right Malia. She like somewhere.

That's 100. Keeping past there.

Keep it going where Emily and tell her we was talking about

her. Amen.

For that would be one. Unbelievers.

Says, so above all constantly seek the God's kingdom

constantly. Don't mean necessarily every

minute. Constantly also means, or shall

I say, constantly means in everything, you do, whatever

your career is seek God's Kingdom in it.

God, what would you have? How do you want to execute your

kingdom in this business deal? How can I be a son in this

business deal of daughter in this in everything you do when

you step on the court, you doing it for the Lord.

So I'm not gonna cuss the referee out hopefully Because

I'm still representing the Lord, I'm still advancing his kingdom

in the locker room. Everything I do.

And he says, refuse to worry. Oh, that's a hard one.

Refuse to worry. The power is not in not

worrying, the power is in refusing to worry.

Where we going to always knock it to that.

Let me help somebody out. There goes always be something

to worry about. Some of y'all worried about what

time we going to get out of service.

Refuse to worry. Like I got to get to lunch.

Refuse to worry, refuse it where he knock on the door.

Do like you do some of those religious folks that knock on

your door. Haiti when your kid be like, who

am I talking loud? Well, somebody at the door.

Daddy. I'm not going to stress myself

out and try to keep the house quiet, if somebody I'm just not

today. See this.

What? I do they knock because when

somebody knock What are you supposed to do?

Answer. So, guess what I do?

I knock back. Hey, it's a door on both sides.

Amen. The normal side.

Maybe refuse to worry about tomorrow, why?

Because he got tomorrow in his hands.

What it boils down to church is, do you trust the Lord?

He says, but deal with each challenge that comes with your

day, they're just so, you know, it'll be a, I don't want to rush

this, to be a two-part thing today.

And I hope we're done today so we can move on.

But we'll get you the rest next week if need.

But what I've come to learn is not enough, is more than enough.

Can I get on with the topic today?

Not enough is more than enough, say not enough.

Is more than enough. Of course, the part that's not

here is in God's hands. Not enough is more than enough

so over today. And maybe next week, we're going

to see how God is calling us to less.

This doesn't mean go to your bank account is empty, it

stupid. He's gonna challenge us and I'm

giving you kind of the end, the compels the challenge.

He's going to challenge us. To minimize our expectations.

We have we have too many expectations scattered because

expectations take energy to truly expect.

It takes attention and it takes energy.

There, maybe we're going to head into a season where the Lord is,

is pruning. And there's some things he's

going to challenge us. To scale back on for some, it

may be social media and don't sit here and act like that.

Ain't something you've been thinking about.

Doing you've been scrolling on social media thinking in your

head or I got to stop. Whether it's spending habits.

Rather it is certain relationships in this season,

you don't have time for 20 friends.

Even if you invite them to the same party.

Because at that party, you need to give attention to a few.

There's a season where God's going to call you to water these

Divine relationships. This is season where God is

going to ask you to worry, less. Don't look at me crazy because,

you know, that's hard for you. and this word is not about

taking a vow of poverty is not about Actually being less hiding

in the shadows, know, it's harvest time.

But what I understand, you can think Harvest Time as a time of

Plenty, or you can think of harvest time as a time of

intense, focus and discipline because you don't have time to

do anything but Harvest, Come on, talk to anybody.

So if God is truly releasing the Harvest in this season, we don't

have time to be distracted. So we're going to have to

eliminate distractions and trust that not enough is more than

enough. Remember, if you never spend

time stretching, you risk higher, you risk, and higher

chance of getting injured. And there are seasons when you

need to be stretched. Because we're you, what you're

going into is going to take a lot of agility.

Today's message insufficient funds.

Insufficient funds. I don't know about you but I've

been there. Done that, with my bank account

before a man and in the insufficient funds.

Doesn't necessarily mean you. Your bank account is in the

negative insufficient funds. Can mean, you just can't afford.

You ain't got enough to afford what you need, what you want to

get. Insufficient funds.

What I understand is not enough, is more than enough.

And this, this just exploded to me in the Bible Gideon.

Lourdes like all need, all that. the one with the might, Jesus.

Two fish. Five Loaves.

The disciples didn't need the education.

So we found that out later in Acts while we can take these

guys, we until they been with Jesus.

They don't have the same education as we have.

It's going to be time with this in this season.

Lord's, going to ask you to stop holding your diploma over your

head. If you so smart, can you tell me

what God's saying, right? Like he wants to talk to you

now. Chill degree, he wants to use

you. Not your degree.

Okay, if you use your degree, that's extra but what he wants

to do in this season has nothing to do with all the years you put

in into whatever. He's going to ask you to find

joy in places. You've had trouble finding Joy.

What I realize is God, you are the, you are the greatest

commodity, you are the greatest asset, not your career, none of

that, you are what he died for. He didn't die for your career.

So what I understand what I think is we often lose ourselves

in the pursuit for what we think success is.

And we lose ourselves and we abandon so wealth.

Because somehow we see but I understand if I don't teach my

kids faith, I haven't been a good dad.

Second Corinthians. 12 says, but he said to me, my grace, my

grace, my grace, my grace, my grace, my favorite, loving

kindness, and mercy is what for you.

Sufficient against any danger and enables you to Bear, the

trouble manfully bear the trouble.

It didn't say his grace came to get you out of trouble.

His grace came to help you bear it.

So the presence of a challenge Is not a sign of God's absence.

And often we think, where are you?

God, because we're more aware of the problem than we are of him.

But he said no, no no no. It's my grace.

That held helps you bear it up. For my strength, not yours.

My strength would help. Love quest.

Thrive would help. Love quest.

Get these properties here. What?

Help. Love quest.

Come through the pandemic with joy is because we leaned on his

strength. And we stay focused on the

mission which is Souls, not a building so I didn't care if

they shut the doors. I looked and I was like, oh the

world get it. They haven't rallies.

Why? The church ain't having a rally

so that mean we can still worship outside.

But we trying to Rally about opening the door for get the

door, his train filled the temple.

What's the train? What's the Train?

That's the skirt of his role, which means the most to him was

outside the temple. If you want to see God, move

really Marketplace. When you're at the grocery

store, you want to see God move in your life and use you be

available at Whole Foods. Be available at your dentist

appointment. Nope, I'm glad what the closed

doors did for us. It was the closed doors that led

us to open doors. Thank you, love quest for

worship in when it was closed. Doors, thank you for worshipping

when it was unclear, when it was uncertain.

Thank you for doing what we were made to do.

Now we have tent have build it. So if they come and shut the

doors, we just gonna step outside They whatever we got

options, save it, he says, power or made perfect fulfilled, and

completed and show themselves most effective.

He says his power is shown to be most effective.

When you going through it, when it most effective when your

degree can't help you, wait a minute.

Is this what the word says? So he's saying my

insufficiencies is more than enough in his hands.

I need y'all to really, really, really get this.

We lord show up and show out. Okay.

But you want it, you want him to show up and show out when you

feeling real good. But he was showing up and

showing out last week when you came in here grumpy.

When you, when you came in here week, not knowing what she was

going to do tomorrow, how that bill was gonna get paid, how you

was gonna make it through this grieving time.

That's when his strength is made known.

His strength is not in Goosebumps.

Therefore I will all the more gladly Glory.

I will gladly I will all the more gladly Glory he says in my

weakness in this is what God is trying to develop.

Can you praise him when it ain't going your way?

Because what I learned a lot of times when it's not going, my

way is going his way, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan.

I'm trying to help you Chaka Khan, when it's not going.

My way, sometimes is going his way because he has my full

attention, but I also believe Joe that Don't have to go

through hell for him to get my attention.

He said that the strength and power of Christ May rest, may

his power May pitch a tent, so his power and Grace wants home.

Upon my life. Remember that, an absence of

your strength, does it mean in absence of his glory?

El Shaddai. when I look at, El Shaddai, it's the god of more

than enough all-sufficient. One, The God, Who is more than

enough? And it represents Covenant.

It is how God revealed himself. My question to you.

Is he more than enough for you? Or do you need more than God to

be happy? So legit question.

We see in Genesis 17, he tells Abraham I will make covenant

between me and you and I will multiply you exceed C.

I just I read this stuff, literally.

Yeah, you gotta go work. You got to do what you got to do

but my trust is in him willing me to Victory.

That's the part we leave out this.

It isn't, it isn't either or He's not telling you to chill

out on working. Or chill out on not being home

or chill out on social media or chill out on this or that,

unless doing those things have taken his place and throwing him

up a little blessing, every now and then.

And so in that, your church and reading your daily devotional,

doesn't mean he has your heart daily.

But some of you, your work, your identity is in your work, your

identities in your spouse. Your identity is in the Comforts

of your home, your identity. He's not saying lose that but

he's saying put your identity. He want an identity swap.

He is why you're strong. He is why you got up this

morning, he is why you still have your sound mind.

He is not why you haven't lost your mind.

He is why you got food on your table.

He is why you so wise and intelligent.

He just wants the glory. He tells them again in Genesis

15, I am your Shield. Your abundance compensation.

And your reward shall be exceedingly.

Great. I am your protection.

You notice your medical benefits can't help you with some stuff.

Not having enough or not being enough for me.

It trained me to think and feel like I'm never enough or we'll

never have enough. So I don't know if sometimes

your parents raised you with the priority being get more.

The whole family's identity was in work or some of you grew up

in poverty. And so you're grinding out of

the fear of going back there, right?

Either way you look at it, you grew up in wealth.

So that's all you know and if you now you got to fear of not

doing that or exceeding your parent or doing better than they

did. So you live a life trying to

prove your Earthly, dad or your earthly mom and you're never

happy on the inside. And you're trying to get a

Earthly well done. While abandoning your peace.

Or you busy trying not to be who mom or dad was.

Which shows where your love is for you.

If you love yourself, you understand, you deserve some

chill, you deserve to pour into some of these amazing

relationships. God has put around you, you're

as valuable as any amount of wealth I could ever get.

There's relationships that bring wealth to your soul and you

don't have time for them. Because you're busy over here.

But you're you need some of this?

you need some words, you need some encouragement, I can't just

pour pour pour pour and never get poured into I got to go sit

under my pastor, sometimes to I gotta call him and ask for

wisdom and some of you are just grind, grind!

Grind! Grind, grind!

Grind! Grind!

Grind! Go go go or your passive,

passive passive, passive, and God's not asking either.

He's not asking you to ignore hard work.

He's not saying not work hard. There's a song being broke, made

me Rich. Now, as I think it's Lecrae, At

first, I heard that and I looked like some of y'all.

What? Oh, going to prison made me a

better artist. Oh, it's beautiful art in

prison. Why?

They're limited. And what we've made is

limitations are from hell. But limitations is where pieces

at not limitations. In the way you have thought

about it but limitations in the area of constraint self

discipline, Focus singleness of mind.

But for the Lord, did not give you the spirit of fear, but of

power, love, and a sound mind. A lot of y'all and I will be, if

he's safe to say most of y'all do not have a sound mind, I'm

talking about, but that sound mind is most prevalent when

chaos breaks out. Don't don't come in here talking

about. I got piece I just got paid

yesterday. My husband just bought me know

when everything is going right. That's not when sound - shown

but let somebody apply pressure to you today.

Let something happen. Let you lose a loved one.

Let let somebody hit your car, let let, let let let Church go

along that really reveal. You don't got a sound mind.

You and the presence of the Lord getting attitude, because the

Lord, you know, I'm saying, no, you got to understand. being

broke, being being letting sometimes you need to enter a

place that may feel like captivity Right, right, right.

Jesus. Many times didn't allow certain

people to go with him so he can perform a miracle.

You got to kicked out out for certain Seasons.

You got to get certain friends, certain opinions, certain

voices, out of your life or season, and get rid of a fear of

them or it not being there, when you come back.

The fear of missing out has had some of you in places way too

long. Being broke made me Rich.

Second Peter says that, I mean, sorry this is this, what?

I'm putting up his John 15. It says second Peter, but it's

John 15 and what the Lord says here.

I'm not going to read it all. It could be put up there but I

want you to see something. He said, if you're not fruitful,

You're done cutting your way. I want every saint to see

something. He says this.

He cuts away and he cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch

that continues to bear fruit. Oh, Oh, Jesus.

Cutting back is a part of sustaining fruitfulness.

When you prune, what do you do? You cut back?

Oh, As some of you got goals for abundance, good.

But abundance for the child of God doesn't come from you always

working. Never taking a break and never

sew it into your soul. He said repeatedly prunes,

didn't your prom one time? It is a part of fruitfulness.

If you're going to keep growing you going to have to keep

getting pruned. Oh, this is gonna bless your

socks. At least it blessed mine.

The key to fruitfulness in every season fruitfulness, in every

season. I'm not talking about

hit-or-miss fruitfulness. The Bible, I have a promise in

there that says you will bear fresh and new fruit, every

single month. It is every season is to

recognize and yield to the seasons.

He is calling you to cut back. Trainers.

Do it. Basketball players have finished

a season and they'll go eat whatever they want to eat for a

few weeks and then they start cutting back to get back into

what training. There's no one, no, no athlete

at a high level that don't have seasons in their life, where

they cut back their diet, cut back their attention, LeBron

James, no, social media. And we looking at all these

people, I called Reiki, like, might know, Drake didn't like

his assistant, like joke. Like that know these people, you

got to understand it. Looks like they are everywhere

but they not everywhere. They got people who specialize

in that one thing, their assistant focuses on them, their

sound engineer focuses on their project.

And what we do is we Chase abundance thinking that

everybody out there, that's on social media is doing all of

that and they're not. They're they're, they're so

busy. They don't have time to be on

social media. Since when did we think we gonna

die? If we don't have social media,

I'm telling you, it's one of the things that that the Lord

revealed that he, let me stop being deep.

He didn't reveal it to me. I revealed I was on there too

much. I'm on there too much and I'm

not on there all the time, but my own, there is too much.

God is calling me to a season, to do certain things to turn a

corner to activate new gifts. In my life, it's time to write

books. It's time for other kind of

content, it's time, but I will never Step into it without

purging back. But if I was honest, I've always

been afraid of, and I'm going to call it afraid of.

If I cut this back. It feels like a part of me

dying. It is that's the point but it

only can be cut back for a season because the goal of

cutting back is so you can bounce back more fruitful

Remember that Pursuit. And so, however you was raised

and whatever your identity of, or your fears.

Now, if I stop grinding ain't gonna make no money.

Well, what did you so for? Do you trust God or not?

Well, if you don't stop running you going to burn out wrong

reason to pause. Uprooting, the fear and worry of

going without or missing out uprooting, the fear and worry of

going without or missing out is vital in order to sustain the

focus necessary for the abundance.

He intends to Lavish on us God doesn't mind others seemingly

getting ahead of you. God doesn't need who you need?

How many people you need? Nor how much stuff you need.

He does not mind because some of you are like, man.

If I stop, they don't get ahead of me.

Trust me God's comeback. Plan will always put you ahead

of and further than where you was.

Don't think he just got to cut back playing.

He also has a comeback plan. There's no wasted time in his

timing. There's no wasted time in his

timing. You ready?

Cutting back his less about lack, but more about discipline,

contentment and Trust. He says in Hebrews 4, give you a

couple scriptures. Will close and enjoy this

beautiful overcast day. Look at what he says, let us

therefore be zealous. And exert ourselves and strive

diligently to enter that rest. Wait a minute, did he say?

That what we should be grinding in, is entering his rest.

What we should be working hard to do is entering rest cutting

back. Some of them gossip phone calls,

you got to prune some of that to cutting back.

Some of them people who going to babysit you in the pit.

Instead of calling you out at a pit cutting, cutting, cutting

back, some of them stronghold. You have, maybe it's cutting

back some eating. I heard this yesterday is, well,

my relationship to eating, good is always fasting.

Can I help somebody? God's intent for me fasting is

not losing weight. But I had a relationship with

God. And with myself, is I needed to

be accountable to God. So I call it fasting.

And I know if I'm fasting. I can't break it because it'll

make God mad or to somehow come into between our relationship.

When all along God has been calling me to change my

lifestyle and relationship with food.

That's not a fast or a diet. I don't want to go on a diet, no

more. And I don't want to use fasting

for how God is calling me to eat healthy.

He's calling me to a lifestyle change, not a diet or a fast.

He is kind of like that going deep when he can reveal to you,

some of how religion and fears have wired you and so will call

a fast. And that's why we love quest.

We fast less this year than we ever have.

Because God said for one, they need to learn how to fast in

their own life, not just one of the church call one, And number

two, I can't be a leader. That's leading us to fast, just

because I see people gaining all that weight back.

Because I see each. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

And you see people in the spirit, they like Pastor, please

press the button. Please press the button.

Please call a fast faster, please.

Yes, amen. You hear laughing?

That's one of them and I'm being there, too, but I have to catch

myself Elder John because I was using using a fast at times,

when I saw myself getting out of control with food, And not

because he was calling me to a fast for a higher purpose.

So I understand social media for me, I understand I have to and

then I don't want to do, do this all the diet is stupid because

if I eat this then I might as well just break the fast know,

Bad relationship with food somehow punishment is

accumulator is is and then some people sneaking around on my own

that don't, don't put it on social media.

We fasted, and I want nobody at the church to see, I'm breaking

the fat just break the fast and then bounced back on it.

Just break, don't break eat the burger.

Eat what you going to eat, but don't get, don't, don't get that

way. Because fear, there's nothing

fasting is from God's love. He's not trying to torment you.

We're not going without we're going Within and says to enter

rs.12. Cool, I read you this line and

will end at Mark for worry, less about them and find yourself,

wondering and, and to him wandering.

We worry more about people than his Wonder.

May we never lose our Wonder, right?

We need great wisdom in this world, but the beginning of

wisdom is the fear of the Lord. So, if you really want wisdom,

then you don't have to humble yourself and you're going to

have to get back to being in awe of God.

He shares these Mysteries with his sons who are in all of him.

I'm not talking about everyday wisdom to govern everyday

things. I'm talking about Mysteries

being unlocked things that he share with those who seek him,

and then they find him. I'll close with Mark for and

then we'll pick back up tonight. Maybe we never lose our wonder.

I know he created the Earth. We can we take it down, please?

Amen. I wonder.

Wide-eyed and mystified, maybe we be just like a child abuse.

They, we've never lose. So, if your hands up just for a

second, right, where you at, May we be just like a child in

here Jesus. Also told them this Parable

God's kingdom round the kingdom. Ram is like someone The kingdom

is like. And you don't have a kingdom

without citizens without Sun. So we make up that Kingdom.

Where a part of that Kingdom in the kingdom is like the realm is

like someone spreading seed on the ground, like a farmer.

He goes to bed, what'd he do after he so Go to bed and gets

up day after day and the seed sprouts and grows tall.

Look though, he knows not how some of us, can't move forward

in the Lord, because we got to know how what you doing, where

you going. Why you say that?

What you doing? Where you going?

Why you say that? What you doing?

Where you going? Why you say that?

What you doing? Where you going?

Why you say that? What?

What you doing? Where you going?

Why you say that? We got all kind of questions?

Gents? Why you asking all them

questions? And then we sit there and wait

on the Lord to answer back in that brings anxiousness.

Because they're like, I'm waiting on a word.

Let me tell you something, you are a living epistle.

You are. The good news, you are in this

Earth, Light called Into Darkness.

And there's a relationship that God wants to build with you,

where everything doesn't take a prayer because you always pray.

You become one and you live out. His will God is not I don't need

to go pray and ask him. Should I help someone in need?

There's some things that God says son, you walking in my

power, my Integrity, my wisdom, go ahead, had that event, that's

on you. I'm with you.

I'll bless it. We got this relationship with

the Lord where it's just like Back in the garden.

Can I should I do this? Should I start this business?

Like, there's this such a distance.

And I don't know why you doing this cuz he in here.

He says all by itself. It sprouts all buy it.

What self? What you say?

I release the C. Go to bed in the sea.

Got a responsibility. To you see this?

Thomas your sower? We think every job we have has

to be something. We gotta touch.

Yeah, but it's hard work to release.

And go to bed. It's hard work to so every week

in Thai, then giving give where God tells you to give and just

go rest and work. My job, but also have rest,

knowing that something else got a responsibility to work, you

got to understand cast, some of your working on your seed.

Previous hour. You understand what I'm talking

about? And the soil produces a crop.

Can I help somebody the seed that he sewed?

First the grain? Then.

The head and then fully developed you see this process.

You have to be patient enough for then and then and then so in

between time, I could keep going to work, but a part of my work

after I've sewn is watering It's making sure that I shine.

Light is making sure I keep worshiping is making sure I keep

sewing is making sure. Keep serving is making sure that

I keep resting. Do you?

Do you do know, you can so busy instead of being so busy, you

can s0w busy. And when you so busy, guess what

you get rest. But if you are so busy you get

burnout. Coffee meetings are a seed.

There's some that you can call tomorrow and be like I can't

make it today. I need rest.

But then you got pressure on want nobody to think I'm a

flake. Well, if you think I'm a flake

after all the love I showed you. Then I'm going to be a flake

today. Can I bless somebody real quick?

I'm not talking about in that are responsible way, but you

have to start being unafraid of changing your mind.

And change in plans, sometime you make plans out of

excitement. And then tomorrow coming you

like why did I do that? Listen, you're going to get a,

you're going to get tired of making plans.

You can't fulfill what God is trying to show you.

You only got so many yeses. Save your yeses for when he

needs them. Then when the grain is ripe, he

immediately puts the sickle because Harvest Time Has Come.

When it's time, it's time and no one can stop the Harvest.

I am surely confident that no one can stop what God has for

me. And as anxious as I am sometime,

when I just don't go. And when I don't, sometimes I

spend more energy Thinking about why I'm not doing nothing

instead of being at rest with not doing nothing every time.

If you are strategically not doing nothing, you doing

something, your body is doing. So when you're sleeping, you're

sleeping but your body is resting.

Your body is working. So don't think that God ain't

working that you'll see, they ain't working go to bed.

Go to bed and look at your neighbor.

Say go to bed. No, no.

Look at your neighbors. Say, it's time to go to bed.

It's time for you to rest. It's okay today to change your

mind. Actually soon as service is over

text them and say you can't come.

I'm resting. You've got a hand for rest.

Father, thank you. Thank you in the mighty name of

Jesus for you, are faithful. You never sleep nor slumber.

You never sleep, nor Slumbers you watch over your word, you

watch over us, I thank you. Can you just lift your hands

right where you are? And thank the Lord for taking

care of you. When you couldn't take care of

yourself, thank the lord for keeping you at peace.

When you was losing your mind. Thank the Lord for providing

when you could provide yourself, thank the Lord and when you were

Unfaithful he was faithful. Come on.

As for a moment, just open your mouth and just thank you Jesus

for bringing me a healthy child. When I was scared, they would be

born unhealthy. Thank you for keeping me through

lost loved ones. Thank you that I didn't lose my

mind in that traumatic experience.

Thank you. Lord, come on right where you

are. Thank you.

Lord, come on, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord!

Come on! Say thank you!

Lord! Come on say thank you Lord.

Tell him you've been so good. Come on come on.

Just for a moment. Just thank you.

Lord. For my confidence is you my

courage is in. You you are the air.

I breathe. You are my first love.

You are my strong tower. I Want to Thank You.

Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

If your hands right where you are, before we sing this last

song, I just want to give a couple announcements and as we

leave today, we're going to sing this song Firm Foundation.

Don't be too familiar with these songs.

We're going to sing Firm Foundation.

We don't get out of here but I just want you to remember You

don't want to build a house on sand.

Because the rain came and the winds blew this.

That's all did. The rain came and the winds

blew, but our house was built on you.

Let me, let me help you another scripture.

He's telling you, the storm comes on the just and the

unjust. So, I'm just trying to to

encourage you to not build your house on Sand.

This world has to be proven not reliable unjust.

Let like light, it's the enemies economy.

The devil is the God of this world.

It's in the scripture, so trying to change the government to be

Christian or to follow Jesus. Gives you a rational.

You hope that Believers get in government?

Yes, we need people in education.

We need people everywhere so that we can influence it for the

kingdom of God. But all of these mountains, all

of these Thrones have to bow down.

So while some are spending time knocking on government doors, we

are also needs to be a part of the body that is pulling on

heaven. Amen.

For those that don't know. We have a midweek, Bible study.

What is that? Forearm, and somebody came to me

and said, man, I love Wednesdays because I lose it right around

Wednesday. And then I get to come in

midweek and get some word. Wednesday's aren't quite as,

like, Sunday. We really get into some

teaching, what we teach on Sundays as well, but there's a

little bit of worship not as much and they're certain.

G components that aren't a part of that but we're here every

Wednesday at 6:30. I don't know about you and

anybody benefits from Wednesday evenings.

Yeah. And so every Wednesday and then

July 23rd will be kick off an introduction of our youth

ministry. Super excited.

The building you're in right now is going to be our youth

facility. We're just down to the final

days of getting our building permit for next door.

And for those that don't, we're still in our Were written in C

project. And we have, I think 350 those

around 270 275 left, and I am believing that God sends us

partners because this community before, you know it, there will

be high rise condos behind us on the side of us on this side.

And we're here for a nice length of time long time.

And when we're worshipping, People will sit on a balcony in

here. It'll be like being at Jack

pool, Plaza downtown. We're going to be in an

Amphitheatre. God is putting us right?

In the, in the midst of one of the biggest developments in

British Columbia right now. The population is rising.

So as you're sowing seed, you're giving in to a very bright

future for the kingdom of God, right?

But for those that don't know our building we are Worship

Center. Is the building right next to

us? So right there is our multimedia

Center. Or music studio will be where we

record music at a high level. Our podcast, our commercials our

all of our videos meetings, all of those things will be done

right next door, our after school programs.

Children's development student development will be right in

here. The next year will be our

worship center and on our properties, we will have

commercial kitchen. We will have Programs partnering

with the city. There's many things we will do

as well as we're building to be an asset to the city.

And so when we partner with people, that want to use our

facilities for weddings and for parties and other things like

that. So even your see is not just

like a seed, that's just going to go to waste.

It's going to help the church be able to to tap into the wealth

that God has called for us and he's not done when it comes to

giving us property. So, August July 23rd and then

next Sunday will be Vision. Sunday, we have some some really

cool things to announce that's coming up and there's people

there's been so much growth since we've been here and many

people don't know where we come from.

We want to let you in on the journey to here so we can get

everybody on one Accord, share some really cool things.

That's to come, have you meet some of our leadership and give

you an opportunity? Afterwards to respond and get

plugged in. And then July 30th, we're having

a worship night, which we do every fourth Saturday fan, the

flames and at Fan the Flames, we will be doing baptism.

So if you're interested in, baptism C, Fe right here,

teacher Fe and I think that's about it and then is it this

coming Saturday foundations? August 6, August 6th,

foundations. If you are Being a part of Love

quest. You want to hear more vision and

ask questions and we get to know you come to foundations.

God has been so good and faithful to love quest on our

journey and we are now established.

We have a church home. We are not wandering.

We're not just running out of the theater.

We have encouraged home. Come on, you can do better than

that. Hey man.

So thank you for trusting our leadership.

Thank you for being faithful partners.

And as you guys go you have a chance to.

So as I said last week, everybody can sew something.

Everybody can so something you don't pay for the gospel.

So you don't just so when you're here, but when you're not here,

you know. So we are a church that is good

ground. With more than enough Vision

multifaceted, we're not just a Sunday church, we're not just a

building church. We are Marketplace church.

God is calling us into the marketplace as Kings and Priests

and so please be partners with us in the back Co Jean and the

team. And if you have any questions

will be around for Fellowship. We're done but I really would

love us to sing this song. Um, before we go and yeah I want

to see meet some of you first-time attendees and look at

your neighbor said, thank you for behaving today, stand to

your feet and can everyone sing this song with us?

Everyone sing this song with us. Thank you.

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know, the motto. We had a time but we ain't out

of Jesus. So till next time, Biggs man.

Biggs man.