Life Conference 2026 (Thursday PM) - Bishop Tony Kemp (February 5, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Amen. Thank you for

your kindness. You may be seated. First, I want

to give reverence to the Father, to King Jesus,

to the Holy Spirit. Let's give God Almighty a

big hand clap. To Pastor Brad and Jenny and the

entire ministry team, let's give them a big hand

clap. To our dear friends. Dr. Greg and the best

part of him, his wife, Joanne, let's give them

a big hand clap. To Jim and to his lovely wife,

Erin, let's give them a big hand clap. And give

your neighbor a hand clap too. I agree with the

accuracy of all of those prophetic words that

were shared publicly by Jenny and the one our

dear brother shared. Allow me to say this, if

I may. When Rachel was giving birth, She called

her son the son of my sorrow. But Jacob changes

his name to Benjamin, the son of my strength.

Isn't it interesting that you have to go through

sorrow to get to strength? So I was speaking

at a world conference. And prior to the conference,

I had this angel visit me. And he had on his

arms strength, stamina, patience, and perseverance.

And I remember years ago when the Holy Spirit

spoke that very scripture, I didn't want to hear

it. It wasn't what I wanted to hear at the time.

But he said, you have need of patience. That

after you've done the will of God, you might

inherit the promise. Look at your neighbor and

say, you have need of patience. That after you've

done the will of God. You inherit the promise.

So, when your apostle talked to me about this

conference, and he mentioned the theme, the prevailing

church, it reminded me of a supernatural experience

I had several years ago when I was in Amarillo

in one of those unexpected encounters. where

I was caught up to heaven, and there was a door,

a portal. And on the left was a warrior angel.

To the right, one very similar, very chiseled,

very powerful. You may say, why would two angels

be at the entranceway? Well, Those two angels

have shown up in my life at least a couple of

times I can mention. One was when my wife decided

that she wanted a Victorian house and I didn't

want it. And she made me go and look at it. And

there were those two big angels, one on the left

side of the house, one on the right. And that's

when I concluded that our Heavenly Father loves

her more than me. You think I'm playing. And

there was another experience which I'm not going

to tell you about. But in any case, when I walked

through the door in heaven, there was an angel

with a scroll. And the words on the scroll was

this. This is what it was. The watch of the Lord.

is a secret weapon of apostles, prophets, seers,

and the victorious church. Everybody say the

prevailing church. And this watch of the Lord

is not what we think in terms of watches 6 to

9, 9 to 12, 12 to 3, 3 to 6. It's... That Hebrews

where it says looking to Jesus. Everybody say

watch and pray. Then it went on to say the watch

of the Lord is a key to the intelligence of the

spirit and the ability to interpret the will

of God. Look at your neighbor and say you need

the intelligence of the spirit. And a divine

ability to interpret the will of God. So I'm

going to start with this intelligence of the

Spirit and this interpreting of the will of God.

There was something else on the scroll. The scrolls

of heaven, in addition to giving you insight

into the will of the Father, They can reveal

the operations of the enemy and the strategies

of Jesus to produce a body of overcomers. Everybody

say, the strategies of Jesus will make you an

overcomer. So what I have to do tonight as the

first night is I have to, Surprise you. So I

decided to have this typed out in an attempt

to make me be systematic and go point by point

because you know why. So listen carefully. Are

you ready? Now I said all that for a reason.

As you listen to this message, you'll understand.

I'm going to speak to you individually. Eventually

we'll talk corporately. But probably not tonight.

Your life is not stuck because the Lord has said

no to your prayer. Your life is stuck because

you cannot yet carry what you're asking for right

now. There are opportunities, resources, blessings

hovering over you. But they're not waiting for

your prayer to get louder. They're waiting for

your capacity to become greater. The Father is

not testing your desire. What he's looking at

is your internal infrastructure. For example,

you think you're waiting for wealth, but the

wealth that the father wants to give you is waiting

for a version of you that will not collapse under

its weight. Most people spend years praying to

the father for more money. Better relationships,

greater opportunities, while completely ignoring

the real question the Father is asking. Can you

even handle what you're asking for? Can you handle

it emotionally? Can you handle it spiritually?

And really importantly, can you handle it structurally?

Can your current systems, boundaries, and internal

architecture sustain the blessings that you're

asking for from the Father? So it is time to

examine your capacity. Look at somebody say the

capacity code. Say it again. We're looking at

your capacity. After a while, you will begin

to understand exactly why the answer to your

prayer has been delayed. And more importantly,

you will have the blueprint to build the internal

structure that will make your increase inevitable.

The world has sold you a deception and a lie.

It tells you to dream bigger, ask for more, manifest

abundance, visualize success. But the word of

wisdom from the throne operates completely differently.

Here's the reality. You ready? What you cannot

manage, the Father cannot multiply. You have

to be able to manage it before the Father will

multiply it. Management comes before increase.

The prevailing church learns divine management

under the master, the Lord Jesus Christ, and

sees multiplication. What you cannot sustain,

the Lord Jesus will not give you. He's paid for

it. It's yours. It's part of your inheritance.

Ephesians 1 .11, in Christ you have obtained

an inheritance, but it's not released until you

have the capacity to sustain what he has purchased.

Look at somebody and say, this is not punishment.

This is protection. Increase without the proper

biblical infrastructure is not a blessing. Because

if the Father gives it to you and you are not

yet ready for it, you will sabotage. Everybody

say, we want to avoid personal sabotage. Think

about the last time you asked the Father for

something significant, more income, a better

relationship, a new opportunity. But I want you

to consider the possibility. What if you wanted

increase in results without a willingness for

increase in responsibility? What if you wanted

a blessing without the added burden the blessing

brings? The prevailing church is ready for greater

responsibility. So it can take the greater blessings.

The prevailing church is ready for the added

burden. that the blessing brings. Some people,

they want added gifting without the added growth

required to steward it properly. See, when it's

the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord reveals

to your heart where you are and where you're

not. Somebody said it this way. When you're reading

the Bible, the Bible is reading you. So this

is what people do. When your prayer is not answered,

you question the goodness of God instead of examining

your own current capacity. Oh no, I'm prophesying.

I know I'm prophesying. You don't have to even

say amen. You question the goodness of God because

you ain't getting it because you done prayed,

you done fasted. But you ain't never asked. See,

I'm going to help you. Look at somebody say,

he going to help you a little bit. Let me tell

you something about transition. Transition is

not the beginning of something new. Transition

happens because something old has left. Transition

happens because something has ended. Change is

when your external circumstances are not the

way they were before. Transition is internal.

And transition happens when something has ended

and you are in between where you were and where

you need to go. Look at somebody say, it's a

long hallway. Somebody say, it's a hell way.

Well, it's that too. And when you are in transition,

you have in your soul a real anxiety. You have

a sense of uncertainty. Uncertainty does not

mean you don't have faith. The problem is this.

The map you knew doesn't fit the territory in

which you now find yourself. Okay. Because what

you knew in that season isn't what you need to

know for the next season. And now things are

not familiar. Which means now I have to get quiet.

And I need to say, Lord, I know you want to bless

me, but what do you have to build in my infrastructure

first? So when your prayer is not answered, you

quest the goodness of God instead of examining

your own capacity. Let me tell you what Jesus

sees when you pray for increase. Jesus looks

at your own financial discipline. Jesus looks

at how you handle pressure. Jesus looks at your

emotional regulation when you're under stress.

Increase. Causes stress. Increase impacts your

emotions. Increase means you got to get more

organized. What Jesus looks like when you pray

for something is he looks at your relationship

patterns, your time stewardship, your boundary

management. Listen to this. This is really important.

You ready? And based upon what Jesus observes,

he calculates exactly how much you can carry

without breaking. That calculation determines

your current ceiling. That ceiling is not arbitrary.

It is architectural. It's how you think. It's

what you think. Are you still with me? Matthew

16, Jesus says, I'll build my church. Is what

you're thinking and how you're thinking really

going to take you where you want to go? Has it

so far? That calculation is built from your habits.

your systems, your emotional capacity, your spiritual

maturity, and your ability to handle responsibility.

Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay.

Everybody say transition. Are you ready? When

you're in transition, the teacher isn't talking.

The silence is not abandonment. He's already

told you everything you already need to know.

The teacher never talks while the test is going

on. That's why when you go into a prophetic meeting,

the person who's prophetic prophesies all around

it. Still with me? So when you're in transition,

you must put into application the lessons you've

already been taught. The principles that have

already been revealed. Look at somebody said,

this is the season for your stretching. See,

this is, okay, let me show you. Let me, okay.

See, this is what we think. This is what we think.

Bless our sweethearts. We think that when Jesus

knocked Paul to the ground and he sees this great

light, he had had letters from a earthly high

priest giving him authority. And now Jesus appears

as the heavenly high priest. And he looks up

and he sees Jesus and he says, who are you, sir?

We think that that's where Paul got converted.

I submit to you that that's Where Paul got collapsed.

Listen to me. Everything he thought he knew.

That he read. In the word of God. That he misinterpreted.

When the light shined. He went through a collapse.

Everybody say that's loss. How you know you're

in transition. Is when. things you thought you

knew that aren't working. You have to face the

reality that it ain't working and something needs

to collapse so you can get the mind of Christ.

Transition is the doorway to transformation.

Before, remember I told you transition is not

the beginning of something. It's because something

has ended. There's something you have to let

go of. Look at somebody and say there's something

you got to let go of. So you can receive something.

Everybody say receive something. So watch this.

When you understand this, everything changes.

You stop. begging the Father for more and you

start building for more. You stop waiting for

the blessing of Jesus and you start creating

the vessel that the blessing can fill. When you

comprehend the principle, the code of capacity,

you understand that there are laws that govern

divine provision. These are not suggestions.

These are not good concepts. They are operational

principles that determine whether the Father

releases resources into your life. or withholds

them for your protection. Oh, no, no, no. Let

me help you. So Jesus tells a story. One man

gets five. One man gets two. One man gets one.

The man with five makes more. The man with two

makes more. The guy with one doesn't make any

more. The man with five who made more gets commended

by God. The man with two who makes more gets

commended by God. The man with one who doesn't

make more gets condemned by God. Why isn't the

father giving me more? He doesn't want to condemn

you. He only gives you what you can increase

so at the end he can commend you. This is not

an issue of abundance. This is the issue of architecture

and capacity. There's a difference in the thinking

of the one who had the five and the two and the

thinking of the individual with the one. So now

we're going to examine some laws. Remember I

said the father will withhold some things to

protect you until you're ready for it. Everybody

say the law. The first law is the law of vessels.

So the blessing takes the shape. of the container.

In the book of 2 Kings, we encounter Elijah and

the widow who comes to him in desperation. Her

husband has died. He was a son of the prophet.

He was in debt. She had two sons. The creditor

says, pay me or I'm going to take your two sons.

Now she has no means of support. And she goes

to the father prophet, Elijah, and explains,

this is my situation. His first question was

this. What do you have in the house? I'm sure

her first response is, I don't have nothing.

And then she thinks. So that's what crisis does.

It makes you have a brain freeze. Makes your

emotions, paralyzes you emotionally. You have

a transchemic attack. And then after she calmed

herself down, she goes, wait a minute, I got

a pot of oil. She had reached the absolute bottom

of her capacity to survive. The prophet says,

what do you have in your house? She replies,

this small bottle or jar of oil. Then he gives

her an instruction that seems unusual. Go borrow

from your neighbors, empty vessels. As many as

you can gather, pour oil into them. Even though

the instruction made no logical sense, the woman

obeys. She gathers vessels from every neighbor,

filling her home with empty containers. Then

she starts to pour. Watch this. Here's the miracle.

The oil flowed until every vessel was full. Not

one drop more. The blessing matched exactly the

capacity she prepared. The provision was not

limited by the father's resources, but by her

own preparation in receiving. She could have

gathered 50. She could have gathered 150. But

the code reveals the oil would have filled whatever

capacity she created. The creator fills the capacity

that you provide. Everybody say the law of vessels.

Here's the point. This is how divine provision

operates in your life right now. The father gives

the blessing. The father gives you the opportunity

to receive the blessing. But only equal. to the

capacity you have built. Why would the Father

give you abundance when you think scarcity? I

remember there was a very good brother that I

knew for a long time. I planted this church and

he was on the board. And when we decided to do

big things, he resisted. His mind was too small.

Come on now. If the truth be told, every single

one of us struggle with this. Abraham is struggling

to have one son and the father is saying, look

at the stars in the sky and the pebbles on the

beach. And the father keeps showing him abundance,

abundance, abundance. My promise, my promise,

my promise to increase his capacity. And the

father has to say it and show it to him and tell

him over and over and over and over and over.

Look at somebody say, and you're a son of Abraham

for sure. This is not a criticism. This is simply

an observation. I'm a son of Abraham, too. How

do you think I got this message? Because I would

have these supernatural experiences, and I wanted

it to continue, but it stopped. So why did it

stop? I'm talking about in the experience. It's

because that was all I could take. It wasn't

all the father wanted to show me. So what he

would do is he would show me part one. Give me

time. To process it. And then he would show me

part two. Because my capacity was. I'm just telling

the truth. And see, it's not even humility because

I know I got company. Okay. You ready? Look at

somebody say, you need to prepare your vessel.

Second law. Everybody say, it's the law of weight.

When the father gives a gift, whether it's a

natural gift or a supernatural gift, he gives

the responsibility along with that gift. Every

blessing that Jesus purchased carries weight.

Ready? Every increase comes with pressure. Every

promotion brings new demands. And if the responsibility

crushes you, the gift is not a blessing. It's

a burden you're not yet ready to carry. Consider

the businessman who prays for a million dollar

contract and then he can't sleep when he gets

it. Because in his mind, he's not up for that

level of responsibility. Consider the woman who

wants to be married and then feels trapped when

she has to consider her husband in every decision.

I did go there. I intended to go there. Consider

the employee who wants a promotion and then crumbles

under the pressure of having to lead others.

These are not success stories. They're capacity

failures. The father evaluates your readiness

for increase, not by your desire for it, but

by your current performance under your current

weight. In short, if you're complaining now about

your performance, pressure, and responsibility,

why would the Father bring more blessing, more

responsibility, and more pressure, and more burden

with divine increase? Look at your neighbor and

say, I'm thinking you need to repent right about

now. See, the reason I'm telling you to repent

now is because by the time I get to the end of

the message, you'll go, I know I needed to repent

about something, but I can't remember what it

was. I've been there. It's like, I know I needed

to repent. What was it? What was it? What was

it? So now I'm going to do a pause. I'm going

to pause. Here's my pause. Let's see how sanctified

you are tonight. Let's see how I sanctified y

'all tonight. How many of you have been asking

for something and it ain't come yet? Raise your

hands. Raise them up high unless you got a shoulder

condition. Look around the room. Look around

the room. Put your hands down. How many of you

are honest enough to say you really aren't ready

yet for what you're asking the Father for? Raise

your other hand. Raise it up high. Look around

the room. How you think I know? Jesus said to

his disciples in the book of John, he says, I

have many things to say to you, but you can't

bear it now. In the Greek, it means you can't

stand up under the weight of it. Lord, why can't

I have this experience? You can't stand up under

the waiter. It go to your head. You cannot handle

it. You won't steward it properly. So I'm only

going to give you what you can handle. Did you

already forget what you needed to repent over?

I'm going to give you 30 seconds to pray. Ask

the Lord, what do I need to repent over right

now so far in this message? And look at somebody

and say, this is just the beginning. Because

see, I have a philosophy. If I got to repent,

I'm going to get as many people to repent with

me so I feel better. Look at somebody and say,

never repent alone if you can repent with company.

Come on now, take 30 seconds. Go ahead and pray.

Thank you, Father. How do you handle the pressures

you already have? How do you manage the responsibilities

currently on your plate? How do you respond to

circumstances that require you to stretch beyond

your comfort zone? Your answers to these questions

determine what the Father can safely place in

your hands. The truth that will transform your

approach to increase is this. Instead of thinking

you're asking the Father for gifts, Ask the Father

to build your capacity so that you can handle

greater responsibility and greater weight. And

he can trust you. And that means competence under

your current conditions. See, My communion with

the Lord is what gives me competence. My communion

with the Lord that gives me competence gives

me courage. My communion with the Lord that gives

me competence and courage gives me confidence.

That confidence brings me comfort. And when I'm

in a place of comfort, I enter a place of silence.

Because you cannot hear the Father in anxiety.

Be anxious for nothing. But in everything with

prayer and supplication. With thanksgiving, let

your requests be made known to the Father. See,

let me tell you our problem. Look at somebody

say, I hate that he's getting ready to talk about

you some more. No, please hear me. You ready?

Look at somebody say, you're not going to like

what he's getting ready to say next. We equate

God with intensity. We equate God with peaks.

We equate God with supernatural surges. And then

we wonder, when I go from the peak into the valley,

I think something's wrong. Look at somebody say,

ain't nothing wrong with you. So at a certain

point, you've got to quit looking for the peaks.

And the surges and just develop capacity for

steadfastness. Because if you develop capacity

for steadfastness, now you will encounter the

surges. So you don't live from manifestation

to manifestation. You live in the application

of the word every day. And I'm going to show

you something. And I'll elaborate on this later.

When Elijah is in trouble and he goes to Horeb

and he goes in that same cave that Moses was

in, he was looking to have a replay of the experience

that Moses had. And the Lord wanted to show him,

you're not going to have it because what the

Lord says is what you're doing here. And then

when he walks out, he sees an earthquake. Going

back to Moses. He sees a fire. Going back to

Moses. Are you hearing me? He sees a wind. Going

back to Moses. And then he finds out the Lord

ain't in the wind. The Lord ain't in the fire.

And the Lord is not in the earthquake. I'm not

going to do for you what I did for Moses. Why

are you looking to experience me like somebody

else? No, you're going to experience me in the

Greek, in the Hebrew, in a still, small voice.

So we think, I got to have an experience like

Moses. Do you want to know what the real deal

was? You know what God's really showing, Elijah?

The earthquake's on the inside of you. But I'm

still here. I called you to bring fire down from

heaven. I didn't tell you to kill 850 people.

God is showing Elijah his internal condition.

Elijah was in self -pity. He's angry. He's angry.

He's depressed. That's why he said, Lord, it's

enough now. Let me just die. If you want to die,

that means that you're angry. See, we don't think

we got it until we got it like somebody else

had it. And what Elijah got was a shattering

silence where the Lord was there. So we think

if I get this dramatic supernatural experience,

ooh, I have arrived. Look at somebody and say,

are you kidding me? So we love the sensational

and the spectacular. And what this mighty man

of God gets is a still, small voice. But James

gives you a clue. He's a man of like passions

like we are. But you don't believe him. It's

suicidal. The brother wants to quit. He's calling

down fire from heaven. He's in a state of spiritual

exhaustion. And some sister named Jezebel says

in 24 hours, your head, you're going to lose

it. Now, wait a minute, man. You just called

rain, you just called fire, and now you scared

of this sister? You're mad. Because things didn't

work out the way you thought. Look at somebody

and say, there's help for you tonight. You know,

there have been times where I have registered

to heaven my complaints. Have you ever given

God the what -to -for? Have you ever accused

him of being unjust? Act like y 'all don't know

what I'm talking about. Have you ever given God

a piece of your mind that you really should have

kept? And then after you got done, you had to

repent? The father withholds whatever would destroy

you and releases whatever you can steward successfully.

Your current capacity is not an insult to your

potential. It's an accurate assessment of your

present ability to carry weight without breaking.

Preferably, the father likes to make the man

before he makes the minister. When a mentor gives

a man a ministry before he's ready, there'll

be mismanagement. Many times leaders promote

people based upon their potential, not upon the

actual performance of their responsibilities.

Are you still here? Let me tell you something.

This is a different code, but I'm going to mention

it. Here's the code. It's called the assignment

code. You ready? The father always funds your

assignment. He won't fund your dream, but he

will fund your assignment. That's why the money

has to come. Okay, you heard me, but you didn't

hear me. This church is God's assignment. So

if God has to speak to a millionaire, give that

millionaire the address. Write out a check for

however much money you need. God will do that.

I can't go into details, but let's just say I

know an individual who needed. Over $2 million

to get a studio. And God provided an empty studio.

And two persons walked up and gave him over $2

million to purchase the studio all at once. But

that's another level. Look at somebody said that

one was for free. See, I know I have. I know

I stretch people with some of the stuff I say.

But I have a friend who gets geographically translated

to another place, to a guy who needs money. He

ain't got no money. The guy who gets translated

ain't got no money. And God says to him, just

reach in. You will have the money that this guy

needs. And he reaches in and boom, there it is.

Look at somebody saying it's exactly what the

guy needed. Before he got translated, he didn't

have it. you say you believe that God can't put

a coin in a fish's mouth. So you gonna tell me

God can't do supernatural money? How many of

y 'all been fishing? Raise your hand if you've

ever been fishing. You ever found a coin? I could

tell you of cases where people found money in

their bank account that wasn't there. See, I'm

going to get myself in trouble. So I probably

should tell you this before I tell you that.

So anyway, there's this woman. Her name is Bertha.

At the time, she lived in Germany. At the time,

she was missing some body parts. At the time,

she said this really handsome black man appeared

in her house. I inserted that part in, but it

was a black man. And he had angels that had body

parts. And she was frightened. So he laughed.

And he left with the angels. And then she's watching

It's Supernatural. And she goes, that's the guy

that was in my house. Called Supernatural. They

gave her my number. She comes to Syracuse, New

York to come to a service and gets her supernatural

body parts. So I don't know how far. See, you

can do it. I'm going to tell you another one.

Before I tell you the one I really want to tell

you. And I can tell you what her hair was like

before she came. So this woman, I'm preaching

at a Puerto Rican church. It was Brian and Jessica

Valley. You know them, don't you? Okay. I'm preaching

there. And this white woman comes into the service.

She had never been to church. Matter of fact,

she didn't go to church. She didn't even know

the Lord. When I give an altar call, she comes

up and gives her heart to Jesus. And this is

her testimony. She had a dream. This really handsome

man, she didn't say that part, told her to come

to church. She had never been to that church.

Why? Of all the churches in Kissimmee, did she

come to church on the day I was there to give

her heart to Jesus? It was a sign. So this woman,

her name is Robin. She says this really handsome

man appeared to her in a dream. Gave her instructions

on how to worship God. So that there could be

a financial, supernatural provision of increase.

And it came. On one occasion, she goes to the

bank and she gets a printout of money that wasn't

supposed to be there. And she says, there's a

mistake. They said, no, it's your money. Because

she's, you know, a woman of integrity, so she

figured, this ain't my money, but look what somebody

said, but the bank said it was her money. Let

me tell you one more that's going to mess with

you. As a brother, do you know Keith Miller?

You know Keith? So Keith does this testimony.

He said, God wants to bless people financially.

If you want a financial blessing, come up to

the front. Do you know only two people came up?

A husband and a wife. He prays over them. She

goes in after the meeting to pray on her home.

And the person said, what are you doing here?

I'm here to, you know, pay down on my home. Don't

you remember you came in the other day and paid

it all off? It was the day that her and her husband

came to the... I can go on. See. See, listen,

let me tell you something. We say we believe

the Bible and we say we believe in the supernatural.

Then when we talk about it, somebody got a problem

with it. Third principle, and I'm closed. And

I should do something after that, I guess. My

wife says I'm a long -winded preacher. My wife's

been known to bring snacks to church. Joanne.

They think I'm joking, but she really has brought

snacks to the church. My wife has spies. Veronica

from California, stand to your feet. Where you

at, Veronica? Did my wife call you? Has she called

you yet? She's from California. You will be asked

to give a report. You have my permission to tell

her whatever. I'm sitting there. She says, hi.

I said, come around. I said, Veronica, what are

you doing here? She's from California. She's

a spy. My wife calls up Pastor Brad, informs

him, don't let my husband have too much ice cream.

She's going to tell the apostle what to do. And

get a report from a spy. When you've been married

46 years, you just accept it. Veronica has never

been here before, have you? wife believes my

capacity to resist ice cream is her. And she

already knows I'm still eating ice cream. But

she just needs to have her say it. It makes her

feel better. Ready? Third principle. Everybody

say expansion. All right. Watch. With this, I'm

going to try to close. Acts 20, 32. Paul says,

I commend you to God, which is able to build

you up. Make you strong. Give you the capacity

to receive your inheritance among them that are

holy. 1 Corinthians 14. He who speaks in a tongue

speaks to God. He who speaks in a tongue builds

up himself. Jude 1 .20. Build yourself up on

your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.

Let me show you the pattern. You ready? God makes

sky, and then he fills it with creation that

flies. God makes water, fills it with creation

that swims. God makes land, fills it with things

that move off the land. The pattern is God first

forms, and then he fills. What determines the

filling? Everybody say the formation. Expansion

is about enlargement. How are you enlarged? Everybody

say distress. Put up on the screen for me. Psalms

4. Start with verse 1. That's why this church

is about to be enlarged. Hear me when I call,

O God of my righteousness. You have enlarged

me when I was in distress. What is going on in

my life right now? The reason that you are under

pressure and you are in a tight place is because

the scriptural pattern is you are formed in the

tight place. And then as a result of that, your

inner capacity expands. And then he brings you

into a broad place. That's why you felt more

pressure now than you have before. Are you still

here? And so let me tell you what the squeeze

does. The squeeze makes you face yourself. Now

you see your shadow. You see the darkness that

your activity has been hiding. You see the darkness

that your distraction has been blinding you to.

And in the squeeze, All of a sudden, certain

activities stop. And now you actually have to

look at yourself. And now you have to say, okay,

Lord, I need some more spiritual formation. Now

watch me. I'm closing. Everybody say information.

Information is for your mind. 1 Corinthians 12.

I don't want you to be uninformed. I want you

to have information. Right? Ephesians 117. I'm

praying to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of glory. May he give to you a spirit

of wisdom and revelation. The apocalypse is not

about end times. It's about unveiling. Look at

somebody and say, it's about seeing what you

didn't see before. that the eyes of your understanding

may be flooded with light. Now you have properly

framed pictures of what the kingdom of God is

actually like. Everybody say, information, revelation.

So James 1 .22 says, Be ye doers of the word,

and not hearers only. Everybody say application.

Doers is which has to do with creativity. You

ready? It is when you are leaving where you were

in transition to where you're going. This is

the part where there is an increased creativity.

That's called wisdom. Wisdom is creativity. Okay?

In the spirit of the age, there was a study by

Dr. George Land. He found that children five

years and younger, 98 % of them had creativity.

He checked them at age 12. He checked them at

age 18. Ready? Through the educational process

of the spirit of the age, Only 2 % of them retained

creativity. 98 % of them had lost it because

they conformed to the spirit of the age rather

than submitting to the spirit of God that brings

creativity. They lost the ability to see. Information.

Did I say information? Revelation. Application.

Are you ready? Manifestation. Jesus said, if

you'll love me, you'll keep my words. My father

will love you, will come to you, will live with

you. He who has my commandments and keeps them,

he it is that loves me, and he that loves me

shall be loved by my father, and I'll love him,

and I will manifest myself to him. Everybody

say manifestation. You ready? Galatians 4, 19.

My little children of whom I travail in birth

again until Christ be formed in you. Everybody

say there's a prophetic process. Watch this.

Everybody say information, revelation, application,

manifestation. Everybody say, to bring you in

formation. To bring you in formation. So what

is getting ready to happen? So Philippians 2

tells you, work out your own salvation with reverence.

But then Hebrews, but that's verse 13 in chapter

2 of Philippians. It says, God works in you both

to will and to do of his good pleasure, which

means to the degree that God works in, you got

to work it out. And in some cases, God's got

to work some stuff out before he's got room to

work some stuff in. Look at somebody say, God's

fixing to work some stuff out so he can work

some stuff in. Look at somebody and say, it's

going to require in your mind some things you

thought, some things you believed. You're going

to be more than converted. Some things are going

to collapse. What things were gained to me, I

counted loss for Christ. Yes, I count all things

lost to have this excellent, intimate, firsthand,

first contact, personal, intimate relationship

with Christ. For whom I suffered the loss of

all things. What was the scripture? You got illuminated

and you experienced loss. That I might know him

in the power of his resurrection, the fellowship

of his sufferings. Being conformed to his death?

Death is collapse. So I have to go through a

period of collapse to know the resurrected Christ.

What is collapsing? The things that I believe

that won't get me where the Father wants to take

me. The things that I believe that are not contributing

to the building, the infrastructure that's necessary.

That will keep me from being the vessel and have

the ability to carry the weight of what we call

the glory. So here's what I want to encourage

you. If you feel, if you feel like you are failing,

you are wrong. Ready? The disorientation that

you feel is a result of a transition. The reason

you feel uncertainty is because you have never

been this way before. You don't know what to

expect. You don't know. Your map worked for them,

but now you're in new territory. Here's the thing.

Tomorrow will be better than today. I'm trying

to close. I keep trying to close. I keep, I'm

trying to close. But you know, Kim Clement said

something. He said, somewhere in the future,

you look a whole lot better than you do right

now. He was rapping. Look at somebody say, somewhere

in the future, you look a whole lot better than

you do right now. Everybody say it. Somewhere

in the future, you look a whole lot better than

you do right now. One more time. Somewhere in

the future. You look a whole lot better than

you do right now. So Joshua says, sanctify yourself

today for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders.

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