Don't Let Your Cousin Name Your Baby // Friends (Part 2) // Bishop Kevin Wallace

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found

for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from,

we believe God will transform your life. Do today's message. Oh,

come on and give God praise in this building right now. I said,

give him a praise, the kind of praise you've been wanting to give him

all morning. Law who I just wanted to testify. I could have stayed

in that worship all morning long. What a glory in this room this morning,

Amen, and I want you to help me. Thank God for the

Angel of the Lord of this house, the visionary and apostolic leadership. That's

what Mike and Natalie talk. Come on, let's give God thanks and tell

tell them we love them and we're glad the rest. Come on, help

me thank God for all these leaders that they're raising up, all this team

and staff. Come on, praise God. Look at your neighbors, say,

neighbor, if you like me like I am, you better take one

good look at me because this is the last day of my life that I'll

ever be heavy, depressed, grow busted, or disgusted. Tell them the

rest of my life It's gonna be the best of my life because what God

starts, God knows how to finish. And I need somebody on every role.

Right now, I know we gotta go, but I want you to

appoint yourself as a praise captain. On your role. Nobody else on your

role praises God. You need to testify. He's been too good to me

to watch somebody else praise him. We'll blest the Lord at all times.

His face sult continually be in my mouth. Open of your mouth and let

him feel it for the praise to to let it out TC national who God

made it sound. God made it feul Everything that the devil tried. God

made it fel God made it sound. God made it foul. Every thing

that the God'll tried, God made it sad. Thank you. Somebody send

a running shot to the kingdom of darkness and let the hell know today I'm

not going to my cou the same way I'm walked in this building. God

is up to something good in our life. Let's go to the Word.

You please please stand for the reading of the Word. I have to do

this frequently in my church because when you have the coming together of all kinds

of culture. You got to remind everybody about the kingdom. And I know

there's some people wondering what we're feeling. Some don't feel it, some do

feel it, some wonder what's going on. Some understand what's going on.

Touch three people in your zip code and tell them, neighbor, this is

a praise break and everything that has breath. How to take the next fifteen

seconds and give God the best praise you know how to give it? Give

it to them right now? All right, okay, okay, okay,

all this carrying on, y'all like you believe God's up to something in your

life. So look over at your neighbors saying it's you. Now what God

was up to? You would understand? Why praise him like I praise him.

Trouble don't last? Why better be careful what trouble don't last? Trouble

don't last. We thank your Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

Take your bible with me, Lord, have mercy. Take your bible

with me, please and open it to the Gospel of Saint Luke the first

chapter. I rise at the request of your great senior pastor, who my

friend Travis Green called me, and he said Bishop, you about to get

a phone call from Pastor Mike Todd and Transformation Church to come preach. I

said, Travis Green, don't mess with me. I will come to Columbia

and body slam you if you mess with me. He said, no,

Bishop, they're about to call in a couple of days later. You know

what I believe God is doing in this season, streams are coming together,

hear me. Psalm forty six, Verse one said there is a river whose

streams may glad the city of our God. And sometimes we get in our

church service and we think our church is the river, but we're just a

stream. The river doesn't rise until the streams come together. And the kingdom

needs this revelation that we need everybody to get to. Come on. I'm

talking about Jesus people. Are there any Jesus people in the house. It's

time to come together. And this morning is a beautiful inner section of streams

coming together. And I rise to give honor to God and thanks to God

for all that he's doing here. The Holy Ghost is in this room right

now. I want to just say to you, on my way to what

I'm going to preach, there's precious people that are helping me. I feel

so sorry for him. There are two messages I'm so compelled with right now,

and one of them is the word of the Lord for this hour.

The other is a message I've been carrying for the last four or five weeks.

I'm not going to be able to preach that message, but I want

to do. I do want to release it and just tell you you're in

a season of recompense, not just restoration, but recompense. Restoration is when

you get back what you lost. Recompense is when God makes your enemy pay

you back what he stole. And some on top of it, shake your

neighbor's hand, tell them. Decree a season of recompense over your life.

Now, if you hadn't been, if you hadn't been going through something,

that don't particularly bless you. But if you've been fighting some stuff, dealing

with some stuff, got an adverse, every rais in its head, took

some of your peace, took some of your joy. I want to decree

over the House of God, recompense is coming in Jesus' name. Recompense,

recompense, recompense, recompense. But when I began to pray about this assignment,

the Lord the Lord took me to the most unique place. I think

it's a Christmas passage almost, so we're gonna have Christmas in July to day.

But look's Gospel the first chapters where I want to launch from. Can

you put the picture of my family up there? Please? Is that accessible?

I want you to see my crew, Lord have mercy. So from

left to right, on my far left as my eldest son Jeremiah to his

left, and your right as Judah. And then that's me. Sitting in

my lap is my youngest son, Isaac Asher Wallace. And sitting to your

right. From there is the queen of our hive, the jam in my

jelly, Rob she's so fine. I'll get up there on that picture and

give her a kiss. Come on, somebody in her lap is the sweetest,

juiciest baby girl. That is Genesis Emaya Wallace. Can I tell you

a two minute story real quick? So Genesis Emayah Wallace was born to a

precious fourteen year old girl and she was about to have an abortion, but

her grandmother called our church and said she wants to have the baby, and

we're looking for somebody to take it. And Devon has my wife has a

ministry of helping to locate families for girls who are in that situation and rescue

girls caught in trafficking. I'm in the air flying home and I land and

I get a message from Devon on my phone. She said to me,

Kevin, I just met with a precious fourteen year old girl who is thirty

six weeks pregnant. She hit it during COVID, had a hoodie on and

she hid her pregnancy and told her grandmother thirty six weeks. In long story

short, Devin said, while I was talking to the girl, the Holy

Spirit said to me, that woman is carrying your baby. Well, when

I landed and got that message, I said, take back off, get

me back up in the air. I need to take something. And this

is crazy. So she was born and Genesis I was the first man to

hold her, and she came out screaming and she's still screaming and loved Jesus

with all of her heart. And she's three years old today. She's in

sixty She's so tall, She's this tall. It's a maze. She's just

three year old. She has d one attributes. She gonna be a y'all

hear what I'm telling you division one, she gonna be all right, It's

gonna be good. That fourteen year old girl had a twenty eight year old

mother who was in prostitution. That twenty eight year old lady had ten abortions

and one child and was about to have her last abortion. And that fourteen

year old mama called her twenty eight year old mama and said to her,

don't abort that baby. I know a preacher's family who will take it if

you will. Now she hadn't talked to me. I advised her next time

to call me ahead of time. That twenty eight year old lady we rescued

her from the lifestyle she was in, put her in a safe house for

six months. She gave birth to that precious baby boy sitting on my knee.

By blood, he is her uncle, but because we adopted them both,

he is her brother, and so we call him buncle Asher. While

you say all that, because I'm tired about the church screaming against abortion,

but ain't adopting none of the babies. If we're gonna holler, we're gonna

have to help somebody. Y'all don't have to like me. I'm only here

for one Sunday. But we need somebody to tell the truth. The church

needs to be more than one who identifies a problem. We need to provide

solution. Thank you, Thank you, Luke One. Luke one, don't

don't lose your joy. Luke one, don't lose your joy. Ain't nobody

wants nobody to do nothing. To pray. That's all I'm asking you to

do. Pray Luke Chapter one. I want to preach today for a few

moments, to the future of this house and to the future of every believer

in room. I want to tell you, no matter what you've seen,

experienced, witness and been through with God. And my brother today started talking

about history with God. Anybody got history with God. I want to tell

you, not only do you have history with God, you have a future

and a destiny with God. And I need to speak this morning to the

future of what God is going to do in this room and in your life.

And I want to preach from the Book of Luke the first chapter,

and I want us to begin reading in verse five. Now, this is

a little bit more scripture. I told the brothers that came with me.

I said, the issue with this message is the complexity of the text.

It's a lot going on here, and I got to read quite a bit

of it, so you capture and catch exactly what is happening in this season.

And we call this a Christmas text, it's a Christmas passage. I

get all that, but I want you to hear what the Lord is saying

to this house. I believe with oh my heart, this is for the

future in this place and in your hearts. And I want to read from

Luke chapter one, verse five. When you chapter one, verse five,

when you have it, say amen, and we're going to read through verse

fourteen. And then I'm gonna read two passages at the end of this chapter,

and I'm gonna be done. There was in the days of Herod,

the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias of the division of Abijah.

His wife was of the daughters of Erin, and her name was Elizabeth.

And they were both righteous, say righteous. They were both righteous before

God, walking in all the commandments of God and ordinances of the Lord.

They were blameless. But they had no child because Elizabeth was barren, and

they were both well advanced in years. And so it was that while he

was serving as priests before God in the order of his division, according to

the custom of the priesthood. His lot fell to burn incense when he went

into the temple of the Lord, and the whole multitude of the people were

praying outside at the hour of incense. Then an angel of the Lord appeared

to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And

when Zechariah saw him, he was troubled and fear fell upon him. But

the angel said to him, do not be afraid, for your prayer is

heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and

you shall call his name John. Now this is interesting, but no one

in his family had ever been called John before. Look at verse fourteen,

and you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Can you say, a man, Now, I want you to flip

over with me, and I want you to look at verse fifty seven,

verse fifty seven, and verse fifty eight, and then I'm gonna be through

when you have fifty seven, Say I got it now. Elizabeth full time

came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. Watched

this win. Her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy

to her, They rejoiced, let me keep going with verse fifty nine if

you can do this. So it was on the eighth day that they came

to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him by his father's

name, Zecharias. But his mother answered and said, no, karate chop,

your neighbor to his name shall be called John. They said to her,

there is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.

So they made signs to his father what he would have him be called.

And he asked for a writing tablet. And you know why he got a

writing tablet, because that joker has not been able to speak for nine months.

I'm preach on that in just a minute. So he wrote it down.

His name verse sixty three is John. And they all marveled, and

immediately his tongue was loosed. He opened his mouth and began to praise God.

I want you to look there with me, please at that sixty first

verse and sixtieth verse there all the way up through fifty nine. It said.

They looked at her and said his name ought to be called Zacharias,

and she said not, So his name shall be called John. I want

you to look at your neighbor right now. Find a neighbor that you love.

Maybe you love all of them, but find at least one that you

love. Look at your neighbor, say neighbor, God's gonna do something significant

in your life. Say TC nation. Oh, come on, get some

faith. Holler at him, say TC Nation. God is gonna do something

significant in your future. But tell everybody you're talking to, whatever you do,

don't let your cousins name your baby. That neighbor got slightly offended.

Look at your other neighbor and tell your other neighbor. Whatever you do,

don't let your cop name your baby. How many believe God is getting ready

to do something in your future? Holler at me in this room. Lord,

help us to preach the gospel today. Give us the anointing to preach,

the anointing to receive. And I thank you that this seed today,

Lord, that you have put in my heart. I pray and declare and

believe that it will produce transformation in every life in Jesus's name. And everyone

said, Amen, you can be seated in the presence of the Lord.

Now this is a Christmas text. I recognize that we usually are accustomed to

hearing this text presented in some capacity at Christmas time. But there's something significant

in this text that I think is for us today, and I want to

go just jump in right where Luke the doctor, the physician, jumps in,

and he begins to talk about what this miracle is and this supernatural birth

that is getting ready to happen. But he sets it in a context with

a small little phrase, and he said, in the days of Herod,

say the days of Herod. Now this phrase can be read over without capturing

and considering the implications of such a statement, But I want you to think

about this. The story I'm preaching this morning happened in one of the darkest

periods in Israel's history, the days of Herod. Herod was not a godly

man. In fact, he was a maniacal king who was godless and craved

power for himself. History reveals Herod the Great killed his own family to preserve

his future. He killed those closest to them. History also tells us that

he killed the rabbis and got rid of their voices. Because there was such

strong conviction coming against Herod, he didn't want any accountability. So history tells

us that he killed people. He killed his family to preserve his future.

He killed rab because he didn't want to hear their voice. This is a

dark period, and somehow, in the middle of this darkness, Luke does

not focus on all that Herod is doing and all the craziness of Herod's life.

Luke doesn't focus on the flaws or the failure of the leadership of Herod.

He chooses instead to talk about a faithful priest and his wife Elizabeth,

who were both living watched this a righteous and blameless life. I want to

encourage the church this morning, because sometimes I think we get under the impression

that folk in church we somehow spiritualize the world we live in and forget that

we're living surrounded by darkness. And one day, if everybody around us,

if all the preachers will get right, if all the politicians get right,

if everybody lives holy, I won't have an excuse to keep living this water

down lukewarm life that I'm living. And I want to tell you this,

you need to decide today, no matter how crazy and hell and horrible Herod

is, you need to decide as for me and my house, we're gonna

serve the Lord, I'm not waiting on Herod to get saved. I'm not

waiting on every elected politician to get saved. I'm not waiting on hell Bud.

I want everybody to get born again. But if none go with us,

We're still gonna live for Jesus. I'm gonna go to church, I'm

gonna pay my times, I'm gonna have a prayer life. I'm gonna love

people and treat people well. Even in the days of Herod, the righteous

still live righteous. Even in the days of Herod, watch this, the

blameless still live a blameless life. You don't need the craziness going on around

you to become an excuse for your own craziness. You need to decide,

I'm gonna walk with Jesus. If nobody in my neighborhood walks with Jesus,

if nobody in my high school walks with Jesus, if nobody come on in

here, somebody, we're gonna walk with him. We're gonna love the Lord

with all of our heart and mind, soul and strength. And text teaches

us that in the midst of darkness, Herod, the days of Herod,

Zechariah decided, I'm gonna keep living right, I'm gonna live a blameless life.

Now. This is what is interesting. What is interesting is the Bible

says he is blameless, and in the next verse it says, but they

were bearing. Now this is a challenging thing to reconcile theologically, because we

have taught peanut, butter and jelly Jesus to people, and we tell them,

as long as you do all the right stuff, nothing wrong will ever

happen to you in your house. I want to tell you right now,

living blameless doesn't give you an exemption card from the challenges. Talk to me,

TC, Come on here. I didn't come to depress you or to

make you somehow unnecessarily afraid. But I did come to help you make sense

of some of the stuff you've been walking through. In light of the fact

that you've been living for God, walking with God, trusting Jesus, living

as best you can according to his word. You can testify that I've got

some stuff in my life happening that doesn't line up with my confession. Does

that mean God is not real? Does it mean the truth isn't true?

Does it mean the Bible can't be trusted? I want you to hear me

right now. Many are the afflictions not of the ungodly, but the righteous.

The righteous still go through some stuff. And we got to fix this

thing because there are people who sign up to follow Jesus, because we have

painted a picture that if you follow God, nothing wrong will happen. Well,

I want to tell you what Jesus said. The storm comes to the

man who built on the sand and the man who built on the rock.

And the only difference between the people living on the sand and living on the

rock is not the storm, because the storm came to both addresses. But

if you make your mind up to stick with Jesus, the storm will pass

and you will make it through somebody to praise him if you believe what I'm

talking about. I'm just talking here. We're just talking and getting to know

one another. Make up your mind. I'm gonna live a blameless life,

but I want you time to stand that sometimes bearnness even comes to the blameless.

It is impossible to overstate the difference between Herod's life and Zechariah's life.

Herod was a godless man and Zechariah was a faithful priest. But he decided

even though God hasn't given me a child. I'm gonna keep on living for

God, and I want you to understand. Many of us in this room

today and watching me online, we have learned how to live with faith in

the tension of doing all that we can to live godly, and still sometimes

we go through stuff we can't explain to people. He's blameless, but they're

barren. How do you respond when you want to live blameless but you feel

barren? How do you handle the moments in life where you want to be

faithful but you feel fruitless. Zechariah teaches us something here. If you look

at the eighth and the ninth verse of that chapter I read Chapter one of

Luke's Gospel. If you look at verse eight and nine, you will see

Zechariah showing us a paradigm of journey. This is how you walk with God

in the tension of life where you don't get what you wanted when you wanted

it, and you gotta grow up, put your big boy britches on and

say, I didn't just serve Jesus to see what he would give for me.

A disciple doesn't follow him just for the benefits. A disciple follows Jesus

come hell or because that's no other one who has the words of eternal life.

So what do you do? What do you do when you're trying to

live blamelessly but you feel barren? Life is just empty? What do you

do? Number one? I'm gonna teach real quick. This just introduction,

but the Bible said in the eighth verse, he served God, touch your

neighbor. Touch a neighbor. Don't get too excited. We just talking Touch

them and tell them keep on serving God. I'm telling you that because sometimes

in life, you and I will go through seasons that will challenge our willingness

to serve God. If we don't get our way. I need you to

understand, if you keep the right heart, God has a blessing in store

for you in your future. The only thing that can jeopardize your destiny is

an attitude of entitlement. I didn't get no help on that one right there,

but I'm gonna preach it anyway. Do you understand and how mad I

would have been if I were the servant of Elijah? In One King seventeen,

Elijah looked at his servants, said, go up to the top of

that mountain and tell me what you see. Now I've been to Israel a

number of times. In Mount Carmel is the mountain that he asked that servant

to climb. It's not a hill, it's not a little rolling hill.

It's a mountain. He said, go up seven times and tell me what

you see. Why is that significant? Because sometimes you gotta make up your

mind even when you don't see something. I'm gonna serve the word that God

spoke over my life. It wasn't the first, second, or third time,

the fourth, fifth, or sixth time, but the seventh time he

walked up that mountain watched this. He saw the cloud the size of a

man's hand. I want to tell you something. The prophet heard it,

but the first one to see it was not the prophet. The first one

to see it's the servant. If you want to see what nobody else ever

saw, you gotta be willing to serve. Then a season. Look at

somebody, tell them keep servant number two. This is gonna get me in

trouble here, but I'm gonna preach it. Not only do you have to

stay a servant. Look at verse eight and nine. The Bible said he

stayed in his order. So tell you never say stay a Servant number two

say stay in order. It is tempting in a season of delay to get

out of order. Some people, I'm in the book here, some people

miss their assignment because they get out of order. They'll change callings, careers,

even churches. Uh huh. And some people get so jacked up they

try to change spouses, thinking that if I make this change, it'll change

my season. Oh no, you can change callings, careers, you can

change spouses and churches. But at the end of the day, you cannot

rush what only God can do in divine timing. Look at your neighbor,

tell them you better stay in order. Stay in order. I want to

declare this over you. God puts you in a tribe called and created you

with great specificity. You were sovereignly placed, strategically located. Your presence in

this place, in this generation, in this nation, in this city,

at this time is intentional. So don't take matters into your own hands,

Abraham, and try to birth in this flesh what God started in the Holy

Ghost. I need somebody on e repew to help me praise God right there.

You can't produce out of your flesh what God can only produce by his

spirit. So number one, you got to stay a servant. Number two

you got to stay in order, and perhaps most importantly, number three,

you got to stay ready. This is the challenge of people in a season

of delay. Zechariah was in a pattern of delay. He was in the

priesthood, and he was an older man we know that from the text,

and had never been called upon to serve in the temple. But they would

draw lots, and there were so many priests that were fulfilling their obligation.

And it just so happened that in his old age, God just so happened

to work through the drawing of lots and allowed Zechariah to be chosen in his

old age to serve in the temple at that time. Can you imagine what

it would have meant for him had he disengaged because of the delay. Lord,

help me preach right here. How many people in the Kingdom miss their

purpose because they disconnect during a season of delay. Well, you know,

I just don't go to church no more. First of all, I don't

know where that came from. That thing did not come from heaven, because

good things happen when we go to church. Come on and talk to me.

I ain't mad at nobody. But I'm telling you right now, there's

something about coming together that lifts my spirit. You don't have to agree with

me, and I can get blessed on the beach on vacation. I did

it two weeks ago, sitting in there looking on my phone waves coming Hi.

I felt the glory of the Lord. But something happened. I had

to end vacation and go back to church and shout with the saints, and

cry with the saints and pray with the saints. Because where two or three

are gathered in his name, he said, I'll be there in the midst.

Stop your neighbor, tell them, don't disconnect, don't disconnect, don't

disengage. It's not time to reprioritize your life. You need to be in

the house of the law. So he stays a servant. He stays in

order, and he stays ready, and they drew his lot. Watch this,

and he goes to the temple to do what priests do when their lot

is drawn. He goes to the temple to burn incense in the temple before

the presence of the Lord. This is Craig Gray because burning incense is actually

an expression of worship being lifted. And what I want you to see is

a picture of a man so faithful to God he worshiped when he didn't get

what he wanted. I'm trying to see who's looking offended. I'm coming for

you. I'm coming for you. These people that we are producing in the

church that only praise when they get their way. They only worship when it's

been a good week. You hadn't even had a good breakthrough till you know

how to throw your hands up when hell broke loose all week long, when

it looked like nothing good was coming out of the week, when it looked

like have a report your God was a bad report, And you come to

church and nobody had to beg you to praise God. Nobody had to beg

you to say Hallelujah. I walked up in here today to throw my hands

up in the face of my enemy and tell God, thank you for being

good, thank you for being good. If you made a decision to sit

down beside somebody who is a fair weather worshiper, they will not get on

your nerves. But if you made a mistake and sat down beside that church

mother who came through hell to get here today, and she had to deal

with wayward children and late deals, and she got all kind of mess and

crap happening in her life. I don't care about how you look at her

when she comes to the House of the Where are my worship Prince? I

feel like running in this bill? Where are the people who will not wait

on something to happen before? If he never does one more thing for me,

I will but ask me you are cut all. He went in and

began to worship at the altar of incense, and he's still without a child,

and he's still worshiping, and he has no child, and he's worshiping.

And they talk about him in the community and that Elizabeth can't have no

baby, and he's still worshiping, and you know what they did, And

he's still worshiping. And if they would have had Facebook and Instagram, they

would have been talking about him, or they must be something in their life.

Can't have no children. Oh, you sit there and talk to Pharisee.

I want to tell you right now, I came to praise God in

the midst of the congregation. I'm not praising him because every prayer I pray

God answered. I'm praising him because he's the King, and no matter what

happens in my life, naked, I came in, nicked, I go

out, blessed me for names. Alah, why don't somebody help me right

now? In spite of what you're going through, in spite of what's happening

in your life, you don't praise him just when you get your way.

You worship him because there's nobody like him. Please said that, I'm trying

to be a good steward of the time we have left. He goes into

worship, and in his worship he has an encounter. An angel shows up.

Some of y'all can't handle this one, but I'm gonna tell you your

worship will create an encounter. He's worshiping, offering up incense, and Gabriel

not just an angel, the one that stands in the very presence of God.

Isn't it amazing that worship will cause what was in God's presence to step

into your presence? And this angel comes in and says something profound and bizarre.

He says, I am an angel. I'm Gabriel, the angel that

stands in the presence of the Lord, and I came to tell you why

and you can go check me out. I know I look like a he'll

billy, but I know Greek. I'm an semi educated young man in the

Greek. The angel literally says to him, I heard the prayer you prayed.

Watch, but you're not praying it anymore. What have you asked for

that? Because it didn't happen quickly, you stop asking for it because I

came to interrupt your regular scheduled program and tell you God heard you. When

talk to me, Daniel. Daniel's on the river side for twenty one days,

fasting and praying, and he's trying to get a revelation. And he

doesn't know that while he's on riverbank praying and fasting, there's a war going

on in the heavens over the revelation, trying to get to Daniel. And

when the Angel shows up, the angel says something profound. Daniel, you

started praying twenty one days ago and I showed up today. But I need

you to hear me. Daniel, I hurt you the first time you prayed.

Well, if you heard me the first time I prayed. Where have

you been, mister Angel, I've been in a war with the Prince of

Persia who tried to steal what God was sending you. But I came because

of your words. Look at your neighbor, tell him he heard you.

Sometimes I got babies, and my three year old and my two year old.

Sometimes they pull on my legs, they scream. Yesterday I was out

by my pool and we were me and Me and Genesis and Asher were swimming,

and Asher came up to me. I want a popsicle. I want

a popsicle. Twenty four times the child said I want a popsicle. I

finally looked at him and says, son, I heard you. I heard

you the first time. Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor he heards

you. And I want to freak you out. But he heard some prayers

you prayed, but you ain't praying no more. He keeps a record.

And just because it's a delayal does not mean the idea is a denial,

that this is not even what I'm here to preach. Let me just this

is just an introduction. I'm trying, you know, making me do stuff

here. Watch there are two reasons why I'm preaching this message. They hear

me. Watch when the angel said to Zachariah, I heard you, and

I'm fixing to give you a child. Can you imagine an old man hearing

the angel, Gabriel'll say, Elizabeth, get on home. It's time time.

Y'all. Y'all following me. I'm gonna give you a miracle, but

you've got to keep your intimacy. Y'all don't want me to talk about this,

but see, what we want is a miracle, and we want God

to birth things in our life, but we don't want to be intimate anymore.

I want to tell you, I don't care how religious you are.

I don't care how educated you are. I don't care where you came from

and who your mommy and your daddy is. If you don't have intimacy with

God, your womb will stay barren and your future will try up. You

gotta stay a lover home. Look at somebody, tell him stay intimate,

Stay intimate. You're getting ready to have a child. But you and Elizabeth

are gonna have to do something. And so he looks at the angel.

I'm expediting this. He looks at the angel and he says, how do

you expect me to believe this? And God said, oh, okay,

Okay, it's gonna be like that, So let me put a mute.

This is all in your Bible. You go read this at lunchtime today.

Let me put a mute spirit on you. Because your words are so profound

and powerful that if you can't speak in agreement with My plan. And this

is why all those people in the church they beat they beat us up.

Theologically, they say them word of faith people, them people who believe in

speaking and declaring the word of the Lord. They don't have an appreciation for

the sovereignty of God. I appreciate the sovereignty of God. I honor the

fact that God can do whatever he wants to do, whenever he wants to

do it, however he wants to do it. But I also know that

your words have the power of life and death. And if you can't speak

life over your own life, God up sure enough to put a silent treatment

on you for a season, so you don't curse your future. Look at

your neighbors, say, neighbor, whatever you do, don't curse your future.

So he goes home silent. Can you imagine a silent preacher. You

make your living preacher and they can't talk, and the Bible says that he

went home silent, and the people were waiting on him to come out,

and he came out and he couldn't talk. They thought he saw a vision.

Watch this, and he just simply says this. And sometime later Elizabeth

came with child. She's an older lady, watched this and they called her

baron. But I want to declare to you, barn, this is canceled.

Word of the Lord cancels the sentence of barrenness over your future. And

the reason I'm preaching this message in this house today is twofold. Let me

give you this, and I'm gonna wrap this thing up. I'm starting to

close. And somebody said, what does that mean? It means absolutely nothing.

Okay, this message is being preached this morning to this house and to

every person listening me. Number one, because the thing God wants to birth

through Elizabeth and Zechariah have to come before what God would birth through Mary.

Elizabeth belonged to an older generation, and the thing God was birthing through her

was needed before Mary, who was from a younger generation, would give birth

to the one she was going to carry. I need mothers and fathers and

grandmas and Grandpa's in Israel to catch this. There is a generational thing happening

in the earth, and God is wanting to wake up some wounds that seem

baron because there's a whole generation of sons and daughters waiting on permission to give

birth to the thing God is trying to produce through them. You don't believe

me, go read the story the Bible said when Mary. When Mary got

her visitation, shortly after Elizabeth and Zechariah had their visitation, the angel came

to Mary and said, you're gonna give birth to Jesus and you and your

family member. Elizabeth is six months pregnant. When the angel got through prophesying

to her, she hopped about the bed and ran to the hill country to

see if her family member was with a child. Why Because Mary said,

this thing sounds too hard. But if God gave my baron act a baby,

then God can give me. You need the Lord of the Lord.

You don't understand this, Mom and Daddy, But the faithfulness of God in

your generation is permission for the next generation to believe God. That's why there's

some people in this room. I feel the hole that goes on me right

now. There are some people in this room that broke the curse of poverty

over your family tree, and your children are what you be blessed. I

want you to know that if you think what God did for you as a

miracle, wait till he takes your son and daughter tuch somebody and tell him

he is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. What he started in

Abraham, he will not finish it in Abraham. He'll do it in Isaac

and Jacob. I'm preaching a number one because there's a generational release coming.

The second reason I'm preaching this, don't miss this is because John the Baptist,

the one which Elizabeth was carrying, was in his arrival was intended to

make an announcement about who Jesus was. The arrival of Jesus could not have

properly been inaugurated had it not been for the coming of John the Baptist.

Here's what I'm trying to tell you. You are not Elizabeth, and what

you're gonna give birth to is not John the Baptist. But there is a

paradigm here. There is a model for our consideration. Here. What God

is trying to give birth through your life is about to make an announcement about

the goodness of God and the power of God and the person and the work

of Jesus Christ. You are not just some little church member having some church

experience. You are a child of the Living God and the Christ. There's

too race from the dead lives in you. And when He finishes what he

started in your life, it will announce the power of Jesus to your generation.

I think some of y'all think, my God, he is too intense

a preacher. Yes, and he said he yesterday he said to me,

have you ever drunk a five hour energy before you preach? I looked at

him and said, fool. If I drank a five hour energy before I

drink it would be a hostage situation for the people of God. I'm he's

my best friend. He's not a fool. Okay. Watch this message is

significant because you are going to carry something in your spirit that when God releases

it in the fullness of time, it will make an announcement about the faithfulness

of Jesus that explains why you've been fighting some stuff. Lord, I preach

a message called birthing building in Brodney growth warfare in a birthing season can I

tell you what Satan does in a birthing season. In a birthing season,

come on, talk to me Moses. When Moses was a baby, that

spirit got on Pharaoh and he tried to kill everything in Israel. That go

talk to me Jesus. When Jesus was born, that spirit got on Herod

and he tried to kill all of the babies being born. Why in a

birthing season. Oh yeah, you don't think that's enough. Roll over the

Revelation nineteen. The Bible said, when the woman was on the delivery table

trying to give birth to the sun, the dragon was at the foot of

the bed, trying to kill what was about to come out of the lady.

Church, hear me, what God is birthing through you for this nation

in this hour. Hell doesn't want it to happen. But I dare you

the shop because no weapon formed. Again, why don't you swap your neighbor

and say, neighbor, it shall be done. Okay, okay, okay,

that was okay, that was rough. That was rough, but you

survived. You survived. I'm getting to the last points. Here's the great,

great thing. It comes to the moment of birthing. And all of

a sudden, some folk who were not there in her barrenness showed up during

the birth. I'm getting ready, I'm getting ready. I'm getting ready to

say a thing. The cousins showed up at a birthing moment. You better

watch people. You better watch people who were not there to help you carry

it, but are trying to control it. Get the car warmed up for

it. I heard the Holy Ghost say this to me while I was preparing

to preach this message. He said, tell TC and tell Pastor Mike and

the leadership, be careful that you don't listen to people who want to control

what they didn't help you carry. I want to release a real big dose.

I've talked to the hand. Well. You know, they just so

many lights there, They just so much sound there. They're just so many

young people that they don't. Oh, shut up and sit down. You

weren't there when we were walking through hell and high water. You don't know

what we went through. You don't know how many tears we cried. You

don't know what they said and how long they've been said it. Now,

let me tell you something, TC. You gotta love your neighbors and love

your cousins. Invite them to the baby shower, but don't let them control

what they didn't help you carry. The last time, I recall when God

called a church. It wasn't a conference call. It wouldn't let me get

up everybody's opinion about my assignment. When God gives you an assignment, it

is which way I got. Okay, okay, that was. That was.

That was the first point. We're done with that one. Here's the

second thing. God said to me. Beware watch this the old thank you

Lord. The aunties and the cousins and the friends came in at birthing time,

and they said, call that thing junior Zacharya. But Junior clone it.

I'm getting ready to drop bombs. Clone it. And here's what I

want to warn you, TC. Beware of religion people. If they can't

clone you, they disown you. I'm leaving after disservice. I don't care

hate on me. All you wanting. I'm preaching this thing. I got

a mic and a monitor. We're going for it. We're going for it.

We God for it. Beware of pharisees, Beware of people who might

even mean, well, I'm talking to you about your future. Do you

understand this. If given to me, I'm old. I'm a dinosaur.

I told one of y'all's workers, is my I'm a dinosaur. I'm an

old man. I'm forty four years old. I was raising the old Holiness

Church. If my son wouldn't have helped dress me, I'd have had a

three piece suit in a town with us. You don't know you messing with

the wrong man. I'll come up here and holler in a three piece suit

and sweat till the armpits fall out of it. Hallelujah. My whole family

helped dress me this morning. Come on in here, somebody. But can

I tell you something. My sons don't dress in a three piece suit.

My spiritual sons don't have to look like me to carry the oil that I've

released on their life. Too many times in the church, we want to

clone our sons and daughters. And if we can't make them look just like

us, if we can't clone them, we disown them. Let me talk

to some people who weren't born and raised in church like me, some people

who just got saved three weeks ago. And you wonder, what is this?

I feel, what is going on in this room? Why do I

like it when I come on this property. And then and then some people

found out, Oh they're a little different down there. You've got to be

careful. They say that about my church too. Let me tell you what

they're trying to tell you. What they're trying to tell you is you go

to a church that does things differently than the church they're going to, and

they're jealous you're not going to their church. They're trying to make you feel

bad and shame you in some kind of way. Let me help you.

Keep your eyes on Jesus and don't let nobody clone you. Look at your

neighbor and inform them like you, no, this is true. Tell him

I love you, but I will not let you clone me. Can I

break this down real quick? I know I gotta let you go, But

can I break this down real quick? Can I tell you three differences between

Zechariah and his son. Number One, he had a different diet. His

daddy ate kosher food. John the Baptists come about the wilderness eating locus and

wild honey. Whoever ate locus and wild honey? If you are different,

don't try to eat what everybody else is consuming. There is a generation tired

of consuming death. They want something that is full of life. Okay,

well they see number two. John the Baptists had on different duds, three

d's I do all things in the literation Glory to God. His diet was

different, His duds were different. His daddy wore a priest garment. John

the Baptists tried that on one time. In my mind's eye, I can

see him, Daddy. This ain't me. So what did he go?

Put on? Cammel? Here? A big old tunic just didn't look polished.

Can you be more sophisticated? You're trying to represent Zachariah and his family

and them. Can you be more sophisticated. That's the problem. We are

trying to preserve a religious order rather than watch release a manifestation of the kingdom.

Okay, John the Baptists die. It was different, His duds were

different. But the most important thing about John the Baptist is his declaration was

different. His daddy was trying to maintain an old order. John the Baptist

did not come saying Jewish polity, Jewish structure. John the Baptist came preaching

the Kingdom of God is at hand. There is a reason why we don't

understand a fresh generation God is raising up who have a new declaration in their

mouth. They are not in the church to maintain the old order. They

are in the church for such a time as this to announce the king is

coming and it's time to declare the Kingdom of God. And some people listen,

it's not in this room necessarily, But I'm telling you what we're dealing

with in this nation. We don't have an understanding of the Kingdom. In

the Church America. We are more known by our culture than the kingdom to

which we belong. Well, he white, but he don't say or white.

You know what I like about this place. You can't look down one

aisle and tell me that's a white church, that's a black church, that's

his because every I've got a little bit of all of us. Okay,

I'm leaving in about five minutes. But assuming here on this face to hell

with the spirit of division. I said to cow with this, there is

no white church, there is no Black church, there is no Hispanic church.

But there is a Kingdom Church, and the King of Glories that long

night socks back. Somebody gonna tell talks up the walls of division of coming

down. The kingdom is on the moon, The kingdom is on the mountain.

If I'm done, I really I'm done. I think. I think.

If you're gonna carry it all that time, if you're gonna stretch over

it, if you're gonna have them contractions, if you're gonna have those pains,

if you're gonna wake up in the middle of the night your legs hurting.

Come on, sisters, talk to me here. If you're gonna go

through all that and carry God's promise in your life, whatever you do when

you get to birthing time, don't let your cousins name your baby. Stand

with me all over this room, police right now. Very different message than

I would have anticipated preaching at my first trip to such an amazing place.

But we don't have time to play some kind of games, call to some

godobo shit. This house has an assignment. Do y'all speak in tongues here?

Because I just spoke in tongues I should have asked, because I got

that kind of hole. That ghosty it don't give you a warning. He

does something. You have an assignment. TC. You're not just young and

hip and cool and that's all good, but you are assigned to a generation

who are tired of fighting through all of the religious red tape. They just

want to know where is that man you've been preaching about. I heard y'all

say that he could deliver, and I heard somebody say he could provide,

and I heard somebody say he could set me free. And Jules, can

you shift and just go to a piano for a moment. I want to

prophesy before I go take my seat, that what you have seen, and

this is heavy to say to a church who's seen so many miracles, what

you have seen is preparatory. The best is still yet to come. I

need some worshippers to throw a hand up in the air in your personal life

business, a businessman, sister, businesswoman, what you've seen has been powerful,

but it's only been preparatory. When I was thirty six years old,

a miracle happened in our church. I don't have time to tell it.

In the worst economy in American history two thousand and eight, when the bubble

popped and nobody was lending money, I launched a capitol campaign. Our church

was exploding. I didn't know what to do. I talked to five bankers.

They said we can't lend you no money. Nobody lending churches money right

now. And I've got a little bit of gem. The hallway in that

gym was six feet wide by about twelve feet long, doing two and three

services, and people crowded and had no parking. And I'm trying to borrow

three million dollars to build a building. I found one old bank in our

city, in our community, and the vice president walked in and he was

a Baptist deacon. I didn't even know the Holy Ghost talked to Baptist deacons.

I'm just kidding. He walked in and when he sat down in my

office, he said these words to me, I feel God in this place.

I said, me too, Me too, I feel We borrowed three

million dollars built that sanctuary, And week before we were about to start paying

principal and interest on it, I felt so stupid. Everybody was saying,

Wallace, came, leave, you build a building. In this economy.

People ain't giving banks, ain't lending money. You are crazy. And the

week before we started paying I don't tell this story, I'm telling it for

somebody in this room right now. The week before we started paying principal and

interest. A man sat down with me I never met before in my life.

He looked at me and he said, what are your debts and what

are your dreams? I knew them all right there and before that lunch got

through at a PF change. That's why I can't go to PF chains without

shouting and falling out on the floor. Watch before that lunch got through,

that man wired our church four and a half million dollars. I had never

met him before in my life. Now you looking at me, you're saying,

what did you do for that? I didn't do anything except stay in

place, stay in order, and stayed in the game. I wanted to

quit. I didn't even know I was gonna tell this story, and I

certainly didn't think about my buddy being with me. I got six children.

My youngest birth's son is here, Isaiah. Wave your hand, baby,

that's my Isaiah right there. Listen to me. He was eight years old

when that happened. Ten years old when that happened. And we were driving

down the road one day. I looked in the rearview mirror. He looked

at me and he said, Daddy, God's gonna give us a million dollars

every time he said it. I got mad at him. Four different times

in the building process of that church. He looked at me and prophesied and

said, Daddy, God's gonna give us four God's gonna give us a million

dollars. The day that man wired that money to our church, I went

and got him out of school. He said, where are we going,

daddy. I said, We're going wherever you want to go. Son,

ten years old. I looked in the rearview mirror. Tears were coming down

my face. I said, baby, you know what God did today?

He said, no, what happened? I said, God gave us four

and a half million dollars. Did you know what that son said to me?

He looked straight at his daddy in the rearview mirror. He said,

I told you, daddy, Hey, I'm coming back to TC in the

future. And when I come back to somebody gonna look at me and say,

you told us you. Try to tell us Pession looking for a man

by I tell him, I told you, I followed you. I tell

him don len yarn consents name yard bade somebody holler, if you know you've

got a future, take your neighbor mother hand, please something's happening. Something

wonderful is happening. Something powerful is happening. Jesus, it's happening. Whoo,

something's happening. Something glory us is happening. Something more for us is

happening. I declare it over this house and every house connected to this house.

If you need this message and you believe God has something in store for

your future, I want you to lightless squeeze on your neighbor's hand right now.

I needed this message today. I needed this message. Just a light

squeeze. Let him know that I caught it. I received that he was

talking to me. If somebody squeezed your hand, I want you to start

praying for your neighbor right now. Come on, open up your mouth and

bless your neighbor. Open up your open up your mouth. Don't just think

a prayer. I want you to decree. Father, you're gonna bring it

to pass. You're gonna surely finish what you started. You're going to bring

every promise to pass over their life, and nothing will hinder it. God,

don't let them let their cousins name their baby God. I pray for

a faithfulness to the assignment that was started in their life and at the end

of the day made Jesus receive all the glory for what comes out of their

life. If you believe in God that your best days ahead and now,

shoot both hands up, Shoot both hands up. If you believe personally and

corporatelyd de old Shata that your best days are ahead of you for this house

and for your house, throw both hands up and begin to worship Jesus as

he gets all involved in your tomorrow. Come on, Father, take control,

take control. Bless every house. I rebuke the heaviness coming against them.

I come against the attack that's been trying to stop them. In the

name of Jesus, I release blessing by faith all over this room, everybody

watching me online today, I decree and I declare that what you have started,

Oh God, you will finish in every one of their lives. I

thank you that discouragement, disappointment, heaviness is breaking off of them today,

and you will finish what you started. Lord. Whatever you're doing in the

season, don't do it how you'm about Shinda Deosa without me. I gotta

go sit down, but I feel something happening in this room. Don't do

it without me making a prayer before we pray for the loss today. Come

on, Lord, you're doing decease, don't do it without Yeah, don't

do it without me. Don't make it a prayer. Throw your hands up

and sing a family, Lord, whatever you're doing. See somebody said,

tod puss me. Somebody driving in the coup and come jo doing. Everybody

saying inside non transfer makes a short, So tell it. Tell me sak

a one more time. You can have your will and your way in my

life, Lord said one more time. Everbody say, come on worship us.

If you believe that the best is selling out to cover my faults,

I say one more time, everybody to say that. Oh, if you're

in this room, HiT's about Isaac Closed hearts are being searched right now.

And if you would say, Bishop, I need Jesus to come into my

life and I need them to save me and make things right, forgive me,

get me cleaned up and turn my life around. HiT's about Isaclo.

I don't care how far away from God you think you are. If you

want to say yes to Christ this morning and you want him to be the

lord of your life, I don't care if you've been to church or never

been to church. If you want to say yes to Jesus when I say

three, shoot your hand up and say passing, Kevin, pray for me.

I want to get right with God. One, two, three,

right now, anybody at all, Lord, have mercy. If your hand

is how mory it should be, come on out of your seat and come

meet me right here. Come on, all over this wilding. I want

God to change my life. I want you to come out of your seat,

come meet me right here. Come on, don't do it without me.

Thank you for coming. They're coming, They're coming, They're coming,

They're coming here. Whatever you're getting, somebody give God prays with sivace and

today with with that ol man, God, do me. Somebody give y'all

praise for salvation. Cut out, don't do it. Where the job.

Don't do it without me? No, No, wave your hand and ask

him one more time. Don't do it. Don't do Stretch your hands towards

this altar right now. People are still coming. Can I just get some

prayer leaders to come stand behind them or beside them or front of them.

How are you doing here? I want everyone to stretch your hand toward this

altar right now, And I want you to pray for them like you wish

somebody would have prayed for you the first day you gave your heart to Jesus.

Father, I thank you for the promise of the power in the blood

of Jesus. That because Jesus you died and rose again, and you shed

holy blood so that we could have sins forgiven, you gave your life and

exchanged for ours. And today, because you died in rose, we rise

with you, Jesus. So I stretch my hands toward every one of these

brothers and sisters who come to this altar, and with the love of God

surrounding them, the peace of God blanketing them, and the grace of God

covering them, I declare they will not leave this altar the same way they

came in Jesus' name, had the cross, at the cross where I first

saw his light and the bird, and not my heart roll away. It

was here by faith that I received my spiritual side. And now I am

happy. Father, thank you for saving and forgiving and releasing people from their

burdens. Today salvation has come to this house, and we are thankful that

this altar is full of people who are now coming into the Kingdom of God,

and we welcome them into the Kingdom as they confess with their mouth that

Jesus is Lord, as they turn from their past and turn toward their future

in Christ. Today we declare them to be citizens of the Kingdom of God.

Somebody helped me welcome them, as Pastor Charles comes, somebody help me

welcome them into the Kingdom of God. Oh, come on, can we

celebrate people who just made the decision? And while you're at it, can

you thank God for that word? For Bishop Kevin Wallace, can you thank

God for that word if it blessed you? My goodness, my goodness.

Well, hey, listen, I want to say to everybody down here,

I'm so proud of you. Best decision you could ever make. The first

thing I want you to do. If you're in here and you gave your

life to Jesus, I want you to tell somebody. If you're standing up

here, there's somebody behind you you can tell. Don't leave without telling somebody.

And then I would love for you to let us know our team we

have a gift for you. So any one of these people, if you

ask them like they said, they got a gift for me. We can

help you get that we're so grateful for you. If you want, if

you're heading out, you can text saved to the number that comes upon the

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get started in this journey of following Jesus. We're so grateful for you.

Hey, listen, we're gonna close service now, but we're gonna is We're

gonna have a time of prayer. Some of our prayer team is up front.

Also, some of our prayer team will be in the back. If

you're in here, you need prayer for anything at all, nothing too big,

nothing too small. Maybe that message spoke to something. You just need

God to agree with you in prayer. Our team's gonna worship for a little

bit longer. And this is almost one of the most beautiful moments that happens

in our service because God spoke to you. Now he's gonna tell you what

to do with what he spoke. Come on, that's sometimes what we need

God. I received it, But now what do I do. I'm gonna

take a moment and pray. Our team's gonna worship, and if you need

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