Here Is Home Series: 09.27.26 Greater Glory | Pastor Bryan Powe

on your word this morning. Lay our burdens at

your feet and magnify your holy name. We're asking

God that you stir up a sense of peace on the

inside of us so that we can hear your truth this

morning with acceptance that this is a condemnation

-free environment. It's a fear -free environment.

that this is a place where we, we bask in the

glory of your love for us. We hear this truth

as those who are loved by you. We hear this truth

as those who have been called out of darkness

into this marvelous light. We don't hear this

word as outsiders, but we come today as insiders

to your divine promises, your precious plan.

We're grateful above all else that you and all

your majesty Splendor would invite us in So we

hear this word with a grateful heart Knowing

that we could be in this world without you But

here we are in this world, but not of this world

because of you And we thank you God For loving

us and saving us pouring out your grace upon

us. We're grateful. And we take this moment to

submit ourselves to your truth. It may not always

taste good, but it lives good. Thank you for

a living word this morning. The word we hear

will be alive. Sharp Dividing lies darkness from

life Taking the grave asking it to pick a color

We thank you father for this day In your precious

name, I pray the name above all names shout it

with me Jesus a man well As you take your seat,

look at your neighbor, just shout at him, greater

glory. I said greater glory. I didn't hear the

glory part. Look at him. Greater glory. Greater

glory. Greater glory. You know, there are some

moments, you know, I come up here every Sunday

knowing that God has given me an assignment to

do. But I can tell you there's moments where

it's different. And this is one of them Sundays.

Matter of fact, God has told me that the next

three Sundays is going to be them type of Sundays.

That he's beginning to lay the foundation for

what he's going to do in and through you for

2027. Now, some of y 'all might say, Pastor Brian,

I'm still worried about 2026. If you worried

about 2026, then go ahead, start planning for

2027. But what I'm simply saying is this is a

moment of divine alignment. And so I'm incredibly

excited, you know, for anybody that spends any

time around me, right, that this time of the

year, God tends to take what he's wanting to

do in the new year and starts making it very

clear and it's amazing because in certain moments

you'll see me and you know, I might just start

crying or doing all types of stuff, but it's

just the presence of God just Just showing me

making me clear and getting me clear so I can

carry a conviction and a boldness concerning

what he's saying because there's always gonna

be something coming up against what God says

The goal is to be so clear. You know, I said

some things just along the way, take a second.

Separate yourself. Have a conviction about what

you're doing in your life. Because every word

from God will have adversaries. But we have a

conviction. And that conviction, it takes That

adversary, it takes that challenge and it minimizes

it. I say it all the time that you don't have

big problems. You have a small view of God. And

so a lot of times Satan will try to get you so

problem oriented that you're not promise oriented.

And anytime you get problem oriented and not

promise oriented, you're on your way to destruction.

And so that's why I say we fight for clarity.

What's that? That's that promise. Because no

matter what the problems trying to reorient reorientate

me to if I have orientation with the promise

I don't suffer to it Any y 'all ever been on

a cruise before? And if you're going to cruise

they'll say something when you get a little seasick

They'll tell you don't look at the waves below

you look at the horizon beyond you That if you

look at the waves below you you'll start to adapt

to the motion But if you can fix your eyes on

that horizon sitting still It doesn't matter

what motions happening in this boat. It will

calm you from the inside out Well, that's what

the promises of god do That if you become problem

oriented You'll begin to look around so much

that you'll become a part of the problem But

you got to lift up your eyes to those heels which

come at your health because your help comes from

This case y 'all thought I was not fired up.

I'm so fired up just Just letting God do what

he do None of this was actually in my message.

That's why I'm just taking my time to let him

say all he wants to say in this moment So I'll

say all the things he wanted me to say in this

moment first before I get to his message He got

always he tells me certain things he speaks to

me and I may not shot top top But it's I'm telling

you that God is saying this And he told me that

there's some people that are in this room today

that you think favors connected to strategy when

favors corrected to responding That sometimes

we hear what God tells us to do We start making

a plan and expect the blessing from actually

doing it. No, you're planning There's no blessing

on your planning. There's blessing on your obedience.

And so a lot of times we'll hear what God is

saying We'll start planning and think that he's

blessing what's in your head No, he's blessing

what you do with your hands And so you got to

start responding to what he's saying that y 'all

do know that's where we see his glory His glory

shows up when he says something that I don't

have the strategy for But instead of holding

it till I have one I go ahead and approach it

like his glory is gonna meet me That's how that

works And you will see God show up. Here's the

problem. I tell believers all the time, if you

are feeling overwhelmed in life, it's because

you become a, you become a, what do they call

them things? You become a storage center instead

of a distribution center. Right that that many

believers are storing what God says and that's

why you haven't seen much motion That's why you're

feeling overwhelmed. That's why you're feeling

bogged down. You were designed to be a distribution

center You have too much product on your shelves

and not enough going out to dough, right? And

it's delineating in value that if the product

sits on the shelf it expires You got to write

it off on your books is dead weight No, when

the word comes in is just like fresh produce

That when the word of god hits your life is fresh

produce. We either cook it today Or we give it

away because if you store it, it's just gonna

spoil When god speaks we respond we don't strategize

Boy, this just okay. Stay calm, bro Because there's

certain things and we're gonna talk about it.

Right? I say something if you if you Spent time

around, you'll hear me say something. I'll say

the experiment is over. And what am I saying?

I'm saying that, you know, I've seen Christians

be Christians for decades. This group, though,

likes to experiment too much, messing with sacred

truths, thinking that there's some new way. And

it's ridiculous. And I am sick and tired. You

sick and tired too, just tell the truth. Of watching

believers getting a butt whooped over basic principles.

What are we talking about? God speaks, we obey.

I don't know when that got complicated, but it

is now. He says, take your yoke up, take my yoke

upon me because it's easy and the burdens are

light. That lets me know if my walk of faith

is heavy, I'm doing something wrong. I've learned

that in the gym, in the gym that if my body starts

to ache, it's because I'm doing the exercise

wrong. I've straining where I should be lifting.

Y 'all need to break that down. break that down

i'm preaching but i am straining where i should

be lifting i'm i'm using the wrong muscle in

bad cases no muscle they yell at me all the time

stop using your back you gotta use your hamstrings

you gotta use your quads you can lift the weight

but lifting it wrong will make it seem like you

can't What are you saying that if you try to

operate this life of faith the wrong way it will

feel heavy if you are here hear me clearly if

you are a believer and Faith feels heavy. You're

doing it wrong You're doing it wrong if believing

God feels like a chore you're doing it wrong

We take great pleasure in placing our faith in

Jesus Like God give me something big that's so

big that all I can do is trust you for it. That's

I love that space Show me something so impossible

That I have no choice but to trust in you But

I see believers nowadays God give me something

I can manage. Well, when did that become? That's

never been what it's been about All right, so

boom, said that. He also told me this. And just,

y 'all just received from the Lord today. I already

see what he's doing. You gotta understand some

things. And we're gonna talk a little bit about

um sewing today because the basic thing that

we've complicated it's simple y 'all know sewing

and giving in the church is so simple and people

have made it so complicated it's crazy it's not

complicated at all But this is my point and I

want to say this so you can hear but because

many God I know many y 'all are dealing with

very funny financial Situations and you got to

understand this you are on what we call the children

of Israel package They were so horrible of managing

God's supply he just started supplying them daily

Wasn't that he stopped supplying It just would

only be enough for the day and in the ignorance

They still tried to make a day supply last longer.

And what did it do? It was spoiled Why because

he was trying to get them to trust him with their

finances with their supply with what they needed

But they were so unwilling just to trust God

That he wouldn't stop supplying and so that's

why you ain't going hungry, but you ain't got

enough You just survive it You own the children

of Israel playing you haven't submitted Your

financial plan to God and you're not trying to

trust them with finances You trying to make finances

what you trust in and so this can keep going

on for as long as you wanted to go on Or you

can finally say I trust God I Tell people all

the time you y 'all know listen The only time

you lack money is when you think it's supposed

to go places God ain't ordained. And I try to

tell you it's a simple principle that thing number

two about money is anytime I'm planning for it

to go further than God has, I'll always feel

like you think you have a year supply. God knows

you have a six month supply. So you feel short.

Because you are trying to stretch something beyond

where god thinks you're supposed to are planning

for you supposed to so you don't lack You just

think you have uh, you think you're supposed

to go further than he's planning for it to go

And I tell people all the time know what that

is know what that is You think the last thing

god did is the last thing he's going to do But

you don't know that he has increased on your

path You don't know that he is another re -up

coming and so you because you don't trust god

for a re -up You're trying to make something

last longer than it's supposed to and that's

what happened so now you feel as though you don't

have enough because you don't believe that he

has supply coming and he's like you're stressing

for no reason because I know there's more on

the way y 'all hear what I'm saying so you have

a timing problem And so when I sit up here and

say you are blessed you say no I'm not bad but

I only got a they say you're supposed to have

a three month reserve of your of your of your

finances in the bank and financial security is

when you have three months of your salary saved

up just in case you get fired meanwhile God's

like I'm gonna call you out of work into ministry

in the next two months so it don't matter if

they fire you in three months anyway it don't

matter you do not we not on the same page y 'all

hear what I'm saying So we start to worry about

things God's not talking about cuz he's not concerned

about what you concerned about Do you know what

happens after all that worry and you come up

here and say pastor? God has blessed my life

and now you feel free again And I'm like, did

you know you this the thing you could have felt

this way the whole time You could have felt this

way the whole time Y 'all rocking with me Thank

y 'all. Now let's go. Greater glory. Greater

glory. So we started this year on a journey in

the book of Haggai. Y 'all remember that? And

in that book, it's so strategic, right? The book

is letting that church know that the latter glory

shall be greater than the former glory of God's

house. and i said guys god prophesied over this

house that the latter will be greater than the

former but like we always say great promise what's

the path pastor y 'all just ask me the same question

and he says we're gonna have to come out of many

graves and then he's gonna turn them into glory

But this there are some very specific things

and I'm saying this because we in the last quarter

of the year and I want to see all y 'all experience

this ladder glory. So I'm gonna say some things

very cutting straight y 'all see what I'm doing

right now. Just go say them how they need to

be said. Y 'all can fire me in two weeks after

I finish this assignment. And I'm saying this

because I've seen people do the opposite. of

what is being described. From graves to glory,

God is declaring new life, not new things. And

many people are trying to do new things, not

speaking life over the dead thing. And I'm telling

you, God said, the dead, the grave is coming

back to life. The things you thought was dead,

he's not done with. And I see some of y 'all

chasing new things. No, no, there's no blessing

on the new thing. There's a blessing on the renewed

thing. And I want you to see this, that this

is not God's pattern. That God used to have the

same type of attitude a lot of Christians have.

If I don't like it, just destroy it. That's what

he did to the people. Then he made a promise

I'm not destroying what I don't like no more

I'm gonna send resurrection of life to the things.

That's what's always supposed to be that same

divine order works in our life That people kind

of understand a renewed thing is always stronger

than a new thing Why here hear me out because

there's this principle that we live by called

seed time harvest any new thing is new seed so

it's gonna take watering time for harvest so

I'm not saying don't do new things I'm saying

understand the kingdom process that you are doing

a new thing trying to answer present problems

that's not how the process works present problems

should be answered by former seed If I need a

harvest, I got to look where I've been planted.

This is basic. We've been chopping this up. That's

basic. And so Satan has tried to get many of

y 'all to live divided in this house. That's

what we did here is home, because if he can get

you to approve, you're starting over. There will

still be seed time and harvest. Or you can speak

life over the dead thing that's still in the

ground. It's like a tree. We just need pruning.

But it's already been verified that it can produce

fruit. That's why it's hard for you to give up,

because you've received fruit. And so because

I've received fruit, I know it can produce fruit.

It just ain't been pruned in a while. Fruit comes

faster from a pruned tree than a freshly planted

tree. Because we don't even know if this tree

can survive the conditions yet. And I've seen

many people plant themselves in conditions that

aren't even made for who you are. It's only gonna

be a matter of time for you got to go back to

where you actually belong. I love my father He

said trees can't buy roots How that's your boy

y 'all talking to me I'm just trying to make

it clear this morning You got to understand The

last thing pastor Brian want to do is teach a

sermon is called series called here is home Because

I realize a lot of stress comes from telling

people to stay where they committed to leave

it And so if you ask it how prior pastor Brian

feel if you feel like leaving go But that's not

a shepherd And it ain't my job to push my preference

over God's work This is his house, not my house.

So he get to pick who sit in the chairs. If you

ever notice, I don't get to stand at the front

door and say, you can't come in, you can't come

in. No, I just have to work with who God brings

to the door. But I know that Satan's been after

many of y 'all's harvest. But that's why we've

been on this journey. And this is a really pivotal

turning point. Because here's the truth, right?

When Christ is no longer at the center, life

grows heavy and we lose our rhythm. the Book

of Haggai. If y 'all could, I'm trying to have

an assignment to do so. It's in the Book of Haggai.

I was gonna read the whole thing. Y 'all know

how I do. But I'll paraphrase it for the sake

of this moment. In the Book of Haggai, the people

had forsaken what God had called them to do.

And here was the problem. They struggle to connect.

What was going on with their life with how they

were handling spiritual matters? I need y 'all

here. This is big. The story of Haggai is they

did not connect what was going on in their life

to how they were handling their spiritual life.

They had got to the point that they thought they

could live a good life while treating God's way

bad They thought that they could Mishandle God's

work in his assignment and still live a plentiful

life And so a high guy stepped in to let them

know of something that we should understand as

people of God of something called divine alignment

look at your neighbor say divine alignment that's

not how pastor post said it y 'all saw how i

just made it beautiful right you said divine

alignment i said divine alignments it's a beautiful

thing it's a beautiful thing that as believers

we have access to something called divine alignment

What does that mean? That means that how I succeed,

prosper in life is never only directed to who

I am and what I do. What divine alignment shows

is that as long as I'm in line, my life is naturally,

by fact of proximity, beautiful. I don't even

have to stress or strain because I'm in the right

place in the right space. I can be doing the

wrong thing, but I'm in the right place in the

right space. I'm aligned where God wants me.

Then the blessing flows. The blessing flows.

Y 'all rocking with me. The blessing flow It

describes that it flows from the head down through

the feet That everything that is attached shall

be blessed And you gotta understand this because

I have lived this in my life I Have lived the

life far above what I have ever actually deserved

But if there's one thing I knew is where I belong

I've never in my life doubted where I belong

and who I belong to and I want to say this to

some parents Because I'm a product of legacy

and I laugh sometimes because some people will

come to me and tell me what legacy is. And I'm

like, why wouldn't you just ask me? I can tell

you what is fruitful. Now, considering my father

is not here, I can tell you the exact thing that

actually matters. And if you're wondering, you're

right. We all know this. It ain't money. Money

comes and go, my friend. Money is the prince

of this world. It's the tool of the kingdom,

but it's the prince of this world. We understand

it as a tool, but we never, never see it as a

Lord. Right? So, I tell you about time. My father

and my mother, Raised me with such consistency

Of where I belong and what I'm supposed to do

that even in their absence, I'm still there Raise

me in such a way that I have never questioned

Who I am What I'm supposed to be doing and where

I'm supposed to be Said the greatest gift my

my mama could tell you my mama could testify

They called me up who's in Atlanta in front of

ministers and leaders conference. There's she

asked me to come up there and talk to the people

I looked at them in the newness of life Six months

on the job as pastor, you know what I told them

people I told them the truth Don't know what

your first You should have seen the look on their

faces Because they wasn't expecting to hear the

truth because they seen a faithful pastor Pope

Here's the thing When we got in the car sometimes

he would talk about some things he liked that

he saw at world changes This just him talking

He didn't like everything There's some things

happening right now that I know specifically

he would be turning some tables over Sometimes

I walk in I'd be like man if he was still here

none of this would be going down right now Now

I'm saying there's no in this is streaming and

I'm supposed to be up there Next week might get

in trouble for what I'm saying now, but it's

the truth Pass the test might be like I heard

what you were saying down there temple It was

the truth So I said this to them. I'm just speaking

the truth. My father had passed away I don't

care nothing about what none of y 'all got to

say. I'm gonna see listen. I'm gonna tell the

truth I said to these folks that saw pastor Pope

as the staple of faithfulness and consistency

Y 'all know what I told him I'm said I'm I said

I'm so glad That none of his frustrations made

him leave here Because I would be surrounded

by strangers right now They looked at me like

he was frustrated They didn't even realize because

of how he carried himself that there was many

things he was mad about about the house And so

I didn't realize I had shocked all their systems

Because they thought that he liked everything

that was happening And I sat up there day one

of him not being in the room and say he ain't

like a lot of this But i'm so glad that nothing

he didn't like didn't cause him to go. Because

had he left and uprooted not just himself, but

us, I would be sitting in a room surrounded by

people who do not know who I am. In the time

I need the greatest clarity in my life. So I

said that. Took my seat. Y 'all know what you

do when you take your seat at the moment like

that. I can't believe I let that stuff come out

my mouth. How do I get out of this room without

looking nobody in the face? You reviewing all

your words like, bro, that was crazy. Can I get

a second chance to clean some of that up? But

then I watched. Just check this out. Compassion.

formulates connection. That's why Jesus was always,

y 'all need to write this stuff down, Jesus was

always compassionate before he corrected. Compassion

formulates connection. You can never look to

be instrumental in a person's life you haven't

formed a bridge of compassion with. And so because

I was open, honest, and compassionate, I'm trying

to teach y 'all how to get new life to your situation.

That you're not gonna get new life, you can't

speak to a grave that you still treat rude. You

can't speak to something that's dead and treat

it like it's dead. You can't speak to something

that is not have life and treat it like you don't

have life. You have to form a heart of compassion

so connection can be formed. Compassion is a

bridge for anointing to flow. So Jesus formed

compassion. He never walked up and said, sin

no more. He healed them. Then he said, sin no

more. Y 'all going up to people like, don't do

it no more. Well, brother, I'm hurt. It's not

that I want to be rude, I'm hurt. People are

hurt. And we, as people of faith, have the ability

to see past their hurt, those rough waters, and

look towards the horizon of new life and survive

the bumpy water. So that compassion formed a

connection. Next thing you know, I got the longest

line in the room after service. Y 'all know after

service is preached, whoever has the longest

line gave the great word. I told y 'all I grew

up in church my whole life. I know the patterns.

If you want to know who really had that word,

when service let out, they line up to the person.

So that man had two, his word was all right.

That person got five, he went heavy. This person,

they have, they selling books, t -shirts, the

line out the door. No, that person had a word.

I looked around and pastors are coming up to

me. Thank you. That's right where I was. That

was right where I was too. Just. honest y 'all

like how about a truthful church just honest

for once can we just my god tell the truth it's

okay because we're we don't look at the wavy

waters below us we look at the horizon beyond

us and we declare greater glory Greater glory.

Y 'all know what that means? That means better

than it's ever been. That God is not just renewing

it to where it was. He's renewing it beyond where

you ever thought it could be. I'm talking to

that thing that you think is dead right now.

And I'm prophesying over it. Greater glory. I

need you to really think about that thing right

now in your head. If it's your business, your

marriage, your kids, your relationships, hear

me out. Declare greater glory over it. In faith,

God is going to do what only he can do. he's

asking me to be a bridge of compassion to look

past my present animosity and see the horizon

of his glory and Allow myself to be more attracted

to what he can do that I'm no longer yielded

to what any person can do that I'm so Fixed on

what God can do that. I don't even care what

people do no more I can get so bold that I can

declare that people aren't even my problem I

serve a God who sees me, who knows me. He called

me out of darkness. He's anointed me. He's appointed

me. He's called me. And if this is my seed, let

it part. Y 'all hear what I'm saying? That maybe

this is your season. You are Moses. You're speaking

to something you can't see happen. You're trying

to run away from the situation and you need to

put your staff in the ground and declare for

the seed to split. right here, right now, God's

gonna do it. Y 'all shout it with me, God is

gonna do it. I'm not running. Once you become

a runner, you might as well be a track star.

You all hear what I'm saying? Once you become

a runner, you are a runner. Once you fold, you'll

always fold. It's like a crease in a fresh pair

of shoes. This is why we don't like people stepping

on our shoes. What's wrong with these youth?

No one can step on their shoes because once you

crease them It's it it's cooked Might as well

might as well do do the yard with these Because

no matter what you say if your fresh ones have

a crease going across the front of them those

ain't fresh ones I don't care if you got them

today if you walked out the store and someone

crease the furthest first you need to go back

in and buy a new set Because they will never

be What it was Y 'all hear what I'm saying. I'm

saying this for a reason because you keep thinking

it's gonna get better by quitting And you need

to understand, nothing gets better by quitting.

You know what happens when believers quit? I'ma

keep it straight with y 'all. Y 'all wanna hear

some straight stuff? Thank you. Your witness

is hurt. Everything about you loses a degree

of integrity. Anything you quit. No, I hear that

but you need to hear that today If you quit understand

this your witness is hindered Some people ask

me this I must say this put this where you want

to put this I carry my convictions you carry

your convictions I'm trying to tell you ain't

nothing heavy about this in my life people ask

me all the time. They asked me this stupid question

stupid question Yeah, that's how it sounded to

me. Do you drink? We're in the Bible. Show me

in the Bible where it says we can't drink. And

I'm like, why are you even asking this? Y 'all

want to hear something? I never answer that question.

Based upon what's in the word. I always answered

the question based upon my conviction Why because

if you Carry the same assignment we should have

similar convictions But if you don't carry my

assignment your convictions not going to be the

same Y 'all hear what I'm saying that that that

the Bible Right. See, here's the thing. Here's

the great glory of being new covenant believers.

We have this thing called the Holy Spirit. The

Holy Spirit took what was written and gave life

to it. Because anytime you conform to the letter

without the Spirit, you produce death. So it's

never about what the text is just saying. It's

about what the Spirit says to me about the text.

And so I don't respond to the question by telling

you the text. I respond to the question by telling

you what the Spirit has told me. About the text

because the letter kill it and the spirit brings

life but to help y 'all out Yes, you can drink

All things are permissible they're just not profitable

you gotta ask yourself is it profitable for my

life Now there are restrictions. You shouldn't

be getting drunk You shouldn't be getting drunk

But y 'all know just keep it 100 Keep it 100

right now in this room for once in your life.

Tell the truth If you walked into a bar and see

me sitting there Taking them back You trying

to tell me my witness wouldn't go down a little

That's what I'm saying. Just tell the truth.

That's why for me It's not permissible. No, I

do not drink. Why? So that when I see somebody

struggling with alcohol, I can look them in the

face and say, you can live without it. That's

my whole conviction. That may not be your assignment,

but it puts on my assignment. I need to make

sure that I can look people in the face with

integrity. Say you ain't got to do it. Somebody

be asking me about custom. No, I don't cut why

because there's people that their whole vocabulary

has been chained to profanity and They think

need to know that there's a spirit that can clean

your mouth out, too Now that may not be Profitable

for your calling you may watch y 'all watch me.

Look at me close. You may be a head football

coach Them heavy waters to navigate without profanity

yo yo language you got to have some skill Y 'all

laughing. Yeah, listen, this is real life there.

There is a coach a part of our church He came

to me with all sincerity and said past I've been

asking God How can I motivate these kids without

cussing? That's his prayer place of faith is

to be able to motivate them without profanity.

He's believing God. What are you being convicted

of? I don't know pastor. Then go get with God.

Spend some time in prayer. Separate yourself

from this outside world and come out clear. Because

a double -minded man is unstable in all of their

ways and they cannot expect to exceed receive

Anything from God church. This is not a game

It's not a game Was speaking somebody other day

and I just was like y 'all know one of my prayers

now I've been praying God Give me the words to

communicate to people that God's telling them.

Well done Because they've mixed your expectations

with this world's ambition and So they're trying

to figure out why they're living so heavy because

you're living a mixture you got God goals and

your goals and as long as you're trying to live

with both you're gonna fall short of the promise

of peace that he gives because in one expectation

you see yourself as fully sufficient in Christ

but in other hours you're seeing that what the

world says you should be and you're seeing yourself

as less than you're double -minded about whose

system you're in I can tell y 'all wearing thin

now. You getting too close to home now pastor.

That's the problem. And you can keep bouncing

all over the place all you want. Or you can say,

I've crucified this flesh. It's no longer I who

live. But it's christ who lives inside of me

and I present this body as a living sacrifice

holy and acceptable and pleasing unto god That's

it Wake up every day god, where am I supposed

to die so you can live? There's every day you

have an opportunity to die to yourself and live

for god And many of us are failing the test because

we're so used to being appetizer fed by this

world. Not knowing that that substance is weak

and fickle. They'll pat you on your back today

and stab you in the front tomorrow. Hear what

I just said? Pat on the back, y 'all used to

stab in the back. No, these jokers stab you in

the front nowadays. They will look you right

in the eye. and do you dirty they only talk good

about you when you can't see this is the world

we live in today you go back in the room be like

you know they love you no i don't because every

time i see them all i see is disgrace you say

they talk good about me when i leave why because

we live in a world that hates honor it hates

respect it hates to lift people up it hates to

speak good about people they just hate it hate

it hate it hate it So we live in a world that

speaks bad to your face and good behind your

back Don't know I ain't lying the truth that's

what we got today, it's crazy out here I Don't

realize why some y 'all want more of it just

confuses me we got to go home Well, we're gonna

keep going next week. That's all right with y

'all Because this this is the assignment right?

Okay, God how you want me to We're about to do

something there's three things um When you look

at the book of Haggai He called them back into

Prioritizing things of the kingdom that he wanted

them to realize that The weight you're carrying

is a sign that Christ has been pushed from the

center He wanted them to realize and you got

to make this connection y 'all hear me out You

think you lack ambition? No You lack alignment.

You think you lack vision. No, you lack alignment.

You think you like discipline. No, you lack alignment.

You think you like all of these things that alignment

actually fixes. I was speaking to this. Um, I

can do this real quick right here, right? Speaking

to this husband came to me. He's best. Tell me

how I can be more faithful to my wife. Now, here's

the thing. Sometimes when people ask me questions,

there's other people standing around. In this

case, this person, he said, Pastor, you was a

bystander. You should just stay bystander. But

the bystander started to go through ways in which

you can become faithful again. Looked at the

Boston and I said now I got to correct two people.

I Looked at the bystanders. I Said all great

points But none of them will work without the

power of God That will become a weight In his

life is actually the weight that's in his life

you want to know why he's trying to attach discipline

faithfulness from a desire and the Bible is very

clear that is from a place of desire that's why

God gives us the desires of our heart he's constantly

in operation trying to rework the desires of

our heart because many of us come to faith with

desires that don't align with the kingdom so

he has to do reconstruction of our heart they

give us desires that align with what he wants

what am I saying that God always works from a

place of want to the good thing is God can also

give you y 'all supposed to praise him right

there So God always works from won't to but he

don't wait for you to want to so that you won't

to He actually plants want to in you I Will give

you the power To do what is good pleasing and

acceptable unto me. I'm y 'all skip y 'all here.

We God this is the word 15 is 413. I believe

it is right Leaves 413 y 'all put up on the screen.

I'm stepping out in faith. I believe it's full

13 Somebody look if it ain't just so why I'm

doing this But God will give you the desires

to do what is pleasing acceptable in the privilege

of these Philippians 413 Y 'all looking at me.

No one knows we all need Bible study Christ that

gives me strength. No, it's not that one. Um

Give me the power to do what is pleasing Where's

that? Put it in Google Why are you trying to

do on somebody just put it in Google God will

give you the power to do what is pleasing Philip

what is it? Fibliance 213 not for 13. I just

got the two in the full wrong. I was close enough

It's Philippians to 13 y 'all put Philippians

to that. They ain't even put Philippians for

I don't know about faith to see if they'll put

to But if they flip is to 13 where it is 2 13

not for Brian for it is God Who works in you

both to will and to do for his good? Pleasure

right that's new King James if they put in an

LT you will see It gives a little different flavor

that speaks more towards that piece So if y 'all

could so they could see it right for it is God

working in you giving you the desire and the

power to do But please is you so who's working

in you to give you want to? So you don't even

have to want to and you'll start wanting to All

you have to be is posture towards god if my heart

is posture towards god. What do I posture myself?

I'm gonna speak about it in a second, but you

posture yourself towards god God then starts

working in you to shift your desires into ones

that are pleasing to him. So what am I saying?

I'm saying that you can be fully hating whoever

you hate but if you posture yourself before god

he will take an authentic hate and turn it into

a real love y 'all heard what i just said that's

what i'm not trying to mask that they hate it

that you do truth that's just be honest at this

point you hate them But you've got to believe

that there is a God who speaks life to dead things.

Well, how does he do it? What's the path, Pastor

Brian? Here's the path. Posture yourself before

God. And as you posture yourself, he'll take

that heart of stone and convert it into a heart

of flesh. And the very person you couldn't stand,

you'll begin to love. because you want to but

God put the want to in you to want to so we're

not even talking about this fake phony Christian

love folks we talking about a real agape love

will hit your heart you'll be more in love than

you've ever been in your life and you know what

that will do because everybody's senior know

what it would do instead of decreasing your integrity

for quitting your integrity will increase because

you did what many don't think is possible and

then god god will take that and bring you before

great men because now you are a living witness

to his power and his glory And he'll take your

testimony and turn the whole world upside down

with it. And he's not even asking you to want

to. He's asking you to love him enough that you'll

posture yourself before him so that he can do

it for you. Take it in a moment Come on I want

y 'all to hear this, man. This is not a game,

man. This is... I can't tell you how much God

wants this moment. And I'm gonna just take a

moment just to share something. Moment of compassion.

Can we just talk? I take this assignment so serious.

The weight gets heavier at times. And I told,

it's funny, I was riding around yesterday and

I already had, I already had the word, the word's

already in my heart. I called my mama. This is

the first time this happened. When I say I called

her, Four five times sent text messages and she

responded none of them I Want y 'all here's I'm

be honest with y 'all Because I know I need I

need to take a break. I know that So that I can

see clearly what God is wanting to do and So

I called her up because my life is a life of

alignment to ask her Could this be the last week

I preach so I could just take two weeks off And

I was asking her because I said God I see the

assignment It's heavy Just give me the grace

to do it all at one time. I Don't know if Brian

can do three more weeks Can we talk? Not because

don't know where I belong sometimes I see y 'all

on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays days

you're not in here and I literally get brought

into intercession tears and just just it's a

lot so I know well time rests are needed and

I've been doing way too much recently for those

y 'all don't don't know my nickname is mr. do

the most and I do that she never answered the

phone. God's plan. So sorry, God. We're gonna

do it. Give me the strength, give me the power

to do what you want to have done. So I committed

to them three weeks. knowing that you locking

in these next three weeks is going to change

your life. What I'm trying to get you to see

is we've stepped into a divine moment. God has

extended the grace upon me so that he can extend

the assignment so that his people can be transformed.

from the inside out. And we go into 2027 like

some bad -mama generals. But we finish this year

watching every dead thing come to life. This

is not a game. I'm not here because it's convenient.

Truth be told, I could actually be somewhere

else. Planning to be somewhere else. I know y

'all don't want to hear your past to say that

but that's the truth. I Love y 'all, but y 'all

tried me sometimes a lot And I know when it's

time to you're getting a little uh -uh But he's

seen you he's heard you And he's anointed me

to guide you so I'm here And I asked my mom to

come up. She finally answered the phone this

morning. And she was like, what's going on? I

said, I already got my answer. This is what I

need you to do. I said, God has shown me three

spaces, three spaces that posture your heart

towards him. And he told me to open up the altar.

and to lay hands and declare greater glory over

anybody who's ready to receive. And I need you

to be with me to lay hands on God's people. We're

going to do it this week over today's topic,

next week over that topic, and the third week

over that topic. And I know this is a streaming

generation, but I'm asking you as your pastor.

in one of these three weeks just show up home

so that we can lay hands on you and we can go

into this new life but thing number one and this

is what i meant by sowing the bible tells us

that where your treasure is your heart will be

also you can't say that your heart is inclined

towards god and not give towards god Here's the

beautiful thing about being new covenant believers.

Whatever he has purposed in your heart, so let

him give. This ain't complicated. This ain't

no test. This ain't no gimmick to get you to

blah, blah, blah. And trust me, I'm the last

pastor that likes talking about this stuff. Because

I know how y 'all talk about people behind they

back, not in front of they face about subjects

like this. Y 'all heard I did. And I tell you,

and this should not even be said, but I'll say

it for today, just my one time. This is not about

us. We lack nothing. Hear me out. Nothing. God,

I was sharing with the men. Man, I'm about to

bust up this time. But anyway, I was sharing

with the men and I never actually share these

stories because I know how y 'all feel about

people sharing stories. I've been around y 'all

this whole time, but I was trying to explain

to people what my life has been like financially

as a result of just choosing to serve God. Many

people think my parents give me money. Now they

do. Because they're good parents. But you are

very much so in error if you think they gave

me all my money. Wrong. Very wrong. Brian Poe

has been a blessed man since time could even

be connected. Greg, I'm talking six years old,

seven years old, eight, God has... I can't even

explain to you in words other than find home,

submit yourself, believe that every day, this

is what I tell myself, that every day I have

an opportunity to give some good for God to bless.

Let me make sure what I present is good. I go

to bed and say to myself, God, you are the blester.

Am the receiver I pray I presented something

good for you to bless today. I'm talking about

my servant I'm not just talking about money.

I'm talking about money. I'm talking about my

service to the Lord Walker Elliott's right. I'm

talking about I'm just pointing at people have

seen me since I was young he can testify No God

has always been good Greg. He's always been good

Listen And I'm telling you, it ain't never been

that complicated. Well, let me give you example

number one. This might be the only time I do

this, so just so you can understand. And I tell

it like this because I love to speak from graves

to glory. Rashid is going to be finding me saying

this, right? So one of my probably, I don't know,

just biggest, but first of biggest. That's why

I always say, God got another miracle in the

way. That's because I'm not just saying that.

fictitiously I'm telling you God has shown up

and done things never saw it coming never saw

it coming here we go check this out first moment

right me and my wife we were two years married

up until that point um man I was struggling with

what it meant to be a financial provider as a

husband to a wife. Truth. We all right with truth.

Some y 'all don't like the truth. I'm not afraid

of it. I was struggling with it. I was struggling

with what I should do, shouldn't do too much,

not too much. And I honestly settled in the space

of saying, I just don't even want the argument.

If everything burns down, let it burn down. God,

I trust you. Guys. that was my flesh wanting

not to be a Leader not to want to step in because

honestly, there are some things I wanted to splurge

on too. So I'm calling you out and I call myself

out brother like a new pair of shoes I'm saying

these points so you can connect with you and

So I settled in a place that I don't feel like

I've earned the right to say something. Although

I know this is going bad Well, ladies and gentlemen,

it didn't get better I'm serving I'm doing all

the things all the things things is progressively

getting worse and worse. I'm looking like had

guy So I see going nowhere Got into situation

So much so we were about to lose our house. So

I said God make a way, you know, he said Forwards

is backwards me and my wife left that house moved

in with my parents. One of the most humbling

moments of my life. My father said one thing

to me, y 'all. All right. He said one thing to

me says, Brian, you can come to my house. Y 'all

was crazy. I never had this thought cross my

mind. Talk about alignment. People have a lot.

Y 'all hear what I'm about to say. Alignment

order. He said, Brian, you can come stay in my

house. After you ask her father if she can because

you said on that altar that you was going to

be the provider But now I am My father ain't

hold no punches. I Said you right. I never considered

that I should have to ask you order Alignment

blessing so I took myself over to her daddy house

and Asked his permission He says, Brian, I know

God called you to be her husband. If this is

what you were believing for them, you got my

blessing. He was blown away. The question even

came. It's not even part of this generation.

These things we hide. Moving to the parents house.

I'll skip some of the pieces. Trying to think

one of the important pieces to tell you we were

planning to be there for a year Just to get an

idea at that point time that house that we lived

in we tried to sell it It was so upside down

You know the real estate the thing that don't

go bad ours went bad That we had no choice But

to rent it To sell it we would have had to take

something like $25 ,000 order to sell the home

because it was that far and I know somebody why

did you short sell it we didn't have time for

none of these things emergency emergency y 'all

know break I need something today I gotta tell

y 'all y 'all know y 'all know I'm gonna tell

you all this because just understand I understand

where y 'all be sometime because I've been there

before I literally was opening up the mail and

hoping I would hit one of them sweepstakes like

God one of these things got the hit Am I the

only one that ever did that before? You know

I'm saying we do the same stuff. That's what

I'm saying. I was like God you can Be we got

to you got to and I was trying to figure out

hear me out how to Strategize myself out of a

situation. God was trying to grow me through

Praying for a miracle when when he was working

on the miracle me So With and rented the house,

but check this out. We actually had to add $400

a month to the rent because the value of the

rent didn't even cover the mortgage on the house.

So now in my mind, I'm like, I'm paying for somebody

else to live in my house. Like all types of stuff

is going through my head, but I can't afford

it. So it technically ain't mine. It belonged

to the bank. I had to get real about some things.

That's when God was getting me real about debt.

He was like, no, no debt. He was getting that

out of my system. But anyway Year one Was supposed

to leave I I'll say that for the other time we

wasted the money. It didn't work out things ain't

go right I had to ask for another year got two

years What y 'all to hear this this is where

it gets good so two years passed Go to my father

and mother which this is honestly this is like

heartbreaking Me and Rashida had grown so close

to them eating dinners together Breakfast is

to spending more time we ever would have had

So it's almost like man it's time for us to go

We left we went and got well, I forgot the piece

So we go back to sell the home Just to find out

that the state of Florida has a provision to

where if you rent a house out for two years was

sustained that was sustained. It no longer counts

against your debt to income ratio. We didn't

know that. So we went to go sell a house so that

we can afford another house and they told us

you don't even have to sell that house to buy

another house. There's been a rented there for

two years. It's no longer counting against your

debt to income because my the church wasn't paying

me no more money in between there and then no

new money. And so What are you saying, Pastor

Brian? We went and got a townhome. The first

day we walked to that townhome, we realized we

multiple property owners. Y 'all heard what I

just said. You hear the sequence? That we actually

have a real estate portfolio. The scenario, we

couldn't afford the house. turned into two years

later Unbeknownst to us God was positioning us

beyond what we had strategy for it Looked like

our bad decisions has put us in a bad spot that

ended up being a setup the whole time So we moved

into the town home owning a whole nother home

We lived in that town home for two months That's

when my father passed away. That's when I realized

God was training us unaware Darling hear me All

of this was triggered because we couldn't afford

a house and we left it But we couldn't even leave

we tried to give it away and we couldn't because

God knew one day I'm take that same thing that

you hate It became a thorn in my side and I'm

gonna take that same thing you hate and watch

what I do with it So two years we stayed in this

town home. Check this out. We went to now we're

like, well, she's I want another home. We talking

about three homes. I said, girl, that's crazy.

I want y 'all know this is this is all before

pastor. So let's sell that first rental since

we got this. We sold. That first home. took home

three times my salary I'm not I'm sharing this

with you because a lot of y 'all are in situations

that you don't realize when I say every situation

is a setup for a miracle I'm not being figurative

I'm saying I left a house in shame That four

years later God turned to glory I Moved into

my parents house to outsiders. It looked like

shame to insiders. I realized it was our strategic

training And that's happened time and time time

again We stand for passive because I know that

God's not a respective persons I Know that Valuing

repositioning aligning yourself in three critical

areas is all it takes that first one is sewing

Why because it connects your heart Then when

your heart is connected God can start surgery.

You only all are asking for surgery with a disconnected

heart but where your treasure is your heart is

i know this is a tough truth but understand the

blessing god ain't asking you to to make up some

number i'm not knowing you never heard that shouted

from this pulpit we do not believe in that we

believe in cheerful givers whose heart is in

their giving whatever god is placed on your heart

you give in response to that then people come

up to me and they be like well it's tithing still

a thing if he placed in your heart to tithe it's

a thing to you What is he telling you? I don't

know consecrate yourself get away with god and

you'll come out with a conviction that's for

you But what you will never hear us do is demand

anything above what you've heard god say But

I can't escape the principle that he can't perform

surgery with a disconnected heart That's not

on me I didn't choose that y 'all rocking with

me So I'm not saying this because we need money

here. We don't need no money. But thank you.

But we all need God. Y 'all rocking with me?

All right. So if you receive something today.

Told she was gonna do this part right calling

you forth You guys can stand to your feet But

God told me that today to lay hands on those

who know that this word is for you like and We're

laying hands to touch a green of faith That God

is gonna do what he said. There's none. There's

nothing more that happens other than a like me

like when you get baptized It's a it's an outward

expression of your what inward belief. So when

someone lays hands on you It's not that power

is coming from me to you. It's in that same symbolic

form of a baptism We're touching and agreeing

that as God said it it is so This is a point

of agreement like touching the water in the baptism

tub y 'all rocking with me It's like communion,

right? It represents blood. It's not blood eating

the bread. It's not body, but it is body There's

things that we do as believers that are symbolic

of the faith and trust we have. So when I say

come up, it's not because you about to fall out,

none of that stuff. It's just we're touching

and agreeing that we serve a miracle working

God. He's taking your story, my story from graves

to glory. Y 'all shout it with me, new life.

And so we're going to do this as we close out

service. and so I'm saying at this time that

um that will also receive today's offering so

you can sew at this time and there's only one

instruction God gave me for today when you guys

sew and this is beautiful y 'all want to hear

something that um craves the glory what does

it mean there's many things we've done as a ministry

that we have not done in a while that God still

wants to do, wants to resurrect. There's things

he's giving me assignment for, right? If there's

something, hear what I'm saying, God, if there's

something that we previously did that you are

now spiritually missing, that we do no more,

what God told me to do is to tell you to write

it in the comment section of your seed. That

way they'll send me the list. Once again, I don't

know how much y 'all give, I don't look at people's

giving, but they can send me a list of what you

put in the comment. So if there's something we

formally did that brought you life that we no

longer do as a church, write it in the comment

section of your seed. I'm gonna pray over that

thing and see if God wants us to bring it back.

Y 'all rocking with me. So electronic you can

put it in there too. You can do it both electronic

and in writing But the reason why it has to be

connected to the seed because if there is no

seed there can be no Harvest and I'm not gonna

you ain't finna tell me to do something. You

ain't even connected to in heart That's been

part of the problem high expectation with low

interaction Well, there's a lot of things we

don't do because you stop doing what you do All

right. So the seed lets me know that you're serious

about what you're saying. You see what I'm saying?

That's all I'm saying. Okay, just as Pastor Brian

said, for those of you who want prayer, not necessarily

prayer, agreement, we're going to ask you to

please come forward. And one of the things that

God shared with me is that this is an anchoring

place. This is where you set your anchor. This

is a place where you make a pivot point in your

life. And you all remember the examples that

Pastor Brian did. He was like, once you get to

a certain point in basketball, he said, did you

put your pivot foot down and you don't move from

that you can you can extend from any position

God can from your pivot point today. God can

do anything, but you keep your pivot, your anchor

on what has been said to you today. Amen. Because

God didn't raise, bring those dry bones together

because he just wanted to see. something exists

but he brought them back to life put them back

together again because there was an assignment

ahead so bearing all those things in mind you're

gonna what's the word gonna anchor yourself today

and as Pastor Ryan said there's going to be opposition

but don't move Don't move don't let go of your

confession Hang on to it And I was gonna say

like it's dear life Because it actually is It's

almost like this is your resurrection day Amen.

Amen. So we're just gonna lay hands on you And

make that declaration that new life and greater

glory, new life and greater glory, new life and

greater glory, new life and greater glory. That's

supposed to be your heart palpitation, new life

and greater glory. Amen. Amen. And so we can

say, as we do this, you guys are free to dismiss,

right? But I want to say this too, that we don't

want to just have this moment. We want to disciple

you forward, right? Walk you through this in

faith. And so if you haven't yet, you scan the

code or scan it, or if you're already there,

the discipleship training, you'll get this lined

up. So we don't want you to just have this moment

and walk away, but we want to disciple you forward

in what this is. Amen? Amen.